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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)
Original Post: HERE.

//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 AND OUR VERY FIRST OVERFLOW. 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!

Comments

gareki

[aocatch]

( continued from here! )

I don't know, for people who don't play games that often? Like those stuck in a generational divide or something.

[ It's a pointless endeavor, but Aoba's got a pretty good reason for suffering through round after pedantic round of 2-D baseball and Cooking Mama, so he's not one to prove a point.

His disposition visibly sours at the bathroom thing, though ........ ]

Just what I said. People would go into a restroom and end up being locked in until they scored enough points in this narwhal game or literally broke down the door in the process. Seriously, I wouldn't have believed it myself if it didn't end up happening to me.

[ THANKS OZ, getting stuck in the john with a prepubescent kid for several hours was obviously the best way to spend his afternoon (no innuendo intended, god). ]

If I'm not mistaken, you should've gotten some upon your arrival. I think they're called credits? If you ask me, money's the least of your worries here.

[mechanizes]

Why didn't you just climb out a window? How many bathrooms here don't have windows or vents? Or were those locked to?

[ That would have been his first solution... or just hacking into the door to get it open, though why have automated doors like that, too? Even if it seems like a good idea in concept -extra security and all- if it's just going to lead to idiotic glitches like that, it's clearly a stupid idea. Just because you can do something, doesn't always mean you should.

That's the same concept with these games. They're too easy and have no point, so he feels like his time is being gloriously wasted, and his eyes are bleeding profusely from starting at this tiny screen for so long.

The rest of the guy's words do make him curious, however. ]

What should I really be worried about then? So far I got shoved in here through a game then put through testing a bunch of others. If it's just a bunch of video games, what's the big danger here?

[ Locked bathrooms are hardly anything worth crying over. ]

[aocatch]

If they were big enough, I would have. The kid I was stuck with probably could've escaped that way, but I'm pretty sure he just wanted to play his way out.

[ Not everyone's a hacker, and crazy as it sounds, Aoba did try vandalizing public property to wedge the door open and sprint his way to freedom, or whatever. There's something kind of obnoxious about how this kid prattles on and on, but he's bringing up some (read: many) good points. ]

Honestly? At the moment, I'm not really sure. It depends on whether or not you buy into what they're claiming as their cover story. Apparently a bunch of weird things happened before I got here, but if you ask me, it's weirder that us just living our lives out here is supposed to fix everything back home.