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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.
newroutine: (Butler)

noises

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[On deck six, the Butler steps out of room two, the one that assigned itself to him despite being human quarters a robot really shouldn't be entitled to. He's spent some time inside the network, losing focus on his body in a way that isn't much like sleep.]

[Spotting one of the humans with better claim to human crew quarters would make him pause, but the fact that the young lady appears to be disassembling the wall sends him to find out why.]

Pardon us, madam, but may we be of any assistance?

[He hopes his voice with its committee-designed British accent reassures people even when his obvious robot features unnerve them. This station certainly has a great variety of people.]

[What is that sound? The Butler hasn't been paying enough attention for the past few hours to be certain.]
oddbod: (our hearts fill with miracles)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-02 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[For what it's worth, Clara doesn't seem unnerved at all by his robotic presence. She glances up once, gives a polite smile.]

Maybe, if you can tell me what all the noise is about.

[Her reply is punctuated by a particularly loud clang, and she turns sharply back towards the wall, brow furrowed in determination.]

I thought there must be an air duct, carrying it from somewhere, but- [Clunk. Clang.] -I don't see anything.
newroutine: (Default)

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[The Butler would have hated to hear any such racket in the walls of his Master's manor. Here, it's not quite as personal...yet all the more disturbing for his complete lack of knowledge on what might mend the problem.]

A disturbing noise, but not familiar, we fear.

[He shakes his head in apology.]

We could hold a light for you, madam, but we have not yet become an expert on the station ductwork.

[The handlight is still attached to his Reverie jumpsuit; he unclips it. Is there a way to become an expert that does not involve looking into every single duct? A manual or a plan might be nice, so of course it is not accessible to the kidnap victims.]
oddbod: (i tried to hold these secrets)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-08 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
A light would be superb.

[Oh, she loves nice robots. Scooting aside just a bit, she makes room for him to get the light into the open panel. It illuminates much more than the device had.]

... So, "we"? Is there more than one of you in there?
newroutine: (Default)

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-09 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, introductions. The Butler holds the light steady and answers what has become a familiar question.]

No, only one. Our mind is a distributed system, but a single consciousness.

[His designers had much more to do with the Butler's speech than any personal choice, but even without the bounds of his rules, he is reluctant to become too unlike that familiar pattern. So much else has changed already.]

We are the Butler. It is a pleasure to meet you, madam.

[Though constrained by the need to hold the light, he attempts a very small bow. The formalities should be respected.]
oddbod: (it's burning in the bloodline)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-15 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, a pleasure to meet you as well, Butler. I’m Clara.

[She gives him a wide, welcoming smile, only a bit fabricated at the edges.]

Where are you from?
newroutine: (look right)

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-15 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is very nice to find people with manners, human or otherwise.]

Models such as our own are manufactured by a company called Domesticon and sold to meet the needs of humanity.

[If Madam Clara has not heard of the company, she certainly would not know the abandoned planet on which the Butler was last present.]

We were a long way from Earth, but neither do we belong on this station. It would be cleaner if we did, we assure you.
oddbod: (night will follow day)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-16 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's why you're called Butler.

[A note more to herself than anything else. Something about it strikes her as almost sad. A robot with this much awareness, meant for cleaning?]
newroutine: (Butler)

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-18 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
A Domesticon Butler model evokes a sense of high class as it maintains your Warm Home.

[Repeating an advertisement is the best way to communicate what his designers intended.]

We truly do wish to be helpful under these...unexpected circumstances, Madam Clara.

[Never mind the fact that he's not required to do anything at all, since breaking free of the experimental virus took all his model's rules with it.]
oddbod: (after this it's you and your friends)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-24 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
That's very kind of you.

[The robot's growing on her, enough so that she doesn't even point out that she's no "Madame". Smiling, she leans back into the opening.]

So, "Warm Home"? That sounds like a brand thing, yeah?
newroutine: (look left)

[personal profile] newroutine 2018-05-27 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Think nothing of it. Indeed, Domesticon is a very profitable company. Their brands are known throughout the galaxy.

[The Butler might be out of date, but he doubts that has changed, even if it does not seem to be true here. No one but his fellow Domesticon AI has recognized the name.]

However, this station is not compatible with any of their technology...not without considerable effort.

[He's certainly tried to convince the place to let them go home.]