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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.
ex_heightens219: (i know it's madness to play these odds)

[personal profile] ex_heightens219 2014-02-27 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well that's a weird response. elena knows better than to ask, but she can't help the curious look she send elijah. she has no idea what he could possibly want with hayley -- if it were klaus she would guess he wanted to turn her into a hybrid, but elijah... she can't even begin to guess at his motivation. ]

Of course. Let me know if you need help with anything and I'll do my best, okay? [ not that elijah would be needing much help -- thousand year old vampire, and all -- but she can't help it, being helpful is her default setting. ]
cogere: (HINT.)

[personal profile] cogere 2014-02-28 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ at the offer, he smiles softly. he doubts he'll need it, but it wouldn't be the first time... and he appreciates the sentiment, particularly coming from elena. ]

Of course. And if you require assistance, you need only ask.

[ though she has more than enough people at her disposal, he suspects. it's unsurprising. people are drawn to her compassion -- to the virtues she shares with others so easily. ]
ex_heightens219: (everything floats down here)

[personal profile] ex_heightens219 2014-03-03 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I might have to take you up on that someday. Katherine just showed up here, too.

[ that... was probably not the best way to tell elijah that his ex is on the ship, but elena wasn't exactly thinking about that at the moment. she's thinking of katherine's penchant for pretending to be her, of the damage she could do here. if she wanted to pretend to be elena at robb, or nathan, or any one of her new friends... she could do a lot of damage. not to mention the havoc she could wreak on her family. ]
cogere: (APPRAISE.)

[personal profile] cogere 2014-03-08 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Katerina. [ there's a loaded fondness there. it's complicate. ] I've to surmise my standing with her. [ because something is different. he knows that much. ] I hope she hasn't caused trouble for you already.

[ he knows how much katherine hates elena, how little she cares for the girl who shares her face. if she can kill jeremy gilbert, is there anything she wouldn't do? ]