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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!


springful: (are you ready for hq ufotable sakura)

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[personal profile] springful 2015-01-18 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Sakura had been planning on getting some food (even if she still questions the quality of the food these people make), but those plans are thrown slightly off course when she sees a penguin.

A green penguin.

A green penguin that's talking to people.

Look she's come to expect weird stuff here no matter what, but this is the first time she's seen a talking animal!! It's a penguin, right? It's a penguin no matter how you look at it, but since when we're penguins green?!

Even more than that though—]


How cute... [That's what matters in the end?!]
38thdefender: (Crossed arms)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-18 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Not "cute" again! Everyone used to call him "cool" instead of "cute".]

C-cute!? Even with these passionate eyes? This poised demeanor?
springful: (cp treated her like shit why)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-19 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[OH GOD IT OVERHEARD HER and is... taking mild offense at her using the word cute??]

Oh, well... You look very cool too? [At least she's saying cool, right. In truth though, while these traits are cool by themselves, the fact that they're on a cute green penguin just adds to the cuteness instead.]
38thdefender: (Default)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-19 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[That doesn't sound very authentic, but he appreciates the effort.]

Thanks. My name is Kurtis, by the way.
springful: (nice to meet you)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-20 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, where are my manners? [Tossed out the window probably since she's talking to a penguin, but it's not like she can just stand there gawking the whole time. She bows slightly, polite and formal.] My name is Sakura Matou. It's nice to meet you.
38thdefender: (Close up)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-21 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you, too. Are you another new arrival?
springful: (quietly resents rin in the corner)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-23 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] I've been here for a little while now. But that means you're new here, right?
38thdefender: (Crossed arms)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Just got here today. It's a little disorienting.
springful: (the kohaku smile)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-25 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I can imagine. It was like that when I first got here as well. [A lot of things are still kind of confusing to her tbh, but. That's another story.]
38thdefender: (Sitting)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-25 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought we were supposed to be protecting our worlds. Why do they want us to play video games?
springful: (she actually should be more blank-faced)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-29 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] I'm afraid I don't understand either. Supposedly it helps with the cause, but as for why or how, I can't say.