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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!


unluckless: (there's a picture opposite me)

phase iii

[personal profile] unluckless 2015-01-18 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[For his part, Komaeda seems like he's unaffected. And he is, since the card that he drew mostly just reinforced his usual faith in his unnatural and eerily reliable (and disastrous by turns) luck. He's displeased about this chaos though, with how it's affected his friends -- worried, annoyed and really just ready to lodge a complaint with CERES, a complaint that he plans on delivering with his foot straight to their shinbones.

But as he catches that question, looking to the girl who spoke, he manages a smile even it looks just plain exhausted.]


Unfortunately, strange things happening really does seem to be becoming regular here. It's another "glitch" I bet, or that'll be the explanation. [WELCOME TO THE FUTURE. Or something. He's not even sure anymore.]
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[personal profile] uncoincidental 2015-01-18 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Explanation, or excuse?

[In her experience - though her experience is mostly constrained to Weyard - they're pretty much the same thing. She'll be more displeased about all of this once everything gets amped up to eleven, but at least right now it seems manageable enough even with all the weirdness.]

If this happens a lot, though, that's definitely a problem...
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[personal profile] unluckless 2015-01-19 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Well actually, now that she mentions it,] Definitely the latter.

[Yeah the same thing. They issue apologies and explanations, but it's definitely excuses, and Komaeda is still not sure they're all unintentional.]

It is. People keep going through strange things. It's exhausting and sometimes downright dangerous. [Still better than the last place he was stolen from his home and dropped.]
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[personal profile] uncoincidental 2015-01-19 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[The answer earns a heavy sigh. Sheba really isn't surprised, but there is still a (very naive) part of her that wishes she could depend on the higher-ups to not be full of excuses.]

What's the saying... "Out of the frying pan, and into the fire"?

[She makes a face.]

...actually, I've got a question. But will you promise not to tell anyone that I asked it?
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[personal profile] unluckless 2015-01-19 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
That's the one! I think it may very well apply here.

[Komaeda offers an apologetic smile. Really. He wishes he had better news. Being a newcomer here is confusing and unsettling to say the least, especially when things are going on.

Though, now he's curious.]


Hmm? Of course. I'll be sure to keep it confidential!
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[personal profile] uncoincidental 2015-01-19 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles back, but it doesn't stay for very long; her expression quickly becomes much more serious. She looks a little uncertain and uncomfortable - having second thoughts about what she's about to ask, perhaps? - but after a moment, she speaks up again.]

When people act strangely around here... do they... that is, are... [She frowns.] Are those of us who were brought here pitted against each other in some way?

["Do they make us kill each other?" is pretty much what she's trying to ask. Murder game problems...]
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[personal profile] unluckless 2015-01-22 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
To the overflow?
Edited 2015-01-22 00:29 (UTC)