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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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She swears her ears are ringing, except before she can realize that they aren't, she hears a man's voice. What the hell indeed.]
I have no idea.
[But she pushes herself up onto her elbows, then all the way to sitting. Anything more feels optimistic.]
Re: 004
( Never from the engine though, not until the end. No, that sound always meant they were being visited by Minister Mason and her soldiers. It meant someone had done something and they were about to be made an example of.
Sounds like that didn't just happen and leave no trace. There had to be something. )
Maybe the engines of this thing just went to shit. Doesn't feel like we're losing altitude though.
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[Jasnah pushes herself up to check, dusting her hands off on her knees as she goes. She wears one glove, on the left hand, but has already become more free about using the safehand rather than holding it reservedly at her side like an Alethi woman should.]
Where's the damage?
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( There should be damage, she's right. It makes him nervous, not being able to see what he knows is there. He'd spent years trusting the engine of a train not to give out and trusting the people in front to keep them alive.
He'd been a fool to harbor that trust. When he'd lost it, things had gotten harder but he'd also felt freer. )
No alarms. Warning bells. Nothing. Maybe we hit something. Maybe there's exterior damage.
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[She says, glancing over her shoulder at him, expression hard, frustrated with this place, with these games.]
It didn't happen. We're seeing something that somehow is and isn't real.
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( But that doesn't seem right, not when they both clearly experienced something and were physically affected. The whole thing was as vivid as a hallucination but unless they'd both been somehow drugged without their knowledge, that probably wasn't what this was.
It was a possibility but a minute one. )
We're being played.
( That is the more obvious answer. This whole place seems to have been built to frighten and terrify those aboard. They were being toyed with. Curtis' jaw tightens at the thought. Another mysterious vessel, another all power entity who did what he wanted and fuck anyone else around. )
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[She honestly doesn't feel like it's consistent enough, or frightening enough that someone is toying with them.]
They said they tried to save the world, and that they failed.
[But something about his untrusting reaction strikes her as deeply appropriate, makes her add;]
Of course, there's every chance they're lying.
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( The arm that he'd lost ached but it was a phantom pain, the knowledge that something that should be there wasn't. He was lucky there was some decent technology aboard this station and that people were willing to help.
If he'd been on the train, he'd have died. He'd have bled out with the engine of metal on metal in his ears. )
I can't bring myself to believe anything I hear without proof. I've heard too many people tell me what's good for me, what I should be thinking to believe it from another voice in the sky. I want proof.
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[And he should join in the search.
She hasn't realized that his arm is a new problem, or the first thing she'd offer would be medical care. As it is;]
I haven't seen you before. Have you just arrived? Do you need a meal?
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Now, there's no train and Curtis isn't sure he has anything but exhaustion and pain left inside of him. )
Pretty new, yeah. I woke up here a little while ago.
( When you were expecting to be dead, waking up was a strange and dizzying thing. It had take him some time to acclimate. )
Didn't know this place even had food. I hadn't gotten that far.
( In his mind's eye, he sees the image of a protein block and has to fight the urge to vomit. )
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[She turns to lead the way, and remembers to say, this time;]
I'm Jasnah Kholin. Jasnah is fine.
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He doesn't trust it but he does follow along because he is hungry. )
Curtis Everett.
( After a pause, he adds: )
Curtis is fine. You've been here for awhile?
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[But she's having a deeply disorienting experience, with Roshar's strange orbit being so different from Earth's.]
Have you seen the view?
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There's food.
It won't be a repeat of what happened in the past. )
Yeah.
( That had been pretty awe inspiring, he'll admit. It had shaken him to the core but he'd kept on staring. )
I forgot the stars existed.
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Curtis. [Committing it to memory, tagging it with the other little details about him; that arm, the lines on his face.] Where were you before you were here?
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[ He doesn't know anymore than that. The train was constantly in motion and the outside world was uninhabitable. There were no real markers to denote places you'd been and places you wanted to go. There was just.
The train.]
A really big fucking train.
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Well, it isn't a good life here, exactly, but there's food and water and doors to lock yourself in behind for privacy.
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[ Curtis doesn't remember the last time he had some privacy. A door that locks sounds like the absolute best thing in the world. A door that can seal off everyone from seeing him while he...tries to figure this out. Figure himself out. ]
There's probably a catch though, isn't there? Something someone wants?
[ There always was. ]
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[She agrees, leading the way. It's just a short distance further to the mess.]
But we don't know what yet, except that there's no clear way out.
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[ He'd given it all to the train. He'd given it all up to get to the front, to try and make life better for those in the tail. He's tapped out. He's done. ]
I gave it all up already.
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[She promises, and glances over her shoulder at him, lets him know;]
You have to manage it, Curtis, because I'm not leaving you and I doubt I can carry you. [So she isn't above soft threats, while they go.] That means I'll drag you down every step and you'll end up black and blue.
[And yes, she knows he doesn't mean this last walk, she knows it goes deeper than this- but one foot in front of the other.]
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[ So, he'll push himself to wherever they're going. She's the friendliest face he's seen in an eternity and he knows he can't figure this place out for himself, not in any good way. He'll stumble through and make due but better to have someone around who doesn't mind trying to help.
It's just strange to be the recipient of that. He'd gotten used to people taking, taking, taking, that not having people grabbing for literal pieces of himself is a surreal feeling. ]
You won't have to drag me. I'm fine. I'll be fine.
[ He'd stay upright until his body literally gave out. ]
It's just shock. A lot's gone on in a short amount of time.
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[She says- and at last, anyways, they're here. The food replicators are on one side of the room, there are tables between here and there, so Jasnah instructs him;]
Sit.
[She's eaten, so she can go and fetch him a plate of the unappetizing stuff, and herself some water.]
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You don't have to do all this.
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[She says, understating the case only slightly.]
I wonder what your train must have been like, if this seems like a terrible inconvenience to you?
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