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Event #7: Sweet Dreams Are Made of Glitches (Outside the Metaverse)
Sweet Dreams Are Made of Glitches
LOGS | NETWORK | OOC | MEMES | NAVIGATION
On March 14th, everyone received a message. The Research Center is ready to try another test to find ways to beat the Darkness. This time the test is not done with the mecha that were previously used, but instead everyone who volunteers will be participating in a virtual reality simulator. They're asked to come over to the Center on March 15th.
The participants will be provided with different kind of treats. All of them are meant to benefit the virtual reality experience. The savory ones keep hunger at bay for longer periods of time, also providing a lot of energy, while the sweet ones help keep touch energy stable for a longer time (both of these are new inventions and will be available at Riki's after this as a freebie; the sweets are not a permanent solution to touch energy, but it will help in a pinch).
Everyone is then told that the metaverse will provide them with free virtual items. They will have access to an menu that they can test while they eat and see what options they have. There they will see that all their seasonal abilities will be available for them - including all of the animal transformations they can access.
The researchers will explain that the purpose of this simulation is to see how several fully powered power holders fare against the Darkness. They have gathered enough data on it and the dark energy in general to determine the effects it will have on nature, monsters and wildlife if the barrier is taken off. This is the only safe way to actually test their theories.
People participating are supposed to feel no pain during fighting, and if they die in the simulator they just get booted out. After that they can choose to take a break, quit or return to the simulator.
There are several rooms reserved for the test. Each of them has several comfortable chairs, where participants are asked to put a device around their arm so the scientists can make sure they're all fine during the simulator. Anyone can refuse this part, but it's recommended to follow the instructions for safety purposes.
Another device is the virtual reality goggles that will enable their access to the metaverse. Unlike with normal goggles, the participants won't be moving their physical body around and will instead be using their mind. This is enabled with both the power of science and magic, as is the whole simulator in general.
After all the explanations, everyone is asked to find a seat and put on all the devices they're comfortable with and log in to the metaverse. Anyone logging in may notice that there are a lot of glitches as they enter the metaverse.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, anyone looking at any kind of a screen (their own device, television, a digital advertisement, etc.) will have their mind sucked into the metaverse, due to the virus residing in the program. Their bodies will be left in a sleep-like state wherever they may be.
After the researchers realize there's something terribly wrong, the call goes out to everyone who knows their way around the computers to come help battle the virus in the virtual reality program. Everyone is given special glasses that will prevent them from being dragged into the metaverse accidentally. These glasses are also handed out to anyone else who wants to be extra secure, just outside the research center.
The virus they're battling comes from the Doctor, but as it stands, he's put a spell on himself to make himself comatose, so he can't be questioned about it. Anyone who has the dream walking/manipulating ability may try it on him, but the results will just be blocked by the Doctor's strong will and magic defenses he's created himself (even Sawyer, who tried it, failed, and he's the strongest Autumn Power Holder currently). Research Center and the Power Holders are working on finding solutions to bring him back so he can be properly questioned, but it hasn't been working.
Of course anyone helping out with figuring out the code will be provided with food and other necessities for free, with the promise they can take a break or quit anytime. Volunteers can also help by providing these necessities for the people working on computers - including the native researchers who are working endlessly.
Another job for the volunteers is to occasionally hold one of the participants hand, to provide them with touch energy and alert the staff if something seems wrong with their vitals.
Outside the Research Center, the four Power Holders are forming rescue parties to find people who have fallen asleep and pulled into the metaverse. The ones in Research Center are taken cared of, but who knows where some people have fallen asleep. It's important to get them to a safe space and make sure they have their touch energy needs also met during this time - especially since they didn't get the preparation meals before entering the metaverse.
After two weeks have passed, on March 31st, everyone who was in the metaverse will be able to return. Where they are and how they're positioned is probably an interesting way to readjust to the actual world. Someone might wake up holding hands with someone they've never met before, after all!
Free food and drinks will be provided to everyone by the fairy services, to make sure everyone gets their energy back for sleeping for so long. The food will be anything they want - all they need is to ask the fairy visiting them.
Helene, the leader of the Research Center, is personally apologizing about the mishappenings. The Doctor's virus had been impossible to notice before it activated (a proper Trojan Horse). She provides everyone who volunteered to help (in the test or after it went haywire) or was dragged into the metaverse by force 10000 Moon Coins as compensation for what happened, as well as a free voucher for a spa of their choice.
Any data gathered from the metaverse despite the chaotic situation is welcome with open arms, of course, and will be used further their efforts to fight the Darkness.
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Daigo Dojima | Yakuza | Autumn
🐉 In metaverse
WAKE UP!NETWORKWILDCARD
Tap | OC | Spring
[The one perk of being from slightly further in the future than most people here manifests itself here quickly enough: Tap hears 'metaverse' and immediately knows she wants no part of it. It may as well advertise itself as a scam, as far as she's concerned, so she pays it no mind. And it's lucky for her- Someone as screen-addicted as her would normally be easy prey, but she's still not used to the area, so spending her time exploring is how she's spending her time.
She got very lucky, at least.]
ii. problem
[Upon hearing that it went awry, Tap manages to get a pair of Metaverse-proofing glasses for herself, and got a few extras that she hands out whenever she sees anyone without. She can't not help, even if she knew the whole thing was a bad idea from the start.
Of course, her real help is when the rescue parties start. She volunteers for them immediately- She may not have any seasonal magic whatsoever yet, but her own game-based abilities will provide great help regardless. She has unparalleled agility in the air, after all. She's spending her time in the rescue parties performing aerial searches, looking for people who might have fallen in places that would be harder to see from the ground, and periodically swooping down to talk to people.
If you are walking around the city while all this is going on, a bunny girl may simply fall out of the sky at high speeds and land in front of you.]
Excuse me! Have you seen anyone unconscious in this area?! I'm with the rescue teams!
ii
Glasses?
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[He heard the commotion about that, but hadn't had time to look at the incident more closely. Which is probably good for him, since he hasn't looked at his phone for a good while.]
Alrigh'. Thank you very much.
[He makes a quick bow, before he accepts the glasses, putting them on. It doesn't feel different, but he supposes that's a good thing.]
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[She does, in fact, visibly sag in relief, but then perks right back up.]
Oh, right- Have you seen anyone else unconscious in this area? Or anyone who might be in danger? We gotta spread these glasses as much as we can!
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I haven' seen anyone, no. But why don' I help you spread the glasses? Might go faster that way.
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What's your name? I'm Tap!
ii - I figure after she's dragged her back we can cut to the idiot old lady waking up
Eva had settled on a bench in a more secluded area of the Gardens, seeking out somewhere to sit and think where she wouldn't be disturbed. However, that was not to be.
Here she was, lying on her side with her device in hand... and running up quite a fever. The latter was not a usual symptom of getting drawn into the metaverse, but such was the usual way of things for Eva, when her inner Witch was running rampant.]
got it!
This woman's burning up. Tap doesn't know how to treat that right away. If she had all her equipment, she could class change- No, would healing magic even work on a fever? She doesn't know what's wrong. She has to get her to safety.
She hoists Eva up into her arms, then kicks off the ground, gliding as best she can with a passenger- She had no idea how hard it would be to glide with an unconscious passenger, but she does her best. At least she's deceptively strong, so once she lands again, it's easy for her to carry Eva in.
Unfortunately, the medical staff is extremely overworked, and they need all the help they can get. Which leads Tap to helping. Eva needs two things- First, touch energy, which Tap can do by holding hands. But that fever needs treatment... And Tap has only one thing she can do there.
So unfortunately, Eva will wake up with the a sword against her forehead.
Okay, more accurately, the sword is made of ice, and wrapped in a couple layers of towels, and the flat side is being held to Eva's head to try to cool down her fever. But still.]
Taiga Kagami | Kuroko's Basketball | Summer
H-Hey!
[Kagami, wearing the protective glasses while working, was scrambling over the counter to hastily grab a patron by the front of their shirt as they had abruptly toppled backwards off the bar stool.]
Shit, this is why I told you no phones for today!
[Of course, the person was out cold by now, phone now resting on the ground somewhere. Still, he sighed in relief despite his cursing at having prevented someone from cracked their head open on the ground like that. Then, proceeded to finishing climbing over the counter so he could properly get the person laying down somewhere safe.]
Anyone available to keep the touch magic goin'? Free food will come with it.
[He should probably call the folks at the Research Center to pick the person up until then, right? Hopefully, no one else gets pulled in while eating there... he doesn't have enough booths!!]
Minato Arisato | Persona 3 | Spring
[A very long, very golden, and very big dragon is gliding by towards the Research Center with Minato walking beside it, glasses on his face. He was carrying a sleeping person his back while Kohryu's body held several.
It was also clear he was having a little bit of trouble, the strain of keeping Kohryu out along with carrying someone on his back a long ways was taking its toll. He had fast traveled for some of the way, his persona keeping up, but now, he was drained and his feet felt so heavy despite boosting his stamina as best he could.]
II
[If you just woke up, congrats, you have a
smol blueberrynapping Spring power holder holding your hand. The past two weeks had been extra tiring and he needed a nap, but after having either found you or stayed at the Research Center, he decided to rest while helping at the same time.]no subject
You don't need to give me free food for it. But I'll help
[It was a slow day for the karaoke bar, so he could afford to be away.]
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Ed blinks. Whoever the guy was is sleeping. Was he also in the simulator or was he just helping? Ed gives him a gentle nudge.]
Hey?
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[Minato's uncanny ability to sleep anywhere was probably just as impressive as being able to wake up at a moment's notice and he blinked his eyes opened with another soft sound. He hummed and rubbed his eyes, covering his mouth to yawn shortly after.]
Finally awake? [He sat up straighter in the chair he had been sitting in.] Feeling okay?
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Instead, she'll get a delirious; ]
Huh... fuck.
[At least the cold seems to have helped! As had the touch energy. If it weren't for that, she probably would have been left a statue in the gardens.]
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[Tap pulls her sword away, looking over Eva with concern...]
Are you all right? Don't push yourself to try to move just yet!