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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

They definitely didn't put that in the powerpoint.

So what I'm gathering is that there's a lot more going on here than what CERES told us.

[which makes sense, honestly. the entire set up seemed dubious to Kaito from the start. he hadn't argued with it much, because. . . well, he had no footing with which to argue. he still doesn't-- but he can at least say he's a bit more aware of the situation than he was before]

They just give a brief overview in that powerpoint...

[ Starts to poke at her earring now that it got her thinking. ]

No updates in current events whatsoever.

You think they might be purposefully trying to keep us in the dark?

[it's. . . just an idle thought for now. but it doesn't hurt to get the opinion of someone who is far more experienced than he is]

You're reading too much into this.

The PowerPoints they give are the same to each and every person who arrives. They don't update it with anything, so it's all generic.

So that's what you meant. . .

[he had interpreted her slightly differently, but what she was saying made sense. he lapses into a thoughtful silence, just as the ferris wheel slows to another stop and the old lady finally begins to stir awake]

Ah-- hey!

[ OH THANK GOD. She shoots up at the sound of the old lady's croaky voice. ]

Oh my gosh! I am so sorry...

[OLD LADY SEEMS A BIT CONFUSED 8( but despite the confusion, she is responding well, and after a few minutes to make sure she can actually stand Kaito helps her off of the carriage]

We're sorry for the inconvenience, ma'am!

[gosh how polite of him]

But it's all right; the girl in the yellow suit and I are gonna buy you some cotton candy to make up for it.

[he follows that up by staring pointedly at athena. AREN'T WE GOING TO DO JUST THAT?]

[ GOOD JOB PRESSURING HER. The stare just makes her jump and she immediately barks: ]

Yes!

[ Then she realises what she just said and screams internally. IS HER DESTINY TO SPEND ALL HER MONEY ON NEWBIES? Because she happened to do this when she arrived, too... ]

[ATHENA LIFE]

[a few minutes of fussing and fumbling with credits later, the cotton candy is purchased and kaito sends the old lady on her way. CRISIS AVERTED]

Whew. . . [he slumps a bit once the old lady disappears into the crowds] I'm glad she's okay.

She didn't even give us her name...

[ Just bought cotton candy for a total stranger!! Checks that off the bucket list. ]

[what kind if bucket list do you have athena]

Speaking of names, what's yours?

[turns to face her, both eyebrows raised and one hand resting on his duffel bag]

Or else you're always gonna be known as the girl who tried to throw me off of a ferris wheel.

No, not that!

[ Why would you... ]

I'm Athena Cykes!

[ And you gotta introduce yourself with a smile! So she smiles at Kaito and gives him a peace sign. BAM. ]

[enthusiastic! Kaito follows that introduction up by proofing a yellow rose out of thin air for her]

I'm Kaito. Kaito Kuroba. Promise you won't try to toss me off of any other high places?

[he prefers to jump off of them himself]

[ TALK ABOUT SHOCK AND AWE. ]

Wow! You're a magician?

[ Not answering the question means no promises :) ]

[. . . 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.

Maybe if you dressed up more like a magician, then I wouldn't be so surprised.

[ USE YOUR HEAD KAITO, JEEZ. ]

[I'M OFF DUTY]

What's wrong with what I'm wearing now?

Where's the cape? Where's the top hat?

[ I'm a magician expert, so I know these things duh!!! ]

Police officers don't always wear their badges and uniforms when they're not working, do they?

[gives her a pointed look. the flower he's twirling in his hand disappears with a flick of his wrist]

[ Detective Fulbright would. . .]

I'm not working right now, but— [ She unpins her own badge from her lapel, and presents it to Kaito. ] TAKE THAT!

[. . .]

[. . .]

[you are the second person who has presented a badge to him today athena]

. . . so you're a lawyer? What's that have to do with anything?

[wearing yellow? didn't trucy say something about a trio of attorneys who wear primary colors. . .?]

I always have my badge on. [ And that's her cue to pin it back. ] I don't do any lawyering here, but I wear it all the time.

And that, mister, proves you wrong. Now go poof a top hat on your head.

[ ATHENA DON'T BE BOSSY GOSH ]

[the only top hat he has on him is his white one, and like heck he is showing that to anyone while he's out of uniform]

Bossy, bossy. . . tell you what! I'll do one better than that.

[he holds out his hand]

Lemme see your badge.

[ ohh, she's seen this act before. maybe. if it's an act. she unpins it again and hands it to kaito, though. ]

You better give it back, or there will be a severe punishment waiting for you.

[ aka flipping and throwing him to the ground, then headlocking him. ]

Hooooh, I'm scared already.

[lightly teasing! but he tosses the badge up and down in his hand as he talks]

Don't worry, I'll return it to you as good as new when I'm fini-- hey!

Where'd it go?

[the badge somehow very ~mysteriously~ disappeared while he was tossing it]

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