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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!


ukakus: ( official art: manga ) (005)

open!

[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-16 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
PHASE II;
[And in a miraculous display of patience, Touka has somehow managed to play through several games before reaching the one starring everyone's absolute favorite fortune teller, Aria. Or — maybe not-so-favorite, considering the way she's scowling at the screen and tapping her foot impatiently as the game starts up. She's already decided to get the hell out of here after one more game, so when she ends up with this particular one... it's almost like a sign.

A very annoying, very pointless sign.]


Serious trouble will bypass you... Tch — right. Really original. [Most pointless fortune. Most pointless game. Most pointless everything. Wow. You can pretty much see her rolling her eyes as she exits her cubicle, unimpressed.] What a waste of my time.

PHASE IV;
[Having selected the High Priestess card, Touka now sits cross-legged on some... public location. Maybe a bench. Maybe a chair at a coffee shop. Maybe even atop somewhere dangerous. Point is, she's working it and making it look like she owns the place.

When your character walks by, regardless of whether they make eye-contact with her or not, she points her index finger towards them and clicks her tongue twice — almost as if she were calling a dog or something. Rude.]


Hey, you. Come here.

ETC;
[Make up your own scenario and roll with it, man.]
Edited 2015-01-16 22:41 (UTC)
immobileyes: (I think we should try to bring Mom back)

phase iv;

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-01-17 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ what happens when a High Priestess meets another High Priestess? Well. Mary may be a little surprised, as everyone else has been pretty much agreeable (but why wouldn't they be), but when she's called out to, she pauses. Looks over this total stranger.

And shakes her head. ]


What do you want?
ukakus: ( official art: manga ) (059)

[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-18 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Annoying things happen, that's what. Or annoying for Touka, in any case. She scoffs, lowering her arm and examining this girl. How hard is it to follow an order without questioning things? Not very hard at all.

People here just enjoy being stupid, it seems.]


How about you come closer, and I'll tell you what I want.
immobileyes: (The queen is in)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-01-19 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'd rather not. Why don't you come closer?
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )
38thdefender: (Default)

Phase IV

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-17 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kurtis has no idea why this person is calling out to him, or why she's doing it in such an odd manner, so it's mostly out of curiousity that he walks toward her.]

Yes?
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-18 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. This is a, uh—peculiar sight. She furrows her brows as he comes closer, giving him a once-over once he's close enough, before crossing her arms.]

Take that annoying bird costume off. [Yes.

Because after learning aliens destroyed the Earth, this is the only logical explanation to seeing a non-humanoid walking around.]
38thdefender: (Close up)

[personal profile] 38thdefender 2015-01-18 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kurtis stares for a moment in disbelief. How could she think he was wearing a costume?]

I'm not wearing a costume. This is my real body.
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )
puerilely: maybe he's born with it maybe it's maybelline (cutest little shit of the sengoku era)

phase ii

[personal profile] puerilely 2015-01-17 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Apparently Shuu is just stalking the games today to make life miserable for everyone.. when he isn't playing games much, much too loudly, he's just making fun of others. Like right now, as he's watching while Touka reads her fortunre aloud from the machine.. and disregards it.

See, now this is something to work with. Wobbling from standing on his toes to his heels, Shuu lets out an interested "oooh" sound from behind her as she walks out. ]


Are you sure you want to ignore that? It could be veeery important!
Edited 2015-01-17 20:03 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-18 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of course, this only serves to further sour her mood. Turning on her heel to face whoever addressed her, she crosses her arms and scrunches her nose. She fails to see how what she does or doesn't do is this guy's business.]

Why shouldn't I? It's just a fortune from a stupid game. [A very annoying, stupid game. Screw you, Aria.] I'm sure it tells everyone cryptic shit like that.
puerilely: fandisks apparently can cause miracles (how is he the villain again)

[personal profile] puerilely 2015-01-19 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At least he's not turned away by her attitude, for.. better or worse.. Shuu's just like a sticky piece of gum that suddenly sticks under your shoe when you don't want it to and it just never leaves. That level of annoying, really. ]

Oh no.. that's a terrible thing to say! [ He giggles, even though the "oh no" sounds faux-shocked and all. ]

Don't you know that the people who say that are always the first to die in ghost stories?
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )
springful: (eating people feels kinda good)

iv;

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-18 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[The haughty and overconfident attitude would make Sakura uncomfortable on any day regardless, but today it serves to make everything five hundred times worse when all she wants to do is get somewhere alone and as far away from people as possible.]

Um, did you mean me, by any chance? [She's hoping no. Please no. Surely there's someone else around here so she can run the hell out of here, right?!]
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-18 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately, they're the only ones around here. And Touka makes sure to point this fact out pretty well, gesturing around them with both of her arms. She's less than impressed at that attitude........]

Use your brain for a second. Do you see anyone else around? [The answer is no. Ew.] I obviously mean you.
springful: (can we not)

[personal profile] springful 2015-01-22 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose that's true... [So despite her obvious uncomfortableness with being here in general, Sakura nevertheless walks towards Touka. If anxiety had a face, it would be Sakura's right now.] Was there something you needed?
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )
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iv

[personal profile] confind 2015-01-18 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's not really a "hey you, get here" kind of guy, but there's something about Touka that Sooha just can't say no to, and he ends up coming right up to her obediently, without complaint, exactly like a dog would. ]

What do you need?

[ ps. ]
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-18 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There should be a coffee shop around here... ["Should" as in, there is. She should know. She distinctly remembers spotting it earlier.] Go buy me a coffee from there. No milk, no sugar. I'm thirsty.

[When she could, technically, get up an do it herself. It's not even a five minute walk from here... but she's doesn't want to get up. Not to mention, making people do things for her feels so absurdly gratifying right now. Why do things yourself when you can just boss someone else around, man?]
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[personal profile] confind 2015-01-21 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's definitely not feeling how holier than thou her thoughts are, but he can't help but want to do everything she asks despite that.

He rubs the back of his head, sighing deeply. Put him out of his misery please.
]

Alright. I'll be back.

[ She's right; it isn't even a five minute walk, and by the time he returns, her coffee hasn't even had a chance to go cold. No milk, no sugar, just how she asked. ]

Here.
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )
claspers: vuvuzela @ dw (《 ★ you will probably hit something 》)

phase iv; i'm also sorry

[personal profile] claspers 2015-01-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Having received The Strength card himself, naturally he's oiled up in said public location, casually lifting weights on the bench while wearing spandex shorts because girl, look at that body.

He glances at the voice when he hears it, not really surprised. She probably wants some work-out tips or to feel up his bicep -not that he blames her. They're rock hard after a morning of intense lifting, and he'll enjoy any appreciation that comes his way. He deserves it after all that hard work.

He moves in closer after a moment and just casually curls his arm towards himself while he grins. ]


I know what you're going to say, and the answer is 'go right ahead.'
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[personal profile] ukakus 2015-01-23 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
( continued here! )