//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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Really? And after it's been so long...
[He shakes his head a bit in (possibly mock) disappointment before continuing.]
I admit encountering you was a surprise for me, as well. Just how many unwelcomed acquaintances have you come across?
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[Alex, Menardi, and... someone Alex doesn't know. The joys of being a CRAU. She frowns a little and brings up a hand to fuss with her cloak.]
...I sort of get the feeling that getting the people in charge around here to take us seriously might be easier said than done. [She doesn't really know the people in charge from Adam - but her last experience in a similar situation taught her that most, if not all, of her efforts were utterly futile.] Complaining to them might not do a whole lot of good.
[And then, more quietly - more to herself than to him, really - ] But at least we've got our Psynergy here. [Which puts this one leaps and bounds above the last place she was at.]
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Perhaps it would be a struggle for just you. There appears to be many other people here, however.
[A ghost of a smile comes to him before he moves on.]
Of course we have. At least SOME Psynergy dwells within every Adept.
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She rolls her eyes, but lets the matter of whether or not getting people to listen to them would be a struggle drop for the moment. Instead, she sighs and takes up another topic.]
That's true, but there are some places where using Psynergy just isn't possible. [Her hand comes up to her temple, fingers brushing briefly over a scar that is, thankfully, mostly hidden by her bangs.] It's a relief to know this isn't one of them.
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[Her final statement piques his interest. He doubted she meant a Psynergy Vortex, as the certain death that would face her in one would be of more note than anything else. If there are other situations, he needs to take note of where these might be so he can stay away.] Is that so? Where could that possibly be the case?
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I haven't had enough time to figure out if it's connected to this place or not, but there was a... they called it an amusement park. It wasn't very fun, though, and no one was able to use powers of any kind there.
[She shrugs.] Psynergy works just fine here. For example, right now I can tell you're thinking I'm crazy. [She hasn't cast mind read - which he'll know, being an Adept - so she's probably back to joking again.]