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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.
lssj: (pic#11596096)

[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-03 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's okay. Really.

[She shakes her head, even gesturing apologetically with her hands.]

If anything, it's the fault of everything here being in disrepair...you don't have to apologise.

I think we might just have to bear it for now, though...
mapsio: (Default)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-04 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[What a sad state this food is in. A replicator that can't replicate. It makes her long for a garden where she could grow fresh fruits and vegetables.]

I wonder if there is anything we could do to make this more tolerable.
lssj: (pic#)

1/3

[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-04 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know...I think it all depends on the equipment. What's working and what isn't?

Outside of the machine over there, I guess the only other source of meat on the ship is the people here...

[Wait for it. Wait for that penny to drop.]
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[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-04 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
N-not that I'm suggesting we...! I mean...I just meant there's probably not cattle or anything, and we couldn't...um...

[SAIYANS ARE NOT CANNIBAL ALIENS.]
lssj: (pic#11596096)

[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-04 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's just gonna try to move on...]

...at least if the equipment were here, we could grow food.

If the replicator can make seeds...or something.

[Yeah.

Though it's arguable if they'd even grow. If they did, it's also arguable if the results would be edible.
]
mapsio: (haru 1)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-04 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay honestly, even if initially she was going to be a little creeped out by the whole "we could eat people" moment.

The gardening is what brings her back in. Haru is very interested in that comment.
]

You know, I've been thinking of trying to get a hydroponics system up and running.

[She hasn't found the equipment, and she hasn't got enough man power yet.]

It's something we could consider if we have the right tools.
lssj: (pic#12241288)

[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-05 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Haru is an angel for just moving on.

In any case Kale nods, eyes a little wider in interest.
]

To be honest, I don't really know anything about gardening...but if you don't mind having to show me what to do, I'd be interested...um...if they even have the equipment for it, that is...I guess I'm getting ahead of myself.
mapsio: (HARU (1))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-06 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[She's heard, and said weirder shit. Promise.]

I would be happy to show you. The more people we have on board for that kind project the better off we're going to be. But you're right. We need to have the equipment for it first.
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[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-06 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
I think something like that might call for making it planetside, first...I don't know what's down there, but it'd be a start.
mapsio: (haru 2)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Figuring out what exactly is going on here takes priority. But... the gardening project could be something in the meantime. If we had a hydroponics system we wouldn't even need to make it to a planet. It's rather self sustainable.
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[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-07 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah...she nods rather hurriedly.]

No, no, I...I know that...nothing takes a backseat to going home. It's not like I want to be here long enough for that to be necessary or anything...um...

I think I just got caught up in the idea, sorry...
mapsio: (HARU (77))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-08 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
No, no. It's okay. I understand.

[She sighs, a little wistfully.] I don't want to be here long enough to need anything like this either, but I believe it is better to be prepared than to not be prepared.