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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 (See me now ray of light in the moondance)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-03-19 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
It is alright, you do better than others.

[She shakes her head, trying to imagine being on this ship for that long It would be unbearable. As pleasant as the gardens are, they aren't the Forest of Neldoreth. She misses Menegroth and all of Doriath.]

I imagine you are, by far, the the most knowledgeable of us. Perhaps I can rely upon you should I ever become lost?

[There's a good chance of it happening. Even if her home literally translates to 'thousand caves.']
51stcentury: (smile coat)

[personal profile] 51stcentury 2014-04-04 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? It's a talent. [Jack says, with a smirk to demonstrate the fact that he's taking the mickey.

As for the part about getting lost...]
Well, I can't guarantee that I know the ship inside and out. I don't know that anyone can claim that, especially when the corridors seem to purposely shift on you sometimes, but. If nothing else, I do know a thing or two about being a passenger here, though.
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (Don’t ask me)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-04-06 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It is more knowledge than I can claim for myself, at the very least.

[It's difficult enough to adjust to a ship that sails the stars but shifting corridors? How is that even possible? Wouldn't the ship break or something?]

How can the corridors shift at all?
51stcentury: (eyebrow raise)

[personal profile] 51stcentury 2014-04-18 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs slightly.] I'm not gonna begin to understand it myself. I mean, if I have to say, I might suggest there could be some sort of spacial disruption on them so it's less of them shifting themselves and more them shifting around us.
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (to follow where you lead)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-04-19 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[About 50% of that went over her head.] Spacial.... disruption? That is not something I have ever heard before.