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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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Larry Butz | still OTA!

[failures]

[continuations from here and still up for new tags!]

Phoenix

[failures]

[from here]

Old code...?

[He pauses to consider that, scratching at his hair for good measure.]

Why am I the old code when you're the one who's older here? You definitely don't know computers, Nick.

By the way, who's Athena?

[He's never heard Phoenix speak that name before. Some new ladyfriend of his? If so, Larry needs all the deets. Right now.]

[bewrightback]

[He groans as he tries to go on.]

I... I know a little! And what I mean by the old code thing is that... They probably brought you back from a past point. For who knows whatever reason...

[I've never felt too bad about not knowing computers, but now Larry Butz of all people is rubbing it in my face...]

And Athena's one of the lawyers who works for me. [No Larry, don't think the thing you're thinking.]

[failures]

Oh.

[Despite another pause, he seems to actually buy that explanation.]

I guess that's gotta be it, huh? If I'm already accepting that I'm code and you're code and we're all code, then being a different code kinda makes sense. I wonder why they took you from the future though...?

[Because naturally for him, he's not going to find his own timeline to be the weird one.

Also in true Larry fashion, all thoughts of old vs. new codes go right out the window shortly after learning of this Athena's identity. Cue the eyebrow waggling!]

Oh really? You got a new cute sidekick, Nick? Aren't you getting kinda old for that now, though? And what about Maya?

Yang

[failures]

[from here]

Is everything else that's supposed to be fun actually out to kill us, then? The videogame thing was bad enough! But this is like...not in the game, right? Those CERES guys didn't say anything about trying to get us killed!

[It's giving him serious bad first impressions of this place, as if they weren't bad enough from the whole powerpoint thing.]

[flaredo]

Well, they'll say it's not their fault. But pretty much just assume nothing's all that safe here.

[failures]

How's it not their fault, though? Aren't they the guys running this freakshow?

[And here he was thinking things might not be too horrible destroyed worlds aside...what a letdown.]

Inaba

[failures]

[from here]

Oh! You're gonna take a picture? Uh...okay, I guess.

[He starts to uncover the rest of the chopped off bit before he realizes something. Quickly covering it up again, he hastily adds,]

But you gotta promise to delete it after, okay?! I don't wanna deal with blackmail my first week here!

[dereban]

[She takes a breath in and then a heavy breath out, staring at his head before shrugging. Of course she's kept pictures in her CereVice as potential blackmail material, but... she's not that much of an asshole for this.]

That's fine; I wasn't even planning on using it as blackmail. [Alright, all she has to do is set the camera and take a quick picture.] Okay, I'll take the picture on three. Tell me when you're ready.

Shinpachi

[failures]

[from here]

[Shinpachi's suspicions are about to be proven correct, because despite Larry's borderline blubbering, his reason for mourning is...well...]

My hair, man! M-My beautiful hair, it's...it's seriously wounded! Maybe even fatally, I don't know yet!

[SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM, SHINPACHI.]

[nostatus]

[ .. yeah. Okay, see, if it were Larry's muscles, then he might have been able to make a small exception here, he gets how important those are.. but his hair? Seriously? ]

Man, it's just gonna grow again. [ That's sort of the point of hair. Granted, it doesn't look like Shinpachi puts a whole lot of effort in his own other than cutting it unlike most of the long-haired bishounen samurai around so it's obviously he doesn't care as much. ]

.. y'know hair can't actually die, right?

[ Just...

.. making sure.. ]

Trucy

[failures]

[from here]

Just 'cause I've still got the good looks your dad already lost doesn't mean I hit my head!

[He's trying to rationalize this time-fuckery with humor, as best as he can anyway. Internally he's still reeling a great deal.]

But it's just crazy to me...an older Nick, with a [cute, but he manages to omit that since this is his friend's kid apparently] teenage daughter. Just what kinda weird stuff am I missing out on here?

[stagewright]

Well...you mean what stuff have you forgotten??

[ Because hell if she knows everything he's up to, although she can probably name a few failed girlfriends if pressed. ]

Hm...well, maybe your code was just...less than ours? Like they didn't grab all of it. I'm not toooooootally sure how this place works, still.

Kaito

[failures]

[from here]

[Well godspeed then, because this is sure gonna be a thing.]

To always aim high! My hair points up straight because I want to reach greater heights and do better things with my life!

[carptricks]

[this guy is way too serious about hair]

Ha! That's optimistic. I never knew hair could say so much about one person's hopes and dreams.

Nice

[failures]

[from here]

[Nice is lucky he interjected with that question before Larry had a chance to really go off on him about the diss on his hairstyle. Instead, he just looks really huffy when he answers the question.]

It takes a while to grow back, though! It's not like it grows back overnight! I don't wanna look weird for weeks!

[But is he sure that his hair would be the only thing making him look weird...]

[topscores]

[Nice stares at Larry for a while, as if thinking of a resolution for this.

...WAIT.]

A wig! You could definitely put on a wig if you're so concerned about that.

[Nice why this.]

Athena

[failures]

[from here]

[Athena's enthusiasm about the situation really throws Larry off. He steps back, a bit startled.]

Uh...why? Aren't there tons of people here already?

[psycholawgy]

Yeah, but you can never have too many. That means people are being saved again. Like you!

[ Her excitement changes into something like a determined expression. She looks more serious now, and looks like she's ready to drive her point home. ]

/chooses own adventure again

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth is hanging out on the outskirts of the carnival as well, having seen and experienced enough...and gathered more information from the people who actually braved the rides. Dropping into the fun house was more than enough, especially since his last encounter with something of that nature did not quite go as planned...and resulted in way too much humiliation.

As he organizes some of his notes, he looks up - and notices the familiar flash of orange. It can't be. It just can't be. After having to deal with him yet again back home when he was briefly tossed into his own world before being pulled right back into this one...

He snaps his organizer shut and squints.]

...Larry?! [I should have known that something smelled. That stench of trouble is far too familiar.]

[failures]

[This is almost like deja vu, really. Which is very fitting considering first it was with Phoenix, but this time around Larry finds himself face to face with his other best friend as he spins around at the mention of his name.]

Whoa, Edgey? [...] Edgey!!

[He practically throws himself at Edgeworth at this point, just so happy to see his childhood friend after all the horrible stuff he went through the last few hours.]

I've never been so happy to see your grumpy face! Did you come to save me from this freakshow?!

[Arrival!]

[heiwana]

[ Larry just so happens to speak his mind to a rather tall, and rather blue, sword man. He will look over at the other, noticing his distress and the use of that unfamiliar word 'Christmas'. But the one thing that does catch his attention is the time traveling part. Hm. That sounded awfully familiar.

So he'll speak up. Soft, slow, and deep his voice at least sorta carries through the load bustling of the carnival. ]

You have come from the future as well? [ Huh. Interesting though his expression hardly shows it at all. ]

[failures]

[If it weren't for the man's deep and clearly masculine voice, Larry probably would've mistaken him for a very tall lady. Instead, he finds himself looking up at the the guy with a slightly weirded out expression.]

Uh...yeah, I guess?

[Okay, maybe he should actually get it together.]

I mean, I definitely know it wasn't this time of year back home, at least from what I remember. But when you say it like that it sounds totally sci-fi.

[...AS IF THE APOCALYPTIC VIDEO GAME AND WHOLE CODE POWERPOINT WEREN'T.]

Koujaku | Sorry for coming in late!

[kaba]

[ Continued from here. ]

[ Hey, death might be permanent, but at least you don’t have to show up a bad perm to the world.

That and Koujaku feels his sanity slipping in any case. At this point talking about something he can fix—i.e. hair—calms him down a little. Just a little.

He definitely gets it, all right. He’s visibly relieved at how Larry’s taken the news, although he’s quick to put a hand to his hair at that last remark.

Larry probably didn’t mean his hair, in any case, but dude—wasn’t this obvious enough? Those Santas managed to shear off some of his hair, but he definitely looks the worse for it. Like he’d just gone through an entire carnival that’s trying to kill him. Shit like that can mess with your head. ]

I’m fine. [ Best not to alarm this guy any further. He tries to smile again. ]

They shaved a little off the top, but I guess I got out lucky. [ Compared to Larry, anyway. But he grows a little more serious. ]

They didn’t take out anything more than just your hair, did they? [ He doesn’t look like he’s bleeding, but you never know… ]

[failures]

[Not a problem at all! It's super understandable considering your OOC posts. I hope you're feeling a little better now!

I made a continuation thread for Koujaku here to avoid captcha!]