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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!

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Lily Baskerville Overflow

[littlestbaskerville]

Continuation from here

Sousei

[littlestbaskerville]

[Continuation from here

At least it's a cute duckling...right?

Still stuffing food into her mouth, she chews and swallows before she gives him a curious look.]

Tama...inu? So you're like police officers?

[That is something that makes sense to her.]

We're supposed to protect the Abyss, the Baskervilles are.

[deontology]

[She is a very cute duckling, but you'll never heard that from him. Though he is rather gentle (for him), when he corrects her simply--]

Yamainu. But yes, that is correct.

[... Still, that seems like quite the duty for someone so young...]

... The Baskervilles. That is the organization you belong to?

[littlestbaskerville]

[Japanese names are hard...so someone helping her with it was not unwelcome by her.]

Then you're job is really important.

[She smiles at him. At the mention of that she shakes her head.]

It's my family...kinda, maybe? People have to have connections to the Abyss.

[deontology]

[He's noticed how much people struggle with them, it's not even something that bugs him anymore. It's true, too; his job is certainly important. Even if it's not really the job he's letting her think it is.

...]

Ah, I see. [Family is something different--even if an organization can also be your family as well.] It is for the better then that you are not alone in that task.

[That you have family to support you.]

Tenka

[littlestbaskerville]

[Sitting down she watches him with towel before she looks around again. It seems they are the only ones here...she's glad for that. Quickly she looks back to Tenka when she hears the water shut off. Putting her hands on her lap, feet swinging as he smiles at her.]

Mm-hm! I am? [She hasn't been told that before but she just smiles at him.]

It's just sore now too.

[sunshrouded]

You definitely are!

[But he's just going to sigh now as he presses the wet towel against her face - bopping her nose with it first. Ah... the sooner that she gets cleaned up, the more relieved he'll be.]

Well how about you and aniki just get a blanket and you take a nap for a bit, alright? Maybe it'll be less sore when you wake up.

[littlestbaskerville]

I'm glad, Ten-nii thinks that!

[Lily winces on instinct and closes her eyes, ready for him to touch it. Then the bop causes her to look at him. Smiling a little she closes her eyes again, letting him start to clean her face.]

A nap? Mn! That sounds nice!

[As long as he was her's alone.]

[sunshrouded]

[Alright, that much managed to get her to relax and he grins faintly. So he's going to keep wiping at her face carefully and gently then.]

Yep! We'll get all warm and cozy, okay? You need to rest up. You've had a really long day!

Koujaku

[littlestbaskerville]

[Lily watches as he grabs what she points too, he was really helpful, she likes that. Though when he stops she sees his shock and as she just continues to look up at him.]

They left me...I was the weakest and they marked me with the mark of the devil. Since I'm a Baskerville I can bring a lot of bad luck!

[It's the easiest way to explain it. Even as she points to the tattoo on her face.]

I'm not joking! It's okay though.

[kaba]

[ No amount of explaining is going to keep a grownup from having Feelings about this kind of thing though. Whoops. ]

I got one too, you know. [ He even parts his bangs a little to reveal the tattoo underneath. Never mind all the rest.

He wants to question her some more, but at least he's well aware that that might just make things worse for her. ]

I know it's not as okay as you say it is, but if you don't feel like talking about it, you don't have to. [ He's just being a boob. ]

[littlestbaskerville]

[Lily was just used to that, Baskervilles were known to warp reality...Lottie told her that.]

H-Huh? [Any other thoughts are gone when she sees the tattoo. Lily reaches to grab his hand and look at the tattoo. Her's was blood red but they looked really similar. Part of her is reminded of Fang and Doug, it makes her smile.]

You're like me! Was your a mark of the devil too?

[Back to the other topic she shakes her head.]

Koujaku...it's okay. It was a while ago, I found the Baskervilles.

Midou Hokuto

[littlestbaskerville]

That's good then!

[Lily didn't sleep a lot but if it helps she might need to try it more. Maybe it would make Bandersnatch stronger too!]

I don't know any of these, some of them are fun though.

[smokingspirit]

Yes, it is.

[ Sleep can help with a lot of things. ]

Yeah, it's pretty fun. But does that mean that you don't have games like these where you're from?

[littlestbaskerville]

[The magic of sleep!]

Nu-uh...we don't have a lot of this stuff! It's all...new for me.

Soramaru

[littlestbaskerville]

[Not really affected a lot by the fall or the shot, besides the small amount of pain. Lily shakes off the glass before she looks to see a familiar face of another friend.

Another person she doesn't have to find! The comment does throw her off a little.]

Oh, yeah...I got shot. Sora we should go somewhere safe.

Katsura Kotarou

[littlestbaskerville]

...I am?

[She's not sure what he even means.]

It just showed up there!

[bakudanma]

Only the wisest and the strongest dare play this game.
Hmph. Should I demonstrate how this is properly played for you?

[littlestbaskerville]

...Is it really that dangerous?

[Looking really weird now, she nods.]

Y-Yes...

Elliot Nightray

[littlestbaskerville]

[More or less she could belong to a horror set at this point. It would probably be an amazing take for the movie for that matter. Especially if anyone say the way she flew from the window. Vincent was good at one thing and that was pushing someone away. Bravo to the blond.

Regardless of that Lily puts her focus onto the Nightray know his name from memory. This boy was Vincent's adoptive brother, not the one she threatened. That was one of her first mistakes when she arrived in this world. Vincent was rather quick to correct that error. Still the person before her does seem concerned.]

I tried to let him know he was mine...he wanted me to leave, I don't wanna.

[Then he says the name of the person and she zones in on him. There is a spike of danger. He was Vincent's brother...did he want to separate them?]

...yes. Are you?

[meriter]

[ THAT'S KIND OF NUTS, LILY ............ too bad he isn't all that informed on Vincent's current state of crazy besides his involvement with Leo, but that's a whole other matter entirely. Maybe it'd be a good idea to catch up with the current state of affairs.

He is genuinely concerned, just like he was when those children in Isla Yura's mansion came swinging at him with the full-blooded intent to decapitate him, but he admittedly doesn't handle yanderes very well??? It's all too transparent at the shock momentarily transposed over his features before he levels out the larger portion of his utter incomprehension to reply in full coherence.

ANYWAYS, now that he's found a convenient loophole to dodge that emotionally-charged question: ] Was Vincent the one who inflicted that injury on you?

[littlestbaskerville]

[Lily was normally not a yandere, she was more naive most of the time. So Elliot could thank this place for this lovely event with Lily. At least she still couldn't die easier, though there was probably someway to kill her if needed. More so with Break here now.

Regardless she fixes her gaze onto Elliot, ready to summon her chain if he seems like he might take what's her's. Luckily for the other he asks a better question and it causes her to loosen up, even just a tad. Still watching him she nods her head in reply before she speaks, working on trying to wipe some blood away from her eyes.]

Yes...he was being weird. [Well...more than usual.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ cont. from here

Mikami chooses to ignore the comment about friendship entirely. He makes mental note to discuss keeping herself away from questionable people to Lily later - or find someone else who knows her and can do it, because god knows he's not actually a kid person. ]

I'll take you to my apartment and fix you up there, alright?

[ Luckily not that far from here. That blood really needs to get off, it's startling. ]

[littlestbaskerville]

[Lily right now would argue or get violent...after this she will feel pretty embarrassed and upset.]

...Okay, just us?

[She seems to be firm about wanting this.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ Teru nods. Normally he woudn't advise going with adults she's met only once before, but oh well. Not letting her go back to whoever she came from either, right now. ]

Can you follow me?

[ As in 'do you feel okay enough to be walking the distance?' ]