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tσnч ( wєll thαt єscαlαtєd quícklч ) stαrk ([personal profile] starked) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2013-03-07 11:00 pm

sixteenth jump

CHARACTERS: any and all
LOCATION: Gravity Couches and beyond
WARNINGS: maybe some swearing, or even some violence, and more than likely some implied (and possibly explicit) nakedness.
SUMMARY: Another month, another jump, another round of new faces.
NOTES: Keeping up with the tradition and copy pasted like always from the last one 


You wake up in darkness.

There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're deposited on the floor of a stark, sterile medical bay.

You are not alone.

There are others who have come before you, others who are awakening beside you. Some may be familiar to you, perhaps even friends. Others have much less amiable plans. Some are merely alien and inexplicable, but there are always those who might mean you harm.

After you catch your breath and your vision returns, you notice a number on the inside of your forearm. Maybe it's a familiar number. Maybe it means something. Maybe it's just a number. But the number—completely unique to you—is a tattoo, and it does not come off.

If you enter the room adjacent to the medbay, you will find a small locker with your number on it, surrounded by rows upon rows of identical lockers. Inside, you will find a few of your personal items, a communications device, and a ship's uniform in your exact size. The comms device is fully powered and connects directly to the ship's network; it's your only means of communication beyond physical conversation. Upon turning the device on, a neutral, automated voice will say, "Please take the blue lift to the passenger quarters." Any other attempts at communicating with the rest of the network are met only with static.

This is your welcome party.
talkstoengines: (what is that?)

pods!

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-09 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's tough to land gracefully when covered in goo, and injured, and dumped unceremoniously (as usual) onto the floor. Kaylee was hardly the epitome of grace, anyway, but she managed to at least not fall and rip open her stitches or anything terrible like that, so - victory?

Maybe. Still, it was a little awkward, and she looked around for familiar faces - Simon would want to check on her, she knew, and she also planned to check in with more of her friends to make sure they were okay after that little adventure in the corridors.

Her eyes stopped on the strange-looking creature nearby - she wasn't as terrified as when she met Nyreen, because this - turian? Well, she'd seen one before.

"Hey there. You folks sure do stand out in a crowd. You know Nyreen?" It was a logical conclusion, as far as she was concerned - same species, therefore same universe, and in her experience? When people showed up from the same universe here, they usually knew each other.
gunshiptotheface: (Heavy Armour)

Re: pods!

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-10 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry, I don't know anyone by that name. But, you know another turian?" Garrus will respond looking slightly confused at Kaylee. He's glad that someone around here knew his race and at least one other turian that was around, at least he highly hoped it was a turian.

He'll shift his weight from foot to foot, not terribly awkward about the fact that he's soaked and surrounded by humans. He's mostly just cold and wanting some answers about this place.
Edited 2013-03-10 00:13 (UTC)
talkstoengines: (welp.)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-10 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, sure, she showed up here last jump," Kaylee says with a little smile. "Scared the bejeesus outta me at first, but she's real nice. There's showers over that way -" she points - "and the numbers on your arm will tell you which locker's yours."
gunshiptotheface: (headset)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-10 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks, I take it you've never seen a turian before ah, Nyreen appeared?" He asked, still be fairly polite despite it all. She hadn't gone off the handle at least and she was being terribly helpful. He was still a little wary about everything here, so strange yet eerily similar to some of the med-bays that they had fought through back home.
talkstoengines: (doing my best!)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-14 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
"No offense, but nothin' back home looks anything like you two," Kaylee says with a little laugh. "One time Simon took me to see an alien in a jar, turned out it was just a cow fetus. And then I didn't even get a kiss out of it..."

Yeah, that hadn't been the greatest day.
gunshiptotheface: (Look right)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-14 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"A cow fetus. That sounds...interesting." He pities her for going on a date like that, he's pretty bad when it comes to romance but even he knows that sounds like a bad idea. "I'm starting to notice that no one knows what a turian is, I can't say it's what I expected."
talkstoengines: (looking down)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-17 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"All folks from different universes," Kaylee says with a vague wave of her hand. "Not sure how, or why, but some of the people here come from places where they can't even deep space travel."
gunshiptotheface: (raise your hand)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-18 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"That's strange, I know it's not easy waking up on a foreign ship in a vat of goo but to also be told you're in space. I can see how that might be bad for some people." Garrus will shake his head, but at least Kaylee didn't scream when she saw him.

"Anyway, I'm Garrus Vakarian."
talkstoengines: (proud)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-18 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, we got some help for the folks who don't know about space and stuff, but it can still be pretty scary."

She grins and holds out her hand for him to shake. "I'm Kaylee! Nice to meet you."
gunshiptotheface: (Visor)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-18 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
He'll shake her hand, don't mind the fact that he's pretty much like a dinosaur with the plating and talons.

"So, Kaylee, what do you do around here?"
talkstoengines: (doing my best!)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-18 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
It's weird, but she ignores it pretty easily. Kaylee is like that. "Oh, I'm a mechanic, I tinker around in engineering, sometimes with the shuttles, see if we can't get some of 'em workin'."
gunshiptotheface: (in the battery)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-19 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"The shuttles not functioning or are they broken?" Garrus was suddenly having flashbacks to the many times he'd fixed the mako in the Normandy's cargo bay. He'd spent more than a few months working on it and it's main cannon before the Normandy had upgraded the main guns to the awe-inspiring Thanix cannon.
talkstoengines: (looking down)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-21 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Little of both, probably. We got a few running, not enough to evacuate everyone, though." Her voice drops as she says those words - no point screaming that one from the rooftops. "Not enough fuel to get very far, either, and who knows when we'll be stoppin' for supplies?"
gunshiptotheface: (Let me make this monosyllabic)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-23 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like a bad situation entirely. Better to take our chances if this ship goes down instead of trying for the escape shuttles then." It was good information to know, but it wasn't comforting in the slightest.
talkstoengines: (are you for real?)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-24 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe. First priority is kids, of course," she says with a shrug. "Got a few of 'em here, who knows why."
gunshiptotheface: (headset)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-25 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"There are children on this ship?" That was something that made Garrus entirely uncomfortable with the thought of his time serving on various ships. "They'd take priority then, even if it is a false hope if we're in dark space."
talkstoengines: (kinda sad)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep, it's a pretty messed-up situation we got but that's how it is." She shakes her head a little, thinking of the kids. "Little ones, don't see why anyone'd do that, but don't rightly see why anyone'd do this at all."
gunshiptotheface: (raise your hand)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-03-31 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"This entire thing seems rather messed up." He replied and shook his head, "I should let you get showered, this...stuff isn't comfortable to stand around covered in."
talkstoengines: (sunshiny day)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-03-31 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Guess even aliens can be gentlemen," she says with a little laugh, thinking of Simon. "I'll probably see you around."
gunshiptotheface: (Look right)

[personal profile] gunshiptotheface 2013-04-02 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not all of us dislike humans," he'll reply with a flare of his mandibles in a turian kind of smile. "Hopefully next time we meet we won't be covered in...whatever this is."
talkstoengines: (greasy grin)

[personal profile] talkstoengines 2013-04-04 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Only happens once a month," she says cheerily, giving him a little wave as she bounces off towards the showers.