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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-03-22 07:06 pm

« 011 ⇢ event011.exe »

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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ why:o'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!!!


omurice: (pic#6267769)

[personal profile] omurice 2015-03-25 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why is she..!]

Have you no manners!?

[Whatever, he's more bark than bite as he just resigns to the fact that this girl has apparently decided she's his friend.]

A chain? I fail to see why a chain would be cute.
carptricks: (I'll meet ya tomorrow)

[personal profile] carptricks 2015-03-25 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I can walk!

[he isn't kicking her but he sounds indignant]
thatdamnknight: (words words words)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2015-03-25 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Those injuries don't last long. As soon as Flynn catches sight of them, a nice Cure gets cast her way JUST IN CASE. Once all is well and Judy looks as Judy should, he looks relieved, but still possessing that all too serious face.]

It still wasn't acceptable to expose defenseless people to danger of that level.

[...Expose. The word makes that blurry memory come even closer to being recalled. Hmm...]
hoasen: (do you need this?)

[personal profile] hoasen 2015-03-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Home is still home! It just needs a bit of fixing, that's all.]

Hmm, yes, it looks like we are. I wonder what else is different? [Other than his time being further back. His weapon even looks ancient.] I see! I am from a place comparatively further ahead to yours, but even this world baffles me.

Hmm, an average apartment for one person would be the size of... [She looks around, and then points from one sign.] Estimate from there... [And to another.] to there. It comes with a couple of rooms, your own kitchen and bathroom. Quite convenient.
freed: ~heretics (( aimlessly aiming ))

open !

[personal profile] freed 2015-03-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(in-between | wandering)

[ between the powerpoint and all that lies ahead, haru wanders in a haze of personal distance. none of this seems palpable on the scale of Things that are True, but haru is also prone to letting himself believe easy things, and if a nonsensical santaland is easier than his reality, well, he can kill some time here. someone else might be more alarmed, running from face to face for familiarity or a sense of something more real, but haru just wanders, ocean-filled eyes scanning the christmas lights with a tinge of question. it's supposed to be summer after all.

in iwatobi there was to be a festival too though not for christmas.

it's not a pleasant thought this time specifically though, his mind going in the circles of sharks and the twist of water around his ankles, around his arms, and the flare of expectations. none of the lights around him now are special and haru likes that, takes comfort in the escapism of anonymity. people can move forward all they want.

and it's fine.

he doesn't believe in the ground he's walking on right now, or the strangers around him. obviously a dream. but being No One here is its own relief. haru walks not looking for anything in particular, but he might be more out of it than he realizes himself because -- ]


Sorry.

[ he apologizes to whoever he just bumped into -- not a head on collision so much as a jostle of arm and shoulder, but warranting of a polite apology all the same. ]

(phase ii. | funhouse)

[i don't get it, haru thinks for the fifth or sixth time as he wanders through the funhouse. the whole amusement park set-up is eerie, has a dream-like quality not entirely induced by the unrealistic nature of things. the mirrors cast his shape into all manners of distortion but he finds this a little less disconcerting than the singing reindeer. truth be known, the majority of haruka nanase's consciousness is tied up with one thing: waiting to wake up.

the howling in the distance causes him to turn several times only to find nothing, and underneath those other sounds he can still make out the song of the reindeer -- sadly. his mind goes over the powerpoint he saw (and when exactly was the last time he saw a powerpoint? he can't recall) and the bits and pieces of information so-far retained: not much, though the word rebuild stands out. even something so boring and unbelievable is, in its own weird way, welcome.

haru was in the middle of running away -- last he knew -- and now he's simply idling.

except the mirrors keep shifting, showing things that aren't him at all, and haru isn't makoto, isn't even rei who is a darn sight jumpier; but he flinches visibly -- not that there's anyone to see. from a drawing perspective, the creature appearing in blinks and catches is interesting if a little grotesque. he hears another howl and has a second to consider how discordant that sound is with the shape before the lights fail.

and he's not scared, not really, but the sound of glass shattering makes him want to crouch low, defensive; he doesn't get the chance -- grabbed and thrown in whichever direction. shock and a lack of urgency stills him for an instant longer than is normal before he scrambles in any definition of Away even in the dark, but then inexplicable hurt seizes through his body and haru doesn't scream, doesn't make a sound in the dark.

part of him simply concludes a grim logic: he's waking up. ]

carptricks: (It'll free your soul)

[personal profile] carptricks 2015-03-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[well at least she's free now. kaito steps forward, hands in his pockets, and leans over Maya with a slightly amused grin turning up the corners of his mouth]

You okay down there?
hoasen: (pathways)

[personal profile] hoasen 2015-03-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...well not quite the case where I am from, but if it is for your world...

[RATHER EXTREME!? Wow Vietnam stop taking it literally, you've been had.]
omurice: (pic#6138721)

[personal profile] omurice 2015-03-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is a fully grown man with the heart of a ten-year-old, but he won't tell anyone that! Even if he kind of gives off that aura... a lot. Also, they were pestering him to do so, so really, why would there be any reason to refuse.

Though he must admit that is quite an odd looking man approaching him and studying his new gifts he had gotten. He would suppose this world brings in all kinds of people, which honestly wouldn't be an entirely bad thing.]


I'm not entirely sure, but I am waiting until I reach my quarters until I open them.

[Because Santa told him to wait.]
carptricks: (in underwater caves)

[personal profile] carptricks 2015-03-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
S'that so? Did I steal it from you?
bewrightback: (Default)

[personal profile] bewrightback 2015-03-25 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I should hope not. I don't want to press charges.

But you're younger. Shouldn't it be more concerning for you to be taking this well?
aerialassault: (attentive-- i'm listening)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2015-03-25 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[The seemingly careless demeanor was simply his way of coping. He preferred to watch and wait until he had a legitimate target to punch in this instance. He understood that most people would be less tolerant, but...

he shifted uneasily.]


It ain't so unbelievable for me, seeing as this isn't the first time I've heard those words this week. And the people delivering the news seem a whole lot more personable than the other folks-- they seem like something more than just programmers, yanno? Like they're regular folks who have a stake in all this too.

Can't say I'm fond of the welcome, though. Even if it might just be a side effect of the circumstances. It was all back to normal in a blink after those incidents in the rides, like nothing ever happened. Like a...a 'bug' is what I think programmers would call it.
carptricks: (and sound)

[personal profile] carptricks 2015-03-25 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
'Course it's actually corn. The kernels pop open, like so-- [picks up another popped kernel and tosses it into the air. he ~adeptly~ catches it with his mouth on the way back down]

[show off]


After they're heated. Usually you pop it in a microwave, but it can be made in kettles, too.
thatdamnknight: (to be or not to be: that is the question)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2015-03-25 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[created beings huh. that does make a little more sense.]

In other words, they're manipulated by the whims of another and only speaking to that individual will yield any results.

[there's a little disappointment in his voice, but he won't give up. all he needs to do is find someone who is not a robot and go from there, right?]

[personal profile] brbwalking 2015-03-25 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm? Not all that much, no.

[ She's had much, much worse. ]

[personal profile] brbwalking 2015-03-25 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If it was that easy, I'm sure there wouldn't be as many people here.
hooey: (pic#8919074)

ota!

[personal profile] hooey 2015-03-25 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[phase i]

[in the line for the ferris wheel, Ren is looking up with an odd expression on his face - a mix of contemplative and excited. it's not every day you're suddenly in an entirely different dimension full of robots! it's also not every day you get to ride on a ferris wheel! and if you're unfortunate enough to get stuck riding with Ren as the ferris wheel turns, you'll notice him with his hands firmly by his sides, his legs swinging like a kid's. but he isn't a kid, so the soles of his shoes keep skimming the floor.

when the carriage reahces the peak and suddenly goes pitch-dark, all of Ren's movements cease. he tenses as if he's ready to leap at any second, his breath sharp but not afraid. and he'll speak to you, if you're there.]


Excuse me. Would you mind standing up?


[other]

[if ferris wheels aren't your jam, Ren can be found skulking around food vendors, eyeing up all the different things available but not actually buying anything. yet.]
sugarcoats: (040)

[personal profile] sugarcoats 2015-03-25 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right. That's what I want an answer to the most right now. If any of it really will help, I'll do my best, of course, but I still want some answers.
sugarcoats: (051)

[personal profile] sugarcoats 2015-03-25 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[With the chain vanishing, Yogi doesn't immediately relax, but it is easier to talk without watching them, threatening even if it was being relatively tame.]

Left you...

[It's not the first time he's met a child left alone, but still, it's saddening to hear that it happened to such a young girl. While he is fretting about what kind of life Lily had before coming here, it does sound like she had some good things too, so he doesn't have to fake the relief on his face.]

That's great, I'm so glad you were able to find some nice people to take care of you.
sugarcoats: (057)

[personal profile] sugarcoats 2015-03-25 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That can't even be a little bit true!
kicksilver: (015)

[personal profile] kicksilver 2015-03-25 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
They're books with pictures. Definitely cooler than those books with just words or numbers.

How would you define suave, anyway?

[personal profile] brbwalking 2015-03-25 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true that they could have offered a warning or two... but I'm sure you protected them, didn't you?

[ Here he was, already healing someone he hardly knew... ]
shacklebreaker: (wounded)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-25 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Definitely holding on. She's mildly terrifying when she gets like this.]

Athena...! Was that necessary?!

[Think of your poor passenger! Who may or may not get whiplash by the end of this.]

[personal profile] brbwalking 2015-03-25 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
They're Krityan ears-- [ well. ] In your world, maybe they're known differently.
shacklebreaker: (you're an idiot and here's why)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-25 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed I do. As Chief Prosecutor, he is my superior.

[personal profile] brbwalking 2015-03-25 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of a sloppy process, then, to leave out the rest of a world.