TEST DRIVE #002

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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

[iustitia]

UHHH
1 DON'T TH1NK TH4T COUNTS BUT 1T 4LSO R41S3S MOR3 QU3ST1ONS TH4N 1T 4NSW3RS

[mirrortide]

ive got nothing then

and i think i know your question and no gems dont normally keep a habit of keeping anything organic alive for any reason

[iustitia]

SO WHY BOTH3R W1TH 4 ZOO?
1 M34N HUM4NS 4R3 PR3TTY OK4Y 1N MY BOOK
BUT 1F YOUR SP3C13S H4S 4 H4B1T OF WR3CK1NG 3V3RYBODY TH3Y COM3 4CROSS TH3N WHY S4V3 TH3M?

[mirrortide]

apparently she just liked them or something i dont know no one questions what the diamonds do because thats a great way to get yourself shattered

[iustitia]

OH
SOUNDS L1K3 H1GH BLOODS

L3T M3 GU3SS
HUG3 STUP1D R1G1D C4ST3 SYST3M?
3V3RYON3 SORT3D BY ROL3 4ND COLOR?
4LL D1SS3NT S1L3NC3D BY D1SPROPORT1ON4T3 FORC3?
ONLY GOT 4 F3W R34LLY 1MPORT4NT P3OPL3 R1GHT 4T TH3 TOP 4ND TH3Y 4R3 4LL G1G4NT1C J3RKS?

[mirrortide]

actually yeah

though its less sorted by colour

but i guess blue gems like me are rare to begin with so were pretty high up the social ladder already

[iustitia]

S33 TH4T TR4CKS TOO
TH3 CLOS3R YOU 4R3 TO TYR14N
TH3 MOR3 1MPORT4NT YOU SUPPOS3DLY 4R3
SO 4 LOT OF BLU3 BLOODS GOT 1T 1NTO TH31R P4N TH4T TH3Y'R3 HOT SH1T FOR NO R34SON

1S TH3R3 4 PURPL3 D14MOND OR 4NYTH1NG L1K3 TH4T >:?

[mirrortide]

for us gems its mostly that blue gems have the rarer more i guess valuable abilities but supposedly were good for diplomatic stuff too

no theres blue yellow and white and there used to be a pink diamond before she got shattered some how no clue how it happened though since diamonds shouldnt be able to be shattered to begin with

[iustitia]

1S TH4T "SHOULDN'T B3 4BL3 TO" 1N TH3 S3NS3 TH4T TH3 4CT 1S SOC13T4LLY UNTH1NK4BL3
OR 1N TH3 S3NS3 TH4T 1T 1S PHYS1C4LLY 1MPOSS1BL3

[mirrortide]

both