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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!


dishonorstudent: @bubs (pic#8727860)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-18 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Bluetooth. Got it.

[ Why does she have to do another weird tech thing? Can't she just receive the damn pic as is? Ugh, this thing is so frustrating! Okay, Ryuko, you got this. You got this. ]

...I think I got it. [ Finding it in the settings wasn't too hard, but she'd be more confident if she knew what the point of bluetooth was. ]
psycholawgy: (goddess of the moon is artemis)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ She clicks a few things on her screen, and at least there was only one other device with its bluetooth on. Athena's able to send it quickly to Ryuko's device. ]

All done!

[ Athena's really pleased about it, but maybe it was time to stop dawdling around and get down to business. She can teach Ryuko more about the awesome technology later on. ]

Can I ask what you're going to do now? [ She wasn't exactly sure where to begin. Sure, there was the fact that she had to find a place to stay, and see what kind of jobs she has to do while in here, but life surely wasn't just going to be about playing games and trying to live each day as it goes by, right?

If she could learn about the histories of the worlds, maybe she'd be one step closer to a proper answer. Because, c'mon, we all know the guy who gave the powerpoint presentation went through some slides pretty quickly. ]
dishonorstudent: @akise (✂ pensive: chopstick)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-18 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
To tell ya the truth, I haven't figured that out yet. [ She looks down at Senketsu for a moment, who's not quite sure himself as of now. ] They gave me a job and school, so I won't have to worry about makin' a living here.

But...
I'm not gonna just sit around and wait until those geeks find this "data" or whatever.
psycholawgy: (chords of steel is just wrong...)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-18 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The job and the school thing are fine, and they even gave us money, but... [ She trails off into her own thoughts for a bit before coming back to the conversation. ] I guess it's just hard when you have to start from scratch.

I mean, there's something about moving to a new place, but to a new world? Who knows what's normal for students here? What if they expect every student to wear their PE uniforms over their regular school uniform?

[ It was a strange example, but at least it was prime for showing the difference in culture. ]
dishonorstudent: (pic#8727962)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-19 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ These are the things Ryuko definitely does not think about. Although she would take personal issue with the uniforms deal! ]

PE uniforms? What makes ya say that? I mean, I dunno... they've been observin' our worlds for a long time now, right? I can't see anything bein' too different. You worried about something else?
psycholawgy: (♥♥♥)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[ Yes, that does ring a bell. ]

You're right. [ She laughs sheepishly. ] I guess if they've been observing us, things couldn't be that different. It shouldn't be too hard to get used to the things here, then.
dishonorstudent: (Default)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-19 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! C'mon, you're sayin' that like we're gonna be here too long. [ Eager as always, Ryuko is ready to cut down their enemies the moment they show themselves. She's not exactly a long-term thinker like a certain former rival. ]

And you? What're your plans?
psycholawgy: (someone said psychology AGAIN)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Not going to be here long?

Athena didn't think of that possibility, especially when she's been given a job, and money... it just didn't seem like she was going to be here for a short while. In fact, beyond all the talk about Flamines or the code, it the situation was familiar. She was in a new place with only means of survival with her. She didn't exactly have plans or anything yet, but with a little money and places to go to, she could start living. ]


I don't know yet. [ A beat. ] But do you really think that? I don't think bringing back worlds is going to be easy. We might be here for a while.
dishonorstudent: (pic#8727903)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-19 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ryuko simply smiles at her levelheaded friend. ]

To hell with logic, it's 'cause we're all utterly incomprehensible that makes humans always come out on top. [ Don't mind her, she's just reminiscing about her crazy friends. ] But even if it takes a long time, I'm glad I'm not alone.
psycholawgy: (moscow queen of the russian land)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This is my first time to be with non-humans, so I can't say I know what you mean.

[ She finds Ryuko's musings entertaining, at least. ]

But that's how endings in movies go, so I guess you have a point!
dishonorstudent: (pic#8727951)

[personal profile] dishonorstudent 2015-01-19 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She was trying to keep Athena's spirits up, in her own weird way, but seeing that she's amused at least is a good sign. ]

...Yeah, guess I'm kinda sentimental, huh? [ Even if she told Athena that she battled ancient aliens in the past, that would be a hard thing to believe. L-Let's just go with movies. ] But that's why things are gonna be okay.
psycholawgy: (revolution!)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's just easier to think about if you're a movie star! ]

You bet! We'll make things okay in the end! Today's just begun!

[ Spoken like a true optimist. ]