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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.
volumes: (11.)

[personal profile] volumes 2018-05-07 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...great. I'm great.

[ That's a pretty clear lie, but he's not all about this sudden concern. ]

You think I'm crazy, huh. [ Not a question, a statement, regardless of whether or not she actually thinks it, he's acting pretty crazy. He's sighing. ] Well, maybe sometimes, but not right now.
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[personal profile] pantomath 2018-05-08 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
( To her credit, Hermione looks more sympathetic than patronizing. Or, at least, she's trying to. And when he assumes she thinks he's crazy, Hermione shakes her head. )

Just because I can't hear it doesn't make it any less real to you. I don't think you're crazy. After everything I've been through? It would take a lot for me to think someone was crazy.

( She pauses and wets her lips before pursing them thoughtfully together briefly. )

Does that happen a lot? Or just since coming here?
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[personal profile] volumes 2018-05-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ He still considers that she might think he's crazy, and is probably just humouring him, but after a month of squinting he just sighs. ]

When nobody else can hear it? Since today. Whenever today is. I guess in the grand scheme of things it's not the weirdest part of this whole adventure.
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[personal profile] pantomath 2018-05-13 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Have you been here longer than just today?

( As far as she's concerned, it could just as easily be something on this terminal that's doing this to him at the moment and maybe he's had the ability to hear things others couldn't for his whole life but never had it tested like this before. Harry had been able to speak Parseltongue his whole life and only learned what Parseltongue even was in his second year at Hogwarts. Twelve years fluent in a language he hadn't known existed. Perhaps something in that vein is happening to this man. )

There's...a lot of strange things, yeah... Like, for example...are you speaking English right now? I am, and I hear English from you, but now I've learned that that doesn't necessarily mean anything."
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[personal profile] volumes 2018-05-21 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, the second part of that was true, to a point; but no longer should it be.

That said, he's tapping the right side of his neck, below his ear. There's a tiny dark, metallic spot there against the skin. ]


I'm not. I could be, but I haven't been. But I just thought that was because of this implant here.
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[personal profile] pantomath 2018-05-22 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
( Her eyes narrow a little as she tilts her head to look at it. How hadn't she noticed that before? )

No, I don't think it's that. A woman I met before was speaking two languages at me that I'd never even heard of and I understood her perfectly as though she were speaking English; it's this place.
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[personal profile] volumes 2018-05-26 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[ He's considering it, crossing his arms. ]

I guess the technology isn't that absurd to me. Still, I haven't heard of translators that could affect a whole station without some sort of implant in everybody. Sounds real expensive, too.