( 0 0 1 » ENSEMBLE ) welcome to the inaugural log

[reveriemod]

» 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.

( ♪ )

( 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.

( ♪ )

( 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.

( ♪ )

( 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.

( ♪ )

( 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:
» Character: » Type of action: minor, medium, major » Notes:

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



Please use content warning in your top-levels wherever necessary.

Comments

Daisy Johnson | Agents of SHIELD

[morethan084]

[LOOKING AROUND]

[The jumpsuit is definitely not what she had been wearing before she came here, and while there was a lot that she was bothered about since waking up here, that definitely felt like a huge invasion of privacy. Which has been a theme for her as of late. Hand raising to her neck, Daisy feels the gauze still covering the wound on her neck from where Fitz had taken out the inhibitor. She feels off and she’s not sure if that’s from what’s just happened back at the base, or waking up here where she assumes she’s been drugged. Again.

Daisy is already looking for any sort of weapon she can find to defend herself with, and frustratingly enough she doesn’t really come up with anything aside from a tool kit. It’ll have to do for now as she grabs a wrench. She almost hits someone as she turns a corner before she lowers the wrench and lets out a breath when she realizes they aren’t a threat. At least, they don’t look like one. She’s still holding the wrench tightly at her side though, just in case.]

Where are we?

[She’s hoping for an answer, but she’s expecting for them to be just as lost as she is. They look lost.]

[HAVE A BITE]

[Daisy hasn’t eaten since she arrived here a little over a day ago, but it’s becoming too hard to ignore so she makes her way to the mess hall that she’s walked past several times. There are others in there, some getting their food and others eating it. It doesn’t look the least bit appetizing, and some people look as though they are struggling to eat it.

After getting her ‘food’, Daisy looks for the table with the least amount of people.]

Is it cool if I sit here?

[NOISE IN THE WALLS]

[Daisy is on her way back to her quarters when she hears a scream that goes right through her. Without thinking twice about it, she’s running in the direction she thinks she hears it coming from. What if someone was hurt? Or something dangerous has come on board? She’s rounding a corner when she’s suddenly being yanked back so hard that her back slams into the wall. Stunned she looks around but doesn’t see anything.

Quickly pushing herself off from the wall, Daisy steps further into the middle of the corridor and turns quickly on the spot. What the hell was that? Hand out in front of her just in case she has to use her power, Daisy tried to quiet her breathing. She’s had to deal with unseen forces before and they were never fun.

Walking further down the hallway, Daisy replays what just went down in her head in an attempt to pinpoint the sound. It sounded like it was coming from the wall so she quickly makes her way back over to where she had just been when she was pulled away. Hands pressing against the wall she cautiously leans in close to press her ear against it. It’s like she had just been injected with ice cold water when she hears a familiar but weak voice pleading for help.

Quickly stepping back with wide eyes she brings her hand back up to shatter the wall, and, nothing. Looking down at her hand she tries again but nothing happens. She isn’t far from her room she runs back to grab the tool kit she had gone back for remembering there was a crow bar and hammer in there. If the screaming hadn’t been loud enough, the sound of someone trying to take apart a wall sure is.]

[ODD DISCOVERY | cw: mild body horror]

[It’s been a long day and after taking an extremely long shower, Daisy is standing in front of the small mirror in her extremely compact bathroom finger coming her soaking wet hair when she notices something. For a second she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her but when she touches the skin on her shoulder and feels something pulsing underneath she immediately panics. Stepping back from the mirror Daisy turns every which way to try and see if this is happening anywhere else. When it seems to be isolated to one spot, Daisy looks down at the razor that she’s yet to use and does the only thing she can think to do.

What if it’s some weird alien thing that’s going to kill her from the inside? There was so much she didn’t know about this place, that no one else here did for that matter. Wincing in pain as she slices the skin open, not too deeply, as it seemed that whatever it was, was close to the surface, Daisy quickly noticed something that shouldn’t be there. Ignoring the blood that’s trickling down her skin and mixing in with the water still on her body, Daisy stops once she seems to reach the end of it. Getting as close as she can to the mirror she can feel her hands shaking as she tries to tug at the open wound to get a better look. It looks like a wire, which definitely shouldn’t be there. It’s still moving though, and Daisy thinks it could be trying to work its way even further into her body so she’s quick to cut it out.

Placing it on the sink, Daisy waits for it to move but nothing happens. Afraid to take her eyes off of it for too long, she grabs the small med kit to at least cover up the self inflicted wound for now and get dressed.

Using her communicator she sets it to voice and speaks up, clearly shaken. ]

Are there any scientists awake right now? Or a doctor? I just found something really strange and I’m not sure what it is.

[WILDCARD]

[Want to do something else? Feel free to start something or PM/punkchica321 message me.]

Odd Discovery (TW: body horror)

[unshielding]

[ Steve hears the tone of her voice right away and he's already worried. They've only just met here, but Steve's starting to take the safety of others as a personal responsibility issue here, for better or worse. No one is in charge, but someone has to step up and look after people.

He responds with the same voice function, ready to drop what he's doing and go meet her if she's hurt. ]

Daisy, are you okay?

[morethan084]

[Daisy is more relieved that the person that responds is someone she's familiar with. Although she's not sure how much help he'll be.]

No.

[It's an honest answer at least.]

There was something crawling in my body, I had to cut it out.

[unshielding]

What was it? I found something under my skin, too.

[ And he's not sure if he's relieved to not be alone or frightened that this happened to multiple people. ]

Do you need someone to dress the wound?

[morethan084]

[So it wasn't just her. She's not sure if she's relieved by that or not. Eyes focused on the weird piece of metal that is still on sink, unmoving, Daisy takes a minute to respond.]

No. I just need to know what this is. Did you take it out?

have a bite.

[oddbod]

Oh. Yeah.

[Clara hadn't been paying the slightest bit of attention, apparently too distracted by something to do with her device. There isn't a scrap of food or drink on the table, just a small kit of tools.]

[morethan084]

[Smiling tightly in response, Daisy takes a seat across from her and sets her plate down.]

What are you trying to do with that?

[She wasn't in a rush to eat what was on her plate honestly, even though she knows she should. She does take a testing sip of her coffee though and quickly makes a face of disgust.]

God that's terrible.

[oddbod]

[She puts down the device and tools, and sits back in her chair. So far, she's been able to make no progress with what the kit provided.]

I wanted to see the inside, maybe find out more about who made it.

[morethan084]

[Smiling sympathetically when she notices the way the woman seems to be frustrated, Daisy pokes at her food but doesn't eat it just yet.]

Haven't found anything yet?

[ noise in the walls ]

[solarcharged]

[ Screaming, banging, clanging. It had been enough to stop Apollo in his tracks and turn his horrified gaze upon the walls. There were people in there, screaming, inside the walls. Inside a crawl space, maybe, trapped and begging for help. He brings a broad, powerful fist down on the nearest panel, crumpling it like cardboard, and rips back a corner to expose what he could only imagine would be someone, something, trapped in the wall cavity --

But his stomach lurches and his head spins, and Apollo sags weakly against the wall. He claws at the panel faintly, searching for whatever the source of the noise was amid the bundled wiring, but to no avail. Weak and sickened by the strangely debilitating effort of doing something as simple as that, he props himself up against the wall.

Distantly, further up the corridor, he hears more banging. Louder, this time - urgent and real. Weakly he shoulders away from the torn panel and staggers up the corridor, rounding a bend and finding a woman attacking the wall, just as he had. ]

You heard it too?

[morethan084]

[This would've been taken care of a lot more quickly if her power worked here, instead she's using all of her energy and strength to get the wall dismantled as quickly as she can. Even though she's only gotten a few good swings in she's starting to feel tired, like, abnormally tired. The next swing is less strong than the one before, in fact this time it hardly makes a dent.

She does turn on the spot, hammer still in hand when she hears someone ask if she had heard it too.]

How could I not?

[She can't stop now though, even though he seems to not be in a rush to figure out who it was that was screaming. Dropping the hammer she reaches for the crowbar and starts to pry apart what she had managed to break off.

Nothing. How could there be nothing but wires?]

[solarcharged]

[ Apollo waits, leaning heavily upon the opposite wall while the young woman gradually comes to realise what he had realised only seconds earlier. There's a gut-wrenching confusion to it all, like the pit of his stomach has dropped away in alarm, upon the revelation that there is nothing - nobody - there to save. Once again.

He waits a moment before moving closer, speaking up quietly from over her shoulder as he approaches to join her at the broken panel: ]

Fucked up, isn't it?

[morethan084]

[Hand pressing against the panel beside where she had opened it, Daisy leaned a little into it as she looks over at him.]

How is that possible? I could hear them.

[And he seemed to know something was up as well, which was even more confusing.]

noise in the walls

[monomachy]

[It is not the scream that draws Diana to where Daisy works at tearing apart the wall, but the noise of metal slamming against metal. She'd followed the noise to the hallway, abandoning her own search for unlocked doors that led somewhere other than quarters. When she finally finds the source of the sound, she holds up her hands, palms out, approaching slowly--but having to speak louder than normal to be heard above the din.]

What are you doing? Are you alright?

[morethan084]

[By the time the woman catches her Daisy is exhausted and confused. How could there be no one? She heard them. Breathing heavily, Daisy nearly jumps out of her skin at the sound of a voice. This time it's not coming from inside the wall. Turning to face her, Daisy clearly looks confused.]

I heard someone in the wall.

[Yeah, because that doesn't sound psychotic.]

Did you hear that screaming?

[monomachy]

[Luckily for Daisy, other things people might find crazy, Diana finds perfectly logical. Her brows crease with concern, but determination to help bubbles up in her heart.]

I didn't, but I will help you.

[Ignoring the crowbar, she reaches out to grab the edge of a partially-removed metal panel, and tears it away from the rest as if it were a piece of paper. She feels... oddly weakened after doing so, but she doesn't let it deter her. Everything about the past few days has left her feeling strange, but she's certain she will bounce back soon.]

If someone is there, we will find them.

[morethan084]

[Daisy is momentarily distracted from her concerns when this woman just rips away the paneling as if it was nothing. Was she an Inhuman?]

Thanks.

[What else was she supposed to say? Focus going back to the wall, Daisy tries not to focus too much on the sudden wooziness she feels.]

What the hell?

[There was no one. How could there be no one? She heard the screaming. The cry for help.]

have a bite

[moshennik]

[ Meanwhile, this is probably Kenzi's fifth meal since arriving. The girl likes to stress eat, okay? It's better than stress drinking and being too drunk to deal with all of this. Actually... that sounds kind of awesome.

No, no. Not a good idea, especially without Bo around to save her ass.

She glances at the woman who asks if she can sit, she looks harmless enough and Kenzi smiles and shrugs, waving a hand at the table before her.] Mi table estu table. Take a load off.

[morethan084]

[Smiling softly in response, Daisy pulls out the seat opposite of her.]

How bad is it?

[The food she means. It doesn't look at all appetizing but she should probably at least eat some of it.]

[moshennik]

I've crashed in a few homeless shelters and their food tasted like a steakhouse compared to this crap. [ Sorry, Daisy.]

And yet, I can't stop eating it.

[morethan084]

[Daisy has taken to poking at the food on her plate ask she gives her review of it. Looking up at her, Daisy grimaces at the idea of actually eating it.]

You might be getting mine too.

[The coffee is terrible too. But, she’s had some pretty bad coffee and she can deal with it. Taking a small forkful of the food Daisy barely chews it before swallowing it.]

Oh my god. How can you keep eating it?

( noises in the walls )

[possidetur]

( daisy hadn't been the only one to hear the screams. some of it is a whisper, urging vanessa closer, whilst the rest is chilling. she has her hands on the wall, trying to listen, searching for more than solely what her ears can pick up.

it works well until the next of the noises come in, ones that sound a lot closer than the screams did. it has vanessa moving, going in search of them to first see what's causing them, and see if they're related.

they are, though not in the way that she expects when she comes across daisy hitting at the wall )

It's possible that won't work.

( she's not certain what the walls are made of but it isn't brick )

[morethan084]

[Daisy is about to swing at it again when a voice comes from behind her. She nearly swings at the woman but quickly drops the hammer to her side.]

Yeah, well, I have to try.

[Which is why she's going back to hitting it as hard as she can. It doesn't take very long until a part of it becomes easy to pry off, which she does only to find nothing but wire and metal. She barely has time to process it when she hears that screaming coming from somewhere further down the corridor.]

What the hell?

[She's out of breath and tired, but she does move away from the wall and further into the middle. Daisy passes a glance at the woman to make sure she heard it too.]

[possidetur]

( there's a small nod to confirm that yes, vanessa did also hear it. she's moving with daisy, sparing only a brief glance behind them at the panel that daisy had managed to get off. it was just a wall, albeit a strange one )

The scream may not be inside the wall.

( it could be something lingering, or something currently invisible. those are at least the two options that vanessa is familiar with )

[morethan084]

Something was in there. I could hear it.

[Yeah, except there's nothing actually in there. Which only serves to confuse Daisy even more.]

You didn't hear them calling out for help?