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Who: CERES & you
When: ooc: 03/22-03/25; ic: 12/09-12/10
Where: Cerealia's Entertainment District
What: Intro 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)

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The Gifts that Keeps on Giving ((You)) Nightmares

It's been a whole month without any new arrivals. Who knows why? If you ask CERES, they won't bother with any in-depth explanations. They will simply claim that none of the code out there has been responding to their recovery methods, so they had to rework a lot of their technology. However, after several weeks of grueling work, they have finally experienced success! A fresh new batch of faces is coming in, and to celebrate their arrival and the real upcoming holidays, CEO Julius Vincere has arranged for a Christmas-themed carnival for all to enjoy.

Those who arrive will wake up in Cerealia and be given a long, boring explanation and powerpoint as per usual before being ushered onto a bus (there is no escape. The robots will force you onto the bus one way or another). You will be unwillingly carted to the theme park where you will be immediately assaulted by a giant array of lights followed by several rides that you can enjoy. After you disembark from the bus, one of the snowman robots will be waiting to give you tickets to the rides and show you around as part of the Grand Opening. The amusement park will remain open for the rest of the month of December so anyone can visit as they please. The first couple tickets will also be on the house for new arrivals, but the rest will have to be bought with credits, so choose wisely! (Or try and sneak into the rides -- then face the wrath of the snowman robots and their snowman firearms :D)

"☃ WELCOME NEW ARRIVALS ❅
YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE SANTASTICAL FOREST OF CHRISTMAS WONDERS ❅
PLEASE ENJOY ALL THE RIDES CEO JULIUS VINCERE HAS HAND-PICKED FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT ❅
WE WISH TO BRING YOU MERRY FEELINGS FOR THE HOLIDAY ❅
COME GIVE SNOWTRON 5000 A HUG ❅
WHAT? YOU DON'T WANT ONE ❅
BUT I WAS PROGRAMMED TO CONVEY HUGGING AS LOVE THROUGH AFFECTION ❅
PLEASE DON'T RUN ❅
COME BAAAAACK, VISITOR ❅"

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PHASE I

[ xxxx ] Do you like ferris wheels? This is an enchanting one where you get to ride around in a giant snowflake at a very limited speed. The wheel will turn excruciatingly slow before stopping abruptly, leaving you trapped at the very top. We hope you're not afraid of heights because you're going to be in there for a while! The windows on the snowflake will rapidly darken leaving you and your fellow riders trapped in the darkness. At that moment, you will feel something warm breathing down your neck and along the back of your ear. As you reach over, you'll feel like the chair underneath you is made of snakeskin, and a hissing sound will intensify as the "chair" squirms and as the breathing gets louder and hotter. Scrabble at the doors, fight your way out! Will you escape or not? Probably not, but the experience will last only a good five minutes before the lights come back on and before the ferris wheel starts moving again. The chair will appear as normal, and there will be no one else inside except any fellow riders who came with you.

PHASE II

[ xxxx ] If the ferris wheel didn't "do it" for you, then perhaps a fun house will? If you're a fan, that is! This Christmas-themed funhouse features a wonderful walk through a snowy forest convered in singing reindeer. The more you walk through, the more you will notice things like within the distorted mirrors, there will briefly appear strange specters. You will also hear a bunch of howling in the background, and while you may think that you're safe since they're trapped behind a mirror, you are very wrong. The lights will go out once more, and you will hear the mirrors shatter all around and feel yourself being grabbed and hurled to the ground. Whatever is coming for you is something you can't see, but it's advancing fast with impressive strength to hurl you back once more. You will feel pain erupt through your body before an engineer will appear to get the lights back on. Once they're back on, the reindeer will be happily singing, and all the mirrors will appear as they were before -unbroken.

PHASE III

[ xxxx ] After those interesting adventures, another option would be to simply visit the rocking santacoaster, a large, sprawling roller coaster that reaches 150 mph. You will be strapped into a sled and be shot through the tracks where you can scream and cry all you want except once you reach the tunnel, everything will come to a sudden stop (whiplash pending). You and the other riders will be in there for a few minutes, surrounded by a dozen santas as they start to fly out from the tunnel walls, carrying swords and swooping down to take a swipe at you. You better duck or be prepared to be cut up by their blades. The rollercoaster will abruptly resume, and when you reach the end, you might notice some bleeding, a little bit of hair missing, or some clothes shred up. If you ask the snowman robots about it, they will just shrug and claim they don't know what you're talking about. Please go enjoy a snowcone on the house!

PHASE IV

[ xxxx ] The Christmas whirl will be your last stop for the evening! This is a ride that goes round and round and round while tilting. Everyone will be strapped into it while standing up and forced to hold on as it spins, and somewhere in the midst of the spinning, the ride will suddenly malfunction. Yes, big surprise there! But it won't stop spinning. It will just be a rockier ride, and you will seemingly enter a new space where you will be among the stars and seeing planets all around you. Your own home planet will be amongst them before it breaks open like an egg and out crawls a friendly visitor. If you get bit by it, you will spend the rest of the day and night experiencing an array of possible symptoms, including: a voracious appetite, a fear of light, the urge to 'mate' with anyone who smells especially good, heightened senses, the ability to climb on all kinds of surfaces, irritability and crankiness... (( you don't have to experience them all. you can pick and choose which one you like. ))

BONUS

[ whyo'clock ] What's that jingling you hear in the background? Why, it's Santa Clause! Coming here all the way from the North Pole. The park will stop, and all the snowman robots will gather in the square, ushering along as many people as possible. Santa-Bot X-3 will be seated on his chair to welcome all visitors to sit on his metaphorical lap and tell him what they want for Christmas. He will then give them a nicely wrapped present and tell them that it's exactly what they asked for, but they can't open it until they get home. For those who can't wait and choose to open it quickly, they will get some nice treats from Mundus Caelestis. But beware! Those who do take this gift home will experience a weird after-effect as the lovely red and white toy will come to life on its own and hop out of the box that evening to try and violently electrocute the owner. The other one is completely harmless.

[ 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 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. OVERFLOW IS HERE!!!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

pre-phases; on the bus;

[ Probably having snagged a seat near her father, Trucy leans over the back of her chair to survey the people in other seats, as well as glancing out the window every so often. ]

So, hey, where do you think we're going? They were kinda scarce on the details...it's like a mystery!

[ Speculating will only keep her occupied for so long, however, especially if no one answers the question, and she eventually begins shuffling a deck of cards. If she notices anyone looking, she'll fan the deck out, face down, and smile brightly. ]

Pick a card, any card!

phase i; ferris wheel

[ As long as she's in an amusement park - however much she hadn't planned to go there - Trucy seems perfectly fine with having some fun. She stands in lines for rides and doesn't seem to mind if she gets stuck with strangers or people she knows - whoever she files into the ferris wheel cart with, she'll beam at them in the same exact friendly manner. ]

Hi! Daddy didn't want to come on this, because, you know, high up. Sooooo, let's get along, okay? [ The magician will brightly chatter on up until the point the ride gets stuck - she'll shrug her shoulders and stare out the windows at that point, until all that...whatness. All that what. Expect her to shriek, though she's not exactly scrabbling around since she remembers just how high up they are...feel free to tag her before or after or during that fiasco. ]

phase iii; roller coaster

[ While Trucy can be chatted with while standing in line for the coaster - despite her disastrous attempt at ferris wheeling, she has high hopes for this! - it's probably best to catch her after the ride. Were you in her sled, you would have heard Trucy yelp and seen her duck immediately, trying to protect her hat above all else which doesn't work out so hot. By the end of the ride she's got a cut on her left arm and her hat is a little chopped up off the top (well, more than a little)...

She's not best pleased. ]

I don't want a snowcone! How is anyone going to know I'm a magician without my hat?!

[ ...Although she seems to be completely ignoring the bleeding-arm-cut thing in favor of complaining to one of the robots about her hat, holding the poor thing in her hands and looking more than a little upset. Someone should probably get her to worry about her arm instead of her hat, but PRIORITIES. ]

no-phase; NO MORE RIDES, EVER

[ Loitering well away from the rides, Trucy - still with a cut on her left arm from the sword-santas (but presumably patched up by then) and sadly without her hat - is once again reflexively shuffling her deck of cards, and eyeing the robots somewhat warily. She's aware there's a few rides she hasn't tried, but the first two experiences were enough: she's pretty much done for the night and doesn't plan to stick around any longer than she has to.

Which is...the problem. ]

When does the bus back get here? Or do we just walk...? I'm kind of over theme parks for now. [ Not forever, nothing so dramatic...but definitely for now we're done, thanks. ]

Edited 2015-03-22 23:36 (UTC)

[ Gaius is just trying to focus on the fact that he's in this weird metal self-moving carriage and oh god it's going fast and there are other people here, what is even going on. He didn't appreciate the orientation one bit. However, when he notices Trucy shuffling a deck of cards, it provides the sweet distraction he's been hoping for. ]

Hmm. I'll take this one.

[ Easily, he'll pull out one from her hand. A magician girl? This should be good. ]

All right! Now, I need you to memorize that card reaaaaaaaaal hard! And don't tell me what it is, of course.

[ She will pause for him to do so, before holding out the fanned cards once more, for him to shuffle it back in... ]

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