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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)

//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

[ xxxx ] 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

[ xxxx ] 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

[ xxxx ] 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

[ xxxx ] 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

[ whyo'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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I was just kidding!

Oh...? [He takes a moment to catch on and then chuckles slightly.]

Good job, Athena-san! You truly have a sense of humor!

I did good, didn't I?

[ Flaterry will get you everywhere with this girl. ]

[Well, he's pretty much a flattery machine.]

Yes, very well! I was completely fooled by you! You're really good at this, Athena-san!

I need lots of training to be a ninja, but right now, I want to focus on my job as a lawyer.

[ Nods sagely. ]

That is understandable! It sounds like a noble job! Do you save many people?

[ It was a noble job, now that there's a new era of lawyers who actually practice law for the sake of defending people and not for fame and fortune, it was going to be better. She had just started, though, and while she's saved some very important people, it wasn't enough. It's only just begun. ]

I received my attorney's badge just a few months ago, actually. But I can say that I've saved some people, and will work on doing it some more.

[ She double takes at what she just said. It would have been difficult to continue lawyering in Cerealia since there doesn't even seem to be a legal system yet, just... laws, maybe? She'll have to read about that soon. ]

Although I think I'll have to study law again if I want to practice it here.

Saving only some people is still great work!

Hm, you are right... In this place, there must be different laws in effect. ...Ack!! What if we are breaking laws without realizing it?!

I haven't done anything!

What if... not doing anything is a crime!

Th- Then, quick! Rapido! We gotta do something!

[ The sense of urgency is real. She frantically starts looking around for something to do. ]

Yosh! [He responds immediately and energetically. And then he goes right into... jumping jacks. Right in the middle of the room.]

[ Starts jogging in place!!! ]

Okay! What now?!

I don't know!! [He heaves between jumping jacks.] Let's keep exercising! Unless... exercising is against a law, too?!

No way, no way! [ She shakes her head as she exclaims. ]

They wanted me to be a martial arts instructor, and that's exercise!

Ah... You're right! [He gasps.] In fact, I was offered the same job!

Hey! This is a great coincidence!

[ She sounds even more jumpy now. ]

I guess we'll see each other a lot from now on.

Yes... This must be the serendipity of youth! Our friendship is meant to be!

I will be glad to see you a lot, and I am sure that we can train together, too!

And we can figure out what the laws are!

Yes! We have a lot to learn, but we'll learn it together!! I just know it!

[ She stops jogging. She was still talking, so if doing nothing was a crime, then she wouldn't be apprehended for anything.

Although she does stop for a few seconds to catch her breath. ]

So, hey. What are you going to do now?

I don't know! I could play more games... or I could train more! Or I could... try to find a home in this place! When I think about it, there is a lot to do that is not nothing!

[ She nods at that. ]

Yeah... it's just really strange, I guess. We kind of just have to hold our daily routines here from now on.

Our daily routines? Yes! I suppose that is what we must do... u-until our worlds can be saved! [He doesn't want to believe otherwise.]

Exactly.

[ So much optimism!! ]

I think I'm done with the games for today, though. I want to go around and see the city.

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