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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

[Break is the one with the treasure trove sleeves, sadly...

Sounding relieved at that, though!]

Good! I was thinking about carrying us down from the top [as opposed to DROPPING BRIEFLY] but I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible just in case.

[The chains will lower them all the way to the ground below, that said. As soon as Oz's foot touches the dirt, they retract and vanish back into the apparent nothingness they came from.]

Ready to get down?

[But how would this carrying have happened, would it have been less exciting than falling, Yue kinda wants to ask...but no, he just sits quietly until they reach the ground, needing no prompting to...awkwardly climb off Oz's back.]

Um. Thank you for helping! I don't know how I would've gotten down by myself... [He glances back up at whichever carriage he'd jut been in. It's really high up!] Do you often do things like that though?

As often as they're needed!

[Which is more often than he'd like, honestly... People need to stop getting themselves into trouble, good lord.]

You're welcome, though! But you should be careful if you decide to take a ride on anything else. It can be pretty dangerous around places like this.

[...That's kind of an ominous statement.]

Are festivals supposed to be dangerous?

[Breaking news in small doses ends up being more ominous than is intended almost every time...]

They're not. The ones here are, though... But sometimes the people here throw good parties and things like that! You just have to be careful about the ones CERES throws.

But why would they want to give us dangerous festivals, instead of normal ones? Do they want to hurt us?

[But then why would they bring people here just to hurt them???]

The answer to that depends on who you ask.

[Because the more cynical tinhatty people sure will say "YES" immediately... Oz isn't entirely sure, either way. If anything, to him their misery just seems like collateral damage: CERES doesn't seem to be out for their blood specifically, but they sure don't seem to care when it's spilt, either.]

But we don't really know why these things happen. That's just a little more incentive to be careful though, I think.

Ohh....so I guess it's just how things are here.

[Dangerous, he means. Yue nods to himself at this conclusion. He's never been anywhere inherently dangerous before, but he understands the concept of it, at least. Probably.]

Well, I'm not sure how well I'll do at staying careful, but I'll try my best, at least.

[Probably. Well, he'll fit right in if that's the case...]

If you need extra help, I can lend a hand, too! [Since Oz is pretty capable despite his noodley appearance, as that little stunt probably illustrated.]

But you should be prepared anyway, since there are some things that might cause trouble for you no matter how much you try to anticipate it.

Eh? What sort of things?

[Like...surprise attacks? Monsters? Sudden cannibalism?]

[All of the above-- or at least two of the three, but who knows, cannibalism will probably follow with their luck.]

It depends, but they're usually things that CERES has set up. There was a testing facility that they were running demos of games in a while ago, and some people who tried them ended up acting weird... Oh— I heard that the first group to arrive were served burgers that caused hallucinations and other strange symptoms.

How did the games make them act weird? Ah, but I guess if the food and rides can do things to people, the games could too... [He thinks on this for a moment.]

...Do all games do that? I'd think people would stop trying them if they were.

They don't, and that's what makes them dangerous. It can be hard to predict what things are normal here and what things may affect people badly.

[It's just a bad experience all around, basically. Oz's expression briefly shows his frustration with that.]

Even the things that made people act weird before don't always have the same affect.

....That sounds like a pain.

[Can you sense his disappointment? Of course you can. How is he supposed to have fun if everything's schrodinger's deathtrap?

Not that he knows who Schrodinger is.]

Have you been affected by a lot of those things?

[Oz understands that feeling, naturally... Dealing with surprise death traps are the worst kind of surprises and also the worst kind of death traps.]

Mm, not really! I've been pretty lucky and only had trouble with about one thing. Still, most of my friends have been affected by things more than once...

Hmm.

[Thinking about this.]

Well, then...I guess there's not much point worrying about it too much, is there? Since you don't know when it'll happen anyway.

[overflow if you'd like to continue!]

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