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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Mikazuki-dono! I'm touched! I have learned from my teacher to confront obstacles on your own. Whatever path that someone must choose, be prepared to take them alone. Whichever toilet stall you decide to squat in, even if it is filthy, you must go through with it.
[ Katsura puts a palm over his heart, genuinely touched, it seems.
He is also backing up for a running start. ]
Yes. We should accomplish this together—! It's fate we are destined here with willing hearts. Ha ha haaa— nothing can get in our way!
On the count of three, we will start— are you ready?
1...2.... 3!
[ and with that, he sprints, heading straight for a vine that is over the ravine. ]
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Phew! [ A little dirtied but no worse for wear, Mikazuki heaves himself up onto the other end and begins to dust himself off. He's patting away the dirt from his face when he starts to look for Katsura -- wondering where he landed or if he landed at all. He hopes it's the former since he's taken quite a liking to him! ] Katsura-kuuun? If you didn't die please answer me!
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I'm stuck.
[ someway, somehow, Mikazuki will see Katsura suspended in mid air, tangled up in the center of the ravine in a bunch of vines. Maybe if he doesn't move they won't all break and send him to his alligator dismay.
Despite the situation, Zura looks extremely calm. ]
My contract says I wouldn't be doing any of this-- we aren't one of "those animes" with an after dark time slot.
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That's -- [ surprisingly, Mikazuki is impressed ] amazing, Katsura-kun! I don't know you managed but to have become so entangled...you certainly are talented. Oh, may I assume you want me to cut you down or figure out how to safely get you over here without plummeting to your death? [ Mikazuki may or may not be getting his sword out already. ]
There's also the whip but please be warned I've never used one before. [ He'd be more likely to hit Katsura with that than save him. ]
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Some ugly laughter: ]
Ha ha haaaa! As you can see, I am a man of many talents. I can sleep with my eyes open and tie the stem of a cherry in a knot with my tongue. I slashed the tires of a Shinsengumi patrol car once and got away with it-- I am very fast!
Ah. Are you sure using a whip is okay? That isn't too intimate? I always considered myself more of an "S"...
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THAT ASIDE, he has a choice now between his sword and his whip or potentially both. Running through plan A, plan B, and plan C...Mikazuki is trying to gauge what would NOT kill Katsura immediately. ]
Ah, I would hate to lose such a talented man! I promise I will be very careful and thoroughly save you -- [ he just barely catches that S comment and he wonders if it means anything...Mikazuki is basically a grandpa after all, can't keep up with the slang of today's youth. ] Theoretically, I could cut you down and catch you with the whip! Assuming I don't accidentally hit you with it. AHEM. If you have another plan please do enlighten me.
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In any case, they're both idiots that don't seem to understand the danger of the situation.
One of the vines that is holding his ankle snaps, so now he is wrapped up by the torso and his other leg.
Think quick, Kotarou. ]
Mikazuki-dono. [ again. ]
Cut all of the vines but this one here in my other ankle.
If you do not mind.
[ polite and quaint. ]