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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.
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//RUN.EXE
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pure_confidence: (pic#7728388)

[personal profile] pure_confidence 2014-11-09 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she quirked a smile, stepping a little more fully out of the shadows where she had been attempting to be a little bit less attractive to the roaming machinery. ]

I'm afraid I never lie without a good reason. Unfortunately, it would seem the majority of this colony is made up of machines and robots. Some of them are actually quite well made.

[ and then she gestured to the Blue Dispenser ]

However, unless you wish to take your newest pet home with you, I'd suggest you see what he wants and send him on his way.
allweather: (i fell like a something has happen)

eons later

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pop culture is difficult for faux-Victorians - especially the workaholic kind. Even if he understood, he wouldn't be fun about it...

He brushes it off, anyway. It's more important that someone else can see the... thing.]


Oh— Then, you saw-? Good. [beat] Well, in the loosest sense...

It- I don't think it was an illusion. Unless we're both seeing imaginary things.
allweather: (are you kidding me rn)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Way harsh, little lord... But in the end, Oz's dignity isn't Reim's problem. All his fellow fake Victorians are irresponsible in at least one way, so Ciel isn't entirely wrong...]

This whole place is a surprise... I've never seen so many people in one place who were so- brazen.

[He has probably been propositioned at least once and he doesn't like it!!]
allweather: (hurt still)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Will he drag Reim along behind him, for camaraderie's sake...]

Yes, yes, I'm sorry- I'm taking it too seriously, aren't I? [bury him] I never liked parties very much.
allweather: (why)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe not everything, be reasonable. And what's so strange about his intense organizational habits?? All he did was write things down, that's normal. That should be normal, y'all are dopes.]

Of course. [He will hold it out, with a subtle but definite look on his face that suggests Oz better watch his back if he a) runs off with it, or b) turns too many pages. He'll be watching.]

I hope I'll have an opportunity to add more detail, as they didn't appreciate many questions during their explanation. [plebs]
allweather: (his head looked huge in this panel)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[So lucky Reim can't read minds right now. They are not silly, they are stylish. Don't be rude.]

So I look like an easy mark... [It's telling how unsurprised he is by this. Telling in a sad way. But he only shrugs and considers Cynbel, good-naturedly(??)]

You aren't going to try to tell me something any minute now, are you?
allweather: (freak)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Don't logic him... mermaid logic...]

Innocent people don't need to be caught up in such villainy! [shadow murder = villainy, he's not picky] I couldn't possibly stand by and let them suffer the consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Not again. He's very serious. This is also assuming Julius deserves it, which he'd not get in the middle of...]
cheats: (now look who’s in trouble)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-09 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
...That's one way to put it.

[ He half mumbles that, though, since he's already had his embarrassing experience with carnival prizes, and his face heats up a little to remember it. Why this... ]

It is lower than any slum I have ever heard of, yet dressed up to look like the finest streets in London. It's completely ridiculous.
Edited (too formal) 2014-11-09 21:02 (UTC)
allweather: (this isn't the icon i thought it was)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Reim looks briefly mortified, like he forgot Ciel was a tiny child for a minute there... He might have. But the truth is back.]

This is supposed to be a festival... Although I can hardly tell what the festivities themselves have to do with the moon. [...] Moons.
cheats: (now she claiming)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-09 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's okay, the tiny grandpa will resume shortly...

Which is to say at the notion, Ciel looks up at the sky with a small frown, since, yeah, that's weird. He's just trying to not focus on how weird everything here is, but when it's point out, he can only sigh. ]


Nor can I, but I'm certain I don't want to know. [ It sounds like something Lau would throw, so he's definitely not interested. ] It seems ridiculous anyways. Our worlds were apparently destroyed, and this is our welcome?
allweather: (for fuck's sake you dumb child)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[How reassuring... Unlike the two moons, which is surreal enough to be more of a bother than most of everything else going on here. Reim glances up himself, idly wondering if he remembered to write down "two moons: why" during his frantic note-taking session.]

I suppose it is rather insensitive. It also doesn't inspire much faith in our new allies... Hopefully they know what they're doing.
cheats: (all black everything)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-09 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't.

[ Ciel says bitterly, with a bitter expression. Okay, not quite that extreme, but his demeanor does turn quite chilly, though it's followed by a sigh that softens his tone. ]

Perhaps I'm too old-fashioned to understand, but to me? This just seems like kidnapping dressed up in finer clothes.
allweather: (master no!!!!!)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[How can a child be old-fashioned? Reim won't say it, but he thinks it.]

Oh, I don't doubt that's true to some extent. But if they are trying to save themselves, and it will help us in the process... A temporary allegiance is hardly- the worst thing that could happen.

[He almost said "the end of the world," but since he hesitantly believes that part on the basis that it's the most likely thing to be true, next to all of the impossible things he's had to stare in the face so far... Too soon, to say the least.]
cheats: (hold up)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-09 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose not.

[ Ciel does agree to that much petulantly, since though in a way, a secret, small part of him was happy to be here rather than home... He still has duties that he must fulfill. He doesn't exactly care about his world or even the people in it, but he's motivated forward to complete his contract, and that will have to be enough. ]

If it means returning home, then I suppose we have little choice but to go along with it. I have work that I must tend to, so this distraction isn't really welcome. [ sigh!! ] I simply can't accept the idea that it's too late to do so.
allweather: (destruction)

[personal profile] allweather 2014-11-09 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ten points for Reim, petulance doesn't mean he isn't totally right.]

That's the spirit. [He says, as plainly as he says everything else. Thankfully there isn't any shonen here, only nerd.] Although now that you mention it, I'd much rather get started on working out how to get home than play games. How is it that we have time for fooling around?

[Reim's real beef with the festival is he isn't getting any work done, confirmed.]
cheats: (pic#8404910)

[personal profile] cheats 2014-11-09 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ciel actually takes the question seriously, since of course he does, but also just because it shifts the topic to be something more akin to what he's used to. It's not exactly eliminating the Queen's distresses, but hey, it is a mystery to be solved. ]

I suppose it's meant to be a distraction. I think some people would just accept this much easily and with good will.

[ not this paranoid loser though ]
fuckaccuracy: (2)

[personal profile] fuckaccuracy 2014-11-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh the stories she could tell you.]

Why the hell not? Besides, what's the worst that can happen? [Gaige wasn't necessarily afraid of getting drunk.

Or alcohol poisoning.]
fuckaccuracy: (Default)

[personal profile] fuckaccuracy 2014-11-10 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course they do, especially if you're a teenager in the future.]

Hey, I'm not complaining. [Not yet, at least. Give her a while so that she goes for enough time without actually killing someone.] This is a hell of a lot better than where I came from.

[Not nearly as much sand and rocks, for starters. Less Hyperion, too.]
backwordscompatible: (glance)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-11-10 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She kind of gathered the latter part; even the PowerPoint she'd 'tuned in and out of' had seemed so...not like the scene before her. If there was a war on anything that particular night, it was over modesty.]

Sounds like a plan to me.

I knew there was a reason to keep you around.
tenofhearts: (pic#6055554)

[personal profile] tenofhearts 2014-11-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[The voice gave her pause, if only for a moment. A sideways glance at the person it came from, then down to her drink, and back over again. Then she took a healthy sip. Slow and purposeful.]

Why not? If that's what they want, then everybody wins.
cozener: (i havent made any really bad)

loki laufeyson | marvel 616

[personal profile] cozener 2014-11-10 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Phase I

[Oh no, he loves fair-like things. He also loves getting served alcohol after being accustomed to strange Midgardian standards of age-restriction--phooey--so it tickles his deviously sly side so terribly much to know that he is consuming gasp alcoholic beverages gasp under the age of twenty and one. It has to be Midgardian five o'clock somewhere.

Though he does most certainly play some of the games, too. And, for his troubles, he gets some unusual prizes in unusual shapes that do unusual things like buzz and vibrate. Wow, all right then. Definitely not cotton candy.]


I'm going to assume it's not something you put in your mouth.

Bonus

[Being followed by a condom-dispensing machine is actually not so bad when one pleases the thing by accepting its services.

Which he does. Because he's Loki.

And there's nothing better than Loki walking away from a condom-dispensing machine in the Pleasure District with an armful of condoms. He got a little carried away, sure, but it's much more fun trying to see what kinds of flavors or aesthetics are going to pop out of the thing in the end. But... now he's not sure what to do with all of these condoms which he cannot hold.

So he begins to discreetly place them in various nitches of finding and, when that isn't a thing that is, he begins to hand them out, effectively becoming a lot worse than a stalking condom-dispensing machine. Now it is a talking, breathing, condom-dispensing Loki.

And he's probably handing you one right now.]
tenofhearts: (pic#6055553)

[personal profile] tenofhearts 2014-11-10 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, she took it back. Maybe she was drunk.]

[This wasn't Gotham. This wasn't anywhere near Gotham. Or any other city she had traveled to. No memories of how she got here. No grasp of why they would want her. Something about a war. Aliens. Didn't they get the memo? She was retired. Done with fighting. She would have been done with Gotham as well, except it had somehow become the closest place to a home she'd ever had.]

[And this wasn't Gotham. Which is why there was absolutely no way the boy who had come up to rescue her could possibly be who she was seeing. Which means she had to be drunk. Drunk and seeing things.]


...knew a boy who looked like you once.

[Her eyes, glazed yet focused, started directly at his face. Completely ignoring the pushy robot that looked like it was making motions to push up its nonexistent sleeves.]
modernized: terry (scornful youth)

[personal profile] modernized 2014-11-10 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[No, looks like the robot isn't listening. If he starts a fight he might just draw more of their attentions too. He's never liked synthoids, but he hates them even more now thanks to this dump.

He looks over to Melanie, realizing she may just be intoxicated (if not her look, her words definitely) and takes her hand.
]

C'mon, before they try pulling us into something freaky.

[He pulls gently, not enough to be forceful but at least enough that she'll hopefully get the hint and follow along as he tries to move as far from the dance floor as possible.]
tenofhearts: (pic#6055550)

[personal profile] tenofhearts 2014-11-10 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
And just what did you have in mind?

[Grateful as she was for the rescue...and much as she was willing to let him lead her away from the robot (easier than having to take him on herself in her condition--that wouldn't have ended well for anybody involved)...she wasn't completely stupid.]
changeably: (As many braver men)

[personal profile] changeably 2014-11-10 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Me? Oh, no, not at all.

[He waves a hand, trying to deny it. He probably comes off even more suspicious because of that strong reaction, even if he wasn't planning on anything. He's too used to being called a thief.]

It is only that I thought you needed a hand, and I thought to help!

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