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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.
unshielding: (vlcsnap-00052)

[personal profile] unshielding 2018-05-15 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Steve's normally firm handshake in incredibly gentle now. He's not looking to further injure anyone and he doesn't know the extent of what happened. ]

Well, Just Frank, you wouldn't happen to have any theories about how to disarm whatever system is doing this, would you? It almost seems like it's trying to separate us out from each other.

[ If he doesn't want to talk about the dogtags, Steve's certainly not going to push it. There are plenty of reasons a man might not want to talk about his time in the service and they might not even be his tags. ]
oorah: (☠︎206)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the imposed gentleness bothers him more than it should, and he keeps his hand at his side, wishing he'd never taken the other man's. as illogical as that might be. ]

You think it's... sentient like that? [ it seems random to frank, but it's not like he knows much about spaceship defense systems okay. ] However we do that, the answers are through the locked doors. Which are probably controlled from inside, too.

[ he sighs, running his less injured hand over his short hair and reluctantly meeting steve's eyes. ]

We're screwed is basically what I'm saying. [ but his eyes harden - don't misunderstand him. that doesn't mean he's giving up. ]
Edited (leaving out words and shit smh) 2018-05-15 21:20 (UTC)
unshielding: (vlcsnap-00052)

[personal profile] unshielding 2018-05-16 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be. Computers are pretty impressive even where I'm from and we don't have ships like this yet.

[ Ultron had taught him a lot more than he'd been ready to know about the capabilities of technology like that. ]

I think we might need to go about this differently. We need someone who knows computers.

[ They need Tony, he thinks, and there's a pang in his chest at that. ]
oorah: (☠︎065)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ he has to smile at the mention of computers and the nerds that go along with them. it's soft and shadowed, but definitely noticeable. ]

I know a guy like that. He'd have this whole station figured out in a day - two, tops. [ frank shakes his head, feeling guilty for even mentioning david. as if the power of suggestion might pull him out of the sky and drop him right here, right now. frank shakes his head, his smile already a distant relic of the past. ] Instead it's up to me and you to unpack all this nerd shit. A dumb jarhead and an Army boy. [ just taking a stab in the dark there ;) ] Sounds like the set-up to a bad joke.
unshielding: ([famira]5LJAtah)

[personal profile] unshielding 2018-05-17 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Steve can think of a few people who would figure this place out, Tony not the least of them, but not a single one is here and he doubts Bucky or Wanda are any better with the computers than he is at this point.

He shakes his head with an honest-to-God laugh.
]

You're right. We are screwed.

[ But of course Steve never gives up, either. He just needs a minute to laugh at the absurdity of the situation. ]
oorah: (307)

[personal profile] oorah 2018-05-18 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it gets a smile too, and he claps steve on the shoulder with his hand that's less likely to bleed on him. how considerate. ]

There's gotta be a nerd or two on this bus. Stands to reason if you and me are here, they've gotta even things out somehow.
unshielding: ([famira]Q23qdEY - Copy)

[personal profile] unshielding 2018-05-20 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
God, I hope you're right. Everyone I know from back home is a lot more like us.

[ Not that his friends aren't smart, but none of them are exactly science-minded and Steve spent what was apparently way too long signing his text messages before he knew better. ]

But there's got to be someone who can hit it from that angle.