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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.

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//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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It's no problem, Fuuka. [ It kind of just slips his mind that this can possibly be Minako's Fuuka. Once it actually hits him, it doesn't seem to affect him much. As sad it is kind of is, just seeing his friends again is nice even if he's not a part of their life.

ANYWAY, BACK ON TOPIC-- ]

I think there's something wrong here though.

[ way to drop that bomb on her, minato. it's said so quick and nonchalantly that she almost misses it, doing a sort of double-take and turning her head so fast it almost hurts.

how do you know my name? is what she wants to ask, but she remembers what shinjiro said earlier: about alternate timelines and their leaders being different but still the same... and that's not something she should say, shouldn't she? after all the promises she's made with minako. after all the promises they've made. ]

[ it's sad and it kind of hurts because they've been through so much already -- they just defeated nyx, things were going to go back to normal once the sun came back up, they were going to live out the rest of their lives as normal teenagers -- but she can't remember him, can't remember ever seeing his face or learning his name. it hurts because minako has done so much for each of them, sacrificed so much and she knows he's done the same too, if he was also their leader.

she looks down, blinking a few times as she takes a steadying breath. what should she say? what is the right thing to say? what if she got it all wrong and he's actually not their leader and some genderbent version of someone else? ]

[ but it has to be him, right? he doesn't look anything like minako, but there's a quiet sort of reassurance to him that reminds fuuka of her so much, and it's more than enough for her to believe.

there's another breath before she looks up again, nodding in agreement. ]

Yeah, I think so too... maybe we should leave? I'm not sure about the exit, but I think we could double back to the entrance [ since she hasn't been in there for that long ], if not.

[ there will be time to ask him later, to get to know him better. but for now, this will do. ]

Edited 2015-04-04 01:08 (UTC)

Yeah. Backtracking is a good idea. [ They didn't go too far in, right? Well, he doesn't think so... But then again, he definitely dozed off most of the trip. He can't exactly remember how he even got here.

Before even being able to turn around, the lights turn off. He's quiet for a couple of seconds. ]

Is this part of the attraction?

[ there's a small sound of surprise from her when the lights go out, blinking her eyes despite the lack of light. ]

I don't... think so? [ then again, the ferris wheel was super weird so she honestly shouldn't be surprised. ] Um, hold on.

[ fumbling in the dark takes a while, but she manages to find her small tool kit, flicking on the flashlight attachment on the swiss army knife. ]

There.

Prepared as always. [ Fuuka has always been down to earth and resilient. He shouldn't be too surprised that he even has the kit with her (also because he's glad that someone competent is with him). He'll start leading since he's so used to taking the first steps for obvious reasons.

However, after a couple of steps, there is this shadow that kind of shifts in the corner view of the flashlight's sight. ]

... There's something wrong about this place.

[ this way! ]

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wow ok 1/3????

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3/3

wow he's a baddie i'm sorry

take responsibility minato

he doesn't do that in the end no recaptcha stop

i got u bro