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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: OVERFLOW OF THE 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. If this post goes into overflow, we will make a new one to deal with the ever-hated captcha! Worry not!

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[defeets]

[what the fuck is a CEO

Aside from that, Jae-ha is doing his best to keep up here. His pauses are just long enough for the information to sink in each time before he nods.]

Well that's useless.

[He'll agree with you there, Sousei.]

None of these things appear to be related to the Flamines at all? [He's not sure what a video game is but he knows what a game is and he doesn't see how that relates to aliens.] Have there even been any mentions or sightings of them?

[candycoating]

It'd be pretty hard to share a hallucination.

[ His own seat? Pretty terribly ruined, too. They're going to get in trouble with those weird little robot things, aren't they...

Well, nothing Gaius can't dodge. ]

[freed]

[it's the redhead in his too-close-for-comfort peripheral vision that jogs haru further out of his daze and he shakes his head with the brevity of a blink. ]

No. It's nothing...

[another pause, but this one is shorter and he starts walking again though he has to stop almost immediately, confronted with another dizzying set of funhouse mirrors and shadows.]

How--

[do we even get out of here he lets it hang in the air even as he impatiently walks back the way they came and adjusts his course just a little. it gets them a little farther anyway but oh right...this time when haru speaks he keeps walking,]

Why are you following me...

[it occurs to him there is probably only one way out but somehow it still bears asking. apparently, however, asking a person's NAME is off the docket.....

if we thought haruka nanase had better manners than this, we were wrong.

but we didn't really think he did anyway. really.

maybe he asks also because of the weird presence this stranger has -- some of it having to do with all that effort, not utterly lost on haru but certainly wasted since he just doesn't care. but not caring and failing to observe don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. on the edge of superficial pondering, he has time, even, to wonder if the hair is natural...]

[candycoating]

A system of ... explosions? So why doesn't the whole thing come apart?

[ Asking the real questions, here. If explosions were what really powered the thing, count on him never getting on again. ]

[civics]

The branch I command receives little in the way of funding. The amount of money and resources it takes to produce and power something like this-- [ He waves a hand around, motioning to the bus they're currently sitting in ] It would be more than beneficial.

[ Erwin is still amazed that something like this exists... And he's beginning to see that the world this man is from is so very different from his own ]

[prosecutory]

[He nods, his expression serious. Edgeworth is not joking, and he is obviously still peeved about this.]

Yes. That was how we were welcomed a few months ago.

[springful]

[Looking around carefully...]

That should be the last of them. For now, at least.

[candycoating]

Sort of. Not really my thing, but hey. If that's what you're into.

[ What would a weirdo like you want with balloons, anyway. ]

[good_ideas]

[If he was in his high school uniform, he could have been a Garbodor. But alas, we cannot all have what we want.

There's the familiar shift of teleportation and Shiho has to squint as she finds herself in the bright sunshine, feet lightly touching the ground.

And she counts to three before she looks back up at the newly-vacated passenger car, wondering where Hyoubu had gone. If she was worried at all, it was only because she was sure there was the very real possibility of him doing something strange in that car. When she gets to 6, she wonders if he hadn't been a part of the hypno, too.

At the very least, they could have made it Kaoru or Aoi or Minamoto.

So when he teleports down beside her and starts calling her Empress, and then Shiho-chan like they were close friends or something, she almost wonders if she should punch him again (partly out of annoyance and partly out of relief and annoyance at that relief).

Her eyes narrow at the mention of another esper.]

Who?

[Because it could be Aoi and Kaoru. But it could also be a ploy or even a PANDRA member.]

[candycoating]

You people in the future have some pretty extravagant ideas of what it means to make a 'ride'.

[ Back in my day, the only thing you rode were horses, and that's all you got. ]

[candycoating]

You know, the ruler. He used to be the prince, but then his sister, uh...

[ Forgive him, Chrom, wherever you are in the universe. ]

Fell off the face of the planet.

[prosecutory]

Yes, she did. [He nods.] I have other sources who told me of the future, but how I encountered them...is a much longer story. [CRAU.]

[good_ideas]

[Shiho enjoyed people like this, these people that just trusted others without a single thought.

And so she doesn't make any indication that she was the one, and instead looks very sympathetically at him.]

I can't. Ah, but then again, they have snake Ferris wheels and weird robots too, right? What's wrong with this place?

[Boo hoo.]

[wears my fist on your face!!]

[niceguypose]

[Honey Cool Lemon sounds more like a drink then anything but sure. Lee is definitely a captive audience. He keeps nodding along, and he looks up to the sky as she raises her hands up.]

That sounds... so amazing! It's even more like flying!! Do you think that we can find one here?!

[defeets]

[It's weird, to be honest. Multiple worlds have the same holiday? What are the odds? But he'll file away that bit of information for later.]

Ah, I see....! [He laughs faintly then and sees this as an opportunity.] Then, lovely miss, I suppose you can consider the hair pin a present from me to you.

How suitable for this quaint holiday.

[defeets]

You'd hit your defender?

[That seems a little questionable.]

[immobileyes]

You're terrifying...

[defeets]

[ . . . . . she does want to make money and he smiles slowly. Well, he can appreciate a cunning maneuver like that, though it doesn't escape his notice. Then as if he couldn't tell at all:]

How fitting then, for such a beautiful woman as you, Vietnam, to be surrounded by flowers for your job. Of course I'll pay you a visit.

As for your question, my name is Jae-ha and it's quite the pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[immobileyes]

[ ... Wow, Shiho, tell the Ferris Wheel how you really feel.

But Mary's still clinging like a fluffy-haired barnacle, and that's... when the light returns, and the seat is just that.

INNOCUOUS. ]

... W-what now?

[niceguypose]

Ah...! Is that so? So you have a brother here as well? It must be good that you have both ended up here! [He's an only child, but he knows from missing his team how it ca feel to be separated from people you're normally around all the time.]

We'll have to consider his favorites then as well!

sorry this is late!

[verified]

[ her smile turns sheepish as she shakes her head. ]

It's nothing that special, I still have a lot to learn in terms of coding. [ and hacking too, but that's probably not something she should say to someone she just met ] But I'm glad that I'd be in the right place!

[ you know, once they figure out how to get out of here. ]

And yeah, you're right. Even the device they gave us is more advanced than the standard cell phones we had back home.

[bewrightback]

[A 'dicey situation', chairs turning into snakes?! What is with this place...

He does spare a soft smile for Trucy as she approaches and pats the rim of her hat while looking towards Jae-ha.]

I'm glad you're alright, Trucy... I didn't imagine something that bad could have happened.

Thank you... Jae-ha. How did you manage to get her down from the top of a ferris wheel, anyway?

/chooses own adventure

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth hasn't completely left; he is giving the area around the entrance of the carnival a second look. But while he tries to see if he has overlooked any suspicious-looking nook and cranny, the flash of purple catches his eye.

A dragon. Making whale noises. This is his first time seeing something like it, especially after running into Hiccup and HIS dragon. Was this part of the carnival attractions? No, it seems more like this dragon is with this young woman. Slowly, he approaches her and clears his throat.]

Excuse me, is he - or she - yours?

[sewayaku]

Then... You're used to other monsters?

[ a raised eyebrow. People do come from the strangest places here.

As they continue to walk, the clutter of animatronics becomes less dense, and soon enough, they'll turn a corner with a light at the end - the light of outdoors. The horror is almost over! ]

[bewrightback]

Maybe there's ways we can help in gathering information. I am a defense attorney, after all, and I have some experience in investigating areas.