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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.
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[personal profile] overthought 2014-02-14 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
[right. derek hates contact- she mumbles a quick apology, rubbing her hand as if to make it muscle memory not to touch him. she exhales, wondering where she could have lost him.]

You'd think that he'd be impossible to lose. [her hands are on her hips, even as she stands on her tip toes to look around for him (it doesn't do much, she's a total of 5'2 on her tip toes.]

It's good to see you. [a little breathy, odd considering that they've only met once but when you're given a second chance at life don't be picky right?]

altercate: (agony agony.)

[personal profile] altercate 2014-02-14 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Check the showers?

[ derek sliding his hands into his pockets, rocking a step back. he doesn't want an apology, doesn't want any of it. even if it is amusing, watching her try to see over the people around them. ]

If he showed up in the jump you haven't lost him.

[ good to see him. derek's thrown by it, but the surprise doesn't register on his face for more than half a moment. ]

You got someone else to zip you up this time.
overthought: (❝ you're serious?  ❞)

[personal profile] overthought 2014-02-14 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
He was in the showers with me.

[which makes it seem a lot more romantic than it is (or is it), but she can't find him and it perplexes her. she just got him back, after all. that aside, she turns to face him when derek mentions her jumpsuit. cortana spreads her palms in front of him, wiggling her fingers gently before brightly adding:]

Getting used to those fine motor skills. Besides, why do you think I need to find him? Someone has to do the heavy lifting around here.
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[personal profile] altercate 2014-02-25 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Zippers aren't exactly heavy lifting.

[ though derek's eyebrows are raised, like he's going to inquire as to what exactly she means about showering, but has thought better of it. it's not his business. derek's still not sure why she's here, talking to him. surely there's more entertaining conversational partners. ]
overthought: (❝ you're serious?  ❞)

[personal profile] overthought 2014-03-05 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
That was a joke, in case you didn't get it.

[what on earth is she going to do with your derek? the fact is that she needs someone to nervously talk to while the chief is gone. she doesn't want it to be a trick by the ship that he's here, or get her hopes up too high.

it's evident the way that she just rocks her ankles back and forth.
]