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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!

Comments

[gossipboy]

phase i
[ There's no way he can just relax when he's been brought to a strange new world. But he's shoved into a chair, and has to play games. He prefers the ones from his own world, though... And it doesn't take him all that long to get bored with it, and instead slumps back into his seat. ]

No mooore, this is boring!

[ He'll get up and look at everyone else instead, checking out if he can find someone who will be helpful later on. So he kind of wanders over to whoever's closes. ]

Uuh, so, hey.

phase iii
[ There's something very... wrong going on in his head at the moment. He knows he's got a lot of shit going on in there all the time, but it's not these kind of thoughts. He wants someone to order him around. And he usually hates that, it's why he has such a problem with cops, teachers and other authority figures.

So when people pass him by he takes half a step toward them, and before he can stop himself; ]

Master?

[ Wait, what the hell, what is he saying?! ]

phase iv
[ It's insane and completely unlike his personality, but he's unable to do things unless he's told to. Normal things like washing and going to the toilet is one thing, but otherwise he just wants to be ordered around. But he's a man (boy) of action, and so he takes it into his own hands to find a master to decide what he should do.

So he steps in front of whoever comes by, cutting their way off. ]

Hey, will you please order me around?

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[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee has taken a break from playing his games... to do some stretches outside his cubicle. The bushy-browed ninja looks towards the stranger.]

Yes? Hello!

[gossipboy]

[ Oh god, someone please give this guy a makeover, JK's eyes are bleeding here!

Pretending to be friendly though. ]

Soooo, are you new too?

[niceguypose]

[Maybe he's just experiencing true fashion for the first time. Rock Lee nods eagerly.]

Yosh! This place... So much of this is so very new to me!

[gossipboy]

Right. Yeah, same here.

[ It's just like a horror movie; it's terrible but he keeps glancing back at him. That hair. Those eyebrows. ]

Uhhh, I've got a question for you.

[niceguypose]

Please ask me! I'll be glad to answer! [He nods eagerly, his eyebrows rising like shaggy dogs doing stretches.]

[gossipboy]

[ .......... ]

Do you need to borrow some tweezers?

[ He had to. It's bugging the hell out of him. ]

[niceguypose]

No sir! [He shakes his head.] I thank you for the offer, but I prefer to fight my battles with my bare hands!

[gossipboy]

Fight your... [ He can see how those brows could be like a battle, but seriously? Not what he was talking about. JK just pulls out a pair of tweezers. Yes, he carries some with him, he hangs out with Megumyon okay. ] I mean these.

[niceguypose]

I see... [He squints at them.] They must be very deadly to make up for their size!

[gossipboy]

I guess you can stick it into someone's eye if you're desperate enough... [ He's assuming eyebrow grooming isn't a thing in this guy's world. ] I can, uh... show you.

[ He just REALLY has to fix this major problem. ]

[niceguypose]

That would be very unpleasant... [He frets for a moment before he regains his eagerness.]

A display would be very interesting! [Eyebrow grooming is for the unyouthful.]

[gossipboy]

Okay. Don't move.

[ And he's going right for those brows. ]

[niceguypose]

[At first he remains still. But when it gets close enough to an eyebrow, he will pull his head back quickly.]

Wh-what are you doing?

[gossipboy]

Plucking your eyebrows.

[ Duh. ]

[niceguypose]

N-no! [He slaps his hands over his eyebrows.] These eyebrows of mine... I'll never defile them!

[gossipboy]

Have you seen them? They're huge. [ Come on, don't be such a dude. ]

[niceguypose]

Yes, I have! And... and I am proud of them! They're one thing I have in common with Gai-Sensei!

[gossipboy]

You know, there's some things you don't want to share with the older generation. Like their fashion choices.

[niceguypose]

I will share anything with Gai-Sensei! He is in the springtime of youth!

[gossipboy]

.............Please don't say that, it sounds so wrong.

[niceguypose]

But there is nothing more right than the springtime of youth!

[gossipboy]

You know it sounds totally creepy, right?

Phase III

[inordertobelieve]

[ Mikami has become aware that once again some sort of personality alteration seems to be in effect. The people at this place always appear strange to him, but the extend of it varies greatly between these phenomena and times without them. He's trying to avoid people under mysterious influence to the best of his ability, wondering why he does not seem to feel any change to himself, when he's suddenly cut off by a stranger.

And he blinks in confusion. ]

Excuse me?

[gossipboy]

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