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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[ he's barely had a moment to process his shock at her presence here, before Jyn has pulled her arms around him - Bodhi still frozen to the spot.

against him, she's warm, and solid and obviously alive. not a figment of this place, but alive. finally, with this knowledge, he brings his own arms up to return the embrace. there's so much to tell her. what he's learned, since his arrival (alright, it's admittedly not much, but important, none the less). swallowing past the lump in his throat, he nods and manages a response.

there was a time where he'd thought maybe, this was not. that he was still rotting away in the cells, or -- ]

Yes. It's all real.

I'd started to think that maybe -- nobody else would show.

[ the hug does some to ground her, but she's spiraling out again for his words. he'd - what? ]

You make it sound like you've been here a while. [ he doesn't sound like he's joking. then again, neither of them were big on jokes. ] But I only just saw you.

[ um. Bodhi realizes belatedly, he should have left that particular information for later, but in his excitement he hadn't really given it that much forethought. that what was some time ago for him was a lot more recent to her. ]

I know this is going to sound... impossible. And I don't know how it works, but I have been here a while. More than a few weeks.

Bodhi, after what we've seen, do you truly believe anything is impossible?

[ and yet what he says... should be. she swallows, because of course jyn believes him. she'd believed him from the moment she'd seen him - long before he ever started speaking. he's the pilot, he's the messenger. he wouldn't lie about this, or probably anything else. not to her. ]

Did you come here to deliver a new message? Did something happen?

Edited (pronouns) 2018-06-29 04:46 (UTC)

[ she's right, of course, but. there's impossible, and then there's where they are now, where nothing has made sense for the last, five weeks now? ]

I don't know. I don't know what I'm here for, or you, or any of us. The last thing I remember was a thermal detonator going off in the ship after contacting the fleet. [ Somehow, in the last second, he'd been snatched from that fate. ] Next thing I know, all I see are those stars, just outside this window.

Well, there has to be a reason even if we don't know what it is yet.

[ her eyes narrow in determination, but then his words visibly throw her off-kilter. she swallows again, looking down at the grated floor. ]

I remember that, too. [ except it was only moments ago for her. ]

I think it's some kind of an experiment gone wrong, but... right now all we have is guesswork. [ a lot of clues but no answers. ]

I don't know if us being where we are is a good thing or not, but I'm glad you're here. [ alive. the others, they didn't deserve to be hurt or dead. not after they had saved him.

not after all they'd done.

Bodhi knows he's staring. sorry. ]

Thought I was the only one.

[ she nods, and while it's frustrating they don't have more answers - that isn't on him. no cassian, no chirrut... just her and the pilot. she has to stay strong for bodhi now, for both of their sakes. a soft hand alights on the crook of his elbow, featherlight. ] You aren't. I'm with you.

[ she finds the confidence in the back of her throat somehow, against the odds, regurgitating it into even speech, even while her eyes fill with water all over again. ]

We're going to find the others and we're going to get out of here. You have my word on that.

[ warmth blooms in his chest, as for the first time in a while, Bodhi feels a sense of hope. he can see the person he followed to Scarif, why so many others chose to do the same. he smiles, there's another lump in his throat. ]

Galen would be so proud of you. Everything that you accomplished. [ is it the right thing to say, he's not certain. but having met the man, Bodhi is certain of this. ] The Rebels, they got the plans. It's gone, Jyn. They destroyed it.

[ the tears well and she has to let go of him or she really will cry. goddamnit bodhi. ]

What... How do you know that? [ she wipes at her eyes and refocuses her steely gaze on him. if they remember the same things - how could he say that like it's fact. unless he's taking a turn at making her feel better? but the pilot was never one for platitudes. ]

[ this is where he fears he might lose her. because he almost hadn't believed it himself. but in the end, he didn't think Ren had any reason to lie about it, to someone as far in the past as himself. ]

I spoke with someone, who - he's from our future, about thirty years off from where we were. He knew of us, about our mission. Told me the Rebels got them, after a bit of an interference. Said that the only thing left of the Empire are remnants.

[ he doesn't know that those remnants had risen into something bigger, but he really hadn't asked soooo. ]

I wouldn't be telling you this unless I believed him.

Remnants. [ how can she believe that? they're the strongest force in the galaxy, but numbly she finds herself nodding anyway. ] If you believe in him, then so do I.

[ he'd barely been able to believe it, but - thirty years had passed. the destruction must've cost them. Bodhi does believe it.

he smiles, then. finally looks away from looking at Jyn like he's afraid she'll vanish the moment he turns away. ]

I can show you around, if you want.

[ a smile stubbornly works its way across her lips and she threads her arm through his. they're together, that's what matters for the moment. they're safe. the rest can wait. ]

I could think of no better escort.

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