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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)

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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 ❅"

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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. ]

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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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[Well, she has him there. There's no way he can refuse that without feeling guilty.]

... Fine. But only if you switch off the waterworks.

[ The tears are immediately shut off, and she drags Simon into the park. BLESS. ]

Great! Thanks, Simon! You won't regret this.

[ Though when people say stuff like that, the opposite usually happens. ]

[DRAGGED. What is his life.]

That will all depend on your skill as a driver, won't it?

[Yes, he's letting her take the wheel. And he's very sure he'll regret it.]

[ What makes you think she knows how to drive. And this is probably her like, second or third time at an amusement park. She has had zero practise in driving even a bumper car. ]

I don't think I have any.

[ SHE SAYS IT RATHER PROUDLY. She expects you to be proud of her too. :) ]

[As they join the line for the ride, Blackquill dismisses Taka, and the bird flies off to find somewhere quieter to roost for a while. Hawks and fairgrounds are not an ideal mixture.]

It's hardly rocket science. [...Though come to think of it, Athena is probably more familiar with rocket science than most people.] You press the pedal to accelerate, and use the wheel to steer, or to reverse if you become trapped.

[ No shit, Sherlock. Athena knows that much. ]

I know, but it doesn't mean that I'd be good at it.

Kind of like how you know you can wash the dishes, but you don't know if you're an expert at washing the dishes. For all you know, you're missing spots everywhere.

As he cleaned the dishes, one of the kitchen assistants I met in the clink would always say... "Persistence will scrub away the blood on one's hands, no matter how stubborn the stains may be."

So, too, will you succeed in driving if you apply yourself, experience or no.

[... Blackquill, please stop telling inappropriate prison stories. THERE ARE CHILDREN HERE]

[ SIMON NO...

Now Athena's face is permanently stuck this way. ]

Umm... I guess you made friends with the prison staff too, not just the other prisoners, huh?

No, he was a fellow inmate. He just happened to be assigned to work in the kitchens.

[ Just... shakes her head. ]

Unbelievable.

A- Anyway, what colour should we pick for the car? I was thinking yellow or blue.

Yellow is fine. We can blind our foes with such a bright colour as we charge into them.

Right on! You better get ready to be the best passenger around.

[ Time to poke at her moon earring as she thinks. ]

We better get you a job, too. Maybe something to distract the other cars. . .

I suppose Taka could attack the other cars...

[Although that might risk getting thrown off the ride. DECISIONS.]

That's Taka, not you, silly!

[ And that was actually pretty funny. Thanks Simon, she needed a laugh! ]

What if you yell at them? Just scream "Objection!" right before we hit them. That's sure to freak them out.

Or perhaps a well timed,

SILENCE!

would do the trick.

[He says it in such a menacing way that he frightens one of the kids on a bumper car near the line, sending them crashing into a barrier.]

... See? It is far more potent than your feeble objections.

Oooh, you asked for it.

[ With a matching pointing and accusatory finger.

This is totally getting a lot of attention from the other people in line, oops. And Athena quickly hides her face in her hands in shame. ]

... oh my gosh, I shouldn't have done that!

[brb laughing]

...Are you supposed to be distracting your foes, or distracting yourself with your own embarrassment?

[ Goes to turn her back on the crowd. NOT AS PLANNED. ]

(Why is today backfiring on me?)

We're going to hit them all, got it?!

Very well... I hope you're prepared.

[Because the current round of bumper cars have come to a stop, and their riders are vacating their cars.

Once the other riders have left the area and the gates are open to the line, Blackquill immediately heads for one of the yellow cars. He's intimidating enough that anyone else wanting to stake a claim on it quickly changes their mind and picks another colour -- if all that shouting wasn't enough to scare the other riders off already.]

[ Some of the other people also happen to loudly whisper that the two of them look suspicious and/or funny, so that's definitely a thing. It helps fuel Athena's random grudge against them.

Ha... ha...

She gets in the car and steps on the accelerator a couple of times, readying herself for the actual thing when the ride actually starts. Then she straps her seatbelt together by her waist. SO READY. ]

Seatbelts on!

[Blackquill ignores the whispering entirely; seven years of having one's reputation dragged through the mud tends to make one immune to it. In fact, he seems to take amusement in the fact they're intimidating the others around them.

She'll have to excuse being kind of cramped as he climbs in next to her, though, because these cars aren't at all designed for a giant like him. He straps himself in, and grins.]

We'll need them, to be sure, with you at the wheel.

[ Athena is a tiny, but they really don't fit in there. WHO CARES, IT'S TIME TO BUMP AND GRIND. Or whatever people would say!!!

The bell rings and the ride begins. The scent of burning rubber fills the air a bit, and the the antennae of the cars start sparking. Athena steps on the accelerator right away, and starts turning the wheel around. ]

Let's do this!

[ It doesn't take long for them to hit their first victim. ]

Take that!!!

[ Aaand now to find the next one... Athena's basically just driving around in circles, bumping into almost everything she can. ]

[The downside to driving around in circles means that they're staying in the centre of the track, making themselves a target for other drivers.]

Athena, behind y--!

[WHAM. Too late, they're hit.]

We must avenge ourselves! Quickly!

[... He might be taking this too seriously. NO ONE RAMS THEIR CAR AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.]

Why I oughta! [ She quickly steps on the pedal again to chase that car and hit them back, but then they get hit again by another car. ]

Ow— [ It was another yellow car! NOW IT'S PERSONAL. ]

Simon, remember their car numbers. We're putting them on target!

[He looks around for the numbers as they swerve away.]

Two and Five... Though it seems Two is now caught in a pile-up over there.

[There's a clump of four cars trapped in one corner, none of them able to move. Pfft, amateurs.]

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SILENCE!

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