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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!


souredsweet: jackandtink (still water)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-01-19 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't seem to bother Kaoru, at least, who sets down the glass again. Talking while gesturing is a little difficult when trying not to spill water at the same time...]

When I first arrived, there were already many citizens here, but they seemed much more well-adjusted. I believe that my group was the first to be pulled directly from the "code" that they mention... There weren't very many of us, either. I would say no more than twenty or thirty? Getting to know each other was much easier, but it was also a little scarier, I think.
psycholawgy: (T_T)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ She tries to remember how many of them there were when Athena found herself here, but she was too dazed to be able to do that. Although, there were probably the same number of people. ]

I think it helps that people get brought in here by groups. And the people who would be coming in now, they won't have to worry much about being lost or anything, because there's already people here who know what they're going through.

[ At this point, she's mostly just musing to herself as she tries to plan out what to do next. What was next, after she steps out of the research center?

Athena looks at Kaoru curiously. ]


Did you just start going to work or to school after that? That's kind of what they want us to do here... aside from the games thing.
souredsweet: jackandtink (uninspired)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-01-19 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Even though Athena's mostly just thinking aloud, Kaoru nods along in quiet agreement anyway. Since they had more or less been starting from scratch, it had been pretty chaotic. Small, but still chaotic. Not to mention the visit from Julius and those damn plague burgers...]

Yes, I began to attend one of the jobs that was listed for me. I'm a little too old to attend the school... [This said somewhat sheepishly.]

It was a difficult adjustment to make on top of everything else, but being able to settle into something like a schedule made things a little easier to handle. The predictability was nice.
psycholawgy: (moscow moscow)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sounds about right, that should have been how it was. People just needed to be familiar with the environment and it won't be long until they're back on their feet. ]

I guess we have to feel somehow thankful to the CEO for the schedule and the money.

[ And while Athena didn't really want to ask for too much since she didn't want to come off as annoying, she couldn't help but ask another question. ]

Oh, and, I know you didn't get this kind of treatment, I guess; but are there any things that newcomers like me should know?
souredsweet: jackandtink (you've got some tuberculosis on you)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-01-20 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[That just gets a soft hum from Kaoru, presumably of agreement. The topic is quickly left behind though, considering there's some definite dislike for the CEO present.

As for the question, Kaoru just raises a hand and waves it in polite dismissal.]


It's fine; if I can make the transition easier for anyone else, I'd be happy to. As for that... Mm, to be honest, their presentation covers a lot of the basics. You should take care with your electronics though, since they have trouble with viruses at times. It seems there may be a group opposing them as well who try to undermine their efforts. Things can become a little dangerous in those situations...
psycholawgy: (ooooooh boy)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-20 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Viruses, huh? That's no good. Here I was thinking we won't have trouble with that. Things seem so advanced here.

[ She pulls out her own Cerevice and flips it around in her palm. ]

And if there's rebels here, too, that's even worse. Things don't sound as easy now. [ She sure hasn't given up yet, but she looks like she's about to slump over with her expression. ]
souredsweet: jackandtink (serenities)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-01-20 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
[That earns her an apologetic smile, and Kaoru's shoulders rise in an elegant shrug.]

I've heard others who are familiar with technology voice similar sentiments. ["WE'RE IN SPACE WHY ARE THERE STILL SPAM EMAILS", basically...]

But even with these challenges, we have yet to be bested.
psycholawgy: (meowth that's right!)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-20 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That was so dramatic, Kaoru! She perks up at Kaoru's response, as if she's just found some inspiration. ]

That's really good! It sounded like something a hero would say.
souredsweet: breadcrusts (telltale)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-01-20 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)