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

[glitchinthesystem]

Okay, well, that's more reasonable I guess. I'm going off the assumption this is some trippy ass fever dream and everything and everyone here is a delusion.

Especially since fucking swords don't exist anymore. So another point to this being some fever dream.

[nishizono]

it's drugs. the answer's always drugs. i know this to be true, okay?

what do you mean swords don't exist? they're fucking swords. they can exist at any time and any place if you're creative enough!

[glitchinthesystem]

I'm finding even that hard to believe. The robots usually are better at keeping the medical stuff away from everyone...

Also again, do you REALLY think the robots would fucking let us make weapons? They'd beat the shit out of you before you had the thought.

[ See, he's totally the sane one in this argument. ]

[nishizono]

robots. the robots are better.

[ what kind of nightmare is this? ]

someone has to invent the robots first for that to happen. do you see any robots around?

[glitchinthesystem]

[ the one where everyone is crazy but you but they all think you're the crazy one ]

Well no, but that just leads to the question what kind of fucked up dome is this?. I mean, I'm not complaining i hate those damn robots, but it's still all kinds of weird at how run down this dome looks.

[nishizono]

[ tetora's used to being the crazy one. this is a different brand of it. ]

we're neither in kansas or narnia, you fucknut.
have you ever heard of earth?
earth to you, hello???

such a wonderful friendship in the making

[glitchinthesystem]

[ The same couldn't be said of Glitch. He thought he was Very sane. ]

Wow, fuck you too, asshole. Of course, I know about earth. You ever been to a goddamn history class?

i love them already

[nishizono]

earth isn't history, it's earth! what kind of drugs are you fucking hitting because i want a good damn dose of it for myself, it sounds like a trip.

come on, share with the class!

Truly the most profound camaraderie of all.

[glitchinthesystem]

jesus, I don't need to be taking drugs to know what happened to the planet we're on. You know, cause I paid attention.

Don't you know about the whole "hey we have nukes, lets drop them on everything cause we hate each other" made the planet unbearable now we're in these domes?

Remember that? Or are you always tweaked the fuck out?

[nishizono]

[ ah, he gets it. he understands (and also doesn't at all, but this is more interesting). ]

that hasn't happened for me, so i guess you're from the future. huh.

this is some trip. i might come to like it.

[glitchinthesystem]

You must have a lot of brain damage if you think that's a good future. And if you think time travel is an actual thing.

God, people here are nuts.

[nishizono]

so what if people are crazy? you shouldn't judge people just because they're insane, that's really fucking rude when no one's calling your sane ass boring and pointless.

and anyway, it's not happened, so you're still a little crazy. check your perceptions, why don't you?

[glitchinthesystem]

Well, it's a good thing I don't give a fuck what other people say about me. Do you give a shit?

Right, sure, okay. What makes you think that it hasn't happened and you lost your marbles or something?

[nishizono]

sure i do. anyone who says they don't care about what people say about them is either lying or more than a little crazy themselves. i would know from experience.

and why is the onus on me to prove i'm the sane one here? you're the one talking about nukes and domes and shit, not me.

[glitchinthesystem]

sounds like you've only met two kinds of people than in your experience. Saaaad.

'Cause domes and nukes are a fact. So, unless you're willing to tell me otherwise and make me believe it i think it goes to show who's the sane one here.

[nishizono]

oh i've met all types. you're the one coming off here like a dumbass.

and those things aren't facts for me, unless you mean their existence in general, in which case yeah, they exist, but the context? historically ain't real for me, bud.