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Who: CERES & you
When: ooc: 01/15-01/22; ic: 11/03-11/06
Where: Cerealia's Research & Technology District and Beyond!!!
What: Intro and Event log
Rating/Warning: PG-13 | possibly nsfw (please let us know if you need this rating changed, or you are welcome to continue any naughty shenanigans in a private log)

//event009.EXE

Always Believe in the Heart of the Cards Except When They Tell You to Kill People

Welcome to CERES Research Tower’s latest event! For all you new folk queuing outside of the conference room where you were just made to sit through a lovely power point presentation, you will be asked to stay a bit longer and test out some games in their Game Testing Center. It’s a giant space located in the basement level filled to the brim with cubicles for everyone to sit in and enjoy their newest array of pop-up games. The games themselves will be in holo(gm) form and will feature suggestions from CEO’s post, including a simplified, 8-bit version of Tetris, Baseball, Soda Smash, etc. Characters can control the game through moving their fingers and tapping them against the holo(gm) screens.

Surrounding the cubicles will be tables of food and more food for characters to partake in. It’s all safe this time. No mind-altering candy corn or gut-exploding Knight Burgers. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the party. For those who have been in Cerealia for a while, they should have received an invitation to the event and an offer of 1,000 credits just for participating. So come on down and bring a friend or ten! Meanwhile, CEO has a small welcome for everyone-

“Good Morning and thank you all for coming!

We have been expecting you. We hope you will enjoy what we’ve put together today. Ever since we got your feedback on << RAINBOW NARWHAL MELEE >>, we’ve been developing new games for all of you to enjoy. We’ve also tried to draw in some things from your worlds. We hope to hear more feedback from you in the future.

In the meantime, feel free to sample our food, generously provided to us by TGICERES, a moderately-priced family restaurant located in the Shopping District."

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I

[ xxxx ] Music lightly wafts from the speakers as the showroom opens. Julius Vincere, CERES’ CEO, delivers the opening announcement before leaving the room. He’ll be watching through all the video cameras placed around the room, so be on your best behavior! You will be guided to one of the many cubicles where you will sit and wait for a screen to pop up with a game. Once that game is defeated, another will pop up and another and another until your character gets hungry/has to pee/is so done with this shit.

PHASE II

[ xxxx ] Among the game rotations is a simple 8-bit fortune telling game starring Aria, the fortune teller. Come be enchanted by her mysterious wiles as she reads your future. She will do some 8-bit arm motions before summoning a ring of cards that will float around her. Characters will be encouraged to pick a card -any card. Once one has been selected, it will turn around slowly and unveil a card from the major arcana. Aria will then give your character their fortune, and that will be that. End of game. Onto the next!

PHASE III

[ xxxx ] You’ve left the testing center, and the evening has passed. As you wake up to perform your normal daily tasks, a niggling urge emerges at the back of your mind. It’s faint at first, just a whisper of a suggestion that pokes at your brain like a mosquito bite. However, that bite starts to grow bigger and become infectious. As the day wears on, you find that one little suggestion escalating. The next day is even worse. It starts to dominate your every thought, making you carry out actions you never thought yourself capable of. Who is this person in the mirror? Who have you become?

PHASE IV

[ xxxx ] By day three, the impulse is now a full-blown addiction. It’s set into your psyche completely. You’ve become something else entirely –the embodiment of the card. You will be acting out everything without anymore resistance, and it won’t stop until the clock strikes midnight. That’s when you’ll reel back to your senses, and when it’ll all have felt like the worst dream ever. Or a nightmare really.

BONUS

[ whyo'clock ] Among all the games present, there is also an 8-bit version of CERESLearn. Yes, you remember the magical game that won your hearts over not too long ago. It will come complete with the same rules. You choose a subject, you choose an 8-bit teacher among the three (Astor), (Hilda), or (UN-Zippy), and you watch them as they try to erotically teach you what you want to learn. Is that an 8-bit boob or her arm? Who knows? But beware… as you may remember, these teachers house a very terrible secret.

They will transform into an 8-bit giant bug that will chase around your protag as you guide them to run away with your finger, but you can also flick the bug on the holo(gm) screen to send them away for good. Those who figure out that little cheat code will immediately receive a special real-time shoulder rub as a reward from a robot that looks eerily like a carbon copy of their teacher of choice.

[ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with trigger-y 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 latest event and intro post. For your convenience, we have compiled a post detailing what's going on right here and feel free to consult the FAQ if needed. Please leave any lingering questions in the OOC post, and we'll answer them as soon as we can. If this post goes into overflow, we will make a new one to deal with the ever-hated captcha! Worry not!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

::A more mature man would not engage in a gaming challenge with a little girl. He'd remind her that it's a bad idea to talk to strange adults, regardless of the fact that she's been kidnapped by strange adults and is surrounded by them.

Prussia? Is not that man.::

Versus...? ...Sure! But only if I get to pick the game.

[Maturity is nothing when it comes to games. Everybody knows that! And talking to strange adults is hardly a thing to be concerned with in this kind of environment.

What's important? The fact that this guy said yes. She crosses her arms smoothly with a grin.]

Alright, I'll accept those terms! But only if I get a reward if I win!

Sounds like a deal to me!

Wait, what if I win?

::He better get a reward if he wins! And to whomever might claim that victory is it's own reward is full of it if they think Prussia believes it. He's the kind of guy who has pictures painted of his enemies at the lowest depths of defeat.

And he's not above having that done to a kid.

If he knew a painter.::

If you win? See that was my condition for letting you pick the game, since that could easily put me at a disadvantage! [You can't tell this girl has had any experience cutting deals before can you?]

Buuuut I guess if you win you can have a reward too! I like the sound of those odds!

[She holds out her hand, clearly aiming to shake on the agreed terms.]

So you get to pick the game, and whoever wins gets some kind of reward from the other person! That sound good?

Yep! Deal accepted!

::He takes her hand and shakes it firmly. (Clearly she hasn't had that much experience if she didn't belabour the point, but he's not gonna point that out. It worked in his favour!)::

So, Fräulein, how d'you feel about...

::He thinks for a moment. Oh! Yes, he's fairly good at that one; he's only been playing it since it was released.::

Tetris?

[A firm handshake and the deal is made and accepted and listen. She is no one if not her Uncle's niece, and he's all about risk and reward.

And scams and conning but we're not focusing on that.

Tetris though...shoot. She's not exactly terrible at Tetris, but she's not the best at it either...that'd be more geared towards Dipper. That's fine though. This is fine. She gives a confident nod, placing her hands on her hips.]

Alright, Tetris it is! Are we going to do this one, two, three, go style?

::Well, he doesn't always play fair either.

Something something digging up obscure and potentially irrelevant ancient treaties to try to take someone's land something.

We digress.::

One, two, three, go?

Yeah! You know, to make sure we start at the same time. If we're hoping to see who can beat it or who loses first, we have to make sure it's fair and that we start at the same time. So we say, "One, two, three, go," together, and we both start on go!

[Maybe she should be thinking about scamming and conning...]

Oh! Okay, yeah that makes sense! I thought we'd just see how many levels we could clear, but that seems like a better idea.

...Faster, at least.

Which gives me more chances to beat you!

::Never mind he'll look like a complete ass if he gloats about it. There is no glory to be had in defeating a kid barely out of Grundschule. None.::

You'll need those chances! [Not really, no. But hey, it's a friendly competition. There needs to be friendly banter!

Mabel plops down on the floor in front of him, bringing up Tetris.]

Alright, when you're ready!

::He pulls his legs up so he sits cross-legged on his chair, and loads Tetris on his screen.::

Born ready! Count us down, chickie.

Alright! [She seems to ready herself, wiggling a little like that's going to help her loosen up her Tetris playing muscles and focusing on her game with a very serious face.]

Three...two......one.........go!

[It's not until the word fully leaves her mouth that she starts taking on those blocks, wanting to give him a fair chance even if she's not confident she can win without an advantage of some sort.]

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