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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2013-12-07 11:17 pm

twenty-sixth 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: Your average, run-of-the-mill jump—except some characters don't seem to be waking up from stasis like they should.



Don't worry.





THEY NEEDED THE REST.


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] rancorously 2013-12-11 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's actually been one of my better weeks.

[ that's— not entirely a lie. he has had way worse weeks, and they maybe have been relatively recent. it's strange, how this conversation feels more at ease than most of his normal ones, and if he was so inclined, he might just back away from it, but people's pods aren't opening and— well it won't kill him, probably. ]

You're not the only one capable of doing that and mine was destroyed afterward. [ that's putting it lightly. ] It expects, it's not a they situation.
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[personal profile] a1 2013-12-27 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for you.

[ not like she's bitter or anything. really, teresa is just hoping that means her time here isn't going to be as nightmarish as the maze, but why hold her breath for something like that?

then she turns her body, resting her back against the lockers. her eyebrows lift slightly. now she's listening. ]


What do you mean it's not a they? Who is it?
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[personal profile] rancorously 2013-12-27 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I know better than to enjoy it.

[ it sounds pessimistic, and he knows it, but nico's life is a series of bad things happening, it's a valid choice to think that something else bad is going to happen. because it always does.

he shrugs a little, like what he's saying isn't strange. ]


It's not a combination of people. [ a beat. ] What it is depends on who you ask.