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//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!

coastal: (✧ who is this even)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[SHE DIDN'T WANT THIS

It's embarrassing when her face gets tilted up and she's meeting Veronica's eyes with surprise and embarrassment and a little squeak.

Whoops.]


N-No...!

[AAAA BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR HER]
faithfulflame: (Priestess Cute ?)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2016-08-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not concerned about it at all. [Rei keeps her pace, not putting too much pressure on Naoto's hand as they continue forward. she figured all of this would be the case, honestly, that Naoto had never given this all much thought. She, like Rei, seems busy.] And please, call me Rei. Rei-san, or however you'd like. There's little reason to be quite so formal at this point.

[That's something positive, at least. But she's not going to allow that last statement to lie. No, not when there's an opportunity to both amuse herself and possibly boost Naoto's self esteem.]

And I wouldn't say that I'm not interested, either. You're a lovely girl, with a sharp wit. I admire that and knowing more about you would be nice.
coastal: (✧ how dare you make me feel a thing)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[AWKWARD LITTLE SMIRK. CALLING HER A BITCH. JOKING ABOUT MARRYING HER-

Wow, Lili's seeing red. Her hands are definitely curling into fists. Hiro, is this how you want to die? Is this really it?]


Do you even hear what you're saying?! You're disgusting! What a pig!! Why would I ever want anything to do with you?!
coastal: (✧ WHINING INTENSIFIES)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[CRASH LANDING poor Kashuu. Lili's just barely keeping from falling over and smacking her head on something, then moving to stand - that'll probably end up being a bad idea - so that she can examine the window herself now?!]

We... have?!

[Yeah. Total standstill. It's... not like they can exit here though?]

What's going on - this isn't a stop!
coastal: (✧ oh)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thanks Mom, dealing with the fussy daughter well. Regardless she'll let herself be escorted to the gardens, though admittedly... with a bit of hesitation.]

Aren't there toxic plants here?
coastal: (✧  uuuuuuummmmmm)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . . ]

It's stupid.

[Though.

That already lacks a lot of bite compared to her previous words - she doesn't hate people like that.]
coastal: (✧ sudden plot twist)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh my god that sure is a building coming up really fast-]

If anything happens, I won't forgive you...!!
coastal: (✧ am i supposed to be impressed?)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unimpressed, crossing her arms and entirely ready to watch him walk away:]

Better than yours could.

Don't let your own ego smack you on the way out.
onethousen: (determined | moving forward)

[personal profile] onethousen 2016-08-12 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she settles her hands in her lap. ]

I'm still figuring it out. I don't know... it might be nice to work with making the environment a cleaner place.
onethousen: (consider | if that's possible)

[personal profile] onethousen 2016-08-12 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you, Ankh-san. I'm Chihiro.

[ A name for a name; it's polite, for one, but also something she prefers to do as a matter of course. ]

I'm glad to hear you have someone familiar here. I know that's not the case for many of us.

[ Herself included, but hey, so life goes on regardless. ]

Have you been staying careful with everything going crazy out in the city?
coastal: (✧ that's strange)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[THEY SILENCED THE CINNAMON ROLL. Lili realizes that a moment later before shaking her head. silly chal, friends are for

well-adjusted children

oh]


Anyway.

Which way were we going again?
coastal: (✧ the princess has arrived)

[personal profile] coastal 2016-08-12 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's impossible to be impressed with Lili - she's a rather difficult person to deal with in general, not to mention she's got a natural catty nature against other girls.

She's working on it.

Regardless she'll be keeping up, falling silent for a moment.

Eventually piping up because it's not like she goes out of her way to be an ass:]


Your assistance is appreciated.

Your name?
truedetective: (10)

[personal profile] truedetective 2016-08-12 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rei. Rei, you can't just say that. What the hell.

Naoto's experience with being flirted with is pretty much nil. She reaches up with her free hand to grab the brim of her cap and tug it down almost as a reflex.]
I...

...don't really know what to say to that. [Let's be honest here. She is so out of her element.] My appearance is-- it's certainly not something I think much about. At least, not in terms of... what is socially considered typical of women, and... [Naoto. Naoto, stop talking. You aren't actually saying anything.]

I don't mind your company. [Yes.]
heiwana: (㊁㊉)

[personal profile] heiwana 2016-08-12 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kousetsu would offer a nod of acknolwedgement if he were in his other form, instead he just gives a sound of agreement to reply.

Though he really wished that they could have gotten back to the apartment without any more incidents, but today everything seemed to be a bit weird, weirder than usual for this place. ]


Yes. If you must you may...use me as you see fit. I cannot remainfest yet. [ And he's really sorry for putting such a young girl in danger?! He's kinda beating himself up over this internally though, but he will have to repay her when he regains his form. ]
majinken: ({ dymlos again })

[personal profile] majinken 2016-08-12 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
["I wasn't in need of or looking for the validation of your apology."

...though despite being a bit huffy about it, he appreciates it. he can be so particular sometimes, despite trying to remain detached from human sentiment.]
masakados: (that's right and this is right)

[personal profile] masakados 2016-08-12 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Naoki's watching him curiously, wondering if he's really going to be able to tell them just where to go just from thinking it over. And so he does. He smiles, impressed, and scratches his hand through his hair.]

Lead the way, then, boss.

[He is the route pro here.]
maidhem: (:D)

[personal profile] maidhem 2016-08-12 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The pleasure's mine, Miss Lili!

[She took hold of Lili's hand and lightly shook it before adding:]

I think we might want to get somewhere a little safer. Who knows when we'll run into more of those robots?
maidhem: (peering)

[personal profile] maidhem 2016-08-12 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
But that make's no sense. They've never been affected at all before, unless someone decides that I should be using the Flame Shuriken instead of a regular one.

[The Flame Shuriken, a weapon native to Hoshido, was magically endowed with Fire Magic that effectively nullified Felicia's own talents with ice. In the sunny land, where few were comfortable with the cold, it had the odd benefit of helping the Hoshidans be more comfortable around her.]
maidhem: (elegant)

[personal profile] maidhem 2016-08-12 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good choice, Raven, or the girl will end up nursing you to death!]

That's right. All of us from there can handle the ice like I can. Although...I've never been terribly good at it. It's actually a lot easier to take the heat out of something, like a scalding cup of tea, than to just make ice like that.
majinken: (pic#10033957)

[personal profile] majinken 2016-08-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it happened when I was talking to Dymlos, but I haven't had it happen any other time yet...

[this musical phenomenon is still pretty new to him too.]
majinken: (pic#10033910)

[personal profile] majinken 2016-08-12 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... eheheh... I think anything might be pushing it!

[he says, even though he's clearly happy to hear a compliment like that.]

Hey, Stahn—don't let it go to your head.

[the serious voice of reason here.]
majinken: ({ dymlos 4: dymlos strikes back })

[personal profile] majinken 2016-08-12 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Not particularly. Once I was no longer needed, I was dormant, and presumably, he led out the rest of his life just fine. My purpose is for my master to wield me, be it my original self or Stahn.

[he explains it like it's nothing, once again because stahn is useless for this topic. it's fine, phoenix!]
badcoverband: (look / down & side profile)

[personal profile] badcoverband 2016-08-12 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I had no idea they were, either. What a frakkin' way to find out. Thought I was toast, or gonna set it on fire.

[She sighs, steps back, and squeezes her eyes shut finally, just now realizing she was still glaring at the woman.]

Sorry for uh, you know, coming on too strong. I'm already on edge just being here and then when this happened...well.

[She tries to think about a world in which machinery didn't exist, or have any kind of impact on their lives and it seems unimaginable. She remembers learning about the ancient sages and their writings, but...

Well. That's neither here nor there, so she'll just find out more. She's intrigued now.]


I'm Kara. I'd say I'm normally not this way, but stress and I don't exactly have a great track record.
Edited 2016-08-13 07:33 (UTC)
badcoverband: (smile x 2)

[personal profile] badcoverband 2016-08-12 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kara laughs kind of weakly. An extremely touchy subject. Oh, if he only knew...]

I don't know what you define as 'bad' but I'm not a great person, either. Everyone's got two sides, but mine is not evenly matched.

You though, you seem like a good guy.
gravesite: dns (and hungry)

[personal profile] gravesite 2016-08-12 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ BECAUSE HE LOVES TO DIE... but no, tsurumaru's not joking at all, actually. he's always here to make kashuu's babysitting life Extra Difficult with his lowkey death wishes. either way, it doesn't look as if kashuu will go along with his idea, so he concedes with a small shrug of his shoulders. ]

Right, right. There's no point in spinning uselessly, anyway. [ especially if it won't lead to death...

but at that, he looks thoughtful — if their vessels are them, then maybe putting their swords in the dryer could dry their clothes, right? flawless logic. ]


You know... that could work. Here, let's try it.

[ and then he stretches his hand out, palm upturned for kashuu's vessel, because somewhere... deep down... he knows that this sounds like a dangerous idea, and he'd rather let someone else take the fall for it, like the betraying bean he is. ]