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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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Shiho overflow

[good_ideas]

[Continued from here as well as replies where applicable! If you'd still like to start something, that's fine too.]

Malia

[good_ideas]

[Shiho doesn't want to trust Malia, but too bad she has no choice in the matter...]

Of course, they do! But they're supposed to test them! And put crash-test dummies or willing volunteers into them to see if they'll break!

[...........and what was that. Breathing on her.]

[scenting]

Yeah, well. I guess they didn't.

[ and malia goes back to being entirely unconcerned until that... breath... she reacts immediately, balling a fist and punching behind her.

except well, there's nothing there, is there? so malia toootally just put a hole right through the metal wall of the ferris wheel cart. ... at least there's daylight now? ]

What the hell?

[good_ideas]

[W...ow....


That is actually surprisingly helpful. Especially as the circle of daylight, fist-sized as it is, shows that there isn't anything. (In that little circle of light, anyway).

That doesn't stop the hissing though.]

You hear that too, right?

[At least Shiho's calming down now. There was something incredibly calming about someone else whose first reaction was violence.]

Jaune

[good_ideas]

[She would throw this at her friends. (Except they're both espers and could have teleported it or caught it in mid-air.)
Also he was smiling at her and she was sure throwing suspicious sex toys at him was therefore perfectly justified. And it wasn't like she thought it'd be good if they were friends or anything.

This isn't tsundere at all.

She crosses her arms.]

Don't get me something dumb like a blender. If you're going to give me something, make it money.

[......she'd also willingly accept chocolate. And cute things.]

[beaconed]

[ wow, her tsundere-level is over 9000!!!!! ]


M-Money? But that's so... impersonal! How would I even know how much to give you? You can't put a price on friendship so easily!

[good_ideas]

1000 credits sounds about right.

[Yes, that is all the money that he was probably given. She's joking. Probably. (And if all else fails, she knows there's an old lolicon around here somewhere who'd give her money if she asked for it.)

Old habits die hard, okay!]

Kaito

[good_ideas]

(from here.)

[Don't ask a cute high school girl a question like that.]

No. Just a few that wouldn't hold still long enough for me to actually shoot at them. That or they'd cheat.

[She could count on one hand the number of people that she hated enough that she'd enjoy shooting at their likeness on the shooting range. More than that, what she had were people that she didn't trust.]

[carptricks]

. . . y'know, I'm not sure I can really blame them.

[there's a touch of humor in his words, though it's very dry]

Not many people like being shot at.

Black-haired Kaoru

[good_ideas]

[She was actually looking for a victim for Kaoru but the fact that he'd thought she was the one who would actually attack a robot by herself is pretty funny. (....though she would if she could touch it first and find a weak point.)

When he steps forward, one hand up, her expression goes flat for a second as she looks from his hand to him. She knew he probably didn't intend to reach out and touch her, but people walking up to her with absolutely no idea that she was a psychometer and could therefore (theoretically) read all of someone's thoughts and memories and feelings just by reaching out and pressing her hand to theirs always put her on edge.

And then she's smiling brightly once again.]

Who said that I was going to test it out? I was looking for one for you.

[souredsweet]

[Kaoru does tend to stick to a tight personal bubble and doesn't often touch others (or ever, if it can be helped) at least, so holding that hand out is pretty much the limit. It's quickly retracted too, since Kaoru holds it up to politely hide the frown that immediately appears at her suggestion. Who wants to fight robots?? NOT THIS PUNK.]

There isn't anything that I can do against them, miss. Even the more benign ones are a little frightening...

[Or at least confusing as shit, considering Kaoru didn't even know what electric lighting was until arriving here.]

Hak

[good_ideas]

[A world where espers are considered to be not much better than animals by a vocal minority. A world where someone would pull a gun on a 10-year-old girl just for being a level 7 esper because they're scared of what she can do.

But despite that, it's also a world that is slowly improving day by day, person by person.

Shiho shrugs.]

Some of them do and then others hold on like cockroaches and refuse to die no matter how hard you try.

\o

[fortheprincess]

Sounds like my world.

[ ...Sort of. It was peaceful before, and then things happened and suddenly, Hak's had to fight more than before. It's hard when everyone's out to get your blood, when you've got things to do, a Princess to protect. He can't say his world's any less corrupt. ]

They're probably more durable than that if they've lasted for that long.

Mary

[good_ideas]

I don't know! No!

[Does she know or does she not?

Shiho points her gun in the general directino of where the hissing seems to be coming from. She thought that was where the seat was...but if this was some kind of freaky snake ghost...]

What kind of a ghost starts hissing at you and breathing on you, anyway!

[You freak of a ghost!! She ends up butting a bullet into the cushy seat, which does......absolutely nothing.]

[immobileyes]

It sounds more like a snake--

[ BUT YOU KILL THAT CUSHION, SHIHO!! ]

Phoenix

[good_ideas]

[Shiho doesn't even bother to watch where the thing goes when Phoenix kicks it away, not wanting to put too much attention on it.]

I didn't want to keep holding onto it.

[She shakes her head in the most pitying way she can imagine.]

Besides, who knows where that thing has already been?

[bewrightback]

[He tries for a sympathetic nod.]

I see where you're coming from. I just can't help but think there could have been less harmful ways to dispose of it....

Hyoubu

[good_ideas]

[If he found it even the least bit enjoyable to be punched by a high school girl, she'd make sure to never punch him. Ever. Also she'd need to sterilize her hand so she doesn't catch whatever he obviously has.]

What do you mean-

[Her hand doesn't leave the seat, and she lets herself take in the layout (and finding nothing wrong with it besides the hissing and the breathing which were coming from just behind her every time). Then she notices the obvious lack of a high school uniform on him which she had failed to notice before because it was so dark.]

Wait.

...You devolved?!

[And he only went far enough back to some time before the high school arc instead of taking it one step further and becoming Kyousuke instead?!]

[espersions]

No. We're from different points in time. Or rather, according to the "Many Worlds" theory of cosmology, we're from different parallel —

[ The undulation and squirming of the seats is becoming more intense, as is the hissing and breathing. Just because it isn't real, doesn't mean it's not dangerous. Knowing this place, there will be fangs or snakey tentacle monsters next. ]

As pleasant as it is sitting in the dark with you, Empress, I'll admit to being bored with this ride. Let's go, shall we?

[ Teleport y/y? ]

Yue

[good_ideas]

[She'd probably (not) apologize about the screaming later.

As well as (not) apologize about sliding off the chair with him and all but sitting on him.

Really, she blamed this Ferris wheel for everything including the elbow she manages to bang against the floor.]

Ow.....

[twomeals]

[Well. Luckily he's used to Kurogitsune people not apologizing for things like that. Also he might've smacked his shoulder against the opposite bench. The dangers of sliding off your seat!]

.....I'm not sure I like this ride. [Oh wait, he should say something else--] Are you okay?

SLAMS IN HERE BELATEDLY i'm sorry.. also bonus

[nostatus]

[ Guess who gets hit in the middle of the forehead by that thing...

This guy over here. Yes, this guy. And he's looking a little cross-eyed to see what just hit him, but of course it's dropped to the floor by then, and as he squints (his vision is a little hazy from impact, okay) he suddenly realises what it is.

Why this. ]

Oi, who's throwing this sorta thing around like that?!

NEVER BE SORRY ;3

[good_ideas]

[Shiho has such great aim. She's incredibly proud of herself.

Also the moment that thing left her hand, it was no longer considered hers. So she looks so very innocent as she covers her mouth with her hand and looks right at him in shock and horror.]

Someone's throwing....[She still struggles....and then gives up] ...that sort of thing?! And at people?!

[Not that there are really many other people here.]

Law

[good_ideas]

[Shiho raises an eyebrow at him.]

I didn't make up the rules for tag. Don't blame me if you didn't know how to play.

[trafalgar]

You're lucky we're using your rules.

[What does that even mean!!!]

You should be more concerned about your surroundings.

[Unless you know, she's used to and bored of this place. Who knows how long she's been here, ah?]