reveriance | TEST DRIVE #002

TEST DRIVE #002

( 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. What choice do you have but to explore your surroundings?

( 0 0 1 . 1 ) » WAKE UP WHERE?
When you wake up, you find that you're not alone. But more importantly, you find that you're in a closet. An empty closet, bar you and your new companion. It's small, cramped, and there is no door that you can see. The ceiling is low, there is barely any lights, only some coming from the tiny flashlight clipped to your suit's shoulder. You cannot be sure that there is any air coming in to the room.

Are these grooves in the wall supposed to mean something?

( 0 0 2 ) » OBSERVATION DECK

There were no windows in the corridor you woke up in and no windows in any of the crew quarters you might have checked for occupants — but there are plenty of windows on the uppermost level of the station, deck 1. In fact, there are windows from floor to ceiling all along the circumference of the station's circular deck, and it's possible to walk along it all. What it shows is a strange solar system you've never seen before and a planet that might resemble one you know, but certainly isn't the same.

You're in space. You don't know where you are. Neither does anyone else.

( 0 0 3 ) » BAR

On deck 3, you find the bar. Tucked away from the crew quarters, it's dimly lit, there are bar stools thrown down on the floor and what looks like some very old drink spills, crusty and dark against the bar top. But there is alcohol here, or at least, what you think is alcohol, in bottles with faded labels, most of them indecipherable. Take a drink, get drunk, start a fight, or start a party? You're stuck on this station, might as well make the most of it, right?

( 0 0 4 ) » SPACEQUAKES

One second, you are is walking. Magnetic boots are on, the ground feels solid enough, for a metal deck in a space station. Everything is perfectly fine, or at least as fine as it can be, given that you still don't know where you are or how you came to be here.

The next moment, it's like everything explodes around you. You're thrown against the wall as sparks erupts from electrical panels, as the whole station rumbles and shakes around you. You fall to the deck, earning yourself scratches from the grating. When you look up, it's like nothing has happened. No wires hanging from open panels, no flickering lights, no more shaking. Like an earthquake in space.

( 0 0 5 ) » NETWORK

The comms device you found next to you when waking up connects to a station-wide network, REVERIE NET. You have the option to post video, voice or text messages.

What will you share?

( 0 0 6 ) » WILDCARD

The station features a variety of locations, from sleeping quarters free for the claiming to a dirty swimming pool and a bar that still holds alcohol (though some of the bottles seem to have been opened a while ago).

Go wild, but don't wreck the place. It's your home for the foreseeable future, after all.

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no hes

a hybrid of gem and human i guess thats what peridot said but his mom was a rose quartz

dont ask me how that works because gems arent even organic to begin with and we dont have offspring

i dont get how its funny

you really must be defective

It's because it sounds out-of-place to call a human "defective". It's surprising, so it's funny.

humans really do have a weird sense of humour i dont get it

[Y'ALL ARE WEIRDOS.]

OOOH
OK4Y TH4T'S PR3TTY GOOD
YOU GOT 4NY MOR3 >:?

No worse for the wear.. I think.

[ She dries the last of it with her sleeve again, frowning as she pats her chin clean. Gross. ]

I don't care much for liquor in general, but I have trouble sleeping so I thought.. perhaps a drink would help. But all of them smelled foul, except this one.

[ She gives the bottle in her hand a very disapproving look. She's not upset she's just disappointed. ]

It just tasted foul instead. But the fault is mine for drinking from unmarked bottles.

so like... a gem and a human fucked and had a kid
even though that should be impossible
because of cross-species science bullshit.

ok makes sense.

dont look at me i cant explain it and i really dont care too because the rose quartz that was his mom basically died to make him and

thats really weird

It never is.

oh shit
that's fucked up.

where do quartzes sleep

considering that gems dont die yeah

its fucked up i'd say

Oh... you, too?

[It's out before he can stop himself, and he winces. That's kind of uncool to admit on a first meeting, isn't it? But he finally turns the console off and sets it aside before handing back the makeshift handkerchief.

He can't help but laugh with a little resignation, though, shaking his head.]

I mean... there isn't much that tastes good on this station. I haven't tried any of the alcohol, but the food alone is pretty, uh... well, calling it cardboard would be generous, I think.

There's a handful of us thus far, and more waking every day.

It's generally used for questions, collaboration, data management, that sort of thing. Optional, but quite handy.

It's a complex subject. Even humans can't really explain why certain things are and aren't funny.

What do you consider funny?

amethyst and steven call them fart jokes

id never really heard anything like them until i got to earth and even then it was thousands of years before i heard one