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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.

( )




( 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.
neritic: (counter intuitive thunder ride)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-13 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Prove it then.

(Shouldn't be too hard, right? Besides, she's begrudgingly curious now.)

Of course it isn't, for a human. I'm obviously not. ('obviously'???)
twoaffirmations: (game | scanning)

how do you even describe videogames

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-15 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
You really don't believe me... Okay, then I'll prove it.

[9S holds out his hand.]

Then when I do, you can explain what you mean when you say you're not human.

[9S collects what seems to be black and gold light in and around his hand, and in the next instant it rockets towards her; a ball at the center of a beam of light, the strange sound of raw energy accompanying it. It will hit her, and pass over her, utterly harmless.] Well, I guess you're not a machine.
neritic: (grateful our cold memories bide)

juuust like that

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-16 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
(She watches this happen with thinly disguised interest; it's like Venus, the way he collects light in his hands. Venus can do that, too. It doesn't really make him an android, but it certainly is pretty. When he seems to shoot it at her Neptune instinctively tries to dissolve to get away from it but– well, she can't do that any more. The water at her feet rises and gathers in a single, weak column before splashing back down about her.

Neptune takes a wet step backward, but the ball of light passes over her harmlessly. Honestly, she looks kind of pissed??)


Don't shoot those at me, I never said I was a machine!
twoaffirmations: (game | alone)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, you told me to prove it.

[He lifts his hands in a shrug, not seeming all that apologetic, honestly.]

Sooo, it's your turn now. It just helps to check. Since I couldn't hack you, that means you're definitely not an android, either.
neritic: (that her eagerly death had had)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-16 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't prove it without throwing beams of light at me? What are you, stupid?

(aren't androids supposed to be smart?? Neptune has to pause to cough several times before she continues.)

I'm not an android, and I'm not a machine or a robot or any of that. Why was that your first guess, of all things?
twoaffirmations: (game | upload at 98%)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-16 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
H-hey! It's not stupid! It worked, didn't it?

[It's not like he was going to open himself up or do something dangerous just to prove he was serious. Maybe if he had something he could throw around with his magnetic field...but seriously, that was good enough!]

Where I come from, there aren't any humans left on Earth. So anyone you met... They were androids.
neritic: (for the plentiful times that)

wuff, sorry for being late!

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-22 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
In a way, sure. (thanks! she hated it!)

What time do you come from exactly? Somewhere in the very distant future?

(This is a bit wild; she won't get into her stuff until she's got him sorted, thanks.)
twoaffirmations: artist: Kuromisakaijou (Ikezaki Misa) (doujin | gasp)

it's cool!

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-22 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[If it worked, it worked.]

Yeahhh, it's pretty distant. The year is 11945 AD.
neritic: (thy nervous blood)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-24 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's–

(She squints at him, disbelieving.) ... Sure.

I suppose I have to take your word for it.
twoaffirmations: (game | smile)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-26 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, yeaaah... I guess it would be pretty unbelievable.

[He rubs the back of his neck, smiling.] As unbelievable as it is for meet humans of the Old World.
neritic: (counter intuitive thunder ride)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-30 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
You think I live in the 'Old World'?

(Snort.)

Have you ever met a human before?
twoaffirmations: artist: Kuromisakaijou (Ikezaki Misa) (doujin | alart)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-05-31 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. That's the general term for any time period pre-dating the alien invasion.

[Which would cover just about anyone on this ship except himself.]

Coming here is the first time I've ever met a human face-to-face, or even spoken with one directly.
neritic: (candor to die)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-05-31 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Which brings us back to the start; I'm not human. Not any more.

(So dramatic! This is the part where Neptune would have summoned a mighty wave; turned her hair inky black, dripping with sticky ichor; turned her skin pale, cold and blue. She would have let herself turn to water, run clear.

Unfortunately, she can't. Water bubbles up in the palms of her outstretched hands, trickles slowly through her fingers. It is not as impressive, but it's all she has.)


I'm the devil.
twoaffirmations: (game | so that's where you were)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-06-01 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[9S just lets out a frustrated sigh.]

Not this again...

[He's already talked to Venus, and the two of them never truly came to an understanding.]

You can't just stop being human.
Edited 2018-06-01 16:29 (UTC)
neritic: (brush down my sparkling sides)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-06-02 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Again?

(Wait wait, backtrack.)

What do you mean? Somebody else is here saying they're the devil? Explain.

And I can do whatever I want! I am the devil. I cast my body off.
twoaffirmations: (game | alone)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-06-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was a girl named Venus. She said she was the devil too.

[It's obvious by the way he says it, that 9S doesn't quite believe it.]

So that's why you're all wet.
neritic: (clean my sparkling teeth)

[personal profile] neritic 2018-06-07 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, (Neptune says, exhaling in a little rush of relief. For a brief moment, she actually looks happy, but then 9S' next question sets her skeptical frown firmly back in place.)

Yes, duh.