( 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.

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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.

( ♪ )

( 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:
» 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

a

[merging]

[Nearby, and woken up by those profanities, Ezra starts to stir. He lifts his head up only to see... a woman undressing.]

Hey- whoa!

[This was not the first thing he expected to see when he woke up. It's not his usual stranded on starship environment, and not his usual companion either. But at least it looks like she's wearing something underneath? Or is that- he's not sure.]

Uh, okay. Aside from... all that, do you know what's happe-

[Which is when the communicator's message starts up.]

... What?

[a2brutus]

It sounds like someone screwed something up.

[Is A2's snorted response as she fights with the jumper, shoving it down around her ankles. She only gives a look around when it's off.]

And no, I don't know what happened.

[merging]

Yeah, but who? And what world are they even talking about?

[He gets up on his feet, dusting his new jumpsuit off rather than abandoning it completely.]

Oookay. I mean, I have no clue about any of this. What about you?

[a2brutus]

No clue, don't care.

[See how easy that answer is!

As it is, she already thinks that this is a really, really weird android who is talking to her. He's not even armed. She's not even armed.]

... Where the hell did my swords go?

[merging]

No clue, don't care.

[Ezra shoots back at her with a slight smirk. Although most people don't use swords these days, so he actually cares a little bit.]

But considering whoever brought us here took our clothes, they probably took your swords too.

[a2brutus]

[Jokes on him, A2 doesn't care!]

Oh goddammit. This place is already pissing me off. [And unfortunately, A2 is already starting to stomp off in a direction.] When I find whoever took my shit they're going to be sorry.

[merging]

Hey, wait!

[He hurries after her because PLEASE appreciate his very good humor.]

Look, we don't know where we are or how we got here, right? We should try to figure out some basic things first. Like... where were you before this?

[a2brutus]

[The real joke is that A2 doesn't have a sense of humour.

He can't see it, but A2 rolls her eyes at being followed.]

I was on Earth. Is that good enough for you?

[merging]

What system is that in? I've never heard of it.

[Not that strange. There's a whole lot of planets in the galaxy, but she says it so easily like of course, he'd know Earth.]

[a2brutus]

[That, at the very least, does give her pause in her step.]

System? How can you not have heard of Earth?

[merging]

You know... like star system? I'm from Lothal, which is in the Lothal system.

[He says this all very slowly, like he's talking to a child.]

And yeah, it's Outer Rim, but I'd say I'm familiar with a decent amount of worlds and systems and the like. But not Earth.

[a2brutus]

Star what now? [????

???]

[merging]

Star system. Or planetary system? Planets orbiting a star? Are you getting any of this?

[a2brutus]

No? What the hell are you talking about?

[Like. She knows about the stars in space but??

???]

Are your circuits fried or something?

[merging]

I'm talking about the way the entire galaxy is built?

[The whole circuit thing flies over his head because that could easily be a joke.]

Is there not... is there not space travel on your world? I mean, I knew all of this when I was a kid before I even went off world for the first time. It's basic stuff.

[a2brutus]

There's space travel, but what the hell are you talking about? The way the galaxy is built? Off world?

[merging]

Off world, like... I was born on Lothal and then I left it for... reasons and went to other places in the galaxy. Since there's you know, a lot of different systems in the galaxy? And a lot of different worlds? Or I guess you don't know that?

Wait, are you saying you have space travel, but you've never visited other planets?

[a2brutus]

Are you an alien or something?

[BECAUSE. A2 hates Aliens more than Machines! It's programmed into her! And she also might be stepping closer to him, looking about as intimidating as she possibly can be.]

[merging]

No? I'm human?

[Which he thinks is kinda obvious.]

Why?

[a2brutus]

If you're not from Earth, and you go screwing around space, then you're an alien.

[merging]

Okay... I am human, though? Like, that's my species... my parents were also both human. And you know, humans live on a bunch of different planets, right? I can't even list them all...

[a2brutus]

Bullshit you are.

[That said, there's one real quick and easy way to test that, right? If he's human, there's no way that A2 will be able to hurt him!

So A2 just. Cocks her arm back, and aims to deck him in the face.

Thankfully for him, her mighty metal fist stops about two inches away from making contact.]

[merging]

[Right as her fist's about to not make contact with his face, he acts without thinking. His hands go out away from his body, and right as she stops, A2 will feel herself pushed back away from him. She doesn't go too far, as the amount of force he used was meant for a human or a sentient, not a droid. Well. Whoops.]

What the hell?!

[a2brutus]

[She can feel the push, but honestly... She barely goes even a few inches back. There's definitely something weird going on here, but also... She couldn't punch him.

He's human enough for her sensors, but... A2 can't quite wrap her head around it. She does feel guilt for trying to hit him in the first place, but underlying it is just... Her having no god damn idea what the hell is going on.]

I was checking to see if you were as human as you claimed.

[merging]

[Okay, cool. She didn't mention him using the Force, but the rest of this is actually not cool.]

Of course I am! Look at me! I mean, you shouldn't go around hitting people if they're not human, but I kinda obviously am!