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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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[If she'd like? He's an idiot. A total, complete fucking idiot. The way that's phrased does little to calm her down, but it sure as hell does a lot to piss her off. She cannot believe he's phrasing that like this is something optional. Like her learning what in the world he's talking about is something she can skip on if she feels like it. Like this information isn't even necessary.

Her hands are balled into fists at her side, and it's not easy to miss the way she clenches her jaw for a moment. This is stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid and annoying as all hell. If she weren't trying so hard to keep her cool, she would have punched him in the face already. The urge is pretty strong, honestly.]

Idiot. [All but hissing that word out. He doesn't get to talk to her like that, not even if he's like this.] Once we're out of this park, you're telling me everything you know. And don't you dare leave anything out, you dumbass.

[ In his mind he figured he was just being nice as usual, but when he gets that kind of reaction it's more than a little surprising. Making Kaneki really and entirely realize how out of touch he'd been with her and the huge difference it made with what she remembered and what he did. Yes, he realized that it was going to likely make her mad but everything else still stood and it had been enough to earn a genuinely surprised look from him.

She was trying so hard, wasn't she?

A part of him wonders that if he was better at faking happy smiles and been able to act like the 'old' him when he met with her again, if she would have been less irritated and mad at him. He's ridiculously broken and distanced from everyone he knew; a bad decision on his part but at the time he really figured that was the best for everyone even if now it seemed more of a selfish decision that hurt him and the others around him in the process. ]

Understood. [ A pause lingers and there's something almost like exhaustion that shows on his face afterward. ] I know if I even remotely tried to lie or leave even the smallest thing out, you'd probably hit me.

[ A memory flashes across his mind and it brings a faint, but almost genuine smile as his expression seems to soften. This was definitely why she'd hit him that last time back home, her words back then ringing through his head firmly. Perhaps maybe... he could try and fix things, somehow. ]

...ah... perhaps I really am an idiot for thinking that way, before. It's... not just my world but... ours that this is about.

[At this point, she's so irritated by all of this that anything he says is likely to further piss her off. Even if he suddenly started acting like the "old" Kaneki—knowing her? That would only serve to offend her. Nobody said her temper was rational, after all. Being thrown into incomprehensible situations like this one just makes it worse.]

Haa... [Who even says understood these days? What is she, his drill sergeant? She keeps the commentary to herself, though, and opts to cross her arms and scoff.] Damn right I am. I'll beat the hell out of you, got it?

[She's... pretty sure he got it. But saying this sort of thing feels normal, and as someone who sorely needs normalcy right now, she takes it. Too bad "normal" for her involves insulting remarks.]

Right. So if you understand that much... stop screwing around.

[ Her idea of normalcy ties in to nostalgia for him to when there'd been happiness and everyone at Anteiku had been alright. This was a nice feeling, lighting a strange warmth in him he thought he'd lost previously before arriving here. As despite the threat of what happened in the funhouse not long ago, it wasn't the same kind of danger as he'd been experiencing at home and he never thought he would ever get - or deserve - to talk to Touka again like this.

Quietly Kaneki then nodded to show that he really did get it; her point had gotten across in it's own way loud and clear. She had a tendency to not muddle her intentions and this was likely a bit much to register all at once in such a short time plus his unusual appearance and words that left her confused after already going through the things in this park like before. ]

I won't be able to stop right away but... I will try not to.

[ Touka was entirely free to believe him or not, but he was being as sincere as he would ever be, a touch more life and energy in his eyes compared to what they'd been when he reunited with her initially. No, things would never be completely fixed but it didn't mean he wouldn't try to somewhat attempt to make things right again. ]

I'd... like us to have a talk over coffee sometime once we're out of here, Touka. You've probably spent some time here before me and can tell me more about it, but that's only if you're not busy.

[ Now all that remained was for him to try and get into the routine of how to do all of this without her hitting him but it wasn't just magically going to be the same so easily. Not without a lot of work. ]

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