prompts for cerealia appers

[psycholawgy]

This is by no means an official test drive meme, but rather just some possible scenarios you may encounter in Cerealia! No memories of what happens in this post can be made game canon.

Helpful game links:
✧ Arrival
✧ FAQ
✧ Locations
✧ Applications — they open on the 14th!


a: cookie disaster

[ Upon leaving the research center after being briefed via PowerPoint presentation, you'll find a robot that looks like a salt and pepper shaker tailing you, and offering you a fortune cookie! What a cute little robot. It's just so bad that it the cookie gives you strange fortunes like "Someone has Googled you recently". Creepy, huh?

But whether or not you read your fortune out loud, the robot seems to be very, very intent on helping. It follow you around and offer strange, and possibly dangerous advice. Your fortune said "You're allergic to the last thing you ate"? Well, the robot will offer to cut open your stomach to remove the food out! It cares. And this robot will chase you down, threaten you, shoot you with its laser eyes, or all of the above! Apart from that, it's definitely very noisy. Sorry, it's not sorry about how loud it is as it announces to you and to every passerby that "You will spend the next five hours sitting on the toilet"!

(Feel free to think of the most mundane or crazy fortunes and helpful "solutions!") ]

b: error in transporation

[ The metro-rail is basically what everyone who doesn't want to walk uses to get around the colony. It's usually a convenient means of transporation, but with the population growing, the rides start to get crowded! Lucky for you, today isn't one of those days. There aren't a lot of people riding the trains today, and there are probably just three or so people in each cart. You can sit down, and you don't have to smell the person who's invading your personal space because of how crowded it is!

Hold on tight, though, as the train comes to an abrupt stop! The conductor gets every passenger's attention through the intercom right away, and explains that there's some trouble in the next stop that services will be interrupted until further notice. Basically? You're stuck on the train until whatever problem there is is solved. Hope you have nothing important going on!

Well, of course you don't! You just arrived, after all. ]

c: obligatory horror option

[ After being briefed, of course you'd want to find a place to settle down in. Thankfully, the CEO and CERES is generous enough to provide you all with housing, and free rent for two months! Just how swell is that? But upon claiming an apartment of your own, you'll slowly notice that things aren't… how they should be. You blink, and you find the figure of someone who you never ever want to see before you. It's a faceless being, but their other physical characteristics sure are there. You blink again, and they're gone.

You don't feel safe. You start getting paranoid. What if something else happens? Maybe you should find another place to sleep in tonight. Knock on your neighbour's door, or wait outside your building to see if anyone will pick you up.

Or you could always be brave and spend the night at your own apartment. You'll find the lights flickering on and off even though you've switched them off already; the doors opening and closing on their own; the furniture suddenly not being in its place as if someone was dragging them around the house. It's definitely causing a lot of disruption so late at night, and it's not just you who can hear it. Your neighbours can hear the strange noises coming from your apartment, too. ]

d: vivid
✧ ViVid info

[ You thought you were done with ViViD for the day, but for some messed up reason, you clicked on something you weren't supposed to, and you're back in the game.

Your mission? Form a party of two members or more, beat the boss before it beats you! Yes. The boss is a butt with a tongue. It attacks with its tongue by either impaling the character/s, or by releasing pink hairs into the air which will fall all over the stage and causes confusion for a short duration of time.

The mission begins once you've formed a party! Good luck, and don't let love be over! ]

Comments

Kazuya Minegishi | Devil Survivor: Overclocked

[belfire]

b;

[Kazuya didn't bother escaping the train when it came to a halt - he really wasn't in any rush to go anywhere, and he was far too lazy to really put any effort into kicking the window out (he might have to pay a fine, ew). But boredom crept in quickly, and so eventually people would find him sprawled across multiple chairs, his white cape twisted around him, and occasionally letting out loud, aggravated groans of boredom, kicking a chair, flopping around...

...making a general, loud, annoyance of himself]

c;

[Kazuya was not going to be beaten by a ghost. He wasn't even afraid of the damn thing, unless his fear of the walls weeping blood and him inevitably cleaning it up counted. One didn't crawl to the top of the demonic foodchain without develop some sort of tolerance for rude hauntings, and this time was no exception - except the repeated banging, lights flickering, and his furniture getting hauled across the room was reeeeeeeeeally beginning to wear thin]

Can't believe they gave me a haunted room. Who does that?

[Kazuya was muttering to himself as he prowled his living room at two in the morning, clutching a broom he had dug out of the cupboard. Alas, sic'ing his demon servants on the ghost would probably end up in collateral damage, and he wasn't in the mood to play clean up this early in the game]

Hell. They're gonna go to Hell. I'll smite them when- HEY!

[He caught his sofa moving, and he brandished his broom threateningly, making more noise than the actual poltergeist at this point. The sofa very quickly stilled its shuffling]

I saw that! Stop touching my goddamn sofa! Just shoo! Go away!

[Was his mad flailing with the broom working? Probably not, but bashing the poor thing against his furniture and knocking the ceiling was making him feel productive and better about the whole horrible situation. Sorry, Kazuya's neighbours...]

b

[kujou]

Tsch. The trains in Osaka are so much more efficient than this...

[ Hinako is looking at her smartphone, the "No SIgnal" still displaying. The summoning program worked, despite everything - or at least, it looked like did. She walked up the length of the train, trying to see whether there was anybody else in this predicament and she was surprised to see someone generally making a mess of the train. Now that's not on. ]

Hey, I get it's an annoyance but that's no way to behave!

[belfire]

[Kazuya stopped and stared from his where he had somehow managed to sprawl on his chair upside down. How his headphones didn't slip off of his head was a mystery]

But... I'm bored.

[kujou]

[ There was something about this guy that seemed really familiar, but she couldn't put her finger on what. ]

So am I, but that doesn't mean you have to behave like a nuisance!

[belfire]

Hey, you've got legs. There're other carriages if you're getting annoyed.

[But he sat up properly - or attempted to. He was so tangled up in his cape at this point that when he tried to sit up and twist himself the right way round, he ended up catching himself in the fabric of his cape, and with a yelp-

'THUMP!'

-toppled onto the floor in a messy heap. Ouch, right on the face.]

Guh...

[kujou]

Honestly.

[ Hinako puts a hand on her hip, sighing. ]

You're like Yamato with your fancy schmancy capes and your talk, but you're both just socially awkward.

[ It was really just the fashion choice (Hinako you can't talk, you walk around with a white piece of cloth around you), but after a moment, she decides to extend a hand out to Kazuya. ]

Come on, I'll help you up.

[belfire]

[Grumbling, Kazuya pushed himself up on his hands and knees, pushing the cape from where it had flopped over his head. He squinted at the offered hand, but after a tense moment, took it and let him be hauled onto his feet]

Thanks, I guess... [He quickly pulled away the moment he was standing, and he couldn't help but feel awkward. He just made a total and utter fool of himself there] I- totally meant to do that, okay. To, you know, break the ice. Mmhm.

[kujou]

[ Not doing much to change that "socially awkward" impression from her, Kazuya. She hauls him up no problem and gives him the once over. ]

Sure.

[ She totally believes you. ]

The name's Hinako Kujou. Pleased to meet ya and all of that!

[ She may be playing up her Osakan accent a little bit. ]

[belfire]

[He almost looked like a startled deer, with how taken aback he was by Hinako's enthusiasm, but he recovered valiantly]

Oh, uh! I'm Kazuya Minegishi. [He paused slightly, chewing his bottom lip as if thinking something over before continuing;] I'm kinda like a... Messiah?

[Ugh, no matter how many times he said it, it always sounded so cheesy to him. He scowled at his feet, rubbing at his nose. Maybe he should pretend to be a crazy boy and stay low key on his powers while in this weird place...]

Er, no, forget that. I'm just a weirdo, haha.

[kujou]

...

[ There's an involuntary twitch in Hinako's eye as she listens to what Kazuya says. No way. This guy really was like Yamato too. ]

Are you trying to make some new world order or something? You know, with only the chosen ones who are worthy or something like that.

[belfire]

[Kazuya looked totally blank]

Um, I don't think I am. At least, I don't want to? I mean, everyone deserves a chance, right?

[kujou]

[ Phew. Okay. Maybe he's not as bad as Yamato then. ]

Sorry, I got caught up in this big mess where I got this app on my phone to summon demons and then it was the end of days and... well, I'm rambling now but I've had my share of egotistical with power types.

[ The ones who would call themselves messiah-like. ]

b

[birthmarkless]

[ Right across from Kazuya's seat, there's apparently a certain Ookurikara sitting with his legs crossed. From his face, it's pretty easy to tell that he's already annoyed by the accident, and with Kazuya's tantrum, it's only getting worse. ]

Stop that.

[belfire]

[Kazuya did, indeed, stop, somehow ending up half on the floor, and half on his seat, staring balefully at the man who dared to interrupt his tantrum]

Wow, not even a "please". Rude. [Sniff!]

[birthmarkless]

[ Oh god, is this going to be another test of patience for today? He swears that he can explode at any given moment now, considering everything that keeps happening.

He was about to give another cynical retort, but after a moment, he decide to not to do that. That would just prolong this stupid farce. ]

Please.

[ Kazuya can probably tell that Ookurikara didn't say that heartily. Because that's what he did. Happy now? ]

[belfire]

[Kazuya gave him a long, hard look, punctuated when he gave a few, suspicious sniffs]

Hmm, that didn't sound very sincere...

[But, thankfully for Ookurikara's sanity, he didn't push. He hauled himself up back into his seat and practically curled up in it like some oversized cat, although he seemed totally focused on Ookurikara now, which was... probably bad]

So, super grumpy man, what's got your underwear all in a twist?

[birthmarkless]

[ He didn't give any visible response at the comment of not being sincere, only a barely audible grunt. Hope Kazuya was happy with his statement because he was so damn correct about that.

At first, the swordsman barely paid any attention at the other's action, but after some moment of feeling Kazuya's eyes on him, even he felt a bit uncomfortable. ]

Isn't that obvious? [ He shifts his head aside, crossing his arms in total displeasure. ] The train and you. Choose two.

[belfire]

Me?

[Kazuya did not carry wounded innocence very well]

I haven't been twisting any underwear today! Maybe you've just got high blood pressure. That usually makes people cranky and unreasonable.

[birthmarkless]

[ ...Thankfully, this is not the first time he have to deal with this type of person. Ookurikara gives a small shrug, letting out a sigh while at it. ]

Whatever.

[ Yeah. That, and another grunt. That was his response to that. It was not rare for him to be labelled as 'cranky', after all. It was not like Kazuya was totally wrong about him having high blood pressure (at the moment, at least) as well. ]

Do something that won't annoy other instead.

[ Pro Advisor : Ookurikara's Edition. ]

[belfire]

Hmmmm... I don't do anything to annoy other people.

[But he was smiling, even if he vainly tried to hide it behind the collar of his white cape. It was bad of him, he knew, but, there was something terribly amusing at prodding this uptight guy]

Maybe you're sensitive. [His smile widened] Are you always like this? Seems like a stressful way to live.

[birthmarkless]

[ That was where Ookurikara quickly squint at the other person in disbelief. Was he joking, or was he actually serious? He simply couldn't tell. ]

You annoy me.

[ If this was any other situation, people (read: Ookurikara's friends) would actually give Kazuya something expensive and nice for his effort and success to be able to... 'bait' him this far. ]

That is not your business. [ Another grunt, and maybe some teeth-gritting of frustration included somewhere. ] ...And the same goes for you. Are you always like this, too?

[belfire]

Maybe~

[Kazuya let that word hang between them for a moment, before taking pity on the man. Turning his gaze away, he examined his fingernails, idly picking the dirt out from underneath them]

I am when I'm bored. I don't mean anything by it though, don't worry. You're just funny.

C

[scarfphiliac]

[Ivlis hardly ever sleeps, but tonight should have been a good time to catch up a lot of rest. Too bad that the one time he needed it, there's a lot of noise coming from the apartment beside him.

Thus, it's how he now found himself angrily stomping over to his neighbor's and bangs repeatedly on their door.]

WOULD YOU KEEP IT DOWN?! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!!

[belfire]

[Kazuya cursed when he heard the banging and shouting, giving his living room one last baleful look before stomping over to it. He just knew that when he turned back, that bastard ghost was going to mess everything around...!]

What?! [Kazuya wrenched the door open, practically snarling with a crazed look in his eyes] I'm trying to ghost hunt here!

[scarfphiliac]

Hmph. Ghosts, eh?

[Ivlis glares harder as he pokes at Kazuya's forehead.]

Look, whatever it is you're doing, I want you and your stupid ghost friend to shut up! Or at least go hunting somewhere else, I don't care!