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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!!!

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[feytality]

pre-rides;

[You're probably getting assaulted by Snowtron 5000 for a hug. Maybe you're just standing nearby. But whatever happens, this strange girl is going to forego the hug and instead try to jump on the robot and climb it]

Forget the hugs! Aren't you supposed to be our chaperone? C'mon, give me a ride!

[This will end well.]

phase ii;

[This is certainly a fun and safe experience for all! Specters, howling, the lights going off while you're thrown bodily to the ground and assaulted. In fact, even after the lights come back on, the assault doesn't stop. You feel a foot flailing and kicking into your face--]

[Oh wait, it's just a loud teenage girl]

TAKE THAT, you evil elf! Go back to the toy workshop!

[It doesn't look like she's going to stop kicking you anytime soon]

phase iii;

[Well, this sure is a ride. Maya loudly screams with delight as the coaster shoots off (sorry, whoever's in there with her), but her excitement ends just as abruptly as the ride coming to a stop halfway through. And then the Santas advance...]

[She sends a furtive, desperate look at the people around her, and you, yes you, and then demands in a loud stage whisper:]

Which one of you was naughty?!

bonus;

[So, uh, at this point everyone's probably tired of all the rides and the so-called Santabot trying to get everyone to sit on its lap, huh? Surely, no one in their right mind would go back for another ride, especially without paying. Surely.]

[Well, about that.... A certain someone just tried to sneak into the ferris wheel, and said certain someone is now being faced down by snowman with machine guns. As if they were in the world's worst action movie]

C-Come on, guys, I was just testing you....! I wasn't really trying to get in! Ha ha! It was just a little joke! [As her pleading laughter gets increasingly nervous, they look like they're about to shoot. She looks like she's about to run for her life. What will you do? Help her? Move out of the way? Laugh from a safe distance? ALL OF THE ABOVE?]

[Whatever it is, it better be fast]

[flaredo]

Such a pretty boy... [ and Yang is crooning as she reaches out to stroke Taka's head. ] How'd you meet him?

phase ii

[offstrings]

[already having gone through the house and experienced things she rather wouldn't have, she's more than willing to talk to somebody else in the same situtaion. where she would usually be a little skittish about approaching new people, there's always something about sharing an unpleasant experience that makes it easier to interact with others. with a small frown on her face, she tries to convey sympathy to him, given that he just went through what she did.]

Things like that... happen here a lot. It shouldn't be something you should be getting used to, but... that's kind of how it is, eventually.

[sunshied]

Aniki would make you promise something like that.

[He'd smile about it if it wasn't so worrying that Tenka had already tried to patch things up. He didn't want to see his brother get hurt and the facts were that he still wasn't sure he could trust Shirasu, as much as he wanted to and to keep the lines of communication open.]

Well, I'm sorry if he's been troubling you at all - you know how he is.

[And Soramaru understood very clearly that just because Shirasu didn't feel like harming him didn't mean that he couldn't. Though he had no further use for him with the Orochi gone.]

[shacklebreaker]

Agreed. Birds see from their heads and not their tails, after all.

[Now that he thinks about it...] You might want to remove your hat before we board, lest you lose it. Or perhaps you could glue it to your hair?

[perfectstrike]

Agreed.

[She's not moving to put that sword away, either, just briefly checking herself for injuries before moving forward. Koujaku gets a careful, appraising glance as if she's trying to assess whether or not he's a threat, then she just nods, meaning to move past him.]

You watch the left, [she orders, turning her attention more toward the right.] I would recommend not running, as that may trigger it again.

[continued here!]

[monkeyfu]

Ruby, hey! [He smiles easily, tossing the gift over his shoulder to free up his hands and have his tail just hold onto the item.

And weapons... really girl? There are so many other awesome things you could ask for!]

Beats me. These guys just kept pushing me this way. [Jerking his thumb at the robot snowmen.] Must be for some weird festival in this place or something.

[andimfine]

[ It's difficult not to smile even wider when he hears her use his phrase. It's always a nice feeling to see it bring another person a bit of joy. ]

It's nice to meet you. You already know my name.. [ There's a bit of awkward laughter after he says this. ]

[andimfine]

Better than before. [ He's relieved that she isn't curious to go on any more rides, but carnival games..? ]

Do you really think that's a good idea?

[flaredo]

Oh, that's because I've been here awhile. Ruby and Blake, too.

[fortheprincess]

...That's a little exaggerated...

[ If he lived in a world where blood could disappear. Oh boy..... But his legs and arms won't drop off from a cut on his face! Most likely.... ]

wandering!!

[allthreefourths]

[ ... you know, there might be some things around the amusement park that are hard to notice. for one, maybe it's hiccup, squeezing through crowds with a mildly large black dragon at his feet. or maybe it's towering "grown men" in trench coats, mumbling to "himself" every now and then.

there's something that he can't quite ignore with that, so he's approaching. toothless, said dragon, is also following along--don't mind if he suddenly starts sniffing at the pig, and then the girly shoes. ]

Toothless. [ with some exasperated fondness because you really don't sniff everything. then hiccup continues, facing the "grown man". ] Sorry, I just noticed you were [ suspicious as hell ] mumbling to yourself. Looking for something?

pre-rides

[sunshade]

[ oh god how many people from the park are showing up here, this is getting nuts ]

They aren't built for riding.

[ burger girl no ]

[monkeyfu]

[Yes! Gifting mysteries are far more important right now.

Sun shrugs, not able to complain with that kind of argument, and starts to open it.]

Maybe you're right. Could be a bunch of bananas! [...Sun. Priorities here.] What'd you get?

pre-rides.....

[souredsweet]

[This is Kaoru's immediate reaction to spotting Maya. Truly, if there wasn't so much obsessive dedication over being The Best Samaritan, Kaoru would be ollying right out in less time than it takes to blink.

BUT NO, alas, being stuck in Good Samaritan hell means preventing morons from doing moronic things. Exhibit A: trying to ride the robots that may or may not be armed?! MAYA PLEASE have a little self preservation! Approaching as cautiously as possible, but still staying outside of the range of any potential roboweapons or flailing limbs...]

Excuse me, miss... I don't believe they're here to carry people around. They function more like guards than chaperones.

[hamham]

[Trucy, don't feed his delusions...

The way he's watching her somehow becomes more severe as he mentions these things and he seems to tense a little.]

Snake chairs? "Santassassins"?

[They are said with a fair amount of skepticism. Not because he doesn't believe her, but because--]

Just what sort of hex master dwells here? Curses like those...they have no place in this or any world! They are a mockery of the very principles of hexes!

[Way to go you got him all angry and riled up.]

[brbwalking]

I do. I suppose that makes us acquaintances now!

[ and she didn't even have to punch this one in the jaw. ]

bonus!

[perfectstrike]

[Sometime before Peko knows The Bocchan has arrived, she's keeping an eye on the various festivities and trying to keep an ear out for any kind of loud disturbance. If there's any way to find Kuzuryuu, it's by following the sound of yelling.

But wait, no, that's a girl's voice, and it rather sounds panicked? And if there's anything Peko's learned here, it's that anyone who's being assaulted by CERES likely doesn't deserve it. Inconveniencing them is something she's rather looking for opportunities to do, after all, and whether it's smart or not (it's not), she's moving in at a sprint and drawing her katana in a single, clean swipe.

What happens next is pretty quick and damn near impossible to see. Did she slice their arms off? Just knock them out of the way long enough? Whatever happened, Maya's not really going to have time to look back, because Peko's roughly grabbing her arm with her free hand and yanking her after her.]

Come along!

[It's a sharply barked order. Keep up!]

[monkeyfu]

Wait-- what?! How? [Sun's not normally the type to really get too distracted in a fight, but that stops him.

...Right when a Santa has him in his sights.]

But I just saw you guys yesterday.

[faithfulflame]

...How...old are you and how have you never been to a festival?

[Rei may sound a little bit incredulous. Anna looks a little younger than her, probably.]

And alright, I guess it can't hurt to look around a little bit. What would you like to do, Miss?

[brbwalking]

Monsters, apparently... or ghosts? I've never seen an enemy pick up after themselves so quickly, though. [ She's already moving to investigate another mirror. ]

[fortheprincess]

[ (CERTAINLY.) How...does he describe what it was like back home? Huh. He gets a second to think before he can answer her. There's a small smile on his face now as he thinks about home, and what it was like before all of this. ]

I came from Kouka Kingdom. It's always under the rule of an... [ He almost snarls at what's going to come next, but he holds back. ] ...emperor. We don't have things like 'robots'.

Where are our living headquarters?

[brbwalking]

[ That's a dragon. An Entelexeia? Judith sends a silent query to Ba'ul, who instantly denies-- no, not one of his kin, not quite. But something similar, and so he'll touch down and croon a greeting. ]

Ba'ul's quite attention-catching, so I can't say I blame you. Your friend's interesting, too.

[troubadear]

[There are so many sensible people in this thread]

Oh, tosh-bosh! Simply because something requires extra effort is no reason to refer to it as a "pointless endeavor", darling! Polite society is a crucial necessity to survival- at least, it is if we wish to maintain a lifestyle worth living.

[troubadear]

I should hope that you weren't! [At least she's cute. At least she has that going for her...]

I am afraid that I've never seen anything such as this before. Naturally there are regular carnivals in Ylisse, but nothing on this scale. Is it so surprising?