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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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Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia | still ota!

[thatdamnknight]

[continued from here!]

anna

[thatdamnknight]

[flynn almost responds to the question. almost. then he catches sight of all the approaching girl's injuries and both question and robot get temporarily forgotten.]

Ah, are you all right?, miss?

[if those injuries are worse than they look then he'll happily find an infirmary to take her to! or at least heal her up if they aren't that bad.]

[sjokolade]

Yeah, I'm okay but nevermind me! Are you okay?

[She glances him over top to bottom. Despite the cheery accesory on his head, the guy looks anything but. With all those scratches, who could blame him?]

I mean, look at you! You're really scratched up; you should go have someone take at look you!

[thatdamnknight]

[that reply eases flynn's worry. the wounds must all be superficial then. thank goodness.]

I'm fine, you don't have to worry.

[as soon as he assures her of that, he casts a quick cure to heal up all those nasty looking scratches. it should be strong enough to take care of most, if not all of them.]

[sjokolade]

[Just as she was about to respond, her eyes widen at the glow that surrounding her. She didn't know what he was doing but as soon as it was over?]

W-Whoa, how did you do that? And my injures, they're all gone! What did you do?

judy 1/2

[thatdamnknight]

[flynn laughs. if only he could pull off a bold look like judy.]

This outfit is too over the top, isn't it?

[maybe he could find a way to take off the more useless bits and put them somewhe--

wait. take off......]

[thatdamnknight]

[that cheery expression turns into one of a deer caught in the headlights of a bulldozer in two seconds flat. that memory, the one he couldn't remember, slammed into his mind. nudity. orgy. the ladies...

OH GOD. WHAT EVEN IS THIS AND WHY DOES HE REMEMBER IT AND JGFDAAH. flynn's face turns into the most magnificent shade of red ever. his eyes accidentally land on judy and he instantly looks away, not able to look her in the eye. how could he??? his mind somehow saw something so private and intimate and WHY DOES HE RECALL SOMETHING SO INAPPROPRIATE??]

[brbwalking]

...

I'm sorry, did I just invoke a traumatic memory?

[ IS YOUR OUTFIT THAT EMBARRASSING?? ]

[thatdamnknight]

[YOUR LACK OF AN OUTFIT IN HIS BRAIN IS THE ISSUE HERE.

he brings a hand up to his face and rapidly shakes his head. it's a wonder that party hat didn't fly right off.]

N-no... It's not... I m-mean, yes y-you... but i-it's not...

[warning: flynn scifo.exe has encountered an error and is now shutting down.]

yuri

[thatdamnknight]

[at least a toaster is useful, unlike that running mouth. ...then again, even flynn can't argue it's too much. if the sun hit it just right, a whole village can get blinded.

thoughts on the hidden properties of his armor can come later. first thing first: deal with these mirror mirrors on the wall. they really give off a less than fairy tale vibe and yuri being serious only reinforces flynn's concern. something bad has to come out of this.

...hold on. that response... the wording of it doesn't sound right. 'how everything is'? how does yuri know what everything entails? flynn opens his mouth to ask--

and right then the lights go out while the mirrors shatter. before flynn has a chance to react, he gets hurled to the floor. like always, yuri was right: this isn't anything good.]

[fatalstriker]

[maybe it's because of where yuri is standing, but he manages to evade getting thrown back. his first instinct is to shield himself from any flying glass. of course, that's pretty short-lived when he hears the sound of flynn's body hitting the ground with force.]

Flynn! [snark goes right out the window when something is after his friend.] ...Dammit.

[it's too dark for yuri to see anything, reminding him of traversing through the underpass beneath dahngrest. except here there aren't aer torches to light the way even temporarily, and he's not exactly in any position to reach into his pocket to get his cerevice and use that as a flashlight.

so instead? he'll move blindly, sending the sheath of his sword flying somewhere (he'll retrieve it when the lights turn on, really) and heading in flynn's direction. he'll wait for a verbal cue though, just to make sure he doesn't end up doing a ghost wolf straight through flynn's toaster-armor.]

[thatdamnknight]

[said verbal cue comes in the form of a groan. hitting the ground with that much force causes flynn to see stars. is that brave vesperia? ah no, just a hallucination. what isn't a hallucination is the dangerous situation he's found himself in.

he tries to lift himself up only for dizziness to kick in. sitting up quickly had NOT been a good idea. ugh, this is going to leave him with a bad headache later.

okay, standing up can wait a few seconds. better wait than stand up and fall right back down. the sound of clanking somewhere in the distance reminds him of something else needing to be done first, anyway. he squints and glances around, attempting in vain to spot one particular thing in the darkness.]

Yuri... are you all right?

[worrying about friends, idiot friends with terrible luck especially, comes first always! but really, please let yuri be in a better state than he presently is. the last thing this situation needs is one of them being seriously hurt or unconscious.]

[fatalstriker]

I'm not the one who got laid out.

[which, of course, is yuri's way of saying "i'm fine and you should worry about yourself after that." but why say that out loud? it's not as if he needs to tell flynn his direct concerns—they've been friends long enough to be able to glean that much information, right?

it doesn't sound like flynn's terribly injured... he's conscious at least, and he's capable of handling himself. he's the one with more dedicated healing artes anyway, after all. for now, yuri needs to find whatever it was that attacked, which proves to be a difficult task in the pitch black of the room. he's squinting to try and make out something, anything—even just a shape will do. making out the sounds of an exact location is tough when the sounds reverberate and echo through the funhouse corridors. it's a wonder he hasn't gotten knocked back yet, but it's likely only a matter of time unless something else intervenes. it's just too damn dark for yuri to start swinging his sword blindly like that.]

andrAIa

[thatdamnknight]

[b-blondie? flynn blinks at the nickname. it's accurate but still...]

Which means nothing else can be done here.

[keyword: here. he doesn't sound ready to give this fight up just yet. one final frown gets sent at the robot before he smiles at his current company.]

Thank you for telling me all this, miss.

[pixelacious]

[ Well, until she figures out his actual name... ]

AndrAIa. It's nice to meet you...?

[ Now's as good a time as any for that. ]

[thatdamnknight]

[ah, yeah, introductions might help with that.]

Flynn Scifo. It's nice to meet you, too.

[an introduction complete with a charming smile!]

You're very well-informed about [a pause because whoops no idea what they're called.] these.

[flynn motions toward the robot. he can't help but frown at it once more. why would someone create it to ignore people needing assistance?]

[pixelacious]

Robots? I suppose. It seems that everyone has different levels of technical knowledge. You don't have them where you're from, I take it?

[ From what he'd been asking... ]

lily

[thatdamnknight]

[some are and some aren't? huh, that's confusing. before flynn can ask more on the subject, a question gets thrown at him instead. flynn can't help but smile. it's a normal, innocent inquiry that contrasts with everything else. it's just nice.]

Because I'm a knight.

[or was a knight? will be again when he gets back home?? something like that.]

[littlestbaskerville]

[The question is one that she really wants the answer to. So when she receives it she smiles again and bounces on the balls of her feet.]

You're the second knight I've met! The other was a lion!

Is the armor heavy?

[thatdamnknight]

[that gets a confused blink. lion? an imaginary friend, maybe?? because she can't really mean that somewhere out there exists a lion knight, can she?]

Well, this is ceremonial armor so it isn't that heavy. 40, maybe 50 pounds. My usual armor is about twice that.

[and then there's the commandant armor that'll soon be his. even flynn's dreading that weight of that stuff.]

[littlestbaskerville]

[Well, he looks human but he has lion ears and a tail and calls himself a lion, so he's a lion!]

It's that heavy?? Isn't hard to wear then...?

TAGS IN BELATEDLY SORRY FORGIVE ME... phase ii btw

[puerilely]

Hm?

[ Hope you weren't already spooked by the images in the mirrors, Flynn, because.. well, it's just getting worse from this point on. Shuu is practically popping up behind him out of nowhere, giggling like an omnious ghost despite looking very much human (yet not being that at all).

His hair decorations jingle a little bit as he lightly tilts his head. ]

What is what..? [ Shuu can totally see it, he just hopes the other guy gets funnily paranoid about whether it's really there or not, honestly. ] Can you see something? Come on, let me see too..!

YOU'RE JUST FASHIONABLY LATE IS ALL!!

[thatdamnknight]

[it takes a lot for someone to startle flynn. his guard remains up more often than not, but even so, this guy succeeds in making him spin around faster than any calm person would. a hand also instinctively reaches toward the hilt of his sword. what, another freaky addition to the creepiness? ah, no, a person. thank goodness. flynn almost breathes a sigh of relief.

almost.

what the man says makes any chance of relief go out the window. is...is he serious? flynn's brows furrow.]

You can't see that?

[he motions toward the mirrors with the freaky creatures in them. they're right there and impossible to miss!!]

THAT'S IT... THAT'S EXACTLY IT....

[puerilely]

Nope, nothing at all.

[ He can totally see it, Flynn, don't fall for it.. even if Shuu is pretty convincing at playing innocent when he feels like it. That smile on his face almost seems a little off all the same though, however.. ]

What am I supposed to see..? He-y, if it's a big deal, won't you tell me? [ Because maybe talking about it might get this guy more paranoid, and Shuu thinks that'd be hilarious to see, honestly. Free entertainment without having to turn on the tv!! ]

[thatdamnknight]

[Shame that Flynn buys into it and finds it super unnerving. Flynn frowns heavily, unsure of both himself as well as of this stranger. It's that smile that's so off-putting. Who would smile so cheerily when another is so on edge? Then again, some people do have the strangest sense of humor.]

There's odd creatures inside the mirrors.

[He brings a hand up to his head. A headache's coming on, he can feel it.]

Or maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me.

[Is he going crazy? Knightly duties have both been intense and made sleep take a backseat so is this just a result that? Sleep deprived + overworked = going crazy??]