Who: Everyone ever.
When: ooc: 10/30 to 11/04 ; ic: 09/26 to 09/28
Where: Cerealia - all five districts.
What: Clowns, Murder, Outrage and One Direction.
Happy Halloween :D
Rating/Warning: PG-13 to R. [ image within includes brief flash of scary clowns, scroll down quickly if you don't want to see it! ]
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Queen of the Mountain
It's morning when the lights go out completely. Not a single one remains on except the glow of the device and whatever flashlights anyone bothered to stock up on. However, a single hologram in the Shopping District broadcasts along a billboard for a Very Important Announcement. After that, you hear a song so tender and beautiful that it must have been composed by angels at the dawn of time.
"Baby, you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed… "
When you go outside to investigate, a friendly clown will be inside a stolen(?) ice cream truck, looking to get all your attention before he talks through the speaker on the truck.
"Greetings, Cerealians! It's nice of you to join us at last. Are you worried about the power coming back? Oh, I'm sure CERES is working on it now. Rest assured that they have their finest technicians on the job. You won't be without your precious personal computers and robot-pets much longer.
In the meantime, let's play a game shall we! The rules are rather simple:
♥ You see that necklace on your chest? That's a lantern. You're going to want to hold onto that. If you lose it… well, you don't want to know what will happen to you if you do.
♥ Now, for the fun part! Collect the necklaces any way you wish, though we prefer the naughty way. Kill a friend. Kill a foe. Killkillkillkill until the streets are paved with blood.
♥ Whoever collects the most of those lanterns, gets a special surprise! They get to go back home, back to their friends and loved ones and away from CERES' endless lies and trickery. Don't you know it's all a lie? Your worlds weren't destroyed. This is a penal colony, and you've been suckered into the biggest prank of your life. But I'm here to help, of course. Just bring me a garbage bag full of the lanterns, and I'll show you, the lucky winner, the way out."
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//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I [ xx xx ]
You're going about your business, wading through the dark, finding supplies. But you're not alone. After the broadcast happens, everything is in full swing. Some masked participants decide to start breaking into shops, classes, apartments, you name it. There's no escaping them. They're on the hunt, they're after you 'cause they're hungry like the woooolf. You can choose to engage them, fight your way out, jump into the game, or head to the sanctuary located in CERES academy. The choice is yours. Be sure to make the right one.
PHASE II [ xxxx ]
Spiders, spiders everywhere. For those who decided to surrender their lanterns, the first twelve hours of the game are a breeze. Then, come the spiders, hungry critters that will attack and try to catch you in their many webs strewn through the colony. Be sure not to get stuck in one while they chase you.
PHASE III [ xxxx ]
Feeling weak? Not quite keeping up with the clown-faced gentlemen? Or maybe even your former friends and lovers? Well, there's a solution for that! You'll find another masked man happily pedaling some Pulse for you to take. The temptation is there with the promise of extra strength and a boost of power and speed. He won't hint at any side-effects, but oh, how you'll feel them when they hit. And those trying to dodge that fate, don't put your drink down anywhere or take your eyes off your food. Someone just might slip a little extra to get this game really going.
PHASE IV [ xxxx ]
It's the last day of the game. You're tired. You're weary. You may have stabbed a roommate or ten. But the lights are gradually returning while the CEO appears as if from nowhere with a public apology on all the billboards. You're welcome to spam your disgust and contempt in his inbox. His explanation for not being around? Quite simple! He was off on an expedition this whole time and wasn't aware of the situation because he gets no reception out in the jungle. See, he was doing it all for the good of the colony and trying to look for more habitable terrain. Isn't that kind of him?
Any further complaints will be forward to his underlings, Elias and Lucius.
BONUS [ whyo'clock ]
You know what's fun? Jumping castles! Someone happened to surreptitiously leave one in CERES' large garden. Do you want to go in and see what's inside? For a limited time only, you can escape the madness and murder to jump to your heart's content. There also might be another clown-faced murderer watching you as you jump. And jump again. He'll just be in the corner. Breathing. Watching.
[ 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. ]
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//RUN.EXE
Welcome to CEREALIA's fourth official event. For your convenience, we have compiled an OOC post explaining the event in greater detail. Feel free to ask questions there if you have anymore lingering concerns or inquiries.
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I'm here to get supplies. [He lifts up his bag as indication, then lifts up his free hand in that universal gesture of "I'm unarmed" or "I come in peace".]
I'm not interested in your lantern, either... or this ridiculous "game" of theirs.
[A soft, derisive snort as he remembers-- these types of games, he's long since sick of them.]
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[ Speaking of which, he should grab a few things for King and his roommate while he's loitering around, though this guy looks particularly troubled about the situation. He probably had a few bad run-ins over the last few days, but he did mention before about murder being a typical thing in his world. Shouldn't he be more used to it? ]
Even if you're not playin' the game, the fact that you've got your lantern still means you haven't lost either. Or did you just avoid it this whole time?
[ He's curious to see what kind of skills this guy might have if he has any. Nine didn't peg him for a fighter since he's not carrying around a weapon, but he also could be a hand-to-hand combat sort of guy like Eight. ]
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I've been keeping indoors most of the time. They've been rampaging all over the place, but... it's easier to fend them off when you've got a base.
[He pointedly doesn't mention his couple of run-ins, the ambush, or the death. And, even if he feels less uneasy, he does still have his hunting knife on him (and a few more things tucked beneath clothes for good measure).]
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[ Big as the colony may be, the apartment complex is probably the first place they're going to head to. Naturally, everyone would want to congregate somewhere familiar and where they have most of their supplies. Even Nine knows that much because it's the sort of thing he'd think of if he were on the hunt for lanterns. The other place would be the supermarket, he guesses, so he probably shouldn't stick around all that long in this pace.
But first, he's stocking up on food. He's starving and not living off meager rations. He's a growing boy here. ]
Besides, you got to come out some time to get stuff, so you'd be abandonin' your base anyway.
[ Who knows what could have followed him here, but the coast looks clear so far. Either way, Nine's lance isn't too far, and he's always ready for action. ]
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[He rubs at his forehead absently with his thumb, glancing over at the words. A small smile quirks up his lips and he shakes his head.]
I didn't leave it unguarded. [He did learn a few sound traps and otherwise that he learned how to make back in Haven.] Besides that, I have someone who lives with me, so he's going to keep an eye on it while I'm gone.
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[ He gestures to the light around his neck, intent on keeping it safe for the time being. He has a feeling the kind of person who'd go around slaughtering everyone else here to just get home is probably not someone who deserves to go home anyway. Besides, game or not, he still doesn't like losing a fight.
Like hell is he going to go down that quickly. ]
A lot of people out there didn't see things the same way and just started attackin' at the first sign. Just who are those clown-guys anyway? You know anything about them?
[ He's never seen or heard from them before. Maybe he ought to do some closer looking in this place when it's not a war zone. He hasn't exactly been taking the patrolling thing seriously without Kurasame around to keep him in line. ]
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I don't know... but it's hard to call them normal people. Normal people don't act in the way that they do, just... attacking at the first sign, like you said.
[He combs his fingers over his hair.] I don't know if they're people from this city, or from outside it. All I can say is that they're dangerous enemies.
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[ They're quite hard to avoid, especially with the way they've been practically banding together to jump whoever tramples into their path. He's not necessarily afraid of them. Just annoyed that they've devised this stupid game that may yield nothing to the end. The fact that people are even falling for it is pissing him off, too. Who would give into the demands of a bunch of lying psychopaths?
Even Nine has better sense than that. If he's going to head back, it'll be on his own terms. He's not turning on any of the people he knows to do it. ]
Why don't we try unmaskin' one of them and gettin' some information out of them? They'd be willin' to talk once we start beatin' it out of them. Just send me to the perp!
[ He'll get them talking no matter what it takes. He wants to know what this game business is about, and it's probably part of his job or something to that effect, being a patrol officer and all. Not that he really pays much attention to his duties most of the time. ]
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[Hinata's voice is hesitant, though he's not against trying to gain information. It's just when those people are so crazed, so wanting a fight, maybe there's nothing left in their heads, just like those people who'd fall to despair.
His world's been there at the back of his mind for a while, ever since this all began. It's too similar.]
I mean, if they're desperate enough to risk their lives against some of us to try and get these lanterns... [They might be prepared to die. Even if there're methods of torture-- ah, no, no, he's not going to let his mind stray that far yet.]
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We'll never know unless we do it first. Can't just let 'em run wherever they feel like it and keep slayin' people left and right.
[ It's not like CERES is doing anything about it. Those police robots always disappear conveniently when they need them the most, so they're the ones who got to stand up and do something. ]
If you don't wanna get your hands dirty, then leave it to me. I'll take care of them.
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No, you're right. We don't know for sure... and we may as well give it our best shot, even if it fails. We can say that we tried, at least.
[So many things could go wrong, though, back in that place. If we tried something... the likelihood that we'd die... ah, well, I can't say for sure this place is different, but if I wanna get further I gotta risk it.]
It'll be safer with more than one person anyway.
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[ They don't look that impossible to capture anyway. Nine's managed to get away from a few fights relatively unscathed, and their abilities seem pretty limited from what he can see. He's run into worse things that threatened to wipe him and Class Zero out plenty of times, so this will be a cinch.
He grabs another loaf among the pile of stale ones and swings it over his shoulder like how he normally holds his lance, and he pauses to give Hinata a short wave. ]
See ya for now!
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[Hinata turns, following Nine with his eyes and his head, shifting to watch him as he starts to walk off. He lifts his own hand with a brief wave after him.]
Yeah! Be careful out there.
[DON'T GET SHANKED]