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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!


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phase ii;

[personal profile] foodcritic 2015-01-16 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[yeah, elle absolutely doesn't get what that's supposed to mean at all. come on, leia. don't say things that will confuse the eight year old. especially because she's going to question this in the most incredulous way possible.]

How are you supposed to get up ten times if you only fall five times? Shouldn't you just get up five times?
journaler: (✿ i had this dream about you)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[if anything can get her to stop playing the game, it's this. leia freezes, and for a moment it feels like her heart's stopped; but she turns around and melts quickly enough. she wipes at her eyes; maybe they're playing a trick on her.

but here she is, safe and sound.]


Elle! Elle, it's really you! You're okay...

[she pulls her lightly into a hug. feeling her warmth. she's so relieved, yet at the same time, she always knew she'd be alright.

leia laughs sheepishly.]


Sorry. My math was a little off.
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[personal profile] foodcritic 2015-01-17 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
He-hey!

[elle was trying not to make a big deal out of it, if only because... well, it's not easy. she's already had to go through meeting up with others in the party—on the fourth go, it's a little easier to just play it cool.

that's how grownups would do it, right? she's glad though, that leia is okay and that more of them can be reunited, even if elle isn't quite sure she's worthy of that kind of concern. after all, isn't she just a fake? but she doesn't voice that, instead huffing a bit as her cheeks flush, and she bites back with a snippy remark to deflect all the feelings.]


Are you sure you're okay, Leia?
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[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-17 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[when she feels elle struggling, she takes it as a sign to pull back. leia's hands rest on her shoulders, however, and she takes a good look at her eyes and her face at the same time. just a normal little girl... with no signs of catalyzing just yet.

she has no idea what it means, but she's happy about it.]


I'm fine! [you're the one i'm worried about...] Honest.

My legs were a little sore, but you made it go away.
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[personal profile] foodcritic 2015-01-19 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? I didn't do anything, though.

[leia, try saying things that make sense to her once in a while! though elle does get visibly uncomfortable for that moment where leia looks her over; she's not about to state why, but it has everything to do with knowing exactly why it's happening.

there's a sort of guilt that remains beneath the surface as a result, but since she's going to adamantly avoid the topic, she'll shift her expression to one that just... questions what leia is saying.]
journaler: (✿ i hope this dream comes true)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-20 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[shhhhh she'll make some sense when this entire situation starts to make sense!! which will be never so......keep on waiting, buddy.

--okay no, but she does laugh. elle is so innocent.]


Well, you're here... and I think that counts for a lot!

[...]

Is Ludger with you?
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[personal profile] foodcritic 2015-01-20 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[for a moment, she'll definitely just be giving leia that "you know, you're weird" look. because seriously, leia is so weird to her sometimes. she doesn't really get why there's any laughing so this...

but at least the topic can shift to a question she can actually answer with some confident... and no confusion at all.]


Ludger? Yeah, he's around here somewhere. I came in with him, so he couldn't have gotten that far away. Unless he ran away when I wasn't looking or something.

[but ludger wouldn't do that, and even if he tried, milla would probably be making him say arrivederci, so elle's not concerned about it.] And Rollo's here, too!

[just in case leia was curious. rollo is a very important party member, after all.]
journaler: (✿ i had this dream about you)

overflow! ♥

[personal profile] journaler 2015-01-21 04:18 am (UTC)(link)