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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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Yosuke Hanamura | Persona 4 | Open still!

[punchesyu]

((Original post here!))

Zara Skeens (UR NOT ALLOWED TO GOOF AROUND i'm kidding yes you are)

[punchesyu]

((OoC: Continued from here))

[Whew avoided that thank god.]

No, dude, it's chill. He's just sorta, you know... [How does one explain personas] kinda like a guardian, or something. He's not offended, are you buddy? [Turns around and says that to Susano-o, like the persona is going to respond or something. Spoilers, he doesn't and just floats there.]

See? Don't worry about it.

[sewayaku]

[ right. don't worry about it. Totally normal. It does seem like it's not attacking, so he supposes there's no reason not to believe him. ]

You've got quite the intimidating friend. [ he replies with a sigh, finally looking away from Susano-o up at the singing reindeer and their apparently normal surroundings. ] Then... We're safe for the moment, I suppose. What was that...?

[punchesyu]

[His tone turns serious now. Dealing with this kind of stuff is no joke to him.]

I don't know. It seemed to come out of nowhere! But we can't let that thing get the drop on us again. [For all he knows, it might want to kill them.] Did you see where it came from?

Teruteru

[punchesyu]

Sweet! Way to go bro. [He seems happy about all the stuff Teruteru has arrived with, best cuz ever. And in front of them, sits not four, but five pizzas.]

Hope you don't mind, I grabbed us another pizza just in case. I'm so hungry I think I could eat the place outta business. And I decided to try a special topping for this one! [His views of what's good are really skewed. Really, really skewed. Blame the spider.

So he opens up the fifth box, and inside the topping looks almost normal. Cheese, sauce, black things, just stuff that Yosuke didn't really know what it was. If one looks very, very, VERY closely, the black things have little tiny legs poking up out of them...]

It was the special! Guy said it was like...globemallow leaf pizza or something.

Judith

[punchesyu]

[He stops for a second.]

I guess you have a point... [Why is life so unfair.] That still doesn't mean I have to like what's going on though. You shouldn't have to go through an amusement park and worry about getting your head chopped off!

[brbwalking]

That's fine, not to be happy about something. But what comes next is what you're going to do about it.

[punchesyu]

You're so strange.... [She's still way too calm about this for him. But now, he totally stops. What he'll do about it?]



I'm not gunna let this kinda crap fly! ...But half the stuff going on around here you can't even explain. So what the heck is anyone supposed to do about it but try not to get killed?

Anna

[punchesyu]

That sounds really freaky-!

[How could this place be even worse than it already is.

But wait. She doesn't remember? All he remembers is her seeing him throw up in the trash at a movie theater...oh thank god he can skip that bit.]

Yeah, we do! But I'm not sure where, you know there's so many people here! [God he seriously hopes she doesn't remember...]

[sjokolade]

[Despite his attempts, that didn't stop Anna from wondering where she could have saw him! As she circled around him, she narrowed her eyes a little]

I know I saw you but where... [She mumbled before ,finally, her eyes widen!] Oh, I know! You're that guy! That guy who threw up in that trashcan a while back!

[Sorry, Yosuke, you can't escape your fate from the trashcan]

[punchesyu]

[His head follows her as she circles him. What the heck, why is she inspecting him like this?]

Oh you...do remember...great... [He's doomed. Someone up there hates him. He hopes that's all she remembers though. LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT OFF OF THAT.]

Let's take care of your injuries though, okay? I'm sure there's a first aid kit around here somewhere! [He says very hurriedly because no no more trashcan talk]

[unevoke]

[Cat's outta the bag, no takebacks now. But if this guy knows about Personas, there's no point in hiding this information, not when it's so vital to everything Mitsuru's been working on up until now. So it's without hesitation that Shinjiro nods an affirmative.]

Yeah. Mitsuru's in charge though. If you got questions, you oughta ask her.

[Though, he's got a question of his own, for record-keeping purposes.]

What's your name?

what is introducing in western order idk anymore

[punchesyu]

[Mitsuru. He'll make sure to remember that name. And he's sure this guy will probably introduce them.]

Yosuke, Yosuke Hanamura. Believe me, I've already got tons of questions for her when I meet her.

[More Persona users. He never would have imagined. But he guesses it's possible.]

And you? I mean, I guess this makes us brothers-in-arms or something like that. [That sounded totally lame...]

Ruby

[punchesyu]

[The persona doesn't really respond, floating there and just looking at Ruby. Which makes Youske kind of freak out silently, maybe he can get Susano-o to like, wave or something. Which he does! Susano-o waves after a second of Youske thinking about it. He's gotten the hang of fighting with it but...just normal greetings? That's not something he expected to have to do, having that mindset for his persona.]

W-Why don't we keep going. It's really not safe in here, and the sooner we get out the better. [He begins to walk forward, to get out of the creepy funhouse and somewhere much 'safer'. Though even now, specters still loom in the mirrors- but the lights haven't gone out yet.]

[ruby_roses]

[Ruby cocks her head a bit at the delayed response, but ultimately doesn't think much of it.]

Yeah, if there's anything I've learned about these things, it's that you don't want to stay in one place for very long.

[She starts walking with Yosuke, though her hand rests on where Crescent Rose is holstered at her hip, just in case.]

i'm so late i'm sorry.. phase one, at least..!!

[nostatus]

Calm down.

[ Well, someone seems awfully calm about this.. but it's more just that Shinpachi expected Shit to go down, and now said shit is going down, he's pretty prepared. Even if he doesn't know what's happening just yet, he knows that yelling isn't going to do much about the situation. ]

Don't move too much until we know what's going on. [ Maybe he can at least actually be the Reassuring Adult here for once. ]

you're fine~

[punchesyu]

Dude... [He says really, really nervously.]

I am so. Not. Moving.

[Something brushed up against him....]

Pharos

[arcanaofdeath]

[That's sassy pajamas, not sassy pants, Yosuke.

Pharos trails after Yosuke, trying to keep up with Yosuke's longer strides. He hadn't minded the smaller body before and he still doesn't but he wonders if this what so many children have to put up with. No wonder the world seems so huge and fast to them.

He does take Yosuke's request seriously though, gaze sweeping over the mirrors. There really isn't any movement so far but it's better to expect the unexpected and prepare yourself than be surprised-

There.]

Movement. Third mirror on your left.

[punchesyu]

[He's keeping his own eye out, and when Pharos alerts, him he turns quickly to where another monster is pointed out. He's not going to be messing around now, concerned for himself and the kid's well being, as he calls out to his persona-]

Susano-o!

[And with a flick of its wrist, green wind magic bursts from underneath the mirror, completely shattering it.]

Woah, good eye kid! Maybe with you around we aren't going to have to worry too much about those creepy things.

Belph

[punchesyu]

You know, I'm starting to think that might be a good idea-!

[Because he might actually survive, but shhhhh]

Oh crap! [He flung himself at the window, trying to see if there's a way to open it, or a way to shatter it.] I dunno if we can get outta here!

[axilium]

... How delightful. I guess we'll have to wait for them to fix the ride, if they ever do.

Lily

[punchesyu]

[Another creepy hiss sounds from the back of the car, and he jumps a little in his seat- but nods quickly.]

Yeah, I do. I'm going to call him, so don't freak out, okay?

[littlestbaskerville]

I won't!

[Lily just prepares herself, it can't be worse than a chain...right?]

please take me i'm late; phase i

[lifelong]

You're loud... [ Like, hell, he's a bit concerned about their predicament. STILL, JESUS DOESN'T NEED YOU TO YELL.

This totally ruined the horror atmosphere for him. ]

you're fine!

[punchesyu]

Dude, this is almost too much for me to handle right now! [Probably because he was already really shaken when he got here, but he tries to calm down either way. Okay, the lights went out. Breatheeeeeee.]

I've never been on a ride that actually shut off in the middle of it!