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

:OO < wait, terezi?
:33 < yes i'm a troll!
:33 < and terezi's one of my best furriends!
:33 < she's really here?

yeah! at least i think that's how you spell it.
i'm not really good with alien names. or any names, actually? haha.
i'm glad you know her though! she's great.

i'm venus, by the way.
in case she asks who told you? or something.
it's nice to meet you :)

:33 < nice to meet you venus!
:33 < i'll make sure to pass that on
:?? < she must be supurr busy
:?? < not to have answered me by now
:33 < oh well, i'll find her
:33 < so how do you know her?
:|| < i mean i'm guessing you met here but
:\\ < you know what i mean.

maybe she just didn't see it?
i mean like. hear it.
she's blind i think?? i don't know how these work if you're blind but i'm glad she has something.
anyway we talked about troll and human actors?
like how there's a troll will smith, but no troll nicolas cage.
isn't that crazy?

also she explained, like. troll romance to me?
i think. at least a part of it.
where there's two people, and you sort of help the other one like. survive? and not get angry at everything.
moirallegiance, right??

:33 < smell
:33 < terezi figures out most things by smell
:|| < i haven't been able to make this thing give of my color
:|| < maybe that's why
:33 < she can smell color.

:?? < those both sound more like karkat's sort of thing
:33 < but i guess they are purrty close
:33 < anyway, yeah that's a piece of moirallegiance
:33 < the whole thing is a lot more complickated than that though
:33 < but then, what relationship isn't?

whoa.
i think some people can do that too?
people who aren't trolls, i mean.
but i don't really know if it works the same way.

and she mentioned karkat!
the angry yelly guy. right?
talks in ALL CAPS LOCK all the time?
he sounds kind of exhausting honestly.

anyway i don't really know troll romance in general.
i guess i should ask about that at some point?
i didn't want to sound insensitive. haha

:33 < terezi's the only one i've efur met who can do it
:33 < but if there's her there's gotta be others right?

:33 < yeah that's karkat!
:33 < he's not so bad though
;33 < he's actually a total sweetheart once you get to know him.
;33 < but don't tell him i said that.

:33 < i can tell you a lot about it
:33 < moirallegiance espurrcially.
:|| < but uh...
:\\ < purrbably not all at once.

i mean. probably?
maybe it's a weird uh. what's the word.
cinnamon aesthestics? something like that??

and i guess that's fair.
even if i sort of assume it's a lie when people say things like that?
like, someone having a heart of gold just means you've learned to ignore all the bad parts you don't like. haha.
you know?

and yeah it seems. complicated.
i wouldn't want to impose.

:33 < purrty close
:33 < i know what you mean at least.

:|| < i mean that could be it
:33 < but it could also mean that they've got a lot of good parts
:33 < that most people just don't see
:33 < fur whatefur reason.

:33 < well somebody purrbably should
:|| < so that there aren't misunpurrstandings.

TEST DRIVE #002

Would you believe I actually forgot I posted this?

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I HECKED UP AND EVERYTHING GOT SORTED INTO MY SMUT FOLDER, WHYYYY

I just find it funny you have a separate smut folder.