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Who: There are new people in town. No really. It's a town. And people are new.
When: OOC: 11/15 ; IC: 4/7
Where: ViViD's new and improved CereScape!
What: CERES has heard complaints about the previous gaming situation, so they're fixing it. They hope everyone enjoys their new and improved changes to the game!
Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some scary images and/or situations. Please let the mods know if the rating should go up!

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You’ve arrived. The sweeping, picturesque landscape is vast and perfectly rendered; the lake glitters in the sun, the grass ripples in the wind, the city bustles with voices and noise, and overall, it seems there’s been a bit of a graphics boost for CereScape.

And now you're a member.

Time to enjoy all of the perks that brings, and try not to think about how much it cost you. Don't worry, it's an automatic, monthly deduction, really, no need to worry!

CERES assures you that it will be totally worth it.

This is Mosley and I am now a wizard. I say that because we have heard your customer feedback for CeresScape and in your whining, you have requested wizards! And other stuff too but the important thing here is wizards and excellent graphics. We have delivered on both. You are welcome and I hope you all continue to appreciate what CERES does for you. Just you. Especially you.

Happy leveling!

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I

[ 630 ] You really have arrived, finally.

Too bad the welcome isn’t so great.

Upon arrival, you will literally be dropped out of the sky.

You may land in the lake (watch out for the fish). You may land on the roofs of the buildings in the town (watch out for the spires). Or you may be unlucky, and fall all the way from the sky to the ground, at which point you die and lose a life already.

Don’t worry, you’ll respawn in the air and you can try again.

Good luck this time!

If you do manage to finally land in a way that doesn’t break your spine and/or drown you, you’ll find that if you’re a newcomer, you’ll have some strange words hovering over your head. They seem to be a set of your name, a level, a class and a quest, something like --
Ima Adventurerer Lv. 9000
Class: Dragon Slayer
Current Quest: Slay every dragon
-- but aside from existing, they don't seem to have any actual impact on your abilities or requirements. But you can do the quests if you really want to. Everyone will clap politely for you if you do. There might be confetti, even.

They would appear to coincide with a scroll or two posted up in the middle of town for everyone to see.

At least it’s easy to tell who’s new this round.

PHASE II

[ 745 ] Once you’re safely on the ground (hopefully no broken bones!), it’s time to get a feel for the game. As free range as it seems to be, you have all sorts of choices in where to go and what to do. You could take on some quests! You could go hunt down monsters! You could...pick up that fancy looking armor over there!

Except you may not actually want to do so. As soon as you touch that armor, it will equip itself, no ifs, ands or buts. Of course, it isn’t so bad, at least, not for the ladies. For the men who equip the armor, they may find it to be a little breezy. In many different variations.

To make matters worse, be careful what you touch in your inventory, unless you want to equip a fish instead of your sword, or whatever the hell this is instead of your cool, awesome, special weapon. Good luck.

And the only way to unequip it is to find something else to equip. There’s motivation for some questing, at least.

PHASE III

[ 1000 ] Eventually, you have to venture out of the town, however. There are NPCs ushering you to quest onwards, and there’s nothing in the town worth poking your nose into; none of the doors open, and all of the NPCs say the same, looping lines in a creepy monotone.

There are quests to be done outside of the town, they say, over and over.

So, off you go. However, the moment you step out of the town, you’re…somewhere else entirely. Look behind you, and the town is gone. Look around you, and there’s nothing but flowers, fields and the other people who have stepped out of the town themselves, looking equally confused. The bizarre armor is now gone, and you're back in your proper clothing; the strange floating titles and levels and the like are also gone. Otherwise, it is silent; there isn’t a single other soul. No bird song, no buzzing of bees -- just silence.

Of course, it won’t last. Soon, the monsters show up...but strangely, they seem to be monsters from your world, if your world had monsters. If your world had animals, they are those, or robots, or any number of combinations. But they seem...different. They’re meaner, larger, nastier, and all dark colors and bloody, dripping claws and fangs.

It seems everything’s been a little corrupted here -- even things from your own worlds.

PHASE IV

[ 1400 ] If you persevere through the monster-infested fields, trampling your way through flowers which did nothing at all to you, you’ll eventually find yourself at a still, still lake. It’s a beautiful place, quiet and hushed and untouched, and totally monster-free; it might be a good place to take a breather.

But if you look into the lake, even for a brief moment, you’ll see whatever it is you want most in the world. Whether it’s a person (dead or alive), a thing, a title… it doesn’t matter; the lake will show it, tantalizing and right there, so close to being in your grasp.

If you don’t pull away immediately, you might find that it’s hypnotizing, in fact; you’ll feel the need to go closer and closer, even if it means wading into the lake to get closer to that goal. Just...don’t go too far. Something is waiting for you.

If you touch someone to try to help them, you’ll see what they are also seeing in the lake, for better or for worse. It might be a good chance to get to know them, if you weren’t, you know, in danger of being eaten.

Thankfully, with some perseverance and good friends, the hypnotism can be broken. You do have friends, right?

If you survive all of that, you can finally log out and join Cerealia proper -- hooray!

BONUS

[ xxxx ] There sure are a lot of flowers in this field of flowers. There are flowers everywhere. Which isn’t a bad thing, unless you’re allergic to flowers (if you are allergic to flowers, CERES apologizes and suggests you take their special, patented ClariCERESclear to clear that right up). Except...the longer you’re in said field of flowers, the more you may notice that things are a little...strange.

Some of the pollen of the flowers has some strange effects on your bodies, it would seem. You could stumble across any of these (or none at all), and they could last anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or two, depending on how much of that pollen you breathe in.

The effects are as follows:
➟ The urge to princess-carry the nearest person
➟ The urge to serenade the nearest person, regardless of your singing ability
➟ An awakened urge to be really aggressive towards the nearest person, even to the point of fighting (it's time to pvp)
➟ Uncontrollable crying
➟ An uncontrollable urge to make flower crowns and place them on peoples' heads (which thus further spreads the other effects).

Don’t trust the flowers.

[ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive 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 November intro log! For your convenience, we have compiled the characters' arrival experience here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here. Thank you!

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[Phase I]

[Well, this clearly had to all be a dream. Why was it a dream? Because she was falling.

Down
Down
Down.

Her pinafore, dress, and petticoats, was acting a bit like a parachute so she wasn't falling so incredibly fast as to instantly die, and thankfully, she landed on a bundle of leaves atop a building. She giggled, lying in the leaves for a little bit before jumping up and dusting off the leaves. She looked about and then up, reading aloud.]

Alice Liddell Level:5 Class: Adventurer Quest: Sample all of the tea

Oh! [She laughed clapping her hands.] How splendid! This sounds like a lovely quest! I'm sure they have all sorts of lovely tea. I wonder how many there are. I must be careful to drink their sleepy time tea last so as not to get too tired from it all.

Ah but... [This certainly ran along the dreams she usually had. She walked to the edge and looked this way and that.]

However am I supposed to get down! No stairs or ladder of anything of the sort. Ah! [Upon seeing someone she cupped her mouth.]

HELLO! WHY HELLO DOWN THERE! [She waved her arms, knowing how silly she must look.] HELLO PLEASE! WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME DOWN! [Although, how they were supposed to get UP on the roof, Alice didn't know. She sighed.] Oh dear... if only I had wings! Or even a little cloud to hop on. Clouds would certainly be nice and soft, now wouldn't they! Although I wonder if I would have to wait until night time to even get down? [She made a soft noise and waved again, trying to get someone's attention to get down.] Perhaps there's a drain to climb... I'm much better at climbing than falling, though I've certainly had enough practice in that.

[Bonus]

[Alice didn't need any help from the flowers to want to build flower crowns. She loved making flower crowns! She had already asked the flowers if it was alright and they certainly didn't say no! She had a crown atop her head and several by her side.]

I'm so glad I got to come back! It's so terribly pretty here! And look at all these beautiful flowers! Although, it doesn't seem as quite as it did before. I do wish you could talk, flowers! You know, the village had so many lovely teas. And wouldn't you know it, there was even tea at the lake! A bit too weak, but lovely enough, I suppose. I would love to show them how to make a nice strong tea, though I'm sure the lake likes it watery. It is a lake, after all.

[At the sound of footsteps and a shadow suddenly cast over her, she tilted her head back.]

Hello! [She stood up and gave a bright smile.] Have you come to play in the flowers as well?

Edited 2015-11-15 00:35 (UTC)

[Meanwhile, here was a small boy and his Digimon friend trying to pick as many flowers as they could! After all, there was no way he was going to miss the chance to give a thank you gift to Leia and Han for taking Patamon and him in to live with them!

Of course, while he kept picking up flowers, he couldn't help but notice a rather strange girl talking to the flowers. Being curious, he just had to go up and ask]

Um...I guess so? But why are you talking to the flowers? I don't think they talk back!

[...riggghhhttt?]

[Alice looked at the other boy her age only she paused to look at the strange creature beside him. At his question, she looked back over to him and then grinned.]

Splendid! [She crouched down and placed one atop his head and then one atop the Digimon's head.] And one for you as well!

Hmm? Oh, of course they can talk! All flowers can talk, you know, just most of them are asleep. You see, this ground is just too soft, so they're asleep. If the ground were harder, they'd be wide awake. I still like to speak to them while they sleep though, they seem to like it quite a bit.

Alice Liddell || Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || Open!

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Ahahaha oh no, RUN ALICE

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