TEST DRIVE #002

[reveriemod]

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.

Comments

[nishizono]

stone giants. like golems?
i've read about those once upon a time, it was painful.
reading, i mean. not the golems.

why were you getting chased by stone giants? did you steal from them or something?

kisses fitz he doesn't deserve this tbh

[jettisons]

What are you talking about? Are you saying there are little green men running around?

[blingking]

[ Molly looks from Caleb to Frumpkin, back and forth a few times with his head cocked to one side. Caleb's response is ... odd, but he can fathom a guess as to why it's being asked. Suspicion and uncertainty - a feeling he feels but chooses to ignore where Caleb does not. ]

Time for that later. [ he says in a tone that seems to mock what he had said previously. ]

It's me, Caleb. I know it's ... odd, but it's me.

kisses!! on the testdrive!! escandalo

[witters]

I presume you haven't been to Earth in a while because we've had a few different visitors, none little or green.

Hold on a minute. You grew up on a space station, and you're drawing the line at aliens?

[pampa]

This must be real embarrassing for you.

[ miller takes the glass out of habit more than anything, eyeing up the suspicious liquid and twirling it around idly. a few bubbles float on the surface in the low gravity before reintegrating with the beverage. he tips his hat back with his free hand, looking molly over properly for the first time. ]

Going on three months, or thereabouts.

i do what i want tbh

[jettisons]

The stations have been around for over a century. Last I checked, no aliens have come knocking.
You're from Earth, which means you're either a grounder or from Mount Weather. [Please god please god not the second.] Which is it?

[witters]

Neither. I'm from Scotland.

[ EXCUSE YOU. ]

Though I imagine I'm also from at least seventy years in your past. Did some time-travelling the long way.

[ he was in cryostasis and accidentally ended up here instead of where he intended, presumably!! ]

[gauchely]

[The coil does not loosen as he thought it would. It just tightens. His jaw sets as his breathing becomes short and hard. He's here. He's alive. And he just exactly know what to do right now. Frumpkin makes the first move, pouncing off of Caleb and saunters to Molly. Mowing and rubbing at his leg.

Caleb slowly follows. His eyes don't leave Molly's. He stops, directly in front of him, and quietly takes him in. He cant see a wound, but he isnt bleeding. He feels his eyes sting the longer he looks. He has to shift his eyes to the floor. He feels like he is looking at the sun.]

I don't...know what to do in this situation. [A beat.] You were missed.

[jettisons]

Time travel? Are you screwing with me?

[twoaffirmations]

[9S comes to an abrupt spot, a look of dull surprise on his face as he gives Tetora a once over.]

You must be new, huh? [Comes his first observation.]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but wherever you think you are...that's not here.

[witters]

No, I'm not. I'm from Earth before we had our own populated space stations or "grounders," so it's actually more sensical than you'd think.

[ the other alternative is the multiverse theory, which he isn't ready to admit has potential yet, thanks. ]

[jettisons]

What year do you think it is?

[warranter]

A janitor? [ looks him up and down tbh. ] Pretty boy like you?

[jettisons]

[That catches him off guard, and he snorts.]

I didn't realize they assigned jobs based on looks.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS IN MARVEL

[witters]

It was 2017, but I went into cryostasis for 74 years, so I'd say 2091. Ish.

[nishizono]

Where is "here", then, if you know everything so well? [ tetora's face scrunches up into an eloquent frown. if here is real - and jury's still out on that - then... he's in deep shit. ] Where exactly are we?

[dominantpower]

it is.

i'm lucky to have others who look over me, otherwise i'm sure i would have fallen into the role that fate keeps wanting me to take.
i hope you have people like that in your life too.

[warranter]

[ she's not sure they will either, but it's something to check. and he at least seems like he'll be able to get something out of inspecting the wires approach; if one of them knows what they're doing, it's worth a try.

still, dutch takes a moment to sigh. ]

You know, I was really hoping for more of a "beat up the bad guys" kind of afternoon.

network; un; Glitch

[glitchinthesystem]

Oh my fucking god
you're not ACTUALLY buying into this whole "We were kidnapped into space thing" are you?

Also what the fuck is a wakizashi?

Observation Deck

[morethan084]

[Hell? That seems like an accurate description of this place when he asks. Probably not what he wants to hear though, especially since he's clearly just arrived here.]

Reverie Terminal. We're in a space station orbiting a planet no one on here is familiar with.

[warranter]

[ she cants her head, archly. ]

Oh, there are plenty of jobs where looks can get you places. Sounds like you were in the wrong line of work.

[ which, especially given his tone when he told her, sounds like a story. ]

Your space station -- what was it called?

[nishizono]

i'm not buying anything. as far as i give a shit this is a really lucid dream, and i'm just playing by its rules so i can get the fuck outta here faster.

a wakizashi's a short sword. think smaller katana, if you know what that is.

[jettisons]

The Ark. The job was a punishment.

[warranter]

[ well then. ]

The Ark? Never heard of it. [ much like she's never heard of reverie terminal. this is a trend she doesn't like. ] Where were you located?

[ and -- ]

Punishment for what?

[glitchinthesystem]

Okay, well, that's more reasonable I guess. I'm going off the assumption this is some trippy ass fever dream and everything and everyone here is a delusion.

Especially since fucking swords don't exist anymore. So another point to this being some fever dream.