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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!

loudmouths: (🌟 they said they'd call)

[personal profile] loudmouths 2016-08-03 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ keigo almost flinched at the contact, but he willed himself to stand still. he was afraid that even the slightest jerk of his body might send his powers into another frenzy, as silly as that sounded. ]

Mmn. But where would we even go?

[ wouldn't everything be going haywire? he wasn't even sure if there was a safe place to be at that point. ]
niceguypose: (blank)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2016-08-03 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Mary-chan?! [He quickly looks down at her.]

You are awake! Are you alright? I was very worried!
theshiningone: (I implore you to reconsider.)

[personal profile] theshiningone 2016-08-03 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yo! Long time no see!

[Now there was a familiar voice... Hiro cracks a small smile as he gestures to Byakko to move urgently, but not too fast to lose track of Minato.]

-'Tis a flesh wound and all that... I'll heal up quickly. [Despite his wounds, he was more worried about anyone trapped underneath the rubble.]

Alright! Let's check underneath the rubble for anyone who's trapped down there. If you've got any wind spells that can lift stones, then it'd be a big help. [A beat.] And this is officially the SECOND worst train crash I've been caught up in.

[Thankfully, there weren't any demons killing people around here this time. At least not that he was aware of right now.]
Edited 2016-08-03 05:15 (UTC)
onethousen: (huh | water god ahoy)

aka where i went "heck if i know make a random guess...." /face in hands

[personal profile] onethousen 2016-08-03 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ He is presently a tool of hug-struction, which is perhaps a more frightening tool to a great number of touch disinclined people than... touch positive people might believe.

Chihiro still looks visibly confused. Maybe if she hung out with younger kids at all she'd be less surprised, but she's forgotten what it's even like to be hugging people because she wants to for no particular reason. Chihiro you literally did this just like, last week. Come on.
]

... Oh. Well... I guess that's good.

[ ??? ]

...

[ no seriously ??? ]

Did you want a hug back?

[ help ]
covenantal: (o91.)

phase iii.............

[personal profile] covenantal 2016-08-03 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah.

Yu has been out and about almost constantly, despite the risks of doing so, because he wants to do everything he can to help. Especially after that train derailed, it's clear the situation was too dire for him to hang back, even with the risk of turning into his own Shadow at any moment.

Fortunately for all involved, he's his normal self right now, and he was actually very glad to find Lili; this way he can be sure she's safe.

But the... look on her face.

Huh. ]


... Lili-san? Is something the matter?
forgeabettertomorrow: (You think that's gonna stop me??)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2016-08-03 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Fine by me, but what direction should we head?

If we're gonna be trashing these machines, we should do it on our way to wherever people need us most!
theshiningone: ([USED SEXY GAZE])

[personal profile] theshiningone 2016-08-03 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
--Oh hey!

[If there was one thing about Hiro Kageyama... He never forgets a cute face and never hestiated to make some small conversation even if the city is in a state of trouble. So he literally skids to a stop and starts running backwards to meet Tsubasa... as he jogs in place.]

Glad to see that you're still alive and well! I do wanna chat with you, but I've kinda got my hands full here.

[So without any warning, he'll be pulling up Tsubasa into his arms for a princess carry...

AND CONTINUES RUNNING AWAY FROM THE ROBOTS.]


Correction: Fuller.
theshiningone: (PERVERT!!!)

[personal profile] theshiningone 2016-08-03 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Wha-- Shiho!?

[He was about to say something, but WELP. Shiho had already darted around a corner and ran off. Noticing that there was two set of robo-cops chasing him now, Hiro lets out an annoyed grunt and starts dashing along after her. Being used to running from demons and angry mobs has boosted his stamina lately.]

I KNOW WE'RE IN A BAD SITUATION, BUT WOULD IT KILL YOU TO SAY HI!?
theshiningone: (Then Noel fell down the stairs.)

[personal profile] theshiningone 2016-08-03 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Byakko will follow suit and place Hiro next to Togo as he just slumps back. In the meantime, Byakko will be keeping an eye for any enemies around. You never know when a robo-cop (or even a demon) could pop out and give you a bad day.]

--You've got issues with walking? [He hesitates as he realizes that it might be a sensitive subject.] Oh, um... I'm sorry about that. You haven't had too much trouble getting around town, right?
moribound: (59)

[personal profile] moribound 2016-08-03 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Look who it is. Minato's eyes narrow hearing that, but he keeps his cool well enough that it might seem like he's unaffected hearing those words.]

Didn't think watching cops chasing people was your kind of thing. [His attention isn't entirely focused on Yosuke as there's still plenty of danger around and he has his left hand ready to reach out for his Evoker if need be.] What did you mean by that sentence, anyway?
reprizesal: (Y'all too tall)

Re: ii!

[personal profile] reprizesal 2016-08-03 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Sayo looks even more alarmed when he see what Catshuu just did. Once he's close enough, he looks up at Flynn with an apologetic look.]

Kashuu, stop! I'm sorry for what it did, sir!

[Ahhhh, get down from there! But no, the cybuddy cat's just sitting comfortably on Flynn's head. Meow.]
freeinghorror: (monsterface)

[personal profile] freeinghorror 2016-08-03 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Then the laughter did come, but it was more at his current position then anything else. Jinga raised one armored and clawed hand, turning it a little as if he was admiring the way the reddish black skin and blackened metal glittered and then made a dismissive gesture.]

This is what my armored form looks like. It's not new, but usually I cannot hold it for longer then 99.9 seconds.

[Fallen or not, his armor still acted with the rules of all Knight armor - after 99.9 seconds it starts to eat at the body. He wouldn't risk Soul Destruction since he was technically already corrupted, but it still hurt like nothing else in the world.]

I haven't been able to turn back to normal yet, though I admit it's far better then the swimsuit glitch in ViViD.
unpreparer: (gonna do it)

[personal profile] unpreparer 2016-08-03 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The old elf turned to retrieve his glaive from the bot with a good yank, then casually proceeded to crush the thing's head beneath his hoof. That was one nuisance dealt with in a city of them.]

What was it after?

[He suspected it had simply gone mad, like everything else in the city, in which case he'd have to escort her where ever she was going in case another made an attempt. A simple enough duty... provided the young woman cooperated. He hadn't been punched yet, so that was a good sign so far.]
reprizesal: (/...Tugs)

ahah, yeah. i'd be surprised if we get someone EVEN SMALLER than sayo

[personal profile] reprizesal 2016-08-03 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[The greatest weapon of all time, especially when Sayo still looks like a small child.

There's a pause, as Sayo thinks for a moment. And then he nods.
]

... Yes, I'd like that.

[Sayo's so going to get embarrassed after this is over.]
unpreparer: <user name=ironjill> (elves with friggin lazers beams)

[personal profile] unpreparer 2016-08-03 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He's quiet for a moment, mulling the humans logic over.]

... Did you hit your head when I landed on you?

[He grumbles a bit before pulling down his blindfold and blasting through the debris with his handy dandy eye lasers. With the burden above them lightened, Illidan was able to shake off the rest of the debris and stand.]

It stinks of oil and burning metal... did a building fall?
lethechained: (Sketchy looking up)

[personal profile] lethechained 2016-08-03 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ So distracted is she with attempting to dissuade her persistent pursuers that Naminé doesn't so much as notice she has non-robotic company until the can clatters as it hits the ground and she flinches, the tension of her grip on the light pole the only thing that keeps it from slipping. She's still looking for the source, puzzled and blinking, when Shiho's plan proves effective. ]

[ With threatening whirrs and tiny arms raised in outrage, the crowd of robots takes off at top speed toward the unfortunate passerby - which in this case means said passerby has plenty of time to get away, as the machines only move a little faster than walking speed. One single robot remains, and it seems more interested in ramming the pole than actually getting at Naminé. She eyes it warily for a moment before allowing herself to relax slightly. Remembering her savior, she lifts her head to seek out-- ]


Shiho...! Was that you?

[ Tink. Tink. Tink. The robot does not appear to be giving up. Surely the pole will yield eventually. ]
freeinghorror: (but it's mine)

phase iii

[personal profile] freeinghorror 2016-08-03 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
But what if I don't want to?

[Jinga wasn't sure about what was happening but by this point he was getting tired of it. Getting stuck in his armored form was fine, getting stuck in a younger version of himself was fine, but now he was stuck in the form of a certain irritating Priest, and while he still had access to his sword, it still wasn't the most comfortable form to wear.

At least this time he didn't have to listen to her nagging him while he tried to beat Ryuuga to a pulp, but still, he really wasn't happy.

Placing a hand on his hip, he tsked slightly as he waved his sword in the direction of Ceres.]


Besides, I'm sure that they are the ones who have decided to mess with our codes which caused these malfunctions.
onethousen: (smile | nice and genuine)

watch us get issun from okami next round

[personal profile] onethousen 2016-08-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ She'll only be mortified realising he's embarrassed because if she learns how incredibly disrespectful is it to just treat someone way older than you like a kid but right now, she's definitely switching tracks from mildly confused to deciding hey. Here's someone looking for reassurance or just feeling attention deprived. She's got this. She can even offer him a small smile and a nod in turn. ]

Okay. That's easy enough.

[ Cue giving him a nice big hug in return. There. You are so hugged, fellow child. ]

What's your name?

[ Talking and hugging is an excellent art and should be practiced always when hugging strangers. Or relative strangers. Or granny sorceresses. ]

[personal profile] truedetective 2016-08-03 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Naoto's going to just sort of wedge herself into a corner where the fewest possible people can see her, until Lee returns. And he does.

Walking on the water.

Well now she's just seen everything, and it actually causes her to rise a few inches out of the water in shock (though not enough to expose anything, really; she's underwater up to her chin beforehand).]
W-what...? How are you doing that?!

[R.I.P. laws of physics. You will be missed.]

[personal profile] truedetective 2016-08-03 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm aware! [She snaps at him.] But there may be something we can do!

Are you going to come or not? If not, I'll go alone! [She says, turning on her heel and going in that direction whether he's following or no.]

[personal profile] truedetective 2016-08-03 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[It's at this distance that Rei might be able to see just how deeply Naoto's cheeks are flushed. If not then, surely now, when she steps forward and takes one of Rei's hands in her own.] --you're... incredibly gorgeous, Hino-san.

I'm completely smitten by you.
niceguypose: (befuddled)

[personal profile] niceguypose 2016-08-03 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Rock Lee came to a stop, standing on the water near where he first saw Naoto. Once Naoto moves, Lee shrinks back sheepishly, but his composure returns once he sees that there is no exposure.]

Eh? [He looks around for a moment before he realizes what she means. The one thing that many hear question.] Ah! My movement on water? It is done through a very basic channeling of my chakra, keeping me from touching the water!

[Lee then waves a towel and holds it out towards Naoto.]

But, look what I have found! I discovered one single dry towel within the spa!
sayonaradumbass: (Default)

[personal profile] sayonaradumbass 2016-08-03 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Holy fuck, you're a little adult, arentcha.

[he shakes his head]

That's why you make it big, first. Take charge, do something daring to make money.
truedetective: (11)

[personal profile] truedetective 2016-08-03 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[That is definitely a bush talking to her. Okay.

She can't rule out the presence of hallucinogenic chemicals in the water, especially with how things are going, but sure, why the hell not. Naoto swims over to the side of the 'pool,' crouching down as far as she can and looking at the bush.

It's large enough to conceal a person behind it, and try as she might she can't actually see anything through it to figure out who's on the other end of it. Ah well.]
Who's that? Show yourself.
sayonaradumbass: (test)

[personal profile] sayonaradumbass 2016-08-03 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[instead of the robot grabbing at her, it's Kaneda-- no worries, the hair will stay safe. He grabs her by the hand and tugs her gently, but insistently"]

No time for that, let's book it!