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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.
captainfuckingmagic: (uh: up hopey idfk sure)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ He turns around when it sounds like someone maybe wants to get by him - because so far he's determined he knows approximately zero (0%) people here, and that's really the only explanation - but then realizes he's standing at his own locker. By then he's already turning anyway though, which is good, because he'd at least have to turn around and see who was trying to get his attention, curiosity having been piqued and all. A few weeks of following Perry around LA, trying to get into fewer problems than he did in his first week there as a whole, have him replying before he's even finished getting a good look at the lady, although what he has noticed mean he definitely wants a good look. ]

Can I help you, honey?
trouvaille: (ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ’s ɴᴏ sᴜᴄʜ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀs ɢʜᴏsᴛs.)

[personal profile] trouvaille 2014-02-18 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Then you probably have enough of a broad idea of how other people interact with each other to grasp the judicious application of sarcasm, since I'm fairly sure you peppered that last remark with at least a hint of irony.

( her unnecessarily detailed analysis is both a useful thing to distract herself with, and extraordinarily matter of fact in how she is openly and casually picking apart what of him she can recognize and understand. )

It's more likely that you were being sassy in a Tommy Lee Jones sort of way than that you were actually raised by wolves with American accents.
jurisimpudent: (erm)

[personal profile] jurisimpudent 2014-02-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[A hesitation, and then he says:]

I like to be of help.

[It's a non-confession, but it still feels like something weighty. It's an admission, if only in his mind, that he wishes he had a place to fit in in their group.]
redhotsummers: ([a/c] im fine)

[personal profile] redhotsummers 2014-02-18 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you were.

[Alex deflates just slightly, running a hand through his hair. It's a sure sign he's uncomfortable; trying to speak on things like this just made him feel like a jumbled ball of stupid. He's gotten better about it, but in some ways, with Charles and Erik showing up, he's reverted in little ways.]

I know you want to help here. But you don't know how things work. You haven't been here long enough. All I'm asking is that you really listen and think about what I'm saying. I'm not the same kid that you got out of jail. I've had to live through this place. So just please listen.
onetouch: (❦in the swing of things)

[personal profile] onetouch 2014-02-18 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh good harry is rambling, he is speaking ned's language. all of this word vomit is met with an understanding nod. ]

Kidnapped is... probably the most accurate, if not the best.

However, if you are having a meltdown, I would argue that is, in fact, a bad thing.
the_other_eight: (pic#7272026)

[personal profile] the_other_eight 2014-02-18 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[The likeness is startling, and Pepper's brows raise as her eyes widen slightly. Give Tony a shave, a haircut and remove some of his age and you've got this guy. Still, even if it was curiosity that brought her attention, it's a bit rude to say that. Instead she offers him a professional smile and her hand.]

Pepper Potts, and I'm guessing you've just arrived.

[It's not too hard to spot the new arrivals.]
dogbane: (hide)

[personal profile] dogbane 2014-02-18 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
O fuk please no. William sees a man with a gun and makes a split-second effort to stop that turns into a scrambling, loose-joined effort to flee. He doesn't know shit about Grimes, but the last time a white guy came at him with a gun, you know.

The fact that William is in an unfamiliar uniform of his own may or may not be reassuring, a flash of dark green and gold as he tumbles off behind another pod, elbow up, eyes big in his head, his peculiarly anachronistic 90's sneakers squeaking on the floor. His whole face says holy shit but not out loud, some part of his brain that happens to be working independently of the skittery lizard functions thinking that the guailo's gun looks kind of different, very vintage, that's interesting, from far away and off the trajectory.

He hits one or two things on the way to stuffing himself behind a desk-height projection from the wall, hard enough to bruise but nothing worse than that. Winds up squinting against either the cold lights or oncoming bullets.
captainfuckingmagic: (uh: doing it wrong)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh don't worry - harry has a lot more words where those came from. give him a little while longer to get his feet solidly under himself and he'll start talking your ears off. ]

Well, yeah, but in terms of accuracy. [ Wow he's been around Perry too long if he's worrying about that. Moving on. ] But seriously, what the hell is going on? One minute I'm bored out of my mind tailing this guy, next I'm waking up in a bad Christmas candy shoppe porno in space. What gives?
onetouch: (rrrr!!!!)

[personal profile] onetouch 2014-02-18 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Why would anyone... do that in a candy shop? [ brb shuddering. ] And on Christmas.

It's-- maybe you should sit down.
Edited (#yolo) 2014-02-18 04:43 (UTC)
captainfuckingmagic: (no: well fuck sure)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Not really a face he's either used, or - sadly - entirely unused to receiving, for various reasons. He sort of shrugs off whatever reaction it was that she just had - for the moment, anyway. That's the sort of thing that can percolate in his head for later without him really thinking about it too much, and then wa-bam, suddenly a thought.

But okay, sure. He's finally got clothes on, he can shake peoples' hands again, and he starts this new trend by shaking hers. ]
Harry Lockhart, fresh off the hellwagon. You been around a while?
coolcubed: (∂ assessing.)

[personal profile] coolcubed 2014-02-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hi, Ned. I'd mention how weird it is to bring a pie maker to outer space, but considering I'm a community college student, I think that would be hypocritical. [ He won't make any special messianic claims on the Tranquility. Abed visibly processes the more outlandish aspects of this information. Shirley was or is in a generic New York City where she used to work with a pie maker, because they got kidnapped there. Interdimensional/inter-universal kidnappings?

That's a dark turn. The entire group might just be scattered all across space and time and universes. Considering the general idea that there's a timeline for everything, they technically probably are. Which is problematic. ]
And I'm pretty familiar with the possibility of alternate timelines, so you could sound a lot crazier.
dino_zarf: (Default)

[personal profile] dino_zarf 2014-02-18 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Wash rubs his temples. That's... another one of those questions]

Hard to be rightly sure. Some sort of ship's computer's our best guess right now. Not like anything I've ever seen before though.
onetouch: (❦kiss me hard before you go)

[personal profile] onetouch 2014-02-18 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ he sighs, but it's a pointed sigh of relief this time. ]

You have no idea how relieved I am to hear you say that.
captainfuckingmagic: (uh: what the hell did you say)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Really? Out of that idea, you object to the timing and location and not to the entirety of the aspects that make this a 'bad' porno?

Weird. ]


Are you serious or are you just trying to fuck with me in advance? My legs still feel a little jiggly from whatever suspended animation they were drawn into, standing's good for them.

[personal profile] wheeloffire 2014-02-18 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Frodo kind of had the idea that this place was no good; it was just how the place looked. It was odd and gray, and rather scary for a little hobbit. But hearing from someone who had been here (and apparently knew of him before?) for some time to know enough that it was a bad place made that feeling all the more worse.

"Though I don't remember, the same to you." Might as well try to keep the conversation light! "How long have you been here?"
the_other_eight: (pic#7272031)

[personal profile] the_other_eight 2014-02-18 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
About two months.

[It's admittedly a short time for someone who's welcoming newcomers, but Pepper likes to stick to her strengths, and this is one of them.]

Try not to be too daunted by all this, it's actually relatively easy to get used to.

[And they're looking for a way out after all.]
onetouch: (❦i'm finding it hard to breathe)

[personal profile] onetouch 2014-02-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sitting is more of a metaphor for bad news in this case than a literal direction, though I am told it can help in cases of shock. [ o well he'll just prepare 2 catch you harry. ]

I'm not... lying; you are in outer space by way of an unknown source and you are stuck here for the forseeable future.

Can I get you anything?
overthought: (❝ oh i'm the strangest thing you've seen)

[personal profile] overthought 2014-02-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I guess I can't argue with priorities.

[Good keep rubbing that feels good. until she turns around and washes her back off. so, ward has just happened to see cortana naked.]
overthought: (Default)

[personal profile] overthought 2014-02-18 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[she couldn't blame him, she's been in the same place as he has. she's just been lucky that she's been working in comms. but, if she could develop a ship-wide monitoring program, she could.

she's usually the one monitoring the ship.
]

That's the only way to put it, sadly.
coolcubed: (∂ ...oh.)

[personal profile] coolcubed 2014-02-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. [ Magazine: check. Abed puts it back into his locker, where he's generally assuming it has better chances of staying in one piece. If not, well. That will just have to be on his conscience in the future for making assumptions.

And he gives Spike's "something I don't know request" a fair 5.5 seconds of thought. He's got plenty of miscellaneous information to pass around stored in his brain- Jeff calls him a computer for a reason. This seems like a pretty odd time to be concerned with trivia education to him tbh, but he also considers that he has nothing better to do. And that super old vampires are probably bound to be weirder to gain an understanding of than average humans. ]


Did you know they originally cast Chris Farley as Shrek?

[personal profile] wheeloffire 2014-02-18 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
...Sam wasn't here?

Frodo frowned as his stomach sank to his feet. How could he not be here? Samwise had been right by him before...He looked up to Galadriel, stopping there on the spot. A horrible feeling overtook Frodo then. Could it be possible that he left Sam there? Sam and Smeagol both...?

It look a lot for him to muster up the words. If Sam was left in Minas Morgul, he would never be able to forgive himself. "Have, have I left Sam? I must go back to him! Please!"
captainfuckingmagic: (wait: this shit better be improving your)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ hdu harry isn't going to like, womanly faint or anything ok

he's a hxc LA PI he can handle some bad news



well.

he didn't faint, at least. ]
What?

[ No, really, what? Because, there's like... There's looking like space, and then there's actually fucking being space. ] How the fuck? That doesn't even make sense, that doesn't - that makes no sense. I was just in LA. Why would anyone want me here?
onetouch: (❦head out the window again)

NOW GO TO SLEEP WITH ME

[personal profile] onetouch 2014-02-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not certain there's any rhyme or reason to the... abduction process?

Welcome, in any case.
captainfuckingmagic: (wait: yellow that down)

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ well she's apparently clearly more capable and handy and whatever than he is, so two months might as well be half a lifetime in Harry-years.

besides it actually is like four years in Los Angeles time, so. ]


Is there actually a way to not be daunted by all this? I don't think there is. They don't really give you a whole graded slope curve to work with, just ring the bell and hope you don't pull an Amelia Adkinson. [ she wrecked the curve for every single math test he took in high school until someone finally took the hint and skipped her up a grade and a half. he's still not sure how that works, but it makes her the metaphor forever anyway. ]

How did you get settled in?
captainfuckingmagic: (uh: still can't math)

oh baby a proposition to sleep together on the first date how positively racy

[personal profile] captainfuckingmagic 2014-02-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ no that's worse

random is definitely worse

at least without randomness he had a chance of going to someone to complain that hey, he really wasn't the guy they wanted for the job. Random meant nobody cared, meant there was no one to consult, meant that he would be stuck here, wondering for all eternity it was that Harmony said she was going to tell him when she got back tomorrow afternoon. ]


Thanks. Short end of the welcome committee, but. How long have you been here, anyway?