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

[mirrortide]

why cant humans be defective

assuming youre a human

if youre not a human then whatever species you are

[bombshelled]

a human can be fucked up, messed in the head, and wrong
but "defective" makes it sound like they were put together in a factory.

products are defective. people aren't defective.

[mirrortide]

wrong and defective are the same thing arent they

[bombshelled]

it's the fucking
idk
WORD CHOICE

they mean similar stuff but you don't use them for the same things.

[ The words she's looking for are "synonym" and "interchangeable," but she only barely pays attention in school so what does she know? ]

[mirrortide]

theyre the same thing for us gems so i dont really get it but whatever

wrong

you have a wrong sense of humour

is that better

[bombshelled]

idk what you mean, "gem"

maybe
or maybe your joke is just really shitty.

[mirrortide]

it means im a gem duh

no way everyone loves my jokes

[false. only peridot loves her jokes, and occasionally, amethyst.]

[bombshelled]

what, like a ruby, diamond, that kind of gem?

sorry to break it to you, but
your joke sucks.

[mirrortide]

obviously im a lapis lazuli

have you considered that you suck

[bombshelled]

how is that obvious?

1. as far as i know, you're just some person calling themselves pierre
2. rocks can't fucking text.

[mirrortide]

no i meant obviously and then that im a lapis lazuli

1. as far as i know youre just some person calling themselves bombshell which is kind of a weird name to begin with
2. dont call me a rock its rude

[bombshelled]

1. it's my superhero name
2. what is "rock" some kind of racial slur now?

[mirrortide]

1. i have no idea what that is
2. it is when you're talking about a gem

[bombshelled]

ok so like
i don't know what a gem is (at least when you mean it as a type of person)
and you don't know what a superhero is

i think i know what's going on here. i think we're from different universes or something.

[mirrortide]

thats fair its not like gems have colonized EVERY planet out in the universe

but sure that sounds good to me

still dont know what a superhero is though

[bombshelled]

it's cool, you're not the first person here i've had to explain superheroes too.

a superhero is someone (usually with superpowers) who dresses up in a costume and uses a fake name and helps stop crime/fight bad guys (who also usually have superpowers).

[mirrortide]

dont know what a superpower is

but isnt that something that police normally do

[bombshelled]

a superpower is something you can do that normal people can't.
like I make explosions with my hands.

and the police don't have superpowers. so they fight like, street level crime, and street level superheroes help them out. but then you get bigger superheroes who help stop world-threatening stuff.

like this one time, a giant purple dude crash landed on New Jersey and threatened to like
eat the planet, or whatever.
cops can't do shit about that.

[mirrortide]

oh

i stole the earths ocean once

does that make me a super villain

[bombshelled]

UM?????
FUCKING KINDA????

[mirrortide]

oh

does it still count if i put it back

[put it back is a delicate way of saying she fucking dropped it from the stratosphere.]

[bombshelled]

yES
you STOLE THE OCEAN.

HOW DO YOU STEAL AN OCEAN??
HOW DO YOU FUCK UP SO BADLY

[mirrortide]

i lifted it up obviously how else do you steal an ocean

[bombshelled]

idk i've stolen a lot of shit before
mostly money and jewels and shit
but NEVER AN OCEAN

[mirrortide]

its not that great i was trying to use it to get back to homeworld but there wasnt enough ocean to even really get to the moon

i wouldnt recommend it for trying to get off earth its not gonna work very well