reparator: (Default)
C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] ioculus2014-11-04 06:59 pm
Entry tags:

//TESTDRIVE4.0.EXE

//TESTDRIVE4.0.EXE

MOONFESTCON 2014 PART I: Embracing Lunacy


It's that time of the season to praise the two moons of Cerealia. As they hang in the sky, looking harmless and moon-like, the robots and CERES staff have gathered together to prepare a fanciful celebration. It's primarily located in the Pleasure District where paper lanterns hang and where fireworks are starting to burst in the sky. Everyone is welcome to dress up and enjoy an evening of fantastic pleasures, platonic or otherwise.

"Good evening! As always, I'm pleased you all can join me. Do enjoy all the beverages being passed around along with the many services we have to offer, all there for your pleasure.

Take time to play in one of our many booths or just slip away and have a crazy evening. The moons bid it. Don't be shy."

//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I
[ 19:00 ] The festival begins promptly with a kick-off speech and a toast from Julius Vincere, encouraging everyone to celebrate beneath the two moons as they light the sky. The weather is crisp and beautiful, leaving them both in full view as their light cascades upon the festival. Around the district, there are several stands full of standard fair food (candy apples/corn dogs/ice cream/deep fried everything), games, and an assortment of many awkward prizes (if you're wondering what these are, do remember you're in the Pleasure District!). Also, there is alcohol everywhere, served to minors and adults alike.
PHASE II
[ 19:45 ] The music is playing loudly beneath the noises of the festival. Anyone approaching the speakers will notice a strange buzzing noise that keeps wavering. Then, the sound changes abruptly to the sound of pained moaning hidden within the song. It grows more pronounced by the second until the lights in the Pleasure District flicker off for a brief second. When they return, there is someone crawling out of the speaker. Your eyes squint, and you can see them briefly, the faint outlines of their form as their screaming escalates, only everyone else seems to be deaf to it. Only you can hear it, and you wonder how and why no one else is reacting. Is it just you? Are you hallucinating? Better get used to that feeling in Cerealia.
PHASE III
[ 20:00 ] Your friendly speaker friend up there doesn't seem to want to go away. (S)he keeps crawling out and disappearing throughout the evening, but it's easier to ignore as Julius takes to the stage. He has a special announcement for all. CERESdate (who sponsored this wonderful festival by the way) has agreed to set up all you vibrant, sexy Cerealia singles with some robot partners for the night. Want to escape? Too late. They're latching on and dragging you out to the dance floor to boogie down. Afterwards, they'll try and drag you to the nearby hotels for some extra loving. You are welcome to run at this point or comply happily.
PHASE IV
[ 21:03 ] Have you escaped the overzealous sex robots? Good, good! Now, it's time for the real fun. The holograms turn from PG images of the stars and surrounding moons and planets to a few fun images of various robot couples caught in absolute bliss. You may spot a clown mask in there or two, reminiscent of those who were running around causing a bit of trouble earlier. The images continue to get distorted as the clowns look like they're stretching their necks out of the image and reaching out towards you. The moaning from before returns.

Doesn't it get you in the mood? If it does and you'd like to find a partner for the night, a few CERESdate robots will be on hand to help fix you up with a partner, organic or otherwise. They're being quite insistent again because they want your credits.
BONUS
[ why:o'clock ] Have you ever been stalked by a condom-dispensing machine? Well, there's a first time for everything! These friendly contraptions are set up all over the Pleasure District, waiting for you to pass by before trailing after you very slowly. At first you don't notice. Every time you turn around, it stands stationery. But the moment you start to move, it just carefully rolls behind you. Watching. Waiting.
[ 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 meme. ]

//RUN.EXE
Welcome to CEREALIA's fourth Test Drive Meme. For your convenience, we have compiled a post detailing everyone's arrival experience and a FAQ that should explain everything in more detail. Please read them thoroughly before playing. Thank you!


harepiece: (speak up)

[personal profile] harepiece 2014-11-06 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Freed from the stuffy confines of high society manners... Or, more importantly, memories that he would rather not revisit just yet.

He's doing a good job at avoiding the awkwardness, though!! JUST IGNORE EVERYTHING. It's a good policy until questionable machines start stalking you through the streets and Oz is sticking to it very strongly.]


Mm, yeah, that's what I meant! [It was more vague but much more polite than being like "do you come from planet rabbit".] Where I come from, there isn't really much variety like that. Is huma your word for human?
harepiece: (cut that shit out)

[personal profile] harepiece 2014-11-06 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[SHIELD ACTIVATED. APPLES RAISED.

Oz is taking several steps back, though, because clearly they're dealing with some sort of hellspawn device from a demonic plane of existence.]


Don't smash it—! What if it haunts you?! [Haunted by the ghost of a possessed condom machine do you want that Ciel.]

Maybe if we run fast enough we can just lose it in an alley...!
cheats: (and our girls are blackbirds)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-06 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
An alley...

[ He at least calms down with a serious expression, since though violence was his first answer, Oz's is actually not a bad one... ]

That could work! The stupid thing couldn't fit in a small place like we could.
allweather: (destruction)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-06 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Abyss holes seem like a good enough explanation for this... Like, besides what the powerpoint was about. Scifi words, etc. He hums in vague agreement, because he can't logically bring himself to believe all they've been told without a healthy dollop of Doubt.

For one thing, what is a code?? They personally are not secret notes, he knows about real codes-!!]


I did- earlier today. [And since he misses the point of this comment entirely, he just pulls out his notebook to look at the notes he took... earlier.] I recorded what I could, but I'm sure it's not all... Well, it's somewhat disjointed, given the subject matter.
harepiece: (please let it be cake)

[personal profile] harepiece 2014-11-06 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Then let's go, let's go!!

[He'll turn around, whacking Ciel in the arm with one of his candy apples, and nyooms off in the direction of one of the side streets... expecting Ciel to be able to keep up.....]
mermaiding: (Like they're wanting to get in my way)

[personal profile] mermaiding 2014-11-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a little at that.] Mm! At least you are not so quick to throw away your life. You are funny, for a human.

[Who knows what standards she's even using to judge this.]

How do we get it to target you? Perhaps wants something else. May be targeting Julius. If so, let it do what it wants. [Actually that gives her a thoughtful pause.] Maybe just try talking first, before trying to kill.
allweather: (every day with these people)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-06 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, I think... [Maybe?

Anyway, oh- now she wants to talk to it. You know, he probably could talk down a hellish shadow creature that does nothing but moan and scream in agony. It would probably be easier than talking down the rest of the people he deals with on a regular basis.]


... Would you like to ask it who exactly it's after, if it is at all?

erwin smith | attack on titan

[personal profile] immutably 2014-11-06 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
phase i.

[He should enjoy this experience, there are no Titans here and for all intents and purposes, this was a second chance at a life he had never imagined. But Erwin's thoughts were not entirely on the festival even as he looked up at the two moons hanging in the sky.

He passed on the food, none of it looked particular appetizing but here he was nonetheless, glancing at the particular prizes being offered up with raised eyebrows. People seemed to be having fun though, at least for the time being, perhaps there was no need to be on edge but it wasn't such a simple matter for him.]


phase iii.

[The music, the being coming out of the speakers that it seemed only he noticed, it seemed that perhaps it had just been a long night for him. Even if he may have only been a backup of data, the injuries he had sustained while a guest of the Military Police still seemed so real, as did the bit of pain in the stump of his right arm.

A robot grabbing at him was incentive for him to knock it's arm aside and quickly make his escape. He found himself in an alleyway of the Pleasure District, trying to orient himself as to his surroundings to find his way back as he heard foosteps behind him, instantly on guard once more before he could see who it was through the shadows.]

mermaiding: (Reclining on the bosom)

[personal profile] mermaiding 2014-11-06 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome.

[Oona shrugs and looks away, as if remembering that she's not supposed to care. She scratches her cheek, twirls her hair around her finger, and shrugs again.]

If kill innocent creature, would not be good. [The hell spawn screaming in agony is clearly the innocent party here. Maybe.] If wants revenge on humans, or even just Julius, would not get in its way. Probably.
allweather: (fuck!!!)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-06 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[But #notallhumans—

Reim frowns slightly - she's abruptly more callous than before, he can't help it - but, well, he's not exactly the type to rush in and get involved with things that don't concern him, honestly... He can't fight! On principle he still objects to it, though.]


Well- if it starts harming people who have nothing to do with Julius, I can't let that slide.

[boom headshot]
harepiece: (you heathens)

[personal profile] harepiece 2014-11-06 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[As far as Oz is concerned, Abyss holes are a good explanation for like... everything.

BUT HE KNEW he could count on Reim to be a suspicious distrusting nerd in a time of crisis. Also extremely organized?! REIM IT'S ONLY BEEN A DAY?? Less than a day, even... Somehow Oz finds it in him to be a little surprised, even though he should probably not be by this point.]


Can I have a look? I was a little... [HM.] There were other things happening when I arrived, so I might have missed some parts.

[He had to hold Ciel back from trying to kill the presenters, basically.]
mermaiding: (And firmly pray arrive the day)

[personal profile] mermaiding 2014-11-06 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[But #yesallmermaids...

She squints at him again and that skeptical sort of look is back.
] But, those people have nothing to do with you, either, yes?
sisconning: (like a stone)

[personal profile] sisconning 2014-11-06 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Nesso is just fine following the quick little bunny. He can't blame Zara for being unhappy about it. In fact, he's impressed with his old friend's patience as he usually is. He doubts he would have handled something like that quite so well.]

No? Never expected such an aggressive suitor? [Haha she really was into you, bunny. But yes. Okay More seriously.] This is all a little beyond imagination I think.

[Nesso slows, glancing around. Maybe it's old habit that has his hand dropping to the pommel of his sword.]

All of this, it doesn't seem like it should be real. [And then, the inevitable.] There's no sign of Fiona anywhere.
sisconning: (lived unbruised we are friends)

[personal profile] sisconning 2014-11-06 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[That's right. Nesso Galland, hero straight out of song and legend, defending Elza's bacheor lady killer ways. Something.

Another nod.]
Seems that way. And no cats.

[Which is all right. He's quite pissed off at cats, though the broken, insane one they picked up is an okay guy. But that's beside the point. He reaches out to shove at Elza at that sigh.] Oi. Don't sound that unhappy about it. [He's human okay!]
sewayaku: (fancy mr tux)

[personal profile] sewayaku 2014-11-06 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. As you can see, I have a human form, myself, so "Huma" is how we distinguish you.

[ it feels like he's educating a small child, and, admittedly, it's a little charming. It's been a very long time since he had to explain this to anybody - even Fiona knew mostly everything about the world by the time he entered her life. ]

But if that's all your world has, it would be a fairly useless term. I wonder if a single-race world isn't more peaceful?
springful: (i'm getting a movie???)

[personal profile] springful 2014-11-06 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She tries not to, but Sakura can't help but let out a yelp when they launch together into the air. It's only for a few seconds, but being that high in the air is kind of scary. While of course she knows what Rider is capable of, seeing it and actually experiencing it are pretty different things.]

T-Thank you. [At least they're safe now... And looking down from the building, she can still see some robots going after people.] I'm glad we're finally out of that... whatever that was, anyways.
viperess: <user name="unification"> (pic#8484545)

[personal profile] viperess 2014-11-06 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, Sakura was certainly more composed than Shinji -- he screamed at her for even proposing that she could lift him to carry him out of danger, so she never once tried it. Whether or not it was because of his cowardice or something else is something she'll never know.

She brushes a strand of her hair and goes to the edge of the building, peering down below. They aren't too far up, but just enough that they won't be troubled.
]

This place seems to have strange customs. The way those robots were acting...it was as though they wanted to mate with us.
troublewingman: (056)

[personal profile] troublewingman 2014-11-06 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
For real? [That is getting her an eyebrow raise. He is surprised and amused at the same time.]

I'm not sure whether I should be pleading the fifth or not, but me and the Blue Dispenser just met. We'd need to get to know each other a bit more before I'm ready for that kind of patronage.
harepiece: (bluebirds)

[personal profile] harepiece 2014-11-06 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
[MUFFLED LAUGH TRACK IN THE DISTANCE]

Ah... Well— even humans still find a lot of things to disagree on. [That is about the most placid way he could have possibly worded that, good lord. It's a depressing subject to delve into with a stranger, though, so he's trying to save both of them. The "ANYWAY" is practically palpable as he carries on.]

No one uses "huma", at least, but the term human still gets a lot of use! There just aren't many things that give them a run for their position in society.
troublewingman: (009)

[personal profile] troublewingman 2014-11-06 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Did she just call him a noob? Do people still use that word anymore? He gives a smile.][He gives a quick look around, a little exaggerated.] This is some kind of festival to be dropping in on. Not exactly sure I got the whole opening welcome for what it's about, but it seems pretty self explanatory.
constricted: (sweet reflection)

[personal profile] constricted 2014-11-06 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Lion-san.

[ She feels like this is the start of a new arc. Elza Lion. Cat apparitions feel more like something up Hanekawa's alley, though. Speaking of which, she doesn't know if he's a supernatural being or not. Well, she doesn't want to call this guy an apparition if it offends him. ]

Um, hm... then, are you magic? A lion given courage by a wizard, a lion that rules a faraway land you can go to through a wardrobe... or something like that.
constricted: <user name=kislap> (for what i've done)

[personal profile] constricted 2014-11-06 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shocked by the arrival of a stranger, she raises her hands up as if she's been caught redhanded. She's still holding the toy, though. ]

Huh? What? Nadeko wasn't thinking anything lewd about this toy!
constricted: <user name=kislap> (for i must die)

[personal profile] constricted 2014-11-06 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nadeko can't help but feel a little disheartened by the fact that no one was even remotely Koyomi-like in this place. ]

Ah, um, s-sorry.

[ He didn't even come up with a good pop culture-flavored retort. For shame. She looks down, wondering if it's even worth bringing it up now. ]

... The creature... in the speakers... [ She sees it. ] Nadeko was wondering if it was an illusion.
lionly: (c ↯ i keep to your left)

[personal profile] lionly 2014-11-06 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, for the confidence. [It's half-sincere and half-teasing right back, trying to distract him. His head turns toward the place the screaming was coming from, frowning at the people still milling about like nothing's happening...]

They should. And it can't be just a coincidence or mishearing, if it's both of us hearing it.

[Which means... he isn't sure.]
lionly: (c ↯ they're clueless about)

[personal profile] lionly 2014-11-06 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No cats isn't terrible, though, right?

[With a sidelong smile. He knows your feelings on cats full well, Nesso. He feels the same. Mostly because Auger and Mejojo are nut bonkers, and not in the way that Julian is. Not that he knows about Julian, yet, he's been busy waiting on the border.

He bends to the shoving, though, laughing.]


I can't help it. I'm going to be lonely, you know. [HE SAYS as though he doesn't spend 99% of his time around Nesso always.]

Page 13 of 25