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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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[defeets]

[What did he just see. He blinks slowly because that sure does look like a weapon that a girl is pointing at herself and a woman....? Appeared out of nowhere....?

Ah. Okay.

Hold on.

He settles himself with his feet on the ground of the carriage now, shaking his head.]

It's my personal talent, you could say. But come now, beautiful, you don't need to worry about me. Why don't I get you somewhere safer so you don't need to fuss about all this?

[hamham]

[Space...bubble...do you have no concept of space bubbles? This is far too close and he does his best to shrink up a little to avoid contact. But it's good she doesn't judge. He does not judge her either.

But yeah. Yeah that definitely was not PG rated. At the suggestion that it could be a bomb though he nearly drops it, jumping just slightly. Gundam clears his throat afterward, taking a step away from the girl.]

Even if it were a bomb, I would have realized it before that hellish farce could have foisted the box onto me.

[As for if they are all like that, he nods.]

Surely they must be...or some equally distasteful "gift".

ota!

[carptricks]

Phase I

[an amusement park]

[he had just sat through an incredibly long, incredibly boring powerpoint presentation on the destruction of his home planet, and the first place CERES sends him is. . . an amusement park.]

[okay. okay! the timing was a bit. . . off, sure. and however tempting it was to kick back and relax in the sea of colorful lights and festive music, forced fun wasn't exactly high on the list of things Kaito enjoyed. not to mention he still had about a million questions and concerns bouncing around in that overactive brain of his-- if his world was gone, what happened to his mom? Jii-chan? Inspector Nakamori. . . Aoko? Were they all gone, too? . . . or would they eventually wind up here? with all of those pinching and tingling in the back of his mind, there was no way he could just let loose and have fun. he needed to be productive. well. . . as productive as he could be, anyway]

[still, the theme park was only of many weird things he had experienced today, and as far as weird shit was concerned? it was preeeeeetty darn tame]

[for now]

[and hey! when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right? or in this case, when life gives you theme parks, you turn them into a reconnaissance mission]

[which is why the people who are hanging around the ferris wheel might catch a scruffy looking teen dressed in a black school uniform and with a blue duffel bag piled in his lap sitting on top of one of the carriages. no, not inside the carriage, like any sane person would. right on top of it. judging by how none of the snowman robots are coming after him with snowman firearms, he must have paid his way in, but he definitely makes no move to scramble into the cart even as the ride slowly kicks itself to life. in fact, he seems to be humming thoughtfully to himself as the wheel begins to turn]

A liiiittle change of perspective, and. . . geez, I wonder how big this park is, anyway? Guess we'll figure that one out once we reach the top. Up up and up we go! ♥

[KAITO ISN'T THAT DANGEROUS]

Phase II

[There is someone hovering around the entrance to the funhouse. someone who looks a bit disheveled, like he just got finished being tossed around by some near-invisible mirror-specter (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL). someone with the sliiiightest of limps who is mumbling irately to himself underneath his breath-- something about are they trying to kill us?! and who the hell do they think I am, the protagonist of a B-rated horror flick?!]

[and that someone is currently propping a sign up against the wall of said funhouse, a sign crafted out of a flattened cardboard food box and a marker swiped from goodness knows where: JUST FOR THE RECORD, THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED SO UNLESS YOU'RE INTO GHOSTS YOU MIGHT WANNA GIVE THIS ONE A PASS]

Stupid. . . do they even test these things before they open 'em up to the public?

[well, hey! at least he's trying to warn everyone else about what lies inside. . .]

Wildcard

[choose your own prompt! at any point after the above Kaito can be found wandering around the amusement park (dutifully ignoring any other rides or attractions) with a slight limp, a bag slung over his shoulder, and a box of popcorn in hand. because a boy's gotta eat, end of the world or not]

1/2

[bozu]

[Just like that, huh... maybe Hinata really is interested in staying his friend.
It takes him a good moment or so to actually muster what he's trying to ask, though - looking way less comfortable than he did just a second ago.]

At... the end, there. Everything that happened... did I really...?

[... That's not really a coherent question, huh. But he's not really clarifying it, either...]

[perfectstrike]

I have been in this place for more than a month with Hinata and Komaeda.

[Did he forget how intense this girl's stare can be... because she sure is fixing him with that bright red-eyed stare. His behavior seems indicative enough that he does remember -- and that his nervousness is similiar (if more obvious) than her own had been, when she'd feared that Hinata might resent her for what she'd done. Or maybe she's just projecting. Either way,]

I do not hold any grudge against you, [she says finally, still meeting his eyes as if to impress just how serious she is upon him. She really can't afford to, not after what she did; she understood why he did it the first time, though she didn't, and doesn't, approve, but she understands.]

Have you seen -- [And then a pause at her attempt to change the subject, because. Hanamura doesn't know. Should she tell him? Should she just let Kuzuryuu be the one to tell him? Or one of their other classmates... hm. What's a better way to put it.] -- any of our other classmates?

c

[masakados]

[The person she's asking-- is staring unblinking into one of the mirrors in question, expression intent. He does snap out of it and glance over at her voice, before looking back at the mirror.

Naoki frowns, tapping it with his knuckles testingly.]

I saw it. So it's not just me seeing things...

[bozu]

[... And then he hops off the bench, turning to give Hinata an uneasy smile.]

Ahh, nevermind, nevermind - we're at an amusement park! We should be doing fun things, like scouting out rides or hitting on cute girls!
How about we go find something we can do together; I certainly wouldn't mind getting stuck on the ferris wheel with you, if you know what I mean!

[Sorry, Hinata. He wants to ask about everything, to see if everything that happened actually happened, but at the same time...]

[troubadear]

... I do try to study some self-defence in my spare time, yes. A little 'parasol fu' works wonders on thugs and brigands. [Also she... has fire magic but it doesn't do to brag.]

Whyever do you ask, darling?

[swordboning]

As if anyone gets their dream job given to them here. My point still stands though. It's a popular job for people before they arrive here.

oh my god

[sugarcoats]

[Well that just won't do. Yogi is only going to tighten his grip on the box, because he would feel much better if Gareki never saw the contents and he could just pretend that this had never happened.]

That's right, it's really garbage. I think someone made a mistake when they were handing them out, you know? B-besides, this one is already opened so it's ruined and I really don't think it's your kind of thing at all! We could always find something else for you, instead!

[Something not terribly embarrassing and inappropriate that made Yogi truly, truly regret taking the 'gift' in the first place.]

a

[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee has just entered the area when he sees the lights go and hears Rise's scream... Immediately, he races into action.]

What is happening?! I... I will save you!!

Wildcard!

[fairbrook]

[!!!? It's that man from the theater. So what if she was bruised and slightly bleeding from the ghost attack? It wasn't about to stop Integra from padding her way over to Blackquill, as if unscathed.

More importantly, was that a bird upon his shoulder?]

My, what a handsome friend you have.

[Said chuckling. Priorities...]

[axilium]

[He blinks, still speechless for another few seconds.

... Even though it's only been a few days, her teasing is nostalgic. He didn't think he'd be hearing it again, frankly.]

You don't say—my utterly inability to contact you didn't make it clear enough.

[Or, for that matter, the fact that he watched her lose it in the crowd, though he supposes she wouldn't know about that.

Likewise, though, there's no real bite in his words.]

[defeets]

[Batted away just like that - it reminds Jae-ha faintly of Captain Gi-Gan and he swears that he feels his heart skip a beat. What a cool, strong guy.....]

I suppose I can see why, if this is their idea of a welcome party.

[And he's easily throwing another set of kunai to hit a number of Santa robots square in the face before they go crumbling down.

Anyway-]

You're rather unruffled though - could it be that this sort of thing happens often anyway?

[axilium]

... I can't believe you actually believe me.

phase i

[psycholawgy]

[ god what the hell THE CART IS TOTALLY SHAKING AND SHE'S FREAKING OUT INSIDE. thank god there's a window that she totally forced open to yell at him. ]

What do you think you're doing?! Get in here immediately, or else!

[spiritpearls]

The coldness is what makes it good! Otherwise it would be a... uh. Hotcone? And that'd be no fun, and definitely not suitable for a Christmas park.

[ She's mostly just sucking the flavor out and then eating the ice... ]

[bewrightback]

[It's like an everyday activity.

He takes the card and gives it a look of scrutiny.]

I've never seen this card before in my life. [Of course, he's not even trying not to sound like he's fibbing to mess with his precious daughter.]

no-phase;

[dereban]

[ Inaba over here is annoyed about this whole theme park thing -- why did she decide that this was a good idea? -- looking rather frazzled by the whole ordeal but otherwise unhurt for the most part. ]

I wish I knew when the bus times were... [ She seems to be doing something on her cellphone (yes, cellphone, not CEREVice) as she speaks, not even taking a glance at Trucy. Her voice sounds rather dull and bored, however. If she dares peek at what she's doing, it seems that she's spending her time idly typing a message in what seems to be complete gibberish to anybody who anyone who isn't familiar with programming. ]

But do you really want to walk all the way back? If you're bored though, maybe we can pass the time together while we wait.

[shacklebreaker]

[What about lighters that are guns?]

You're as persistent as the robots. Go on and ride the bumper cars yourself, if you so desire to.

ota.

[reuser]

» ᴘʜᴀsᴇ ɪ.

[ Pyrrha isn’t afraid of heights, fortunately, but she could do without the snake motif. Turning to whoever is seated next to her on the ferris wheel, she asks - ]

Do you hear that?

» вoɴυѕ.

—I don’t think this was meant for me.

[ Expression somewhat creased, Pyrrha frowns down at her ‘adult mistletoe’ - yeah, she knows what it is, and knows equally well it’s not something that she has any practical use for it right now. “Never knowing where a kiss will lead” is rather meaningless when you live the chase existence she does. Those thoughts, such as they are, aren’t so heavily considered and go thoroughly unvoiced. It feels rude to simply throw it out, but.

Pyrrha piles it gently across the closest trash bin, unprepared for the receptacle in question to rebuff her. ]

Human. I am overflowing. Remove your item at once or face the con - bzzt - sequences.

[ Sharing a wary glance at your character, yes, yours, she gingerly removes the present once more. ]

» ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ.

[ It’s Christmas, she’s around. Let’s all have ourselves a merry time! ]

[journaler]

... [Leia is uncharacteristically quiet for a moment. She manages a half smile, listening to the way she rants--an amused snort, before she replies.] Oh.

[She doesn't know what else to say. The girl looks fine, so she probably shouldn't press the issue, but the blood sure does raise a lot of questions. Maybe they're none of her business, but as a reporter, Leia's a naturally curious girl.

All that's out the window today, though. She takes a couple steps closer to look at the reindeer, which is a lot better than the mirrors, at least.]

I thought maybe you were attacked. This place isn't exactly safe.

sobs all over you

[hatsoff]

[Tadashi's honestly not paying as much attention as he normally would be. End of the world stuff is pretty preoccupying, though.

But it doesn't take much to pull him from his thoughts. This time, it was a voice-- a voice he knew very well, and was not excepting to hear.]

-- Baymax....? [He more or less said it to himself, wondering it he was just hearing things as he started to look around. It was as he turned, looking on to the line behind him, that he spotted the all too familiar robot several steps behind him....and next to him, his little brother. Needless to say, he couldn't be more relieved.]

[hamham]

[No, why are you here?!

But is that truly a question you are asking him? Are you really that nostalgic for his overlord bullshit? He crosses his arms with a confident smile.]

Kehehe...hardly yet, but it will soon be if it plans on housing me any longer! This world and all who inhabit it will not have long before both bend to my wishes. Already the influence from my mere presence is working its way deep into the core of this place...

[defeets]

[That's.... a really scary weapon, actually. Jae-ha watches the woman's actions in amazement and lust curiosity before he realizes that ah yes, the automated voice is speaking to him. Weird.... Could it be that he wouldn't hear her through her headwear?

There's a lot of questions that he has right now, okay.]

Also my first time. I was worried for a moment but it seems that you're handling yourself quite well, miss. Your weapon is definitely something else.