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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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Carry over from here! New tags are also welcome

( PHASE Ø )

[ From being told that he's a piece of code, to being told that his world is no more, to— the infodumps in general, really: Fushimi is running with even less patience than usual. …and that isn't much to begin with.

He manages to sit through the lecture. The power point. The bus ride. But the second the snowman attempts to proclaim its affection, something in Fushimi snaps. He gives it an inscrutable look…then shoves it to the side, tickets in its grip sent flying in a flurry. He doesn't have time for this, he thinks— but he just makes the situation worse, since the other robots start to crowd around, some even brandishing their firearms. oops. ]

Tsk … [ to the unfortunate soul that happens to be caught up in the crossfire: ] You can deal with this, can't you.

( PHASE ? )

[ Amusement parks are a busy place, and Fushimi is well aware of this. As well aware of this as he is— it doesn't mean that he has to accept it, and as a result, it doesn't matter whether you're waiting in line for an attraction or admiring a view. Because regardless, to him: ]

You're in the way. [ even if he could do the reasonable thing and. sidestep you. walking around is hard…! ]

( BONUS PHASE )

[ It's tough luck trying to get Fushimi to accept most gifts if you were an acquaintance— it's much, much, tougher luck if you were a robot with dubious intentions.

So whoever you are, you now have that same gift he'd just received deposited into your hands. Apparently, Fushimi never got the memo regarding blatant re-gifting— or more accurately, he doesn't care. ]

Merry Christmas. [ That's all he has to say for himself— never mind that it's already a miracle that he's said something. Still. It doesn't make him any less rude?! ]

( PHASE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE )

( Hit me with your best shot! Fushimi can be found all over the amusement park as if he's searching for something, though he won't be caught enjoying any rides or attractions. But you can probably find him admiring chocolate bananas with a forlorn expression at some point in the day. probably!! )

Edited 2015-03-30 04:28 (UTC)

[Continued from here and whole post in general.]

phase I

[It's not that he particularly liked Ferris wheels - or that he loathed them, really. But when you were inexplicably dragged from your world - a world that, according to one of the shittiest power point presentations he'd ever seen was now gone - to what looked like Platinum Jail on steroids, you started to want some answers. And when you could find none on your eye level, you had to start looking somewhere else - somewhere higher.

'Sides, he was in an amusement park. He might as well try and amuse himself while working to figure out what the hell was going on. He wasn't in any particular rush, anyway; for what it was worth, he actually rather liked the look of the place - modern and techy, reminiscent of Rhyme.

Oh, and they sold fast food in some of the stands.

... He should have just stayed at the stands.

The nerve-grating slowness of the Ferris wheel was enough to draw a series of evenly paced tongue clicks and groans from the blonde. Really. The sloweness was enough to make the ride shitty - the blackout and the noises that followed weren't even needed to ruin his already apathetic mood.

And the chair hissing under his ass was definitely overkill.]

Tch.

[But he stands up on reflex anyway, fist pulled back for the briefest moment. An inhale, an exhale, and he releases a strike towards the hissing noises - and probably towards you, if you were unfortunate enough to be anywhere in the chair's general direction.

He's not sure if it's an actual snake or just some fucked up special effects trick at this point, but in either case, a good punch is never the wrong solution.]

during phase III

[When the crazed mechanical santas started their equally crazed series of assaults at the hapless crowd of roller-coaster goers, many passengers wasted no time shielding their heads and ducking as much as their sitting position would allow. That... was kind of the sensible thing to do, after all, when a mechanical mockery of a Christmas icon was out for your blood.

Yeah. Well, Noiz didn't get the memo.

When the assaults began, he stayed put, one arm raised to meet the blades as if in invitation. He was calm, quiet, and to anyone able to read expressions past the basics, curious as he waited for the inevitable impact.

Why?

... Why not?]

Come on.

[He was curious to see if he still bled.]

after phase III

[... So. It turned out that he did still bleed, despite the possible attempts by his fellow riders to stop his eccentric little test. That was interesting to know, certainly - it went to show that either this virtual reality was more advanced than most things he'd seen, or that it was not as virtual as they'd been made to believe.

Either way, he still didn't feel pain.

Which was probably why, when the ride was about to come to an end and the attacks ceased, he wasn't in any particular hurry to patch himself up despite the many, many cuts he'd received as a reminder of what happens when you don't dodge a sharp damn blade coming towards your face. He didn't mind them, really, and the only reason he reached towards his pocket to fish out a handkerchief was that it'd be mildly annoying if the blood clotted on his skin.

In fact, he minded so little, that when he couldn't find a handkerchief in his pocket as he'd expected, he didn't even bother to turn to look at what he reached for next. He felt a cloth of some sort brush against his fingers and absent-mindedly yanked it to start cleaning his arm.

... What? That was your hem, sleeve or other such article?

No big deal. You'll get it back after he's done, nicely red - and wet.

Come on, admit it; the old colour was boring, anyway.]

other

[Food.

... Food he didn't recognize - it wasn't pizza, pasta or any variation thereof - But still food. He wanted all of it.

But there was so much of it, and he couldn't really decide where to begin. And in his defense, usually he didn't really have to decide; for one reason or another, he'd always had the money needed to just buy things on a whim. And yes, he is tempted to do the same here - and it's not really worry that stops him so much as it is him wondering whether or not he'll like the taste of all this stuff here - and what to ask for when ordering.

That's when he spots you, and his brows raise when an idea plants itself in his head.]

Hey, you- [He takes a step closer, nodding towards whatever food item it is you're holding.] ... What's that?

Edited 2015-03-30 21:08 (UTC)

[continuations from here and still up for new tags!]

phase iii.

[ okay, the thing about getting blasted into smithereens by a giant snake god is that you don't expect to wake up again. so it's to koutarous's most unexpected surprise that he finds himself opening his eyes again. flashing lights, blinding white everywhere, and then-- people. lining the streets, chattering up and down, running away from .... white... things. thingies. look, he's from ye olde japan okay he doesn't know shit like this. but all he knows is that whatever this is pales in comparison to the weird dream he had about a bunch of pictures on thin air telling him that his world is destroyed, and even that pales to the fact that he got burnt to death by a giant snake, so. all in all, this afterlife is within the normal range of weird in any given day of koutarou's life (unlife now, i guess). account for awful things as usual, and move on.

and so he does. seeing as he's in hell and everyone's dead, he makes no real move to hide himself, opting to curiously examine (judge) the weird contraptions and the moving white thingies, not particularly caring if he bumped into people or found himself stared at (something about bandages and half a broken fox mask tends to make undead people stare, apparently, he doesn't know, they're dead too, why is this so weird), though he makes no move to actually talk to anyone either. this would've continued if it hadn't been for the weird... moving carriage that appears to move without the aid of horses or cows, which is odd enough on its own. the screams coming from the tunnels are also quite weird as well.

but hey, this is hell, and it's not like he can die again. he soon finds himself catapulting into the tunnels on that contraption, calmly holding onto his mask and... oddly enjoying himself, in a weird, non-emotive sort of way. this is weird, but the wind is nice against his bandages. if hell's got stuff like this, maybe he won't be bored here for an eternity or whatever.

that is, until the sword-wielding thingies come out, and he discovers another interesting thing about hell: things will try to kill him despite the fact that he's dead.

ok.

being shanking is what fuuma ninja does best, he gets right down to it. if he happens almost shank the person in the rollercoaster with him? well, he hadn't meant it, but hey, he'd take the extra carnage. ]

phase ?

[ you're probably just minding your own business, when suddenly-- bots flood your area. no i'm serious, snowmen brandishing swords are all up your wazoo, yelling christmas lyrics and trying (in vain) to stab the white-haired blur that moves past you, almost knocking you over. three seconds later, a large kunai shatters the top of a robot, and another three robots go the way of the dodo before the kunai all but pins your sleeve to a fucking wall--

the bandaged, white-haired guy lands on the ground in front of you, and then, through his half-broken fox mask, linefaces. with an impatient gesture of his hand: ]

Give it back.

[ yeah, he's expecting you to give back the weapon that just pinned you to a wall. he's a real charmer. ]

ALL AROUND THE PLACE

[ this is a choose your own adventure within a choose your own adventure, because this shitty old man crane sword is literally everywhere and wouldn't want to deprive anyone of his amazing (mildly upsetting) greetings:

a. doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing, but suddenly you've been lassooed by a string of christmas lights! where did he get those lights from? we just don't know, but there's a mysterious light-free patch of lights on that tree over and his sleeves are awfully bulging with things.

b. do you know what happens when seventeen ounces of blue raspberry slushie hits a rotating fan? i'm pretty sure you didn't want to, but surprise!! i mean, he was just playing with the ventilation of this ride over here and he had a slushie so he just had to try it. to add insult to injury, his white robes are as pristine as the day they came out of the wash, while you're probably look like you had an outbreak of blue measles. shitty crane is awful.

c. you could be being harrassed by a bunch of snowmen when this guy in a giant white honking kimono runs over the heads of the robots to sweep you up into his arms and runs the hell away with you, cackling all the while. surprised? don't be, because the real surprise starts when he starts bouncing you in his arms like a crazed juggler to the tune of 'jingle bells'. i can't believe.

d. if you think all of the above somehow wasn't enough trouble, try this-- as you're just innocently walking past one of the beautifully decorated christmas trees, there's a giant shout, followed by a resounding cackle, and suddenly there's this white-haired white-robed dude catapulting from a nearby ride to cling onto said tree like a crazy mofo. three seconds later, he's dropped to the ground with a splash of white sleeves, elegant and graceful, sweeping you to the side with a grin. the artistry of the moment is fully ruined when the tree comes crashing down a half second later.

invariably, however, each of these events will end with the man laughing with a twinkle in his golden eyes, mischief written all over what would've been a very serene and composed face if it weren't for the giant shit-eating grin he's wearing. ]

Haha, were you surprised?

Edited 2015-04-02 05:46 (UTC)

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