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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!

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[ Instead what he he does is teleport her to the ground. He counts to ten before he teleports himself down as well. In that time, it occurs to him that the Empress is alone; and since she was a little girl, she has never been alone. She has always had her friends nearby, as well as that ridiculous boy with the heart of a middle-aged nursemaid, Minamoto, chasing after her.

She is alone and afraid, in a strange place, so of course she's going to vent her anger about it upon him.

At the count of ten, he teleports down beside her. ]

Empress...

[ No, she hates that. She told him so, he recalls. He has always persisted in using the titles he dreamed up, because they are a thumb in the eye of BABEL, but in this place BABEL is less important. ]

Shiho-chan. I'm not your enemy. And I'm not the only other esper here.

[If he was in his high school uniform, he could have been a Garbodor. But alas, we cannot all have what we want.

There's the familiar shift of teleportation and Shiho has to squint as she finds herself in the bright sunshine, feet lightly touching the ground.

And she counts to three before she looks back up at the newly-vacated passenger car, wondering where Hyoubu had gone. If she was worried at all, it was only because she was sure there was the very real possibility of him doing something strange in that car. When she gets to 6, she wonders if he hadn't been a part of the hypno, too.

At the very least, they could have made it Kaoru or Aoi or Minamoto.

So when he teleports down beside her and starts calling her Empress, and then Shiho-chan like they were close friends or something, she almost wonders if she should punch him again (partly out of annoyance and partly out of relief and annoyance at that relief).

Her eyes narrow at the mention of another esper.]

Who?

[Because it could be Aoi and Kaoru. But it could also be a ploy or even a PANDRA member.]

[ He grins when she narrows her eyes at him and doesn't reply immediately, clearly on purpose to keep her in suspense. ]

Andy Hinomiya. You remember him. He was in the spinoff.

[ His eyes hold hers; and then his gaze slides away, in the direction of the Fun House. ]

And... one other person...

[ He is happy to see the Children — very happy indeed — but he doesn't want them to be here, in such a place. There are forces here beyond his powers. He can't protect them. Perhaps their great powers are enough to protect themselves; for that, he will have to hope.

He glances back at Shiho. ]

Well, I understand. I'm intruding on your fun.

[ Hands in his pockets, he floats into the air a few feet. ]

I'll see you later.

[Shiho's wondering if he needs "incentive" (a gun pointed at his crotch) when he finally starts talking. Of course she remembers Andy. The red-haired one who took their screen-time.

Her eyes drift to the Fun House, too, then back to him.]

One other-

Where do you think you're going?!

[She would be the first to admit that yes, he was intruding on her fun and she didn't want him here if she could help it, but no one was allowed to just leave her hanging like that.]

[ ...

the Empress wants him to stay? That'll be a first. And while he's sorely tempted to take her by the hand and lead her to where Kaoru is, he decides that being alone is probably good for the Empress. He's never been one to coddle children; they need to develop independence and believe in their own strength. While he hovers somewhere nearby and out of sight. Of course.

Also, leaving her with the idea that she wants more from him, doesn't strike him as a bad thing. Not at all. ]

Oho, wouldn't you like to know?

[ A big wink — and then poof! he's gone. ]

You-

[Opens mouth, closes mouth....looks at bystanders...]

He just-

[And then silence as she stews.]

You stupid lolicon, come back here! Pervert! Enemy of all little girls! Bald!

[SHE ONLY WANTED HIM TO STAY AND ANSWER HER!!

But of course now she'd have to shoot him the next time she saw him, no questions asked.]

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