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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.

( )




( 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.
oddbod: (chance is the only game i play with baby)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-16 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fizzy Lifting Drink" sort of less?

[But it doesn't seem as though the answer to her (likely nonsensical) question will have any bearing, because she's already stepping past him, eyes wide and alert.]
tumang: (wcab1_17)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-05-17 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Amos cocks his head. It's nonsensical, and yet... ]

Sure. Just keep your boots engaged.

[ He'll be following right behind her anyway. ]
oddbod: (pace is on a runaway train)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-22 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, sir.

[A bit of respectful cheek is audible in her voice. She steps forward, easy and confident.]

You worked in spaceships back home, then? Had your own?
tumang: (easycompany-amos-44)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-05-22 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ That makes him give a half smirk. Not exactly something thrown his way much. He steps in after her, boots whirring as they engage, sticking to the 'floor' of the shaft. ]

Hm. Martian frigate. Legitimate salvage, so, technically ours, yeah. But that was just the latest one. Been serving on gas and ice haulers for years. Buckets in much worse state than this one.

[ He flicks his fingers against the side of the shaft, the noise echoing. Empty. Whoever's screaming, they're probably not in here. ]

You?
oddbod: (drinking like the world is gonna end)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-23 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I met a Martian, once. He tried to kill me.

[She says it with the same level of pep as everything else, as though it doesn't bother her in the slightest. Which, really, is the truth. All these years later, the whole ordeal on the submarine looks more like an exciting adventure than the traumatizing shock to her system that it had been at the time.]

My own ship's a TARDIS. Stands for "Totally Awesome Rad Diner in Space", which is a bit of a longer story. We were just getting to know one another, me and her, but I spent the last few years of my life on a similar model. My best friend and I, we were sort of... drifters. Do-gooders.
tumang: (easycompany-amos-44)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-05-25 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her tone doesn't bother him. He's the same, after all. ]

Oh, yeah, I've met a few that wanted to kill me, too. There's actually a Martian here, but he's a soft one.

[ Alex would probably want to like. Adopt her, or something. ]

You really need to meet Alex. The Martian. He's the pilot of our ship, and he also has a... privileged relationship with the Roci. You two would get along.

[ Do-gooders. Holden's type. She's weird, this girl, for sure, but he's always looking to find more people that know what the right thing to do is, after all. ]

I helped save the solar system, once.
oddbod: (floating neither up or down)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-27 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I've saved a few. And the universe, once or twice.

[Lowballing that figure. She doesn't want to come off as conceited or pushy.]
tumang: (wcab1_64)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-05-29 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Once or twice, huh?

[ There's a hint of derision in his tone - not because of what she says, or because he doesn't believe her, but more because her own tone makes it quite obvious that she's lowballing it.

He has no idea what her universe is like, after all.

The shaft is making their voices echo, but so far, as they walk up along it, Amos hunched up a little, there is no sign of anything that could have let out those screams. There is, however, an air filter vent, right there. Amos stops. ]


Guess this is my stop. I need to check this out, this how we're doing, here.
oddbod: (my persuasion can build a nation)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-31 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't answer his question; something in his voice says that he doesn't need clarification, and she's not getting the sense that he would be particularly dazzled by it. Falling in next to him, Clara leans in towards the vent, eyes narrowed.]

It's got to be echoing through those, from somewhere else in the ship. Somewhere behind one of those locked doors.
tumang: (easycompany-amos-3)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-05-31 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you think it is, anyway?

[ Because surely it's not actual people, stuck in this shaft. Some recordings, maybe? Reminds him of Eros. ]
oddbod: (just another face in the crowd)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-01 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Could be a lot of things.

[She shrugs, the look in her eye turning a bit more focused, a bit more serious.]

But if there's even the slightest chance someone needs rescuing, I can't just sit around. This is what I do.
tumang: (WC_06)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-04 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be an echo. An old recording. Something to fuck with our heads.

[ Using the screwdriver she left him, Amos unscrews the panel on the side of the vent, uncovering a small control console. He taps it a couple times, a frown growing deeper on his face. ]

This says that the air filters are totally clean. It shouldn't be possible.
oddbod: (you only need songs when you're young)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-04 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She moves in to see, and her brow furrows. The rest of the place is such a wreck, yet the filters are spotless?]

Someone's still been doing maintenance.
tumang: (easycompany-amos-36)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-05 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Which doesn't make sense.

[ He nods anyway, because she's right. ]

You think it's possible there's people around that are here on purpose? Responsible for us being here?
oddbod: (born from dark water)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-05 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
More than possible. I think it's certain.

[She turns a bit to look right up (quite a ways up) at him. One finger flicks out and taps the front of his jumpsuit.]

Who put these on us?
tumang: (WC_81)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-07 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Amos's mouth twists. He finds it very difficult to imagine there could be a bunch of people onboard, pulling some strings just to fuck with them. It feels... like a waste of time.

But what else makes sense?

At her question, he shrugs. ]


Hopefully, someone hot.
oddbod: (boy you know you love it)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-07 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[She makes a point of rolling her eyes - in good humor - but the focused edge doesn't quite leave them.]

And to think, I wasn't even wearing my nice knickers.
tumang: (easycompany-amos-55)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-08 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His smile is telling, even if he doesn't even look at Clara. ]

I wasn't wearing any underwear at all.

[ He still isn't. ]
oddbod: (he'd just stay another while)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. She certainly needed to know that.]

I'm sure that made their day.
tumang: (easycompany-amos-4)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-11 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Amos stills looks at the panel and the information displayed there, showing no reaction to her teasing, even if a part of him is definitely amused. ]

Well, there's no cameras connected to this panel, so can't check if anyone was around screaming their heads off. But life support works at full capacity.
oddbod: (they say i'm a control freak)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-11 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's certainly good to know. I like my life being supported.

[Joking in somewhat dire situations is just another one of the lovely traits she's absorbed from her former best friend.]
tumang: (WC_19)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-11 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Amos gives her an amused look before flipping the panel closed. ]

Can assure you, if something is to break down, that'll be the first thing.

[ He looks down along the maintenance shaft. ]

Do you plan on going further?
oddbod: (they started from a distant place)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-12 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks up at him and smiles, sparking with a bit too much excitement at the edges.]

Far as it'll let me go.
tumang: (WC_32)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-13 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Need backup?

[ He doesn't think there's anything to fear in the maintenance shafts outside of darkness, and Amos is thinking of going back and trying to get through the vent from the other side, see if an AI can connect to the panel, or if he can cable their way to it, but if she doesn't want to stay alone, he'll follow.

She's not given him any reason not to want to, so far. ]
oddbod: (delicate in every way but one)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-17 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Only if you want to see the sights.

[She gestures around to the interior of the shaft, but caps it with what might be a wink, if she only could wink - both of her eyes always close, one after the other. It's either pathetic, or endearing.]

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