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lчdíα ( вєttєr thαn αnч σthєr αlphα ) mαrtín ([personal profile] mathematically) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2013-04-07 10:58 pm

seventeenth 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.
wolfdreamer: (distrust - time can't be given back)

[personal profile] wolfdreamer 2013-04-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes you are. I know you are. And even if you weren't, it's still more dangerous than any place you've ever been.
alaspooryork: (unarmored: are you jesting)

[personal profile] alaspooryork 2013-04-17 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[This is all very confusing. Perhaps Gamma is involved somehow.]

All of these individuals have arrived as I did? To what end?
prima_facie: (pic#5320584)

[personal profile] prima_facie 2013-04-17 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Eric's over twice as old as Hal. Godric's twice as old as Eric. They might sparkle in the sunlight for all I know, I've been too busy trying to stay out of their way.
sundroplet: (pic#5994858)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
N-no! Of course not. I...have a weapon and a - a -

A chameleon!

[ On her shoulder, Pascal bothers to look intimidating. ]

And therefore I am not afraid. At all.
wolfdreamer: (stare - young today)

[personal profile] wolfdreamer 2013-04-17 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of all the stories that he has heard of other worlds, Bran has learned that none of them are safe or easy. There are some safer than others, yet each still has its dangers. He isn't a stupid child, so he knew that already--but it's different to hear it, and different, too, to see the sadness on Prim's face. There are people who deserve easy and safe worlds. Prim is one of them. Maybe a knight would go back with her, to Panem. Maybe a knight would stop people from killing her friends, and would carry the broken children to maesters and houses of healing, to be tended and cared for.

But Bran is no knight. He can only look at Prim, stupidly, and feel sad for her and for the people of her world. There is sadness in Westeros too, but it only makes him sadder still for Prim, that she would have to feel any of that.]


When you go back home-- [He looks down at the robotic legs, ducking his head a little so he need not meet her eyes.] When you really go back home, I mean--when they figure out how to send us back. I think you should take my robotic legs with you.

[He had thought of taking them--would it even be possible? But if it was, then Prim should have them, for some broken boy back in District Twelve.]

They will better help someone in Panem. Someone can study them and learn how they were made, and then they will have robotic legs for the crippled children very soon. That would be good, wouldn't it?
humanistic: (glare - it's not Saved by the Bell)

[personal profile] humanistic 2013-04-17 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus.

[He's not easily impressed, but-- look, anything older than an Old One deserves a healthy distance, can't blame Cutler for that. And something of Mitchell's guarded expression drops--maybe it's the Twilight joke; maybe it's the brief and weird vampire camaraderie--whatever, for a minute, he feels less of the choke of distrust.]

So definitely sleeping in coffins, then. I'll watch out for them. [A beat, and he adds:] Thanks.

[The lift doors open, and there's the corridor, but Mitchell doesn't leave just yet. He looks over at Cutler again, harder.]

Thanks, yeah. Y'know, you're weirdly helpful.
bring_em_down: (Default)

[personal profile] bring_em_down 2013-04-17 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[....Welp.]

I'll admit, I've never not seen an alien run from a chameleon. Sounds like a solid plan, there.
sundroplet: (Default)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you really think we could do it? Here? We can make floating lanterns?

[ and then, the idea seems to really sink in. ]

We can make floating lanterns. We can make floating lanterns!

[ Pascal nods on Prim's shoulder, evidently as pleased as Rapunzel herself. ]

That's the best idea ever!
sundroplet: (pic#5994846)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
No one else. That was kinda the point of the tower.
sundroplet: (pic#5994821)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
She just knows this thing. And she worries, which means there is something to worry about. She wouldn't just tell me about it if it wasn't true.

[ she wraps one lock of golden hair around her finger. ]

Then why am I here? You're here too, maybe they kidnapped both for our hair!
sundroplet: (pic#5994795)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And vibrant! Look at them, she's obviously smart and filled with a vibrant personality!
sundroplet: (pic#5994943)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
See? Ha! This is exactly why I am entirely fearless.
firstofficer: (✩UHURA:: strength.lean.down.)

[personal profile] firstofficer 2013-04-17 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ their lips meet and hold there. spock goes still against her, fingers slipping from her arm to rest delicately upon her waist- keeping her fixed in place as precisely as he keeps himself. the only two still points in the moving universe.

she apologizes, and spock acknowledges her sense of loss in it, but also dismisses it's importance. he has experienced her loss, and they have shared a handful of experiences, but they are not wholly necessary. what retains significance is their relation to one another. that despite time and space and memory, points in varying continuums where they might co-exist simultaneously- there is trust. the reach for a point of connection. that one thing, if nothing else, remains unchanged for them.

when they part at length, he doesn't move far. his palms move over her hips- finding a place for himself just beneath her ribcage, the pads of his thumbs tracing the curve at the base of her ribcage. his nose brushes her forehead, followed by his mouth, a steady murmur against her skin. ]


Where are your quarters located?
humanistic: (glare - i'm troubled and confused)

[personal profile] humanistic 2013-04-17 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[The smell of the blood is thick in his nose; when Mitchell swallows, he can practically taste it, and he sort of stumbles forward, thrown off by the sudden confrontation. It will be disgusting, it will be cold and thick, and yet he still wants it. Even cold would be better than nothing. At least it would take the edge off, but he can't.

Instead, Mitchell rubs a hand over his mouth, hard, and tears his eyes away, looking anywhere but at the other vampire.]


Thanks. But I'm-- [It would be stupid to claim being clean when he's practically drooling over someone else's meal of old blood. And there's always that little touch of shame, isn't there, because being clean means being weaker, and he hates that he thinks in those terms, that the thought even occurs to him--]

The bagged stuff wouldn't do me any good. [And, darkly, he adds:] Better not t' sit out in the open like that, even if there's no peasant mobs storming the castle.
realslimstrider: (You ready for this much cool?)

[personal profile] realslimstrider 2013-04-17 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
If you can't take a joke, that's your business man. I am here to light up the place. [Another joke. As he turns the illumination back off and stretches his wings. Davesprite is careful not to knock anyone with them. Last thing he wants is a snapped feather or something.]

Anyway, you'd think that but so many just stop and stare. It's like they never saw someone part bird before. Kinda funny in a, dude look in the mirror way.
goldshirt: (lets keep moving ✬)

[personal profile] goldshirt 2013-04-17 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's right there, on the edge of his tongue, the hysterical I lost him, but Kirk's teeth click softly as he holds it in. that wasn't something he could lay on her, not as a member of his crew. he was meant to be a captain, a leader, and putting his insecurity on display wasn't an option.

maybe that had been his mistake, when those nightmares had hit. when he'd felt Vulcan cracking apart under his feet, when he'd relived Tarsus IV, and when he'd let them see how hard it had rocked his foundations.

she's just arrived, and he knows how disorienting the jump can be, how the first time you can't even really trust your own memory. there is so much he wants to tell her, but knows that the immediate is inappropriate. a debriefing later, once she's settled, once Spock has come out of his twenty four hour meditation, then there will be time for it.

to tell her about Smiley, about the way the ship changes of it's own accord, of how they've found black holes within it's walls. about the manticores that had human DNA, about Data and La Forge and Deanna Troi from the future, from Enterprise-D. of the wraith and that they'd discovered there were people on board who knew their entire life's history. of the people that have gone walkabout in the ship and returned with their minds fractured and tampered with.]


Commander Spock is here. Lieutenant Sulu went missing in the ship before the jump. [because she should know the status of the crew, and his voice remains even, despite how badly he wants to go and check to see if somehow, in some way, he might have missed Sulu in his chamber. the anxiety creases in the corners of his eyes as he meets her gaze] We'll have a debriefing in twenty four hours, Spock'll need time to meditate after the jump.
andblockbuster: (I brought you back with a spell card.)

[personal profile] andblockbuster 2013-04-17 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[The longer this conversation goes on, the more Topher has no idea how to deal with it.]

Uh... There's a good chance? Maybe? [Topher rolled his shoulders in a shrug.] Some people have pretty much everyone they know here with them and some people get very used to being alone. It's like a crapshoot. Or a social life lottery.
Edited 2013-04-17 18:56 (UTC)
makedo: (☠ i d i o c y)

[personal profile] makedo 2013-04-17 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ almost everything that brad says is, to some extent, tinged with sarcasm. that doesn't mean it's not true. ]

These? No. But there's werewolves here, too. And vampires apparently, though I've yet to talk to one.
andblockbuster: (Who in God's green Smurf are you?)

[personal profile] andblockbuster 2013-04-17 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
And... I don't know where I was going with that.

[And then Topher blinks. Guess who has never even realized that Ariadne and Hayley look alike before now. THIS GUY.]

...Oh my God, I never even noticed. That's so weird.
testgasm: <lj site="livejournal.com" user="relicfragments"> (UHHHHHHhh true)

[personal profile] testgasm 2013-04-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Topher oh my GOD]

Well, yeah, I mean, Hayley's a bit younger, and she's got--she's got shorter hair, but if you sort of--

[He closes one eye and extends his hands in front of him, shaping them as if blocking the hair on an invisible person.]

Same face.
andblockbuster: (I brought you back with a spell card.)

[personal profile] andblockbuster 2013-04-17 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Topher mimics Wheatley's gesture to see for himself, imagining and-] Oh my God.

[Yeah, you covered that, Topher.] I mean, I kinda sorta noticed, but I thought they were sisters, despite the fact that Ari and Hayley never actually mentioned having a sister ever. I just figured it just never came up.
foolproofed: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (slow clap)

[personal profile] foolproofed 2013-04-17 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Social life lottery's a good way of looking at it....

[Doctor Bennett totally said to avoid you ... Choices, choices. He's still covered in grime, actually. Still speckled and stained by the last day on earth--literally, the last day. In fact, he's supposed to be on his way soon--stopped to finish up his pot outta impulse and want. But it's kinda hard to just run off screaming from your other you.]

I mean, it'd be good to see em after all that shit back home.

... What about you? World still intact?
wolfchild: (jape ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2013-04-17 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you mad?
wolfchild: (criticize ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2013-04-17 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't know where I've been. Leave me alone.
sundroplet: (pic#5994850)

[personal profile] sundroplet 2013-04-17 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not the one who has a direwolf without a name.