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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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[Maribelle, you are clearly the strongest of fine ladies, so you can bet she agrees! Look at that oozing charisma!]

You are right! I very much agree with your statement. Has there anything that you need help on? To deal with any obstacles in our path, we all should work together.

I think I do...well, I have a lot of brothers, but that is not something we do.

[Weird signs and gestures, sure, but not so much a brofist. And wow, gotta fix that idol hair.]

Yes, I certainly will not. I appreciate your understanding of the situation.

[He's unaware of the hole he dug himself into at the moment. Given he does not know the context of his new setting, he's unaware that they'd even think of giving people such items that could not be revealed to the public eye.]

I suppose with all the technology that I've been shown with my introduction to this place, it wouldn't be hard to believe that a few presses of some buttons and everything will be fixed.

[There's a small silence after his almost unseemingly calm response before he snaps.]

Do you believe that I'd accept such a reasoning with ease!? [If it came from Pascal, he would. From a stranger, no, not really. Clearly, he is not accepting of such a calm explanation. Who would so readily? Of course, he believes it's part of a hoax as well, but clearly it doesn't have him calm right now. That normally stoic expression is shaken up by this whole ordeal.]

((continued from here))

[Pascal’s placid response to him certainly threw him off, then again he didn’t think she’d exactly get embarrassed by all this. Still, the fact she’s telling him that it’s there so he practices such things safely. It’s with an awkward cough that Hubert discards both gifts on a nearby bench. He’s sure someone else will have a use for them – at least more than his and whatever wet dreams he might have.

So yeah, he’s not doing it.]

If you wish to satisfy your curiosity, you may. However, I have chosen not to.

[If one is a condom, based on the weight of the other one, it may very well be a bottle of lubricant.]

((cont'd from here))

I will probably wait until I reach my quarters until I choose to discard it. I don’t wish to offend them by discarding it in public.

[YOULOSTME.JPG, and this isn't even actual Nasubabble... She can tell that he thinks very highly of his friend though, and it's nice to hear, even if she doesn't know the person himself.

But wow, that's... certainly quite the title. If anything, it reaffirms that this boy is in no way Shinji, as was obvious from the beginning really. At the same time though, it also highlights just how utterly strange this is. Hearing something so dignified and proper being said with a voice so much like her brother's is so bizarre, it's almost like a joke.]

My name is Sakura Matou. It's nice to meet you. [She dips her head slightly, polite if nothing else. She almost wondered if she should've added a sir at the end of that, given his title. He looks around her age though, if not perhaps younger.

His question catches her somewhat off guard though. To be made so uncomfortable by a stranger through no fault of his own, and enough for it to be obvious at that... How embarrassing, not to mention rude. She gives a small smile, sheepish and apologetic.]

I'm alright, thank you. [SORT... OF..... While not looking horrendously uneasy anymore at least, she still doesn't look anywhere near comfortable.] I apologize if I've bothered you.

[THEN IT WAS DOOMED FROM THE START.............]

If it means not having to hear shit like that again, yeah, pretty much.

Sure. [She's no good when it comes to conventional greetings okay, sincere or otherwise. Still, that doesn't mean she's not down with someone who'll actually take her casual murder in stride.]

I might know something about that, yeah. [Even if her usual method for getting a non-blood covered dress is... different, to say the least.] There's plenty of stores in the city where you can find a dress.

Or you can probably find a sheet somewhere around here to steal and turn into a dress.

Who knows. But they're pretty funny, y'know?

[ Sitting on a nearby bench was Judai, arms sprawled out over the backrest while sitting in a rather comfy slouched position. In his lap was a tub of popcorn, half eaten. ]

Watch this.

[ He grabbed a single kernel from his bucket, not to eat it, but to accurately flick it right towards the snowman robot next to Ruca. Judai watched as it bounced from it's metallic head to the ground, laughing as the robot started to twirl around in anger at the sight of litter. ]

Interesting, right? It's like it has emotions of its own.

[Riku finally turns towards him, head tilting lightly at the badge. He's not sure what that's supposed to mean to him? Anyway, introductions.]

...Riku.

[Well, protecting people is a things Keybearer are supposed to do (even if Riku doesn't really know if. He really should be considered one. Is worthy to be considered one, given the Heartless in his Heart and the history that lead him there). It's just part of the service, really.

He doesn't hesitate to take the 'gift', shrugging lightly at her warning.]

If it did, we'd likely already have heard about it.

[Their presents look the same after all – it's seems a safe bet that her's wouldn't be the only one with explosives. Or that everyone present is patient enough to wait with opening it until they've made it home. In any case, Riku pulls the wrapping paper on one side and tilts the present so that whatever's inside will have an easy time sliding out into his three hand.]

...Uh.

[Okay. He has some inkling about what that's supposed to be, but. What the actual hell, CERES?! ...He is not sure what he's supposed to do with this, giving this stuff back to Rei may seem unsavory. Help?

(...He is so definitely going to burn his own.)]

[Well. Isn't that interesting.]

So, nobody has seen the Flamines before?

[Which is absolutely not surprising at all.]

What happened?

( from here )

[Riku shakes his head, glaring into the darkness before dropping out of stance and dismissing his spell after another moment.]

I don't sense anything at all.

[Which is. Weird. Even Nothingness has a smell after all. Even Nobodies have a presence that can be sensed. If there was another being in here with them, Riku should be able to tell, but...]

[Riku isn't bothered by the swaying, he just widens his footing a bit to keep in stance.]

I don't know. Even if not, I doubt it's friendly.

[Things that have fun breathing down your neck rarely are. And where Riku are from they usually try to eat you. Well. Steal your Heart. Same difference.]

[Riku turns to shoot the other a startled look, before realizing his mistake and shaking his head.]

He's not a robot in the fairytale; that's something CERES cooked up. In the story, he's an elderly man who lives up on the north pool, keeps track of all the children and whether they've been nice or naughty. Once a year, on Christmas Eve, he travels around the worlds on a sleight that's pulled by flying reindeers and delivers toys to nice children and coal to the naughty ones.

[...So much better than Robo!Santa, right? Either way, it's not real.]

[Riku nods – he hears the echo of his own words in hers, suddenly remembers the advice he's given months ago (the words and the familiarity of sands and sea – even if that was only the illusion of Castle Oblivion rather than the real thing – the feeling of her shoulder beneath his hand, but her name and face are still a blur).]

I know. I don't know how you are here, but if you hadn't I- I could remember.

[He can't yet, not quite, but... should he? He wants to, but... he also knows the reasons why he should be forgetting. If he remembers now, even worlds away, what will that mean for Sora?]

[Usually Riku would dodge that kind of assault(!?) pretty easily, there isn't really much space in the cart and he can't shrug her off without hurting her. Especially not while he's holding flame-shaped Darkness in his hands – which is why he dismisses the magic with a twist of his wrist while he glares at the girl through his blindfold as he tugs on his arm.]

Let go!

[He can't fight, if she's clinging to his dominant arm.]

[At the alarmed shout, Shinji whirls, fists lifting up in preparation as his eyes search for the cause of the alarm. It doesn't take too long before his eyes are locking onto the gruesome figure. The spectre grins eerily at them, sending a chill down Shinjiro's spine, then proceeds to shuffle sideways until it hits the next mirror—where it promptly disappears from sight.

Only to reappear in a mirror some 20 feet away.]

Shit. We aren't gonna be able to catch it if it moves itself around like that.

[They better come up with a plan quick though - the light flickers off for a split-second before coming back on, almost in a warning.]

[ she knows this pain, england... ]

Obviously not. [ she bristles slightly, a bit put off. this whole "your world" business doesn't sit right with her. she hates having any more proof that these ceres people are telling the truth. ]

[Yeah, he won't go on that one, then...] Who knows, they might... Ignorance or incompetence can only be an excuse for so long.

[ why the fuck would anyone talk to teeth, squee, what's wrong with you ]

Do you have a concussion or something? [ despite not being the one who HAD BEEN SHOVED... ] What's wrong with you, why aren't you speaking?

[ yata??? don't be a dick.

though he does seem somewhat genuinely sorry for his actions, at least, which causes weiss to soften a bit in turn. her tone, at least, is not nearly as sharp, and the tenseness in her shoulders relax. ]

Just be more careful next time.

[ she pats down her skirt, as if it had been ruffled in the first place. ]

Now what is this about CERES pulling similar stunts before?

[ try harder, belph. ]

You needn't be sensitive to have a sense of propriety. [ cue eyeroll. ] Though it would be asking too much of you to understand that, too.

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