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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

touka kirishima overflow

[ukakus]

( original top level comment over here. )

mary

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

Haa... Are you blind? [Alternatively, stupid. She drums her fingers against... whatever it is she's sitting on.]

I'm comfortable.

[immobileyes]

Well, so am I.

[ standing. right there. ]

[ukakus]

No, you're not.

[Saying this like she's the authority on comfortableness.............]

[immobileyes]

Yes, I am.

[ ladies, could you not. ]

kurtis

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

[The answer to that is simple: birds are confusing creatures that peck your eyes out. She does not want to think there's one this big walking around.

For a less shameful reason... those things on his chest look like stitches. Okay. Don't judge her.]

...Is that a fact? [Help.] Tell me, then, what are you?

[38thdefender]

I'm a Prinny. [Oh right, people here don't know what Prinnies are.] A type of demon.

[ukakus]

A demon. [SO. DRYLY. As far as she's concerned, he's a bird demon.]

Tch — fine. That answer's good enough. [Says the man-eating humanoid...] What are you useful for?

[38thdefender]

Useful? [That's an odd way of putting it.]

I'm useful for protecting the weak, and defending the defenseless.

shuu

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

[Oh, boy. How exciting. This guy is absolutely full of it. She scrunches her nose, scoffs at that faux-shock of his, and then—]

...Dumbass. Ghost stories aren't real. [SURE DID HESITATE THERE, TOUKA.

Not that she would admit it. Ever. In a thousand years. Ghost stories are just myths, anyway, so it's not like she's taking his words to heart. Okay. Really.]

[puerilely]

[ See, now this is interesting. Shuu's face widens to a grin - mostly since he knows that humans don't tell scary stories about ghosts, but about demons as well. Which means he's gotten the full advantage over here.

Shuu leans a little closer, probably straight into Touka's personal space, in fact. (Sorry, not sorry.) ]

So you're saying ghosts aren't real..? Demons, too..?

[ He seems a little too gleeful about that, huh. ]

[ukakus]

[Whoa, buddy. That's a serious offense against her personal space. She'll promptly take a step back, narrowing her eyes at him. Get that close again and she might consider gently shaking up the contents of his torso.

The same goes, if he keeps talking about this kind of stuff.]

Haa... That's exactly what I'm saying. [LOOK. She'll even tilt her chin up, as if daring him to challenge her.] Don't act like they're real, you idiot.

[puerilely]

[ Unfortunately it's only funnier to him that she tries to move away from him.. for now he doesn't try to move closer at least - lucky for her, or maybe lucky for h.. im... to not get shanked... ]

Huh, but that's really, really odd to me, you know! [ He laughs like this isn't some extremely uncomfortable scenario or anything. ]

Because I'm a demon, you know..!

sakura (i am like 1000000000% sorry)

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

Now that you mention it—yes. [Touka, don't even pretend you didn't call her over here to do some petty task...] I noticed I stepped on some chewing gum earlier.

[And lo and behold, she uncrosses her leg and lifts one of her feet up to reveal... chewing gum stuck to the heel of her boot. Blue, sticky chewing gum. Wow.]

Find a way to get it out.

oh my god i'm laughing

[springful]

[There's a lot Sakura can put up with. Too much, to be honest, but there's just something about this she can't take. Maybe it's because this girl had been so demanding for what turns out to be something so simple. Maybe it's because she's feeling even more uncomfortable around people than usual today. Whatever the reason, she's feeling pretty NOPE.JPG about this.]

That's, um... I don't think I'd be very good at that. Maybe you should ask someone else... [Or do it herself, but she won't actually say that out loud.]

[ukakus]

Idiot. What kind of shitty short term memory is that? Did you forget already? [She did, didn't she? Man, she's surrounded by worthless dumbasses today... except she totally isn't. Touka's just being a thousand times more terrible than usual. She is going to be so, so, so sorry about everything ever later.

But seeing as it is not yet later, she's going to be rolling her eyes at this girl now.]

There's no one else around. So do it.

[springful]

[Even in her social anxiety panicked state, she wishes someone else was here if only so they could take care of this instead!! Why can't this person even do it themselves? She wants to ask, but it'll probably just make her even more mad... Handling this much is hard enough as is.]

Will you let me leave after I do it? [Can this at least be the last part of hell????]

sooha

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

[Ah, yes. She takes the coffee out of his hands without a moment of hesitation, momentarily taking the lid off to make sure it's completely black, before taking a sip.

Yeah. This doesn't compare to the manager's coffee. Bummer. Normally, she'd put up with the inferior taste because coffee is coffee and she isn't completely picky. BUT TODAY........... she spits that little sip out, not caring if it lands on his feet or whatever.]

It tastes like shit.

[Saying this like she's the one who should be gravely offended here..........]

[confind]

[ He's... not exactly offended? He didn't make it, he only paid for it and brought it back.

Which pleasantly led to rancid mouth coffee on his shoes, which is pretty nasty, and he looks instantly exasperated with it being there. ]

I only picked it up.

[ukakus]

Exactly. So you should take responsibility. [Touka, it's coffee. Not a pregnancy test.] Go back and tell them to do it right or die.

[She could totally get up and do this herself.

She is so going to puke all over existence once this fortune bs is done and over with.]

[confind]

[ Somewhere in the back of his head he knows that's bullshit and he isn't responsible for it, but... when she says it like that, it really does sound like it's his fault.

He rubs his face. This is going to get old very quickly. ]

Tell me exactly how you want it.

[ He'll make it himself if he has to. ]

rin

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

[Nice biceps, dude. Except, not really. And Touka doesn't look particularly impressed when he strides up to her, curling his arm like there's something oh-so-amazing about him.

She just wants him to do something for her. Something she can do herself, but, ah. Details. If she can make someone else do what needs to be done, then there's no reason for her to get up.]

Hoo... You do. [DOES HE REALLY?] Tell me, what am I going to say?

malia

[ukakus]

( continued from here. )

Is that a fact?

[She finds that hard to believe, maybe because she's biased after a lifetime of killing and eating humans... but, sure. She'll bite.

Convince her.]

...Tell me. What do you think they deserve?

[scenting]

[ i can't say 100% that malia hasn't eaten a human either so at least they might have that in common.

still, malia just waves a hand a little, shrugging. ]

Just... hurt. I'm not, I don't kill but maybe just bite them a little. [ wait shit ] I mean, punch. Punch them, kick them around. Break some of their stuff. We don't have to be happy about being here.

[ the point is that they suck and it makes her hackles rise to just go with it ]

[ukakus]

[BIT...E... That has her slowly raising her eyebrows, but she'll put it aside for a moment and pretend it wasn't totally conspicuous. 'Sides, ghouls don't growl and snarl at people.]

And that's all? [IMPRESSIVE.] If that's the case, shouldn't you take it up with the bastards in charge? It's not good if we end up only taking it out on their — employees.

[Aw, man. Look at her. Being reasonable. Proposing mature and potentially violent ideas. Her boss would be so proud.]