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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!


littlestbaskerville: time to kick his butt out of it!! (✿ love‚ pull your sore ribs in.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-01-16 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know it...the series of not child suffering.]

...Kou...jaku. Koujaku, nice to meet you!

[Lily was adjusted in most situation though this man seems...a little less comfortable. Maybe she could help with that?

Reaching up she grabs his hand...scars there too? What did this guy do? The 'pretty' does get her to blush.]


Pretty? Oh, um, fine? It's not all bad. Hey we can get some food if you want? They have lots of good snacks!
kaba: (✿ Let's knot get tied up in all this)

[personal profile] kaba 2015-01-16 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He needs an adult. They need an adult.

Why is she so cute? But he takes her hand with due confidence, of course—for all his faults he can still remember to be a gentleman where it counts. Especially since she’s clearly trying to cheer him up. ]


Yeah? I’d like that. [ He did come here for the free food, after all. Not to mention that he doesn’t mind escorting her around the place—at least until he can find out where her guardians are. Sheesh, what is up with people, leaving their kids all unsupervised with video games like that, anyway? ]

What’re your favorites, Lily? I’d like to try them out. [ Getting some recommendations aside, he’d like to ease her into some casual conversation before dropping the question of that tattoo. She’s too young to have a tattoo. And he won’t be getting any sleep tonight unless he hears a fucking good reason for that tattoo to be on her face. ]
littlestbaskerville: yes i am the supreme winner of all the things (✿ and we'll live a long life.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-01-16 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[An adult might help!

The warmth of his hand only causes her to smile a little brighter. She likes holding hands, people were really warm and it makes her feel a little more secure at times. Especially when Doug and Lottie weren't here.]


Good! They have lots of sweets! [Happily walking with the man over to the snack tables. Time to time she sees someone she knows but it was okay since this man seems nice enough. Lottie might scold her for making friends like this...or she might not? She never had so many friends back home.]

Mine? [Almost surprised that he wants to try her favorites she points to the cookies and then the chocolates. Oh and then there were these small crackers with some kind of crab salad, those were good too!]

Those, those and those! I like sweets but the crab stuff is really tasty too, if you don't like sweets.
kaba: (✿ Let's knot get tied up in all this)

[personal profile] kaba 2015-01-17 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At least they know how to stock their tables, if nothing else. It’s an impressive spread, which is saying something despite the fact that plenty of the food items there aren’t really any of his favorites. At least there isn’t any celery involved. Probably. Don’t make him eat his vegetables, young lady.

But if she’s uncertain about this whole making friends with strangers thing—she’s probably right, considering that he’s still pretty much a thug even if he’s a thug with a soft spot for girls. ]


I’ll try anything you want. [ But then he feels the need to be a responsible adult anyway: ]

Long as we don’t eat too much, anyway. Your parents might kill me if I let you eat too much of the sweets. [ But it’s implicit that he’s totally okay with gorging on crab. He’s certainly gonna. ]
littlestbaskerville: see look at this face (✿ c'mon‚ remember when we loved -)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-01-18 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Most of the table wasn't visible unless she was on a chair, but she could see bits of it. Most of it looks really tasty and she should eat more food that's actually food but this was still good! Koujaku might be safe from her making him eat veggies.

If he only knew her friend group back home...murders and chain users might be worse than thugs.]


Okay! Um...What's that? [She points to a plate with some salmon on crackers.

Only she does pause with his comment.]


I don't have parents. Well, I did but not anymore!
kaba: (✿ That was the highlight of my day)

[personal profile] kaba 2015-01-18 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Who the hell thought to invite kids and not provide any kid-sized snack tables, anyway?

Actually, it’s a pretty genius idea if they’re keeping all the sweets way up there. But for everything else? For shame. As if this kind of thing is the worst thing Lily’s ever encountered—but then again her next remark makes him turn from the salmon tartare so rapidly he can almost feel his head unscrewing from the effort.

Though even that’s nothing compared to that brief look of utter horror that quickly slips away into something like sadness. He tries to smile instead.

It isn’t working. ]


Lily…I’m really sorry about that.
littlestbaskerville: time to kick his butt out of it!! (✿ love‚ pull your sore ribs in.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-01-18 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[They were short enough she could reach some but the ones on display type things were more of a reach.

As she looks at the treat she gives Koujaku a little, not sure why he seems so surprised. It looks like it would be tasty so it should be okay, right? Plus she should eat more than sweets...even if they were the best.

Lily continues to give him a neutral stare as he apologizes.]


Why? My parents didn't want me, they left me in the woods. [It was a common type of thing for her. Besides she has a new family in the Baskervilles.]
kaba: (✿ That was the highlight of my day)

[personal profile] kaba 2015-01-19 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Regardless of the height, Koujaku’s already grabbing a plate of salmon tartare for her, and his hand pauses in shock as the plate is lowered to her level. ]

They did what? [ Please tell him she’s kidding. Koujaku’s far too dumbstruck to even be mad at the idea, considering that he didn’t have such a fabulous childhood himself.

Poor kid must be trying to hide her trauma by acting all cool about it. And here he goes and blows her cover like that. What a dolt. ]


You know that isn’t the kind of thing you should be joking about, right?
littlestbaskerville: nope i'm gonna marry master glen just you see (✿ don't try to look cool; believe in -)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-01-20 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
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Edited 2015-01-21 04:59 (UTC)