« 011 ⇢ event011.exe »

[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

[bozu]

[Aw, c'mon Hinata - it's just a little hand holding!!]

But what if something terrifying happens, and we need to run somewhere safe?
You wouldn't want me to get lost in these crowds, would you?

Or, what if we wanted to go somewhere that's more populated? Imagine getting separated somewhere like that!
You'd definitely need to hold my hand then!

[It sure is great having your friends back, eh, Hinata?]

[particularity]

[It's so great...

Yes... So great.]

T-that's... Well, we don't know if anything like that will happen yet, so we don't need to worry about that right now. And it's not so busy we'll lose track of each other here.

[Stop wanting to hold his hand so much!! He's actually tucking them in his pockets right now.]

[bozu]

Alright, alright, none of that then.
I'll just have to try something else...!

But for now, how about we go check out some of the food stalls? I'm not sure I can trust some of them, but...
Maybe the candy will be alright.

[You can take your hands back out, it's safe!! Gosh!!]

[particularity]

[Phew. Okay, he will-- but maybe not because it's a little cool out too and pockets are cozy.]

The food stalls? Okay. [Not a surprising decision, considering it's Hanamura-- He turns to start walking.]

Which should we check out first?

[bozu]

Well...

[He's gonna follow along behind, of course - looking around a little as he does so.]

I'm not sure we can trust any of the hot dog stands. The smells coming from them are none too friendly, after all...
Maybe funnel cakes? Those are difficult to mess up, after all - even you could make a good funnel cake!

[particularity]

'Even me'... I'm not bad at cooking, you know...

[He does most of it b/c he's been living with Komaeda for a year and a half and Komaeda has never quite mastered cooking, though to his credit he didn't start until they got here.

Still, some of the things he does to food... But shaking that aside, Hinata glances around until he spots a stand for funnel cakes.]

[bozu]

But are you good at cooking? It's easy to not be bad at it, but being good at it is a whole different animal!

[Does that even make sense? Probably not. But Teruteru knows what he's about, man.

Funnel cakes, though. Those are the important thing right now!]

At the very least, I know these should at least be edible, if not passable.
You'll take the first bite for me, right?

[particularity]

I think I am, at least... probably.

[Offended... vaguely... but not enough to get huffy about it because Teruteru would know.]

I'm testing if they're edible, am I? [Ah, guinea pig treatment. Familiar. If they're (for some reason) full of poison, Teruteru, he will come back to haunt you.]

[bozu]

Edible and worth eating, of course!

[Which means he's the one being ushered up to the stall.
Plus, it's a way to get around spending money on someone else's cooking.]

Order whatever kind you like!

[particularity]

[Teruteru's gonna get him to pay for this himself, isn't he... Well, he's got money, at least. Plus Komaeda goes to the casino sometimes and we can all realise how that'll work out.]

Okay, then--

[He'll just order their regular one, he's not too big on super fancy toppings.]

[bozu]

[How are you not rich thanks to him, Hinata -
Teruteru's going to happily stand tiptoe next to him though, quietly watching his order being made with a discerning eye.]

... A plain one, hmm? A deceptively simple choice!
Hopefully it's flavor will be good enough to make up for its lack of toppings...

[Or he'll be very disappointed. :( Funnel cake is so hard to mess up, seriously.]

[particularity]

[Because of mod restrictions tbh--

Hinata glances sidelong at Teruteru as he waits. Well. At least no-one will probably be able to slip in poison if they've got a coo--chef watching them so closely. Idle concerns about poison, no big.]

If it had too many toppings, I wouldn't be tasting the funnel cake, would I? [He was thinking of the best way here... also he doesn't want it to be too fancy. SIMPLE THINGS ARE GREAT.]

[bozu]

[That's absolutely true - everything would have to be pre-poisoned to get past Teruteru's eyes, since he's even mentally measuring out the ingredients that aren't premade while they work.
... Is that really a powdered egg substitute? Gross. He's even scrunching his nose a little at that.]

That's true, that's true - too many toppings could hide the gentle flavor of a well prepared funnel cake!
But then again, a plain funnel cake could be a little overwhelming on it's own, don't you think? Maybe it'd be best to get a cup of lemonade or something, too...

[Everything is being considered, here - from atmosphere to accompanying flavors!!]

[particularity]

[Teruteru what do you see, Hinata's kind of watching his expression so when he scrunches his nose he peers into the stall is it poison are they going to poison him???

--No. It's probably fine.]

Should I? [He'll take Teruteru's advice on it even if nooo all his money except no lemonade's not that expensive.]

[bozu]

Well, if you don't mind it being a little extra tart thanks to the sweetness of the cake - but something like that would be best with a sweet treat.

[So that's a yes.
... The oil they're using is really thick. Is it even fresh...?? More face scrunching.
Sorry, Hinata, you get to eat this by yourself.]

[particularity]

... [Okay, the more he scrunches his face the more concerned Hinata gets so he bows his head a little and speaks in an undertone.]

Hanamura... you keep making faces. Is it going to be safe for me to eat this...?

[bozu]

Hm? Oh - well...
Safe, sure. It's definitely safe to eat.

... But you're taking the first bite, okay?

[That's whispered back, of course - but he's not saying anything more than that.]

[particularity]

[gulp]

You're really not making me want to do this, oi...

[It probably won't be much longer and he can face his doom. Or, at least, slightly-below-Teruteru's-high-standards-food.]

[bozu]

[Considering they're dusting it with sugar now? It's definitely not much longer.]

You'll be alright, don't worry! Pretty unhappy, maybe, but alright.
It's a sacrifice someone has to make, you know - I'm glad you're taking such a bullet for me!
You're such a good friend!

[particularity]

[Sighs... He straightens up, waiting and accepting the funnel cake when it's passed over to him. Honestly, it's probably fine, isn't it? It's probably just as you'd expect from carnival food.]

Yeah, thanks, Hanamura... [Does he mean that... But he's going to take a bite of it anyhow.

...] ...it tastes good enough? [He's not particularly unhappy??]

[bozu]

... "Good enough"?

[You know that's not okay with Teruteru!! And his face reflects that thought entirely.]

If it's just "good enough", then it's really not worth eating...
I guess I'm not surprised, with how many substitutes they used. Not even real eggs... I'm not even sure the oil's real.

[particularity]

[Uh-oh he said the wrong thing-- but he was just being honest.]

I think most people have this kind of expectation for carnival food. They're not thinking that they're going to get anything too amazing.

...but I think they probably enjoy it anyway 'cause of the atmosphere. [Because it's fun, going to a carnival and eating food, it's kind of fresh...]

[bozu]

That's true... the atmosphere really effects the taste! It's part of the reason I go to things like carnivals in the first place; eating fairground food anywhere else just isn't the same!

But... they could have at least changed the oil first. I'm glad you were the one who bought it, because it definitely isn't something I'd spend my money on.

[No offense meant, as usual. Just speaking his mind!]

... Maybe we should try something else, too? I did see a stall offering churros not too far away...

[particularity]

[Would there be any place that Teruteru would spend his money on, though... Hinata looks down at the funnel cake... and then he sort of wraps it up. He'll keep it for later.

No sense wasting food!

Especially since Teruteru's talking about trying more...] Is it just going to be me trying them again...?

[bozu]

Only at first! Just until we find something I like.

[... That sounds like they'll be doing this with quite a few different stalls, doesn't it -]

There was an ice cream stand, too - but it might be a bit too chilly for that, maybe?
Of course, we could always do something physical and exciting to warm up afterward, hmhmhm!

Or we could go try to find the best candy apples in the park!
We'd have to hold them for a bit to soften the candy shell, of course, but it'd be worth it in the end!