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reveriemod ([personal profile] reveriemod) wrote in [community profile] reverielogs2018-05-01 08:33 pm
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( 0 0 1 » ENSEMBLE ) welcome to the inaugural log

» WHO? everyone
» WHEN? may 1 onward
» WHERE? all over the station
» WHAT? introductory log feat. waking up, exploration, meeting over food and noises in the walls
» WARNINGS? potential for body horror, psychological horror, hallucinations, physical injury




( 0 0 1 ) » WAKE UP

Were you asleep or were you unconscious? It doesn't matter: when you come to, there's an odd taste in your mouth and there's a low-level mechanical hum in the air. Your head hurts and you feel nauseous. You aren't anywhere you know: everything around you is metal, from the floor you lie on all the way to the ceiling. You are dressed in a jumpsuit you definitely weren't wearing before.

"We tried to save the world. I think— I think we did the opposite."

The message repeats on a loop. If you look for its source, you find a comms device on the floor next to you. The logo on its wallpaper says REVERIE TERMINAL. Upon closer inspection, you find the same logo on your jumpsuit.

Welcome to your new home.

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( 0 0 2 ) LOOK AROUND

You've woken up — but where have you woken up? It may be time to explore your new home. Rifling through a crew quarter will make the room's terminal lock to the comms device you're carrying; the room becomes yours. That includes everything in it, from the additional jumpsuit to the two extra sets of underwear. In some quarters, you may find remnants of whoever was here before you: a book on the nightstand, a coffee mug still on the table, a lonely sock on the floor.

A look around the shared areas will reveal the bar, some of its bottles already open, the mess hall, observation deck and the gym area with its dirty pool. An even closer look around these areas might reveal basic first aid kits as well as basic tool kits and fire extinguishers. The kits are located near the fire extinguishers in compartments in the wall that are not immediately visible. Hopefully, nothing's on fire and no one needs first aid... but that tool kit might come in handy.

Every now and then, as you explore, you might find yourself standing before a door that is locked. Try as you might, you will not be able to get it open.

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( OOC: What items characters find of those who were there before them is up to players, but please limit it to a single item that is mundane and somewhat useless in nature. )


( 0 0 3 ) HAVE A BITE

Sooner or later, all characters will have to make their way to the mess hall if they want to eat. In the mess hall, here are a number of replicator-like devices that sometimes work and sometimes don't— but after a recent malfunction that some characters may have noticed, they seem to work just fine... or at least as well as ever: nothing is particularly palatable, but at least it's nourishment, right?

So why not sit down at a table, whether it's already occupied or not, and have a meal. Maybe use it as an opportunity to introduce yourself, or just to complain about what passes for coffee around here.

And if coffee isn't your preferred beverage, well. There's always the bar.

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( 0 0 4 ) NOISES IN THE WALLS


For some, it's been over a week on the station. For others, merely a day or two. For all, things are starting to change: maybe you were asleep or maybe you weren't, but surely the scream that reverberates through the station will startle you. Was it human? Whatever it was, it seems to be coming from the walls of the station. Banging, clanging, then more screams.

Are you going to chase the sounds? Hide away from them? Try to investigate?

If you follow the sound of screams through the station's corridors and halls, you might feel someone - or was it something? - grab you from behind and pull hard. But when you turn around or turn your head if you've fallen, there's nothing and no one there. If you investigate and perhaps put your ear to a wall to see if the noises really come from there, or bang on the wall, you might hear something other than screams and clanging. Strain your ears and you might hear nothing at all — or you might be able to make out a soft "help me". It's barely above a whisper. Did it sound familiar? If you try to take apart the wall, two things will happen: you'll feel uncharacteristically weak and lethargic all of the sudden, and you'll find nothing at all but wiring and more metal.

Whatever you do, you'll find that the noises stop after a while, with no discernible source other than "the walls". And then hours later, they'll start again. Stop again. Start again a day later— and then stop for good.

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( O O C ) ACTIONS


Hello Reverie Terminal Operators! Welcome to our inaugural event. We hope you'll enjoy it!

To help exploration and interaction with the station, we have put together ten (10) 'actions' that you can request. These actions range from very minor, such as receiving a small piece of information about the station, to major, which may be a more vital piece of information or something far less pleasant, and are completely opt-in. These actions can help get your character involved in the plot, jump into the plot and its mysteries, and have more of a personal prompt to jump off of if you so wish.

Please note if you would avoid particular kinds of consequences (for example, if you'd rather your character not be injured), and we'll try to accommodate that, but please be aware that heavy themes are in play and the actions may feature body horror, injury and hallucinations.

If you'd like to receive an action, please reply to this comment with the following:


In the future, actions such as these may be "bought" with bonus AC.



Please use content warning in your top-levels wherever necessary.
mapsio: (HARU (41))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-03 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I, well— I guess it could have looked like that. But it really wasn't me.

[She will offer Terezi the help up if she needs it.]

What happened?
iustitia: (brutus is just as cute as caesar)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-04 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure! I was following the sound of some screaming down this hallway. I figured it was best to investigate, you know? Then someone yanked me to the ground. Or, at least, that's I think happened.

[Terezi nods in thanks for the hand up. It's always nice to have some help.]

Did you notice anyone else around? Any malicious pranksters making a quick getaway, perhaps?
mapsio: (HARU (61))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-04 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
So you heard the screaming too?

[She shakes her head.]

I'm afraid I didn't see anyone else in the hallways. They were completely empty.
iustitia: (brutus is just as cute as caesar)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-04 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. Sure did! Is it weird to say that I'm glad I'm not the only one who heard them? For just a moment there, I was getting worried that I hallucinated them, too, especially since whatever tripped me apparently doesn't actually exist!

[Maybe there's a real culprit, but at this stage, Terezi heavily doubts it. She should have, at least, caught a whiff of someone if they were there.]

Anyway, I'm Terezi. Did you just get here, too?
mapsio: (HARU (1))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-05 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I experienced an earthquake and explosions earlier. But it was like it was happening one minute, and completely gone the next. It didn't make any sense for such a major event to have come and gone so quickly.

[Are they ALL hallucinating?]

I'm Haru Okumura, and, yes,
iustitia: (what if we call them "mean-em-aitors")

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-05 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
An earthquake and explosions?

[Terezi raises an eyebrow at that.]

I don't think I've felt anything like that since I got here. That seems like something I should have noticed. Very concerning!

[That seems a magnitude up from being tripped like in a bad excuse for a slapstick comedy. Yikes!]
mapsio: (HARU (1))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-06 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't blame you if you didn't believe me. But I know what I experienced, and it was definitely that!

[She frowns, knowing that without proof it would be hard for others to believe her!]

I wonder what is causing these things to happen.
iustitia: (chemistry's the one with shapes)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-06 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghosts.

[Completely deadpan.

Completely serious.]
mapsio: (Default)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-06 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you might not be far off of the mark?

[She actually thinks that "Ghosts" or "Phantoms" would be a good explanation.

Some spirit is pissed off they are here, haunting them to get rid of them? That or someone is serious messing with them.
]
iustitia: (we had to get tattoos on our dicks)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-07 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Probably. Likely! I mean, ghosts are basically like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.

[why are so many ghosts just assholes. that's what terezi wants to know.]

Maybe there's some weird scientific explanation, too? We are in space, after all. Who knows what happened before we got here?
mapsio: (HARU (77))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-08 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that is the question on everyone's minds right now. The exact order of events of everything that happened before we got here. If we knew all that... I think things would make way more sense.

[Could it be the ghosts of the previous crew? She doesn't want to think that this could be the answer— there really was no telling.]
iustitia: (you smell like a baby prostitute)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
True, true.

[She sighs, a long, drawn out sound of utter frustration. She's got better things to do than be stuck here!!! So does everyone else!!!!! This is highly rude!!!!!!!!!!!]

Say, have you seen any other aliens like me around?

[Terezi hasn't run into anyone else but Dave yet, but it's worth a shot.]
mapsio: (Default)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-10 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Wait.

[She gives Terezi another look, up and down. Horns, skin. Well. Maybe she shouldn't be so surprised. She kind of reminds Haru of a shadow. But no worries, she won't strike Terezi down like she does those!]

You're an alien? To answer your question though, no. I haven't.
iustitia: (Default)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-11 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dang. Wait. That's probably a good thing, though? If they're not here, then they're probably back home. Maybe? Hopefully.]

Yep! Good old space alien. Though I guess I'm now a citizen of Earth? It's been a really long time since I was back on my original planet.
mapsio: (HARU (39))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-13 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
A space alien that now lives on earth? What was your original planet?

[Well, it's questions hour now. If she is going to have this chance to meet an actual alien that seems like she has nothing to do with the inner workings of this station...well, she might as well see this as an opportunity.]
iustitia: (maybe we should totally just stab caesar)

[personal profile] iustitia 2018-05-14 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
A place called Alternia. It got destroyed by some meteors several sweeps back. It's a really long story. And now I'm on Earth.

Buuuuuut I haven't been back in a while, actually. So maybe not on Earth so much as I should return to Earth at some point.
mapsio: (Default)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-15 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
You sound like you live a really interesting life. I'm sorry to hear your home planet was destroyed in the process though.

[Still honestly marveled over the fact she's talking to an actual alien, she thinks it is pretty cool!]