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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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[borntorebel]

[Throw in a little revulsion and fear and that's the perfect description of the beast Jabba kept in his pleasure palace.]

Have you heard any noise from the beast?

[Another tentacle comes close and she manages to slice through it, ignoring the wet, rubbery slap as it hits the ground.]

I suppose that answers that. Get ready to charge to the your left on my signal.

[faithfulflame]

[Rei just nods.]

Right.

[There's no time to waste on frivolous words. She braces herself to move.]

Ready.

[borntorebel]

One. Two. THREE!

[On the call of three, Leia moves to the right, her lightsaber lending light so she can avoid the glass and anything else. Just when she goes to look at the girl, the lights come on and nothing is there with the two of them in the room, aside from broken mirrors.]

I hate this place. Already.

[faithfulflame]

[On the count Rei does break as instructed, rolling away into a martial artists stance and holding up her charm...

And then...the electric lights are drowning out the blue magical ones]

...Again?

[borntorebel]

[Leia frowns as she looks over at the girl. Something about her feels familiar. For some reason, she's reminded of Ami, Luke's fiancée in Luceti. She takes a deep breath and straightens up, but doesn't let down her guard.]

Again? You've been through this before, then?

[faithfulflame]

[Rei nods and sets her jaw.]

In the Ferris Wheel. and honestly, I've never enjoyed funhouses. Mirrors make me nervous enough.

[borntorebel]

[She can feel the girl's frustration and she understands it completely. It's nearly a mirror of her own, in a way. Which, considering where they are, is ironic.]

Ferris Wheel? Is that the large, circular ride? I thought this would be safer. [Silly Leia.]

[faithfulflame]

[Rei snorts and starts towards the exit.]

You're wrong. Mirrors hide the ugly parts of one's soul, and they are often home to the ugliest of spirits.

[borntorebel]

[Leia shakes her head as she shuts off her lightsaber and goes to follow her companion.[

No, that's not what I meant. I didn't expect them to explode and to be attacked by strange creatures. The Ferris Wheel appeared as if it would malfunction or worse when I looked at it. But the correlation to malicious spirits and mirrors isn't that surprising.

[She can say that after Luceti, but it still feels strange in a way.]

[faithfulflame]

[Rei laughs harshly and moves on.]

I've never been in a fun house that wasn't absolutely vile. It was stupid to even come in here.

[borntorebel]

That's definitely an experience I won't be repeating if I have any say in the matter.

[She takes a good look at the girl.]

This might sound strange, but do you have an identical twin?

[faithfulflame]

[She shakes her head. Because as similar as Mistress 9 looked...she's not a twin.]

No. Why do you ask? And...may I ask your name? I'm Rei. Rei Hino.

[borntorebel]

[Leia has a twin, but Luke is definitely not identical.]

You look like a girl I saw in the world I was in before I got here. And I'm Leia. Leia Organa-Solo.

[faithfulflame]

Do I?

[She bows.]

And nice to meet you, Leia-san.

[borntorebel]

Yes, she was a close friend of someone I liked and respected a great deal. [She pauses in thought.] I believe her name is Rei as well. Is that a common name where you're from?

[Because the bowing, the use of the "-san" at the end of her name all remind her more and more of the Terrans she met in Luceti, specifically from the country...Japan? That's where Ami was from, so maybe this girl too.]

Just Leia is fine. [But she does return the bow, to the same level. Which, if she remembers correctly, means she sees the two of them as equals, which is pretty much truth at this point.]

[faithfulflame]

[Well, that at least has Rei perplexed. Because it's not a common name, not at all.]

No. Not a particularly common name. It's actually a family name. [A beat, and she taps her chin thoughtfully. Could this...how strange.]

Who was your friend?

[borntorebel]

[She frowns at the entire situation. It's strange.]

Her name was Ami Mizuno. She was...is my brother's fiancée. [Luke said he'd find a way to make their family stay together as much as possible. And, well, they've done harder things than that.]

[faithfulflame]

[That, more than anything, gets Rei to stop. She stands still, her fists and face screwing up.]

What did you say?

[Because there's no way Ami would get engaged and not say anything.]

[borntorebel]

[The girl's reaction is visceral and disturbing.]

Her name is Ami Mizuno and she and my brother were engaged for nearly two and a half years when I met her. Do you know her?

[faithfulflame]

Ami Mizuno is one of my best friends. She's not engaged, or I'd know.

[That's all she's got to say.]

How do you know her?

[borntorebel]

[Rei...Ami's best friend...That is where she's seen this girl before.]

Before my husband and I wound up here, we were trapped in another world, one where my brother and your friend were for years before either of us arrived. The woman I met was around my age and a physician.

I believe I saw a girl that looked just like you while I was there.

[faithfulflame]

Another world? [She frowns visibly, stunned and a little confused. Ami-chan had been in another world? When? Because the name isn't common, and...well, timeline problems are one thing she understands. Ami could easily have been older, or from a later point in the timeline. And she did want to be a doctor...]

How do you mean? And what do you mean you saw someone who looks like me?

[borntorebel]

Yes, another world, controlled by spirits. [Leia sighs as she looks around. She spots a bench a few feet away. Perfect.]

I can tell you more about it, of course, but I'd rather not block the exit if more people are coming out. The last thing anyone needs after escaping that is to literally run into strangers.

[faithfulflame]

I think I'd like to hear more about this. It sounds...somewhat...unbelievable.

[And yet she senses no lie there. None at all.]

[borntorebel]

[Leia laughs, humorlessly, under her breath and she moves to a nearby bench. She waits until she can get the right words in her mind before speaking.]

Sometimes, I think that it's too fantastical to be true myself. And, yet, I suppose my life back in my own galaxy is no less. Please, sit and I'll tell you.