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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!

Comments

[psycholawgy]

You bet!

[ She can really be bashful, but now isn't the time for shame. ]

If Mr. Edgeworth's busy, I can help you with your school stuff, I don't mind.

[ She needs to learn about the law in this place, anyway. ]

[projections]

Thanks, Athena. I'll be counting on you later.

Well, I want to do something for you because you're helping me out. Can I teach you how to use a sword? [Athena knows martial arts, he figures it's not a bad idea.]

[psycholawgy]

A sword?

[ That makes her uneasy. She touches her arm with another hand as she looks away. She's still smiling, though. ]

I don't think I could be good with it, unless it was a wooden one.

[projections]

Yeah, you're already fit so I think you can handle yourself well. [Athena will be able to keep up with his training. It's up to her if she wants to do it or not. ]

You shouldn't have any problems using a wooden one.

[psycholawgy]

Okay, that sounds great!

[ She claps her hands together as she smiles brightly, as if she wasn't triggered by anything just then. ]

You're such a nice guy, Shirou.

[projections]

I don't want to be in debt to you. [He'd feel so bad for it.]

Let me know if there's anything I can help with.

[psycholawgy]

We can take care of all that later.

[ She really wouldn't mind helping out without anything im return, but at the same time, Shirou seems like his mind is made up.

But for now... ]

Hey, can you tell me about this place? What's a newbie supposed to do?

[projections]

You can get a job and start working. Work isn't so bad.

What else is there to say? [He ponders on this for a second.] It can get here dangerous from time to time. Stay safe and don't do anything too crazy. [She likely knew that already.]

[psycholawgy]

Oh, yeah! I had to pick a job earlier. I couldn't decide, so I took on two jobs. I'll be working at the gym, and the cosplay cafe.

[ She grins, proud of her choices. She fully expects Shirou to come to the cosplay cafe from time to time, now. ]

And what kinda dangerous stuff? I guess it really would pay off if I learned how to use a sword, huh?

[projections]

Both the gym and cosplay cafe? I'll pay you a visit sometime. [He plans on going there in the future. It'll be fun to see her work.]

Yeah, it'd pay off a lot. I fought a giant bug on the day I arrived. You weren't here when it happened, but many people got injured.

[psycholawgy]

[ She would have thanked Shirou, but she was more surprised by his last statement. ]

What? That sounds terrible! [ And scary, because giant bug. But terrible because people got hurt! ]

[projections]

It wasn't pretty, that's for sure. [The bug was kind of gross too. Nothing good can come out of giant bugs!]

There was another incident like that a few weeks ago. Don't let it bother you too much though. You can't predict when it'll happen. I tried telling Edgeworth the same thing and he got more stressed.

[psycholawgy]

Shouldn't we be worried about it, then? I mean, it's kind of like something bad is going to happen at any time...

[ Then again, that goes without saying. ]

Everyone should be on edge about this.

[projections]

I haven't met someone who isn't on edge. [Almost everyone he's spoken to expressed concerns somehow.]

As for me well...I'm not worrying about it too much. I've just learned to go along with it and defend myself whenever it's necessary.

In any case, I'm sure you'll find some way to adapt here. It'll take some time though. Do you have anymore questions?

[psycholawgy]

Hmm... [ She feels like she really should be asking more questions, but she can't think of anything that isn't about her own world. ] I think it'll be better if I found out some stuff on my own.

[ Gives him a reassuring smile. ] Thanks, though! I appreciate it a lot.