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reveriemod ([personal profile] reveriemod) wrote in [community profile] reverielogs2018-07-01 07:57 pm

( 003 » ENSEMBLE ) party time.

» WHO? Everyone
» WHEN? July 1 to July 8
» WHERE? Entire Station
» WHAT? 168 hours of being forced to listen to cheesy music on repeat…
» WARNINGS? the mundane and slightly ridiculous becoming terrible, cheesy pop music, forced sleep deprivation, anger, loss of control, emotions, potential for stabbing, hallucinations, mania, memory loss, confusion, seizures, depression.





0 0 1 » LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED


It starts in the mess hall and it starts slowly. At first, it can barely be heard over the conversations that are happening but as the volume increases, it becomes apparent that music is playing. Not just any music: characters from Earth will recognise these pop hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. They’re the kind of hits one might find on a Spotify playlist titled “Top 100 Cheesy Hits” or “Songs To Sing To In The Shower”. Power ballads. Boy bands. Girl bands. Woodstock.

Soon, the music can be heard all across the station, blasting from every speaker, audible in every room. Characters who were asleep in their quarters will be woken by the music’s volume, characters under the shower might want to start singing along (but remember, the walls might just be thin enough for the neighbours to hear) and if characters clear some chairs, there’s enough space in the bar for an impromptu dance floor.

Some characters have been working on improving the replicators, too, so while the alcohol supplies at the bar are dwindling and all but gone, the replicators are now capable of making something that’s palatable, even if it’s not quite up to scratch.

What’s the harm in having some fun? It’s just a little music, right?

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0 0 2 » I WANT OFF THIS RIDE


It’s just a little music, right? And it is — but it just won’t seem to stop. The first few hours may have been entertaining, at least for those who did not get woken up by the sound of decades (centuries, even) in the past, but the music keeps going long past the point of entertainment.

After two hours, the songs start repeating. After six hours, they’re still playing. After twelve? Still playing. Twenty-four? Still playing.

Sleep becomes all but impossible as the music keeps playing loudly in every room and every corridor of the station. Attempts to shut it down prove unsuccessful.

Forty-eight hours later, the music is still playing.

Characters will begin to suffer the effects of sleep deprivation, in addition to the general irritation that might come from hearing the same two hours worth of cheesy pop songs on a loop: headaches, exhaustion, tremors, irritability and confusion to begin with, followed by lapses in memory, muscle aches, malaise, violent behaviour, hallucinations or mania as cognitive effects set in, possibly also seizures and depression.

And still, the music keeps playing.

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0 0 3 » THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER


The music and the sleep deprivation it causes are the reason for many of the symptoms people are feeling, but something is happening that goes even beyond the music, beyond the lack of sleep: something has changed about the food replicators.

The food is slowly getting better, for one, thanks to a group of individuals who’ve been working on improving them. Beyond that, however, imperceptible, the composition of the food comes with something extra -- namely heightened emotions. Whatever causes it, it’s in the water, too.

Those who are already angry feel angrier and have a harder time controlling that anger. Those who are already sad feel sadder and have a harder time not bursting into tears. Those who are already apathetic feel more apathetic and have a harder time prompting themselves to so much as move. The effect holds for all emotions, heightening them, making them harder to control or counteract. Impulses become action far more quickly than usual. Irritation at the music may become anger at the person singing along under their breath and that, in turn, may lead to someone getting stabbed with a plastic fork.

It’s nearly impossible to keep a cool head, though some people seem more affected than others.

OOC: This part of the plot is completely opt-in. Whatever characters are feeling will be heightened and strengthened and their impulse control lowered. Make sure to get ooc permission for any stabby action of comparable deeds, and keep in mind that non-con is prohibited in game.

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0 0 4 » AFTERMATH


After 168 hours, the music stops. Whatever was in the water and the food is gone again, meaning characters may never know it was there in the first place. After all, some of the effects of it could have been down to the sleep deprivation as well…

Still, there’s something off about the whole thing. It might seem like someone is watching them. Toying with them. But surely that’s just paranoia, right?

In the aftermath of sleep deprivation and poor impulse control, characters might want to get some sleep or try to mend those relationships that were damaged by careless words or people getting creative with the cutlery.

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thingpuncher: face. (a sad moment.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Weird.]

[Luckily, Midnighter can roll with that. He reaches up with one large hand and musses her weird immaculate alien hair.]
Don't sweat it. Standard psych torture. Make you think you have a kid, or a dead husband, or your boyfriend's dying, or the music's really fucking awful. This is all 101 shit. I'm guessing it's your first rodeo?
personify: (pain)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I've never been tortured. [Not yet. That might have been her fate until Charles and Erik had come to stop her. She's been hurt, but nothing that broke her down piece by piece or made her question what might be real.]

I take it that you have?
thingpuncher: (face) (sure ok scuba steve.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Midnighter shrugs. Ever since Andrew, he's tried to be upfront about himself and what he is. Even if it's inconvenient, even if it's to strangers. No more lying.] Surgically enhanced super-soldier made in space, computer in brain, win every battle, that kinda thing. Helluva way to spend puberty. What's your deal?
personify: (surprise)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her gaze settles back on him fully now, no longer hoping she might catch a glimpse of blue around the corner.]

Puberty. Someone did that to you as a child?

[Now Raven wants to add whomever did that to her list right after she handles Trask. Not that its likely this man is even from her same universe that she even could.]

My deal is I'm a mutant.
thingpuncher: (face) (so whens the job interview.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Scooped up when I was... don't really remember. [The brain surgery made it all kind of... He holds his hand up around his temples and wiggles it a little. Fuzzy.] But I was probably in the early teen range. Don't worry, it was an experiment with a... limited run.

[And when he gets back, he's gonna limit it further.]

[But anyway.]
That word could mean a lot of things, y'know. [But from the way she says it, she clearly means something very specific.]
personify: (Mystique)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The next stage in human evolution. [Raven clarifies.] There's a gene. An X-gene. [Charles or Hank would be far better at explaining it, but she does her best.] The gene expresses itself differently for each mutant. Different powers, abilities... appearance.
thingpuncher: (face) (im a murderer ama.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...Huh. Figured you for a Myrmiton, but honestly, they're all bald and mostly assholes. [He shrugs, rolling with the punches. She's nice, if a little weird, but generally? The best people are weird. Apollo could shoot goddamn lasers out of his eyes.] Good look on you. Must be hell getting through airports.

[Because he can't begin to guess what it is to be human, a normal human with a past, much less an abnormal one, mutant or otherwise. But he knows small, annoying details, because he's hit them himself.]
personify: (will shoot you)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nice? That's not how people thought of her lately, not that she stuck around anyone long enough for them to form an opinion outside of possibly a broken jaw and serious concussion.]

Not really. [Raven answers vaguely, closing her eyes as one song stops and another begins. 'Every Rose Has It's Thorn'. She'd never heard it before coming here. Now she knows every goddamn word of it.] I'm good at disappearing into a crowd.
thingpuncher: (mask) (sportsball champ.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Midnighter tilts his head to the side. His computer can't get a proper read on her, which means she could be anything or nothing. The data he gets is... inconclusive.]

That was fucking vague. You always this ominous, or does the Bon Jovi really bring it out in you? [He has no idea who wrote this song, he's just going to guess Bon Jovi, because it sounds like it's being sung by someone he wants to punch.]
personify: (startled)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to live up to the name Mystique, so yes. I suppose I am. [She answers, laugh soft but tired. How long has it been now since she's managed to get sleep? Even before the music it had been hard to grasp, the pain in her leg and the apprehension in her insides over being stuck here hadn't made it easy. She tilts her head, quiet and taking a moment to really look at him. Then she's changing, scales rippling over her form until finally Midnighter is looking at himself.]
thingpuncher: (face) (upstanding citizen.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
--Holy shit.

[Not a lot of things take him by surprise. Most things don't, actually; that's what the computer is for. He is not a huge fan of surprises. But this one isn't lethal, and so he works to lower raised hackles, and push himself down and out of the fighting stance he'd instinctual found himself in.]

[But once he gets over that, looking his mirror image over, he has to admit:]
That's... pretty fucking cool. You can do that with anybody, or just people you've seen? Shit, wait-- you can look however you want, obvious. Otherwise, why blue? [It's rhetorical, the tone of a man who thinks he's figured it out. He usually doesn't have to. Usually his computer tells him everything right off the bat. Trying to puzzle out powers is new, not entirely pleasant, but somewhat exciting.]
personify: (fighting)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [His own voice responds back. The other questions are ignored, focusing instead on that last thing he's said.] That's how I really look. My true form. I don't have to hide here. So I don't.
thingpuncher: (face) (sweet & gentle.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, shit. [He grins, getting used to how... odd this is. Odd, but very cool, and certainly something that gains his respect. 'I don't have to hide here'. He thinks he knows what some of that feels like, if you're careful about your definition of 'hide'.] Makes sense. I just-

[He shakes his head. She's been honest with him. He's trying to get better about returning the favor.] Computer I mentioned? In my head? Usually it scans everybody, tells me what they can do right off. Been on the fritz since I got here. Not used to not knowing things. But... [He sighs.] Since I guess I got something like a choice, now, guess it's none of my damn business, huh?

[She seems... withdrawn. Some instinctual part of him, the part of him that reads people in a way the computer never can, tells him she might like that. But he's been wrong before.]
personify: (what did you say?)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She changes back as he's talking.] You're right. If someone doesn't want to share what they are, they should be allowed their privacy. [Like Charles staying out of her head. Also her thoughts can't help but drift to Hank. Of how much she wishes he wouldn't keep trying to hide his true self away. There's not any need for that here. But she can't force him, no matter how badly she may want him to see what she sees.]
thingpuncher: (face) (adult human with opinions.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess that's a good way of looking at it. Finally got a chance to give it to 'em. Usually, this thing don't got an off switch. [He taps his temple.]
personify: (dangerous)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-06 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad that here it does. Although I know that must be kind of odd for you. [If it's something he's been able to do since puberty, that's got to take some adjusting to.]
thingpuncher: face. (grindr here we come.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-06 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs, unwilling to frame this as a vulnerability.] Hey, data's data. Perspective is good. See how real people see things.
personify: (surprise)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-08 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
'Real' people? [Raven repeats, clearly not approving of his choice of words.] You're just as real as anyone else.
thingpuncher: face. (grindr here we come.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-08 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[He rolls his eyes. Now's hardly the time to get bogged down in semantic.] I came off a slab. You know what I mean. Hey, you got a name?
personify: (look away)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-09 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Raven's fully ready to argue with him some more, but her exhaustion is definitely catching up with her again. The excitement of her hallucination starting to fade. So instead she'll just answer his question.] I do.

My name's Raven.
thingpuncher: (mask) (ugh makes him look like he has a rattail)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-09 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Fitting, I guess.

[Aren't there stories about ravens and changing shape? Or is he misremembering something from Andrew's mythology books? Fuck...]

Midnighter. How long you been stuck in this hole?
personify: (surprise)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-09 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
A couple weeks. Not very long. But before this... godawful music. [Seriously if she never heard another song ever again, she'd die happy.]
thingpuncher: (face) ([gruff voice] im batman.)

[personal profile] thingpuncher 2018-07-16 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Midnighter's expression twitches.]

Good. Worried it was always like this. [He's joking. Mostly.]
personify: (on the ground)

[personal profile] personify 2018-07-18 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Luckily not. And hopefully it will be again. [If none of them could sleep... death was a real possibility.]