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

Lapis Lazuli | Steven Universe

[mirrortide]

Observation Deck

Lapis has been staring out the observation deck for a good long while now, trying to piece together familiar constellations that might give her a clue as to where she might be in the universe.

She can't find anything familiar. The planet below isn't Earth, and it's not Homeworld, and it's not any other colony belonging to Homeworld that she's been to. It's an unknown, and quite frankly, Lapis doesn't like it.

Maybe you're next to her when she gestures out the window at the Everything.

"Hey. You have any clue where this is supposed to be?" Brainstorming should work, right?

Bar

Settling in is hard when once more, you've been removed from everything you felt comfortable in. For the record, Lapis is trying to... Not quite make friends, more trying to gauge how exactly she should react to everyone else, and who might be a threat, considering the sorts on this ship.

For better or worse, Lapis has grabbed an unidentifiable drink in an opaque coloured bottle, and is handing it off to whoever is closest at the time. "You're drinking this kind of thing, right?"

Whether or not it is actually ingestible is a whole other question. It could, very possibly be some sort of counter polisher.

Network: UN: pierre

knock knock

[bu773rfly]

[oh christ]

Who's there?

[mirrortide]

tank

[bu773rfly]

Tank who?

Observation Deck

[charlieoscar]

It's more Nostos, right? It's gotten into the water, the air... maybe Velleck had just been soaking in it it'd made him virulent. It was the only explanation Mike had for everything that couldn't actually be on the other side of the glass.

Good old narcotics. Always a fun time.

He turns at the voice, eyebrows cocking bemusedly at the young - blue, sure - woman.

"...A particular imaginative corner of my brain?"

(He didn't even have a porthole in his cabin.)

Re: Observation Deck

[mirrortide]

"You own this galaxy, then?" Guess what, Lapis has no idea what a brain is. Not a clue. "That's a weird name for a colony. Didn't even know humans had colonies of their own."

Actually, wait. "Actually, since when can humans even get off planet? I've never seen your kind out in space." They need to breathe, right? Wouldn't they suffocate?

[charlieoscar]

Mike looks at her for a beat, absently making a mental note to never have, see, or do whatever it was he'd done before-- what, exactly? He didn't remember even going to sleep.

"I think Neil Armstrong and the boys and might disagree with that."

Bar, also im glad someone took the network prompt im crying

[theoceanbetween]

Aqua accepts the bottle from Lapis, mostly to inspect it with a curious gaze. The label is too worn to be helpful, even when she squints real hard at it.

"What is it...?"

Lapis seems to have an idea, anyway. She wouldn't pawn it off on someone otherwise, right???? Right.

Re: Bar, also im glad someone took the network prompt im crying

[mirrortide]

"No clue. Everyone seems to be drinking stuff out of bottles like it." like it, being the operative words. "I thought you might want one."

[theoceanbetween]

"They have?"

That seems like a bad idea if the bottles are all beat up beyond recognition...Aqua takes the lid off of it to sniff it, screwing up her face because it's Strong.

"It smells like a chemical. Are you sure people are drinking this?"

Lapis didn't say anyone was enjoying it...so there's that.

un: b0mbshell

[bombshelled]

you've been kidnapped to who fucking knows where and the first thing you do is tell knock knock jokes?

fucking fine
who's there?

[mirrortide]

[Wow no need to be rude.]

to

[bombshelled]

[ (ง •̀_•́)ง ]

to who?

hi its kiri

[foolishjourney]

Who's there.

nerd

[mirrortide]

says

[foolishjourney]

Says who?

text; un: perdu

[atome]

Who's
there?

[mirrortide]

cows go

[atome]

Cows go who?





Oh.

I see.
That's
haha?

un: gallowsCalibrator

[iustitia]

COM3 1N!

im already crying

[mirrortide]

thats not how the joke goes

[iustitia]

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

[controlist]

( username: dearing )
Is this really going to be a joke?

[mirrortide]

are you really going to be a killjoy

[controlist]

I just think that there are better times for it than when we've been mysteriously kidnapped into what seems to be space.
Shouldn't we be using these to make sure people are okay? Or pooling what information we've learned?