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//TESTDRIVE6.0.EXE

Tonight, We're Going to Party Like It's 1899


With Hallow's Eve rapidly approaching, the famed Cerealia night club Niteo has been transformed into a Victorian gothic wonderland for its Masquerade party sponsored by CERES' CEO Julius Vincere. Everyone is required to attend with at least a mask on (though full costume is preferable). For those who don't have any, they will be given a mask at the door.

Several young women and men in Victorian-era clothing will be moving around, handing out drinks and pulling guests to dance out on the ballroom floor. Don't be shy, come join them. Anachronistic techno music will be blasting through the speakers, and the side tables will be stocked with all sorts of candy and treats for guests to snack on.

As you first enter, a mysterious masked employee is the first to greet you:

"Welcome, one and all, to Niteo's All-You-Can-Eat-and-Drink Night of a Thousand Ghouls. Tonight, we'll be treating you now that the ghosts have all vanished.

But where have they gone you must be wondering? It's a mystery indeed. They couldn't have just vanished like that. Someone had to have gotten rid of them? …I wonder…

While you think on it, relax and have a drink or ten. Don't let a couple of hauntings stop you from having a good time. Tonight is a night to celebrate excess and indulgence. Let us surrender to our baser urges."

//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
[ 21:22 ] 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
[ 22:17 ] 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
[ 23:45 ] 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
[ why:o'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.
[ 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 sixth 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!


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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-02 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[She just stares at him with sheer disappointment in her face, narrowing her eyes. Seriously?]

Now I feel kind of let down... It's almost as if the plot twist of the fortune teller's was completely destroyed in five seconds. Are you the type who likes to ruin movies like that?

[Inaba's just kidding, but she might as well make some conversation.]
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-03 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
[fortunately, he's picking up on the joking part, in part because he assumes nobody is so crazy as to be serious about that part, but partially because he's an SMT protagonist in a game with the rough equivalent of social links, and he's good at that sort of thing.]

If the plot twist of the movie is "you have to go to the hospital in real life", then yeah.

[hmmm.]

Wasn't that the plot of one of the Saw movies?

[hiro is just blatantly making shit up, but honestly that sounds ... like the kind of thing they'd do in a saw movie if they could get away with it, huh.]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-03 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a really shitty plot twist. Guess I'll have to look for some other fortune teller.

[And she had such high hopes, too!]

I don't know. I've never watched any besides the first one since I'm not all that fond of most sequels.
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-03 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[hiro nods. he doesn't have much of an opinion on the saw movies himself, but as a pop culture reference he's required to know it. but the other thing...]

Yeah. And I don't just mean like, "surprise I'm a robot" drill face, I mean "surprise I'm a robot and I am going to attempt to murder you RIGHT NOW" sort of drill face.

[because, you know, there are different types of drill faces.]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-03 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see. So it's less of a robot drill sargent and and more like a literal drill that's going to rip a person's face off.

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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-03 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Not "more like", "exactly like". So I think that's the kind of thing people should be warned about, yeah?

[not everyone has ~*sweet jukes*~ like hiro does, okay.]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-03 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
That's true. It would be bad if someone ended up dying because of it.
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-03 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well, she was definitely coming after me with intent to kill, so...

[hiro spreads open his hands, as if to say 'what else can you do'?]</small If it'd just been a jump scare I wouldn't have said anything.
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-03 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I kind of figured with the whole warning and all.

[Inaba shrugs her shoulders, rather carefree.] Though I would have preferred a jump scare, honestly.
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-03 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
A jump scare would have been funny. That was...

[well, not scary to him. he wasn't scared when the world started turning into a literal void; drillface mcrobofortune wasn't particularly scary to him either.]

Uncool?

[like he's not sure if that's the word he would have used there. maybe she'll appreciate that word. gotta get those social links up!]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-03 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She has to bring her hand to her lips just to stop herself from laughing. Because that was pretty bad.]

P-- Pfffft, ahaha... Who even uses that word anymore?
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-04 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Me?

[another shrug. like, what else is he supposed to say? clearly he used it, so somebody uses it!!]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-04 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, that manages to get another laugh out of her as her smile brightens.]

You sure do speak honestly. Not many people do that anymore, you know. Or rather, I didn't expect that response at all.
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[personal profile] restorer 2015-01-05 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it seems like here, you gotta learn to expect the unexpected. Like people saying strange things. Or having drills in their heads.

[...hiro might be making a 'vrrrr' noise. and by 'might', i mean 'definitely is'. fortunately, it is also clearly coming out of his mouth.

the noise. not a drill. there's no drill.]
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[personal profile] dereban 2015-01-05 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought I was done with that sort of thing already...

[She runs a hand down her face, sighing a bit on the dramatic side.]

I feel like I'm being chastised by some magical girl mascot or something. Oi, I'm not going to get some sort of superpower now, am I?