reverielogs | ( 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( kaldur has not considered the possibility of the afterlife. if he had, he would have discarded it as a viable theory; he has no memory of anything that may have threatened his life and given everything, he thinks abduction to be more likely than death. it still does not explain very much, but it is a starting point.

seeing wally again is — it's a lot of things. it's a bright spark of joy in kaldur's chest, it's confusion and incomprehension. it's a little bit of apprehension, too, not directed at wally as such but the sort he has been feeling around the team since his return. he has done terrible things and now he is to be the leader again. he doesn't know if they'll be able to trust him. he'd been trying to be convincing as a villain, of course, but what if he'd been too convincing?

he wishes none of it had ever been necessary.

still, approaching wally is easy and he finds that there is a small smile tugging at his lips when wally responds, when wally offers a hesitant smile of his own. )

You are, but it is the good kind of surprise. ( he reaches out to clasp wally's shoulder. )

( the hand on his shoulder is grounding, which is nice, because even with the boots, there are times when he feels as if he might just float away. maybe dying will do that to you. it's still a bit strange to be standing here at all, when he knew what was coming. he knew he wasn't going to make it out of the arctic alive. and yet here he is, alive, somewhere, and kaldur is with him, equipped with steady hands where wally's are not. )

Yeah... ( he's terribly eloquent. but words aren't that important right now, and wally has always been a more physical person. kaldur knows this, so it shouldn't be a surprise that wally pulls kaldur into a tight embrace, for his own comfort or maybe just to make sure kaldur is real. both, probably. at least he's not crying. yet.

he doesn't hold it too long, mostly out of respect for kaldur's boundaries and personal space. ) It's good to see you, man. ( an awkward beat. wally runs a hand through his hair. he diverts his eyes for a moment, like he's guilty of something. and he is, but they don't have to go into that now. ) How's, uh — how's Dick?

( kaldur hasn't had the time yet to mourn wally. he hasn't had the time, hasn't allowed himself to mourn his father, either. the man had been a villain and kaldur does not regret what has happened, but — he has still lost him, so soon after he'd found out that black manta was his father in the first place. he hasn't had the time to process all the things that have happened and all the things he has done.

there isn't time for it now, either.

he isn't surprised when wally pulls him into an embrace, wrapping his own arms around wally after the briefest pause. it probably feels longer to wally than it is, but then time is a different beast for a speedster than it is for kaldur. )

He misses you. ( kaldur watches wally's face for a moment before looking away. some things are personal, but wally has no reason for guilt. he saved the world. ) We all do. ( an admission of sorts. he doesn't often talk of his own emotions, but he wishes wally's sacrifice had never been necessary. wally deserves to know that. )

( it shouldn't be a surprise to hear he misses you, and yet it hits him like a train and he feels heat rise to his cheeks, his throat tighten. his chest hurts and his face pinches in attempt to keep the tears at bay. he wants to run away and cry in some dark corner of this foreign space station, but the addition of we all do keeps him there, even if all it does is nudge his emotions over the waterfall.

he misses them, too, more than he can express. he hates that he left so much unsaid, thinking it would be better that way. now, he's not so sure.

he rubs at his face, scrubbing away the wetness at the corners of his eyes. when he speaks again, his voice sounds choked. )

I never said goodbye. I never said sorry. ( for what, he doesn't make immediately clear. but if kaldur knew about his fight with dick, he might be able to guess. he sniffs, dragging his hands over his cheeks, trying to compose himself. ) If we find a way home ... will you tell him for me? ( because wally knows even if they do find a way off this station, there's nothing left for him back home except his death. )

( it shouldn't be a surprise at all. of course dick misses wally — it had been the three of them to form the team, yes, but dick and wally had been close friends while kaldur had been in a similar position to them but an outsider, an atlantean on the surface, the leader of the team rather than their friend. of course, dick misses wally. he quit the team because of it and that is a decision kaldur understands and not one he lets himself mourn or linger on, but it does mean he has lost two team members instead of one. not in the same way, at least.

nor does he know of wally's fight with dick. )

You have no reason to apologise. And I think he knows. But I will tell him. ( not if. but he, too, knows that there may not be any chance for wally to return — though if he's alive here, if they find a way home, who's to say what will happen? ) Or perhaps you will be able to tell him yourself.

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