( 002 » ENSEMBLE ) gravitational.

[reveriemod]

» WHO? EVERYONE
» WHEN? JUNE 1 onward
» WHERE? ALL OVER THE STATION (literally)
» WHAT? Gravity is always on, until it isn't.
» WARNINGS? zero g, paralysis, the vacuum of space, possible asphyxiation, possible character death

0 0 1 » LOSS OF GRAVITY

The outer rings of Reverie Station rotate around the shaft of the station, using inertial forces to simulate gravity. One moment, this works fine — people are walking along corridors, sleeping in their beds, eating in the mess hall or having a drink at the bar. The next moment? In some parts of the station, a crunching sound can be heard, like metal against metal, and shortly thereafter, the rings cease to spin, causing a jolt to go through all rings.

And then what passed for gravity just stops.

Your food, drink or blanket might have floated off after the jolt. Remember to engage your mag boots, if you're wearing them, lest you follow suit. Good luck getting around in zero g.

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0 0 1 . 1 » UPSIDE DOWN AND FLOATING

The lack of gravity may be disorienting at first for those not used to operating in zero g environments. Fortunately, mag boots mean you can continue walking along corridors — though the boots will engage with what used to be the ceiling of the corridors as much as what used to be the floor. No matter which part of the corridor you're attached to, if any, better make sure to collect anything that may be floating around, lest it becomes a dangerous projectile whenever gravity turns back on.

The mess hall and the gym area in particular are in a significant state of disarray. In the mess hall, some cutlery (of the grey, hard plastic variant) has been left unsecured and is floating harmlessly through the air. The same holds true for a large amount of protein powder. In the gym area, meanwhile, the entirety of the dirty water from the pool is no longer in the pool.

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0 0 1 . 2 » PARALYSIS INDOORS

One moment, you’re walking — or maybe you’re floating, mag boots disengaged. Either way, from one moment to the next, you become unable to move. Your arms, your legs, even wiggling a toe becomes a thing of impossibility. There’s a heavy weight on your chest, despite the fact that gravity is still not back on. Taking a breath is an ordeal. You can’t call for help, you can’t signal to anyone, you can only stay still.

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OOC: The length of paralysis is up to players.

0 0 2 » TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

It isn't clear why the rotation of the rings has stopped and gravity ceased, but one thing is certain: life on the station is a lot more difficult without gravity, especially for those not used to living and working in a zero g environment. The sensible thing would be to fix whatever is wrong, but in order to do that, you have to figure out what's wrong first.

One way to get an idea might be to put on a suit (if required) and go out an airlock to have a close look at the upper ring, where the crunching noise could be heard the loudest. The objective is to identify the problem and, if possible, fix it — but unless you have the power of flight and can breathe in the vacuum of space, the walk from the airlock to surveying the ring will be taxing in and of itself.

Better not lose hold of the station or each other and whatever you do, do not disengage those mag boots. Hopefully, no debris will come flying at you. The station may be built to withstand it, but you aren't.

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OOC: There are some 20 vac suits with oxygen packs and small thrusters for (weak) propulsion available in the spaces currently accessible to characters; these can be found in various airlocks.

0 0 2 . 1 » FLOATING AROUND

The station may be built to withstand debris, but you aren't — which makes it all the more unfortunate that some debris does catch you. In the side, in the face or in the legs, it doesn't matter: what matters is that the impact is strong enough to disengage the mag boots, which means you are now floating in space.

Did your suit take damage? Do its thrusters still work, or not? Is your oxygen pack still connected properly? If your connection to the station network is still intact, now would be a good time to call for help and hope that someone's close enough to get to you in time before you float too far from the station to still be reached, before your oxygen runs out, before any possible injuries you may have sustained take their toll.

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OOC: With this prompt, the extent of possible injuries, the time before rescue and factors such as oxygen or damage to the suit are all up to players. Please keep in mind that character death is very much a possibility — but that death means relatively little. Should a character die from their injuries or lack of oxygen, they will awaken again. As per the death mechanism outlined in the FAQ, characters are brought back to life (possibly repeatedly, if rescue takes a while), but they lose something. What they lose is up to players as well (a limb, memories, senses, social skills, ...) and the duration of the loss can range from a few days to permanent loss.

0 0 2 . 2 » PARALYSIS OUTDOORS

One moment, you are walking along the hull of the station. The next, you're frozen. Your arms and legs no longer move and there's pressure on your chest. Even taking a breath becomes an ordeal. You cannot move forward. You cannot move back. You can't even signal or call for help.

What choice do you have but to wait out this paralysis and hope that it loses its hold on you before your oxygen runs out? Better not panic, lest you use up more of it.

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OOC: The length of paralysis is up to players.

0 0 3 » WORK IT

For those who've successfully made the walk across the hull of the station to find the problem, it will soon become obvious what has happened: debris crashed into the station and got lodged between the uppermost ring and the shaft of the station, where it is stuck, preventing the spinning of the ring.

You will need to work together to cut through the debris or dislodge it. It's heavy, and you have little leverage in the absence of gravity.

Keep in mind also that if you successfully dislodge the debris, the outer ring will start moving again. Be prepared, especially if you're still connected to the ring by your mag boots. Inertial forces can be quite strong, so you will need to brace yourself or risk being dislodged yourself.

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Comments

[imperialsun]

2016! Wow. I still can't believe how far off that sounds. We all promised to see each other three years later, I can't imagine what the world will be like when I'm 38...

[Hey that's the same year as Ryuji! Naoya doesn't say anything about that because he had promised to keep quiet about things. If both of them are are related (which he highly suspects, as Persona users tended to gravitate to each other, he felt) then he'd find out in time.]

It's okay, you don't have to tell me if you don't feel like it...I know how it is! Explaining what happens with my friends is a pretty long story too...

[Also explaining that you fought aspects of a friend's mind that threatened to destroy the world while also walking around with her ideal self gets really complicated.]

This may be a weird question, but do you only have one Persona? I have heard rumors that Persona users in the future can't use multiple Personas...

[mapsio]

It's loud, and bustling. If you live near Tokyo of course.

[Well, in time Naoya would make the connection between Haru and Ryuji. Of course they couldn't forget Yusuke, Makoto, Ren, and Akechi. The six of them all coming from the same place. All connected by the Persona that live within them.

Haru is a smart girl though, she knows that she may only have one Persona... but someone like Ren has multiple.]

I am not the type of Persona user that can use more than one. I just have Milady at my side. So it isn't a rumor.

[She would leave Ren to explain multiple Persona use in the future.]

[imperialsun]

I was living in Mikage-cho actually! It's an hour and a half train ride to Tokyo. It's still pretty big in its own right for its location.

[Invite him please. He can pretend to wear an outfit.]

See that's what I've been finding weird...all of us could use multiple Personas. Maybe it becomes more streamlined as the years go on by or summoning is just harder? Or maybe Igor got tired of summoning Persona for everyone.

[IT IS A MYSTERY.]

There's spells that seem to have been lost to time as well..I guess even that evolves in time too.

[He stops and looks at her.]

Sorry! I tend to think out loud a lot.

[mapsio]

Fair enough. So you understand a not so quiet city life too.

[She gathers that since Naoya can summon persona, he wouldn't do half bad in the Metaverse. Incredible.]

Amazing, I... only know of two people who can summon multiple. But, I wouldn't give them away. That is their right and their ability to share. May I ask how you summon yours? Do you use a mask?

[She has just as many questions as him.] Oh, no worries. Think away.

[imperialsun]

Right! I had been wanting to visit Tokyo before starting school again.

[A mask! So she must be from Ryuji's group! At least he can stop wondering about that now. At that question, he just shrugs, putting his hands on his sides, as he tends to do.]

No, we all just summon them from thinking about them. It is a lot easier when you scream out Persona and do a bit of a hand motion. I guess it just...feels more natural that way. We all had our little touches about what we said and how we did it and there was some fun to it despite the situation. Well...except for Kei. He was super serious about it all the time.

[mapsio]

Just thinking about them? Amazing, I mean... we get used to calling for our Persona when we need them.

[She won't materialize her mask unless asked. But she does look a bit thoughtful. She guesses that to her the connection she feels with one Persona is how she likes it. She can't imagine having many.]

What is it like having multiple persona?

[Why has she never asked Ren this..]

[imperialsun]

It's a bit like that for us too! In a way it's thinking back to the first time we had to summon them...

[That's an interesting question, and his face turns a lot more serious. For some reason, this reminds him of a conversation he had with Eriko a short while after their awakening...]

It's...much like summoning any persona. You feel full of power, almighty and powerful...a liberating feeling that comes with the use of it. In a way it's looking into different aspects of yourself, like Philemon told us at the time...

[mapsio]

I feel with only having the one, my persona and I have a deeper bond. The contract was born from a deep rooted feeling of rebellion.

[Haru's own awakening stemmed from a dramatic betrayal, so, hearing someone else's take on being a regular user of many is quite interesting.]

I will agree with you that it does feel quite liberating.

[imperialsun]

Well there is one Persona that is closer to us than any other. I guess the one that answered our call when we first summoned.

[But then he winces. Compared to what he was told from Ryuji and now her, their contract was forged quite differently.]

We uh...played the Persona game. There was a rumor going around school that if you played it, you'd get to see your future...instead we ended up meeting Philemon who granted us the ability to use Personas because we could recall out names in the Collective Unconsciousness. He told us we'd need them soon...which turned out to be quite true.

[mapsio]

That would make sense. To have one closer to you than others.

[Have the times just changed the Personas? Were there more ways discovered down the line? Technically their Persona weren't even from Igor or Philemon. At least she doesn't think so.

She just knows that Milady came when she was desperate to change her situation, and was patient through her hesitance.]

Then it really is completely different. A game going around the ended up granting you such powers.

[imperialsun]

[Maybe Philemon just took a very extended vacation.]

Only a few of us could use Personas...so I'm sure to many others it was nothing but a game...the Collective Unconsciousness...it's where human souls are born and return to when they die. It's also a place where you can meet souls that are still alive too...I ended up going there twice myself.

[His life is funny.]

That being said, are you feeling better now?

[mapsio]

[She still has so many questions. Who is Philemon, being the biggest one. But she won't bombard him. Not this time anyways. Unless he would like to stick around for a while longer.]

Much better than before, though, I suppose the ability to breathe would make anyone feel better. Thank you again... you saved my life.

[imperialsun]

[Naoya doesn't have any of his known friends from back home around so he sticks around people because otherwise he'd be bored, honestly.]

You're welcome! That tends to happen a lot between Persona users, doesn't it? I'm glad that using the spell worked.

[He could mention that one of his ultimate Persona was called "the preserver" but why bother, that's just showing off.]

[mapsio]

[Look, Persona users gotta stick together. I mean...how often do you find someone you don't know with the same power that you have.]

If you were in trouble, no doubt I would do the same.

[Now, now. Don't be a show off!]

[imperialsun]

[In Naoya's case a few times and then they were either bad guys or had Mara bursting of their stomachs so thankfully this hasn't happened here.]

Oh! You can heal people? What type of spells do you specialize in?

[Hey he's got showoff friends, this is hardly showing off at all as far as he's concerned.]

[mapsio]

I specialize with Psy skills, but my healing is just status effects. I...panicked in the moment and I didn't even think about calling forth my Persona to save me from that wretched grasp.

[Amrita Shower would have done the trick.]

[imperialsun]

[He nods, understanding.]

Yeah...actually when I had the same thing happen to me, my Persona ended up using Garu to send air into my lungs...it was only when it was all over that I realized I could have used an anti-paralysis spell. I'm ready now if it happens again.

[But hopefully not.]

Where you going somewhere before this happened?

[mapsio]

I hope that neither of us have to experience that again, as unpleasant as it was.

[She frowns, shuffling her feet a little. She hopes that she would be prepared if she were to run across anyone in the same situation.]

I... was going to check on my friends. I haven't even gotten in contact with them yet.

[imperialsun]

Do you want me to come with you? Or should we separate and try to find them?

[...]

...actually wait don't answer that I don't even know who they are. Sorry! Maybe I can just move around and sense them.

[mapsio]

You can come with me if you want. I don't mind.

[Well, that was quick.]

should we end it here or do you want to continue?

[imperialsun]

[Is it the protag swag okay no don't answer that. He seems oddly pleased about it. Maybe because since his friends weren't here, he was going to make sure the friends of others were well taken care of.]

Great! I was probably going to end up just wandering around, to be honest...if we get close to someone who is a Persona user, I'll let you know!

we can end it here!

[mapsio]

Of course, thank you for accompanying me.

[And so they're off! This Sounds like the end of a Pokemon episode.. ]