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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!


unevoke: (pic#8055257)

[personal profile] unevoke 2015-03-29 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Four for you, Yosuke Coco, for not prodding into the reasons why he isn't summoning his persona right now.

Another four for trying to be smart about all this instead of rushing right into things. While Yosuke carefully inspects the ceiling, Shinjiro steps forward to prod at the mirrors, looking for any sort of latch or hidden seam.]


Maybe. It'd have to be really coordinated though, to get this stuff outta the way before it jumps through at us.

[Not to mention that they'd both been grabbed and flung to the ground, meaning the things either got a bunch of arms or there's more than one.]

I can't get these mirrors off though.

[Is smashing it an acceptable alternative?]
punchesyu: (complaining like a pro)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-03-29 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't see any above them, so that cuts that option out. He comes over to join Shinji, looking down at the mirror. And then to the others.]

This doesn't make any sense- [He whines, a little frustrated with how this funhouse is seeming to work-] there's gotta be a way that let those creepy things out here like that. Especially since we heard the glass break.

[And he's calm until he actually sees another one of those spectres staring at him from a distant mirror.] W-Woah! Did you see that???
unevoke: (christ.)

[personal profile] unevoke 2015-03-29 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[At the alarmed shout, Shinji whirls, fists lifting up in preparation as his eyes search for the cause of the alarm. It doesn't take too long before his eyes are locking onto the gruesome figure. The spectre grins eerily at them, sending a chill down Shinjiro's spine, then proceeds to shuffle sideways until it hits the next mirror—where it promptly disappears from sight.

Only to reappear in a mirror some 20 feet away.]


Shit. We aren't gonna be able to catch it if it moves itself around like that.

[They better come up with a plan quick though - the light flickers off for a split-second before coming back on, almost in a warning.]
punchesyu: (SO DETERMINED.  SO STRONK.)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-03-30 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He watches on in horror as the monster leaps from one mirror to the next.]

They're inside. If we break them, they'll come out- that's how they got out before. It would explain why we heard mirrors breaking the first time. [Trying not to panic, trying not to panic...]

Hold on a second, I've got an idea.

[Which he doesn't get to say as the lights shut off completely and the glass shatters. Howls raise from all around them, which doesn't look good....]
unevoke: (don't be a twat)

[personal profile] unevoke 2015-04-04 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's just freaking great.

Fists are all well and good but he can hardly use them if he can't see who he's fighting, and blind swinging right now has as much of a chance of hitting the unseen enemy as it does the ally right next to him, a risk he isn't willing to take right now.

Damn it.

Out comes his evoker and there's a second round of shattering glass, lighter and less menacing, before his Persona comes racing to the surface.]


Stay alert!
punchesyu: (I REALLY LIKE THESE ICONS OKAY)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-04-04 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[So much for the plan. He readies himself, but he can't see a thing. The heavy pounding of feet rushing at him stops as he hears something slam into Susano-o, a nasty snarl and scuffling. He felt whatever hit his persona, wondering what exactly it was that was attacking.]

I think I can get some light in here! Susano-o! [It would take a lot of effort, but he thinks he can do it, but for how long? Taking advantage of his persona's magic, a green wind vortex forms in front of the two boys. Light being cast from the spell brightens the area around them, and they can finally see the demons attacking.]

What the hell are those things-?! [He says through the strain of effort to keep the spell continuous instead of a one-hit deal.]
unevoke: (pic#8090543)

[personal profile] unevoke 2015-04-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hell if I know!

[Deep debates about the biology and composition of his opposition have never been a favored go-to of his, Shinjiro preferring to just curl up his fist and smash it into the face of the nearest opponent, whether it be human or Shadow or something else entirely.

The only way he would care is if the thing's physiology made it impossible for him to land any sort of hit, but that doesn't seem to be the case now, Castor rearing up and charging full-tilt at the nearest demon.

Of course, physical attacks are only one way to go about this. He turns to Yosuke.]


What other magic does your Persona know?

[A variety would be nice, but he knows from experience most Personas only stick to one specialty.]
punchesyu: (Saki just BURNED HIM)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-04-05 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He can heal a little bit! And...argh.... [It was a draining effort, but he swears he'd keep their light source/vortex going.] Hold on...

[He's never done this before, but he's going to try and hope it works.]

[From Susano-o's other hand, another spell is cast at the same time, seeming to hit only a few of the creatures instead of all of them. Two of them begin fighting one another instead of charging for Shinji and Yosuke. However, he slumps to the ground, and the vortex diminishes a little bit, along with the light.]

Hurry, while you've got the chance!
unevoke: (pic#8090543)

[personal profile] unevoke 2015-04-07 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Things aren't looking good for our two gallant heroes. There's two options open in front of him that he can see:

1. He puts all his energy and effort into charging at the unknown creatures, hoping that whatever he's got is enough, or
2. He can run like hell out of here and hope that the demons are too busy.

Ultimately, he mashes the two together into a weak compromise, swearing under his breath as he yells at Castor to go for it while grabbing Yosuke's arm and basically hauling him towards the exit. (Sorry, he'll try not to dislocate a shoulder.) A bit of trampling ought to keep the things busy a little longer, enough for them to bolt through the door and back to relative safety.]
punchesyu: (wow making him change the cat litter)

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-04-08 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Woaaaah-! [And suddenly, from the ground, he's up. And getting dragged. He isn't sure what's going on, but he can still feel his persona fighting. He feebly tries to help Shinji out by getting on his own two feet and running along himself, getting the idea of what the plan was. Running to the exit, to get away from whatever those things were. He's not going to object, opting to live over being a hero in this case.

And finally, with much fright, they reach the entrance, and once outside he falls to his knees. Yosuke is breathing heavily, and by now his persona has dissipated and left the fight.]


Dude...we...I didn't think we were...gunna make it....