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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.
magneticfields: (leaves)

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[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-03 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Erik is minding his own business. He doesn't care about the rest of the people on this station, except Rogue. Although that's already more complicated than it has any right to be (when is it not, with his fellow mutants?). He is fixated on the problem of the locked doors. There has to be one he can successfully unlock. He systematically examines each one, one by one, trying to find the one that has to be there. The one that's different. The one that will lead him to some area of the station that nobody's found yet and will let him go home.

He hears the woman's voice before he sees her. After his incident in the mess hall, he doesn't put much stock in it. He doesn't recognize the voice, which is a step up from being haunted by his dead wife.

When he turns the corner and sees the woman, he doesn't recognize her at all. And doesn't care to find out what she's talking about. She can't be talking to him with that plural pronoun, she must have some friend or other out of Erik's line of sight. ]


Good luck.

[ His tone is as disinterested as he is. He doesn't even break stride. ]
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-03 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[She recognizes him from the other day, when Frank had brought her to Hawkeye to get help. She hadn't gotten his name or really thought to introduce herself, since she had been bleeding and in a lot of pain. Now that she's back to snooping around, she's better able to be personable.

Mostly.

The smile that's on her face as she opens her mouth to speak fade away when he dismisses her. If he doesn't want to help, she isn't about to force him. She'll just try convincing him instead.
]

I won't need luck, with your help.
magneticfields: (unsure)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-03 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ She keeps talking and he realizes he does recognize her. He had just been focused on all the blood in his living room the last time. And his idiot roommate turning their quarters into a makeshift medical bay. ]

You'll need luck to get my help, after the mess you left.
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-03 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I know, there wasn't a mess left. Maybe your roommate is helping other people that don't clean up after themselves.

[She doesn't exactly understand the hostility. So she shrugs and turns back toward the wall, focusing on trying to hear further calls for help. She can't hear anything and frowns, worried that whoever she's heard is hurt.]
magneticfields: (mad)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-03 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
You seem to be handling the task of staring at the wall well enough on your own.

[ He starts to leave when he hears it. Somebody, a woman, laughing. The kind that sounds like somebody mocking him. He spins to confront Karen, but it's not coming from her. It rings around his ears and then travels behind the wall.

His frown deepens. ]


What was that.
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-03 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Did you hear someone calling for help?

[She pushes herself back and away from the wall, brows knit together in concern. It's no mystery that this place is strange and is doing things to them. Her door situation the day before proves that. But there's a nagging feeling that the both of them are hearing different things.]
magneticfields: (unsure)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-05 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
No. That was not a scream, Karen. That was a laugh. Somebody is toying with us.

[ He glares at the wall. ]

I don't intend to play along.
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-06 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[And with that, Karen looks incredibly bothered by something. He heard laughter? That's definitely not what she heard. ]

I think something here is capable of making us experience things that are meant to confuse and divide us.

[She pauses just long enough to reach up and tuck hair behind her ear, and give him a cautious smile. She's going somewhere with this, trust her.]

My arms were injured by one of the doors here. Now I'm hearing screams and a faint voice calling for help. But you're hearing laughter I can't hear? Something is messing with our perception. What I need to figure out is how.
magneticfields: (relax)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-07 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ That thought gives him pause. They already did cause mass hallucinations. Is it happening again? He didn't recognize the voice. ]

The coffee gave me visions of my dead wife and daughter.

[ As soon as he says it he realizes it is probably contributing to his sour mood. Though it's not as if he'd ever take kindly to how they've been treated.

He regards the wall.]


They're probably projecting some sort of audio to make us think there's something in the wall.
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-08 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[She isn't sure if she should look shocked or sympathetic to learn he has a dead wife and daughter, but she carefully decides to remain passive and gives him an empathetic look instead. He's like Frank in that regard, which makes her want to help him because Karen doesn't know when to quit.]

That's possible, but we would be hearing the same things if that was the case. We're hearing completely different things. It has to be more advanced than just audio projection. We aren't sure what was done to us before waking up here. They could have placed an implant somewhere.

[She's heard of stranger things happening. The good news is, she's no longer paying attention to the walls.]
magneticfields: (side eye)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-09 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Erik turns in a slow circle as he follows the path the laughter traveled behind the wall. ]

Did you hear it from just one place? Or did it... [ He gestures vaguely. ] Travel?

[ He looks at her. ]

Is it leading us somewhere?
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[personal profile] subplot 2018-05-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It travels with me.

[She presses her ear against the wall as she hears screaming and a thud. It should be passing, most all the other instances have been. But this one draws out.]

The only place it could be leading us is further inside the station, past the doors that are locked and no one can get through. The fact that we're hearing different things makes me believe it's not really a lure at all. It's more likely a test. Like giving lab rats individualized stimulus to get different responses.
magneticfields: (nervous)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-10 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
This is the first I've heard it.

[ He watches as she presses her ear to the wall. All he hears is a giggle and the sound of somebody scampering. ]

Or they're trying to lure us into some dangerous situation. Or to destroy something we need. [ He frowns, his eyes following the sound. ] Which could be failing the test, I suppose.