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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-07-31 06:00 pm

//EVENT032.EXE

Who: CERES and associated intellectual property
When: OOC: 8/01 - 8/08, IC: 8/16 - 8/19
Where: Cerealia™
What: PR really was important. Who'd have thought?
Rating/Warning: Currently none! Please let us know if the log heads into R-related territory so we can lock it!




//event032.EXE



Everything is normal today during the early hours of the morning. There's really no hint, no way of knowing, no anything that could indicate that CERES -- and thus Cerealia -- is about to irrevocably change. There would be birds chirping, if there were birds, but since there aren't any, there's just the constant sounds of a city in motion, humming with technology even that early in the morning.

And then, regardless of where you are or what you're doing or how early it is, everyone's CereVices flicker on to show a perhaps-familiar, perhaps-unfamiliar face.

Bellona Recreare, the business owner of Cerealia and CEO of CERES, stares at everyone with a flat, cold look. She doesn't seem happy.

(When is she ever?)

It has come to my attention that there has been industrial espionage and corporate sabotage in CERES' personnel. Such a thing will not be tolerated.

Due to this, Mosley's employment with CERES has been terminated. Please now direct any public relations questions to 1-800-7322934844444.


Good day.

//SCENARIOS.EXE


PHASE I

[ 6:00 ] Bright and early, not long after that sudden announcement by Bellona, you may decide to go back to sleep, or you may decide to get up and go about your day (or you may not have woken up at all).

Either way, it doesn't matter.

Because your apartment is broken.

The entire apartment. The door is locked shut (and that sucker is solid metal so it might be time to try a window), the HOLO(gm) is flickering wildly between settings, and the blender is out for your blood. Anything technological in any way (that is CERES-brand or has been tampered with by CERES) will be malfunctioning in a way that comes across as... oddly malicious.

Now's a bad time for the late sleepers to realize that the beds, too, have auto-control tech functionality. Hope you enjoy that electroshock wake up call, or the fact that the bed could fling you totally across the room.

PHASE II

[ 10:00 ] The rest of the city isn't faring so well either.

The trains are completely out of commission; even if the doors do open, it's probably not a good idea to get on. If you do, it looks like the doors will slam shut behind you, and the train will go hurtling forward at dangerous speeds with sudden stops. Many of the shops can't be accessed at all, automated doors refusing to open, and worst of all, every single last piece of tech in Cerealia now seems to have the sole goal of Making Your Life Hard.

The Pleasure District is flooded now that the spas are broken, but hey -- at least the perfume ensures that water smells good, and it's pretty warm. That's good, right? Maybe go for a nice swim.

The CERES police bots are out of control, chasing people down to arrest them for imagined crimes (What do you mean you aren't a closet voyeur?), and heaven forbid you're around any of the auto shops when everything goes totally wrong. The auto-drive feature in many of CERES's cars seem to be a little... finicky today. It doesn't seem like anywhere in the city is exempt from this. Good luck.

And towards the end of the second day of this insanity, the train, with whatever unfortunate passengers are on it, will derail. It crashes into part of the shopping district, leveling buildings and leaving the wrecked overturn husk of a train resting there uselessly.

Suddenly, things don't seem so harmless anymore.

PHASE III

[ 11:00 ] Of course... you're CERES-owned too.

Your code, rather, is made and owned by CERES, and it's inevitable with the craziness going on that it would soon affect everyone's code as well. So as the hour approaches noon, a few unlucky souls may start to notice that things are just Not Quite Right with them. Their powers may be on the fritz, functioning entirely wrong or not at all, or even stranger -- fire powers turning into water, ice into flame, electricity brings mud. Your clothing might suddenly change when your coding glitches, or it might be gone entirely. You may suddenly have an uncontrollable urge to start singing, or frolicking. You may suddenly be wildly in love with the first person (or robot or mirror) that you see, unable to stop it until the odd glitching wears off.

And then, just like that, you're back to normal, if a bit more tired than before. How troublesome.

There are also moments where what appears to be an ID number appears on the back of your neck in glowing light blue numbers. Each of these codes is a 7 digit number, with an E at the front of the number. It appears that the longer you've been in Cerealia, the lower the number is -- like a brand of some sort. You may not be able to see it yourself with it on the back of your neck like that, but everyone else sure can.

PHASE IV

[ 16:45 ] And, just like that, on the last day of this madness, the city goes dark. The lights cut out. The technology shuts off. Every last robot in Cerealia is completely and totally down, and can no longer be booted up. Even when the lights come back on in a few hours... the robots remain dead.

Cerealia's a lot harder to function in without those handy dandy robots running the place. It's also a lot more desolate, and rather quiet.

Slowly but surely, the rest of the technology will boot itself back up towards the end of the last day. But the robots remain broken, and cannot be fixed. In fact, opening them up will reveal that nothing's wrong with them at all... they just won't wake up.

As time ticks by, it doesn't look like Bellona will address anything on the network about the events and all people are left to do now is... learn how to function again. Without any help.

BONUS

[ ??:?? ] If you were a stupid brave enough soul to log into ViViD during this time (or were unfortunately glitched there, which could happen), you will find that ViViD is in... safe mode. It's struggling to boot up, and even when you finally enter, you'll find yourself wandering through skeleton levels of half-completed scenery and incomplete quests. There are readings in the corner of each level that can be seen now, one about Energy Gain and one about Energy Loss, and just as the gain goes up the longer you are there, the loss, too, rises. At first, it's fascinating, and it isn't particularly dangerous... but then it becomes clear that you can't actually log out.

You can't exit Safe Mode at all.

Slowly, it feels as though you can breathe less and less, that the empty walls of the level are closing in on you... and there's nothing you can do. Unless you are or find a particularly genius hacker and they can access the source code and find the exit buried inside that code within the next few minutes... there's nothing to be done.

And then everything goes dark.

You'll wake up the next IC day, with those same energy readings marked on your wrist like some sort of bright blue digital tattoo. When you wake in the mornings, it will read at 100% and slowly go down during the course of the day until you sleep. It will fade after three IC days.

And from now on, ViViD always has those energy levels in the corner, even when it's fixed. They always seem to be recording you, every time you're in ViViD. Strange.


[ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive 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 August event! Please visit the OOC information here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. This event will last from 8/01 to 8/08, or IC 8/16 to 8/19. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here. Thank you!

majinken: (pic#9644491)

[personal profile] majinken 2016-08-01 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
[really, after the bad things he's dealt with in cerealia, this is annoying and exhausting, but at least it's not wreaking havoc on his mental state.]

Eh... do you think so? [he's not really trying to hid the fact that dymlos is there, but he's pretty accustomed to just not talking about unless someone questions the voice or questions...

you know, when he's standing out in the open, holding a sword and talking to it.]


Eheh... heheh... [tiring as it is? it's nice to get praise for it.] I don't really know where it came from, but...

Don't let it go to your head. [good thing dymlos is there to keep his ego in check, because he knows that stahn normally cannot sing at all.]
coexistent: (diamond dust)

[personal profile] coexistent 2016-08-01 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Right!

[look who has finally stopped questioning lee's ridiculous and confusing speeches? it's roxas. he's still not always entirely sure what these things mean, but he's learned to roll with it.

so it's fine.]


Do you have that one? [he'll call over before slashing both his keyblades aggressively at the other robot. he figures they can probably make quicker work of them by splitting the duties here.]
coastal: (✧ so this was a bad idea)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-01 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
You sleep close to the ground.

[CLOSER THAN SHE DOES. Putting her hands on her hips at that, though at the question she's just going to give him a glance.]

I already did. It's fine. [Sometime after she was chased by police bots. It's been A Day.] I'm better now.

[??? sure?]
coastal: (✧ AN ENEMY?!)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-01 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Corr--

[AAAA GOD. Lili's just going to look positively irritated at that even as she feels her clothes start to get soaked, a hissing escaping her.]

This is stupid!
adornmental: (restless)

four!

[personal profile] adornmental 2016-08-01 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He's on his way to get involved with More Shenanigans, but since Chibi is a familiar face, he stops! And immediately questions whether or not he's witnessing some sort of kidnapping here, ah.]

...Should you be taking that? I mean, these things can get pretty dangerous.

[If their last mass experience with robots was anything to go by, at least. Not that he thinks Chibi can't take care of himself, of course! But the dangerous things are always a pain, especially when they come out of left field.]
adornmental: (notice me senpai.........)

[personal profile] adornmental 2016-08-01 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds rude when you say it!

[FOR SOME REASON. Probably because she's intending to be rude like a punk.

Anyway, he's giving her a very dubious look. It's almost like he doesn't believe she'd be entirely honest if she was injured or something!]


Are you sure?
adornmental: (but have you considered not)

omg I WAS LIKE IS THIS SOME BIZARREASS DLC

[personal profile] adornmental 2016-08-01 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
...Do I wanna know what's making you so worried?

[So many people have been having bed problems and he's never been more grateful to have a futon than he has been today, honestly.]
whiteris: (pic#10146999)

[personal profile] whiteris 2016-08-01 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
I mean business too! And my name's Cloche.

You can trust me on this one. Besides, it'll be easier for you to fight without injury.

[ It only takes her about a second to finish casting a healing spell. ]
Edited 2016-08-01 09:16 (UTC)
gaian: (half-assed)

[personal profile] gaian 2016-08-01 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've noticed something like that—I had to climb out the window just to get outta my place.

... Which is getting off pretty easy compared to that. That had to be a pretty rude awakening...
gaian: (dimwit)

[personal profile] gaian 2016-08-01 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
... Yeah, I think I've just confirmed for myself, up close and personal, that cars are made of metal.

[They're clearly not made of sponge, at least...]

Seriously, I swear I'm fine! I don't look like I'm about to keel over, right?

[Things still kind of hurt, but look, he's making an attempt to sit up. See, not dead!]
gaian: (goody-two-shoes honour student)

[personal profile] gaian 2016-08-01 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Karl's trying to gauge how far this guy is from him (and vaguely, it occurs to him that after the two simulations he's been in so far, he's getting sick of the dark—why is this place so obsessed with no light??), and so to be on the safe safe, when it sounds like Tsurumaru might be closer, he steps back slightly.]

Ah... some kind of yogurt and blueberry? That okay?

[Yes is what he's figuring, but double-checking!]
psycholawgy: (IN THE NAME OF THE MOON!)

phase iii.

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-08-01 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ athena definitely needs help. normally, this wouldn't even cause a lot of panic, but with her code glitching and turning her into part-cat (ears and tail and all), she's left to be frightened. by what?

a fire hydrant that exploded. now there's water everywhere, and the only place safe is atop a statue of some famous idol!

she's even hissing loudly at the hydrant. it doesn't do anything, but... well, it's the only thing she can do at the moment aside from call for help. ]
psycholawgy: (NOOOOOOOOOO)

ii-a.

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-08-01 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah, athena is definitely running. the police drones that are chasing after her keep repeating one word: BANANA! BANANA! it doesn't make sense to her, either. it's the only thing she can do right now though, because she's too tired to fight. and apparently, too tired to look at her surroundings.

which is why instead of just bumping into hiro, she crashes into him as she's rolling on the ground after tripping on a plank. fun! ]


Wooooooah!
psycholawgy: (well shit)

phase iii.

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-08-01 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ and athena thought suddenly having cat ears and a tail was the weirdest thing to happen...

now she's wearing a jumpsuit! and lee is wearing her yellow suit! ]


Not again!
psycholawgy: (we'll go dancing round the clock)

three-a.

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-08-01 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ there are better things to be worried about than this, but athena can't help but be distracted by it, anyway. ]

Did your hat just talk?!

[ magic hat!! magic hat!! maybe it can even tell her what house she's in if she wore it! ]
reprizesal: (Annoyance)

Re: ii...

[personal profile] reprizesal 2016-08-01 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
[LOOK, IT'S A GOOD NAME. How was Sayo expecting Catshuu to act like this... Even if they're in Cerealia out of all places.

Catshuu is sitting way too comfortably on Kashuu's shoulder and rubbing against him? If it's a real cat, it would be marking on him... Actually, seeing that just bugs Sayo and he doesn't know why!
]

I don't know. It just ran away from me and making some mess.

[Hard to see the trail of mess among all the other technlogical disaster around them!]
beaconed: (pic#9970172)

[personal profile] beaconed 2016-08-01 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Phase II-A: Bottle Episode?

[ You and Jaune are trapped inside a large hardware/appliances/WHATEVER store. Things inside are relatively quiet compared to the madness outside, but the civilians who are trapped along with the characters seem on edge nonetheless. There's no easy way out with all the steel rollers covering all the windows. ]

We gotta find a way out of here - they need help outside!



Phase II-B: Come With Me If You Want To Live

[ It's mayhem in the city, machines of all sorts are attacking just about anyone. Amidst all the chaos, you may find yourself approached by a daunting construction bot. It appears to be headed straight for you, and whether you noticed or were prepared for fight or flight, a car suddenly crashes into the robot's foot and causes it collapse.

Before the robot can readjust itself upright again, the car instantly backs up to your position.

The door is kicked open.

Jaune Arc is the driver. ]


Get in!! Now!!!

[ There's a tiny splatter of blood across Jaune's face, but he seems to be fine. The bit of vomit on his lap is probably more of a concern. As for the car, it seems to be under Jaune's control for now. ]



Phase III: Gesundheit

[ And then things just got weirder. Now, Jaune is being carried off by another construction bot, it seems to be headed towards a burning building.

That's not unusual in the life of Jaune Arc, though.

What's baffling here is that Jaune's code appears to be messed up, and he's strangely speaking German for some reason. He doesn't even know the language, but for some reason he speaks it fluently... and it's not being translated into Cerealian! ]


Hiiilf mir!! Bitte!!! [ Wait, what. ]



Closed; Pyrrha

[ It's pandemonium by now, not unlike at the Battle of Beacon. Having evacuated all the civilians they could, Jaune and Pyrrha join them inside a monorail, making sure the journey to a safe destination isn't interrupted by any more bloodthirsty machines.

Looking down from the moving monorail, the streets are still filled with more people they could have saved. Thankfully, it's not all just victims and tragedy beneath them, there also many heroes doing the same thing one half of team JNPR is trying to do. ]


I wonder if Ruby and the others are okay...



✮ ✮ ✮ WILDCARD ✮ ✮ ✮

( I'll roll with anything, go crazy! )
metalist: (45)

[personal profile] metalist 2016-08-01 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ With all the seats taken by anxious civilians and alien residents, Pyrrha's standing near the monorail car doors, peering out the window at the streets below. Although the communicators aren't strictly working right now, Pyrrha keeps one hand in her pocket, half-expecting it to vibrate with an update from - someone. Anyone.

She hadn't even been able to help him against the robots in their aggrieved rampage. Bitterly self-conscious of her own failure, Pyrrha has to force herself not to ignore him. ]


I'm sure they're fine. [ It's not as forced as it could sound, considering. Her voice never loses that comforting, even note. ] Ruby and Naoki are more then capable against whatever this place would throw at them.
fingerbanged: <lj site="livejournal.com" user="terza-teacup"> (then own it)

[personal profile] fingerbanged 2016-08-01 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[There was a snort at Duo's remark as he carefully lowers some of the victims down, taking great pains not to aggravate any more of their injuries.]

Yeah, well, if you can find another guy who's stupidly strong, send 'em my way. I doubt we're gonna get any ambulances right now with things being as crazy as they are.

[He sets another survivor down near Duo as he's assessing the first one, the person groaning loudly as they settle on the ground.]

May as well check this one next. I think something might have got lodged in their stomach, but I'm not... really sure. They're bleeding like hell.

[And it's true-- Yusuke's forearms, which are shaking slightly, are already smeared with their blood. It's a struggle to keep his voice level, the panic and chaos already starting to take a toll on his nerves. He's used to blood, and he's used to various injuries... but on a much smaller scale than this. Large disasters like this weren't his expertise, and it was a struggle just to figure out what to do.]

... hey. You think... they're gonna be okay?
fishyoldman: (RANGER)

[personal profile] fishyoldman 2016-08-01 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
PHASE II
[With the police bots going haywire and a near escape of his own already, Raven's on the lookout for other people who might need help -- which is when he stumbles on you surrounded by the bots. He lines up a shot and fires arrow imbued with wind magic, striking with enough force to slam the bots back into the wall behind them. Then Raven fires another arrow at you, although it looks a little more harmless considering it's slow-moving and glowing (if you squint you might even see it looks comically like a syringe), that will heal up any wounds you might've gotten in the fray.

With the healing arte done, Raven jogs over, bow in hand. For his own part, he's tired-looking, but uninjured.]


Hey, you okay? We should get outta here.


PHASE III
[Raven barely takes a step into the now-flooded Pleasure District when his clothes and appearance keep changing at random every other minute. You can catch him glitching into something like this or this, or one that makes him look like another person entirely, before finally settling on this.]

Oh, come on, this again? [He looks down at his clothes and being left effectively half-naked, and slumps his shoulders in defeat. Sure, maybe he could get away with an outfit like this at the Pleasure District spas, but the contents of said spas are currently flooding past his ankles and down the street.]

This wasn't the kind of spa visit I had in mind...

[At least it's not a repeat of the beach incident. Although if he's making comparisons like 'At least I'm not wearing a mankini,' it has to be a low point in his life.]


PHASE IV - CLOSED TO PHOENIX
[Throughout the chaos of the past few days, Raven has been keenly aware he's been getting more and more tired, more easily out of breath, and generally more sluggish as the failing technology puts more strain on his heart. Yuri's theory that it's tied to the rest of CERES' technology had to be right, and the past few days only confirms it, with everything else going haywire at the same time his heart has been getting worse.

This kind of concern is nothing new to Raven. He's been resigned to the fact his heart might fail at any time for the past ten years -- hell, he's already died here once -- and even that his heart might have conked out in their own world without the help of the spirits. Yet he has no such help here and is completely dependent on CERES, which has been a growing source of worry for him as he's learned just what kind of group they are. If the machinery here all fails, can they never bring him back? Would he really be dead for good -- or returned to code or whatever it is they're made of here?

Not long ago, Raven wouldn't have cared. But damn it, now he does. There are people he cares about here, and things he has to do back home. He made a promise.

But for all his best intentions, when the robots in the street shut down, the blastia in Raven's chest goes out along with them. The effect is immediate: he collapses, with only the time to think Sorry, Yuri before everything goes black.

When Phoenix finds him, he's unmoving, and he isn't breathing. The blastia in his chest is working to reboot itself, but to all intents and purposes, he looks dead.]
mombastic: (Oy vay)

[personal profile] mombastic 2016-08-01 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I know... it looks like this is bigger than I thought.

[ But to a safer place for now, away from robot cops, before she slows down and glances at Lili. ]

Let me take a look at you. They hurt you?
beaconed: (pic#10022202)

[personal profile] beaconed 2016-08-01 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... you're right.

[ He can always count on Pyrrha to tell him things he should already know by now. Yet, still, there are Weiss and Yang to worry about. ]

What about you? Are you... [ Is she okay? He stops himself from finishing the question, knowing how much he dislikes it whenever it's directed at him. ]
mombastic: (Sit down and take off your shirt)

[personal profile] mombastic 2016-08-01 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
From what I can tell... I thought it was just the technology, but it's not just that. It could be that there's something wrong with the code itself. [ Which she does have some experience with, but-- ]

I can only imagine what ViViD is doing right now.
faithfulflame: Color by <user name=Messala> (Mars Pissy)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2016-08-01 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mars scowls and stalks towards the robot, which wipes at the goop and bleeps unsteadily. It doesn't exactly have a heuristic motivator, so it's got no real desire for revenge, just to arrest Athena.]

Athena Cykes, Cease and Desist, Come Along Quietly.

Athena are you ready to duck?
niceguypose: (pensive thought)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2016-08-01 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, so Roxas is finally getting more in touch with his springtime of youth! It's truly heartwarming.

As for Lee, he's launched the robot into the air and shouts as he leaps up after it.]


Ossu! Please leave this opponent to me, Roxas-kun!

[And then with a mighty kick, he spikes the robot back down to the ground, where it lands with a crash!]