TEST DRIVE #002

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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

[iustitia]

OH 1'M SORRY
WHY DON'T W3 ST4RT OV3R

[mirrortide]

knock knock

[iustitia]

WHO'S TH3R3?

[mirrortide]

adore

[iustitia]

1'M SORRY, 1 DON'T KNOW 4NYBODY BY TH4T N4M3
1 TH1NK YOU H4V3 TH3 WRONG PL4C3

[mirrortide]

no no youre supposed to say adore who have you never heard these kinds of jokes before

[iustitia]

OOPS
MY B4D
DO YOU W4NT TO G1V3 TH1S 4NOTH3R SHOT?

[mirrortide]

not really have you never heard a knock knock joke before i can try a different type of joke

[iustitia]

OH L3T'S TRY 4NOTH3R!!!
WH4T OTH3R K1NDS OF JOK3S DO YOU H4V3?

[mirrortide]

ok uh

what kind of gem is a really good friend

[iustitia]

UHHH
1S 1T D14MONDS?
1 H34R D14MONDS 4R3 4 G1RL'S B3ST FR13ND
OR 4T L34ST 1 TH1NK TH4T'S HOW 1T GO3S...?

1 HON3STLY DON'T KNOW

[mirrortide]

just between you and me diamonds are awful

but no

the answer is an opal

get it

opal has pal in it

[iustitia]

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

[mirrortide]

where do quartzes sleep

[iustitia]

UHHHHH
1N
4 ROCK B3D?

[mirrortide]

close

in the bedrock

[iustitia]

D4NG!!!
SO CLOS3 >XO

OK4Y
1'V3 GOT ON3 FOR YOU
WH4T DO YOU C4LL 4 SUP3R UPT1GHT TROLL

[mirrortide]

i dont know what do you call a super uptight troll

[iustitia]

4 CON-TROLL FR34K >:]

[mirrortide]

thats a good one

i dont know what a troll is but it fits the format really good

[iustitia]

TH4NK YOU, TH4NK YOU
1 4M K1ND OF PROUD OF TH4T ON3

4ND FOR TH3 R3CORD
1 4M 4 TROLL!
1 COM3 FROM TH3 PL4N3T 4LT3RN14

[mirrortide]

well thats good news

i thought i might be the only alien around here

ive never heard of alternia before

im a gem

[iustitia]

N1C3!!!!!
TH3R3 4R3 SO M4NY HUM4NS 4ROUND, 1T'S 4LW4YS N1C3 TO M33T 4NOTH3R 4L13N >:D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TH3R3 4R3 4 F3W OF US 4ROUND BUT W3 4R3 HOP3L3SSLY OUTNUMB3R3D

1'V3 N3V3R H34RD OF 4 G3M B3FOR3
4M 1 CORR3CT 1N 4SSUM1NG TH4T YOU'R3 M4D3 OUT OF ROCK?
OR 1S G3M 4 M1SNOM3R

[mirrortide]

sort of my physical form is mostly a projection of solid light with mass but my actual body is my gem itself

im a lapis lazuli type

why are there so many humans anyway this isnt earth

[iustitia]

1 DON'T KNOW
1 *DON'T KNOW*
1T M4K3S NO S3NS3?
YOU'D TH1NK TH3R3 WOULD B3 4 MOR3 D1V3RS3 GROUP H3R3
MOR3 P3OPL3 NOT FROM 34RTH
BUT SO M4NY 4R3
WHY?