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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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[html why do you betray me]

Not at all. Can't say I'm into formalities much myself, honestly.

[Yuzu is just staring up at this guy in the tree. Why are there so many crazy people at this carnival? Why does this one look vaguely familiar? ~~those test drive memory suppressants are a hell of a drug.~~ She's tempted to just keep walking, but... the weird snowbots have guns, she's honestly a little worried about what will happen if he's spotted up there. So she'll just call up.]

Uh, hey? I don't think the tree is supposed to be a ride!

Heh? This?

[he glances down and shifts his injured leg slightly, before he looks up and flashes Sakura a reassuring smile]

Don't worry, I'm fine! It's just a few bruises. And it takes more than a spooky malfunctioning ride to keep me down for long.

[Look, he still needs a little time to practice his Gundam-eyes. He's not Hinata or Sonia, he wouldn't be able to understand the answer to "where is the bathroom", even if he could speak it. Because he can't.]

[But okay those are all animals, right? So obviously he didn't actually change the subject.]

I...had a dog when I was younger? Is what what you're asking?

[He's trying...]

[. . . Kaito?? admit to not being okay??? maybe when pigs evolve wings and learn how to fly. to him, though, a few bruises and a slight limp were nothing he couldn't handle]

I was in there, yeah. [a handwave; it's dismissive] But don't worry, I'm fine. No spooky haunted house is gonna knock me down for long.

I just wanted to make sure people knew what they were getting into if they decide to head inside themselves.

[HE WAS DOING SO WELL TAKING THE FLIRTATIOUSNESS AND SEXUAL INNUENDOS WITH GRACE, but that line elicits a DOT DOT DOT from him]

. . . nope! That's not at all the kind of magic I was talking about, but I'll give you credit for creativity.

[keep trying teruteru]

[in the meantime, Kaito waves his hand in the air, and within seconds he's holding a deck of cards that he definitely didn't have before]

But you're right; I was asking for myself. Mostly outta curiosity.

[ Right. Calling him a garbage Pokemon.

If this were anyone other than one of The Children, he would have lost his temper ages ago... ]

-- hey! That's not how it works at all!

[immediately scribbles over Shuu's name. someone here is territorial]

Go make your own sign, don't take over mine.

[ bouncing around in excitement as she is, she is almost certain when she hears her name - when she hears the voice saying her name, she's imagined it.

but even wound up as she is, she knows she hasn't. she turns, and her hands fly to her mouth, because tadashi is standing right there. alive and well, trying to smile like he knows she's going to have a bad reaction to seeing him.

and that's about the only reason she keeps it together.

their world had been destroyed, and some of them had been saved, she was told. she didn't stop for a moment to think that could mean - oh. ]

Tadashi? [ she says his name uncharacteristically quiet, like being overheard will invite reality to disrupt this moment that couldn't really be happening.

but it was, and so a split second later she throws her arms around him in an airtight hug. ] Oh my god, you - you're --

[. . . damn it Athena!1]

[and he proceeds to twirl said rose around in his fingers]

'Course I am! One hundred percent. You don't hafta look so surprised about it, though.

[ ver impressed indeed. ]

Oh, it's the BEST! You're just like a bird in the sky! The only view that's better is the sky ride.

[ which...she didn't see here, BUT THAT'S OKAY maybe the next robot christmas carnival that comes to town will have one. ]

[ Instead what he he does is teleport her to the ground. He counts to ten before he teleports himself down as well. In that time, it occurs to him that the Empress is alone; and since she was a little girl, she has never been alone. She has always had her friends nearby, as well as that ridiculous boy with the heart of a middle-aged nursemaid, Minamoto, chasing after her.

She is alone and afraid, in a strange place, so of course she's going to vent her anger about it upon him.

At the count of ten, he teleports down beside her. ]

Empress...

[ No, she hates that. She told him so, he recalls. He has always persisted in using the titles he dreamed up, because they are a thumb in the eye of BABEL, but in this place BABEL is less important. ]

Shiho-chan. I'm not your enemy. And I'm not the only other esper here.

[Yeah, let's just...leave the robot. Bye robot. Don't follow them...]

[Kuzuryuu shoves his hands in his pockets and falls into step next to Heung Soo. Well...falls in step as best he can with a boy who's quite literally a foot taller than him.]

Well that's just all kinds of reassuring. [You can practically feel the sarcasm radiating off his words.] Good to the people keeping us here are competent, and their judicial system is sane and rational.

[Kill all criminals, jeez, at least give them a trial before skipping straight to the execution! Maybe some jail time. Why have robots never heard of jailtime, why is it always just straight to the executions with them?]

[ oh goodness, such an emotional response! tears come to her own eyes when she sees just how glad this girl is that more people were saved. and she's right - people being saved is the best thing anyone could ask for! ]

I'm so glad that you're so glad! [ honey lemon grabs her hands, which is a totally normal thing to do with strangers when you're both crying with joy. ] I met other people on the bus who were new, too! I think there's a lot of us!

[there's a pause and a raised eyebrow as kaito debates asking about the "weird shit" that occurs at the top of the ferris wheel, but. . . well, Butch breezed past the topic as quickly as a car on the highway. and kaito wasn't one to pry]

[he'll worry about that later]

What, the term "uploaded?" [his gaze flickers away from Butch and towards the scenery laid out before them. already the view was affording him a broader look at the amusement park] Lemme guess. No computer back where you came from?

Coded...? [ well she did just arrive in a world where she arrived via video game sim or some such. maybe this is a piece of slang she'll pick up on soon! ]

Oh, thank you so much! My abuela gave it to me! [ and abuela was...she sucks in a breath, willing herself not to think about that now. they weren't gone, not really. just...temporarily out of reach to her. yes, that's all! she wears a determinedly positive smile. ]

Oh - I'm Honey Lemon, by the way. [ does andrAIa know handshakes, because here comes one! ]

[ honey is certainly no stranger to awkward smiles. ]

It's very nice to meet you, too, Ruca! It's...DEFINITELY overwhelming, but it could be worse! We're on our way to a carnival!

_{[She's right. It could've been worse.

A carnival...]}

Is it really a good time for things like that?

_{[He definitely isn't in a mood for carnivals.]}

[Cliff froze, holding his own breath for a beat before he dared to believe that they were potentially spared from an all-out battle in the middle of a ferris wheel car. The silence, for once, was reassuring.

He breathed again.]

...Do you think they're gone?

[His words were soft in the darkness, disbelief still evident in his tone.]

Where I am from, it is merely an affectionate term used to denote nothing in particular. [It's her catchphrase, Kuzuryuu, give her a break.] And besides, you have hardly offered me any alternative- am I supposed to shout "Hey, you!" like some common thug?

By the by, please do not even joke about us being wed. How very insolent of a boy such as yourself to mention such a thing.

[Clearly this is the start of a wonderful and mutually beneficial friendship]

You've gotta wonder what those guys are thinking on that front.

[He had mixed feelings as well-- he's met too many young people burdened with great responsibility to be comfortable with the trend continuing in this strange new world. There should at least be a few ethical standards in place-- but, with the circumstances as they were, it may have been for the better.

He shook his head.]

Guess all us old guys can do is try to keep 'em outta too much trouble, huh? I don't agree with recruiting teenage soldiers, but it is what it is.

Okay, first off: Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko. You never asked, nor did you offer your name in return so don't try and pin all the blame on me for that, but there you go. Now you have an alternative, and I'd appreciate it if you stuck to that. And secondly: I'm seventeen.

[Sort of. He's sort of seventeen...it's complicated. Virtual reality life. But whatever, the point is that he takes offense to being referred to as "a boy such as yourself" like he's a child compared to Maribelle or something. YOU'RE NOT THAT MUCH OLDER THAN HIM, MARIBELLE.]

Well, it's not really a bad time for one, either, is it? I mean, sure, we just found out our worlds were destroyed by aliens and everyone we know is gone and we're responsible for saving them, but...

[ okay, yeah, maybe it's not the best time for a carnival. STILL. ]

But that doesn't mean we can't make the most of our time!

[ Mireu's face lights up at that outburst. Here he was sitting down next to some grumpy looking guy to kill a few minutes of his boredom. He hadn't expected to hit the jackpot! It's just going to be that much better if he learns that his new friend and inventing instructor happens to know this guy too.

Leaning back in his seat, Mireu actually has to turn his head to the side for a moment to keep from laughing. Too rich. This reaction was just too good. Fifteen seconds to compose himself, and he's back in the game. ]

Why not? If they brought us all here with no problem, shouldn't they be able to fix a world or two with just a little more work?

Exactly! [ And the seriousness is lost again. ]

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