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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!!!

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[feytality]

pre-rides;

[You're probably getting assaulted by Snowtron 5000 for a hug. Maybe you're just standing nearby. But whatever happens, this strange girl is going to forego the hug and instead try to jump on the robot and climb it]

Forget the hugs! Aren't you supposed to be our chaperone? C'mon, give me a ride!

[This will end well.]

phase ii;

[This is certainly a fun and safe experience for all! Specters, howling, the lights going off while you're thrown bodily to the ground and assaulted. In fact, even after the lights come back on, the assault doesn't stop. You feel a foot flailing and kicking into your face--]

[Oh wait, it's just a loud teenage girl]

TAKE THAT, you evil elf! Go back to the toy workshop!

[It doesn't look like she's going to stop kicking you anytime soon]

phase iii;

[Well, this sure is a ride. Maya loudly screams with delight as the coaster shoots off (sorry, whoever's in there with her), but her excitement ends just as abruptly as the ride coming to a stop halfway through. And then the Santas advance...]

[She sends a furtive, desperate look at the people around her, and you, yes you, and then demands in a loud stage whisper:]

Which one of you was naughty?!

bonus;

[So, uh, at this point everyone's probably tired of all the rides and the so-called Santabot trying to get everyone to sit on its lap, huh? Surely, no one in their right mind would go back for another ride, especially without paying. Surely.]

[Well, about that.... A certain someone just tried to sneak into the ferris wheel, and said certain someone is now being faced down by snowman with machine guns. As if they were in the world's worst action movie]

C-Come on, guys, I was just testing you....! I wasn't really trying to get in! Ha ha! It was just a little joke! [As her pleading laughter gets increasingly nervous, they look like they're about to shoot. She looks like she's about to run for her life. What will you do? Help her? Move out of the way? Laugh from a safe distance? ALL OF THE ABOVE?]

[Whatever it is, it better be fast]

pre-rides

[sunshade]

[ oh god how many people from the park are showing up here, this is getting nuts ]

They aren't built for riding.

[ burger girl no ]

[feytality]

[Yes, she's definitely from the park!]

[Don't mind the bandana tying up her hair and complete lack of recognition as she waves and the robot calmly plucks her off and holds her out like a kitten]

Sure they are! I can stand on him and everything!

pre-rides.....

[souredsweet]

[This is Kaoru's immediate reaction to spotting Maya. Truly, if there wasn't so much obsessive dedication over being The Best Samaritan, Kaoru would be ollying right out in less time than it takes to blink.

BUT NO, alas, being stuck in Good Samaritan hell means preventing morons from doing moronic things. Exhibit A: trying to ride the robots that may or may not be armed?! MAYA PLEASE have a little self preservation! Approaching as cautiously as possible, but still staying outside of the range of any potential roboweapons or flailing limbs...]

Excuse me, miss... I don't believe they're here to carry people around. They function more like guards than chaperones.

[feytality]

[Wow, Maya has self-preservation, okay! It's a cuddly huggy robot, why would it be armed! Surely, all it wants to do is love people!]

[She squints from her vantage point half-climbed up the robot, this girl seems familiar somehow]

[But, oh:]

But he wants a hug! I'm just doing it from up here! [YEAH, THAT'S DEFINITELY WHAT'S GOING ON]

[souredsweet]

[who does maya think she's fooling though okay MAYA??]

It's dangerous, miss! You may fall—!

[Or the robot could MALFUNCTION AND BECOME MURDEROUS, same diff right...]

bonus!

[perfectstrike]

[Sometime before Peko knows The Bocchan has arrived, she's keeping an eye on the various festivities and trying to keep an ear out for any kind of loud disturbance. If there's any way to find Kuzuryuu, it's by following the sound of yelling.

But wait, no, that's a girl's voice, and it rather sounds panicked? And if there's anything Peko's learned here, it's that anyone who's being assaulted by CERES likely doesn't deserve it. Inconveniencing them is something she's rather looking for opportunities to do, after all, and whether it's smart or not (it's not), she's moving in at a sprint and drawing her katana in a single, clean swipe.

What happens next is pretty quick and damn near impossible to see. Did she slice their arms off? Just knock them out of the way long enough? Whatever happened, Maya's not really going to have time to look back, because Peko's roughly grabbing her arm with her free hand and yanking her after her.]

Come along!

[It's a sharply barked order. Keep up!]

[feytality]

[Peko is 100% absolutely right. Maya is totally innocent here, she did literally nothing to deserve such treatment, nothing at all!!]

[But, wow, Maya had just been about to run screaming before her savior swoops in to rescue her - SO COOOOOL!!! - and Maya automatically runs with her. She'd only seen Peko fight in those executions, and well. She didn't want to think about that.]

Peko, that was so cool! You totally sliced them like we're in an action movie! And now we're mkaing a breaking for it! We can't look back, 'cause everything's going to start exploding!

[perfectstrike]

[What-- what is this girl even saying. Peko's not sure she's following half of it, but she definitely heard her name, which is weird enough. She isn't about to stop to ask, though, instead keeping her tight grip on Maya's arm and yanking her into the closest closed-off area -- which is to say, a public restroom. Does it still feel like an action movie...

Peko keeps a careful watch at the door to make sure they're not being followed, but chances a glance back to ask,] How do you know my name?

pre-rides

[carptricks]

[. . . POPCORN.GIF]

[not literally as he hasn't acquired his box of popcorn just yet]

Come to think of it, they do make pretty good jungle gyms.

[feytality]

He wants a hug, right?! So I'm just giving it from a higher--[SHE'S DOING HER BEST TO GET UP THERE but the robot manages to get a hold of her]

Ack! Help!

Bonus

[troubadear]

[Maribelle has had quite enough of all these rides- the ferris wheel in particular. But just as she's getting ready to storm out of the park, there she spots a young woman in need of help!]

[... Well, what kind of lady would she be if she just stood by?] That is quite enough, you barbarians! [Planting herself firmly between Maya and the robots, parasol held rather aggressively in front of her.] Threatening young women in such a menacing way- how dare you! This is a highly disproportionate show of force in response to one small misdemeanor!

[feytality]

Yeah! [Maya pipes up, immediately hiding behind her savior, the amazing Maribelle, like the extremely tough person she is!] I didn't do anything! I'm totally innocent!

[Yeah, totally. On the other hand, the robots are unnmoved by Maribelle's badassness and Maya's pleas of innocence. They point their machine guns]

Step away from the offender. She must be dealt with.

[WHAT DO, MARIBELLE?]

bonus

[candycoating]

[ Okay, he does not know what a gun is, or why these people are waving them around, but he knows danger when he sees it. And ordinarily, he'd be just fine with sitting back and letting Maya solve her own problems, but this seems kind of... deathly dangerous. Damn his conscience, when it chooses to show up! ]

Yo, guards. My little sister was just trying to find something I left on the ride, and went back to find it. No harm, no foul, right? I don't think she found it yet, either.

[ Giving Maya the classic PLAY ALONG look. He doesn't know if metal machine men can be reasoned with, but it's worth giving a try. ]

[feytality]

[This is like something out of a Disney movie]

[Maya was preparing to do the (relatively) smart thing (for once) and flee, but when this mysterious guy comes to her rescue, well. She can recognize the play along look!]

[And immediately shifts behind him (hello, meatshield!) and gives the robots a winning smile]

Yeah! His feathered hat is really important to him, so I had to get it back no matter what!

[The robots, on the other hand, are definitely not impressed. They level their machineguns at the pair of them.]

Step away from the offender. Justice must be served.

phase iii;

[dereban]

I-- I'm pretty sure I haven't been naughty.

[ She brings her hands up in apology, most certain that she hasn't done anything completely horrible. ]

What about you?

[feytality]

It can't be me! [Those santas are looking so menacing...! Maya squirms in her seat, trying to get out] I'm always good! It's got to be you!

Fess up your naughty acts right now!

pre-rides

[dishonorstudent]

[ This poor weirdo... ]

In what world do you live in where chaperones carry you around like that?

[feytality]

[Every world is Maya's world, you're just living in it]

Every world should have big robot chaperones! It's called getting around in style--

[Oh, and she's getting plucked off by her scruff]

phase ii

[psycholawgy]

[ OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING ]

What's the big idea, you doofus?!

[ She sure can't see whom she's talking to, but she knows it's a doofus, anyway. She makes an attempt to grab at that leg whenever possible and flip and toss them onto the floor, herself included, as she locks her legs on the other person's body. Words are hard right now but she's trying to give the other a headlock. ]

[feytality]

I-I should be asking you that, doof-- [Yeah, Maya's a wimp, and also pretty small, so she's easy enough to flip over and headlock. She makes a half-winded squeak of protest as this MYSTERIOUS ASSAULTER completely snags her and headlocks her]

AAAAAH!

[The wild Maya has been defeated]

[Or has she?]

pre-rides

[sewayaku]

[ maybe he should be thanking her for keeping him from being the victim of another robotic assault. Maybe. Mostly, he's just shocked by the fact that she's choosing to climb all over it.

He stares at Maya with a flabbergasted expression for a moment before rushing up near the robot with twitching ears and holding his hands out, presumably for her to leap into. ]

Miss! Get down from there!

[feytality]

[I'm sorry, Sib]

pre-rides

[spiritpearls]

[ Is that Mystic Maya trying to ride the Snowtron 5000? Pearl doesn't even have time to notice that her older cousin suddenly seems younger, she's too busy rushing over to her. ]

Mystic Maya, don't! You could get hurt trying to ride that thing! [ Also maybe break the robot, but who cares about that. ]

[feytality]

CUTEST BABBY COUSIN EVER