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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

phase iv! LIVING ON THE WILD SIDE, I GUESS .....

[meriter]

[ And Elliot's just rounding out on the scene, no less worse for the wear, although a bit frazzled by all the people who've clearly lost their minds somewhere between exiting the center and venturing outside. He's really not the best judge of character, but when people have clearly lost their sanity to the wiles of exhibitionism and insanity, then he's certainly not going to stand in the way and allow himself to be cut down.

It's just by coincidence that he catches sight of the child — he hadn't meant to be heading in the direction of Vincent's apartment, but given the state of affairs, it'd be better to reassure himself of his brother's safety — when he catches sight of such a tiny cloaked figure hurtling down the sidewalk so fast that he needed to outstretch one hand to grab ahold of the child before they flitted away, and then recognition dawns faster than he can curb his consternation —

... it's that Baskerville girl from ViViD, drenched in cooling blood and intent so malevolent he could've visibly recoiled if he wasn't concerned for her current wellbeing. ]

... Wait, wh — what in the world happened to you?!

Elliot you are walking on the danger side!

[littlestbaskerville]

[People going crazy around you is lost when you happen to be one of the people going crazy. If she knew people were acting different than it was not something she was aware of. Not when her main focus was getting close to the people she wants to have as her's. So even as she sits on the ground staring at Vincent's window all she can think of is how to get back inside of the house and make him believe her. That was the plan until a voice snaps her from her thoughts.

Lily looks over at the people near her. She knows the face and while he's familiar she isn't sure if he's a friend or not yet. That's something she can figure out quickly, if they weren't friends then he might be someone she needs to keep away from her friends.

Blood covering her face she looks baffled for a moment at his concern until she looks at herself. Seeing the blood dripping onto her clothes and the glass shards on her, she could see why he might be upset.]

I was shot. [Her voice is soft in her answer as she pushes herself to her feet.]

[meriter]

[ If he was familiar at all with cinematography, he would've pinned her as a horror movie extra — a ludicrous amount of blood sticky and drying in her clothes, staining her hair another shade entirely — pupils blown wide with shock or desperation or something indiscernible, swerving back and forth at the front entrance of Vincent's residence with the emotional tactility of a frustrated child.

Elliot, of course, is only acquainted with what he sees — the version of truth he accepts. And she's so much like those orphan children wandering around Isla Yura's mansion that it's genuinely surprising she hasn't attended to the wounds marring her face.

More than anything else, she seems ... lost. ]

I can see that much. Why would someone hurt you like this?

[ He's fumbling now, pulling at metaphysical straws for answers and coming up empty. ]

... Are you waiting for Vincent?

[littlestbaskerville]

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