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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-02-07 09:55 pm

twenty-eighth 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: It could just be the standard sensation of air on wet skin, but if you bother to check, you might notice the steam rising from your body, barely there and gone within a minute. By the time you get to the showers, it will be clear that it's not just taking you time to adjust. The room is cold — colder than usual, but no worse than the last jump. While it's nothing dangerous, it's certainly motivation to hurry through the usual routine and get dressed quickly.



It's getting closer.





YOUR EYES ARE OPEN.

KEEP LOOKING.


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.
deagle: (pic#7365077)

[personal profile] deagle 2014-02-14 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ good, that's how chris prefers to conduct these things. (at least your father hugged you, jax) he laughs at that comment on tara. ]

In my experience, the more pissed they get the more they care. She'll come around.

[ he's been there jax, he feels you. ]

Anytime. Though next time hopefully it won't be for rushing into something quite so needlessly dangerous.

[ there's the criticism. it's more directed at the situation than jax though, but it's anyone's guess from his tone. he'll lighten the conversation a bit, however: ]

I'm surprised you don't have any from home.
foundafamily: (1.1)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2014-02-14 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Just like Ellis, Firo's finishing up his post-jump routine with nothing out of the ordinary. Same old place, same old stuff in the locker. He lingers a little while after getting all set, watching for anything weird popping out of the lockers or for anyone he might want to catch up with.

He finds the latter when he spots Ellis. He's about to call out a greeting when he notices something else.

He's no stranger to people going around armed--he himself always has his knife with him--but it's been a while since he saw someone walking around with something like Ellis's machete. He raises an eyebrow. "Somebody's prepared. Don't people use those to cut through jungles and stuff?"
inafadingcrown: (soft as moonlight)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-14 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps you shall. Regardless, you will have what protection is in my power to give. I swear it.
fertilefeet: lyrics 'Will o' the Wisp' by Erutan (Nearing your side I become)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-02-14 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
A whimper escapes her and she doesn't want to look at him or near him but she does, trying control her shaking still. If only in the hope that his hold might slacken. But better that than the feeling of his mind around her. At least that pain would fade quickly.

Her eyes burn, just briefly, at the mention of her mother. Her mother who is kind and brave, intelligent and strong, everything she thinks he can't be. Not in the same way, never in the same way. And she almost wants to voice her thoughts. Almost but she hasn't the courage to even try.

"My forked tongue?" It comes out more quickly than she can consider whether it is wise. And not for the first time since waking on this ship, she wonders just what she'd done, or will do, to so earn his scorn. Aside from the obvious fact that she even exists.
deagle: (pic#7364974)

get on that jax (after you sleep on the couch a few weeks, clearly)

[personal profile] deagle 2014-02-14 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's obviously a conversation point that needs to be dragged out. probably best to let it drop. ]

I'll be sure to yell at him for both of us then.

[ another questionable joke, but chris is feigning pleasant for both of their sakes. it's been a rough jump for everyone. he turns towards where she gestures to get a look at it before asking. ]

Were you a doctor back home? [ legitimately curious, consider what's he's deciphered jax did back home. it's...interesting, to put it lightly. ]
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[personal profile] deagle 2014-02-14 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if anything that reaction just makes this worth it. remember when you came over to his locker and harassed him before he had a chance to settle in and see his daughter? chris sure does.

but that's not the point of this visit. ]


These visions people have been seeing, people moving out of the corner of their eye. Ever hear of them manifesting as someone who's never even been on the ship?

[ blissfully unaware that kate was ever here. ]
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (See me now ray of light in the moondance)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-02-14 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Artanis. That means a great deal to me. [Her smile is faint but genuine and she leans in again, wrapping her arms back around her friend.]

And you know that I will do whatever I can for you should you need me.
wolfchild: (horizon ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-14 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't call me lady. Or I'm going to have your tongue.

[ arya out. ]
inafadingcrown: (the hobbit side view)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-15 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
If only it were so simple. [A rueful little smile.] I fear my Lórien and your England are likely separated by more than leagues.
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-15 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
And the little half-bow that she gives in return is equally well practiced and automatic.

"We are indeed. It is pleasure, Elizabeth, even under present circumstances. I am called Galadriel."
inafadingcrown: (Warm as sunlight)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-15 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I know. [She embraces her back.] I wonder, at times, if this is not what it is like to have a sister.
inafadingcrown: (But if of ships I now should sing...)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-15 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"We are aboard a ship that sails among the stars." She replied, her expression showing plainly that she knew how ridiculous it sounds. "The Tranquility, it is called."

As ill-fitting a name as possible, she thought. But for the moment, she keeps that to herself.

"Will you walk with me, Master Baggins? It might be more pleasant, I think, to speak in the gardens." More pleasant and more private.

[personal profile] bearwitness 2014-02-15 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She glances at Will, a little perturbed although she can't pinpoint why. It's probably his fascination with the head.]

You okay there? I know it's one hell of a job done on it, but...

[personal profile] bearwitness 2014-02-15 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'd feel better if we could... I dunno, maybe cremate it?

[Someone already comes to mind when the thought comes up.]
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (See me now; I cannot leave this place)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-02-15 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs very softly.] I would like to think so. You already feel much like family, 'sister' seems appropriate.
inafadingcrown: (soft as moonlight)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-15 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Then we will face whatever may come together, as family should. [Should being the key word there. Luthien knows well enough that Galadriel's family has rarely been so simple.]
trouvaille: (ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ɢɪʀʟ ɪs ᴀʟʟ ʙᴀᴡᴅʏ.)

[personal profile] trouvaille 2014-02-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
( vampires and werewolves and witches, oh my-- Ilde would say that they don't, and in a manner of speaking, wouldn't precisely be wrong. they aren't, after all, quite the same as those elena's more familiar with. that, however, is semantics. )

I wouldn't know, I've-- not really spent much time in Virginia. Or America.

( she has been to the US, but even if Mystic Falls did exist, it's not exactly on the destination list for charity balls and the concert tours that come with them. much of the time ilde's spent overseas - and that's a lot of time - has been in hotel lobbies, ballrooms, boutiques and the backseats of town cars. her memories of places exist mainly as glances out windows and where she bought a particular purse or coat. )
wolfchild: (mislike ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-15 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

—Where did the brush go?
wolfchild: (instruction ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-15 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. [ she chews her lip. ] I saw Jax.

[ yelled at him tbh ]
afraidofthe: (magic mirror if you're able)

[personal profile] afraidofthe 2014-02-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay. "Captain Hook." Bigby kind of -- SQUINTS at this newcomer, because that verifies what he had initially suspected. But again, he can't just come out and say what's on his mind, which makes it all overly complicated.

Regardless, the other man is getting an introduction whether he asks for it or not.]


Name's... Bigby Wolf. Have you-- heard of me before?

[Is this the strangest welcome he's gotten or what.]
moonstruck: (nothing can hurt me today)

[personal profile] moonstruck 2014-02-15 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He knows that was likely to be a joke and not meant to be corrected upon, but -- he's in law, and it's difficult for him to not play the semantics game.] Rather, those that are quite indifferent to bullets was my meaning.

[But either way, she answers his question.] So this ship was a setting for... scientific experiments? Like something you may see in a film? [It's very unbelievable, all of this.]
moonstruck: (the world is a goldmine)

[personal profile] moonstruck 2014-02-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Well this just gets better and better.]

You almost make this-- ship sound sentient?
dashhole: (it's like this)

HI HOW ARE YA

[personal profile] dashhole 2014-02-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[A couple people did the same, actually, stopping to talk on their way out. Sometimes he's helpful, sometimes not. It's kind of a crapshoot.

Scout looks up at her and taps his hat, nodding.
]

Hey. [A non-committal shrug with one shoulder.] Fine, I guess. 'Cept for bein' here again.
allfatherissues: (This requires a double-take.)

[personal profile] allfatherissues 2014-02-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Whereas Ward's tone is bland, Loki's is an excellent example of patronizing.]

You. Following me. Certainly you did not think that I would not notice?

Who are you?
cons: (☢ derderder.)

[personal profile] cons 2014-02-15 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
-- 'Kay.

[ his arm moves around her shoulder and she's suddenly seriously glad she let herself barf her brains out by her pod, because her stomach does a stupid flipflop. and hey, she's not reading into it, he's just really hot. it's always fine by her if a really hot guy wants to shower with her. that's- totally happening. and she's totally fine with it. right. ]