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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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[Every day, he did a round of the ship, looking for Holden and Prax. It wasn't that he actually expected to find them, anymore. If they were here, then they were being held somewhere behind those locked doors, and Alex would only see them when the station was good and ready to give them up. But he couldn't stop looking. Just in case.

He heard the cry before he saw who it belonged to, and immediately bolted down the corridor in its direction, his broken arm strapped tightly to his chest in a sling. He rounded the corner to see the man struggling in the door and his heart went out to him, immediately, as he rushed over.]

Hey! Hey, hey now, you're alright, you gotta calm down or you're gonna hurt yourself. You're okay, just relax--

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[ He hears the footsteps coming down the hall and glances up at the man, still fighting the door. Part of him knows he should stop, calm down. The rest -- ]

Relax? [ Bodhi sputters incrediously, ignoring the hitch in his voice as it climbs higher. ] How am I supposed to relax when I'm stuck in a door - ?

[ Another tug and flare of pain in his shoulder causes him to cry out, ceasing his struggles momentarily. It's not Alex he's angry at, he's just trying to help - afterall. But the longer he's here, the more panicked he becomes. ]

[He reaches out to put a hand on the mans arm, squeezing.]

'Cause anythin' else is just gonna get yourself hurt. Trust me. [He motioned with his head toward the sling across his chest, where his broken arm still lay.]

It ain't permanent. I don't got a clue in hell how they work, but if you calm down, it'll let you go after a while.

You were stuck too? [ Bodhi, to his credit does seem to calm down a little, or at least - stops struggling so much. His face hasn't lost that fearful look, his body is tense like a rubber band pulled tight, nor has his voice quieted down.

But the guy in the sling might be telling the truth, and fighting hasn't actually helped him yet, so. ]

Okay. Okay... so n-not gonna need to cut them off to get out, is what you're saying.

[ Leave it to Bodhi to have jumped to the worst possible solution as the solution. ]

Tha's right. Luckily it took too long for Amos to find anything to cut me out, so didn't have to try that one. Just broke my arm trying to pull me out, first. [He offered the man a sympathetic smile, squeezing his arm a little bit.

Good, he was calming down.]

Might be a little while, but I'll stick around. You'll know when it lets you go 'cause it'll feel liquid, then you gotta pull out as fast as you can, alright?

[ He gave the man a weak smile in return. Truth be told, he's wondering he'd dislocated a shoulder in his earlier fighting, but it's fixable... ] So that's how you got that.

[ Bodhi looks at his own arms, there's not even enough give to wiggle his fingers or twitch his arms, but for the first time realizing that his elbows are loose. It's still very uncomfortable, and if he thinks about it too much, he can feel the urge to panic again rise in his chest. With an effort, he tears his eyes from the scene to glance up again. ]

Understood. So how, uh... how long did it take for the door to let you loose?

That's how I got that, [He agreed, with a faint smile. He noted the way the man's eyes darted to his elbows, and shifted a little so that he was between the man and the door, so he could focus on him easier.]

Honestly? Hell if I know. Amos and Naomi were there and the panic was enough to keep me, uh, occupied. [That and the pain.] Don't think it could have been more than half an hour, though.

I'm Alex, by the way. Of the Rocinante. I'd say nice to meet you, but maybe these ain't the greatest circumstances. [Mostly, he just wanted to keep the man distracted off his predicament.]

[ Like he was doing now, Bodhi noticed. Not that he wasn't glad of the distraction, putting him in front of the door so he couldn't see it. ] That was good of them. I think if you hadn't found me when you did, I don't know how I'd be doing now... so thanks for that.

[ Probably poorly. Probably would've broken both arms on his own just struggling. A strand of hair falls into his face which he tries to shake off for a good twenty seconds. ]

I'm Bodhi. And I'd have to agree with you on that. [ But he seems to meet people in all sorts of situations, so. His memory isn't exactly the best, still it's not a name he's familiar with. ] Rocinante. Is that a ship?

We've been through a hell of a lot worse, an' it's kind of sad I can say that about bein' trapped in a damn door. [He offered an amused look, then reaches out with his good hand to brush that strand of hair back behind Bodhi's ear. There you go, partner, that should be less annoying.]

That she is. And the most gorgeous thing you'd ever lay eyes on, especially right about now. [He misses her like burning.] She makes this place look like it's made of rust and duct tape.

[And since he wants to keep Bodhi talking, and not paying attention to his predicament, he says:]

So where you from? You're a little short for a Belter.

They're your crew. Wait, you know people here? From before? So that means my own might be here somewhere - [ He's looked, but hasn't expected to find them. But Bodhi feels like maybe they too are here, he just needs to look harder. And in this revelation, he tugs at his arm again and winces at the reminder that he can't go look.

He gives a nod of thanks. ] It sounds great.

[ Hey... ] I'm - sorry, I don't know what a "Belter" is. I'm from Jedha, it's in the outer rim - and hey, did you just call me short?

They're my crew. [ And said with the kind of pride reserved for that. ] And yeah, I do. Only a couple - we're still looking for the others. Hey - don't worry, if you've got people here, I can help you find 'em. You got names?

[He looks a little apologetic.] No offence meant, partner, just that I would have pegged you for a Belter but they tend to be a lot longer limbed. Can't say I recognize the name Jedha... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you ain't from Earth's system, then. Probably haven't heard of Mars either, am I right?

Yeah, I do. Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Baze Malbus. Chirrut Imwe. And K-2SO - he's a K-X series droid, he's hard to miss. [ Would he have seen him already, if he was? There were a lot of others, who'd became Rogue One, but he never got to know a lot of them.

This line of the conversation is confusing, never having heard of those planets. Not as much as say, getting sucked into a door, or maybe that's just his fear taking the wheel - perhaps he'll be more baffled by this fact later. Or maybe if he thinks about it too much... right.

He's got long legs? ] No, I've never heard of Mars. Or Earth, for that matter.

What is a Belter, anyways?

[Alex went over each name in his head, carefully and thoughtfully, but in the end finally shook it solemnly.] Can't say I've seen or heard of them, but I'll keep an eye out for you.

[He wasn't surprised that Bodhi hadn't heart of Earth, though he couldn't help that small little pitfall in his stomach as yet another person didn't know Mars. He was getting used to it, but damn, he didn't like it.]

The system I'm from, we've got two planets where humans live, then we've got the Belt - counts all the colonies that span from the asteroid belt to the Jovian and Saturn systems. People tend to have a sort of look about them, and you kind of remind me of them. [Except tiny. Sorry, Bodhi.] I'm from Mars, m'self. Which for the moment is basically a big ball of red dust, but eventually she'll be just as green as Earth is.

What's Jedha like?

[Still trying to keep him distracted.]

Thanks. I'd appreciate it. [ He tries to ignore that sinking feeling, having no idea what became of them - if they'd got off the planet as he had. Even through... these unknown circumstances. Bodhi swallows. ]

Ah. Just the two planets, there's not more? [ It garners a look of surprise, humans inhabit countless planets, and Alex gave no mention of non-humans. He makes a committal noise, he'll take his word on that. ] Earth is green, Mars is not.

Jedha is... it's a desert moon, but it's mostly known for the holy city - NiJedha, which is where I'm from. Back in the old days it was a place where people came from all across the galaxy, to visit the temples there. Now it's not -- now it's -- [ It's a rush of cold water, the memories of the sun being blocked out by debris, and the ground rising up to the sky. There had been too much to deal with, no time to stop and breathe or grieve for all that they'd lost before setting off to Scarif. ]

Now it doesn't matter what it was like because it's gone. The Empire destroyed it.

[ And it's all my fault. He lets his head thunk against the cold metal of the door, wanting nothing more than to rail on something. ]

[Alex's face falls as the man continued.

He'd grown up while Mars still ran nuclear raid drills in their classrooms. They'd been waiting for the bombs to fall for a long time. So it's not as surprising as it should be, to hear about a city being nuked.

Especially not when Mars and Earth were threatening to do it to each other right now.

But he felt incredibly guilty, all of a sudden, for his choice of topic. He reached out, putting his good hand on Bodhi's shoulder, palm warm as it rested there.]

... I'm sorry.

[There wasn't anything else he could say.]

[ Bodhi swallows, keeping his eyes downcast, nodding in acknowledgement. ]

's okay. [ He didn't know, couldn't have. The reminder of the still too fresh guilt and pain was there, though - and perhaps when he was free of the door he'd find a place to be alone with that, for a bit. ]

So much for a first impression. Sorry.

[ He relaxes his shoulders a fraction of an inch - another tug, this time done more out of. Trying to change the subject. ]

Force, I miss having feeling in my hands.

Don't apologize. [ He was frowning deeply as he watched Bodhi's face.]

Hell, even thinkin' about the Mariner Valley gettin' nuked is more than enough to get me upset - I ain't going to hold it against you.

[He glanced at Bodhi's hands, still frowning.]

Shouldn't be too much longer. You're alright, you'll be out in no time.

[ Bodhi takes a deep, steadying breath. It threatens to overwhelm him, the last memories he had of his home, Saw Gerrera, Eadu, Scarif. Not being able to go anywhere, doesn't help.

Instead he glances up at Alex. ]

Tell me about your crew? Your ship?

[ He's not totally sure that this is going to be a good segue, exactly, but if it keeps Bodhi occupied... ]

Not sure how much of it'll mean anythin' to you, but. Me and my crew all used to work on the Canterbury, which lugged ice from Saturn back to the Belt. Except Prax, anyway, he joined us later.

But me, Amos, Naomi and Holden - we ended up together after the Canterbury was destroyed, and we were the only people who got off it. A hell of a lot happened after that, but we ended up in a Martian gunship - and partner, she is a beautiful ship. Called her the Rocinante when we had to change the transponder.

[ He looked a little wistful. ]

She's the most beautiful ship I've ever flown - smooth as silk and sharp as a razor. Handles like she can feel your thoughts before your hand even touches the controls.

[ Bodhi, to his credit, remains quiet - only a brief question of: ] So, a cargo hauler?

[ Otherwise, he listens - getting the feeling that Alex and his crew were close, having gone through a lot together. In the way that he would have liked to feel about the members of Rogue One, had he been given the chance.

But he's not thinking about that now. It's the description of the ship that has some of the worry at last sliding from his face. He looks almost excited to hear it all. ]

Wow... that sounds, like a great ship indeed. I'm guessing that you're the pilot, yeah? [ Just judging from the glowing remarks, it sounds like a very pilot thing to say about their ship. ] I'm a pilot too. Or I was before I ... [ nope, not died ] I defected -- but, only a cargo pilot. My shuttle wasn't half as impressive, really.

Yeah. Sort of. Built to both collect the ice and then haul it.

[It also had 50 souls aboard it, when it had been destroyed. But he didn't clarify that part. He also didn't mention Shed. It was too long and depressing a story, for right now. He was trying to keep Bodhi's spirits up, not drag them down.]

Tha's right. Pilot and gunner, technically. [ He lights up a little when Bodhi says that he's also a pilot, a smile coming to his face. ]

Hey - ain't that a coincidence? Think that makes you and me, partner, out of the whole damn station. We ever find a way off this hunk of scrap, think you'll find that your skill set is going to get pretty damn impressive, pretty quickly. [The words finally trickled in, though, and a slight look of confused crossed his face. ]

Wait - defected? From what? [ Though maybe to what was the more important question right now... ]

That's where you got me - usually a pilot and gunner were separate. Not that I was involved in much combat. [ That's what the TIES were for, that's what the ground troops were for. His job was... his job. Bodhi didn't even have a blaster. ]

We've got that. Now we just need to find the way off, yeah? Maybe that planet below us. If only we could find a hangar or ships instead of locked doors.

[ It'd been one of the first places he'd gone to find.

At Alex's question, he hesitates, eyes skittering away to somewhere over the other man's shoulder. ] I was working with some... not good people. But I couldn't continue doing what they were asking me, someone gave me a chance to make things right and I took it.

[ Maybe eventually he'll feel like he can tell the whole story. Even if Alex isn't from the same place as him. But as of now, it's all a little fresh and -- Bodhi looks a little surprised. ]

I think the door is melting again.

Yeah, they're supposed to be separate where I'm from, too. But I'm the only one on the crew that knows how to do either, so I do both. [ Despite his sort of lazy tone about it, it was actually an impressive feat. ]

We've been tryin'. No damn luck so far, but that ain't gonna stop us.

[ He went quiet as he listened, mouth pulling down into a frown. He felt bad for asking, despite the face that his curiosity was only growing, and he tried to think of a way to phrase his question-- when Bodhi looked surprised and started talking again. Immediately, Alex stepped back and out of the way.]

Quick! Pull 'em out!

[ Bodhi looks impressed, knowing he's not a good enough shot to do both on his own - despite having fighter training, he'd never actually got up into one of those ships. ] We can only hope that the rest of the doors aren't like this one.

[ Sorry Alex. He seems like a good guy and all, and ... he's only just met him, but Bodhi doesn't want him to think badly of him. If he knew how much of a coward he'd been, and how long it took to do the right thing... ]

You don't need to tell me twice. [ Without hesitating, he pulls his arms out, the door solidifying the moment he's free. Breathing deeply, he stares at it before turning a wide eyed look toward Alex. ]

Whoa...

[ He slumps to the side, careful not to lean against the door. ]

[ Alex reached out with his good arm, resting a warm hand on Bodhi's shoulder. All other conversation topics were put aside for the moment - he just wanted to make sure the man was okay.]

You alright?

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