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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!

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[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee is clad only in a pair of green shorts and doing push-ups when he hears Natalia calling out.]

Me? [He flashes a smile at her.] I am simply performing, a hot-blooded workout of youth!

[poised]

[What is with all these muscleheads wandering around....

But he's even more bare than Archer was and she's not even acquainted with him! So she's setting her hands on her hips as her eyes narrow.]

Perform in the privacy of your own home!! This is indecent!

[niceguypose]

[He keeps glancing up towards her as she speaks, his large brow furrowing in confusion.]

Ah... I am sorry, Miss, but your words do not seem to be true! These muscles of mine... They're the most decent thing I've ever known! [He's even managed to work up a sweat in this weather, to help them glisten!]

[poised]

[Ew.

Listen, eye candy is fine but now she's even less pleased and getting close to reaching into her quiver for an arrow.]

And you lack the ability to be humble! Have more grace and tact if you so insist on forcing your spectacle upon innocent eyes!!

[niceguypose]

I... I am very humble, Miss! [He's confused for a moment. He knows he's supposed to be humble, but he can't quite connect that to his current lack of humility.]
Is there anything more graceful than the way I become stronger? I am sorry, but this isbthe way which feels the most right!

[poised]

If you go with what feels most right then you are no better than any animal working on instinct!

[whoa, scathing]

Restrain yourself to prove the strength of your self-control!

[niceguypose]

To be fair... I am the Wild Green Beautiful Beast of Konoha, and I often experience the rashness of youth!

Ah... the strength of self-control!?

[poised]

The rashness of youth is volatile and unacceptable!!

[your way of life is WRONG]

Yes - the most important type of strength when it comes to maintaining a society. If you hone that, you will be the most capable person, for certain!

[niceguypose]

[He frowns.]

If Gai-Sensei was here, he would strike me for being so rash...

Do- do you truly mean those words, Miss?!

[poised]

[who the fuck is Gai-sensei--

oh well]

Yes! In fact, I would strike you as well - but that would only cause more disorder!

[niceguypose]

Is is that so? [He grips his head uncertainly.] Disorder... When I try to think of actual order, I can only picture my own muscles.

[He glances up towards her.]

Is that unusual?

[poised]

Very much so.

[It's also kind of gross.]

[niceguypose]

I see...

[He pumps one arm and stares into it for a moment.]

What would you suggest that I do?

[poised]

To begin, cease doing that.

[It's getting unnerving at this point.]

Next, find proper clothing to cover yourself.

[niceguypose]

[He looks scandalized.]

But... do you understand that this would be like concealing a work of youthful art?!

[poised]

No, because that's not anything what it's like.

[At least she's... honest...]

You are delusional.

[niceguypose]

De-delusional? [He looks like he's on the border of an existential crisis.]

[poised]

[unfortunately she's relentless-]

Did I stutter?

[niceguypose]

N-no! In fact... It may have been I who stuttered! But... What could it mean?!

[poised]

That you are in the wrong, obviously. Accept my judgment and correct your wrongdoings!

[bossy as fuck]

[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee gets down on one knee and bows his head.]

I... I... I accept!

[poised]

[She is victorious.

But that manages to earn a smile, if a rather smug one, from her as she steps forward and extends her hand to him.]

Very good. Rise, sir.

[niceguypose]

Ah...! [He looks up in surprise as she reaches up to him, so he takes her hand.] Yes, very well! [And then he straightens up right directly in front of her.]

[poised]

[ . . . . . and once he's risen, she realizes that he's still very, very unclothed.

She's retracting her hand a bit quickly.]

Where did you leave the rest of your clothes? You must retrieve them immediately.

[niceguypose]

[Natalia must be learning a lot about the male form today. Once she withdraws her hand, Lee starts absentmindedly flexing as he thinks it over.]

Hm.

Hmmmm....

They are...

...in a tree...