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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!

Comments

One/two!

[ineptus]

[Seeing as Mabel is a very, very small girl, she's not shoulder-checked so much as hip-checked, knocking her easily to the ground. Whatever food she'd had in her hands drops and there's a soft whine from her as she sits up and rubs her knees.

The fallen food is taken advantage of by her pig companion.]

Where are you going in such a hurry? [Despite the incident that just happened, this is actually a genuinely curious question.]

Are you okay? You know there are bathrooms just over there if you need to use one!

[Because maybe this lady just really has to pee.]

[perfectstrike]

[Who's that Peko actually loses a precious second trying to spot someone of normal teenager or adult height before stepping back to see -- a child. Elementary school? Middle school? A mystery.

And a pig. 0k.]

I am not looking for the bathroom. Forgive me.

[And she'll. Offer a hand to help the girl stand up. Gosh this girl sure is small compared to everyone around here. Don't let Peko's glower put you off, tiny person.]

[ineptus]

[She gladly takes the hand with a bright thank you, brushing off her skirt as she stands up. She's not really put off by the glower honestly. A glower like that just needs a brilliant smile to turn it into a happier look!]

Then you must have something really important to do! Or you're really hungry. Hey if you're hungry we could go get some snacks together! It's all free you know, so you can eat as much as you want!

[perfectstrike]

[This is weird. Normally at this point in a conversation, children are crying. Or at the very least, looking extremely alarmed. Peko almost doesn't know how to respond.]

I am not hungry. I am looking for someone. Somewhat taller than you are, my age, likely wearing a suit.

[A pause, and a nearly-invisible swallow.] And... an eyepatch. Have you seen him?

[ineptus]

Oh! [Mabel gives this some thought. She has seen someone with an eyepatch, but definitely not taller, older or wearing a suit.]

No...I don't think I have. He sounds really cute though, so I'm sure if I do see him, I'll know! And then I'll find you and tell you!

[A pause.]

Or wait do you know him? Because you could just give me your name and then I could tell him you're looking for him!

[perfectstrike]

[That's. Mabel. All she told you was what he wears and his height. You cannot tell anything about whether or not he's cute from that. Have a rather confused -- and therefore frowning -- Peko.]

Yes. If you see him, please tell him--

[Uh. Crap. Okay. What should she have this girl tell him...? What's the most important thing for him to know? Is it worth telling this girl to tell him, or -- no. It would be better if he were to hear what she has to say from her herself, so--]

...Pekoyama Peko is here.

[ineptus]

Right! Got it! If I see him, I will tell him "Pekoyama Peko is here", just like that! [Her pronunciation is a little off, the "Pe"s coming out more as "Pay"s, but at least whoever she is looking for will be able to recognize it. Thank for having an easy name.]

So is Pekoyama your name then?

[Apparently the little girl isn't done with you, Peko.]

[perfectstrike]

Pekoyama is my last name, yes.

[Wait what. This conversation is supposed to be over. Peko's even kind of trying to walk around Mabel a little bit to resume where she was going. Excuse.]

Thank you.

[edit: overflow here!]