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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It's a good thing Lapis has Liquid Powers, because Aqua spews, and Lapis brings up her hands in defense of not getting absolutely sprayed by Mystery Liquid X. So, naturally, while it hasn't hit Lapis, it does drop, immediately, to the floor, leaving a giant puddle.

"What was that for?"

Aqua doesn't answer right away, bent and spitting into the puddle for a second before running the back of her hand across her mouth. Thus she also misses Lapis's neat party trick!!

Someone's going to slip in that, guys...

"Ugh...it's wax."

Sort of???? Something and wax...Aqua's too medieval to know what a household cleaner of any kind is, and Lapis is too alien to care probably. The important thing is, it's gross!

"People were drinking this?"

"They were drinking things from a bunch of different bottles. So, yeah. Probably." Probably being the keyword there. But also, it's true, she doesn't even care if she might have just poisoned Aqua a little.

"What's wax anyway?"

Aqua doesn't believe that anymore??? Or those people got luckier, but now all those bottles on the wall are a source of severe mistrust. Not Lapis though ~~yet~~ since she's definitely one of the displaced. Honest mistake on her part, obviously.

As for Lapis's question, uhhh, that's a hard one. Wax is...

"Wax is a compound used for a lot of things." Aqua sticks her poor tongue out, briefly. Bleh. "Mostly wood flooring and candles as far as I know."

Weird then, since most of this place is metal. Also if anyone is drinking wood polish they aren't human and/or are very sick as a result.

"It's not edible."

In Lapis' defense, she wouldn't know bleach from gasoline from oil. She just doesn't deal with those sort of things. She does, however, listen intently to Aqua as she explains what wax is.

"Then why were people drinking it? Maybe you're doing it wrong."

Aqua nearly chokes on her own tongue? What is this she's being accused of...

"Huh? There's...no right way to drink wax. You're not supposed to drink it at all."

Aqua gestures to the wall.

"I think they might've picked up something else. This doesn't even taste like something anyone would want to drink."

It didn't smell like it either but LOOK. Look.

[x] Doubt.

Lapis puts her hands on her hips and gives Aqua a dubious look. "Well, there's a bunch of other bottles over there. I can go grab another one if you wanna try?" There's not really any reason Lapis is offering than she wants to see the reaction.

Oh my god.

Aqua's gaze flicks to the other bottles and...no? She'd really rather not. She crosses her arms, considering the strange blue lady.

"How about you try one this time?"

"Fine. But if I drink it you have to too." And she walks away to go grab one before Aqua can even protest, before coming back with another bottle.

This one, helpfully, says Lacquer Thinner.

"This one should be fine, I think?"

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"Huh?" Aqua says very intelligently, but Lapis is already going!

And comes back with another bottle, but Aqua doesn't trust like that anymore. Also, she was joking a little? She can just hear Ven's offended "No way!" in response to what she said...

"Hold on, let me see what you've got there."

She starts, in fact, just because she's worried now? Yeah.

Aqua reaches, but by the time she does, the cap is off and Lapis is already taking a Hefty Gulp of the strange substance. It smells awful. It tastes weird, and when Aqua does manage to snatch it away from Lapis' terrible blue fingers, the skull and crossbones should be pretty evident on the container.

"I guess it's not that bad?" She doesn't exactly have a frame of reference, though. "It could definitely be worse, I think."

Lapis didn't stop to smell nor look at it? Thus Aqua is definitely taking it from Lapis, despite the lack of a real reaction from her. Y'know, just in case.

She's never seen warning symbols on anything before, but she gasps and covers her mouth regardless because the labeling is clear enough. It's just like the wood varnish!

"Oh, oh no."

Aqua looks to Lapis with obvious horror and anticipation for...a response to drinking what is essentially poison? This place has been affecting her magic too, what if she can't use that?? She's never been trained to deal with a household medical emergency!!

Yeah, there's absolutely Zero Reaction from Lapis for drinking what is absolutely poison. She's just! Completely unfazed. In fact, she raises an eyebrow at Aqua, clearly expecting her to drink it next?

"Well?"

Hold on, shouldn't Aqua be saying that? It takes her a second to catch what Lapis is expecting from her, and she blinks and shakes her head at the strange blue girl. The bottle is half empty, does she realize?

"No, wait. Are you...okay?"

Aqua peers at Lapis, clearly baffled.

"Yeah? Obviously." Why wouldn't she be okay? "Are you gonna drink it, or...?" Because it's kind of not nice to agree (not that Aqua did) to drink something if Lapis does and then not do it!

UM.

Well. That's...certainly a thing. She already gathered that Lapis isn't human, but she's definitely something unique to be able to drink lacquer finisher like a shot and not die? Unlike Aqua, who would die probably painfully, and shakes her head emphatically as a result.

"I can't drink it."

NO FUN NANCY RIGHT HERE.

"What? Why?"

Lapis 100% does not understand why Aqua can't drink it. She does not get that humans can only drink some liquids.

"If I did drink this, I'd most likely die. I'm not sure what's in it, I'll admit," Aqua holds up the bottle for emphasis. "But it's definitely poisonous."

Which...apparently doesn't affect whatever Lapis is! Aqua's not usually one to dwell on the unique beings she meets, but having several different kinds in one place is really throwing her.

"This is harmful to a lot of people, in fact, so I wouldn't keep offering them as drinks."

Once again, giving Lapis the benefit of the doubt. There's nothing malicious about what she's doing, anyway...

"Oh. Huh." Notably, Lapis does not apologize for the misconception. She does, however, give a shrug. "I guess it's not the same kind of thing that I saw everyone else drinking then."

Oh well!

Lapis is wholly unapologetic but...honest mistake? It's fine??? It's fine.

"No, it's really not."

Aqua sticks her tongue out again. It is so unhappy with her right now, bleh.

"You understand, don't you?"

JUST. MAKING SURE. Yeah.

TEST DRIVE #002

looks like aqua is the one suffering

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