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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.
askedtobe: (weep little lion man)

[personal profile] askedtobe 2014-03-24 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. Any time.

[ flicking nathan a smile, it disappears in an instant and peter shoves his hands into his pockets, visibly trying not to be perturbed. but he's already turning and waiting for nathan to follow him back out of the medbay. ]
cargojet: (Default)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-03-25 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, that was definitely a something. Nathan shot his brother a harder look. ]

What is it?
askedtobe: (time to go to war)

[personal profile] askedtobe 2014-03-29 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
What is what?

[ Peter rolls his eyes back towards his brother and waits, as if expecting to fill in his irritations for him. Not that he's perturbed with Nathan about anything. ]
cargojet: (Villainous headtilt)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-04-07 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that look, Pete. It's the look that says that I'm missing something, or I don't really get it. It's--it's that look.

[ He scowls, shakes his head. ]

Hey, on the level goes both ways, you know.
askedtobe: (weep little lion man)

[personal profile] askedtobe 2014-04-13 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry about it, yeah? It's nothing.

[ It's his turn to clap Nathan on the shoulder, urging in along out towards the exit of the medbay. ] I'm fine and you do get it. You didn't miss anything.
cargojet: (Let's get political)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-04-16 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ The scowl doesn't subside. Peter is keeping something from him, but after everything, getting punched and bruised and beaten up, he's honestly too grateful to his little brother to give him such a hard time, so he lets himself be steered out, shaking his head slowly. ]

Alright, but next time don't think I'm gonna let it go this easily. You heading up or down?
askedtobe: (something grew out of nothing)

[personal profile] askedtobe 2014-04-16 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Heading up.

[ Peter glances towards the lifts before looking back to Nathan, eyebrows raised. ] You coming?
cargojet: (Giggles)

[personal profile] cargojet 2014-04-19 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm coming, Pete. Lead the way.

[ Trailing after his younger brother. What was the world coming to? ]