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

[ Erik hadn't missed the young woman's message on the network. He just didn't respond, as he isn't interested in making his abilities publicly known just yet. He does seek her out, though. It's easier than he expected, as he can feel the fields she generates to manipulate the bolts. It's subtle, but unmistakable.

He's never met another mutant who had powers similar to his. The prospect is more exciting than he would have guessed. Still, he's not seeking her out to discuss that. ]

If Sentinel Services were here, do you think advertising yourself on the network is the best course of action?

[ her hand twitches, and the bolts fall into her palm, fingers curling around them in a fist. her mouth twists a moment later, brittle and vicious. ] If they're here, so much the better. They don't have any of their toys, and I still have my powers.

[ and she's not above doing what she must to protect herself. herself and-- her free hand steals across her belly uncertainly. she hasn't felt the baby the same way here that she had at home, and she doesn't know what that means.

but-- he's familiar, isn't he? she's pretty sure she's seen him.. somewhere. ] Who the hell are you, anyway?

[ The anger radiates off of her in a way that is uncomfortably familiar. Like a memory he'd rather not think about. ]

You're sure of that?

[ He'd been here nearly a month and wasn't sure. But if she had some kind of information to confirm that, he wants to hear it. ]

They know me as Henryk Gurszky. But my name is Erik Lehsnherr. Or Magneto, depending on the circumstances. Who are you?

[ she's reasonably sure. unless their captors, whoever they are, are making exceptions for bigots-- which she wouldn't be especially surprised about. still, they'd still be trapped with her on a station comprised almost entirely of metal, so she's pretty confident that she'd be fine.

and she's about to open her mouth and say all that when he says erik lehnsherr and her eyes go wide and stunned and a little haunted in her face. that's why he'd looked familiar, that's where she'd seen him, and she sucks in a breath, freezing in place as she tries to make sense of it.

magneto had her powers. they'd been almost exactly alike, save for the ways hers manifested. how had she never let herself suspect? (maybe because he'd never been around.)

the energy around her fingers disappears entirely, and her lips part, shut. she takes another breath, steadying herself, and tries again. ]

Lorna. Polaris. [ her mouth presses thin uncertainly. he's.. younger than he had been the last time she'd seen him. he probably wouldn't know anything about her, but.. ] I hear.. [ she trails off, then rises to her feet, dusting her stupid jumpsuit off to keep from having to look at him. ] I hear you're my father. Supposedly.

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