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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
[ 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!!!


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[personal profile] tuberculosis 2015-03-26 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say there's nothing. But maybe that's where you and I differ. [souji shrugs a bit. even if it was just to go back and die eventually, souji would never give up on that notion. not of returning to kyoto, of seeing kondou again, of leading his unit and seeing things through on the battlefield as much as they could before it crashed and burned.

it does earn a bit of a curious gaze, though. there's so much about this conversation that edges in familiarity, that rings true for him—it's a very rare thing, and it leaves him somewhere between commiseration and discomfort. of course, he doesn't let any of that show in his expression despite the curiosity, which stems more from their direct course of conversation than anything else.]
I won't argue that it's like being imprisoned. They make it look pretty nice and give us a lot of things, but it doesn't matter much when the ones taking charge say "you're staying here, and that's out decision." Captivity is still captivity, after all.

[it's something souji is thoroughly unamused by, and has been for about a year now—first with haven, and now with cerealia. his loathing of large, modern corporations holding people from different worlds and times hostage is pretty real.] But who knows? You may find those people you're looking for if you can pull yourself together. Things are pretty busy here these days to the point that it's hard to keep track of. [meaning that he's not going to directly offer to help. he will help, but he's not verbally offering because that's just not his style.]
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[personal profile] spes_phthisica 2015-03-26 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Souji just smiles, because smiling is a lot easier than allowing weakness, it always has been. The only thing he has to fight for here is his own survival, his own ability to linger on until he can get back where he belongs. To die for one's own safety is quite the paradox, and he'll only fight for it if he needs to, and so... so he has no purpose, for now. Without Hijikata, without Kondou, without Tetsu, without any of his comrades, it's not so strange.

One hand closes briefly into a hard fist, however. It's bad enough to still have the prospect of being slowly imprisoned in one's own body praying on your mind, without having to be kept captive in a more literal sense until that time comes about.]
I don't really care for either prettiness or gifts that much, no... especially when they come at the price of my home and my freedom.

[Thankfully, he is good at reading between the lines, and good at understanding why someone would prefer not to outright offer such a thing - especially if you'd prefer to keep your motives to yourself.] Thank you. [It could just be thanks for the support he's been given, even as he seems able to straighten out properly and breathe easier, or perhaps just for the encouraging words.] You're right, of course. There is no point simply accepting the situation - my friends certainly wouldn't. If they have come here, they'll be looking. [He grimaces slightly, a strangely childish gesture, followed by a similarly juvenile little laugh.] Though in Yamazaki-san's case, probably just to feed me health food and lecture me about walking around outside.
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[personal profile] tuberculosis 2015-03-26 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[he may be an asshole a lot of the time, but his understanding of these sorts of circumstances allows him to be a little more understanding and empathetic towards his counterpart's circumstances.]

That's usually how it happens... we arrive at different times and find one another later, if our comrades are here with us. [it's a pretty simple truth. and usually when unfamiliar faces start to filter in, he goes on pretty high alert for people who either have never been here, or were here before and went missing. it's a force of habit now, one he doesn't even think twice about it when it happens.

which can't be said for hearing the name "yamazaki," which does further spark souji's curiosity. he's not jumping to any conclusions, of course, since there are plenty of people with that name in japan. still... it's hard not to take notice, when there are other similar circumstances at play.]
There's someone like that, hm? They must be a hassle if they'd go that far.
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[personal profile] spes_phthisica 2015-03-26 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[While it might not have been glaringly obvious before, there is definitely some tension draining away from Souji at those words, as if a great weight has been lessened somewhat. While he might have an unbending certainty to lean on, telling him that the others will come for him if he can't find them, that they'd never let him be alone... well, it's just nice to have someone else confirm it for him.]

That's good to know. To tell the truth, I haven't been on my own like this since I was nine, you know? It's a little bit scary.

[And that's probably not something he would admit to just any stranger, but somehow it's okay because he's fairly certain by now that he won't be pitied or fussed over. That makes it easier to speak freely.

He smiles a bit ruefully, shaking his head slightly.]
And, well, since he's the doctor meant to look after the men now, that's kind of his job. I don't like going against him much, because it might make people worry, but... I'm not the kind of person who can just sit around in bed all day, that's all.
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[personal profile] spes_phthisica 2015-03-26 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)