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« 011 ⇢ event011.exe » OVERFLOW

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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ xx:xx ] 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
[ why:o'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!


perfectstrike: (indifferent)

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-03-27 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Peko's taste in trustworthy people just keeps getting better and better.

But while Peko might believe that Kaoru is there strictly to help new arrivals, her own motives are far more selfish. Gotta find the bocchan... And then more word they can get out to not ride the rides, the less likely it is that he'll get on one. Not that amusement parks are his thing, but she has to try...]


That's very kind of you, [she offers, because really, she has no reason to believe that's not exactly what Kaoru is up to.]
souredsweet: jackandtink (thanks shinsengumi and friends!!)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-03-27 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Someone help Peko Pekoyama...

But while she's over there considering her own bocchan-centric rescue mission, Kaoru's over here busy looking full of humility.]


I believe that a number of others had the same idea, if what I've seen so far is anything to go by. I'm very glad for it... Especially after that strange gap between this group and the last one, it would benefit everyone to be as guarded as possible. I hope that you haven't run into too much trouble beyond the rides so far, speaking of...?

[Peko must be KEPT SAFE. Protect the angry murderous swordswoman 2k15.]
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[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-03-27 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
You noticed the break in the pattern as well?

[Literally everyone noticed that. At least she doesn't seem to be expecting an actual answer to that question, instead just using it as a kind of confirmation.]

There seem to be quite a few more people recovered this time, as well. I have to wonder if there has been a change to their technology to make something like that possible... and where its limits lie.

[But then she looks somewhat taken aback. Someone showing her concern? Why does that keep happening...]

I am-- fine. I do not recommend the Ferris wheel, as whatever was present within it cannot be killed with a blade. [She tried.] And the "Funhouse" only left me with some bruises.
souredsweet: jackandtink (lol this dying shit)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-03-27 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[NODDING ONCE Kaoru sure did... and is now a salty salty peanut because they brought back the cycles and it's a bigger one than before and still no Chizuru.

But!! That's something to quietly seethe over later in private, where there's no risk of accidentally murdering someone in a fit of rage. Kaoru smiles, reassured.]


I'm glad to hear that. [Yes, it's concern! Genuine, grown from the dirt and watered by hand concern!! Freshly farmed, freshly grown, local Grade A "I am so glad you weren't brutally murdered by Santa".]

I'll keep my distance from the Ferris wheel, in that case. I won't be of much use to anyone if I'm injured. [DEATH BY FERRIS WHEEL doesn't sound very elegant, either.]

Ah - but I was wondering if I had just been imagining that. The number being larger than usual, that is...
perfectstrike: (contemplative)

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-03-28 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
That is not a bad idea.

[Kaoru looks like a dainty flower, so those rides are definitely out if you ask Peko. Too dangerous.

But she nods in response to the comment about the numbers, twining a bit of loose hair around her finger as she glances back out over the amusement park as a whole.]


I think so. It is difficult to say, as I do not know many people... but there seem to be many faces I do not recognize.
souredsweet: jackandtink (thanks shinsengumi and friends!!)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-03-30 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru is in fact the daintiest of flowers and would totally die within .5 seconds if allowed onto a ride, so Peko is a savior here... totally...]

I don't have a good number for it, but it seems almost to have doubled, by my estimate. Just based on the number of people... It's a little strange to see, to be honest. I can still recall the first meeting, back when there were no more than thirty of us.

[The huge boom in number has Kaoru wondering if there's a backup plan for when they inevitably run out of room in the city limits to comfortably house people. On the other hand--]

Disappearances weren't so frequent back then, either.
perfectstrike: (sharp like a blade)

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-04-02 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Disappearances...?

[This is actually the first Peko's heard of this, her head snapping around sharply to meet Kaoru's eyes. Benefits of having very few people to care about...]

What do you mean by that?
souredsweet: mewtube (right through you)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-04-02 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
[PEKO... make more friends. But Kaoru doesn't seem too surprised at least, since word had just been spreading recently.]

Sometimes, people vanish from this place. It doesn't seem to have a pattern like the arrivals do, and I'm not certain that anyone knows where they go, either... Still, it wasn't an issue at all earlier. It seems like it's become more frequent in the same way that the number of new arrivals has become larger.
perfectstrike: (fervent)

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-04-05 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Look she's still surprised that there are so many people who use that word so casually, don't judge her.]

Could it be that they are unable to store as much data as they are importing?

[She doesn't know much about computers, but she understands the basic concept of a hard drive. And if there's not enough space, some things inevitably have to get deleted.

That's the worst case scenario.]


There must be some kind of pattern to it. I will need to monitor that situation more closely.
Edited (reading comp fail) 2015-04-05 21:02 (UTC)
souredsweet: mewtube (living ghost)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-04-06 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Clearly she'll just have to meet MORE AGGRESSIVE FRIENDING MANIACS so she can become accustomed to the word...

But Kaoru has a vague working knowledge of technology by now because it would be pretty stupid to get stuck in a very technologically-based society for months without reading up on these things. Still, that thought hadn't yet occurred, judging by the displeased expression that immediately presents itself. On the other hand...]


I'm not entirely certain. If that is the case, I believe the data is simply stored elsewhere for the time being. [Considering what Lilith had said about Chizuru earlier... Though she might be an exception, since her arrival also seemed like an exception.]

But I agree that a pattern should be looked for. I've been doing my best to keep track, though I haven't managed to find one yet.
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[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-04-08 01:59 am (UTC)(link)