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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.
donkeyballs: (Default)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-05-15 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Honestly, hoss, I don' think any of us are here for a particular reason." He frowned while he said it.

"First I thought I ended up here by accident, somehow - maybe a wormhole or somethin' - but the more people I meet here the less and less that makes sense. There's a woman here who's planet hasn't even started thinkin about startin' space travel, let alone doin' it. And every time someone mentions Earth, it ain't the Earth I know. Though if your Earth happens to be in a system that also has a colonised Mars, I'd be happy to hear it."
magneticfields: (side eye)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-17 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He exhales softly through his nose at "hoss". Closer to a laugh than a scoff. It doesn't seem to be a personal thing, but rather how this man generally addresses people. Still. It's one he hasn't heard before. ]

No, we have not managed to colonize Mars. I'm afraid we've only made a few forays to the moon and even those have largely dried up. We are very inventive in finding new ways to slaughter each other, though.

[ He's learned a bit about other people's worlds. They all seem to be in different points in time. Even those from his world, like Rogue, are not contemporaries. None of the others have mentioned mutants. Is it because they never existed, or because they were wiped out? ]

I've met people with some curious abilities here.
donkeyballs: (are you kidding me?)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-05-19 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd been expecting it, but it still hurt to hear, and his shoulders slumped a little.]

Yeah, well. That ain't changed yet. Sometimes I think that might be the only common theme, when it comes to humans. [God knows his world was good at it. He pushed the thought aside.

When Henryk continued, Alex nodded seriously.]


Yeah. Yeah, I have. Some of the people here can break the laws of physics just thinkin about it. Scared the shit out of me, at first, but they ain't infected by the protomolecule and they don't seem about to kill us, so hell, I'll take it. You met Apollo? Man can fly around in space without a damn vac suit, which is the craziest shit I've ever heard and damn if I ain't jealous.
magneticfields: (who the fuck are you)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-25 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Most of the people Erik has met so far are either not human at all to begin with, like the droids, or also possessed of some sort of abilities. Some even far beyond what he's capable of. But now he's certain that Alex is none of those things, making him a good subject to feel out the human opinion of the gifted cohort of the station.

Although if the humans are in the minority, that would be a nice change of pace for Erik. But first, he needs clarification on one thing. ]


What's a protomolecule? Wouldn't everything be based on.. the original molecule?

[ Unless the prefix is being used to mean something completely different than what it's actual definition is.. English is such a wretched language. ]
donkeyballs: (talkin with my hands)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-05-30 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His face drops a little. He's had to explain this a few times, now, and it's never a fun story. ]

It's - we don't know what the hell it is, really. It's alien. Infects biomass and sort of - rewrites it. Dissects it. Builds new things with it. They tried to develop it into a weapon and they sacrificed a hundred thousand belters just to see what it'd do, and it turned an entire asteroid into a space ship.

[ He knows how crazy this sounds - it's apparent in his expression. ]

All I mean is - everyone here that can break the laws of gravity can at least talk t' you while they're doing it, and ain't about to turn you into a blue glowing husk.
magneticfields: (half light profile)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-05-31 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Erik listens without expressing any kind of judgment or other emotional reaction. It does sound very different from the X-Gene, but it could be some sort of propaganda on the part of human supremacists. ]

You've seen this happen, just as you've described it to me?

[ Of all the worlds that the other residents call home, only a small fraction know the word "mutant" as he does. Nearly all of them know humans, even those who have never heard of Earth itself. It is disconcerting. It's possible that mutants just did not evolve in those places. Or it could be that they are treated even more brutally than Erik has seen.

It could be that they have been exterminated entirely. ]
donkeyballs: (chewin on a toothpick)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-06-07 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nodded, and there was no mistaking the look in his eyes. He'd seen it, and it had horrified him beyond all measure. It had been genocide, pure and simple, and he'd been one of a very few people to escape. ]

Yeah. Couldn't tell you how it happened if I tried, but I seen it. We managed to stop the thing from hittin' earth, but... [ He trailed off, then visibly straightened, drawing a breath, trying to shove the thought out of his mind. Not really the greatest topic for an introduction. ]

Just - yeah. If it were here, we'd all be dead already anyway. Or well. Swallowed up by it and turned into somethin' else.
magneticfields: (resigned)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-06-10 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
A weapon that transforms people instead of killing them. That seems... counterproductive to most goals of warfare.

[ What an interesting idea. Erik tucks the thought away, until he can properly mull it over. Asking Alex any more questions about it would probably not net him any useful knowledge and definitely would upset him. ]

I suppose we can count ourselves fortunate on one front, at least. I'm sure our captors would have unleashed such a thing on us already if they had the means to do so.