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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!


souredsweet: jackandtink (you've got some tuberculosis on you)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-02-05 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[HINATA NO, THAT'S REALLY SAD... THAT IS SO SAD. At least Kaoru will apologize for this shitty gift later and probably deliver a real one...

But for now, he's just stuck with the flower crown from hell.]


You're welcome. It suits you, if I may say so... If you would ever like to practice making more, will you let me know? I would be pleased to help.
unluckless: (pic#6638803)

[personal profile] unluckless 2015-02-05 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep that in mind.

[Though now that he's been crowned, he can't help but question, curious.] You do seem to be taking the current strangeness going on right now pretty well. You don't think there's any cause to worry?

[Or, is Kaoru caught up in it? That's Komaeda's theory. Blissful oblivion or something. Though what card would that be, he wonders?]
souredsweet: cupnoodles (super smash bros champ)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-02-05 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh... YEAH, THAT STRANGENESS. That sure is a thing that's happening, isn't it... Kaoru does definitely have awareness of it, but as the effects of the magician card have kicked up, that awareness has bled away until it's hardly a concern at all.]

Mm, well, some people are certainly acting in harmful ways. Others seem benign despite being strange... If anything, I would say that the cause for worry lies with the ones who are doing the most damage.

[Or maybe with the fact that this is happening at all?? But since Kaoru isn't really concerned about it, those thoughts don't come as quickly.]
unluckless: (Default)

[personal profile] unluckless 2015-02-05 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Benign. Mm. I suppose that is a good word for some of it.

[Komaeda has currently classified Kaoru in that category for the moment anyway. He supposes that applies to Hinata's condition too in that he's not hurting anyone. Except it's very worrisome.]

That's one cause for worry, yes. If people turn genuine destructive it could be difficult, especially if they're under some influence that isn't themselves.

[It's not nice to fight and beat back people who don't mean to be causing harm, right?]
souredsweet: jackandtink (oh my what tragedy)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-02-05 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's a lucky thing that there are people here with the power to stop such destruction, but what a heavy burden to bear...

[They seem to be thinking along the same lines, at least!

Seem to be... Kaoru's attention drifts off soon enough, refocusing again on the pile of flowers and the half-chains and stems and petals scattered near it. A person who's thinking so much about what to be worried for should probably be avoided... Somewhat absently:]


I wonder if things like this will ever stop happening here.
unluckless: (but i want to wait inside)

[personal profile] unluckless 2015-02-06 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it is.

[Komaeda frowns now, smile fading for a moment.] Admittedly, it might be selfish, but I'm mostly just concerned with Hinata-kun right now.

[It's sort of a problem. He's not investigating near as much as h ought to be.]

It doesn't look like these incidents are showing any sign of stopping.
souredsweet: jackandtink (you've got some tuberculosis on you)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-02-06 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Mm... I don't believe that they will. Not any time soon, at least.

[Kaoru's gaze drifts to the side a little at that, like some of the usual displeasure is bleeding back.]

—But if Komaeda-san is the most worried about Hinata-san, then it's his side that you should be by right now, isn't it?
unluckless: (0963)

[personal profile] unluckless 2015-02-07 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Komaeda ducks his head in agreement.] Maybe so. But Hinata-kun isn't exactly himself just now.

[Which is a long story and only partially attributable to this nonsense. Komaeda summons up a smile now though.] But I shouldn't to drop so much gloominess in your lap like this. I apologize.
souredsweet: jackandtink (oh my what tragedy)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-02-07 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see. [Kaoru's expression shifts to a sympathetic one in turn, brow furrowed upward and hands folding together.]

Please, there certainly isn't a need to apologize. Anyone would be distraught in your position... I hope that Hinata-san is able to return to his normal state as quickly as possible.