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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.
oorah: (307)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-04 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats. [ on the bucket list thing. he makes a little face in solidarity, he's impressed honestly. frank pours her another without being asked.

at the question though, he points at the sky. the big guy. he whistles to make it doubly clear. ]


We had a falling out. Don't see us making another go of it.

moshennik: (eating ✘ pizza ✘ explain)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-04 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ she snorts when he clarifies his point, giving him a grateful nod at the second pour.]

Yeah, me and that guy were never acquainted, much to my mother's chagrin. "Russian Orthodox". [ she uses air quotes because her mother was about as religious as satan himself. it was all a show.

she takes a long sip.]
Pretty sure there's nobody home up there anyways.
oorah: (☠︎038)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ he leans on the bartop to put them at eyelevel. he was acquainted all right, but that was a lifetime ago. all that shit went out the window when he held the lifeless body of his daughter in his arms. ]

Either that or he's been on vacation from Day 8 on.
moshennik: (booze ✘ sass ✘  beer)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-04 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, wouldn't you be? [ the whole world at your fingertips and you have to deal with a bunch of asshole humans? no thanks. not that kenzi believes in god, especially now she knows fae exist. ]

I'd be drunk off my ass on a beach somewhere.
oorah: (☠︎051)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-04 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ frank snorts, shrugs a shoulder. ] Probably, yeah.

Drunk off my ass on a beach sounds damn good right about now. [ he straightens up and pours himself a shot of the whiskey he's been keeping off to the side. he offers her a glass-clink if she wants to drink to that with him. guess they have to settle for being drunk off their asses in space. ]
moshennik: (booze ✘ martini)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-04 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she returns his cheers with a smile before she takes another sip, then she gives her glass a crooked glance.]

Dooooo you think that drinking in space is like drinking in the mountains? Isn't there some kind of thing about that? That it takes less to get schammered?
Edited 2018-05-04 14:29 (UTC)
oorah: (089)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-04 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he has to mouth the word 'schammered' wow. wowowow ]

Yeah, because of the altitude, right? There's, uh- [ he wiggles the figures of his less injured hand, trying to think of the word. ] Life support. Artificial atmosphere. So I think we're good. [ to get schammered. wotd right here. ]

moshennik: (sad ✘ pout)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-04 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair point. [ she nods, knowing herself not to be a space expert.] My space knowledge is limited to TV and movies. There was not enough movies with space partying.
oorah: (091)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-04 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that... is a good point actually. he nods to himself, seeming to concur. ]

Aliens tried to wreck my city one time. I hear it was a real spectacle. [ but he wasn't there for it. he's not sure if he's sorry about that or not. ]
moshennik: (around ✘ eating ✘ moping)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-04 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
So aliens are real where you're from, cool. [ she nods as she glances down at her glass.] And werewolves and vampires and all that spooky stuff is real in mine. I just keep hoping this always a fever dream.
oorah: (☠︎043)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-06 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't too cool when they leveled my neighborhood, but okay. Cool. [ OK sign since that seems to be his thing or whatever. spooky stuff, okay. he can deal with that??? he can deal with a lot of things apparently. ] Yeah... we're fresh out of that flavor of spooky. Lots of ninjas though. Like an unreasonable amount.
moshennik: (listen ✘ hm?)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-06 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
That is decidedly not cool, actually. Sorry. [ he'd said tried, she'd assumed it hadn't actually happened but... whoops. ]

Did you say ninjas?
oorah: (☠︎024)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-07 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ he shrugs. he didn't take offense, and even if he had that's what whiskey is for. or whatever this shit used to be. ]

...So help me, I did. [ another shrug as he pours a drink for each of them. like ??? he doesn't get it okay but it's definitely a Thing ]
moshennik: (skeptical ✘ what the fuq)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-07 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Like the hi-yah! kind? Like legit ninjas...? [ still wrapping her mind around this.]

Where did you live? Asia?
oorah: (☠︎029)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods, sorry kenzi this isn't about to get any better. ]

Try Hell's Kitchen.
moshennik: (skeptical ✘ eye narrow)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-07 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ she makes such a face.] Isn't that in New York City? I had no idea ninja-ing was so popular...
oorah: (☠︎167)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-07 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
You and me both, lady. [ he takes his shot and wipes his mouth with the back of his less mangled hand, remembering showing up late to that party. and then reading about the aftermath. daredevil is dead. what a crock of bullshit. ]

Anyway. Werewolves, huh?
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[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-08 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
The werewolves are pretty tame actually. They don't even lick their own balls. [ she eyeballs his hand, having had just enough alcohol for her to finally ask:]

Did you get that here?
oorah: (☠︎012)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-08 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that startles a genuine laugh out of him, turning his head instantly like it's habit to hide when he's actually having a good time. at her question, it's easy enough to sober, turning the glass in his hand so the bloody bandage shows more clearly in the dim light. ]

Uh- yeah. This place sure knows how to roll out the welcome wagon.
moshennik: (listen ✘ sass ✘ oh please)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-11 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Did you catch the bitch in the walls? [ the one that was making fun of her jumpsuit!]

I chased her for an hour and never found where the voice was coming from. It definitely wasn't an intercom.
oorah: (090)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-12 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he snorts, shaking his head. ] More like she caught me. Twice. Best I could figure it is some kind of defense mechanism, dropped me the second I got the wall panel open.
moshennik: (skeptical ✘ what the fuq)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-17 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
So she has like... what's the word-- [ give her a moment.] Cor-Cor-poreal form? [ she's learned things! ]
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[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-17 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No, didn't see her. I don't think there is a her. I'm no computer nerd, but it's a security system as far as I can tell.
moshennik: (skeptical ✘ excuse what?)

[personal profile] moshennik 2018-05-21 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
A security system who insults ya girl's jumpsuit? Because that's some bullshit.
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[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-21 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ he just barely holds back the eyeroll. ]

Not that. The part where it drops people for messing with the ship.

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