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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-01-15 07:24 pm

« 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!


phase ii

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ He may be eagerly waiting his fortune, but clinging to the base of the machine is... a teenager girl? She's sprawled out in what seems to be obvious defeat with puffy red cheeks. ]

I can't believe it...

I have no one to loooooove....
niceguypose: (tears)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Rock Lee gasps as he turns to face the confused girl.]

What?! No! That can't be! [His own impending fortune is forgotten for the moment. Sad girl!]

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
This stupid machine keeps telling me fortunes about my lover, but no man like that exists here!

[ Sobbing into the side of the machine and everything. She came out here to have a good time and now her love life feels so attacked. ]
niceguypose: (more crey)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
How can you be sure?! [He cries and somersaults to her side. If this is true, it's heartbreaking.] Is that what your heart feels, Miss?!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I know it's true within my heart. There is no man here who can ever fill the emptiness that another has left behind.

[ Letting go of the machine, she'll turn to cry into his shoulder instead. What a big pair of babbies. ]
niceguypose: (bitter weeping)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[The biggest. Who will get the most snot on the other? Only time will tell. He wraps an arm around her as he whines.]

A-another?! You mean to say your love... your truest love... has been lost?!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Desperately clinging to him. ] She was killed-!

Everyone we've known has been killed!!
niceguypose: (teary)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
E-every... [He sobs as he holds on tight!]

D-do you mean... the works of the Flam-Men?!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nodding as she sniffles sooooo hard. Can't leave any snot on a new person. ]

Everyone! If she's not here, then it must be true.
niceguypose: (anguish)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It hits him in his heart. All the people back home who are lost... Gai-Sensei, Tenten, Sakura... And he gives a higher-pitched whine in her ear for a moment.]

B-but...! If you're here, and I'm here... then it may not be true! Th-they have to come back, I know it... or we'll save our worlds! It can't be over yet, Miss!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gently raising a fist towards the side of his head. ]

W-What's with that optimistic attitude? If they're not here, then doesn't it mean they weren't saved in the first place?
niceguypose: (listening)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
An optimistic attitude... can be the first step towards a lovely miracle! [He raises a brief thumbs up, but then he frowns slightly, his eyebrows hovering uncertainly.] I admit... that a lot of this information has been very confusing for me! But... if we have been saved from the ends of worlds, can't others be saved as well?!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-16 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't they have saved the others when they saved us? [ All too quick to pierce that hope with logic, Rin points out the flaws. ]

From what I understand they're vigilantly working to recover everything they can so I guess you could still have hope... provided who you knew wasn't dead already.
niceguypose: (sad)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-16 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[His eyes shimmer at the 'dead already' part. Because he immediately thinks of Neji.]

I... I don't think that I know enough to dispute that. So if we all work our hardest... w-we can help them to save everyone!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-17 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You're so optimistic. [ It's kind of sickening actually...... ]

... but I believe in it! In your words!

Because I'd like it if I could just save that one person!
niceguypose: (crying pose)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-17 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... You believe?! [He weeps some more in joy and his hug grows more crushing.]

That makes me so happy! After all, I... I too have people dear to my heart who must be saved! I will never give up for them as long as I live!

[personal profile] codere 2015-01-23 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'll believe in you. [ It's a rare bonding moment for her, before she pulls herself free of his hug.

Where did she get all that strength? WHO KNOWS.
] I don't even know your name!
niceguypose: (proud nice guy pose)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2015-01-23 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! [Rin Tohsaka used Strength! Rock Lee gives her a thumbs up.]

You'll know it now! My name is Rock Lee! I am Konoha's Beautiful Green Wild Beast!

[To be continued...?]