PHASE I [ 6 00 ] You wake up, and you're in a camp ground. The graphics aren't bad here, not really, but they're definitely last gen -- not the type of quality expected out of ViViD. On top of that, every once in awhile, the scenery sort of... glitches before going right back to normal as if nothing ever happened. If you're particularly unlucky, your own body parts might glitch out for a moment too, appearing as nothing more than broken code and then back to normal. Pretty weird, right? Oh well, don't worry about it. Totally harmless.
Glitches or not, you're still in a camp ground along with everyone else. There's a fire, there's some tents, some trees. Maybe some s'mores? You got it all. You're also not wearing what you were before. No, now you're wearing some sexy shorts, or maybe you've got a whip at your side, or maybe you've got a really classy fedora. And if you're one of those lucky few who have all three at once? Good for you! Try not to blind everyone with all that sexy.
Or, you know, the game will glitch out again and you'll be stuck wearing something else. That's definitely not as sexy.
PHASE II [ 730 ] If you decide to finally go exploring that crazy jungle, you'll find that you have a wide range of exploring options. Seems ViViD's taking a crack at their very own open world game -- this one modeled after your run of the mill adventure game. There are rivers to swim through (complete with alligators)! There are cliffs to scale (complete with angry birds ready to peck at your face)! There are even ravines to swing across on vines (just like Tarzan)!
Actually, the game is made to allow you to do just that -- those vines are all conveniently lined up for everyone to use them to swing across. Go on, it'll be fun. If you miss, you'll just lose a life, right?
Of course, if you overshoot your goal, you might run into one of the other glitches; the white space that you'll stumble into implies that you flew right off the world map and are now in unprogrammed space. Don't worry, you'll dissolve eventually, slowly but surely, and will reappear on the cliff so you can try again. There's no other way around that ravine either. Still, it's only a little frightening watching your body disappear piece by piece, right?
PHASE III [ 900 ] If you manage to scale one of those cliffs or swing across that ravine or cross that river, you may find yourself a chest. It's a treasure chest, and you don't even need a key to open it! Open it right up, a cute little jingle will play, and… nothing will be there.
Or the item will be there, hovering in the air, something amazing, fantastic, incredible that you've always dreamed of having and wanting, and -- you can't touch it. No matter what you try, it hovers right out of reach, and you can't interact with it at all.
Oh, and the cute little jingle is going to follow you around now, on constant loop.
PHASE IV [ xxxx ] So you died.
No big deal. Perhaps you got eaten by a crocodile. Perhaps you fell off a cliff. Perhaps another player stabbed you (that's rude). Either way, you've only lost one life and you have two more so it's nothing. After all, this is just a video game, right? It's fine.
Except it's really not fine.
You'll find yourself in a graveyard, tombstones all around you (maybe one of them has your name on it -- hope the epitaph doesn't suck). It's nighttime, it's foggy, and you're with the other players who have also lost a life. For a while, nothing will happen. The cold and quiet of the night will start to seep into your bones -- and then a figure appears. It can't be killed, it is silent and grim, and it does not speak.
Instead, it approaches each person there, reaches out and touches them on the forehead. Even you. All you can see for a long moment is corpses around you, the dead faces of everyone who had been with you in the ViViD level, flesh rotting away and faces caught in expressions of horror --
And then you're all dropped back into the camp ground together again. It's sunny and cheery and everything is fine, and you're down to two lives. Just, you know... don't lose the rest, okay?
BONUS [ xxxx ] You have a butler now, congratulations! He's following you around everywhere. He's an NPC, and not a very well-made one; sometimes his face glitches out, and he doesn't so much walk behind you as just… appears right next to you. He's handy though because if you ask him to, he'll pull up the start menu. You can sort out your inventory there and exit the game if you wish (except no matter how many times you press the "quit" button, you... can't).
Sometimes, though, that doesn't work out so well. Not the start menu but the butler himself. He might appear next to you on a narrow cliff face, knocking you right off the edge, or appear right on top of a hornet's nest, making them angry enough to go after, well, you. Maybe he accidentally summons a bear when all you were trying to do was ask him where the next dungeon is. That's unfortunate.
You can't seem to get rid of him either, no matter what you do. How annoying. Hopefully he doesn't cause you too much trouble because that bear... well, that bear's pretty angry.
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lightning .......... dont be mean 2 him. give him the tickles
ahem.
he puts one gloved hand on his hip and the other's index finger comes up to tap his forehead. ]
I'm fine, you're the one I jumped into. You're not hurt, or anything? [ he does look pretty concerned! honestly, he really didn't mean to hit her, and he feels pretty bad about it... not to mention, he'd suppose he was looking after himself if he was trying to clean up his own mess. which he kinda made by knocking into her.
man! first, he glitches, now this! uncool. ]
I Hope This Is What You Wanted
[ she's gonna try to leave it at that, try her absolute hardest to walk away from this thing and never think of it again, but she knows it won't be that simple. oh lord, does she know.
unfortunately for her, mere seconds later a tiger spawns right in front of her. she was so sick of these polygonal animals. she takes a step back, but quickly pulls out her twin pistols. they weren't as familiar as her gunblade, but they were efficient enough, if lacking in firepower. she does a backflip to get away from the creature and ends up right next to Sonic.
without looking down at him: ] Here's your chance to make it up to me.
who is the florida man
'make it up to' her? heh. too easy. with his thumb, sonic flicks his nose, and then he gives her a thumbs up. ]
No problem.
[ immediately, he rolls into a spin. the form should be familiar to lightning, in fact. it's the same one he ran into her with. then, sonic catapults himself into the low quality tiger, a neon blue light following the blur. he gains some height in that balled up form and rams into it again. not bad, right? he can be flashier, though.
he bounces off the tiger again, and then sonic lets go of the balled up form for just a second (if that, really, are you keeping up with the blue blur, light?), arms out and a cocky grin on his face. when he lands on the ground, the tiger tries to swipe at h--
wait a second. he's gone. there's a small cloud of dust where he was standing. the tiger looks around for a moment, sights then set on lightning. ]
Yoo-hoo! Over here, slowpoke!
[ you might not be able to tell where sonic's voice is coming from, but the tiger looks upward, toward the sky. following it's line of vision, you'll see... sonic's in a tree, balancing effortlessly on a branch. seriously. he's standing there with his arms folded coolly, grinning. he hasn't broken into a sweat. in fact... he just seems to be enjoying the excitement. ]
Incomin'!
[ and then he jumps from the branch, leaves rustling free from the tree. sonic collides with the tiger, harder than before, and it skids across the ground, claws leaving marks. ]
Tag, you're it!
[ you wanna finish it off, light? he's looking at you with a cocky grin. ]
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except she doesn't collide with him like Sonic might. instead, she opts to jump over him, gracefully flipping in the air and letting out a few rounds at it's back. the tiger falls onto its haunches, letting out a scream that sounds like an over-processed midi. Lightning's face is as steely as ever when she lands, as if she hadn't just murdered an elusive and beautiful creature.
she looks to Sonic, whatever trace of the smirk she gave him completely gone. ]
Nice work. Your debt's repaid.
[ not that there really was one, because she didn't really care, but hopefully he won't bother her now. ]
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also, that death scream was terrible. good god it was horrible. ]
Nice work, yourself! That's some sharp shootin', Tex. [ sonic mimics her double pistols with his hands, and then laughs. ] You're no stranger to brawling, are you? [ sorry light hes never leavin' you're too COOL....... ]