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reveriance2018-05-18 06:46 pm
reveriemod) wrote in reveriance2018-05-18 06:46 pm
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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.
Minato Arisato | Persona 3
[Well, this certainly wasn't where Minato was expecting to be when he opened his eyes. Well, to be fair, he wasn't entirely sure what to have expected, if anything? Not this, anyways. Sighing, he stays laying on the ground for a little while longer, arms and legs splayed out around him, before finally sitting up. He then turns to look out the observation deck windows, face slowly contorting into confusion as he saw the unfamiliar planet down below.]
Ah. Unexpected.
Bar;
[He is a very good boy who has never done a single wrong in his life, and being underaged, of course he wasn't going to partake in any of the freely available alcohol that was sitting in the bar.
...Mostly because a lot of it looked extremely suspicious and old, and he wasn't about to end up throwing up in a corner in space just because he was curious. He sits down at the bar and rests his chin against his hands, elbows propped against the table, and contemplates life.
He doesn't notice someone walking in at first, but eventually the sounds of feet against the metal floor is enough to tip him off, and he looks at you from over his shoulder. He offers the slightest wave, but doesn't move to say anything. Very welcoming, Minato.]
Spacequakes;
[Minato falls to the floor with a thud and an "oomph", immediately moving to cover his head to protect himself from any falling debris. He stays solidly still until he's sure the quakes have stopped, and looks up slowly from his position on the floor with quite the look of confusion once he realizes everything looked completely normal, despite the fact he was very sure what he experienced had been real.
Ugh. He hated when people messed with his head.
If you're nearby, he'll look over at you with an obvious nonverbal "what just happened?" look, brushing himself off from his fall to the floor.]
spacequacks
And he figures people who've been here for the few weeks (?) on the station already have learned to tell the same telltale signs, so he's confused as Minato falls prey to it. He's never seen this guy before, but he feels compelled to give him a hand. He doesn't care what happens to him, but no one should have to go through this if they already know what everyone knows about this place.
It's goddamn haunted. And Ryuji goes flying, just like the times before- before picking himself up and starting over. Crazy how used to someone can get with these things.
Ryuji proffers a hand down to Minato to offer him up. There's a bandage covering a 3 inch length down the side of his cheek. Because ghost shenanigans. Or something like that.]
Agh... shit, man. You okay? No bleeding?
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He takes Ryoji's hand gratefully and hoists himself upwards, curious about the bandage on his cheek but not enough to bother saying anything about it. Wasn't his business, really.]
Nothing I can't handle. Thanks for the lift.
[He makes a face.]
Spacequakes, huh?
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[Cemented, he's absolutely sure now, that Minato is a newly added specimen to the roster of crazily alien abducted (???) humans and quasi-humans now residing in this hell hole. Which is weird, and slightly alarming. How did this place even have the means to supply more people? Where did they come from?]
You're probably super effin' confused, and uh... it doesn't... really get much better the longer you're here.
[As he evades the concept of personal space and wraps an arm around Minato's shoulder. It's not just because of his lack of concern to Minato's needs here, he's directing them the hell out of this hallway before the both of them end up suffering another type of quake.
Or one of them starts floating.
Or hearing screaming.]
Just uh... Try to avoid this hall. At least for a few days.
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[The most helpful comment of the day. Wow though Ryuji, personal space?? He tenses up noticeably and would've just went and ducked out of it if not for the fact it seemed the other teen had a specific sort of destination in mind, so he... endures it. It's not like people like Ryoji and Junpei didn't invade his personal space all the time despite his objections, anyways. Or... they did, that is.]
Alright, noted. What else do you know that I don't?
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Uh...
[Yeah, man, where does he even begin to talk about things?]
Rooms you walk into and get trapped inside a metal block... hearing weird ghost sounds... when you do anything to the station you fall asleep.
[Shit, he doesn't want to scare the newcomer. There was also the issue of a wire being stuck in his cheek, a bandaid still over the section where Ren had to cut it out of him.]
You just kinda get used to the patterns and adjust. Unless you're a weirdo and wanna get into that crap.
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[You can tell how incredibly excited by all of this he is, from the deadpan expression on his face. So pumped.]
So it's a horror movie on top of a sci-fi movie.
[Not exactly his first idea for his afterlife, really.]
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[Ryuji, you're not helping?]
But really, it's... I mean, it ain't that bad. I know it sounds like it is, but in between the crazy shit that goes on in here, it's almost kinda peaceful. You can go off and do your own thing, watch the stars, talk to people and learn shit about the world they came from.
[Oh- but,]
Whatever you do, don't order the ramen in the mess hall. It tastes like dinosaur piss.
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[Did he just... make a joke. Yes he sure did, but he says it so casually it might warrant a double take on whether or not it was intentional.]
I guess... that isn't too bad sounding? But is all the food terrible, or just the ramen...?
[This is the most important thing you've told him yet, Ryuji.]
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...Forreal?
[That was bad.
He'll welcome the topical change easily and without protestation.]
No.
No, it's all absolutely effin' terrible. No matter what you do. A month of literally every food I could think of, and it all kinda just... tastes the same.
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This is by far the worst thing anyone has ever told me in my life, ever.
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Did the temperature just seem to drop a few degrees around here? Ryuji's EVER VIGILANT DEFENSE ticks in, and he looks around to make sure no more bullshit space ghost shenans were going down.
Nope, not that.
That could only mean?
He looks at Minato as he starts talking, eyes going wide and he feels a pang of apology well up in his chest.]
S-sorry, dude! I thought that if you kinda knew before hand, then... maybe it wouldn't be so goddamn horrible when you had to come to it on your own.
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[Deep sigh...]
Is there no one better at cooking here?
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It ain't exactly like there's someone behind the soup line makin' all this shit. It's kinda like...
[How the hell do you describe a fabricator???]
Like a vending machine that you put a command in, and then open the door, and what you requested is just kinda there. But it doesn't have any flavor to it. And it tastes like it's been microwaved. And..
And it sucks.
spacequakes
This time was different. This time? She had company. Fortunately this means that now two people have experienced the same spacequake and the same time, and two people have witnessed it come and go like it was never there.
Soon enough she's going to get to her feet again and go to offer a hand to Minato.]
Are you okay? You experienced a much worse fall than I did.
[This poor guy looks so confused, so... Haru continues.]
This is the second time that I have experienced something like this. It's strange, right?
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Strange is certainly the word for it.
[He runs a hand through his hair, pressing his fingers against a particularly awful bump on his head that was definitely gonna bruise real bad. He inspects the rest of himself, fingers running over other cuts and scrapes, but ultimately determines that it wasn't nearly as bad as some of the beatings he's gotten in the past year — he'd certainly survive. Minato turns his attention back to Haru once he was sure he was in one piece, expression questioning.]
What was that, exactly?
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This entire place is rather odd.
[She brushes herself off next. Humming in thought. She wants to explain this in a way that would maybe not sound insanely crazy.]
I can't really explain. It feels so real, right? But then it is like nothing ever happened. I have experienced this once already. I had wondered if what we experienced was a hallucination... or maybe the station showing us things that have happened in the past.
[Not to quote Akechi Goro, but... "the station may be sentient".]
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I see. Is there anything else I should be watching out for...?
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[She just kind of came out with that. It was the only thing she could think of at the moment.]