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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001.

Hera had expected her Imperial prison to be a bit roomier. The splitting headache and nausea, though, that she expected. The message on loop was different though, and the first hint that something here might not be what she thought.

Hard to tell with it being near pitch black, though. Hera managed to scoot herself to free her hands and try and get a bearing. The first thing she felt was the wall, with some sort of markings in them. The second was, very clearly, a body laying right next to her. She gave it a firm shake.

"Are you all right?"

002

Well, that was a whole lot of space out there. And a whole lack of ships to get Hera anywhere, specifically off this station. Staring out the viewport gave Hera nothing but a sense of hopelessness, so she turned away and sat in a nearby chair. Panic was beginning to rise in her. There was no way off, and no way to contact her team. She closed her eyes and ran her hands over them.

"You spend all your time with a couple of Jedi, you should know how to calm yourself down."

A few deep breaths, focus on relaxing her shoulders, and the feeling began to subside. When she reopened her eyes she finally noticed someone else in the room.

"Sorry, didn't see you there."

003.

If recon and subterfuge had taught her anything in life, it was that the bar was the place for answers. Lowered inhibitions and whispered promises can make information flow. Of course, Hera wasn't entirely certain what she was going to get here, but someone had to know something. If this was the first step to get that info then she was going to do it.

Plus, she had to admit, having something to drink certainly calmed her nerves of being on this stupid station. She spied someone walk in and flashed an inviting smile so natural for her species.

"Hey there, need a drink?"

He had found a surprise in the refresher this morning which sounds like the start of a very bad story, but it was in fact an okay story. That surprise was a full set of Jedi robes and since the only other clothes he had were the same jumpsuits as everyone else, Ezra decided to try the traditional Jedi look.

So of course, it was while he was trying out that look that he spotted a familiar green figure out on the observation deck.

"Hera?"

Not even waiting for a response, he ran over and hugged her because... because he had to!

"Hera! It's so... I'm so glad to see you again. Even if it's like this... I mean, this definitely wasn't what I was expecting for our reunion, but I'll take it?"

Hera barely gets a word in before she's crushed in a hug. But she knows that voice well, and a wave of relief rushes over her. She gives a tight squeeze of her own before meeting Ezra eye-to-eye.

"Reunion?" She gives a slight chuckle. "Just how long have I been gone?"

"Well, I was- and then there was-"

He stops himself and takes a deep breath, remembering the nature of this place. There's no way to know when Hera's from unless he asks her, but also how is he supposed to explain himself now?

"Never mind. What's the last thing you remember before... before you woke up here?"

TEST DRIVE #002

Hera Syndulla | Star Wars

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