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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.
morethan084: (hovering)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-05-17 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
You mean you weren't being held captive in your spaceship back home? Weird.
oddbod: (for not a word to say)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[A little smile.]

Nah. I was a willing participant. He crooked his finger, and I hopped right in.
morethan084: (upset/disappointed)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-05-17 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wish we were on his spaceship.

[Daisy tries to take another sip of the coffee before giving up.]

I bet he had better coffee too.
oddbod: (floating neither up or down)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-17 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Clara's smile falters, just barely. She wishes she was on his as well, more than anything in the entire universe. More than any words could possibly say right now.]

Tea, at least. Mine's where you'd want to go for coffee - it just happens to be a full service diner.
morethan084: (questioning)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-05-18 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Daisy gives her an odd look in response to her 'her spaceship' being a full service diner.]

Is that what you were doing before you were dragged here?
oddbod: (a humming in the restless summer air)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. Just took off for the stars.

[She looks up, as though she could see them through the metal, fluorescent ceiling if she tried hard enough.]
morethan084: (judging/listening)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-05-26 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds a lot nicer than being here.

[Even if her life had gone to shit back home, Daisy isn't a fan of being stuck here either.]
oddbod: (she's just like the weather)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-05-27 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
There were some decidedly not-nice bits, but I wouldn't trade any of it.
morethan084: (upset/disappointed)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-01 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Like what?

[Please distract her from this terrible food.]
oddbod: (delicate in every way but one)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-01 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well... [Clara leans forward in her chair, resting on her elbows, as she thinks about which story she can actually tell without just utterly confusing the poor girl.] "Chased by ghosts on an abandoned undersea base" was a bit not-nice, but it did have its high points. Same with "robot army at an abandoned theme park". Most of the adventures are like that - they've got their low points, and their scary points, but there's nothing else like it.

[She may be a brilliant liar, but even though her brief gushing the smile doesn't quite reach her eyes. There's something distracted and dark there.

The real "not-nice bits" aren't quite for a casual first conversation.]
morethan084: (upset/disappointed)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-17 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[And Daisy notices too, how the smile isn't genuine. Maybe it would make her feel better if she showed that she could relate.]

Ghosts are assholes. I've had to deal with them before too. Well, technically, they weren't ghosts. Just stuck in between dimensions. They looked like ghosts though.
oddbod: (who's driving this anyway)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-17 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[High-five for ghost bonding.]

Mine weren't actual ghosts either. They were... well, a lot harder to explain than that. Projections, maybe.
morethan084: (judging/listening)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-17 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Projections of what?

[Because it sounds pretty similar to what they had to deal with.]
oddbod: (you put the gun into your mouth)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-17 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
A signal. The more ghosts there were to send it out, the stronger it was.

[Yeah, it didn’t really make sense to anyone else, either. But that’s science fiction for you, Daisy.]
morethan084: (confused)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-17 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Daisy's expression shows just how confused she is.]

A signal for what? The Ghostbusters?
oddbod: (who's driving this anyway)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Clara laughs.]

Nah, it's a bit... complicated, I guess. There was this alien who was trying to get a message out to direct more of his kind to Earth.
morethan084: (coffee)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-18 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Without being there some of this is hard to picture.]

And did it work?
oddbod: (all of the pain and all of the love)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. My friend and I saved the day. Well, really he did, that time.
morethan084: (judging/listening)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-18 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
That time? Sounds like you guys did that a lot.
oddbod: (the one who left wanted everything)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-18 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, maybe once a week.
morethan084: (unsure/forcedsmile)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-24 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Daisy can definitely relate to that. Maybe on a slightly smaller scale. Well, until recently.]

Do you miss it?
oddbod: (so she ran to the lighthouse)

[personal profile] oddbod 2018-06-24 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
More than I could ever miss anything.
morethan084: (lip bite)

[personal profile] morethan084 2018-06-28 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It definietly sounds a lot nicer than this place.