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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

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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] allthreefourths 2015-03-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ goodness. it's with a hint of fatigue that hiccup and toothless are walking around. while the not!snoggletog carnival itself may have been a point of wonder at some part of the night, the lights and the questionable rides were a bit of a sour turn of events and, as hiccup's found... maybe so many people and so much noise was a little exhausting after a while.

so, he thinks maybe that's why toothless's stopped, ear-fins raised and entire body frozen as if looking for something. he doesn't think much of it at first, only offers a small hand on a scaly side to calm him down, muttering something along the lines of "I get it, bud, we'll leave soon"....

... until the dragon completely runs off in the direction he'd been staring at, and when hiccup turns in bewilderment at such a quick and departure that he's hardly ever seen, he suddenly understands. because now he's frozen too, as he thinks he catches sight of what toothless was so interested in.

the familiar dragon is one thing. the dragon's owner, who he knows so so well--is another.

all at once he feels a thousand and one emotions. relief and homesickness he knew he had but had been trying to avoid rushes into his chest; before he knows it, he's running right behind toothless. from behind astrid, the sound of rapid footsteps, before a familiar dragon bursts into the scene, huffing low sounds of excitement and slobbering astrid with licks, smiling toothlessly at stormfly.

hiccup slips in slowly as that big bundle of distraction is happening, gaze shifting between astrid and stormfly and back to astrid.

and, finally, he finds his voice: ]


That-- [ ah, no, the words are stuck in his throat that time. try again. ] That, unfortunately, doesn't wash off.

[ that's a joke, but it's not said with the same lighthearted, sarcastic tone he might've normally said it in. there's-- a lot there, maybe it's a little hoarse, as he tries to take everything in.

astrid is here. astrid is here, and he knew he missed her, but it looks like he didn't understand how much. ]
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[personal profile] braider 2015-03-26 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Stormfly had been as much on edge from all the unusualness as Astrid. When the dragon began stomping her feet and squawking, she wasn't immediately concerned, given she had been reacting similarly most of the day. But when the dragon started nudging at her to get her attention, Astrid finally turned to see what was going on.

Before she could even process what was coming, she was tackled by another dragon, and the licks began.]


-- Toothless? [The surprise in her voice is evident, but there's laughter too. Seeing Toothless was a relief, by far, but it was who was following the dragon that filled her with happiness for the first time since she found herself in this strange place.]

Hiccup. Gods-- [she doesn't even pause to get the dragon slobber off. The second she sees him, her feet leave the ground. She pulls him into a tight embrace without any hesitantion, burying her face in his chest.]

Thank Odin, you're here. I was so worried. [She barely wanted to admit it, but being here alone scared her, not to mention the fear of what had happened to everyone else. She didn't understand any of this. It was all way beyond her. She didn't like any of it still, but having Hiccup maybe everything seem maybe a little more bearable.]
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[personal profile] allthreefourths 2015-03-26 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ maybe on some other day hiccup might've made a smart comment about the wingsuit and getting slobber all over that, please astrid--but not today. instead, he returns the hug, tight and close and with some kind of relief that she's tangible, still somewhat in disbelief that she's actually here.

but she is. and now his voice is actually a tad bit shaky, because even if he didn't believe CERES's words about world destruction and everyone and everything he knew being dead, there was still some kind of uncertainty about everyone's fate. because there was drago, and there was all these things they didn't know about, and if they could take him what could they do to everyone else?

he tried not to think about it too much, but there was no avoiding that now. a small exhale. this was astrid. of course she'd be okay, of course. ]


Astrid. You're actually-- I can't believe-- [ he manages, gently. the number of times he's started a sentence in his mind with astrid, or dad. countless. words, words, words. so difficult. he resists stating that it's been months, knowing how confusing that can be.

calmly, haddock: ]


That makes two of us. But me, worrying you again. What a surprise, huh?

[ this is so different, but in some ways, the same. ]
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[personal profile] braider 2015-03-27 09:57 am (UTC)(link)