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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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Um... Yeah. Listen to the scary bird-man, Snowtron 5000.

...What if we give you a hug after you answer our questions?

You mean getting kidnapped and thrown into a vehicle? Yeah, it has.

[ He sounds oddly calm though. It's probably just an exaggeration.

...

Probably. ]

[Lee can't help but have an odd feeling as well, but he's trying to be strong! He's a little nervous from the hold on his shirt, at the same time.]

A-ah... I am sure that there is nothing to worry about. I... I am a ninja, and I can defeat most foes easily!

[What if Mary goes on these rides Elza's feeling frazzled thinking about it but he tries to rein that in for now.]

You're...involved with law enforcement where you're from, then? [His ears twitch forward.] It's true we don't have much sway at all, as far as I've seen in the time I've been here.

Hey, I'm not about to judge! You never know when something like that might come in handy.

[ Although she did just... hurl it. ]

[ weiss pauses, but only to regard the other woman who steps in to add in her two cents. she's a little thankful for the reprieve, actually, going a little red in the face from how much she'd been yelling. a nice breather will definitely help improve her mood some. ]

"Another"?

[ weiss eyes the woman a little. ]

What is that supposed to mean?

[ don't tell her these things are common! ]

So he got separated from his date somewhere inside this crazy place, but it’s all right, really. He’s brought his sword along. You know, the big one—just in case. What he wouldn’t give to just spend a cozy evening inside his joke of a ho—ahahaha, okay. He’s bored and lonely and very much a ho, but beyond that, you, lucky sir or madam, will be his date until further notice! Do you…

PHASE II. Visit the Funhouse?
“It’s like something out of a nightmare,” he mutters, brushing flakes of fake plastic snow off of his kimono. The cheerful reindeer singing is starting to grate on him; and it’s especially disconcerting in light of all the tacky holiday décor and eerie, smiling faces grinning at them from every corner.

He hadn’t been inclined to go inside in the first place—what with all that screaming he could hear from outside—but someone had insisted on making silly faces in the mirror and hell, it’s just a funhouse. It wasn’t going to kill him.

Those were probably screams of laughter back there, that’s all.

Ha. Hahahahaha…

On a normal day he’d be pretty okay with mirrors, since they are part and parcel of his job as a hairdresser and village bicycle, but these are just too much. Mirrors—especially the full length ones—had often seemed like doorways to him; and in here, that vague assumption could very well be true, though he quickly dismisses the thought as being too childish. Would horribly distorted versions of themselves from an alternate universe spring forth from the funhouse mirrors to attack them? Ha.

He catches a vague, shadowy movement from the corner of his eye and immediately whirls around, his hand raised midway through reaching for the sword strapped to his back. Someone has got to tell him he’s overreacting—or at least awake—because that thing that thing that thing that thing!!

“Hey!” The lights go out and in the midst of that shattering noise, there’s a heroic sort of shhing! as Koujaku draws his sword and holds it up in front of him, frantically searching in the dark and calling for his companion’s name before he gets hurled sideways and onto said companion.

PHASE III. Visit the Rocking Santacoaster?
After yelling at the snowman robots to get the funhouse checked out Koujaku’s summarily yanked away and into a different sort of attraction—one that would hopefully loosen him up a little. It’s no fun hanging around with a tightass in a carnival, after all. Maybe a quick ride on the fast track can jostle his nerves to some semblance of sanity.

Koujaku’s skeptical, but he’s also not letting his companion out of his sight. But maybe the roller coaster is too much excitement for an old fogey like him.

He’s already pulled his hairpin from his ponytail and stuck it between his teeth, after briefly explaining that he doesn’t want it falling out of the ride; and besides, he won’t be screaming. Or at least he’ll try very hard not to—that hairpin is a memento from his mother and incredibly precious. He might have even said as much.

All’s well as the ride commences, however, but once those bladed Santas start attacking them, he’s quick to spit his hairpin into the sled’s interior with a cry of “Look out!!” and throw himself over the person seated next to him, ostensibly to shield them from the swords.

Awww.

Too bad he can’t fight back though, since he was made to relinquish his sword at the start of the ride, dammit.

PHASE 0. Wildcard
He’ll be wandering around the place, trying (and failing) to stay out of trouble. Maybe you’ll find him staring wistfully at the Ferris Wheel or buying himself a funnel cake or getting into an argument with the ridiculously patient snowman robots. Try not to get too close, though. Loseritis is catching.

[ OOC : Prose or action is fine with me! ]

[ That description does sound pretty unpleasant. ]

I hope it works. [ If not for the man's own well-being, for the sake of the other people in the city. ]

And that was... a skill the leader of my clan possesses. I rarely use it, if I can help it. My name is Kotarou Fuuma, tenth generation head of the Fuuma clan. [ Currently standing shirtless in chilly weather and not really caring. ]

[Should I feel concerned about how common this answer is?!]

I meant more in the sense of there being other worlds...

But why exactly were you kidnapped, if it's alright to ask?

[There really are upsides and downsides to being this short. The upside is that not a lot of people take notice of Pharos.. The downside is that not a lot of people take notice of him. Pharos has had to quietly step out of the way of more people than he has had to before in his entire existence and it's unfortunate that he doesn't manage to dodge Hide in time entirely.

Whatever Hide dropped goes splat and Pharos eyes it for a second before glancing up at Hide.]

My apologies.

[ omg lloyd don't be such a wuss, she's just a tiny little girl.

with the deathgrip of a vice. ]

Is that all you're concerned about?

I can't say that I am. My world was already having its fair share of problems, and now something completely unprompted?

[ They were already dealing with a killer space octopus, the Flamines had best wait their turn. ]

Well, let's just say that I don't tend to take things at face-value.

[ He's going to apologize but the moment Gareki kicks that poor abused Snowtron 5000 back at him, that apology vaporizes with it. Way to overreact, stranger. The Haro that has been hiding behind Tieria all this while bounces around blaring in a loud electronic voice at the incoming danger as Tieria dodges it like the Combat Type Innovade he is. ] ENEMY ATTACK! ENEMY ATTACK! DANGER! DANGER!

I could say the same about you. [ Pot. Kettle. And Snowtron 5000 collides with one of it's own, to the surprise of other visitors. ]

[He blinks for a moment as the cards disappear; it's one he's seen plenty before, but only from one person.

...He definitely shouldn't meet Trucy.]

You know, that one's not so bad? Some confidence can go a long way in a crisis. I should have you writing all my lines!

[ don't you talk to her about scars, gareki, rude.

also she is SO offended, or she would be, had she known he thought she was part of the show. she dresses way better than these santas, thank you very much! ]

What is that supposed to mean?

[ she'd been ready to fend them all off to save them all, but if this is the thanks she's going to get...!

... not that she'd stop just because people are ungrateful. but she doesn't have to be pleased about it. ]

... My, my.

[ That object actually turns out to be breathing, and Judith looks down at the guy grasping her waist with very faint bemusement, before she speaks up once more. ]

I admire your confidence, Apollo Justice, but maybe you'd like to say that to my face?

[And taking a break means it could give time for them to get the manager! If there is one.

She fiddles with her snow cone, before sighing and frowning.] Unfortunately, it seems to be commonplace. [YEAH, IT IS COMMON, sorry snow queen.] When I first arrived, something strange happened too. It was quite fortunate that not everyone got hurt. [Aside from America dying, which she ended up being sad/mad/inner emotional rollercoaster.] They gave no real explanation either.

Why?

[There is genuine puzzlement in Pharos' voice as he looks up at Rise, having stepped off the bus a little bit after her. He doesn't understand why she's so angry about being presented with options to distract herself, isn't that what most humans would do?

Besides, there is no running away from the inevitable.]

Wouldn't you have died sooner or later anyway?

As much fun as it would be if it went fast, I'm fairly certain it won't break.

And if it does, hopefully you can land on your feet.

[ Well, she can't save everyone. ]

Why does everyone seem to think that that's a weapon?

[ She seriously wants to yell at something for making people uninformed about that sort of thing, but at the same time she kind of doesn't want to tell any more people what it is.. How annoying... ]

Is that usually how you react to a present?

[ She's a little curious, admittedly. ]

[Pharos didn't expect to experience... this when he stepped into the Fun House. And Yosuke clearly didn't either and as his Persona floats next to him, Pharos eyes track it from several feet away.

He doesn't look scared but rather fascinated, a small smile curled around his lips.]

Were you that worried?

So then I wouldn't just leave it alone! I'd investigate!

[ Funnel cake? Funnel cake...! After such a long day, all Yoon wants to do is sit down and have something to eat. Before that, of course, ordering said food would come first. So he's standing right beside Koujaku at the moment, patiently waiting for his turn to order... He can't help but be curious though, as he's still unused to most of the modern culture.

So, seeing that funnel cake really did make him perk brightly. Actually, most of the things pictured on the menu made him react the same way. He's very intrigued by the mysterious pancake-like food. They seem to vary in appearance due to the toppings... Anyway, as Koujaku is beside him, he might as well ask— ]

That looks really good. What's it called?

... Oh.

[ She stops her typing for a second, placing her cell back in her skirt pocket, trying to smile a little through it all. ]

I'm pretty sure they're not going to send you back to Powerpoint Hell. So, you're new, I'm assuming?

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