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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.
a2brutus: (004)

[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Type A model. Unit number 2. [... A2, most people might not know that A stands for Attacker...] They don't make my model anymore, as far as I'm aware.
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, I don't think they make droids like you anywhere in the galaxy! Or I guess they're all on Earth, huh?

What are you built for, though? Aytoo... [Sorry A2, you get Star Wars spelling now.] it wouldn't make sense to have an astromech be humanoid... Are you a protocol droid? Or maybe a tactical droid?
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Combat. I specialize in close range combat. [AWFUL. She'd correct him, but honestly, there's not that much of a difference...]
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not super familiar with battle droids, but you don't exactly look like them.

[Or sound like them. Probably not helpful to mention he's destroyed some battle droids before?]

And if that's the case, why can't you hurt humans? That doesn't make any sense.
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Whatever, so has A2!]

Because I wasn't made for fighting humans. I was made for destroying machine lifeforms.
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
So... other droids? Why?
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
No. Not other androids. Bio-machine lifeforms created by aliens to wipe out human life from the Earth. That being said, I've gotten pretty good at destroying other androids.
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
... Okay, but you're all technically robots, right? Or are the bio-machine lifeforms more like aliens? Or-

[He sighs, having sorta realized this a while ago but not wanting to say it.[

I should probably mention we're from completely different galaxies, or actually... realities might be closer. I'm just curious what yours is like.
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
No. Robots don't have sentience. Machine lifeforms don't have a conscience. [A2 scoffs, loudly. As if anyone could compare them all! Just Awful.]

Doesn't matter to me. Just don't call me a machine, and don't call me a robot.
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Got it.

Is droid okay? Where I'm from it kind of refers to anything... you know, mechanical. But our droids are different from you and probably different from your machine lifeforms.
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Then don't call me a droid. It's android. [Don't be rude! You know, like A2 was to you.]
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Android. And what do you go by? Is it Aytoo or?
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[personal profile] a2brutus 2018-05-02 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
A2. Not much point in having everyone recite my full designation.
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[personal profile] merging 2018-05-02 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Then, it's nice to meet you, Aytoo. Some droids have nicknames, so I wasn't sure if you had one or chose another name for yourself.