Celestia plays Plague Inc.

by Radiata


Celestia plays Plague Inc: The cure

Celestia liked the game Plague Inc so much that she downloaded all soundtracks and filled her room with it. Her favorite soundtracks were Direct Control, All in Your Head, Z Com Falls, Plague Blossom, and...

A good song played, and Celestia gets a good vibe from that song. She was confused, as she got the good vibe from the song. But how?

"Hm, why did I get a good vibe from this song? Must be a positive song, but how can i judge a song positive like this? I must look for informations about this song."

The song title is Flatten the Curve, the official soundtrack for the 'The Cure' expansion for Plague Inc.

Has the game updated? She had to download the newest version for the game, now or never, she must try the 'The Cure' expansion.

"Let me download this new version of Plague Inc. I am curious on how it looks like."

As the download done, she updated the game and opened it. Again, the teaser for Plague Inc as the opening video before player could access the game, it always plays as she opened the game.

1 and about a half minute later, she saw the 'cure' expansion information tab on the lower-right corner of the screen, and as she clicked on the 'Single Player' button, she noticed the 'Cure mode' tab.

"Why didn't I notice this new expansion before? I would have saved humanity from the horrifying plague!" She talked to herself for another time, and she get high euphoria as she saw the 'Cure bottle' icon as the icon for the cure expansion.

"Oh, there is more pathogens in the 'select plague' tab."

Her euphoria is so high that she even choosen bacteria, and played it in brutal mode.

Plague choosen: Bacteria, brutal, no task force modification, name: PAX 12, again.

She headed to the World map again, this time not to eradicate humanity, but to eradicate the pathogen that plagued the world.

"Oh, this time I picked the country to place my HQ. Interesting..."

She picked the country Japan and started the game there.

"The graphic is very different, there is the authority level. I wonder what it does."

A pop-up message tells her to fund Disease Investigation teams to investigate the mystery outbreak that still needs investigation.

"Hang on" Celestia noticed plenty of red points in Europe, at Germany. "Aren't these the Infected peoples? I thought a country have to be investigated to know the virus information! But how? Oh, this field operatives might be useful." She dragged the field operatives to Germany, and then a red bubble appears as her field operatives arrive at Germany.

"The pathogen starts at Germany," she guessed. "Wait, it's not Germany, but where? Oh, maybe Poland... no, it's not poland, might be on Central Europe." As the special biohazard bubble pops, it plays the sound "start outbreak" just like the sound she heard as she popped the 'Play' button. This time, is to show where the outbreak starts as well as the location of the patient zero.

"Let my field operatives stay at there, may could identify Patient Zero." Research shows zero percentage as no cure research is funded.

Unfortunately, as all country has investigated, the number of infected peoples dropped and they all die. The screen switches to the victorious screen where the plague has killed all its hosts.

"What?? I didn't even fund anything yet for the cure research! Oh, the pathogen killed its hosts. Wow, this game is perfectly made and it is very interesting! But no, I must eradicate the virus by myself, using the cure I researched!"

The virus pathogen unlocked as she beaten the virus only because the pathogen killed all of its hosts.

"Oh, virus! Let's eradicate this one right now. I don't want the pathogen to kill all its hosts and made me win the game again with no cure."

"It's vaccine, Sister." Luna appeared immediately as Celestia said the word 'Cure' on Cure mode.

"Vaccine? Isn't it a cure?"

"No, you've beaten the game with no vaccine. Congratulations, Tia. That is very rare experience."

"You played the game too?" Celestia asks. Luna nods and shows her all her achievements at the cure mode.

Celestia shocked as Luna could beat the game in Mega Brutal mode.

"You've got to teach me, I believe you could help me this time" Celestia begs Luna to teach her how to play it

"There is a tutorial for this, I'm sure you can do this without my teaching"

"No Luna, I want you to teach me. I will play in Brutal mode."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah!"

"Okay, I'll teach you"

Luna grabs her chair and sit beside with Celestia to teach her how to play on Brutal mode.

Plague Choosen: Virus, brutal mode, no genetic code modification, name: PAX 12, again

"Okay, I would like to guide you on playing this game 'till we eradicate your PAX 12."

"Sure"

"Start your HQ at China."

"Why?"

"It is a rich country. If you start at a rich and urban country, it will be easier for you to cure the pathogen."

"Okay, where is China?"

Luna drags the mouse, telling Celestia where is China. "Here," as she done dragging the cursor and pointing at China.

"Okay." She placed the HQ at China. Then she head to the outbreak tab and fund Investigate outbreak as well as Deploy Field Operatives.

"You need this too," Luna dragged the cursor to Government parterships hex.

"Oh right, we partner with the government right?"

"Eeyup"

"I'll fund that"

Hex funded: Operation: Investigate outbreaks, Government partnerships and Deploy field operatives

"Wait, should we find the virus? I thought it immediately known like the bacteria mode!" Celestia asked Luna.

"That is only available for bacteria, since bacteria is very easy to detect and cure."

"I see..."

A pop-up message appears, saying "PAX 12 detected in Egypt"

Luna warns Celestia that it is time to research the cure for the outbreak. "Look, Tia! The virus is detected in Egypt! Now is time for the real thing."

Hex funded: Operation: Vaccine research, and some hexes that could accelerate vaccine developement and manufacturing.

As Celestia headed to the 'Cure' tab, she saw the cure will be ready in one year.

"Couldn't it get faster? Luna, did you know how to make this faster?"

"We've funded every single operation to accelerate vaccine developement and manufacturing, but we could slow down the infection by doing this..." she said that while she funds a lot of hexes in the operation tab to slow down infection.

"What are those things do, Luna?"

"They made the field operatives cure the nearest infected ones. Now drag it to Russia."

Celestia moved the Field Operatives to Russia. And the infected rate drops immediately.

"Wow Luna, you are a genius! Thanks for teaching me, I am so happy to cure the pathogen!"

"Well, good luck! I better go back and play Plague Inc as-"

Celestia grabs Luna, and begging her to guide her to the end of the game.

"No! You should play together with me!"

"Or guess we could play Multiplayer?"

"Wait, there is... multiplayer?"

"Yeah but I guess it's not available for both plague and the cure yet, I'm not sure though..."

"Okay, but I still need your guide."

"Alright, let's play together."

That time the game is paused.

Luna makes sure everything is alright, but unfortunately there is something that made them almost fail. The authority point, dropped to 50.

"Sister! The authority is too low! We need to do something!"

"Oh yeah, what does the authority do?"

"The authority determines how successful we are. We need to stop it from getting any lower, or we will run out of it and we lose!"

"How can we stop it?"

Luna drags the cursor to 'Cure' tab to see how long it took for the research to be completed. Information says that it will be done in the next 20 days. So they still have hope to cure the virus.

"So it's like this. We have funded all vaccine manufacturing and research hexes that made it fast. Now all we only can do is to fund this Authority 1 to gain authority, and then Censorship."

Hexes funded: Operation: Authority 1 and Censorship

Celestia got the point. To gain authority, they need to fund Authority 1 to 3. To freeze them, they need to fund Censorship and Fake news.

"But that's similiar to lying, isn't it?" Celestia asks

"Yes, but what can we do? Authority loss is because they think we are working so slow, while we do our best to eradicate the pathogen."

Authority is frozen for one month. For the next 20 days, vaccine research is done, and 10 days ahead to deploying the vaccine worldwidely. They still need to manufacture and make more of the vaccines to spread all over the world.

"We are successful. Now we need to wait for the vaccine production to be done and we won."

10 Plague Inc days later, the vaccine production is done and is deployed worldwidely. But Celestia still worried about the authority since it almost collapsed.

"Luna! The authority drops! What should we do?"

"Don't worry, sister. The authority will freeze over 0 and we will never run out of it as we completed the vaccine!"

"Interesting..." Celestia saw plenty of planes coming out from China. They are coloured blue, means they are the planes that carries vaccine to all parts of the world.

"Those planes are the vaccine carriers, right?"

"Yup and the vaccine forces like they inject the vaccines to everyone in the country."

The infected rate drops rapidly, as more and more people recovered and then given immune to PAX 12. Now the screen switches to the victory screen, telling Celestia and Luna that they successfully saved the world from PAX 12.

"High five, Sister." They both high fived as they won the game on Brutal mode with the help of Princess Luna.

"We did it, Luna! We saved the world!"

As they finished the game, Luna exits Celestia's room, and thereby feel useful as she could help Celestia in finishing the game Plague Inc.