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Who: There are new people in town. No really. It's a town. And people are new.
When: OOC: 11/15 ; IC: 4/7
Where: ViViD's new and improved CereScape!
What: CERES has heard complaints about the previous gaming situation, so they're fixing it. They hope everyone enjoys their new and improved changes to the game!
Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some scary images and/or situations. Please let the mods know if the rating should go up!

//event021.EXE

You’ve arrived. The sweeping, picturesque landscape is vast and perfectly rendered; the lake glitters in the sun, the grass ripples in the wind, the city bustles with voices and noise, and overall, it seems there’s been a bit of a graphics boost for CereScape.

And now you're a member.

Time to enjoy all of the perks that brings, and try not to think about how much it cost you. Don't worry, it's an automatic, monthly deduction, really, no need to worry!

CERES assures you that it will be totally worth it.

This is Mosley and I am now a wizard. I say that because we have heard your customer feedback for CeresScape and in your whining, you have requested wizards! And other stuff too but the important thing here is wizards and excellent graphics. We have delivered on both. You are welcome and I hope you all continue to appreciate what CERES does for you. Just you. Especially you.

Happy leveling!

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I

[ 630 ] You really have arrived, finally.

Too bad the welcome isn’t so great.

Upon arrival, you will literally be dropped out of the sky.

You may land in the lake (watch out for the fish). You may land on the roofs of the buildings in the town (watch out for the spires). Or you may be unlucky, and fall all the way from the sky to the ground, at which point you die and lose a life already.

Don’t worry, you’ll respawn in the air and you can try again.

Good luck this time!

If you do manage to finally land in a way that doesn’t break your spine and/or drown you, you’ll find that if you’re a newcomer, you’ll have some strange words hovering over your head. They seem to be a set of your name, a level, a class and a quest, something like --
Ima Adventurerer Lv. 9000
Class: Dragon Slayer
Current Quest: Slay every dragon
-- but aside from existing, they don't seem to have any actual impact on your abilities or requirements. But you can do the quests if you really want to. Everyone will clap politely for you if you do. There might be confetti, even.

They would appear to coincide with a scroll or two posted up in the middle of town for everyone to see.

At least it’s easy to tell who’s new this round.

PHASE II

[ 745 ] Once you’re safely on the ground (hopefully no broken bones!), it’s time to get a feel for the game. As free range as it seems to be, you have all sorts of choices in where to go and what to do. You could take on some quests! You could go hunt down monsters! You could...pick up that fancy looking armor over there!

Except you may not actually want to do so. As soon as you touch that armor, it will equip itself, no ifs, ands or buts. Of course, it isn’t so bad, at least, not for the ladies. For the men who equip the armor, they may find it to be a little breezy. In many different variations.

To make matters worse, be careful what you touch in your inventory, unless you want to equip a fish instead of your sword, or whatever the hell this is instead of your cool, awesome, special weapon. Good luck.

And the only way to unequip it is to find something else to equip. There’s motivation for some questing, at least.

PHASE III

[ 1000 ] Eventually, you have to venture out of the town, however. There are NPCs ushering you to quest onwards, and there’s nothing in the town worth poking your nose into; none of the doors open, and all of the NPCs say the same, looping lines in a creepy monotone.

There are quests to be done outside of the town, they say, over and over.

So, off you go. However, the moment you step out of the town, you’re…somewhere else entirely. Look behind you, and the town is gone. Look around you, and there’s nothing but flowers, fields and the other people who have stepped out of the town themselves, looking equally confused. The bizarre armor is now gone, and you're back in your proper clothing; the strange floating titles and levels and the like are also gone. Otherwise, it is silent; there isn’t a single other soul. No bird song, no buzzing of bees -- just silence.

Of course, it won’t last. Soon, the monsters show up...but strangely, they seem to be monsters from your world, if your world had monsters. If your world had animals, they are those, or robots, or any number of combinations. But they seem...different. They’re meaner, larger, nastier, and all dark colors and bloody, dripping claws and fangs.

It seems everything’s been a little corrupted here -- even things from your own worlds.

PHASE IV

[ 1400 ] If you persevere through the monster-infested fields, trampling your way through flowers which did nothing at all to you, you’ll eventually find yourself at a still, still lake. It’s a beautiful place, quiet and hushed and untouched, and totally monster-free; it might be a good place to take a breather.

But if you look into the lake, even for a brief moment, you’ll see whatever it is you want most in the world. Whether it’s a person (dead or alive), a thing, a title… it doesn’t matter; the lake will show it, tantalizing and right there, so close to being in your grasp.

If you don’t pull away immediately, you might find that it’s hypnotizing, in fact; you’ll feel the need to go closer and closer, even if it means wading into the lake to get closer to that goal. Just...don’t go too far. Something is waiting for you.

If you touch someone to try to help them, you’ll see what they are also seeing in the lake, for better or for worse. It might be a good chance to get to know them, if you weren’t, you know, in danger of being eaten.

Thankfully, with some perseverance and good friends, the hypnotism can be broken. You do have friends, right?

If you survive all of that, you can finally log out and join Cerealia proper -- hooray!

BONUS

[ xxxx ] There sure are a lot of flowers in this field of flowers. There are flowers everywhere. Which isn’t a bad thing, unless you’re allergic to flowers (if you are allergic to flowers, CERES apologizes and suggests you take their special, patented ClariCERESclear to clear that right up). Except...the longer you’re in said field of flowers, the more you may notice that things are a little...strange.

Some of the pollen of the flowers has some strange effects on your bodies, it would seem. You could stumble across any of these (or none at all), and they could last anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or two, depending on how much of that pollen you breathe in.

The effects are as follows:
➟ The urge to princess-carry the nearest person
➟ The urge to serenade the nearest person, regardless of your singing ability
➟ An awakened urge to be really aggressive towards the nearest person, even to the point of fighting (it's time to pvp)
➟ Uncontrollable crying
➟ An uncontrollable urge to make flower crowns and place them on peoples' heads (which thus further spreads the other effects).

Don’t trust the flowers.

[ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE

Welcome to Cerealia's November intro log! For your convenience, we have compiled the characters' arrival experience here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here. Thank you!

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PHASE I:
[ Fortunately for Misaki Yata, he's rather used to being up on the air that after freaking out and screaming "FUCK!" out loud while dropping from the sky, he glides on his skateboard down on his way to safety.

And that's when he sees his game information:
Misaki Yata Lvl 55
Class: Mutant Bird
Current Quest: Embrace a Nun

Hey, hey, hey! [ If anybody ever hears him - which is very likely because he's loud as hell - one may see him as red as a tomato. ] The hell is this crap?! I'm not doing this mission!

[ Even though part of him really wants to. Because it's a damn game and he likes games… He's by a fountain, skateboard tucked in his arm, and is just storming about. ]

And why's my full name my username?! Who the fuck came up with this shit?

[ Hope everyone likes an angry ~~Yatagarasu~~ Mutant Bird. ]

PHASE II:
[ Despite the words Embrace a Nun hovering over his head, Misaki Yata is determined to make the most out of this game as possible. After all, his world's just been destroyed.

And he's going to save it.

In fact, he doesn't care that what he has equipped is a freaking fish. He'll approach any man or anybody who at least looks like a man from the back, put a hand on his shoulder and say: ]

Hey, wanna party up?

[ Please don't be a woman. He's afraid of you. ]

PHASE IV:
[ Yata did, in fact persevere through the monster-infested fields, and trampeld his way through flowers which did nothing at all to him. Eventually, he does find himself at the still, still lake.

And he sees these people (except for the second one from the right. That's Yata.) - his family. He gets sentimental, though. His world just got destroyed, and he can't even see his family anymore. He frowns at first, and mumbles "HOMRA" under his breath before he takes a step forward. He may be crying a little bit.

Somebody help this poor soul. ]

BONUS:
[ There's a lot of grinding to be done if you want to become stronger, and Yata takes it upon himself to grind, even without a party. Equipped with his baseball bat that is now covered in red-pinkish flames, he skates through the field and destroys as many wild animals as he can.

And this, in turn, makes him stay longer in the flower field, inhaling more pollen than he ever wanted. Not that he knows, of course. So when the effects sink in, and he finds a person nearby— ]

Hey, are you— [ No. No. He can't talk. He just wants to sing. Or in this case, rap… (God why.) ]

Hey, hey, hey, yo
What's a pretty fly like you doing here
My name's Yata and I'm from the ghetto
You should stick with me, shorty
I don't know what rhymes with here!

[ That was really bad, but for some reason, he's totally proud of it. ]

Y-Yata-kun... [Rock Lee tears up as he sees his old beloved friend, who was gone for so long.]

I am here!! I am here to...

[But then, Lee inhales a different kind of pollen. That decides his actions.

He lunges at Yata and reaches for him, to lift him and begin princess carrying him.]

Yes, stick with me if you want to survive!!

Who the fuck— [ because he can even finish, he's already being princess carried. WHY THIS, GORE? WHY THIS!!! and he takes a moment to gather his bearings before he starts slapping lee in the face. ]

Get away from me, you fucking pervert!

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