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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.
dvmn: (pic#12304974)

[personal profile] dvmn 2018-05-19 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He's used to stuff being weird and fucked-up, but at least it's stuff he can see. Stuff he can put his hands on and tear apart if the need to exists. The fact that he can't here is a growing aggravation, one of a dog far too big for the cage it's kept in.

His fingers flex and then he curls them loosely into a fist. There's nothing he can do about it. He should calm down.]


I dunno. [He casts his gaze around them, his brow creasing as he thinks.] Maybe - it's something we can't see? I dunno if this's happened to you, but before I ran into you, I was, like, tripped up by something. But I looked and there was nothin' there. It was weird.

[He rubs his chin with one hand, shaking his head.]

Usually I wouldn't think somethin' like that might be the case, but, well. We are in space, and all.
mapsio: (HARU (58))

[personal profile] mapsio 2018-05-21 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She feels the same, only she can't reach her source of what helps her rebel. What helps her succeed in these kinds of situations. Though this is something she dares to not say outloud, it frustrates her.]

It has been suggested a few times to me that this station is simply haunted.

[A pause in her speech to look for some sort of validation. She was starting to believe that "haunted" may be closer to the truth than any of them were willing to believe.]

I don't believe that ruling out our more out of the box options would be wise.
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-05-31 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Haunted, huh? [He glances to her sidelong, expression curious.] You think somethin' like that could be true?

[Akira, back home for you, there are actual demons running around and killing people.

But, to him, they were two entirely different things. Demons were something that he'd seen with his own two eyes, something he felt running through his own veins. They were real, physical, present. Ghosts usually weren't, as far as stories went. They didn't exactly play by the rules that living creatures had to.

But that's just as far as the stories went, anyway.

He sighs.]
Yeah, I guess you're right. [He rolls his shoulders in a shrug.] I mean, it'd make sense, right? If the previous crew on this place got killed or whatever, it might be their spirits haunting this place.

[Not a very comforting thought.]
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-06-05 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say for certain, but it just seems like something that could be feasible.

[It reminds her of the shadows, though those have the potential to be a little more fearsome.

She scuffs her foot on the ground. There really were no good answers here.
]

I think that is the best conclusion we can draw for now. I do not believe that there is an explanation for the voices, or the sudden draw backs we have been experiencing.
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-06-18 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs, shaking his head.]

Pretty fucked up to be thinkin' somethin' like ghosts is "feasible."

[He's not criticizing her; it's just a comment on their situation. But, hell, he would've said the same thing about demons a few short weeks ago. The whole world can change in an instant. Or at the very least, your perception of it could.

He crosses his arms.]
I'm sure there's an explanation somewhere, just... not somewhere we can find right now. [That seems like something Ryo would say, though not in as many words.] Well, [he sighs, looking to her, expression somewhat concerned,] are you alright?

[He'd be remiss not to ask, especially since he doesn't think he did when they first ran into one another. Even if someone wasn't visibly hurt, it didn't mean they weren't freakin' out otherwise.]
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-06-22 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
For lack of better words, yes. It is rather messed up that we are resorting to assuming that perhaps the station is haunted. I wish that wasn't the only answer.

[She hasn't had time to mull over this as of right now. She hasn't had the time to even think about making sure all of her friends are still okay.

She pats herself down, making sure that she was truly okay.
]

I'm just fine, thank you. Yourself? You took a much harder fall than I did. Are you okay?
dvmn: (14)

[personal profile] dvmn 2018-06-26 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[It's something buried in the way that she says it, but a faint smile flickers across his expression, erratic in a way that resembled an unpredictable electrical current. It was just the juxtaposition of his own harsher terms with her more elegant, measured way of putting things. It was funny, and he liked it, even if it was a bit incongruous with their serious situation.]

It might not be. There's lots of stuff we don't know yet, so maybe we'll find a real answer soon enough. Best not to jump to any conclusions.

[They're in space, after all. The answer could be some kind of weird future space technology that wouldn't make any sense to them, not if they came from roughly the same time period.

All in all, it seemed like a situation that wouldn't be solved to day, let alone here, between the two of them.

He nods. It was good to hear she was okay, though the reflection of concern back to himself changes his reaction into a broad, disarming smile.]
Oh, don't worry about me. I've taken spills a lot worse than that. I barely felt it.

[This is true to an unfortunate extent he couldn't broach in polite company.]

I'm Akira. Fudo Akira.
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-06-27 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[She has to say she agrees, it's.. funny in a way. The way that Akira and Haru are like polar opposites. Though it doesn't bother her. Akira is just a little rougher around the edges than Ryuji, and Haru is already so used to Ryuji.]

Assumptions and conclusions have a way of coming back to bite, don't they?

[There's an old saying for that one.

But if he says he's fine, then he's fine. She is on the same playing field even. There have been spills much worse than the one she took.
]

Haru Okumura, it's nice to meet you Akira-san.
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-06-29 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Akira's best friend was Ryo who was, in every measurable way, his polar opposite. He tended to get on well with that type of person, so long as they could put up with his... slightly more excitable tendencies. So he and Haru are already on a good path, if Ryuji's prepared her for that sort of thing.

He laughs.]
Yeah. They sure do.

[They tend to be pretty dangerous. Akira's pretty sure assumptions and conclusions have come pretty close to killing him once or twice, back home.]

Nice to meet you, Haru. [He says it with a wide, bright smile. The reason they had met, the screaming and getting tripped up in the hall - it was bizarre, but he decides to press pause on it, especially since it seems to have passed.]

You were explorin' this place, right? Before we ran into one another. Would you wanna keep lookin 'around with me? Safety in numbers.
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[personal profile] mapsio 2018-07-01 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind that. I'm not sure it is too safe aboard this station. So if grouping up is the way to go— then count me in.

[She is agreeable in a lot of ways some of her other friends aren't. Though she isn't sure they have much of a choice right now given their situation.]

Did you have any other places you wanted to look?
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[personal profile] dvmn 2018-07-04 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She agrees, and he's glad. He might not have been able to do anything about the screaming voice, but at least he'd be able to stick around one person he could be sure to keep safe.

As for places, well...]


I still don't really know much about this place or what's even "here" to start. [He glances down the hallway they had headed off down when they'd been pursuing the voice, jerking a thumb in that direction.] Might as well just start this way and see what we can find?