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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

[PHOTO SET IS ACCURATE. JUST BE NICER SHUU!1]

'Course I've been out there in the world, and in my experience people who threaten others to get what they want wind up being pretty unpopular.

Or arrested.

Or. . . y'know. Thrown out of windows.

[he isn't giving context for that last one. whups]

Ah, really? That's funny..

[ Oh no, there it goes. The passive-aggressiveness is unleashed, and Shuu isn't even bothering to be subtle about it. Sure, he's smiling, but it's easily audible in his tone as he speaks. ]

Where I come from, those people always get away with it. Even if they destroy entire villages or kill whoever they want, they're heralded as heroes.. that's really funny! [ It's not funny at all. ]

[. . . he breathes out, his annoyance fading a bit into something much softer. something close to. . . sympathy? perhaps. . .]

I wouldn't call it funny.

But it sounds like you come from a pretty bad place.

[ .. wow. That's sure stopping him here a little bit, since he didn't really expect to hear that in return. In fact, even though he looked fully ready to keep the pa coming a moment ago, he slows down a little and instead frowns slightly. ]

What do you mean? [ ??? People being shitty is so normal to Shuu that he can't even imagine.. anything else.. it's what happens when you leave an impressionable young kid in a colony of jackasses. ]

[kaito folds his arms over his torso, pausing for a moment as he thinks of a way to describe what he means]

Stuff like that shouldn't be happening that often. So if it does happen all the time where you come from, then. . . [he gestures vaguely, searching for the words]

Then it's a problem, y'know? Sure, bad things happen. People can be awful. But there should be some good in that bad to balance things out.

There can't be any good as long as humans are around.

[ That's something that world has firmly instilled into him. Humans were the ones who caused everything shitty in his life to begin with, he thinks. ]

If you can't understand that it's the way the world is, then it's probably since you're a human.. you guys su-re think you have it easy, don't you?

[. . . humans? if he's not human, then. . .]

[kaito's brows furrow]

I don't think we've got it easy at all.

[ It's pretty hard to tell Shuu isn't human, honestly. If anything, he looks more like an oversized kid making up some make-belief story, since he does look human in every way - it's something that, at best, would be able to be sensed about him rather than suspected from any visual clues.

Still, he continues with the same story. ]

Why not? [ Or question, rather. Because there's just no winning against Shuu in the demons vs humans debate, it's just way too ingrained with him. ]

[kaito sure isn't spiritually or supernaturally sensitive enough to pick up on anything other than visible clues, that was certain]

Because humans die. They get sick, they get hurt. . . they suffer loss as much as any other species does.

But those sort of things aren't really limited to humans, either.

Humans also kill anything that isn't human for just being different. [ Not that demons haven't done the same.. hell, not like Shuu personally hasn't done the same to humans in turn.

But.. look, they started it, okay. His brain is not capable of processing any sort of morality more complicated than that. ]

So then they have no right at all to complain about things not being easy.

[well kaito sure won't be the one to deny that]

. . . yeah, well. No one's perfect. I never said there weren't bad people in the world who did bad, awful things.

[to deny such would be to deny human nature, he knows]

Just that there should be good people around to balance that out.

.. You know, you're not the first one who said that.

[ Here, at least. Back home he's hardly interacted with humans for all those reasons, but in this place, after talking to some of them, there have been ones that have claimed the same thing.

And while Natalia has shown that some humans are actually pretty decent, it's still a thought that's hard to process for Shuu - hence why he still looks a little skeptical. ]

Are humans so desperate to prove that..?

Of course I'm not. S'cause it's true.

[and he was fairly certain he wasn't the only one to acknowledge that fact]

I don't know if we're desperate to prove it as much as most of us know it's how the world works. It's taken as truth, no matter what, because it is truth.

[the truth in the eyes of an optimist]

[ It's weird. Because this guy really seems convinced of what he's talking about, but.. there's no way that's the truth. Shuu just can't accept it as easily after what he's had to deal with for years - it's just too deeply ingrained to suddenly forget about.

But on the other hand.. well, can't be much trouble letting this guy try to prove it as long as Shuu keeps his guard up enough to make sure he doesn't get literally backstabbed, right? ]

Fi-ne. If you're so desperate to prove it, then why don't you? [ Says the guy who was threatening to kill him liteRALLY THREE MINUTES AGO.. ] It's not like we're going anywhere as long as we're stuck here.

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