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lчdíα ( вєttєr thαn αnч σthєr αlphα ) mαrtín ([personal profile] mathematically) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2013-05-07 11:13 pm

eighteenth 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.
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[personal profile] cargojet 2013-05-08 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's recognise that furious muttering anywhere. Tired as he is, Nathan pauses, towel hung about his waist, another over his shoulders, squinting at the back of the man's head. It's the transporters that really keys him in; this man has had his doubles, but Leonard McCoy is Leonard McCoy, and Nathan narrows his eyes a little more.

Well, well, well.
]

Look who the universe sends crawling back.

[ As close to a welcome back as Nathan means to give him, to be honest. Unfortunately the comment is punctuated by Izzie, the soaking wet black Labrador Retriever at Nathan's heel, who chooses this exact moment to square her four paws and shake all of the water out of her dripping coat. ]
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[personal profile] hypospray 2013-05-08 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ McCoy was about to reply before Izzie shook the water out of her coat. Now, it's an understandable reaction and he can't— blame the dog in the slightest, but it doesn't mean he's exactly pleased that the she does it. He shuts his eye once and takes a very deep breath before saying a single word. ]

Saying that helps more when I know who in the hell you actually are. [ A beat. ] Tell me she didn't have that blue goo on her.
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[personal profile] cargojet 2013-05-08 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
She did. Every animal on board has to go through the jump, same as us. She uh...puts up quite a fight.

[ Medical tranquilises the bigger animals, and Izzie has never liked the vets much. She knows the needle is coming every time they come down here, just like clockwork. ]

You don't remember the Tranquility at all, do you?
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[personal profile] hypospray 2013-05-08 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course she does. No living things, engineers notwithstanding because they're insane idiots, want to be shoved into tubes like that. If she didn't, I'd think there was something wrong with her.

[ Not exactly true, but he has got to admit that if he was her, he wouldn't want to be shoved into the pod any more than she does. ]

No, I'm just yanking your chain and I know your face, your name, and this deathtrap of a spaceship very well. [ McCoy, really, let's not today. ] Considering there isn't a single ship named the Tranquility in the whole of the Federation and your face is about as familiar to me as nothing, you can probably figure out the answer to that yourself.