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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-01-21 07:26 am

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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
[ 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 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!


ineptus: (11 ❤; Ƒσя нєανєη'ѕ ѕαкє кєєρ мє αωαкє)

Oz!

[personal profile] ineptus 2015-01-22 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[If she didn't have snacks of her own in her hands, she'd be jumping in excitement. But since she does, Mabel settles for just lightly bouncing on her toes, taking a bite of a donut.]

Definitely after snacks! Isn't this place great? I have never seen so many free things in one place. And who can say no to free games, free snacks and free money? I mean especially since Dipper and I just got here...we definitely need a little bit of everything right?
harepiece: (you heathens)

[personal profile] harepiece 2015-01-24 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, Dipper too, huh? He makes a mental note to go find him later, just to check in and see what page everyone is on.]

Right! You might as well enjoy everything that you can. [Nodding along in agreement! That's why he's eating the food here despite knowing that they sometimes tamper with it...]

Oh - but you should still be careful, okay? Sometimes the technology here gets viruses and things can start acting a little weird.
ineptus: (13 ❤; ƇƖєαяƖу ǀ αм α ραѕѕєяву)

[personal profile] ineptus 2015-01-27 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, really? [She has to pause and look at her food now, though it's with a shrug that she takes another bite. This guy is eating it after all, so it's probably safe.]

Okay! I'll be careful. I mean, I probably don't have to worry too much, since Dipper will handle all of that on his own, but I'll still keep an eye on things myself too! Thank you!
harepiece: (it's a croissant you fool)

[personal profile] harepiece 2015-01-28 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
[DON'T FOLLOW OZ'S ADVICE ON A NORMAL DAY THOUGH his bad luck will almost always ruin everything...]

You're welcome! Dipper really watches out for you, huh? [muffled tragic soundtrack playing in the distance. BUT HEY, as long as they don't find out through someone else, that's not a trauma they'll have to relive.]

And I'm sure you take good care of him, too! That's good. One of the best things you can do to protect yourself here is having other people to rely on to help you out when things get tough.
ineptus: (64 ❤; Sтяυcк α ѕραякƖιηg тσηє)

[personal profile] ineptus 2015-01-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[SHE'LL PROBABLY FOLLOW HIS ADVICE ON A NORMAL DAY he's a really nice guy after all!!]

Yup! We're twins and we're best friends, so we have to look out for each other. Without me around he'd probably get into all sorts of trouble because of his dumb conspiracy theories or you know. Raising the dead because he wants to be some big supernatural hot shot. He probably wouldn't have any friends either.

But without him around, I'd probably get myself killed or something...he looks out for me a lot more than I look out for him really!

[But she doesn't seem to mind that, smiling.]

If it's someone to rely on that people need, Dipper is definitely the best for that!
harepiece: (bluebirds)

[personal profile] harepiece 2015-01-29 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[MABEL NO...

NO ON SO MANY FRONTS. There's something in his expression that seems to shift a little at that, softening and becoming more gentle, but he doesn't speak to it. Instead, he pushes a cookie off to the side of his plate somewhat absentmindedly before picking it up, just to have something to keep his hands occupied with.]


It really sounds like the two of you have a system worked out! I'm sure you'll be able to take care of each other well here. Oh! But if you ever need a hand, just ask, all right? Me or anyone else you meet here - I'm pretty sure almost everyone wants to work together to make the most of this.

[And the ones who don't want to usually make themselves well known...]