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« 009 ⇢ event009.exe »

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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ why:o'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!


journaler: (✿ i had this dream about you)

iii.

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-16 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[It's odd. She can practically feel the energy being sucked right out of her just from being around him. It's to the point where she doesn't even react to his "apology" for brushing against her -- she's momentarily stunned as he walks by, staring dumbfoundedly.

The great thing about the sun though is that its energy is so limitless.

...So she recovers, just in time to yank him back when he nearly walks into a pole.

She isn't particularly gentle about it, either.]


Whoops! [a grin] ...Watch it, now.
particularity: (m ✣ and as sight through smell)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-16 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Hinata, thankfully, snaps back to himself when he's yanked back, blinking at the pole as though to say excuse me what the hell were you doing there like it hadn't been there... all along.

He's definitely losing his footing, though, stumbling but oh great mercies he doesn't fall on his butt.]


Thank...s? [THAT SAID I think you could've grabbed me in a less rough way, oi.] What just happened, anyway...?
journaler: (✿ i'm dancing right beside you)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-16 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
...Huh? You mean you don't know?

[She says this like it isn't something to be concerned about; though the part of her that's still a nurse knows better. Unfortunately, that part is currently overtaken by a sense of happiness and pride that she'd been able to pull him back in time...

So she probably comes off more cheerful than she should (and blissfully unaware of how rough she'd been).]


Well, I don't really know either! But it looked like you were about to make friends with that pole just now.
particularity: (f ✣ becomes pained the more)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-16 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Can you sound at least more puzzled about that?]

...I was? [Another look true enough that pole is still there.] I... guess I must've been thinking about other stuff.

[He places his fingers against his temple, grimacing.] Sorry.
journaler: (✿ last night)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow, this guy seems more than just a little out of it... Leia tilts her head innocently and continues to watch him. Only then does she start to look a bit worried -- and of course, the apology is totally unnecessary.]

Don't be silly. I'm glad I snapped you out of it.

[......]

Are you going to be okay, though? Be honest.
particularity: (f ✣ breathing out listerine)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-17 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, on a scale of one to ten he's chugging on up past eleven and twelve here... Hinata palms at his face again, shaking his head and frowning down at his own hand as though that has some part in all this.

(It might, it's the hand he was using to play games earlier.)]


I think I will. I... [...Sigh.] I'm not sure, actually. I'll be okay once I figure out what's going on, I think.
journaler: (✿ i hope this dream comes true)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
["What's going on" ...

Leia doesn't really get it. She's normally this sunny and bubbly (almost), so it really doesn't occur to her that something be off, at least until now. When Hinata stares at his hand, she does, too.

Then she looks back up to meet his eyes.]


I'll help!
particularity: (s ✣ is we can't move closer)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-17 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
...Er, I'm not so sure that you can help with this...

[He has to try and puzzle out why he's getting all apathetic again, after all... He doesn't think she'll be able to lend a hand so easily...

Though her enthusiasm is admirable. Yes. Admirable.]
journaler: (✿ there's nothing wrong)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[If only she could channel some of it into him. She doesn't think that'll be as easy as channeling mana for artes though, which is a bit unfortunate.]

Well... um -- [She has to think of something!] I... er, I could at least treat you to a nice meal or something! Maybe a nice, cool refreshing drink?

That helps me sometimes when I get writer's block. [Though in his case it's more like 'everything block,' she supposes.]
particularity: (m ✣ this idea of ours)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-17 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Hinata blinks. She's offering to treat him? Just like that? That's too nice of her, and it's too nice of an offer to turn down. And he'll admit that it doesn't sound bad.]

I think I'd feel bad if it was just me being treated... so how about if you treat me to a drink, I'll treat you to one back?

[Shhh so what if it just leads to them basically buying their own it's a little different in a subtle way.]
journaler: (✿ last night)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[That is so not how "treating" works... but reluctantly, Leia will accept the compromise. At least it's some sort of agreement, and she can work with that.]

It's a deal.

[...]

Though we should probably get each others' names first, huh?
particularity: (m ✣ you let this beat us down)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-17 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is a brand new modern "treating"... surely no-one has ever done this before. Surely!]

Right-- I'm Hinata. [He inclines his head slightly.]

Hajime Hinata. And you are?
journaler: (✿ i had this dream about you)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Leia! [She adjusts her hat, grinning.] Now that we've officially met, Hinata, all that's left is to find a place, right?

[It's a rhetorical question. The next one, though--not so much.]

So... what kind of things do you like to eat and drink?
particularity: (m ✣ your own goddamn best friend)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-18 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Uh...

[He actually has to think about it.]

I'm not that picky, to be honest. [But he's over canned food... tbh.] I've never had that many food I really disliked... [besides sakuramochi] ...or really liked. [besides kusamochi] Right now I think I could go for a slushy drink, though...

[Like maybe bubble tea...]

What about you?
Edited 2015-01-18 03:38 (UTC)
journaler: (✿ oh)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-18 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh... a slushy drink sounds like it would really hit the spot.

[She agrees eagerly, closing her eyes and clapping her hands together like this is the best idea ever (it is). Then she opens them again, meeting Hinata's eyes.]

I'm not really picky either, but I'm pretty sure I'll see something I like when we get there.

Maybe a nice sandwich or something!
particularity: (f ✣ it's a shame baby)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-18 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Then, let's get going. There should be a few places that'll interest you.

[And he's decided on bubble tea... Truth is, he's not too hungry, and there's a roiling unease in him over what's been happening, growing more and more the more that impulse grows in his mind.

But... If he stays distracted and doesn't think of it, that could help, couldn't it?]
journaler: (Default)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-18 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure!

[Leia nods quickly, and she puts an encouraging hand on his shoulder like she's about to guide him in the right direction. She realizes, though, that she's got a long way to go before she learns her way around this place...

So after a moment, she withdraws the hand and looks thoughtfully at the path veering to the right ahead of them.]


It was this way, I think.
particularity: (s ✣ i'd dig in)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-18 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[If anything he might be the one to guide her around... except that he's slipping in and out a bit and walking into things so perhaps that's not the best idea right now.

He does nod though, firmly!]


Yeah. We go this way for a bit, and then we take another street to the left and the main food stop is right around there.
journaler: (✿ oh)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Right! I remember now.

[Sort of. It's helpful to have his guidance, anyway... even if she does feel a bit like a seeing-eye dog right now. At least she's more gentle than the first time when she pulls him this way and that to dodge obstacles.

Man, this just isn't normal.]


So... how long has it been like this again? You... thinking about other stuff...?

[So maybe she didn't ask in the first place, but she's kind of worried at this point, okay. It reminds her a little too much of how Jude was a year ago, after...]
particularity: (f ✣ to find a coast)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-19 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Hinata's lips purse slightly as he looks ahead of them. One of his hands rubs across his hair.]

I didn't wake up like this. I feel like it's been...getting worse through the whole day. But it wasn't like this yesterday, it only started after--

[Something he should have thought of first, naturally. He thinks of the games he played yesterday and his eyes narrow.] ...
journaler: (✿ i'm dancing right beside you)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-19 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
After... what?

[Leia remains attentive, listening as she would to any patient. She tilts her head, oblivious at first; but once she thinks a little more, she puts it together quickly enough.]

The party? [...hm.] Were you there, too?
particularity: (s ✣ crack the ice)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-19 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Yeah. I was, for a little while. I wanted to investigate the games that they were having us play.

[But... Think. He thinks of the game that was different from the others, the fortune-telling game, the tarot.]
journaler: (✿ i'm dancing right beside you)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Leia nods in understanding. She looks pleased that she'd been right, but at the same time befuddled because she has no idea what it means.]

Yeah, I remember those! They wanted us to test them so bad that they gave out free credits.

It was... really weird. They all kind of blurred together after a while.

[One after another, after another...

Except the one.]
particularity: (s ✣ we name every cape)

[personal profile] particularity 2015-01-20 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they were all kinda typical, but...

One of them was hardly a game at all, right? That fortune-telling one.

['Justice'. That was his card, though even as he thinks of it he can feel that nagging at the back of his mind.

No. He shakes his head minutely.]
journaler: (✿ last night)

overflow! ♥

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-21 01:49 am (UTC)(link)