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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
[ 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 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!


mechanizes: (( ✫ galaxy space and time ))

[personal profile] mechanizes 2015-01-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gives her a confused look, trying to decipher the meaning of her words. It's not as though he's unfamiliar with the concept. His stint in Zelien exposed him to all sorts of weird abilities, so he's more or less unfazed about it by now, but it's still weird to get wind of that particular power. ]

What do you mean you couldn't hear a contradiction? People fool lie detectors all the time. As long as they believe what they're saying is true.

[ Speaking of which ... ]

There's also the fact that most of the people here aren't even human. They only look that way. Would you be able to detect if they're robots?

[ He doesn't know what crazy powers she possesses, but he's pretty sure robots don't have enough emotions to be picked up by any kind of psychic abilities. She's clearly deluding herself with flimsy evidence, and Gareki's just going to have to bust his way into their computers and see what they're really hiding. ]
psycholawgy: (attorney at law and psychology)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-22 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Athena couldn't help but feel offended for the robots. Having grown up surrounded by robots who could carry casual conversations and could show emotion, she treated them much like how she would treat any other human. Robots were her friends, and they were able to be happy, sad, and angry, just like any other person could. ]

Of course, I can! Robots are capable of emotion, too. [ She even seems particularly defensive about it. ]

[ There's some other things that Athena needs to figure out about what was said during the presentation, but there's never been a moment where she wasn't able to not hear the truth. She wasn't going to accept something like being "fooled" easily, either. ]

As long as they believe in something, then it's the truth for them. [ She nods at that. ] They wouldn't be lying. But if it's believing in something and knowing something else, then that's a different story.

[ She could really try to make more sense out of this for Gareki, but he doesn't seem to believe in her hearing, anyway. ]
mechanizes: (( ✫ into the atmosphere ))

[personal profile] mechanizes 2015-01-25 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ What robots has she been around lately? He's pretty sure those damn sheep from back home don't feel an ounce of remorse every time they administer their version of punishment. There is nothing good about those things, so he doesn't think there is anything at all she can detect from them. ]

They can't. They're not human and don't have hormones or synapses or things like that. They just do what they're programmed to do.

[ He's yet to see a robot fight against their programming, and he can only imagine what the ones here can do, considering how many he's seen giving an intimate massage here and there. What kind of creepy place did they land themselves in this time? ]

...and you're saying if I lie to you, you'd be able to pick it up accurately?

[ He's clearly skeptical about this ability if only because he doubts she can get it right every time. ]

Let's try it out then. What if I say a bunch of things at random? Can you pick out the lie?
psycholawgy: (myyyy precious)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-01-25 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ As stubborn as Athena can be, she just leaves the robot talk for another time. She wouldn't be able to prove Clonco and Ponco's existence to him, anyway. But the idea of robots with hearts was real. Someday, she'd like Gareki to see one.

And while she loves a challenge, she doesn't seem to be fond of this idea. ]


My hearing's not a toy.

[ But despite that, one of the things she doesn't like most is when she's not taken seriously when she's telling the truth. ]

But I can do that. We can try it once.
mechanizes: (( ✫ to a new dimension ))

[personal profile] mechanizes 2015-02-03 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Fine. My name is Yogi. I'm twenty one. My favorite animal is nyanperowna, and I love eating candy.

[ Where is the lie, Athena? Where is the lie? Hint: they're all lies. Surely, she'd be able to spot it, though maybe those were too obvious. Well, if she can't pick up that much from his words, then her whole deal about being able to tell when people lie is in it itself a lie.

Might as well test it out the most obvious way.

Gareki stares her down waiting for an answer. If she takes too long to figure it out, then there is definitely something wrong with her "powers." ]


Figure it out yet?
psycholawgy: (hey! brother! oh!)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2015-02-03 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't need to use her handy-dandy Widget to help her figure out which part is wrong. She can clearly hear that everything is a lie from the way he talks. It doesn't take long for Athena to realise the lies, when she hears a very slight discord in his voice statement after statement. And if Gareki wants to be intimidating, game on. She's not going to make him think that he's better than her, or whatever he's thinking. ]

I feel like this Yogi is a real person, but it's definitely not you. That's not your name, and you're not twenty-one either. Nyanperowna isn't your favourite animal, and you don't love eating candy.

[ She puts a hand on her hip as she shifts her weight to one side of her body. ]

Am I right?