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[reparator]

Who: Everyone ever.
When: OOC: 10/15; IC: 09/17
Where: Cerealia - all five districts.
What: Intro, murder bots, and fun for the whole family.
Rating/Warning: PG-13

//event003.EXE Welcome to the CERES! You are now under arrest! Did you think the glitches were over? Boy, were you wrong! Through the last remnants of the digital kerfluffle, the latest batch of recovered code has manifested in CERES' computer systems as the guilty parties. Yes, that's right, all incoming arrivals are now placed on the wanted list, accused of having committed the heinous crime of creating and releasing the gorg0n virus all over Cerealia. These vicious twelve have been working together all along and conspiring against CERES, and it's now up to everyone to figure out if the new arrivals are truly guilty or if they are as innocent and confused as they claim. In the meantime, CERES has dispatched assassination droids to stop the accused and bring them to justice via disembowelment. So while CERES rushes to stop the droids from committing murder, characters are perfectly welcome to a.) soil themselves b.) fight off the droids c.) run while soiling themselves or d.) cry a lot. e.) ask for assistance! "ASSASSINATION MODE: ONLINE OBJECTIVE: ELIMINATE THE ACCUSED TIMEFRAME: 24:00 HOURS JUDICIAL UNIT-00345 DISPATCHED"

//SCENARIOS.EXE PHASE I [ 0001 ] It's a minute passed midnight, and the newest sets of recovered code are being spat out of ViViD and into Cerealia. Before the joyful reunions begin, an announcement starts blaring through everyone's computer screen, TV sets, devices, billboard screens, and so on. The image flashes with twelve names and twelve pictures along with a list of crimes each person has committed. They continue to flash again and again throughout the colony, alerting everyone of these heinous criminals. It's up to anyone if they want to engage them or stay far, far away from these perverts and miscreants. As the arrivals begin to explore, they will see themselves plastered on just about every screen imaginable. PHASE II [ 200 ] It's still dark outside, hardly anyone out and about. It's the perfect time for an assassination attempt because that's when the information is received and processed by Cerealia's judicial system, but this isn't a job for any ordinary donut-eating cop. No, this is far greater than that. They bring out the big guns. Twelve assassination droids, clad in armor and carrying katana, are immediately dispatched and sent to take out each of the accused at any cost. Characters are welcome to do any of the above choices while veterans to Cerealia can assist the arrivals, assist the droids, or just sit back and watch others suffer. It's completely up to you. They can also run into the droids on their search and try to interact with them. PHASE III [ 700 ] Your friendly CEO has finally gotten his ass out of bed, but by then, who knows how many people are left alive? After hearing of the kerfluffle, he decides to issue a cease and desist on the assassination droids, and instead, has his investigation units step in to confirm that the new arrivals are not guilty of any of the crimes and charges listed under their name. They will be pulled aside for painful, painful questioning before being released to explore as they wish. To make up for all the damages and trauma incurred from the near-death attempts, Julius will also be giving the new arrivals a settlement of 20,000 credits each, so go out and party. PHASE IV [ 1200 ] By noon, the incident has been cleared up with little to no blood spilled (hopefully). New arrivals are welcome to explore and enjoy their new living arrangements or possibly lie in bed and just cry some more. Either way, welcome to the magic that is Cerealia. The CEO will announce that the last of the virus has been officially cleaned up and taken care of, and he'll be issuing a video with a public apology for all. BONUS [ whyo'clock ] Among the police droids dispatched, there will be a rehabilitative droid in a dinosaur suit, looking to cure the criminals of their improper behavior and their moral indiscretions through the power of LOVE and HUGS. It was developed after the researchers in CERES did extensive research on other worlds and found that this mystical creature was capable of creating worldwide joy and cheer. It will be chasing those who are on the Wanted List exclusively, but it will not stop at just them. Your character will be accosted and hugged whether they like it or not. [ 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 intro post. For your convenience, we have compiled a post detailing everyone's arrival experience and a FAQ that should explain everything in more detail. Please read them thoroughly before playing. Thank you!

Comments

[insincerely]

How rude. Weren't you taught any manners while growing up?

[insincerely]

I did notice there was no tutorial. That's rather cruel of them, considering they claim to be our saviours.

UGUU

[insincerely]

I don't think that's any of your concern either, is it?

[insincerely]

Well, what is it now? Potatoes?

[insincerely]

You didn't ask. In fact, I'm now curious why you want to know.

[insincerely]

Well, it's nice to see that someone here has at least half a brain.

[insincerely]

[Shinnosuke would consider whether or not to answer the question, but he'd already decided when he asked that it's fine—if Rin is, for whatever reason, lying, then he already knows. And if he's telling the truth... well, what does it matter?

Doing warm-ups in a pool and being on a swim team, though... what a 'normal' life.]

... Huh. You've never heard of the 《Labyrinth Disease》, then?

[insincerely]

You might want to consider getting glasses if I look like a teenage girl to you.

[Even if one of his damn suggested jobs was a cross-dressing host club host, but he is never going to breathe a word of that to anyone for as long as he lives.]

[insincerely]

Uwah, she's the luckiest sister in the world!

[said with slightly more enthusiasm.]

[insincerely]

I'm sure that's what every pedophile says.

[unluckless]

Oh! Mm! Baajime, but that's his namesake more than a nickname. Baajime is my stuffed sheep. [Named after Hinata, much to Hinata's chagrin which is what makes it fun.]

[unluckless]

I haven't been here very long at all, and there have already been a number of dangerous things that have happened. Recently a virus made the robots turn violent. Oh! That's the virus they're accusing you all of being involved in I think.

[A cheerful smile. See? It's all connected it all comes together.]

[flaredo]

Better! 72 points.

[foodcritic]

Supergirl?

[well, it's enough to sufficiently distract her. though maybe that's because when she says it like that, it sounds like a secret identity.

without the secret part, because she just said it, but elle can toss that aside. good job totally distracting the child from the bigger issue for a couple of minutes.] It kinda sounds like a superhero name or something. Like in a show, you know?

[not any show she's seen specifically, but still.]

[foodcritic]

Only if you promise that you definitely won't drop me.

[there are totally conditions to this promise, so she's staring at his back with her arms folded. she knows he probably won't and that he's just trying to get rid of her faster... she's not his problem and she isn't wanted.

she gets that, so elle knows she probably also shouldn't drag it out, but she still thinks it's better to be safe than sorry. and maybe she doesn't really want to admit that she's tired enough to actually want that sort of treatment.]

[tuberculosis]

Here specifically? Ah... a few weeks, now.

[which is very much so true. in reality, there's a lot about this he's not used to, though. the technology itself flies pretty far over his head; even if he's getting used to things like flashy electronics and kitchen conveniences, there's still so much he doesn't understand and isn't sure he wants to understand.

of course, there's also a lot of this that he understands for reasons well beyond the technology. maybe too far, if some people were to be asked. but souji remains casual about the whole thing. even when these things bother him... well, it's not as if he's about to reveal his hand to a stranger, even if he's a pathetically nice one.]

You could say I have some other experiences that fit the bill, though. Not everything as as simple as it seems... even if our hometowns may really be very similar.

[foodcritic]

[she nods, but then follows it up by standing.]

Anyway... I should probably go before Ludger starts to worry too much. [spoken as if clearly he just worries too much and not that there's a reason to. even if there is.]

[unjustify]

No saviors are ever what they're chalked up to be, but these guys definitely take the cake so far. Literally tossing people to the virtual lions... Dragons, whatever.

[foodcritic]

Cool? Well...

[at least he's on the right track. even if elle's from a world with monsters and crazy spirits and dimensional rifts, conchaider is still just a tv show villain.

from her favorite show.]

He's the boss of the Water Breakers, and they're... affil...iates... of the Flotillion! And since the Flotillion's boss has an evil genius leading them, I bet you can guess that he's pretty evil. I mean, he is helping in the big plan to made rule the seafood industry by using fish-paste products from the dead fish and all. [the actual synopsis of what they do, honestly.] It's probably cooler to be an evil genius, though.

[foodcritic]

Well, I'm asking now! Unless you just want me to call you "weird old guy" or something.

[mistified]

[ Oh come on, flashy. Women's shoes are suddenly a bad thing? She wants to start arguing over it, but then again- her shoes are probably too small for those big men-feet anyway. She rolls them back up and pushes them back into her coat before folding it back. ]

Drills at nationals? You're a team captain? If they're here, you'll find them. You got a device, didn't you?

[ She's pointing hers out- which is conveniently hovering behind her- what, she needs it in case there's danger. Like with people who do things to lobsters. But she forgoes that for looking at his jacket and shaking her head. ]

Can't say I have. It's pretty stylish though. What's that say- School... Same... tsu?

[ Why don't these things come with helpful letters to read? ]

Your school is called Shark-something?? And I thought mine was bad.

[blacksong]

I think it's a bit too late for me to be less weird. [no it's always the kid's fault!! but really, she has a flower growing out of her eye... zero has no hope of being less weird, and she knows it.]

[blacksong]

Nope, not a single bit. [she sounds like she's being sarcastic, but it's pretty much 100% true.]

[particularity]

It is. I don't know if I'd say it happens often, but... enough.

[Hinata nods, looking more closely at Tenka at that tone of voice, his own expression contorting with thought, his knuckles raising to press against his chin. Well. He smiles slightly.]

Aa, I'm not planning on giving up until I can get back to my friends, either.

...We're all in this situation together, even if we're mostly all strangers. So we should work together toward finding our way out. [He says should but oh he remembers, remembers a friend (or not a friend, because she'd never said) levelling a gun at him, remembers the anger that came from those who betrayed them... it can't be helped, he'll just have to get to know everyone slowly.]

[meriter]

[ SAY WHAT NOW ......... ok maybe it's time to retract that argument for sanity among the new arrivals, because if Elliot was gaping before, he's practically goggling him now, eyes wide for two seconds before he ducks his head away. ]

Yeah, incredulous is putting it lightly. You were stuck in a place like this before?