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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)
Original Post: HERE.

//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 AND OUR VERY FIRST OVERFLOW. 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

[ Yay! ]

Then she must be really good! It sure doesn't look messy to me now.

[ Well he means it—like so many other things, as a matter of fact—but it's really nice to know that someone's taking care of even the littlest things for Lily. ]

She is! Lottie has really pretty, long pink hair. I really love it.

[She wishes she was here, she would have a lot of fun...she's sure.]

You have nice hair too!

R—Really? [ It's not as if he isn't used to compliments about his hair, but that is so sweet and he really is doing his best to be indulgent. ]

That's 'cause I'm a hairdresser! Is she one, too?

[ Why is she so cute. He could listen to her all day. ]

[She is the compliment queen!]

Uh-huh! I like it...the stick in it is pretty too.

[Yeah, she just called it a stick, Koujaku.]

Hair...dresser? We're Baskervilles...

What's a hairdresser? Do you dress hair?

[The mental image of this...is weird for Lily.]

[ Queen of his heart more like ]

Yeah, kinda. [ He doesn't mind calling it a stick in the least, though his hand rushes up to the pin anyway, in a gesture of "oh, this old thing?"

He's flattered. Unduly. But flattered all the same. He pulls the pin out. ]

I could dress your hair up real nice, maybe… [ He leans in and holds the pin up to her hair. ]

A stick's a good start.

[She will take those hearts!]

Oh... [Watching him, she's curious out the stick it is pretty...she wonders why he wears it still though.

When he pulls it out she makes a small move, as if to stop him but she stops herself instead.

Blushing a little more, she grips the hem of her top.]

Really?

[ He pauses when she hesitates, carefully pulling his hand away. Right, he should've been more sensitive, considering her background. ]

Yeah, really. [ He sticks that pin back into his ponytail and offers her a hand, palm up, like a gentleman. ]

You could probably tell I was lying, anyway. [ Kids know how to call a womanizer's bullshit pretty well. ]

Uh, not that I am, or anything. It's just my job.

[Lily looks a little sad that he pulls back...he didn't have to do that.]

Lying? How were you lying?

[She looks so confused right now...then again she is almost always straightforward with things.]

Hairdressing...means you have to lie?

No. [ Yes. Guiltily, he considers Yoshie and every woman past her prime who's into him. It's awkward and he doesn't hate them in the least but it is supremely embarrassing and he'd be the last person to offend them and aaargh ]

Hairdressing means I can make you look even prettier than you already do. [ You could almost imagine him winking at the camera with a shine to his teeth. ]

Hell, I'd never lie about how pretty you are. You don't have to be shy about it, y'know?

[Head still to the side she taps her chin, hairdressing...was confusing.]

Oh...I'm not used to people saying I'm pretty.

[It was honest.]

I'll never get bigger than this so...I've been called cute or little?

[ Well, at least she doesn't seem unused to being loved. Good ol' Lottie and Vincent and all the rest, whoever they are. ]

Yeah, I could go with that, too. [ But they're obvious. And he's not sure he wants to know about her not getting bigger than that. It sounds frightfully personal. ]

As long as it doesn't bother you, anyway.

[More Fang and Lottie for this one, Koujaku.]

T-Though you can call me anything...you want. [Nothing mean but cute or beautiful was fine with Lily. Quit charming her!]

I don't mind!

[ Yep, nobody loves Vincent. ]

I…think I'll stick with "Lily" for now. [ How long have they been arguing semantics, anyway? How long before he realizes that he hasn't turned off his swag yet?? Nobody should ever want to find out. ]

[Vincent loves to tease...forever.]

Okay! ... [She stares at him for a little bit. Hmmmm.]

Lily will call you Jaku then! Your name is long...

[ So does Lily, it looks like. ]

Yeah? I think I really like the sound of "Jaku," Lily. [ Besides, he can't even say "Baskerville" so this makes things so much easier. ]

[Seems that way!]

You do? I like it too! [They both found a good way in this.]

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