//SCENARIOS.EXE
PROMPT I [ 00 00 ]
COSPLAY IS MAGIC
The convention center is crowded, and many of the congoers are most definitely getting into this. They seem to think you are, too—even if you're not in cosplay, they sure are under the impression that you are (you know, as yourself)! Don't be surprised if you get stopped for pictures by overly enthusiastic colony natives.
...also don't be surprised if strangers dressed as people you know from home jump in on these pictures. They're all too willing and eager to talk about how hard they worked on their costumes, and how excited to see other fans they are. Heck, some of them might even be cosplaying you! Hopefully you don't get a highlander waxing poetic about how they would have chosen a better wig to suit your hairstyle than what you have or that your scar is on the wrong eye or how that material you chose for your vest is kind of tacky.
Also, don't correct them about any facts they have wrong about you (or your world), if they start talking to you about it. Some will be very insistent they know what they are doing as a dedicated fan and cosplayer. (maybe you just didn't study your reference book hard enough before arriving like they did.)
It's a fierce world out there of competitiveness. (some cosplayers will have done excellent jobs, and of course, others will not so great. it's up you and whoever you tag with on the types you'll meet! if you end up in the bathrooms at any point, you will find them crowded with cosplayers trying to fix wardrobe malfunctions and stalls being used as dressing rooms. Hopefully you can wait.)
PROMPT II [ 0000 ]
HOW MUCH FOR THAT FRENCH FRY, AGAIN?
It's shaping up that there are long, loooong lines for the various panels and activities, so you'll want to get in line early if you want to be sure you get a good spot! The topics of the panels span a range of just about anything under the sun, from origami lessons to voice-acting discussions to cosplay makeup tips to the wonderful world of slash fiction. There is one panel that doesn't have much of a wait to get in—and that will be basically a rehash of the introductory powerpoint sequence, but they added some sort of flashing effects that could probably give someone a seizure. If nothing else, you'll be rewarded for your mistake of staying in that room for even ten seconds with a headache and a bit of nausea that'll require you to get a bottle of water and/or food from a vendor to make it go away. (Food from outside won't help, and the character will have nausea for the entire day of the con unless they remedy it with some over-priced convention food!).
If you get hungry while waiting in line, you'll want to send someone out on a food run. Be sure to only buy from approved CERESCON vendors! Some of the restaurants from the city have set up booths (maybe your character is working at one!), but the prices are high and the portions are tiny. Don't even think about trying to smuggle in food from the outside, either. If you leave the con to save yourself some money for lunch, make sure to finish it first as bringing it back to the con will have the special security force come up to you once at the door (and stopped by a con-volunteer about the food), take it out of your hands and—
—throw it on the ground in front of you both. Maybe jump on it for good measure, while they are at it. The volunteer that had stopped you in the first place will now cheerily point you in the direction of various food stands scattered throughout the convention center. You know, as if nothing just happened there with your smuggled goods being found. You can expect jacked prices from the aggravating that you begrudgingly pay to the outlandish.
PROMPT III [ 0000 ] HAMSTER STYLE
All throughout the day, a large hall with a sturdy wooden floor will be hosting a wide variety of video games. There are your usual arcade games, some console games set up on floating flatscreen televisions, and five dance game consoles (strangely similar to DanceDance Revolution and ParaPara Paradise, for those who know of them from home)— show them your moves and try to be as awesome as this guy. (Games can be a parody of just about any video games out there, so use your imagination. You can even have a special booth that's trying to promote a game like Sword Hell Touken Ranbu mania that you're either into yourselves or are victim to via plurk timelines. Or, you can have visual novels to play as they try to promote those. Anything goes, even if you probably wouldn't normally find it at a convention to play.)
If your character is from a video game, even with the game being played at the con as a parody, they can find little freebie trinkets that may have them as the character on it promoting the gameplay!)
When the sun goes down, that's when the party really starts. The CERESCON Rave takes place in another area—an unimaginably big ballroom on the second floor of the convention in its West Wing. Once 9:00PM hits, even if you are doing other con activities, volunteers will start coaxing you towards the direction of the rave. The longer you resist, the more insistent they will get. Although they will eventually drag your sorry butt there, you'll be able to leave around fifteen minutes after the rave starts and go back to what you were doing. If you somehow managed not to get dragged to the rave, the efficient cleaner robots will assume you are con equipment needing to be put away and lock you in a storage closet. Maybe if you scream really loud for help, someone will eventually notice and be able to open it so you can get yourself out of the dark.
As for the ballroom itself, the large space will be transformed in a fancy display (transformer style!! they obviously must have observed mecha transformations for it in particular because it's pretty much a ripoff) into a dance floor with blacklights, colored strobe lights before the doors close and everything goes black. At the back of the room, a large theater style video will play. At around 0:35 seconds in the video, all the lights will come back on for partying. And the end of the video will have the car come busting through the screen like its paper and the hamsters will get out and guess what!@! They're your DJs for the evening. They like it when you dance with them, so make sure to at least pretend for one song. Also, upon entering you'll have been given glowsticks of all kinds, so let loose and have a blast. (If your character so desired, they could have activated the glowsticks at any time. Note that there will be npc natives in addition to player characters at the rave!).
—and, hey, wallfowers!! Why aren't you dancing?? What did you get told about fun when you entered this convention?!
PROMPT IV [ 0000 ]
CHECK OUT WHAT I HAVE UNDER THIS COAT.
A dealer's room! That should be harmless. Lets start with how incredibly huge it is and that they have some awesome music and live entertainment while you shop(?!)
There are all sorts of thing available to buy here—everything from knockoff comics and DVDs to keychains and plushies to somewhat more reasonably priced packaged snacks to cat ears that wriggle in accordance with your brainwaves. What a great use of science, right? All of the vendors are so excited to be here, and even more excited to have you looking at their wares! But mostly they're excited for your money.
They've employed the same kind of helpful robots that had kept people in line back at badge pick-up to usher people over to their stands, and if anyone uses excuses "It's too expensive" or "I don't have enough money," when declining interest in buying something, never fear. The robot-merchants will be more than glad to strongarm another shopper into joining you and will then proceed to repeat, "SHARING IS CARING, SO SPLIT THE BILL, CHINSWAD!" over and over again until you buy something... even if you don't actually know whoever they brought over.
The far side of the room is devoted to stalls where artists are hawking their wares. If you think you see some familiar faces mixed in with the unfamiliar ones in the artwork, that's because you do—some of the natives have taken to illustrating pictures and doujinshi featuring none other than you along with your friends from home, your cross-canon CR, or even just people you haven't met yet that they think you would look cute with. These works range from fluffy to disturbingly explicit, though underage characters won't find themselves featured in anything questionable (nor will they be able to look at the material). In fact, the dealers will seem to know when the udnerage are approaching, and will hide the explicit works from view before they can even see them, including taking goods you or another may currently be looking at.
Make sure you buy something before exiting! Getting to the exit without at least one purchase will have you stopped by the volunteers at the exit making sure people are exiting without killing each other. What do you mean you didn't buy something? Get back in there, because they aren't going to let you out until you do.
In fact, if you try to exit without any merchandise, you'll be expected to get two. Please and thank you for demonstrating your enthusiasm to having fun this CERESCON. (If a character buys something for another character and gives it to them, it counts as purchasing an item. volunteers just conveniently know and so does Panda-san. )
Now get out and don't come back unless you're planning to buy something the next time you're here. Have a nice day.
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YOU WANT TO HIT MY WHAT?
And, of course, CERES has latched onto one of the more trying convention traditions. We aren't talking about shouts of "YOU JUST LOST THE GAME" or "BUTTSCRATCHER", or anything else that has been a thing shouted pointlessly.
We are talking about good ol' paddles.
Yaoi paddles. Yuri paddles. And many other varieties between and outside thereof the aformentioned, too. Natives have purchased them, and are extremely enthusiastic to have heard of the ways of other worlds using these items at conventions. Don't you worry, no matter who you are, they're coming for you, and probably when you least expect it.
Since it will happen multiple times throughout the convention regardless if you've already been graced by any, characters may start to realize that background noise (is this chase music?!) will be heard to alert you of paddler presence. Unfortunately, if you can hear the music, it means you are already in their sights and locked-on for targeting. You better run before they hit you, because if they do, you'll be incurring the effect of the paddle and have some terribly strong sexual desires to act on them (so if you're hit with an uke paddle, you'll end up feeling pretty hot and bothered quite soon along with the desire to be particularly submissive with your partner).
Obviously, the paddlers will try to lead you back (as you're pretty much going to end up in some sort of semi-stunned state for the first few minutes before it isn't numb anymore and the paddle effects set on) to find the right match for you! Because, really, what these natives to seem to be really doing is trying to get some real-life doujinshi scene actions from you guys. Give your loyal fans some fanservice and make them scream.
(You didn't really think they'd hit you with a paddle without an ulterior motive, did you...)
The effects will wear off in about a half-hour or until you do at least some form of physical contact. Kissing and above will be enough to get rid of the effects, although the more explicit the intimacy is, the longer period of time before more paddlers start looking for your cute butt, again.
If running isn't your thing, you finally seem to have some options to you. You can get a paddle of your own from a stall in the dealer's room. Other paddle wielders will leave you alone while you have it, as long as you're actively chasing others down! Happy hunting. These paddles can be anything from a normal paddle that induces no effect at all except the "innocent" slapping of someone's ass with said paddle or you can get your game on and take out your feelings of humiliation on other congoers. Or use it to your advantage if you got a crush or well, when you think about the possibilities are endless. Also, if you snap a paddle on someone, the native paddlers will console you for your loss and conveniently have another one to offer you.
If you try to hit natives possessing paddles of their own, they all seem to really like it and think that means you want to play with them. It won't end in your favor. Trust us.
Cerealians really can't understand why these things have mostly been banned in other worlds. This might be the most glorious part of the weekend to them.
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Get this Party Started
Ichiru Kiryuu (Fac!Au) | Vampire Knight
[He doesn't know why he's here - why he has to be here. But after watching some others step out of line outside, Ichiru figured he should just go along with it and get it over with. Clearly he wasn't going to be allowed to find something else to do with his time and made sure to keep a tight grip on his sword. They hadn't wanted to take it away but they were insistent on peace-bonding it, which he was fine with as long as it was still in his possession.
At the moment it just seemed as if everyone was mingling and Ichiru had no problem stopping to take pictures with random strangers (or people dressed like others who were familiar to him). They all did complain that he should have his mask but he politely answered that he forgot it. In return, he stated how good their "costumes" looked.
Ichiru doesn't bother actively searching for people he knows... not with people dressed up like others but if he sees someone with silver, black or blond hair - well, he may wander over curiously to see if its anyone he may know. Especially if it looks as though it might be someone who isn't dressed up. He'll greet them with a faint smile.]
It's crazy around here, isn't it?
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[The day continues on with all sorts of things - panels, dancing, people eating all around him at lunch time. Eventually he ends up in the dealer's room with people and robots alike pressuring him to buy things. For the first few times "I'm not interested" appears to work and he walks away from the table without purchasing any of the merchandise. Ichiru really doesn't feel the need to buy anything but it appears that he won't be allowed to leave without buying at least one item.
So he does browse the tables for something he might actually want to buy rather than something he's forced to buy. Eventually, he does find something. Something small but meaningful to him even if there are a dozen more like it on the table next to it. Ichiru stops and picks up the necklace of the Buster Sword. For a moment, he simply stares at it.]
I'll take this.
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[While everything else that's happened has been bearable, this is something Ichiru isn't going to get caught up in. There is no way he's going to let someone paddle his butt (even if it's done gently). Especially not when he's seen the way people act afterwards. So the moment he hears the music, Ichiru looks around for the individual with the paddle and takes off in the other direction.
Never more than now, he's grateful for the enhanced speed his vampire powers give him. Except in a crowd of people, it's only natural that he accidentally bumps into someone while fleeing. If it appears like they might fall over, Ichiru will reach out and grab at their shoulder.]
Sorry, I didn't intend to bump into you like that.
1/2? I've Decided on (3) lol. wow that was a hard decision.
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Ichiru?!
[ Woops, that rolled of her mouth a lot faster than she could control. Ishtar really should learn her lesson before shouting out people's name. What if that person wasn't really the person she knew? What are the chances that she'd be able to see the same person with the same memories here!? It's like Facility replacing its residents daily. ]
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Six months in the Facility also taught him to not expect anyone to remember. People came and went - forgetting all of the events that happened among those white walls and everyone they met. Which is why he mentally prepares himself for her not to remember in those very brief moments before she says his name. If Zero was here, it might be possible for someone to recognize him from their similar appearance and if his brother ever brought him up in conversation...
But that isn't the case here. Her surprise is emotional, almost like when he returned for a brief period of time.]
Ishtar. I should have expected to see you here. [He smiles at her gently.] Seems like we keep getting drawn back together.
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The time she had spent with him, and others, they existence etched themselves in her heart. She'd never forget them.
The way he said those words, they stirred a lot of emotions. No, this wasn't a stranger. This wasn't someone who was another version of Ichiru. This was Ichiru, the Ichiru she knew. The same kind and caring boy that she had become friends with and treasured.
Wordlessly she just threw her arms around him, sobbing. ]
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She can't find any words to say to him and just holds him and that's just fine with Ichiru.
In return, he wraps his arms around her thin frame and holds her tightly. He lets her cry into his shoulder, not minding that it's going to get wet in the process. This is the girl he feels he's known his entire life since Ichiru has memories of her when he was thirteen, weak and human. This is the sister he never had in his world.]
It's okay now.
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She didn't know what to say to say to him. Should she say hi, like everything was okay, should she shout at how much she missed, or should she just keep her silence? She decided it was better to save the words for after her actions. They always spoke more volumes than her words ever had.
For her, it was easier to hug someone, to cry for them and let them know how much she missed them, and for Ichiru, that was exactly what she was doing. When he returned her embrace, she only squeezed him tighter. She shook her amidst his words. She doesn't know if it's actually okay now or not, but there is Ichiru, alive, well, and the same as ever.
Nothing about him changed. ]
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The silence isn't a barrier between them, not them. Everything she wants to say - he understands it without a single word uttered. With her actions, Ichiru understands even more.
Ichiru doesn't break the hug just yet, and he won't be the one to do it at all. He'll let her do it when she's ready. Though silently he does wonder how long it's been for her. How long she was trapped in that torture box by herself and what terrible things she's had to go through because of it. For him, the hardest part had always been losing people - not the experiments. The experiments were just a smaller, secondary pain to him but Ishtar was different. Her time there had changed her.
But that didn't matter to him. He'd do whatever he could to help her.]
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One of them happened to be the understanding of actions, and for Ishtar, it was the same, losing people was always harder than enduring the torture of that place. Nothing hurt more than watching those she cared about slowly leave, without warning and without words. Usually it was against their wills. That's why she never blamed anyone for leaving. They simply had no control, no choice.
Once she managed to calm down a little more, she lets go of him, but not entirely. It was nice to feel the warmth of someone you thought had disappeared for good. ]
...I'm sorry Ichiru, I didn't mean to break down on you.
[ She replied, her voice was a bit shaky, but nonetheless, she found words again. ]
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Losing people had always been his biggest weakness. That's why Zero was still alive, why it hurt so much when Shizuka and Cloud left his life. But Ishtar... she'd always been there for him. She'd been there when he was thirteen and now that he was eighteen. She'd been left behind by both him and his brother even though they hadn't wanted to.
Which is why he really hopes that this isn't one of those moments where he's here temporarily. Though considering the presentation he got upon arrival, it seemed as though he might be here for a while.
He doesn't mind when she doesn't let go entirely, just shifts his hands to her shoulders.]
It's fine, I don't mind at all. [Anytime you need to, I'll be here goes unspoken. Ichiru doesn't want to give her that promise out loud when they both know they could disappear as quickly as they appeared.]
How long have you been here?
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Ishtar, kind of looked confused at the pictures people were taking of them. Now, that's just a little creepy. Ishtar sure hoped the same as well. It would give her time to correctly catch up with the both of them, and not feel like the time they spent together was short. It still nice, seeing him for the two weeks had come back. It kept her moving forward, knowing there were possibilities. She never once tried to give up the hope she held onto.
Those words can go without being said, because that's what she'll do. She'll take advantage of if he allows it and yes that is true. She looks at him, somewhat unsure of how to respond to that question. How long has she been here? She thinks for a moment before responding. ]
Thank you.
I think it's been a few days. It wasn't very long.
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Now that they aren't hugging like the world is ending, the picture-takers seem to move on to more interesting things. Ichiru is a master at ignoring them anyway. What he wants is simple - to not hurt Ishtar (and Zero) again by leaving. Anything else he can deal with. He's already done that twice now.
After a minute, he turns until he's side-by-side with her and one arm resting over her shoulders. They can walk, talk and hold on to each other all at the same time. More importantly, avoid those people with the paddles still walking around.]
I'm guessing that all new arrivals don't get this kind of a welcome.
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She shook her head briefly at the sight of people leaving finally, but yes, there is some weirdos walking around with paddles and she would rather not get hit by anything at the moment. The arm on shoulder thing was comforting for her, since it's been a while since she could get comfortable with anyone like this, where everything was simply mutual. ]
Not that I know of. It's a little creepy if you ask me. My arrival wasn't even festive. I wonder what the occasion is.
[ She paused for a moment, asking all the serious questions before she forgot about them. ]
Did you just arrive? How much time passed for you if you don't mind me asking? More importantly, how are you?
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[Shock runs up his spine, stiffening his entire stature moments after he feels it. A connection he'd long forgotten.]
Ichi... ru.
[He doesn't move. His limbs go perfectly still and even his heart crashes to stop against his ribcage. It was... it was.... and then he hears it. A soothing voice that skims through the air amplified by his hearing.]
3/3 Prompt IV
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The question now remains... how long? How long has it been for Zero this time? And does he remember?
He waits for the other to make the first move. There's no fight in him when his sibling spins him around to look at him fully. Ichiru is compliant to his brother's wishes even as his hand curls around his sword's scabbard. At the moment, until he knows, he's being cautious. This could be the first time Zero's seen him since his death, the first time he's seen him as a vampire. He won't fight his brother if it comes down to it, he just won't.]
Zero.
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Ichiru manages to bury his face in his twin's shoulder, thankfully, he's not crying.]
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....I missed you.
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I'm here now, so you don't have to miss me anymore. [He doesn't dare ask how long it's been - not when it could have been years, decades or even centuries.]
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[He shakes his head, dismissing the words in his mind and instead - ]
How long have you been here?
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Not very long, a couple of hours. I went straight from the presentation to ending up in line. [A small shrug of his shoulders.] It's interesting so I decided to stick around and see what was going on.
[He doesn't say that he wasn't expecting to see familiar faces here. Even if Zero was here... it's not exactly a place his brother would come willingly.]
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What are you doing?
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