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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 ❅"

//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!!!

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[ if nothing else, his unending optimism over the situation is reassuring. ]

How can you be so sure?

[ she has to wonder, really, because half the time she struggles to stay positive about seemingly hopeless situations. weiss would like to think she's a fairly practical and realistic person, but that's sometimes just a fancy way of saying "negative," really. ]

[ He's not sure, it really is just blind optimism. What he is sure of, however, is that he can't be a failure anymore, not since his pep talk with Ruby in their first semester at Beacon. He still carries her words of wisdom to heart even today.

Truthfully, he's terrified, but it's no longer about him. If only he knew he was sharing a cart with the formidable Weiss Schnee instead of a frail little girl, because he does genuinely have faith in her abilities, even if he would want to rescue her all the same.

He clears his throat and answers as calmly as he can. ]

F-First... [ gulp. okay, maybe he's not as stoic as he believes. ]

First we have to take care of our immediate threat. [ He assumes that she noticed they're sitting on a giant fucking snake by now, oh god. ] On the count of three, we'll both stand up so I can turn and slay the... uh, you-know-who. [ or what ]

Make sure you're close to me, we gotta be aware of each other in the dark, okay?

Wait—

[ there is a tightening of the hand around his arm, and weiss attempts to turn to try and squint through the darkness as her supposed savior. she knows she's no damsel in distress here, but there's something to be said about being prepared. ]

That's your plan? How exactly do you plan on slaying it? You've got a weapon?

[ these are things she needs to know, so she can react accordingly, of course! safety first, jaune, and a carefully planned strategy next! ]

Of course, I do! I come from a generation of legendary heroes. [ He's almost breaking character as he says it. ]

Just trust me! [ He takes her little hand and squeezes, there's no time to go over the whole plan. ] Are you ready? I won't let anything happen to us! [ That last line almost sounds like a mantra to himself more than anything. ]

[ weiss had been ready to throw that little comment back in his face; it was all good and fine to play hero when it was just all talk, but actually throwing himself into danger when he shouldn't be is another thing entirely—

but then he goes and squeezes her hand like that, and weiss can't remember the last time she'd been given such a reassuring gesture before.

so she quiets before even realizing it, left to stand there with her hand still in the air from where he'd let it go. a moment passes, and then she belatedly realizes he's waiting for her okay.

with a quiet, almost shy mumble, she says: ] ...Yeah. Ready.

[ Well, Jaune Arc, time for your finest hour. ]

One.

Two...

Three!

[ His blood rushing and heartbeats so loud that they drown out the hissing noises, he immediately stands up, pulling the girl with him and into his chest. He keeps her pressed against him as he draws Crocea Mors, it would be a tragedy if he accidentally hit her in the middle of his sword-swinging frenzy after all.

The real tragedy here, however, is that before he can strike anything with his sword, the lights suddenly come back on and the cart is slowly starting to move again. ]

[ What the--? What just happened? Jaune looks down at his companion to see if she's okay, only for the penny to finally drop. Is this... this is... ah.

Well, hello there. ]

[ Jaune immediately lets go and starts screaming like a girl. Anyone from the outside would think that it's Weiss who's shrieking in despair. ]

--KYAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

[ it all happened in such a blur. one second, she feels like she'd only just agreed to this reckless plan, and the next she's suddenly pulled to her feet, pressed against a solid chest, slightly cold chest, and the next her vision is swimming from the sudden flood of light that fills the small space.

her knee-jerk reaction is to wince, cringe a little as the light stabs her eyes, still adjusting to the sudden shift. she can't immediately tell what's happening, what became of the snake they'd been about to slay, whether this light business had been his doing or not.

it takes her about a half-second longer than it takes him to blink away all those spots, and finally see who the other is... ]

[ but when she does, she can do little more than stare back in a similar, dumb-founded fashion. it couldn't have been more than a handful of seconds of stunned silence shared between them, the proximity even less so given she's still pressed against his chest plate (and suddenly the coldness makes sense now) but in that moment it seemed to stretch on endlessly because that's just how long it's taking weiss to make the connection between the gentle, encouraging, heroic jaune arc who'd taken pains to reassure her in the dark

and the silly, doofy, pathetic jaune arc she knows and occasionally tolerates. ]

[ .............

MUSTA BEEN A FLUKE. ]

My hero.

Weiss! [ The taller boy hunches down closer to her eye-level, almost like he’s inspecting her face to confirm whether she’s real or not. (You kind of have to in a place like this…)]

You—you’re alive! What happened here?! I thought there were… --are you okay? That was… we were… [ …holding hands. Oh, my. ]

[ this is highly insulting, you are only ten inches taller than her, YOU DON'T NEED TO CROUCH DOWN LIKE SHE'S A CHILD h-hmph

she leans back the second he does, though, nose wrinkling out of reflex. ]

Of course I'm alive. [ come on, it hadn't been that scary...

though cleary he means to speak more about the whole ~destroyed world~ shpiel— ]

Please try to refrain from being ridiculous.

[ weiss didn't even dare to believe that for a second, so she refuses to believe anyone else would, too.

ALSO IX-NAY ON THE ANDHOLDING-HAY. ]

S-Sorry! I'm just... really glad to see you're okay. [ and the fact that they're not surrounded by snakes. ]

Man, I thought I was stuck in here with some cute girl.....

[ --ahh, foot in mouth, jaune. ]

I mean, n-not that you're not! You are! I mean, you know what I mean!

[ weiss isn't sure how she manages to go from feeling mildly touched to mildly offended to incredibly exasperated within the span of a handful of seconds, but there you go.

"emotionally exhaustive" must be jaune arc's semblance.

midway through his stumbling, she lifts a hand to stop him or wave him off or something. ]

A filter, Jaune Arc. You might want to look into using one.

Hey, some people like honesty. It's what I like about you, too! [ Not that Jaune is a stranger to lying at all. ]

Well, I figure I got about five more minutes before they let us out and you never talk to me again. Can we... sit down and start this again?

[ there is a moment where weiss' nose wrinkles — what he likes about her, huh? sure. she knows what you like about her, jaune, it's right there on the back of her bolero.

it's the same reason anyone ever "likes" her, after all. ]

I suppose.

[ she casts a brief glance to the seat (just to make sure!) because reseating herself with all the grace a schnee possess (which is quite a lot). her hands fold neatly over her knees, blue eyes a little sharp as she watches him, matching the sharpness of her tone. ]

What was that supposed to mean, by the way? Why would I never talk to you again?

[ He follows along by seating himself beside her, although there's much more space between them than there was when they were in the dark. ]

Ah, y-you know... I always screw things up somehow, hah. I don't blame you if you're sick of seeing my face by now, that's all.

To be honest... I'm wondering what you think about all of this.

[ the space is noted and appreciated, but at the moment there is a chill that weiss doesn't recognize...

probably because it's not entirely coming from her this time. ]

Please.

[ the sharp word is tapered off with a scoff, punctuated with a roll of her eyes and the folding of her arms beneath her bust. the single word somehow sounds both dismissive and reassuring... if one were to squint really, really hard. ]

You may be annoying, and incredibly thick-headed, but you're still a friend, aren't you? [ she attempts to use the word as flippantly as possible, but there is a quick glance that she sends his way, almost as if seeking confirmation. a friend of a teammate that's totally her friend now is sort of her friend, aren't they? aren't they?? ] Plus, you may be one of the only people I know here, so why would I do something stupid like ignore you?

[ er. squint really hard.

his failed attempts as "wooing" her and her subsequent rejection of him is still quite fresh in her mind, after all, since (for her) it had only happened a few hours ago. not that weiss woudl like him to return to that zealousness, but this level of self-deprecation and dejection isn't exactly preferable, either. ]

I think this is all ridiculous. [ she assumes he means the larger picture, and not just their current misfortune. ] Destroyed worlds? Downloaded people? [ a scoff! ] Clearly someone fancies themselves clever, if they want to spin such a strange story for a kidnapping.

[ though while it makes sense why a schnee would be kidnapped, she can't really imagine why anyone would go to the lengths of kidnapping jaune... ]

[ WAIT, STOP, FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE SHE JUST SAID FOR NOW.

This is important. ]

You... think of me as a friend? Have I really been friendzoned? Th-this is... oh, Weiss, I'm gonna be the best friend you've ever had, you can count on me for anything, I promise I won't let you down! I'll never be too far away, I'm yours day and night!

Well, not so much nights because of work, but any other time around that!! Okay-- maybe not mornings either, I need to sleep in... it's okay, we'll work on a timetable. Oh, I'm saying "we" already! This feels great!

[ ......................... ]

[ "ruins moments," that's your semblance. ]

I can't believe I even allowed myself to doubt it...

[ grumble grumble. ANYWAY. ]

Can we focus, please?

Edited 2015-03-26 15:37 (UTC)

[ "climbs the eternal friendzone ladder to your cold lonely heart" more like it!! ]

--Oh, right, you were saying you think we were kidnapped? I don't think that's quite true. For starters, I heard some of our other friends have already been here for a while... but I don't remember them missing from our world, you know? Eh. I dunno. [ He's still psyched about Weiss wanting to be his friendddddd. ]

Besides, who would even kidnap me? [ Yes, he's aware of his value to the world. No need to keep it to yourself, snow angel. ]

[ well, at least she didn't say it...

even if there's a moment where she gives him a look that kind of says it well enough haha oops.

but in the next moment she is shrugging it off, waving a hand to dismiss his dismissal. ]

Guilty by association. Whoever's the brains behind this operation may have thought there was some worth to you due to your association with me.

[ ... not that... she's saying... you have no actual worth........ SHE JUST MEANS LIKE KIDNAPPING WORTH um

m-moving on— ]

Wait — some of the others are here? Like who?

Hey, if associating with you makes me guilty, then lock me up and throw away the key! I don't care what they do to me, I'll never deny our inseparable bond!

O-Of friendship, I mean. [ Don't get carried away, Jaune Arc. ]

But I heard that Yang has been here for a while now. Pyrrha's around as well, but she arrived with me at the same time.

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