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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[Bellamy crosses his arms, expression closing off.]

Population control was strict on the Ark. My mother had a second child, and we had to hide her. When the council found out, they floated her, imprisoned my sister, then demoted me and halved my rations.

I'm sorry.

[ she's never heard the jargon float for spacing someone, but it's not too hard a guess. ]

Resources must've been tight.

[ a guess, but -- there are only so many reasons for population control on a space station. ]

That's an understatement.

[Wow, so bitter!]

And the case here, if we're unlucky.

[ she glances past him briefly. it goes unsaid: they probably are unlucky. ]

What happened to her after that? Your sister.

She was supposed to have a hearing when she turned eighteen, but they decided to send a hundred of the prisoners down to see if Earth was survivable, so I went with her.

[He is skipping a hell of a lot of the story, but whatever.]

Where?

[ some undiscovered planet??? ]

[He frowns at that, a bit thrown off.]

Earth.

[Isn't that what he said?]

Not familiar.

[ planet?? other station?? star system?? ]

Somewhere outside the J?

[The confusion definitely doesn't leave his face.]

The J?

The J star cluster. Home of the Quad -- Qresh, Leith, Westerley, Arkyn. Ringing any bells?

...No.

[God, he is so fucked.]

Are those colonies?

Not Qresh.

[ the others....well. yeah. ]

That's a planet. The others are its moons.

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How the hell did you get there?

Get there from where? I've told you, I've never heard of your Earth.

You're saying there were always humans there? How?

[ she shrugs ]

Hells if I know. How did humans get to Earth?

They evolved there.

[Duh? Dutch please.]

[ okay, but consider: ]

So maybe they evolved in my neck of the universe too. Your planet's probably not as special as you think.

You think the same exact species evolved twice in two different places?

[He's not a biologist, but he doesn't think that's how that works.]

[ ....yes? yes??? ]

Who says we're exactly the same? You know what they say about assuming.

You look normal to me. What do you think is different?

[ she could laugh.

dutch has never, not once in her life, felt normal. not as a little girl in the harem; not as a child with a blade in her hands and blood spattered on her clothes; not even when she tried, when she ran away with johnny and joined the rac. and now, finally, she knows why, and nothing can be the same again. ]

Stick around and maybe we'll find out.

[He doesn't pick up on any sort of implication behind that, unfortunately.]

Looks like we're not going anywhere.

Not yet. How long have you been here?

Two days. I have no idea how long I was out, though. You?

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