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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: (dotards dotards dotards)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? An odd choice of title, for a blacksmith.
swordboning: (pic#8713736)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't my choice. It's just the class I was summoned as.
shacklebreaker: (eyes closed)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Meaning what, precisely...?
swordboning: (saber pls)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
This always ends up being a long explanation. I'm a heroic spirit that was summoned to fight in a war to obtain the Holy Grail. That's the short story.
shacklebreaker: [bullshit prison story goes here] (an inmate in the clink once said...)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...

A charming fairy tale, to be sure. Jests aside, what is the real explanation?
swordboning: (saber pls)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shrugging.]

I'm just going to leave it at that. Proving things is not something I'm much into.
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!]
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?
shacklebreaker: (pets burd)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
swordboning: (pic#8713735)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
One of his fabled demon blades. If I said I could present to you Honjo Masamune, the lost sword, would that count as evidence or would you yell some kind of objection?
shacklebreaker: (hahaha u funny)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Demon blades? No, by all accounts, Masamune's are considered holy blades, and Muramasa's the demonic.

...But if you suggested such a thing, I'd think you were stark raving mad, or else skilled in producing convincing replicas.
swordboning: (pic#8713745)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You would be surprised how close you are.

That is to say, it's not about producing the real thing. It's about how it's done.

[He holds out his hand and with the signature light forming into a solid blade and noise of it popping into existence, the lost blade appears in his hand. Who knows where it went, probably to an American officer who didn't realize its significance. But hey...

...it's a replica that would fool even the original owners.]


Here.
Edited 2015-03-23 23:32 (UTC)
shacklebreaker: (wounded)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-23 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Bloody hell! How did you...?

[And now he's the one wondering if he's gone raving mad. Did he really just see a blade conjured out of nowhere? It defies any and all rational explanations he's been trying to stick to until now.

Nonetheless, his curiosity gets the better of him. So he takes it carefully, turning it over in his hands with an expression of atonishment.]


Even as a replica, the craftsmanship is superb...
swordboning: (one time i punched shirou in the jaw)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-23 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The answer is fairly simple. I'm a Blacksmith Heroic Spirit. While other heroic spirits may have weapons to their name, I'm the ultimate in mimicry, having created over a thousand legendary blades.
shacklebreaker: (???)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-24 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Blackquill looks a combination of shellshocked, and like Christmas has come early.]

It still sounds absurd, and yet... [...He's holding the evidence that it has to be true. He'll have to put its quality to the test later, in a place less crowded than a fairground.]

...Very well, let's assume for a moment that I now believe your story. What was that you mentioned about the Holy Grail?
swordboning: (pic#8713735)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-24 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
A magical object that will grant whoever wins it a single wish, no matter what that wish is. It only appears after all other competitors have been eliminated so cheating isn't an option. It's a fairly evil object and, as far as I'm aware, has been destroyed.
shacklebreaker: (arms crossed)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-24 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmph... Even if the object itself isn't evil, the fact it inspires those who know of it to evil deeds is enough. I learned such a lesson in a case I prosecuted not long ago.

[He hooks the sword through his belt. There'll be plenty of time to fanboy over it later.]

But if you say it was evil, why was it that you were willing to fight to claim it, regardless?
swordboning: (pic#8713735)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-24 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't willing. I simply had my own goals that could be completed in the same place and time. [None that he'd be willing to talk about.] Either way, the object was corrupted. I get the feeling that if a wish was made, it would have been twisted in the worst possible way.
shacklebreaker: (holding taka)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-24 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if such an object could be used to undo the destruction inflicted on all our worlds... Though such speculation is neither here nor there, if it was destroyed.

[And if it was corrupted... well. Maybe the worlds are better left the way they are.]
swordboning: (pic#8713738)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-24 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You believe what they told you? [Clearly he doesn't at all.] World destruction doesn't happen like that. Especially where I happen to be from. No, I doubt they're telling the truth.
shacklebreaker: (delicious feather omnom)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-25 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's a story no more or less unbelievable than anything else I've encountered here.

[In other words, he's sceptical, but so far has no alternative but to believe them, with such limited information.]

Have you any evidence to believe they're lying?
swordboning: (idiots 'r' u)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-25 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing but personal knowledge, which I can already tell would not be enough for you.
shacklebreaker: (neutral)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-25 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Share it anyway. Testimony has its own merits.
swordboning: (pic#8713743)

[personal profile] swordboning 2015-03-25 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I can't speak for other worlds but where I'm from, humanity has quite a few safeguards against complete destruction. Some of these safeguards are powerful enough to kill other planets if necessary. While I'm not among those who are that powerful, I'm one of those safeguards and I can assure you, I don't remember combatting any destructive menace.
shacklebreaker: wait that's edgeworth's thing (ngoooooooooooh!!)

[personal profile] shacklebreaker 2015-03-25 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Aaand Archer called it, Blackquill is right back to thinking he's talking to a raving lunatic. He can only suspend his disbelief so far.]

Who do you think you are, some manner of superhero...?

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