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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.
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (you know; everybody loves you)

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[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-02-20 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I have always had a gift with flowers. I thought that growing some here might make me feel a bit closer to home.

[She hums a few notes, watching as a few more flowers sprout up around Frodo.]
boogiewoogiebugleboy: (Default)

[personal profile] boogiewoogiebugleboy 2014-02-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)

Well, it might not be finally.

[A pause.]

A lot of people came over early on, that's why.

windchasing: (04)

[personal profile] windchasing 2014-02-21 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Fuck off is the approximate eye-roll-based response.

But his jaw works for half a beat after. He has questions, of course. Where they are, what's going on, what's happened to Erik that he is, for all appearances, younger and somehow amnesiac - and there is no one he trusts less to answer those questions than the man in front of him, at any age. His gaze sticks on Erik's bloody shirt again. Instead: ]

There was a medical facility on the other side of that wall, was there not? Perhaps you can find a tissue, or someone who cares if you are concussed.

[ That's practically coddling, right there. ]
cargojet: (Nice to see you)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-02-21 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
A little bit.

[ But Nathan reached over and dropped a hand on Clara's shoulder, squeezing just gently, reassuringly. ]

I'm going to need a couple of days off before I come back in, but you'll make sure people know I'm alright, won't you?
parallels: (DECIDING ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2014-02-21 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She squeezes his hand on hers before nodding.]

I will. Promise.
cargojet: (Point seven percent)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-02-21 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ He inclines his head slightly, demonstrating his gratitude for her words. ]

She felt no pain, but she suffered, and my distress makes her suffer still. I have to be strong for her, and I will be. But first, I think, I need to rest. And she needs time to grow accustomed to this place too.

[ A relief fills his chest. Tauriel had been patient in listening to him, and thoughtful with her answers without either condemning or accepting wholesale his words. Nathan thought that she was a balanced thinker, as Aragorn had come to be after their initial...disagreements. The kind of thinker that he had expected Thranduil to be only to find his vision impaired by fear of anything disruptive. Nathan had had the opportunity to begin to understand when Galadriel had woven him the tale of their world's creation; a lulling beautiful music and a crashing maelstrom, where one side revered the beauty of one and saw nothing but chaos in the other, and one wrought chaos without realising the beauty within. The melody was the world, but each was too involved in their own to fathom the glory of what was created when they were woven together; dark and light, good and evil. ]

It's their move next. That's all we can do now; wait, and see if the walls start to fall any faster.
allfatherissues: (pic#6850689)

[personal profile] allfatherissues 2014-02-21 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The most patronizing you've heard of him thus far follows:] Are we to go about questioning other in this way? We may be here all day; it would be prudent if you spoke a bit more directly.
moonstruck: (is kept in our eyes)

[personal profile] moonstruck 2014-02-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Jump drive?

[A pause.]

Forgive me if I'm asking far too many questions for your liking. I imagine you might hear them often.
afraidofthe: (ominous shadows!!!)

[personal profile] afraidofthe 2014-02-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Bigby no longer seems all that intrigued by the hook itself; he's already established who this man apparently was. The real mystery (and sense of confusion) was further being revealed to him right now.

And so, he crosses his arms and frowns. Those descriptions are... conflicting.]


Last I checked, Red didn't have a whole lot of fur in general. Doesn't that usually -- apply to the wolf that was trying to... eat her?

[Awkward delivery of that last sentence? You bet.]
moonstruck: (the world is a goldmine)

[personal profile] moonstruck 2014-02-21 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Very reassuring.]

And so we're stranded with no rhyme or reason behind it?
inafadingcrown: (close up look down)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-21 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Her brow furrowing, she kneels down to Frodo's level, so that she can better meet his eyes.

"Were it within my power to return you now, I would, without a second thought."
sorrycharles: (helping)

[personal profile] sorrycharles 2014-02-21 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Practically. Erik blinks slow and uneven, calculation dragging at the process the same way his bruised brain drags at calculation.

It’s clear he’s in no great hurry to loft his nose back to fist-height with Pietro still on the scene.


But: ]


Are you sure you sure I haven’t found one already?


[ He tilts his head, just so. Collar bunched at his jaw. Curious in the worst kind of way. ]
Edited 2014-02-21 03:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] suddenlycaptain 2014-02-21 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking I'd just punch you.

[ Personal touch, you know. ]

If we're going to continue having this conversation, I need to put on pants.

[ And a shit. And... clothes in general, really. ]
killarevolution: ([C] I remixed a remix.)

[personal profile] killarevolution 2014-02-21 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks her way- actually really seeing her.] Huh. Almost didn't notice.

[IS HE LYING??? Possibly. A little. He's had a hard week and Carolyn naked is hardly something to go O___O at when he's seen it before on better days.]
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2014-02-21 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Of course we will. [Galadriel sounds utterly certain. After all, she's been here for long enough to know.] But if you should have need of company, you must feel free to call upon me. [She imagines that it would be terribly lonely to arrive here with no one to greet you.]
acapriciousthing: (Follow you into the dark)

[personal profile] acapriciousthing 2014-02-21 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
When that happens [And it does happen, so very often] usually what they want most is for you to make the most of the life they left you with.
parallels: (LOST ★ you are the doctor)

shit i am so sorry about this

[personal profile] parallels 2014-02-21 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Believe me. I can imagine what it's like to meet someone after they've traveled with the Doctor. How it might come across. Sometimes, I cringe at myself when I talk about him.

[And she rarely talks honestly about how she feels about him. But when Ianto mentions the Doctor showing up, she frowns.]

I'd rather her not show up. He'd be miserable in this place.
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[personal profile] longestnose 2014-02-21 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Fili moves them quickly through the shower area, then, and into the lockers.]

The number on your arm will correspond to one of the lockers--there should be some clothing in there for you. If not, I'll attempt to find something for you.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2014-02-21 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Silver lining.

[He plants his hands on his hips, frowning.]

... God, this place is a fuckin' weird place.
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[personal profile] unforgives 2014-02-21 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't either but that's what most people seem to think it is, anyway.

[she nods at first] I can understand that, it just takes some getting used to as well.

As for where we go next— well there are showers just nearby to get cleaned up and you'll want to find your locker too. It corresponds with the tattoo on your arm— but inside that you might find some of your belonging.
suddenlycaptain: (we can truly say)

[personal profile] suddenlycaptain 2014-02-21 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Carolyn sighs. ]

It's the jump, what did you expect?

[ Don't go spreading that around, Haymitch, people will get the wrong idea. ]

Watch the cats for me.
needsheadphones: (neutral | table)

[personal profile] needsheadphones 2014-02-21 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I haven't been here for long, but... I'd say every other month?

[ welcome to space you are probably gonna not like it ]
needsheadphones: (neutral | listen)

[personal profile] needsheadphones 2014-02-21 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of ended up here before I could do that.
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[personal profile] avengeful 2014-02-21 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Sam's curled up on a bed with his shirt removed and a pad of gauze on his back, on his side. He's still pale and shaky and looks prone to fading in and out of consciousness -- feels cold, sleepy, distant -- but he still manages to hear Dean.]

Feel like crap.

[His eyelids flutter and he closes his eyes, and they feel sort of stuck like that.]

Dean -- [No passing out yet, Sammy.] Azazel... Got all the kids t'gehter like me... Whuh' happened?

[Nailed it, perfect conversationalist.]
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[personal profile] lecentre 2014-02-21 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I can be quite disagreeable if I put my mind to it."

Insisted-- though it was probably very far from the truth. He cannot recall the names of any who dislike him or find him disagreeable except, perhaps, Bahorel. "Do not stop me... But I beg that you might join me, even, from time to time. That would make me the happiest of heathens."