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

[reposing]

I would not claim to say I was the best student, but she taught me what she could.

[He is quietly grateful for her care in the subject matter.]

If you are asking if demons are the cause of our being here, I've not had any proof of that.

However, I will say that there are devils here. A handful of them. They are not our enemies and have been cooperating relatively well with me.

[altruistical]

Devils?

[Plural????? More than one???]

I'm sorry, I do not understand. Are we speaking of the devil? Or is this just a more powerful class of demons?

[reposing]

It is admittedly complicated. Three of them had made some sort of pact with Satan and were once humans themselves, but now they are classified as a devil. I suppose it's closer to say that they are demons in comparison to how we know things to work.

[Alucard hesitates. Then there's Lucifer in the station, but that's a secret he's promised to keep.]

They are not unkind. I suspect the rules of what Satan means to them is significantly different than what it means to our homeland.

[altruistical]

I understand. As long as they do not hurt others, I see no issue with them. If you trust them to do that, than so will I.

[So long as they dont hurt anyone. But Trevor-]

It maybe best to keep their identities secret. I am not sure how Belmont will react to this.

[reposing]

I understand. The first moment they appear to be any threat, we will deal with them.

Mm. I will keep that in mind. I suppose it's difficult enough for him to cooperate with the son of Dracula.

[altruistical]

Yes. Thank you.

[It's so nice to have a conversation like adults and talk about things, and make plans to deal with said things.

GOD. SHE IS SO GLAD HE IS HERE AND IT'S NOT JUST HER WITH TREVOR.]

I am unsure how he feels now, but he knows our goals are the same. He is just a difficult man.