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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)

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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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[ original ]

A face examination.

[Don't mind Jae-ha if he's just.... going to rest his head against the carriage then, an indignant "Pfff--" escaping him before he actually hits the roof of the carriage a few times, laughter escaping him in a loud, obnoxious torrent.]

Hahahaha!!!

Because that's what I was doing - definitely just checking out your face. [He snorts and lifts his head again.] It's still good. 10 out of 10, would examine again.

[ okay sorry but Ki-Ja isn't 1) understanding why you are laughing and 2) can't figure out if you were somehow insulting him or not.

You'll receive another harsh pout from the White Dragon!! ]

Well perhaps you could do that at another time [ like never ] and get me out of here, instead?

[ don't make him swipe at you again, he will ]

I suppose if I must....

[Jae-ha is so put upon!! But he just sighs faintly before the smile is back in place and he's swinging back into the carriage again, turning his back to Ki-ja and bending at the knee. Hop on the Jae-ha Express if you so choose.]

You're so demanding, Ki-ja.

That is the reason you came, was it not? Strange crawling things were trying to get all over me!

[ He visibly shivers, demonstrating with his flailing and wiggle limps how he "felt" them. ]

I've had just about enough with this metal death trap, and this entire place...!!

[ huff huff sob hick don't mind him as he attempts to scramble up your back now. Securing himself as he wraps both arms around Jae-Ha's neck.

Just get him out of here, please;;; ]

Is that what it was?

[He sighs even as he easily steps out of the carriage now, pushing off with his dragon leg and sending them both into an easy arc over the amusement park. This much is at least second nature.]

The windows just blacked out from the outside and that seemed rather unfortunate. They stuffed bugs inside too?

[ it better be what it was, how rude...!! ]

I-I-I-I d... don't think they were bugs. They sounded like small monsters!

[ just the thought of bugs possibly trying to invade his joy ride makes Ki-Ja grip on Jae-ha all the more tighter. He doesn't want to think about this he really doesn't want to think about this- ]

N... nothing was there when I got on! I do not know how it happened!

[Oh my god, stop, that's uncomfortable.]

Loosen your grip a bit. Your ugly hand is making me nervous.

How dare you! You know how important this hand is- it is not ugly!!

[ But he'll... try to loosen a little bit. Goodness, Jae-ha never changed, did he? ]

And to think you could at least be a little more kind after parting from each other for so long.

[ Like... a month... ]

[ . . . . . what are you talking about--]

Ah? Could it be that even mere minutes were too long for us to be apart?

You did grow attached to me rather quickly.....

[ ... What. ]

While I believe that we should not be separated in order to protect the princess, you were gone for much longer than mere minutes! Days even!

Shin-Ah, Yoon, and I have been waiting for all of us to be reunited! [ If only you could see how offended he looks right now. Really, Jae-ha, you are not good for his heart- ] We were all worried about you...!

Don't cry on me.

[JAE-HA STARTS BY RUINING THE MOOD YET AGAIN--

Though he considers the words carefully. Minutes? Days? No, he's entirely certain that he was with all of them right before he even arrived. Shin-Ah had wandered off, yes, and Yona was off practicing archery but certainly even then it wasn't long enough to be considered noticeable.

So he instead settles them on a rooftop, bending at the knee to let Ki-ja get on his feet.]

Explain this to me again. According to you, we've been separated for days? Where have you been? Where have I been?

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