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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.
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[...]
Is this all for real?
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Sorry, hoss. Hate to say it, but it's real.
There's a bar on the third floor, if you need it.
What fleet are you from? [He'd seen the word 'navy' and he was always going to hold out a little hope...]
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[If this was legit - and he wasn't saying one-hundred percent that it was yet - he'd bet blacking out risked worse than waking up with a hangover and a citation.]
United States Navy, the U.S.S. Nathan James.
I don't suppose that means anything to you either?
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Actually, it does. Means you're probably from the 20th or 21st century, that about right?
[It was really really weird that he was getting used to that concept.]
From before the UN fully amalgamated.
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He had hoped for anything, hadn't he?]
That really does not help with believing that this is all real.
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Yeah, well, neither was hearin' that no one here's even heard of the Martian colonies. So I feel you on that.
I'm guessin' you've never been to space then either, right?
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Can't say as I have. [He thinks of the little blue girl - Lapis, Not A Rock - and adds--] We had a space program, and Mars was El Dorado, but it all got mothballed after the virus hit.
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Virus? What kind of virus?
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The Red Flu. Then the Red Rust.
Don't worry, I've had my shots.
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I ain't worried.
I ain't even heard of it. But that doesn't mean much - my history ain't all that great.
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Lucky you.
Sounds like you might think we share a history? You're from the future?
[It took a lot to type it.]
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2350
And possibly. Can't say for sure. Met a couple people here that were from the early 21st century and they'd already met aliens - which sure as hell didn't happen back home.
So, uh. There might be parallel universes.
I'm making this worse, aren't I?
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300 years. Aliens. Literal ghost ships. Parallel universes.
No, it's fine.
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It ain't, but you'll find you get used to it quick.
There's a reason I told you where the bar was.
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Is there any other option here?
[Somehow, he thinks he already knows the answer.]
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Ain't no way off the station, hoss.
Can't even figure out how to access most of the station itself, and we ain't anywhere near the solar system.
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It never is.