//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I [ 20 00 ]
The evening begins promptly at 8:00 PM. There will be crowds gathered, lining up to get in. Everyone will be allowed, children, adults, the living and flesh-filled, the robotic, and the undead. The music will be thumping as far as the sidewalks outside, and the first thing everyone will notice would be bowls of candy everywhere as far as the eyes can see. They'll be sitting on top of the tables in all their innocent glory. For the most part, they are harmless.
But not the candy corn. Never the candy corn. Within it is a secret chemical that causes those who consume it to exhibit attraction to the nearest object/person to them, whether it be inanimate or otherwise. They will feel compelled to be close, to kiss and touch whatever is around them, though the effects only last an hour or so. Consider it a low-leveled aphrodisiac of sorts.
PHASE II [ 2122 ]
You're dancing. You're moving to the music. Or you're clinging to the walls and wondering why you're even here to begin with. That's when the holograms start playing around with you. The image flickers frequently until a face appears. You can swear it's talking to you beneath the music.
'We need you. We want you. Join us. Come to the back room. Number 005.'
The closer you get to the hologram screens, the louder the voice becomes until it disappears completely, leaving you to question how real it was.
PHASE III [ 2217 ]
For those brave enough, you go into Backroom #005. What awaits you there is a room full of masked and costumed figures. You don't know if they are human or not, but they watch you eagerly, inviting you to join their private party. Unfortunately, if you chose the backroom, you chose wrong. You chose very wrong. The door is going to be slammed shut and locked, and all the figures will then pull off their masks and reveal faces familiar to yourself. Faces from your world. They'll ask you accusingly why you haven't saved them yet. What's taking you so long. Did you forget them?
Their eyes will glow as they crowd in on you, yelling and growing more caustic until the lights flicker. When you can see clearly again, the entire room will be empty save for a single glass of wine sitting on the table. You'll be sure someone was inside just a moment ago. You were definitely talking to someone. You can't be going crazy, right?
PHASE IV [ 2345 ]
Fifteen minutes to midnight. The music is getting louder and more intense. You've been eating candy or drinking all night (or avoiding food entirely if you're wise enough). Yet the music lures you in with its haunting tone, and you spot in the middle, a masked figure dancing more hypnotically than the rest. He's waving his chainsaw around as he puts out his lethal dance moves, and you are being drawn by the music into a violent dance off. You can fight the feeling, you can try and run. Unfortunately, none of the other natives and robots see the masked man but you. Only outsiders can see him, and the closer you get, the more you reach out to touch him-
you discover he's only a hologram like any other. Your fingers move through his shape, and distort it, but you're still so sure it's real.
BONUS [ whyo'clock ]
One of the back rooms has a beautiful fortune teller by the name of Aria. She will be seated inside, welcoming individuals or groups of people to give them their fortunes, and she will be giving them bizarrely specific and intimate details about their life from their underwear preference to how many partners they've slept with and how many moles they have on their ass. Prepare for awkward embarrassment. Ah, but what does the future hold in store? She'll smile when asked, and then her face will fall apart until a drill protrudes from the center to try and stab through your face. If your reflexes are fast enough, you can dodge it. If you're too slow, prepare for a hospital visit to the CERES Medical Facility.
Once that ordeal is over with, her face will reconstruct itself back to normal, and she will smile and say your future looks very bright in CERES.
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Sheba.
[He moves toward her for a more comfortable speaking distance.]
What hallucination are you talking about?
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[She knows him well enough by now to not be fooled by a mask. (He's lucky she never knew him when he was back in Vale as the masked man, or else she'd probably be teasing him mercilessly about being up to old tricks again.)
Still, it's a little disconcerting to her to see him so soon after the illusion has broken, and she tenses as he approaches.]
You didn't see it? It was everyone from home...
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This completely different world had him feeling so turned around that he hadn't heeded the words of the last...vision? He had no idea what to call it. Sheba didn't look like she was faring much better at the moment, either.
He shakes his head.]
You're the first person I've seen that I can recognize.
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Sheba isn't sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. In fact, she's not sure if seeing anyone from home is a good thing - if this place is some kind of a continuation of the last place she was in... It might be dangerous for them.
...
Menardi might make it dangerous for Felix. She makes up her mind and looks up at him.]
...you're the first friendly face I've recognized. I saw Menardi here before... be careful, okay?
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an exclamation point appear above his headhis expression turn to one of mild surprise.]Menardi? How is that even possible?
[Felix starts glancing around to see if he can spot the Mars Adept. There was quite the variety of outcomes after the way their last conversations had gone.]
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[Which frustrates Sheba more than she really wants to admit. Even if she'd wanted to try reading Menardi's mind (and she really doesn't), the Mars Adept probably wouldn't have the answers anyway - and if she did, they would be so outside of Sheba's range of understanding that she would just be confused.]
I haven't seen Saturos yet, though. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? [Because on the one hand, Saturos would be a problem. On the other... he's usually the one that kept Menardi's temper under control...]
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[He'd spent over three years with them. Felix was quite aware of the threat Menardi could pose to innocent people unchecked, but when both of them wanted to get serious about something, things usually got much worse.]
You said something about seeing everyone before, though. What happened?
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[It couldn't have been, because Felix is right here in front of her and they're talking. He isn't crowding her along with so many others that she cares about, his eyes aren't glowing eerily, and he's not demanding to know what's taking so long - why she hasn't come to save them -
Despite herself, she shudders.]
You didn't see it? I never thought I'd see the day where you'd be the lucky one instead of me.
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I don't think I did, especially if you're this bothered by it. Are you going to be all right?