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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 | Fire Emblem

[troubadear]

[Continued from here! If you owe me a tag from another thread, feel free to put it here too if that's easiest.]

Natalia

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

[Honestly, in close quarters, it may as well just be a heavy book. But at least she has her parasol as well?]

[Maribelle screams and jumps to her feet as her seat starts squirming beneath her.] It's- it's a snake!

[poised]

[Natalia grits her teeth, refusing to scream and let CERES get the better of her - just because she's convinced that this is their doing. She just settles for a frustrated noise, not entirely ladylike, and there's probably the vague thump of her fast impacting the scaly wall.]

This is absolutely absurd!

I refuse to see the end of my days as snake food!!

Trucy Wright

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

[She'd scold her but Trucy's friendliness can't help but remind Maribelle of a certain someone... And it's not as if she's being rude.]

... I suppose "Belle" is acceptable... I don't believe I've ever had a nickname before, you know, except for- [Stops because no, she is definitely not encouraging the spread of "Twinkles".]

[stagewright]

"Belle" is a great one! It means "beautiful" in French, you know!

[ She's not actually hitting on Maribelle, she's legitimately just sharing information...although that does sound like a pick up line, whoops. ]

Anyway, Belle, let's go and try to find some tea! Decent or otherwise. I'm sure we'll find something...

[ Or they can buy ice cream, whatever. ]

Naoki

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

I had assumed they had prepared it ahead of time. [Looks around curiously.] Considering the situation, though, I must say that this does seem like a strange use of assets.

[masakados]

Right? For people worried about alien destroyers and stuff. [But, Naoki sighs lightly:] It probably wouldn't be the first time. CERES is awfully laid back.

Elsa

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

It's absolutely horrid! [She's not stamping her foot BUT HER TONE IMPLIES IT] Especially if I am to believe all those despicable things I've been told! To be separated from my precious jewel and then told our home is fraught with danger- it's unforgivable!

[shivered]

It is... those things. I don't want to believe it at all. I don't want to believe my sister is gone. Or my kingdom.

So however it happens, we have to find our way back. TO the people and places that are important.

Yosuke

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

Do not let it trouble you too much, darling, very few men are worthy of the honour of thinking of Lissa. [And Yosuke isn't even close.]

Ylisse is the name of both the halidom I hail from and the continent it is situated within, darling. Though it used to be called Archanea, if that is any help. [It clears things up right away doesn't it]

[punchesyu]

[Oh yeah he totally knows where that is. As he looks at her with a dumbfounded stare.]

Uh, yeah, I'm gunna chalk that one up to freaky parallel universe crap. Do you guys use horse and buggy too?

[It's meant as a joke. Is it actually going to end up being a joke.]

Kaoru Nagumo

[troubadear]

[From here!]

Miss Maribelle will do just fine, darling. I'm very grateful for the offer, this whole ordeal is so far setting itself up to be quite the perplexing one.

[souredsweet]

There are still a number of things that we don't understand, to be honest... But if you need to know more about this city itself or how things work here, I can help with that.

Things like the inner-workings of CERES, though... [A brief headshake.] I don't know much about it.

Konoha's Beautiful Green Wild Beast

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

... Well. [Turns back to face him.] I can only encourage self improvement.

[niceguypose]

Well... [He smiles meekly.] My whole life, I have striven to improve myself! So, I value your encouragement!

Mary

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

A little, but not overwhelmingly so. You must have some with me one day. [...] Jasmine is an acceptable choice as well, I suppose.

[immobileyes]

Mm, I'd like that! ... Miss.

[ Right, you're still a stranger. ]

Yuri

[troubadear]

[From here]

I didn't spend my entire life at the top of an ivory tower, darling, no. [A little wry smile. There's probably some history she's missing.]

I suppose I could. [But she's already had one fight about classism she'll avoid a second.] Common or un, it's an interesting attraction, is it not?

[fatalstriker]

[it's probably for the better they get off the topic, anyway. he's not the sort that holds grudges or really even judges based on class unless he's given a real reason to. an annoying topic, even for a moment doesn't mean that he's going to assume the worst.

...even if he may be a bit skeptical for the time being. but yuri's smile indications little more than his willingness to move along with conversation.]

Yeah, you're not gonna see me arguing that. This is pretty new to me too... gotta wonder if it's really as nice as it seems, though. [trust nothing, maribelle. do yourself that favor now.]

continuing!!

[hoasen]

[From here!]

[Vietnam's eyes widen, just briefly, before a nod of approval.] It is still best to be careful, but you definitely have the perfect mindset to succeed.

[troubadear]

A fine lady must be ready to deal with any obstacles in her path, whatever the circumstances. I'm certain you agree. [Since so far Vietnam seems like a fine lady herself.]

Rei Hino

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

[One's bearing and noble character are more important than actual titles, darling. Maribelle only mentioned her own credentials since Rei sort of asked.]

Wonderful to meet you, Rei.

Meruru

[troubadear]

[Continued!]

My name is Maribelle. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mururu, I'm sure.

Malia Tate

[troubadear]

[Continued from here!]

[Whips her head to look at the window as it suddenly goes dark] But it was daylight just a few moments ago- Aah!

[ALSO JUMPS UP because her seat just moved under her? Automatically going to go to hit it with her parasol, probably bumping into Malia a bit as she tries to get away from whatever is hissing at them.] It's alive- there's something here!

Yuan

[troubadear]

[Continued from here]

[... Maribelle admirably resists the urge to make a pun about de"rides" at a theme park. Everyone applaud her restraint.]

They said they wanted to help us, but this cannot possibly have anything to do with those creatures the spoke of! [Yuan's bad mood is either catching or Maribelle needs very little excuse to become agitated. Maybe both.] What are we supposed to do with this?