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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!!!


littlestbaskerville: YAN YAN YAN (✿ i will pull your tangles out.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[That might be a good thing Lily's tummy will start to ache otherwise.]

...Never played that before!
scaryintuition: (pic#8956322)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's easy! I'll teach you.

[He grabs her hand this time and, instead of dragging her, allows her to walk besides him as he directs them to the game area.]
littlestbaskerville: YOU TOO FANG (✿ my sadness diminished to one-half.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! Teach me!

[Nearly running to the stand this time, she looks really excited. Just look at those prizes!]
scaryintuition: (depressed)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Hide saw it in Kaneki's eyes the moment realization dawned. There really was only one 'they' he could have been talking about after all. Even though he had been hesitant at first to go to the CCG. It would have been all too easy for Kaneki to get caught in the cross fire and end up killed or imprisoned. But Hide hadn't known any other way that would give his friend a big enough opportunity to escape.

After Kaneki disappeared after that, it had felt like the obvious thing to do, joining the CCG as a part timer. It was the one place where he could discover what his friend was up to and try to keep a step ahead of the investigation for Eye Patch. In the end, the fact that he had sent in that anonymous information had actually ended up aiding him. Marude-san had an interest in keeping him close, and Hide was able to exploit that to a point. Even to the point of being brought along on the raid. He wanted to say all of this Kaneki, to make him understand that he had done everything he could for him. But before he could, Kaneki was closing the space between them.

He was still for a moment, before he wrapped his arms around his friend and pulled him closer in a tight embrace. Hide dug his face into the side of Kaneki's neck in an attempt to hide his tears.]


I didn't know what else to do. I knew if was...a risk. But it was all I could do.
scaryintuition: (pic#8956285)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Alright. You just take a Frisbee and aim it at one of the bottles. [He gestures to the line of empty soda bottles lined up at the back of the booth.]

If you can knock down at least three then you'll get one of the smaller prizes. If you can knock down all six then you can get the big prize.
littlestbaskerville: you should've put a ring on it! (Default)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... [She looks at the person at the stand wanting to play.]

I wanna prize!
scaryintuition: (eager)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Hide grins and passed the guy at the stand his card to pay the game fee.]

Alright. Do your best!
littlestbaskerville: and i want sweets leT'S GET SOME SWEETS (✿ you will dance with me‚ yeah!)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Taking the Frisbee she tosses it and hits a bottle.]

I did it!
scaryintuition: (happy)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He claps.]

Good job, Lily! Do another. You need to knock down two more.
littlestbaskerville: ablublublu you're a meanie!! (✿ i'm just looking for the sky that i -)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Okay!

[She is focusing now...and tosses barely hitting one. She is actually doing pretty well. Then she misses on the next throw.]

Eh??
scaryintuition: (chin rubbing)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-05 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, that's too bad.

You want to go again?
littlestbaskerville: (pic#8737382)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
...kinda.

[She's stubborn and wants that damn fair prize!]
defeets: (» so many hot guys)

[personal profile] defeets 2015-04-05 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[mildly:]

You have... a very small idea of 'everyone', don't you?

[It's something that Jae-ha finds curious. Hak truly is the type of person to live directly based on what's in front of him, isn't he? Yet even Jae-ha for all that he claims independence, is worried over not yet finding Captain Gi-Gan....]
projections: (16)

[personal profile] projections 2015-04-05 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I don't want to believe them because that means we're stuck here.

I'll try asking around. I think that's all we can do until we learn more.
fortheprincess: (i can do anything you like)

[personal profile] fortheprincess 2015-04-05 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...When I was dragged here, I woke up in a completely destroyed Kouka. All of you, including the Princess, were lying unconscious on the ground.

[ No he doesn't want to admit that he thought they were dead--obviously not, if they're all here--but...really, he worried about you guys. Almost destroyed all of the robots getting in his way when he'd first arrived. ]
dimidiampura: (▷ Little things like words matter)

[personal profile] dimidiampura 2015-04-06 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Cue a bit of a disbelieving look on Kaneki's face, though it didn't last long and tapered off into one of a muted curiosity of sorts. Yes, perhaps people would naturally take it as demons don't exist and wouldn't believe such a outlandish claim, but what reason would this boy have to lie about that when he told people?

It didn't seem at all like something done for a cheap laugh, either. ]


...I wouldn't exactly call it stupidity, but more that people would prefer to live in ignorant bliss than accept the truth about what's new, confusing and scary to them.

[ Himself included. Mainly in when he became what he was now, he'd denied it left and right and starved himself to the point he nearly attacked his best friend which would have absolutely destroyed him. ]

That's probably why they don't believe you, and why most just won't say anything about it at all.

[ Oh, keep trying, Shuu. You're lucky if you get Kaneki to state outright what he is. ]
puerilely: maybe he's born with it maybe it's maybelline (cutest little shit of the sengoku era)

[personal profile] puerilely 2015-04-06 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's going to keep trying even if it takes harassing the other guy forever, quite possibly.. for someone with as short of an attention span as Shuu, he can be amazingly stubborn about these sort of things.

But hey, whatever, he can focus on this part of the conversation too. For now, anyway. ]


Isn't that the same as being stupid? [ To him, anyway. ] If you can't accept something that's right in front of you, then you're pretty dumb.. denying that sort of stuff's no use at all!
scaryintuition: (pic#9004855)

[personal profile] scaryintuition 2015-04-06 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
One more try, alright?

[He pays for her next round. It's a good thing he has a job waiting for him because he'll probably be broke before the day is done.]
shacklebreaker: tomodachi means taka (bosom buzzard bird buddy bro)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-04-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
That would be wise. Given our very existences hang in the balance, here, we cannot afford to make rash decisions with little to no information.
trafalgar: (pic#8290867)

[personal profile] trafalgar 2015-04-07 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's...not at all what he wanted to hear. He may have expected it to some extent, but still?! He rises to his feet as well, that frown of his ever-present.]

Which means their explanation is bullshit too.

[His reason for being here, rather. He's not comfortable enough to allow himself to be relieved just yet.]
unionjackoff: (you know i feel okay)

[personal profile] unionjackoff 2015-04-07 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, some people believe that, as well. [dusting off his sweatervest] We are told we can bring our worlds back somehow, but we are not told how to do that. We're supposed to play some virtual reality game, or some such nonsense.
defeets: (» ki-ja have you ever even met a girl)

[personal profile] defeets 2015-04-07 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay Hak, but you're not proving him wrong. That's.... that's still just a small band of 'everyone'. Their little group of 7, 8 if you count the squirrel.]

I saw similarly. [but also his pirate crew - damn this heart of his] But clearly you're all fine....

But what of the rest of Kouka?
littlestbaskerville: climbing up master glen's cloak brb (✿ on blood red stained silk sheets.)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-04-08 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
((Continued here Since the log is slowing my browser XD))
dimidiampura: (▷ Standing on the edge i'm alone.)

[personal profile] dimidiampura 2015-04-08 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ In the larger picture and scheme of things, it wouldn't matter if Hide worked for the CCG or not as he would never see him as anything other than his friend.

Hide had always done things in his best interests and in the end, if he would have listened to him regarding 'not having a chance' with Rize, the chance he'd still be happy and not so broken was quite likely. Then again... he'd been happy for a while after becoming a ghoul and seeing that not all ghouls were monsters, balancing both the human and ghoul lifestyle and somewhere along the line he'd crossed it with blood-soaked hands pulling him down into a darkness he didn't think he'd be able to escape from.

That world now was feeling less tangible; like he could reach for the light again and he drew in a shuddering breath as he felt tears prickling at the corners of his eyes and soon falling, unbidden. He felt so hopeless right now, but at the same time, it was like he could breathe again as everything landed in place with all that had happened, and how Hide not only accepted him but had seemingly been on his side from the beginning and trying to help him even at such a large risk. He could be killed for assisting a dangerous ghoul like him but what mattered past that was their friendship, that hand always on his back for support was always Hide.

How could he have been so stupid to have not seen the truth right there in front of him? ]


...You've... always been there to support me... I didn't... see it before, but... always. From the start... i've... been such an idiot.

[ Kaneki's voice was quiet, soft and defeated in his admittances, closing his eyes even as the tears fell. Touka had been right. Selfish as ever, huh? Claiming to protect others and failing to accept the feelings of others who tried hard to help and reached out to him. ]

I... didn't mean to shut you out... you... were left alone too and I... never considered that. I... I'm sorry...
fortheprincess: (i just wanna be deep in your love)

[personal profile] fortheprincess 2015-04-08 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Everything around me had been blown up in smoke.

[ He couldn't see a thing, really ]

Might be safe to say that it was an illusion, since everyone's here now. Except for Zeno.

[ There's a place in his heart that's worried about his village, all the folks they'd helped out along the way, Mundok... ]