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

[cheerleader]

[He is...incredibly tall. Claire really has to tip her head back to get a good look at him. He speaks in a way that's gentle enough he doesn't come across as a threat, and the fact he doesn't look old enough to be a real adult puts her at ease. It's enough that she almost smiles in that magical way that kids do when they decide to try something they've been warned not to do.]

I'm not actually interested in freezing to death and letting my corpse orbit this stupid terminal. There's better ways to get attention.

[warfares]

You'd suffocate long before you froze. [ excellent opening conversation, clearly. still, he'd seen it enough times. ] An ugly death, even if it would be fairly quick.

[ then, changing the subject. ] You're new.

[ or rather, he's never seen her before. which may or may not be the same thing, considering. ]

[cheerleader]

I've only been here about an hour.

[So it was a pretty good guess on his part. A smile is turned in his direction, but it's brief before she's fixated back out on the stars.]

I'm still in the nauseous, struggling to walk anywhere stage so you might wanna keep your distance.

[It's said like a joke, but it's the truth. Her adjustment period is a little rough.]

[warfares]

It'll pass.

[ again, said not unkindly. he's grateful to be past this particular point. as accustomed as he is to discomfort, it's been a long week. month.

lifetime. ]

Eating helps.

[cheerleader]

There's food here?

[Her interest is piqued and she predictably latches on to the information he's just technically given her.]

Can you show me where?

[warfares]

Mess is on the second floor, [ a beat, then: ] Where did you wake up?

[ to establish a point of reference. he's not accustomed to playing tour guide but that probably has less to do with a lack of inclination than it does people simply not asking. ]