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[reparator]

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)

//event011.EXE 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 ❅"

//SCENARIOS.EXE 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. ]

//RUN.EXE 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!!!

Comments

[candycoating]

Oh? Do go on. Because if there's a reason to mistrust those guys, I'd like to hear it. I thought they were kind of fishy, but I couldn't exactly pin what it was.

[reuser]

[ ...

...

...it wasn't supposed to happen this way. Expression turning once more, Pyrrha defaults to the sort of innocence that could cause baby birds to fly down onto her shoulders and start singing. ]

No, I didn't!

[ It's the most convincing of all insistence, because Pyrrha is a great liar. No, really. (None of that sentence is true.) ]

[candycoating]

Gaius. Judging by how you know this area a little better than I do, you've been here for a while, haven't you?

[aerialassault]

Lot's do where I'm from, but I can't answer for this place yet.

[He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.]

I kinda only just, uh, dropped in. Still a rank newbie in these parts.

[allthreefourths]

[ wow pyrrha. actually, running they can do. it had been on hiccup's mind, really--that is, the following plan, which he's enacting now that the fun, fun present is in his hands. he's... giving it a small look of mild concern, before he, with a sheepish smile towards pyrrha, shoves it right into the trash can's awaiting mouth. full or not, he's fitting it in there.

the resulting digital scream is a monotone CONSEQUENCES NECESSARY. RUNNING GUILTTRIP.EXE. LOAD COMPLETE. GUILT! GUILT! GUILT!

and hiccup's response is, of course, to vocalize the rest of his amazing, amazing plan. that is: ]

There. And now, we walk away very quickly in shame.

[ all that's really necessary, given the trash can's waddle after them is rather slow. at least hiccup also reaches for pyrrha's wrist, so she can have the pleasure of speed walking from supposed-to-be-inanimate-objects right on time with him. the great escape, dragon in tow.

as GUILT! GUILT! GUILT! fades into the distance, hiccup continues on anyway. just in case. ]

Next time, you're better off not taking what they offer you. You'll usually get things like that.

bonus

[aerialassault]

[Cliff stared down at the girl with bemused eyes as he unceremoniously shoved the offending piece into the nearest trash can.]

Yeah, doin' peachy. [He said, before turning away to scratch at the stubble on his chin.]

This place sure is somethin' else, ain't it?

[candycoating]

You definitely sound like you're talking my language. I'm somewhat of a connoisseur myself. There's nothing back home I haven't tried, but in a whole new place? Sounds like there's a lot of things I need to taste.

[ He's going to be overloaded with sweets by the time he makes it back to his apartment, isn't he... ]

[multiglyphs]

[ this is the part where weiss would say don't act so surprised because, let's face it, she owns her elitism okok

but then she remembers she has to have good relations with her neighbor students. and so she merely sucks in a breath and forces out a smile so wide, it can be heard in her tone. ]

I simply mean to say I'm not that kind of girl. Certainly there's still some appreciation for proper courtship.

[impheired]

No, I haven't...that's a more recent development. ["More recent" may or may not be synonymous with "as of today".] So what you're...a video game AI or something?

[Weirdly enough, her admission of being a game sprite actually makes her seem less crazy. It even accounts for her strange appearance ini a completely logical, non-magical way. Which is just the way he likes it because fuck magic. If he'd been taken from his universe at any other point before the one he actually was though, it definitely would have earned her another crazy look. But luckily he wasn't, so he doesn't.]

And a User is...what, a human? [He feels like this is the obvious answer here. A User is someone who...uses a game system? Computer? Some kind of electronic anyway.]

[candycoating]

What a shame. Those two are my fearless leaders, and if anyone can deal with being transported to a new world and figuring out where to go from there, it's them.

arrival

[aerialassault]

Machines ain't the bad guys where I'm from. [Cliff tossed the teen a glance, noting her stance and demeanor.] They do their job-- if anyone deserves a good whack, it's the programmers.

[He rubbed the back of his neck, glancing away.]

That said, I might not be so nice next time.

[unevoke]

[The subject of his death, always such a touchy subject....! Shinji lets the brief silence slide though, figuring it's not really his place to pry into future happenings. (He isn't sure he wants to know, in any case.)]

Mitsuru said that too, yeah. You guys are probably from around the same time then.

[Whether that's a good thing or not is left up to Fuuka.

--Ah, but this is pretty depressing, and they are at a carnival.]

Mitsuru won't be too hard to find, so you can probably go around and enjoy the carnival if you want.

[multiglyphs]

Well obviously we—

I mean. Clearly, we should—

[ huh. she can't really think of a plan right now. she sort of assumed it would just come to her, but this kind of thing never really cropped up in all her years of training. ]

Well. There's nothing dire happening right now, is there? Why not just wait it out?

[candycoating]

So, you new here?

[ She definitely doesn't look like she's of his world, unless she's a manakete? She's got the ears for it, and she even dresses a little bit like Nowi. ]

[aerialassault]

[Cliff glanced away, idly scratching at the stubble on his chin almost sheepishly when confronted with the straightforward question.]

You ask that...but, it's not like there's any warning 'till after the ride's already started. And, at that point? Well, there's not much that can be done 'bout it.

[multiglyphs]

[ with the ride's lights back on, it's easy enough to see the serious expression cross over his face. it's something weiss takes note of, but files away for later. ]

If only everything were so easy.

[candycoating]

[ Oh well, it looks like this strange object's identity will be a mystery to him forever. He'll put it back in the box, because he's starting to get the impression that it's not something he should be waving around. ]

Can you answer something else for me, in that case?

[twomeals]

Ah, me too! [Yue smiles. A comrade in arms! Sort of.] I've never seen anything like this place before, it's all really strange.

YES HOMO

[souperb]

[ ah? milla merely hears the sound of metal clumsily tumbling over itself, as she stops with a smooth turn to face the robots. two on the ground, weirdly enough, and she just manages to catch pyrrha's throw with her eyes ending the last poor, poor, frosty the snowman.

she's not too sure what just happened--well, at least for the last one that is clear, the other two not so much--but she'll take her not being chased as an unexpected blessing.

with a half-sigh she straightens, sheathing her sword. ]

I had that.

[ thank you, some people might say. ]

[aerialassault]

What, but there's no one-- gah!

[Cliff jumped now, hands instinctively tightened into fists before him as he stared blindly into the unknown.]

You're sure there's no one else here, right?!

[multiglyphs]

[ weiss had been ready to throw that little comment back in his face; it was all good and fine to play hero when it was just all talk, but actually throwing himself into danger when he shouldn't be is another thing entirely—

but then he goes and squeezes her hand like that, and weiss can't remember the last time she'd been given such a reassuring gesture before.

so she quiets before even realizing it, left to stand there with her hand still in the air from where he'd let it go. a moment passes, and then she belatedly realizes he's waiting for her okay.

with a quiet, almost shy mumble, she says: ] ...Yeah. Ready.

[impheired]

[It is when the shrimp isn't a shrimp! Fuck you!]

[And no, he has not fallen under your powers and he never will. Double fuck you. Kuzuryuu sets Maga-Z back down on his knee. Sorry little guy, that's enough pets for now. After all, they are in public and he has a reputation to uphold.]

[Okay but he's listening to that monologue and not really understanding a word of it. Though it is, at that point that he remembers one very important fact about one Tanaka Gundam. The fact that he has only two modes: loud and boisterous, or quiet and broodingly non-existent. He was, after all, the kid who didn't say a single word when they were all initially trapped in that damn classroom.]

...you were sulking at the back of the bus, weren't you?

[How's that for seeing past his mortal limitations? Okay, he's just guessing about the sulking thing and being a little shit but he's pretty sure he's right about Tanaka being an anti-social loser at the back of the bus.]

[candycoating]

... wait a minute, why would you get beaten up?

[candycoating]

... If that's the reputation this place has, then why did you get on?

[niceguypose]

[He makes some thoughtful hums as she speaks and then he nods.]

Yes... That's true! [But for how much longer will nothing happen...?] It is a simple wait in the darkness. We can use this time to bond!