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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!!!

Comments

[faithfulflame]

Ghosts taking senses? That's new.

[She can't recall any Youma or Phages, or even lesser evil spirits that did such a thing. Shivering, Rei turns to face the strange man more fully, taking a breath to steady some darker memories brought on by just thinking of the battles that'd ended only so recently.]

Or were they more than just senses? And what do you mean by timed similarly? Forgive me for all the questions, I just...want to know what I'm dealing with.

[harepiece]

[He appreciates the lack of being called a weirdo to his face just a minute or so into a first meeting, at least... THANKS JAE-HA what a pal.

But, likewise, his expression becomes a little less animated at that. It's a serious topic, and he doesn't want any newcomer to be unprepared.]

There are a lot of people here who would say "no" to that, I think. I can't really disagree.

[deontology]

Yes, that would be wise.

[Farewell, trash bin...farewell. Sousei turns, arms crossed neatly behind his back as ever, and starts to stride off, trusting that Pyrrha will follow.

Robots and their personalities...it's one of the worst things about this place, really.]

I take it you have not had too much trouble with the... "rides". [r u ok, duckling]

[poised]

[They can both start walking toward the exit easily then, matching strides like the badass ladies they are.

Though Natalia is still curious-]

By the by, you didn't answer my earlier inquiry. Did you come from a battle....?

[faithfulflame]

It didn't sound like there was much reason for any of the locals to be dissenting like that though. I guess we should just wait. They can't leave us up here forever.

[Rei does the same, leaning back and looking out the window into the gathering darkness. Of course...it's a bit darker than she remembered even a few minutes ago.]

It's almost like there's smog too, I guess. Like you'd see on a bad morning.

[carptricks]

[snrks]

I'll happily try!







But I charge 100 credits per line.

[he's joking. is he joking? he's probably joking.]

[shacklebreaker]

Indeed, knightly chivalry and bushido have their similarities... But it is typically not a fellow warrior that a samurai fights for.

[He nods to Elza's weapon.] I assume it is legal here to bear swords in public?

He totally does. Both!

[unluckless]

Things like that. Recognizing the truth. Being better than all the disgusting mistakes w've made.

[Komaeda he has no idea what you're talking about unless he's already had the "so you were shsl despair" orientation, stop talking.]

I'm not sure how hard it will be. It's not something I have a lot of experience with. Though you could say I've been learning.

[Slowly.] In any case, you've just arrived. It must be confusing.

[poised]

[ . . . . it's rather entertaining to watch his reactions, so don't mind her if she obscures her giggles behind her hand as he spins around. Goodness, what a genuinely earnest person. At the very least, from what she can tell, all of his injuries disappeared and that's what really matters here.

And then he calls her amazing and she blinks, surprised, before smiling and giving him a nod in return! She can't help but be a bit charmed despite herself.]

It was my pleasure. It's really nothing much - you seemed like you had a difficult time in there, after all.

[Then she politely lays a hand over her chest before nodding in greeting.] My name is Natalia. Should you ever find yourself injured again and would like to forego a doctor's visit, please don't hesitate to contact me.

[spes_phthisica]

[It's hardly what Souji had been expecting either, really. Then again, going from arrival to hospital stay to a festival, he's not even sure what he's expecting anymore.

As it is, the undercurrent of tension in the stranger's voice makes him lift his head to look at him, dragging his sleeve across his mouth to wipe it. The fact that what was said was a statement rather than a question registers, and there is a familiar hint of fear there for a moment. Hide, hide, hide it from everyone, hide it from him-

But that's back home, and before there was no hiding it anymore. And before being told he isn't going to die after all, too. So while he still smiles in response, there is no quick head-shake or denial, no attempt to hastily change the subject or play ignorant.]

I'm afraid not, no. I've been told it's the kind that kills you - at least back where I was from. Here they say differently, though.

[carptricks]

[steps forward and crunches a piece of glass underneath his sneaker, all the while staring at the now-broken mirror dubiously]

Either that or the robots will get suck with the job. Can't say I feel too badly for 'em, though.

BC I LOVE YOU

[millionth]

[hiro — 

hiro takes a step backwards from tadashi, which he's done pretty much never in his life before now. if he looks like he's seen a ghost, he feels like one of his failed 'bots — like his software's gone all fuzzy and he's not processing anything right. because whatever he might think about aliens or space code or whatever, there's one thing hiro knows for sure: that when people die, they stay dead. period. so no matter how much this person might look like tadashi, or sound like tadashi, or might be giving him a tadashi kind of look...]

No. No way.

[defeets]

[Jae-ha is like the pal-est of pals. the ultra pal.]

So what's the situation here? There's no way out or way back home since our worlds are destroyed, right? But are we any closer to finding a solution to that?

[questions questions questions]

[faithfulflame]

Right...

[Still not doubting him, as she's seen one to many weird things in her time, she swivels and moves the communicator to the left, sweeping it over to the area behind him. he'd complained about feeling breathing too, so this was as good a start as any.]

I still don't see anything. Do you?

[carptricks]

. . .

[he just sighs and leans up against the window, arms folded]

Nevermind. It's a difference that can't really be explained. You've gotta experience it.

[bewrightback]

...

Don't quit your day job.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . stop knowing his name, it's weird. Tenka just blinks at that for a second before shaking his head at Pyrrha before beckoning her to come closer again.]

Do something worth loving and I'll see what I can do. Think you can take my friend's trash off her hands? Think it'd be real kind of you.

[Kumou Tenka: Garbage Can Whisperer]

[shivered]

[No, most of that is a mystery to Elsa, but she's diplomatic enough to offer a smile at the introduction anyway.] I'm Elsa. [Which doesn't sound nearly so informative as Trucy's, so she adds, hopefully,] Queen of Arendelle.

[Not that anyone knows Arendelle either.]

They have that tendency to be honest. You're lucky it's only a cut I think. [Well. And her hat is a casualty, but still. Elsa will snatch a few napkins from the nearest stand and a bottle of water -- which in her grip is growing colder, a slow frost spreading up the edges of it before she catches herself.] Here. We should sit down.

[shacklebreaker]

If I were to choose any sword at all... it would be one of the blades of Masamune. Even to hold such a sword would be an honour beyond compare.

Where are you going with this?

[deontology]

[That would be great if he wanted your admiration WHICH HE DOESN'T.

So instead, he focuses on the rest. That's easier, after all, and it seems as though they're approaching the end of the ride (thank god).]

Yes. That is precisely what they do. Further attempts to gain more information or explanations yield little of worth.

[He's so Done with it, even if he's as calm as ever as he explains.]

[shivered]

That sounds horrifying.

[The swords part mostly, when paired with all that blood. Somehow this girl seems fine though, so Elsa is trying not to spiral into worrying just now.] I'm glad you are. That looks like a lot of blood.

But... I'm not sure if you're newly arrived but you should be careful. These sorts of things happen here, I think. From what I've heard. Things go wrong and strange.

[deontology]

[beats him]

Presumably for the same reason they are willing to give robots at amusement parks dangerous weaponry.

[...for kicks?? Because they want them all dead??? The possibilities are endless.]

[shivered]

Me? No I've been here for... I think it's been almost two months by now. [Sometimes it feels hard to keep track.]

Not everything here is bad. Some of the people have been very kind, but it's a really strange place. And not always exactly safe.

[carptricks]

. . . future?

[Kaito quirks an eyebrow as he accepts his box of popcorn. that was a new one. . . then again, everything here was technically new]

Beats me. I don't know what kinda snacks you consider "strange" and "futuristic."

[faithfulflame]

Rei. And same, Mio-san. I arrived earlier today.

[The break in the yawing silence is definitely appreciated. Rei's never been much of a small-talker, but being around Usagi and Minako had opened her up a bit to just general background noise. Which was...problematic when you got used to it and it was suddenly gone.]

And it's beyond me too. Ferris Wheels are one thing. But all this talk about computer code?