#my projects

1. Digital drawing of her, colorized version of

2. Initial pen sketch of her, with her initial name I forgot to crop out.

Story:

The Alter/Net forum sprang up as a way for those accessing the Alterworld to organize and communicate-- both to try and understand what it's all about and to act as a safety precaution; it's less safe for those new to the world to be alone after all.

The website itself is password protected, however, encrypted to a pretty unheard of degree for 2009, and is blocked from most search engines. Even searching the url directly will redirect one to the basic scrubbed results, the site itself only appearing on the twelfth page. It's difficult for one to stumble upon accidentally, by design.

Cerulli has been big into online spaces and forums for quite a while now. Discord doesn't exist yet unfortunately, so she's got to instead scrape through the bottom of the barrel of the internet to find like minded people on the to talk to. One particular day, she was conversing with someone on a paranormal board about a ritual, similar to bloody Mary and the like, that would supposedly cause one to wake up in a parallel world. They got to talking, and the person had allegedly been in this world before. Being stupid, Cerulli believes the person. She went to try it, and it didn't work. The next night, the same thing. She told the other user and they just said it was difficult the first time. That night, the same thing. Eventually, she stopped trying. But oneday a few weeks later, she woke up from a particularly fitful sleep, and the world was. Wrong.

First of all, she was outside in a square in front of a building with graffiti on it. Large graffiti, something she'd notice if it existed normally. A password of some kind, clearly. Sure. She'd have to remember it.

Second, the world was dark, raining black, and had sharp black, almost thorn like things jutting out of the ground. That was different.

Third, upon looking up, she saw her own world. Her normal world. Close enough that the taller buildings touched the ground she stood on. Oh god. The vertigo was outstanding.

She turned around slowly, taking in her surroundings, until she saw something that froze her blood. A tall, long humanoid figure, pitch white, limbs longer than it was tall, with a face that looked almost... censored. At first, the pair just looked at one another.

Until the beast broke out into a full-on quadrupedal galloping sprint straight towards her. She turned tail and ran, as any normal person would, but she knew it wouldn't do anything. She was going to die here.

She had come into a dead end. This was it. She turned to face the beast, hoping she'd figure something out, until a figure jumped down from somewhere she couldn't see, landing atop the beast. The figure pulled out a knife, and with one clean stroke with one arm, decapitated the monster. The figure jumped down, carrying the head with, clearly not having noticed Cerulli.

Cerulli called out, hoping to thank the person. He turned around- a blond gentleman dressed in a suit with an eyepatch and facial scarring regarded her. He just hummed and said it was 'less than nothing.' He cleaned the knife off on his opposite arm, then replaced the arm behind his back and his knife in a holster. And he was never seen again.

Cerulli_Horror has been a somewhat active member in the Alter/Net forums. She had entered the otherworld to get the password to the website, made an account, and has met back up with the previous person from the other forum on here. The user's name is xXAmb3r_Sw33t6503Xx, and they've been talking ever since. They'll be meeting up tonight, to start the story of the game. If when I make a post about Amber, that's when I'll get to that story.

First though, how does Cerulli play?