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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

[Riku nods – he hears the echo of his own words in hers, suddenly remembers the advice he's given months ago (the words and the familiarity of sands and sea – even if that was only the illusion of Castle Oblivion rather than the real thing – the feeling of her shoulder beneath his hand, but her name and face are still a blur).]

I know. I don't know how you are here, but if you hadn't I- I could remember.

[He can't yet, not quite, but... should he? He wants to, but... he also knows the reasons why he should be forgetting. If he remembers now, even worlds away, what will that mean for Sora?]

[hearing that trips her up for a second. something's not quite lining up... she knows it's been a few weeks since she last saw Riku, but even then, he had clearly known who she was; not this vague remembrance that he seems to have now.]

Wait... you don't remember me?

[her eyes widen as she realizes; he hadn't called her by name when he was chasing her. Naminé had explained what would happen if she went through with her plan. does that mean... had the process already begun, because she had made her decision?]

[Something isn't lining up, he agrees, though it's hard to tell what and how with his memory still a jumble.]

I remember bits and pieces... I know you had Sora's memories, that Naminé wasn't able to get them back without-

[Utterly erasing her existence from everything; even memory. Which clearly was not the case – she is right in front of him right now after all. Something went wrong, again, and if he stays like this... if he doesn't remember, he won't be able to tell how to fix it. Will he?

Finally, he slowly reaches out, intending to draw back the hood that is hiding her face.]

[this time, she does not stop him; she does not even flinch as he extends his arm out toward her. her eyes are cast downward, but once he removes her hood, she looks back at him, strikingly blue eyes staring into his; they're the one feature of hers that never changes.]

Riku, who do you see?

[he should see her; not Kairi, not Sora, not anybody but the black haired mirror of his best friends. even though she knows this, that this is how she appears to everybody else, she's scared for at least a couple of seconds that maybe something has gone wrong with her coding. wouldn't that be funny—whether it's memories or bits of code that make her up, she'll always be imperfect.]

[Even though she doesn't move or flinch, he's still careful, gentle when he pulls back the hood then reaches up to pull the blindfold back from his right eye. For all that he can 'see' well enough even with it, he is going to need true sight to make sure.

He flinches in surprise when he opens his eyes, and the first name that comes to his lips is not hers but Kairi's – but it's wrong, it's not her, for all that for just a second it's her that he sees. The glimpse of red melds into black, the swerve of her bangs changing before his minds eye; he knows this face, he knows her, her name is-]

Xion!

[He lets go of the blindfold in surprise, letting fall back over his eye as memories start snapping back into place and the pieces line up in order again, blurs sharpening to clarity, and he would be wondering how he could ever have forgotten, except...

He knows the how's and the why's only too well. He knows the necessity of it.]

I'm so sorry.

[If he had come with her to Twilight Town, if he had been less focused on preparing for Roxas, maybe... Maybe he could have spared her that last fight at least, even if the results ultimately remain the same.]

[it's the moment that she sees the realization in his eye, the way his pupil widens, that she knows the memories have come back to him. she's still a little confused as to why they went away in the first place, but when he says her name, the relief she feels as a result is enough to quash that worry.

there's a sad sort of smile on her face as she addresses him, if only because he forgot her in the first place.]

For not remembering me? It's okay. That was supposed to happen all along, wasn't it?

[Continue here!]

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