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Who: CERES & you
When: ooc: 03/22-03/25; ic: 12/09-12/10
Where: Cerealia's Entertainment District
What: Intro 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)

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The Gifts that Keeps on Giving ((You)) Nightmares

It's been a whole month without any new arrivals. Who knows why? If you ask CERES, they won't bother with any in-depth explanations. They will simply claim that none of the code out there has been responding to their recovery methods, so they had to rework a lot of their technology. However, after several weeks of grueling work, they have finally experienced success! A fresh new batch of faces is coming in, and to celebrate their arrival and the real upcoming holidays, CEO Julius Vincere has arranged for a Christmas-themed carnival for all to enjoy.

Those who arrive will wake up in Cerealia and be given a long, boring explanation and powerpoint as per usual before being ushered onto a bus (there is no escape. The robots will force you onto the bus one way or another). You will be unwillingly carted to the theme park where you will be immediately assaulted by a giant array of lights followed by several rides that you can enjoy. After you disembark from the bus, one of the snowman robots will be waiting to give you tickets to the rides and show you around as part of the Grand Opening. The amusement park will remain open for the rest of the month of December so anyone can visit as they please. The first couple tickets will also be on the house for new arrivals, but the rest will have to be bought with credits, so choose wisely! (Or try and sneak into the rides -- then face the wrath of the snowman robots and their snowman firearms :D)

"☃ WELCOME NEW ARRIVALS ❅
YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE SANTASTICAL FOREST OF CHRISTMAS WONDERS ❅
PLEASE ENJOY ALL THE RIDES CEO JULIUS VINCERE HAS HAND-PICKED FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT ❅
WE WISH TO BRING YOU MERRY FEELINGS FOR THE HOLIDAY ❅
COME GIVE SNOWTRON 5000 A HUG ❅
WHAT? YOU DON'T WANT ONE ❅
BUT I WAS PROGRAMMED TO CONVEY HUGGING AS LOVE THROUGH AFFECTION ❅
PLEASE DON'T RUN ❅
COME BAAAAACK, VISITOR ❅"

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PHASE I

[ xxxx ] Do you like ferris wheels? This is an enchanting one where you get to ride around in a giant snowflake at a very limited speed. The wheel will turn excruciatingly slow before stopping abruptly, leaving you trapped at the very top. We hope you're not afraid of heights because you're going to be in there for a while! The windows on the snowflake will rapidly darken leaving you and your fellow riders trapped in the darkness. At that moment, you will feel something warm breathing down your neck and along the back of your ear. As you reach over, you'll feel like the chair underneath you is made of snakeskin, and a hissing sound will intensify as the "chair" squirms and as the breathing gets louder and hotter. Scrabble at the doors, fight your way out! Will you escape or not? Probably not, but the experience will last only a good five minutes before the lights come back on and before the ferris wheel starts moving again. The chair will appear as normal, and there will be no one else inside except any fellow riders who came with you.

PHASE II

[ xxxx ] If the ferris wheel didn't "do it" for you, then perhaps a fun house will? If you're a fan, that is! This Christmas-themed funhouse features a wonderful walk through a snowy forest convered in singing reindeer. The more you walk through, the more you will notice things like within the distorted mirrors, there will briefly appear strange specters. You will also hear a bunch of howling in the background, and while you may think that you're safe since they're trapped behind a mirror, you are very wrong. The lights will go out once more, and you will hear the mirrors shatter all around and feel yourself being grabbed and hurled to the ground. Whatever is coming for you is something you can't see, but it's advancing fast with impressive strength to hurl you back once more. You will feel pain erupt through your body before an engineer will appear to get the lights back on. Once they're back on, the reindeer will be happily singing, and all the mirrors will appear as they were before -unbroken.

PHASE III

[ xxxx ] After those interesting adventures, another option would be to simply visit the rocking santacoaster, a large, sprawling roller coaster that reaches 150 mph. You will be strapped into a sled and be shot through the tracks where you can scream and cry all you want except once you reach the tunnel, everything will come to a sudden stop (whiplash pending). You and the other riders will be in there for a few minutes, surrounded by a dozen santas as they start to fly out from the tunnel walls, carrying swords and swooping down to take a swipe at you. You better duck or be prepared to be cut up by their blades. The rollercoaster will abruptly resume, and when you reach the end, you might notice some bleeding, a little bit of hair missing, or some clothes shred up. If you ask the snowman robots about it, they will just shrug and claim they don't know what you're talking about. Please go enjoy a snowcone on the house!

PHASE IV

[ xxxx ] The Christmas whirl will be your last stop for the evening! This is a ride that goes round and round and round while tilting. Everyone will be strapped into it while standing up and forced to hold on as it spins, and somewhere in the midst of the spinning, the ride will suddenly malfunction. Yes, big surprise there! But it won't stop spinning. It will just be a rockier ride, and you will seemingly enter a new space where you will be among the stars and seeing planets all around you. Your own home planet will be amongst them before it breaks open like an egg and out crawls a friendly visitor. If you get bit by it, you will spend the rest of the day and night experiencing an array of possible symptoms, including: a voracious appetite, a fear of light, the urge to 'mate' with anyone who smells especially good, heightened senses, the ability to climb on all kinds of surfaces, irritability and crankiness... (( you don't have to experience them all. you can pick and choose which one you like. ))

BONUS

[ whyo'clock ] What's that jingling you hear in the background? Why, it's Santa Clause! Coming here all the way from the North Pole. The park will stop, and all the snowman robots will gather in the square, ushering along as many people as possible. Santa-Bot X-3 will be seated on his chair to welcome all visitors to sit on his metaphorical lap and tell him what they want for Christmas. He will then give them a nicely wrapped present and tell them that it's exactly what they asked for, but they can't open it until they get home. For those who can't wait and choose to open it quickly, they will get some nice treats from Mundus Caelestis. But beware! Those who do take this gift home will experience a weird after-effect as the lovely red and white toy will come to life on its own and hop out of the box that evening to try and violently electrocute the owner. The other one is completely harmless.

[ 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. ]

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Welcome to CEREALIA's latest intro post 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. OVERFLOW IS HERE!!!

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[Rock Lee is jogging through the amusement park, but he comes to the stop when he sees someone sitting on the bench.

He stares at the one-eyed boy for the moment because he looks familiar. So, so familiar. He was told about this boy before...

And finally, it clicks.]

Edited 2015-03-23 01:03 (UTC)

It's called cotton candy. Essentially, it's pure sugar slightly melted and blown with air to make it stringy. Wrap it up in one place and with a little food coloring and you have a sugar rush in the making.

[Joy killer. Or, in Gaius' case, PERFECT KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE. Or something.]

Yeah, that's totally fine! I use to do that a lot anyway so give me your best shot!

[Go, go, Anna!] I can handle anything you can throw at me!

[ Between the howling and shattering glass and the roughing up he's unable to defend against, Shirasu believed the familiar, panicked voice crying out was a trick of the place. As the lights come up, he gingerly picks himself up, favoring his left leg and shaking his head to clear it from the blow.

And once he can see again, he realizes he did hear -- ]

Soramaru.

[ The rides are dangerous and awful, true fact. But that doesn't mean that the themepark is a total loss, at least there's refreshments. Pearl has a fluff of candy cane cotton candy on a stick when she sits down next to this clearly friendly blonde guy.

It actually takes her a moment to realize her fellow bench-sitter is scowling. Maybe he's having a bad time...? Pearl gives him a bright smile. ]

Did you get stuck on any of those rides...? I know they sure weren't what I was expecting!

[ because they were all worth scowling over what a nightmare ]

[Ah yes, that look. The one he gets a lot.
It's actually kinda nice to see!]

Big competition, then. But if their food is anything like you'd get at home, there's no use worrying for someone like myself!

Once we're out of this park, how about you show me around? We could do a little shopping, and I'll make you an unforgettable meal as thanks!
Or maybe even a little more, mmhmhm!

[And this is the kind of conversation he'd rather be having, that's for sure.
He even looks a little less uneasy about everything, talking about food with his friend...]

S-Stupid. [ She chokes back a sob and leaps down to join him on his carriage, causing it to sway unsteadily.

(Whoever is inside is probably not having a good time right now.)

A part of what he says does cause her heart to beat a little harder, but she can't smile. Not right now. She just spent most of her energy making sure everyone was going to be all right only to be told they had all been wiped out. ]

Don't talk about those kind of things when you're incapable of understanding them.

Magic. [ POINT BLANK...more realistically, hella hair pins. But magic is her stock answer to "how did you do x y and z". ]

Anyway, that's not the point! It was totally below the height clearance, so it shouldn't have been, you know. Cut off! [ Let's stand here talking about this hat and those santassassins and not at all talk about our injuries, Kazoo. That is how we do. ]

Other job options... you mean the things that showed up on that odd mechanical device they gave us?

[ Because he might have selected two of those, if only because someone had guided him through it, even if he didn't like the idea of committing to a job at all. ]

[Man, Ai's not sure if she can be of any comfort or if she's even good at being comforting to begin with. But she wants to try because her heart sympathizes.]

Well, we've been given a place to stay, for better or for worse. I haven't been here for all that long, but I've met a number of people who have been good to me. Everyone's been doing their best to understand what's been going on as well as making the best of the conditions here.

[Let him count the ways the funhouse has hurt him. ~~Don't you'll be here all day.~~

Gundam turns sharply to face her, still bristling with whatever anger he holds for the house of fun.]

What a truly foolish question! You would be better wasting your breath on mortals who have the time to listen!

[It's not you, Pearl. He's just grumpy all around right now.]

[He then immediately points at him and cries out loudly.]

PEKO-SAAAAAN!!! I FOUND HIM!!!

[It's as if he's crying to the heavens for her to drop down out of the sky.]

[ if she hadn't been regarding him just as critically, she might have found the attention a little unnerving. but they're clearly both used to combat, though there's something about the way he holds himself that makes her think he's not trying nearly as hard as she is.

which just frustrates her more, tbh, but competition is the spice of life. or something!

at least he seems to acknowledge that she can hold her own, even if this nonestop fighting has made her a little breathless by now. she hasn't yet used her glyphs, at least, which is conserving quite a bit of her energy, but endurance was never really her thing in the first place. ]

Don't get too complacent — I don't trust this thing to let us off that easy.

[ she's turned her attention towards her sword by now, though, using her free hand to spin its chamber to change its setting. her thumb pauses over the red vial sitting within its chamber, but she bites her lip in thought. no — flames in these small quarters? even if it would wipe out a good handful of santas, it would not bode well for the two of them. ]

...Hey. [ she hasn't turned back towards him, nor has she lifted her sword again. instead she keeps her attention on the new batch of santas speeding towards them. ]

That wind thing you did earlier. Can you widen its berth?

[No, why are you here and the others here, Hinata's really the one shocked about this!! Except, at least he has the benefit of past experiences, of friends appearing and disappearing, while for Gundam this'll be completely new ground.]

Ah-- [That way of speaking aw it makes him feel all nostalgic and fond (for now at least, give it time), especially since it's been so long.] Is this a world draped in your shadow...?

[ Sue them for all they're worth!!

Pearl doesn't mind, she's still clutching Trucy's cape for dear life when the horror subsides. ]

Is... is it over? [ whispering because she doesn't want it to un-be over ]

Considering they seem to be periodically attacking people on these rides, I wouldn't be shocked.

[ Unfortunately...though she has to admit she's glad she's alone if that's the case. Were Matrix in town, they'd have the robot revenge problem on their hands already. ]

Day? No, I've only been here a second. [ TIME IN REBOOT...................a second is a day. ]

This place-- Stupid...!

[A girl stumble around the corner, looking frustrated and gritting her teeth as she wheezes to get her bearings. Yeah, she's experienced this bullshit too and is none too happy about it. But everything seems to have gone back to normal now and Oona huffs in aggravating, turning her eyes on the other occupant and eyeing him warily. Why does he look kind of familiar...

But whatever familiarity she might feel for him, it doesn't stop her from demanding answers] You! Answer me: did the lights go off? Did happen, yes? And the mirrors did something?

I honestly can't say. Though given what our captor's have put us through, I can't imagine it would be anything beneficial to us.

[So, yes, he's quite curious, which is why he hasn't thrown it away, but at the same time he's almost expecting a bomb or something to be inside it once he opens it. Good to know others here appear to be just as cautious as him.]

Don't suppose anyone mentioned to you where we're going any more than they did me...?

[ She has no high hopes for this but hey the girl is clearly friendly and willing to share whatever information she has, so. Why not ask. ]

[Don't think Anna didn't notice! From one hungry girl to another, she gave her a chuckle]

Of course not! I think it'll be easier than it looks! I mean, how hard can it be to these weird looking things anyway?

Trust me, you won't ever go hungry once she figure it out!

[Easier said than done. Now that she was at the vendor, she was staring at it.] Uh....what does this do? [She said before it prompt the kisok to do just about........!

Nothing]

......I know what I did just see.

[Totally shaking his head with a sigh. The sardonic kind of sigh that hints at amusement but he's totally too cool for that.]

Are you an idiot?

[Man, that's what she gets for eating something so horrible.]

I wasn't really meaning the stands, here; you see, I'm someone who works with food all the time!
Once I find my way out of this tourist trap, I intend to make a meal actually worth eating...

[And in one smooth motion, he's got a comb out to fix his hair like he's some smooth guy from a 1950's movie.
The effect would probably be a lot better if he wasn't four feet tall.]

And you'd be free to join me, if you'd like. I'd never turn down a cute girl like you, especially after you actually subjected yourself to the food here!

—ah?

[ he hadn't anticipated the intended victim to actually stick around, so he's caught off guard for a few seconds, blinking at trucy while the robot in his arms tries to flail its stick-arms around in an effort to break away from him. ]

You really think that'll work...?

[ hang on, who's the hero around here?!

trucy is. trucy is totally the hero around here.

with a look of solemn determination, she gives her a sharp nod. ]

Let's do it, Miss Tophat!

[ he'll be the robin to your batman...! ]

[Mio lets go almost immediately, twisting her hands in her lap instead to give herself something to focus on.]

Probably fine?

...Is that you breathing like that? [please tell her it's someone actually here.]

[How did he end up on a roller coaster nobody is entirely sure.

Either way.

Here he is on a roller coaster. A Santa Claus that gets too close is batted away with a sheathed sword, because honestly, these aren't even a threat that need to be drawn on.

Why is he also sitting next to the most irritating person ever--]

No.

[ok.]

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