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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.
humanistic: (listen - we all know rats like cheese)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-12 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Mitchell.

[He pushes away from the counter so he can stand straighter. It might look intimidating if he wasn't back to looking like such shit--but a little more vaguely. Everyday shit. It's easier now that he's more under control.]

And you're...
wolfchild: (bang ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-12 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Arya.

[ give her a moment, ] You're the drunk on the network!

[ one of them. whatever. point is she can safely say he is always in his cups. this explains everything. ]
humanistic: (suspicious - manipedis. guy stuff.)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-12 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, fucking hell. He pulls a face.]

Was drunk. Not the drunk. I've got a hell of a lot more drinking t' do before I'm known as the drunk.

[Right? Right.]

Who are you, then?
wolfchild: (drudgery ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-12 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I just told you. My name's Arya.

[ maybe he has hearing problems too. can too much drink do that? ]
humanistic: (grl pls - this isn't law school)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-12 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No-- yeah, I got that, thanks. I mean, you recognised me, so am I supposed to recognise you. Or are you just a spy?

[It's more teasing than anything--even if he's got lots of paranoia, and a healthy respect for kids being more than they seem--but whatever, still teasing.]
wolfchild: (horizon ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-12 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she pulls her sleeve back and holds up her arm: OPR » 017 » 084.

not only were they arguing with a kid, it also happened to be a girl.
]
humanistic: (riiiiight - take dead animals to the vet)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-12 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He squints, and leans forward a little--and then his face kind of collapses into a well-doesn't-this-just-fucking-figure look, and he leans back.]

Yeah. I knew it. I fucking knew it. [if only he'd staked money on her being a kid! and a girl. jeez. what is dignity.] You argue pretty well, for a kid. Or maybe because you're a kid.

...Not that we were any great competition at the time. [self-deprecating and honest.]
wolfchild: (wait ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-13 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
You were idiots, [ she agrees. ] Did you get tired of cults finally?
humanistic: (suspicious - manipedis. guy stuff.)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-13 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah thanks for being plain about it.]

It's not something you get tired of. We were just-- worried about a friend of ours. Are worried. And then my housemate, king of idiots, fucked up ringing her alone, and it all went sort of tits up from there.
wolfchild: (jape ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-13 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Tits up?

[ that has to be the weirdest description ever — so she's including it in her vocabulary, good job, mitchell. ]
humanistic: (think - so you know fuck alcohol)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-13 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[absolutely 0 regrets everyone should learn good slang.]

It's when something's broken, or ruined. [a beat. fairly:] And obviously not something you say in front of your mother. But maybe kids who raise wolves have mothers that are totally cool with 'tits' being thrown around in front of them, I wouldn't know.
wolfchild: (uh-huh ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-14 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah, about that... ]

If you say 'tits' in front of my lady mother, my brother will have your tongue. [ js. ]
humanistic: (yeah? - dude. you're not directing porn.)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-14 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that so?

[He sounds only mildly bothered--not because he's so great, just because threats are just threats. Though he's not quite certain that he could regrow a tongue. Probably. But it would be fucking painful.]

Intimate sort of punishment. Which one's your lady mother? [and uh--] That's lady, like a title?
wolfchild: (river ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-14 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ arya shifts her weight. ]

Lady Catelyn Stark of Winterfell.
humanistic: (eyebrow - i thought that was like touche)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-14 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Lady Catelyn Stark. I'll remember, when I meet her, No-- [He gestures, vaguely, toward his own chest.] --references.

Y'know--and I'm not exactly up on my chain-of-succession and titles knowledge, but--doesn't her being a lady make you a lady too?
wolfchild: (calling ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-02-14 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ technically she would be a princess ( thanks, robb ) but she hates that one even more than she does lady. ]

No. Well, yes, but— Don't call me that.
humanistic: (uh huh - this is a t shirt shop)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-02-14 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He raises his eyebrows.]

Aw, c'mon. Lady Arya. It's got a nice ring to it.
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. ]