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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!!!


shacklebreaker: (:[)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you've struck your head and are jabbering nonsense, but very well. While I'm in there, why don't you go see to your wounds?

[He dismisses Taka, who flies away to find a high point to wait. No point dragging his hawk inside if it does turn out to be dangerous in there, one way or the other.]
deontology: (V.)

[personal profile] deontology 2015-03-23 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes, he's aware of that...if only evidence was easier to find. But nonetheless, it sounds too much like making excuses, which he also doesn't like to do.

So instead--]


They have twice before in my time here. Once following the "accidental" use of assassin robots on newcomers [that was fun, he was a newcomer for that one] and once following an attack by ghosts.
bozu: (For 10 minutes)

He needs like... a hug. and a snack.

[personal profile] bozu 2015-03-23 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Move forward... like the others. Right - as friends.
Being nice to each other, helping each other out, things like that!

[He sounds pretty dang unsure, of course.
Even pointedly ignoring the "helping hope blossom" thing, because damn if that's not going to be a sore spot literally forever.]


As long as you think you can be friends with me, I'm certain I can be friends with you, too.
After all, it shouldn't be hard, right?

[That's less of a question toward himself and more one pointed at Komaeda.
He does know how to be an actual friend, doesn't he...?]
remainingtwin: (Bury me underneath)

[personal profile] remainingtwin 2015-03-23 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That sort of thing isn't funny at all! [Her annoyance grows and she huffs, moving from kneeling to a crouch again.]

Maybe I should've just left you to get stepped on by someone else...
shacklebreaker: (you're an idiot and here's why)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid that to a lawyer, evidence is everything. I'll stand for naught else.

[Another thing to ask Athena about, in that case!]
deontology: (LXIV.)

[personal profile] deontology 2015-03-23 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Your tone makes me believe it wouldn't be you who had those problems.

[what a scary lady. he approves.]
swordboning: (pic#8713738)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine then. You're a swordsman. What's the one sword you always wished to have in your possession?
faithfulflame: (Rei Fuck Off Jadeite)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-03-23 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It was April when I left. Now Christmas? I wonder if I've gained or lost time.

[Rei snorts a breath and looks at the other girl. The question had a bit of a rhetorical edge to it, but the look she gives the stranger is pretty serious.]

And why? What was in it?
shacklebreaker: wait that's edgeworth's thing (ngoooooooooooh!!)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[what]

...A-accidental or not, why the devil do they have assassin robots?!
defeets: (» not bad for a girl)

[personal profile] defeets 2015-03-23 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[It comes vaguely as a surprise. Jae-ha can relate, to a certain degree. Before he found Awa all those years ago, he certainly didn't have anything precious in the village of Ryokuryuu. Rather, everything was just him looking for his escape and hoping that the outside world would have more for him.

So instead of calling it strange, he instead chooses to shake his head. That and lifting up their joined hands so that he can press his lips to the back of her hand.]


Perhaps.

But if you're unbothered by it.... I don't see the harm. Rather, I think as long as you keep your heart open to beautiful things now that you're here, maybe this world can hold that something precious that you're looking for.

[Jae-ha's inner monologue: Me. Pick me. I hope it's me.]
bozu: (for science)

[personal profile] bozu 2015-03-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha... if I had the means, I'd make you four whole bowls, just for you! But as it is... I'm not sure we're even allowed to leave the park just yet.

[Just don't ask him to make tonkatsu. That's off limits.
He's keeping an eye out as they walk, of course - scanning the stalls to see if they offer anything good...

And suddenly, he's grabbing Yosuke's arm and pointing at a small stall, hidden between two large and obnoxiously bright ones.]


Ah - that stall's selling pizza!! There's no such thing as bad pizza, let's go!
deontology: (XX.)

[personal profile] deontology 2015-03-23 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah...people who understand and don't make his life harder by asking pointless questions are people who earn positive points in his book.

Though he shakes his head at that, simply.]


Though the occurrences that happen here are often timed similarly, they are very different in nature. In that instance, each person was attacked by a ghost that took something from them in some form. For example, in my case, I was rendered deaf temporarily.

[It really just sucked.]
defeets: (» don't use the word moist)

before-hand

[personal profile] defeets 2015-03-23 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It all probably happens very quickly.

Jae-ha deliver a very swift, unrelenting kick to the snowman robot's face to knock it away from Yona and then the metal, robotic arms are replaced by Jae-ha's arm easily snaking its way around Yona's waist.]


So even these machines can be distinctly ugly.
defeets: (» the fuck did you say about my mom)

[personal profile] defeets 2015-03-23 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[But what's a chainsaw.]

That sounds.... dangerous?

[He's guessing.]
shacklebreaker: (taka is going to cut you)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No, a tour is not at all what we want. It is using derailing tactics again.

[And because he's beginning to lose his temper, and because hacking a robot to pieces is probably not a smart idea with so many other heavily-armed robots around, he turns away from the Snowtron 5000.]

We'll have to seek answers elsewhere, Wright-dono. It appears to follow only a select few conversation patterns.
beaconed: (013)

[personal profile] beaconed 2015-03-23 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha, please, Pyrrha, I-- holy dust it’s really not you.

[ His voice cracks and gets a little high-pitched at the sudden realization. He stands up immediately, or tries to anyway, but his sudden movements cause the cart to rock, and he ends up awkwardly falling in her lap. ]
faithfulflame: (Rei Noticing)

WHATEVA, WHATEVA

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-03-23 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rei turns at the sound of someone addressing her, and she's someone startled by the tongue click. That's a little rude, as far as she's concerned, but it's a good question. She stops mid stride and turns back to look up at the roller coaster, frowning. The fun house had been trouble enough, the Ferris Wheel somewhat disturbing. But those were on the ground.]

Perhaps not, on second thought.

[A sigh, and she turns back to the stranger, effecting a weak smile.]

I don't know what could've possessed me to think that would be any better than the last two I've tried.
punchesyu: (Yeah!  We're gunna kick that guy's ass!)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-03-23 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Pizza? [His ears perk up and he can barely make out the little stand that the short guy is pointing at, but he sees it.]

Sweet! You don't gotta tell me twice! Plus there's no line, go go! [And with that, he will happily, and quickly make the rounds over to the stand. The smell is so delicious, he's already drooling. Hopefully the smell matches the taste.]
poised: (✰ out there breaking hearts)

[personal profile] poised 2015-03-23 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly so.

[She's always down for helping people, to be honest. Though now she appears thoughtful as she recounts more names and counts them off on her fingers.]

Should I also be looking for.... Jae-ha, the green-haired man that likes to be punched, Zeno, the golden-haired boy, and.... Yona, the red-haired princess?

[She Knows.]
Edited 2015-03-23 22:43 (UTC)
shacklebreaker: (:[)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
For what reason?

[He's seen the robots here can be pushy, but he hasn't seen any of them being outright threatening -- not yet, anyway.]
bozu: (Soak 8 wooden skewers)

[personal profile] bozu 2015-03-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, go go!

[IKEEEEE - i mean

If there's one thing that can give Teruteru the energy to run, its food! Once they get up to the stand, it's obvious they have a few slices on display to show the kinds of pizza they offer - and it looks pretty dang good.
Because, well, it's pizza. Even bad pizza is pretty good.]


Ahh, so few toppings... but I'll have whatever you have! Let's get as many slices as we can!
deontology: (II.)

[personal profile] deontology 2015-03-23 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's...that's painfully impractical, boy, you need to invest in a proper sheath for your sword... but before he can even process that (why would you lose your sword if you needed to sheathe your sword), Sousei is left stepping forward a few more pages, bringing him inside the killer santa ring to join Jaune properly.

Why.]


...Fine. Then focus on using your shield to cause blunt damage when you can.

[It's blunt force that tends to knock them down and out, Sousei has noticed in his time here, even if he's painfully unfamiliar with robots otherwise; for now, though, he glances over at his new companion.]

We are not going to fight all of these. Concentrate your efforts on returning to the car.

[Sorry about the orders, it's the only way he knows how to speak in battle scenarios.

But Sousei will even start them off, stepping forward to slam his sheathed sword right at the join that connects Santa head to Santa body. The screws and bolts can't withstand that sort of precise pressure, and then a Santa head is popping off to fly...elsewhere. Hopefully not to where it'll hurt someone.]
poised: (✰ listen up fucker)

[personal profile] poised 2015-03-23 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a situation in which case you truly do have just about all the freedom you want. [She sighs faintly at that and waves a hand.] I have a job but to fill in the extra time, I work at the hospital. Some friends of mine are seeking to give swords lessons and others still just fill time with sparring.

At the very least, nothing stays dull for long.

[She says, as they reach the top of the ferris wheel and they stop suddenly, causing Natalia to grab onto the seat to keep herself from lurching forward and her expression turns into one of annoyance.]

Rather like this.
fairbrook: narben of lj; (I don't care-- I don't care;)

[personal profile] fairbrook 2015-03-23 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
If you insist.

[Despite that Integra proceeds to follow him, she does remove her cravat to use as a tourniquet of sorts. She wraps it neatly around her shoulder as she walks.]

You'll need this.

[After a moment of rummaging through her pocket, she dangles a rosary above his head. Sorry, she's not about to allow him to rush inside ill-prepared.]
Edited 2015-03-23 22:52 (UTC)
remainingtwin: (And if I fall I've learned)

[personal profile] remainingtwin 2015-03-23 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Opposite Rei's calm, Mio shifts uneasily in her seat, not comfortable with being stuck on this thing so high up in the air.]

It's beyond anything I've seen before. [The technology, she means. After a moment she realizes it might be a while before they get moving, and that just sitting in silence would be really awkward.]

Um, I'm Mio, by the way. I... just got here, I guess?