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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.
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[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-14 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[slices his arms off right at the shoulders

No just kidding, she's of a more reliable character than that. Kale repositions herself with a duck and a shimmy beneath his arms, mostly to get a better angle to kneel at in front of the door. And at that point, well...

It's like someone going at the door with a blowtorch, only with a lot less sparks, thankfully. It seems as if whatever she's doing is a lot safer, because it's neither a risk to their unprotected eyes or skin. The only real danger is, as she implied, whether or not it accidentally touches him.

And so far her control's been good enough that she's managing to avoid doing just that, thankfully.

Kale gets about halfway there, having cut a line from one side of the door to the other and made just enough progress upwards to go above his arms in the opposite direction this time. But she pauses before that.
]

We're about halfway there, so it shouldn't take much longer...um...how are you doing?

[It seems right to ask, despite the fact nothing's really changed.]
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-05-19 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He grows a little tense in his stillness, the constriction spreading through his muscles in a light fearful anticipation of the unknown of what she was about to do with that tiny ball of light. Fortunately if things went dreadfully wrong, well... he's had one of his arms reattached before, and it wasn't that big of a deal. But the rub was he'd prefer keep those less-human aspects of himself under wraps.

Even though she was definitely doing... whatever she was doing. Maybe she wasn't as nervous about people knowing about it??

He sees what she's doing, and his grow wider and wider. Wow, she's really cutting through it, huh? It's pretty impressive, given he couldn't even tear his way out with all of his strength. Her question stirs him from his daze, and he blinks a few times before looking to her, eyes still wide and bright and brimming with plenty of questions.]


Yeah, uh, [and with just about as much tact as he's known for:] if you don't mind me asking, what the fuck are you doing? And how??

[Said with a tone of awe more than anything else...]
Edited (clarification...) 2018-05-19 05:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lssj 2018-05-20 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Her initial reaction is...confusion, flat out, entirely visible on her face. Ki control is just about something every saiyan can do; depending on how strong a baby is, it could probably fly before it even knows how to walk, even if letting your child fly around unattended would be incredibly dangerous.

But that's aside the point. What matters is he's asking her about something incredibly commonplace not only on her world, but commonplace to most parts of the universe she's read about. The fact he doesn't know...

Could Akira be some kind of space hick???
]

This is, um...it's just ki. [She...waves her hand a little to bring attention to it, as if that answers everything.] Sorry, it's just...not something I'm used to being asked. You really can't do it too?
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-05-21 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[When he registers the confusion on her face, his turns into a mirror to reflect it, looking confounded himself.

He's starting to get the feeling that the answer he's going to get is gonna be even weirder than what she's doing in the first place.

(She can absolutely think he's a space hick, though; from her perspective that's probably true.)]


...Ki? [Like... I mean, he's heard of ki, it has to do with martial artists and monks and stuff (well, that's what martial arts movies and anime has taught him, anyway).] Uhh, no, definitely not. [He can do some weird shit but nothing like that, anyway.] Stuff like this really that commonplace for you? Being able to shoot laserbeams and stuff outta your hands?