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.

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[It takes Aizawa a minute or two to digest all of that. The part he's a little stuck on is being the devil, which he ends up just dismissing as Edgy Teen Bullshit because honestly. He's had to suspend so much disbelief already and he's not quite prepared to accept the absurdity that he could be speaking to the actual literal devil from Christian theology.]

it's not so much that the question is pointless as there's no point in asking it here, because clearly nobody on this network knows the answer.

[If people knew the reasons behind their circumstances, there would surely already be plans in place for how to return, after all.]

as i said, i'm aware the minors and noncombatants are separate categories.

[After all, he professionally teaches minors how to fight more effectively. And though any children on this station are not officially his responsibility, he still feels obligated to watch out for them. 20-30, though...that's about the size of a standard Hero class at U.A., it shouldn't be too difficult to manage.]

and i'm not asking about personality quirks.
"quirk" is a term where i'm from that refers to a person's superhuman abilities or otherwise mutant physiology, such as your wings and glowing.

thanks for the information.
is aphrodite your name or a code name?

[Eraserhead obviously isn't his real name so. He's gotta ask.]

Edited 2018-06-06 03:35 (UTC)

oh! right. that makes a lot of sense then.
both the pointless part AND the quirks thing.
i don't really know if "mutant" is the right word for it? but i mean i guess it works for now.

also it's not really either?? i'm not cool enough for a code name haha
it's just the username i chose.
my name's venus. so, you know. it's like a roman/greek joke?

it's not very funny when i explain it out like that huh

as compared to a baseline human, anyway.

[He doesn't mean it pejoratively--at the current moment in his society, being a mutant is the norm; quirklessness is almost stranger. Also, he doesn't have much of an opinion on the joke--Aizawa is one of those people with the driest sense of humor possible--but he does think at the back of his mind that it's something that would've likely amused Hizashi.]

right, mythology.
do you prefer to be called venus, then?

Edited 2018-06-14 07:16 (UTC)

oh.
well, i'm definitely not that? human, i mean.
so yeah. mutant it is??
i mean, i still sort of think devil is more accurate, but you know. whatever.

[ she sort of... squints at that last bit for a moment. ]

yeah! yeah, i think so.
since it's. my name and all.
uh.
should i... just call you eraserhead?

TEST DRIVE #002

it occurs to me he wouldn't actually bother with caps so. gently retcons

gently alters my memory of the post

SORRY FOR THE DELAY writing this app sucked my soul out of my body lmao

OH SHIT i just saw you got accepted, hey hey! also this was in my "smut" folder for some reason. hm.