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» TEST DRIVE #001
TEST DRIVE #001
( 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 3 . 1 ) » VIRTUALBut the alcohol isn't even the most interesting part of your discovery (depending on who you are, of course). No, what catches your interest is a second, smaller room off from the main bar room, which looks to be some kind of arcade. There are a few VR sets lined up against one of the walls, and surely, they can't be working, right? Nothing is on this rust bucket. And yet, if you put it on, the display comes to life.
It's a pretty simple HUD, and when you move around in reality, you move around in the virtual world you've just entered. It's a luxurious world, full of brightly, saturated colors, making it just a little obvious that it isn't real. Ahead, there is a jungle, a temple, and a city. You can play around, slay some monsters, have some fun, but you can feel yourself growing hot, like the VR helmet is burning your forehead.
And when you try to take it off, you find that you can't. The HUD glitches, the sound cuts off to a blaring alarm, and an error message appears, in glowing, blinking red letters: FINISH THE MISSION. Will you, despite not knowing what the mission even is, or will you fight to get the helmet off?
( 0 0 4 ) » MALFUNCTIONS
(cw: body horror, bodily functions, gore, blood, death)
The fabricators function well enough, until they don't. One day, one moment, everything's all right — the food doesn't generally taste amazing and sometimes downright awful, but it's nourishing and filling no matter what your dietary needs — and the next, things go a little haywire.
In short, the fabricators are malfunctioning.
Oh, they're still producing food that looks and tastes much the same as before, but now there are some unexpected side effects.
NB: Characters may experience any of the following side effects: nausea ranging from slight to debilitating, the sensation of being happily and affectionately — but not overwhelmingly — drunk, bone-deep exhaustion and weariness that makes it hard to move, or repeated hallucinations of loved ones screaming for help, reaching out to characters and leading them down abandoned corridors or being killed by unseen forces.
The extent to which characters are affected is up to players, as is whether you'd prefer to play this more lightheartedly or tackling more serious themes. If the latter, please provide warnings in subject lines where necessary.
( 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 5 . 1 ) » NETWORK USERNAMEWhen you first turn on your communication device, it requests for you to pick a username to identify you on the network. It can be anything you want. However, as you try to input a username in your wristband to access the network, you get the following message, along with a small, but irritating, warming sound:
this username is already in use.
What does this mean? Is there other people around? Were there other people around?
( 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.
Hyunseok Choi | Original Character
[ Heavy sleeping has always been one of Hyunseok's few talents in life. While worries and stress would cause his friends and family to toss and turn sleeplessly at night, Hyunseok would knock out in about five minutes and sleep like the dead until his body naturally woke up after a full night's rest.
Unfortunately, it meant that very little could wake him up, from alarm clocks to incredibly cramped spaces. It takes actually knocking his head against the side of the closet wall to stir Hyunseok out of his deep slumber, and even then he's only awake enough to manage a-- ]
Too early...
[ Before he tries, unsuccessfully, to roll over and get more comfortable.
This is a good time to panic, not nap. ]
(003)
[ Waking up on a strange space station would throw anyone for a loop. Hyunseok's no stranger to weird occurrences, having gotten himself tangled up with gods and other magical beings a couple of years back, but it doesn't make this situation any less disturbing for him.
So when he found the booze, he hit it up almost immediately; the boy can toss back bottles when he wants to too. He's two deep in right now, and judging from his expression every time he takes a shot the stuff tastes rancid. Still, seems like it's doing the job alright, and he's got more bottles lined up on the bar if you want to join in. ]
(005.1)
[ The idea reads topCHOIce ]
Ok, this little wrist thing is really cool and everything, but I am really freaked out right now.
Are other people actually reading this? Are people who know what's going on actually reading this????
network; un: tokumei
No, none of us know what's going on.
no subject
Seriously?
No one knows anything??
At all????
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[ He doesn't know.... what to do with this....??? ]
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Ok, but the space people know how to get us out of here, right?
The ones that went to space.
They can figure out how to get us back onto the planet?
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There has been talk of finding a shuttle to explore the planet below, but I don't believe anything has been found.
[ Though he has been closely monitoring the network for updates. ]
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Yet, right?
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I will let you know if that changes.
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Yeah! Thanks, I'll do the same.
I mean, if I hear anything.
I don't think I'm going to be the first to hear anything...
I should look for a shuttle though too probably.
What is that going to look like?
[ He should probably stop and take a deep breath, or at the very least let himself form a full thought and stop sending messages before he's got that more in order. ]
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[ Haruto doubts anyone will hear anything before he does, considering he's mentally monitoring the network for new posts, but... ]
I have no idea. I'm not one of the space people.
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That's probably obvious, isn't it?
Because I have no idea how to look for a shuttle, but also everything else I've been typing probably.
I'm kind of panicking a little bit right now?
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Try some deep breathing exercises. In for 4, hold for 4, out for 4.
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Ok ok.
I think I'm calmer?
I am still not really calm, because this whole thing is still really messed up.
Also hi, I'm Hyunseok.
I guess I should have started with that?
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[ It's not his name, but until he trusts people, it's what he's giving out. ]
Aside from not being calm, are you alright otherwise? Are you injured at all?
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I mean, yes I'm alright, no I'm not injured.
Are people getting injured here?
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But I arrived with my injuries, I didn't become injured here.
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Wait I should be asking you if you're ok!!
What the hell!
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[ You know... before he bleeds out. ]