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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

[dielectrics]

Huh. You have one, too?

[ Dumb best friend you have to look out for, he means. At least he sounds marginally more interested now. ]

[psycholawgy]

He's not my best friend, but I look up to him a lot.

[ Then again, she does have a lot of best friends... ]

He's my senior, so I guess I shouldn't call him dumb. I'd get into a lot of trouble, and he's really respectable! I guess he's more silly, than anything.

[dielectrics]

Oh!

[ Killua grins. And reaches for a cookie. ]

Leorio's like that. Except he can't really get me into trouble when I call him old. He's a good guy, though.

[psycholawgy]

How old are you, anyway?

[ She starts stirring the whipped cream and mixing it in her mocha. ]

[dielectrics]

I'm thirteen.

[ He could leave it there. He could, and yet... ]

So it's really weird for some old lady like you to wanna be friends.

[psycholawgy]

[ WHY YOU LITTLE

Her eyes flare up and it looks like she's about to fight someone. ]

Who're you calling an old lady?! I'm only eighteen!

[dielectrics]

Wow, I thought you were way older for sure. Sorry.

[ Now he's just being difficult. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ You hurt me so much, Killua. So much. Enjoy these crocodile tears. I am going to sob uncontrollably now. ]

[dielectrics]

[ Have fun doing that, Killua's just gonna... make his way through an entire giant slice of red velvet cake while she's busy crying.

It's totally having no effect on him. None at all. Whatsoever.

Damnit. ]

Would you cut that out? It's seriously annoying.

[psycholawgy]

Not until you apologise!

[ She might be eighteen, but she still has tender feelings. ]

[dielectrics]

You're the one picking up a thirteen year old.

[ And throwing a tantrum. A tantrum that he is visibly leaning away from. ]

[psycholawgy]

What? I am not! You started it.

[ Puffs her cheeks and crosses her arms. >:T I hope you're happy. ]

[dielectrics]

Huh?! You started it! You're the one who came up to me!

[ The pouting does nothing, except earn her a poke in the cheek with the blunt end of Killua's fork. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ I'm sorry, Athena is too busy being a brat to respond. She slices a huge portion of her cake and puts that all in her mouth. ]

[dielectrics]

[ Two can play at that game. Killua stuffs an entire torte into his mouth and chews angrily at her. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ While Athena would normally keep up with the brat act, her optimism overpowers her and there's a sudden change in her mood. She's smiling again, beaming brightly at Killua. ]

Well, whatever! I'm sure we can get along somehow.

[dielectrics]

[ For a second, Killua just has to stare. That was definitely a quick turn around. But finally, he shrugs. ]

If you say so. Hey, I'm almost done with this set, so will you get me another slice of cake?

[psycholawgy]

[ . . . just freezes for a second there. ]

I can't buy lunch tomorrow if you keep this up!

[dielectrics]

[ Man, how stingy. He sighs and sulkily stabs up the last forkful of his current slice of cake. ]

Fine, fine. But next time I see you, you owe me, got it?

[ He's so generous, letting her owe him massive amounts of sweets. ]

[psycholawgy]

You shouldn't eat too much sugar... [ Then again, he's a kid. He wouldn't get why. ] You'll get cavities and everything.

[dielectrics]

I will not.

[ He sticks out his tongue at her. ]

You're just saying that to get out of it.

[ Never mind that the deal was for her buying him things this time, not every time... ]

[psycholawgy]

[ god he's really making her so riled up. ]

I've had my teeth drilled when I was a kid, I know the pain!

[dielectrics]

[ She says to the kid who probably had his baby teeth yanked out prematurely to make sure he'd shrug it off. Killua, for some unfathomable reason, looks unimpressed. ]

Well, I won't. Cake next time, or no deal.

[psycholawgy]

. . . no deal- what? What deal?

[dielectrics]

The deal for me spending time with you, of course.

[ That didn't exist until the words left his mouth, but details. ]