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

[ Haruto hadn't really spared a second glance at the gym after having woken up there, but now that his wounds have been stitched up and he's got some time to settle in a bit, he decides to return there and see what might be significant about it-- or if the place he woke up was just entirely random.

He doesn't expect to run into anyone there. He freezes in the doorway, unsure what to say. ]

Oh, sorry, I didn't know anyone else would be here. [ But wait, he wasn't actually... touching those weights... ] What are you... doing?

[Ezra freezes as well, but not for too long as the weight comes down into his hands. His arms falter slightly under the sudden addition, but he takes a deep breath and places it down.]

It's fine, no worries. And uh... you know. Lifting weights. It'd be kinda weird if I was doing something else, right?

Right... [ Don't think he didn't see that. But Haruto won't comment on it, just file away the information under a new mental folder he's created labeled "?????" ]

Yes, it would be strange to use a gym for other activities.

So... [Ezra leans back, trying to decide if he wants to actually lift some weights.] Why're you here? Working out? Or other activities?

I woke up here. [ He finally steps out from the doorway, walking over to the spot by a treadmill where he had come to only a day or so before. ] I thought it might be good to... Look for clues, or something.

I've been looking everywhere and I haven't really found anything. Sorry.

[Ezra shrugs, though his voice is clearly sincere.]

What about you? I woke up on the observation deck, by the way. I guess you could call like... space a clue?

[ Haruto shrugs as well. Shrugging seems to be the thing to do around here. He throws in a head shake for good measure. ]

I haven't found much, aside from a book in the quarters I'm using. Mostly a lot of locked doors and archived data I don't have access to. [ And can't hack is way into, which is eternally frustrating. ]

Oh, right. There was a sock in my room? But that doesn't seem like that much of a clue.

[Very frightening dirty laundry.]

Kinda weird that there are books here, but I guess that's normal in other universes? What's it about?

Are books not... normal, in your universe?

[ That seems strange, even to Haruto, who consumes most media digitally. ]

It's a romance novel. You're welcome to read it, if you want.

Well, we have books, but not like... paper ones, you know? Or I mean, paper and stuff like that's pretty rare.

[Romance isn't really his thing, but there's not many other options, huh?]

Have you already finished it?

[ That makes sense. Most of the media by Haruto's time had become digital, making paper books rarer and more of a status symbol for those who could afford them.

He shakes his head. ]

I haven't started it. I've only read the description on the back.

Does it look good?

[He asks if he has any idea what makes a good romance novel.]

I don't wanna take it from you before you've had the chance to read it, though. Plus, it seems like kind of a hassle flipping pages...

It seems... fairly standard. Star crossed lovers, from two planets at war.

[ Come on, ~~Ezra~~ Hondo, you can always just flip the pages with the Force! ]

I'm honestly not going to read it. I don't mind.

Huh. Guess I'll check it out? Not like I have anything better to do.

[Using the Force would be even more work though!!]

What room are you staying in? I'll bring it by.

[ He could always give him his room number but-- yeah, no thanks. ]

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