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]

are you really going to be a killjoy

[controlist]

I just think that there are better times for it than when we've been mysteriously kidnapped into what seems to be space.
Shouldn't we be using these to make sure people are okay? Or pooling what information we've learned?

[mirrortide]

being in space doesnt exactly bother me besides if anyone was not okay its none of my business and its not like i have any ground breaking information to share other than that this place sucks

[controlist]

You could still share something that someone else found. Information doesn't have to be ground breaking to be useful.

[mirrortide]

everyone else can share their own fun discoveries theres no point in repeating things that everyone else already knows because these messages go to everyone

actually heres a fun discovery for you it looks like its mostly humans that got kidnapped here

[controlist]

( see! that's useful information. also wait what-- )

What do you mean mostly humans?

( i mean her mind is jumping to animals or dinosaurs )

[mirrortide]

[If she really wants, Lapis can turn into a dinosaur. But no one wants that.]

i mean there is a disproportionately large amount of humans here

im not sure what else you could get from that

[controlist]

( nope nope she's definitely on a dinosaur hiatus right now )

That there's something else here. Do you know what else is here with us?

[mirrortide]

yeah me

[controlist]

( if this weren't text-- )

Roll back to when I was talking about information being useful.

[mirrortide]

[she'd probably wonder about The Blue. Not to be confused with the raptor, Blue, of course.]

wow rude ill have you know i wasnt making a bad joke im a gem not a human

[controlist]

Now it sounds like a joke.

( before just a lack of information )

[mirrortide]

and why is that

[controlist]

No one calls themselves a gem and means it.

[mirrortide]

yeah well i do lapis lazuli actual gem, not at your service

[controlist]

( find be a gem it doesn't make it real )

Is that supposed to mean something?

[mirrortide]

no because apparently wrapping your head around the fact that theres aliens from other planets on this ship is too hard for you

[controlist]

You didn't say aliens.

( though she's also right that is a little hard so far. it just doesn't exist )

[mirrortide]

it was heavily implied that i am an alien and not human