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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.
mapsio: (Default)

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wouldn't blame him if he decided to push it off the table, honestly.]

The sad part is that this is supposed to be tea.
oculusriffs: catrente @ tumblr (my face doesnt make sense)

[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[gravity will do the work for him eventually. but he leans over slightly to get a better look at the tea.]

Could have fooled me. But I don't really know what tea's supposed to look like, other than the stuff you get already bottled.
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-07 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
You haven't ever experienced a fresh cup of hot tea?

[Haru knows that tea isn't for everyone! But to not have tried it at all.]

If I ever get some decent tea around here, I won't forget to share it.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-07 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're sure — seems like that'd be a pretty high-level commodity.

[he thinks about that for a minute, though.]

If I could get the machines to spit out something like, say, halfway-edible dried apple slices, would that be something you could put in your tea?
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-08 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
If you wanted to add a little flavor to the tea, I don't see why not.

[She's going to miss tea until she can have a nice hot cup of it, honestly and truly.]

It might be high-level for this place for all we know.
oculusriffs: catrente @ tumblr (blast off to adventure)

[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-08 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[well, when in Space Rome. Dave stands abruptly, and walks on over to the replicators to give this idea he has about tea a shot — okay, more like a hit, because he's literally smacking the side of one of them like he used to do to the coffee machines back on the meteor.]

[when he comes back, he has a bowl of. well, they at least look like dried apple slices, and they at least sort of have an apple scent? the replicators also apparently saw fit to spit out entirely too many raisins.]

[he settles himself back down, then slides the bowl silently over in Haru's direction. that's the best he could do for now, but maybe it'll help make the tea less disgusting.]
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-09 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[She watches him with intent curiosity. From the moment he gets up, the moment he's smacking the food replicator, and until he sits down. She puzzles over the bowl of raisins and apple (?) slices.]

Ah...

[She realizes very quickly that this is an awfully kind gesture from a stranger. He didn't have to go fight the machine for her, even if was to make tea experience somewhat more tolerable.]

Thank you. You didn't have to do that. But, thank you. I appreciate it.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-09 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[hey, she was nice enough to offer him tea first. plus, he thought her quip on convenience stores was funny — and plus again, he was curious about whether the replicators could actually figure out apple slices.]

I wouldn't thank me just yet. There's a nonzero chance these cardboard slices will actually make your tea shittier.

[that thought is punctuated, rather poignantly, by the sound of the burrito finally sliding off the table. despite the loud clang the plate makes, there is definitely an audible and rather depressing sort of splat, too. it's just a final insult to his home state.]
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-10 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Even if they make the tea an even less enjoyable experience, I think it was your thought that counted.

[The moment of truth is when she finally plunks the slices into her tea. Depressingly enough, they float to the bottom and form a pile of sad looking apple slices in the cup of sad looking sludge.

Man, they really can't seem to catch a break here.
]
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-12 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[... Dave leans over again to get a better look at the wreckage.]

Is it still counting?
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-13 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
The fact that the apples didn't turn out the way you planned doesn't mean that I will discredit your effort. So, yes, it still counts.

[Just, Rest in Peace to her "tea". It saw a short and terrible life.]
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-14 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you can bottle it and keep it around in case you're ever in need of Drano.

[it's what the tea leaves that are probably older than life itself would have wanted. clear out space pipes. clear out human pipes. it makes no difference.]

[......]


What's your name?
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-15 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
That may be the only thing it is good for at this point.

[A sad, but small funeral for her tea turned Drano.]

Haru Okumura, and yourself?
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-16 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Dave Strider. Gonna guess you're from Earth, right?
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-16 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
I am from Earth, yes. I assume that you are from Earth as well?
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-17 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
One version of Earth, yeah. I'm getting the impression that there are a few different versions people are visiting here from.
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-19 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
I am getting the same impression. Even if I didn't think it possible to have more than one version of Earth.