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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-09-08 12:00 am

thirty-fifth 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: You wake feeling cold and alone. There is a strange sense of emptiness, and the jump holds no surprises for you. There is nothing buffering the jump sickness and disorientation for you this month, and those still suffering the lingering effects of August's plot may find it more difficult than usual to get through the post-jump routine.

New arrivals will find messages spraypainted across their lockers telling them not to follow their tattoo numbers, and instead to find a room on Floors 001-010.


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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.
sacrifica: (EIGHT)

[personal profile] sacrifica 2014-09-24 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm Elena. And you sound like you might actually be able to get it."

At least with the way she was explaining it. It sounded a little more confident than anything Elena thought she'd ever be able to muster about it.

"Or you've just been here long enough that it's easier too say."

Or a mix of the two. Maybe being there a long time had helped her.
sacrifica: (TWELVE)

[personal profile] sacrifica 2014-09-24 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then you've helped me already."

Everything that he'd told Caroline was likely everything that Caroline had told her, unless she'd met someone else too. Elena wouldn't put that past her friend but either way this guy had helped out in some way. Even just helping Caroline to calm back down after finding out she'd been kidnapped - that would not have been a fun ordeal and there was already one freaking out girl.

"I'm Elena."
sacrifica: (SEVEN)

[personal profile] sacrifica 2014-09-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Elena is glad that Caroline is there, and that she reacted quicker to the contents of that locker than she had. Was it a joke? Did someone know?

Someone had to have known to put some blood bags in there, and for Caroline to hide it she's guessing that not everyone here is a vampire. Not a ship full of vampires. Even better.

"We're rooming together. After college we can handle it." They could more than handle it, and they both likely needed it. Especially for just getting used to being there.

"Was that not in your locker too?" The you know what, Caroline.
wolfchild: (missing ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-09-24 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ arya scoffs. ]

You'd have to catch me first, and you're always slow.

[ she slips on her boots though the laces remain untied. dressed now, she turns around and crosses her arms over her chest. ]

If you're quite through criticizing how I look, you can take those things. [ she gives one of the clubs a kick. ] Melt them down or wreck them or whatever you want to do with them.
wolfchild: (friend ❱❰)

[personal profile] wolfchild 2014-09-24 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Or you could be lying.

[ exposed to the magic and the impossible, and she doubts the existence of any man no matter how magical who would be kind to everyone. it sounds exactly like the sort of story parents would tell their children to get them to behave. ]
humanistic: (neutral - I can do the worm pretty good)

oh well i accept being a sisterwife

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-09-24 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Reintroduction after rising from the grave--reintroduction to what, exactly. To human society, with the help of some programme. It's totally mental. A world framed with that kind of emphasis implies structure, processing. Something refined. A system. And Mitchell doesn't know how to feel about that. It's easy to say that things like them--him, and this kid, two separate categories (thank God, and there's that old vampire superiority), but still both supernaturals--it's easy to say that they never should have been created. Voluntary or involuntary, they should not be. But they are. And he's spent so long rejecting and hating what he is, ignoring that part of him that wants to be anyways.

Fuck it, he thinks, and pushes all of those thoughts away. Zombie issues. Leave the good and evil vampire bullshit for later. Christ knows he'll have time enough to dwell on it, tied to a chair.]


Yeah, where I'm from-- [Ireland??? he leaves it undefined] --there's not many of you around. You're new. There was this girl, Sasha, she got out of the morgue and ended up living at ours after she followed my housemate home. But she wasn't part of any rising. It was just-- a fluke.

[Easier saying that to an actual zombie's face than saying your type was a mistake. All the self-loathing in the world turned outwards would probably not be enough to get Mitchell to say that--at least, not Mitchell as he is now, in this weird twilight state of near-sobriety.]

There's no need for programmes when it's just one. [Slightly jaded to supernatural programmes, he adds with some bitterness:] No one's got it together enough t' run one anyways.
unmakes: (❝ yep that's definitely a thing ❞)

[personal profile] unmakes 2014-09-24 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right?? And I can bite through pretty much anything - y'know, because that's totally what guys look for in a girl." Spoilers: It's not.
borntorebel: (There's an Ewok about to drop on you.)

[personal profile] borntorebel 2014-09-24 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's nothing wrong with taking pride in something you've done. At least that's how Leia feels, so she only smiles at the other woman's reaction and nods.]

Yes, some became more ill than others. [Like her father being unable to speak for over a week. That hadn't been pleasant for either of them.] But I've never heard that word before. What does 'Eldar' mean?
likescats: (I SEE YOU THERE)

[personal profile] likescats 2014-09-24 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
YES IT IS. I BELIEVE HE IS A MEMBER OF THE CITY WATCH NOW. THOUGH HIS GROUP STILL GETS TOGETHER.

ARE THERE OTHER TYPES OF UNDEAD IN YOUR WORLD?
dino_zarf: (Stop Awkwardtime)

[personal profile] dino_zarf 2014-09-25 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Drink first.

[He's not going to try to deny the face. It wasn't going to work.]

It's big.

[As big as the last time he made the face.]
fertilefeet: lyrics 'The Willow Maid' by Erutan (His love had hair like fire)

[personal profile] fertilefeet 2014-09-25 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Lúthien has a little more than pride in her work. Although not all of it is her own doing so much as that of her mixed bloodline. She tends to be prideful frequently.]

It is the name that was given to us by one of the Vala when he first saw our people. We are the Firstborn, the first of Ilúvatar's children. Others have called us 'Elves.'
deservesadaisy: (brush up your history)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2014-09-25 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan:]

You know, I considered the tantrum, but dignity won out.

[That is mostly a lie. 'Murder' does not count as a tantrum to most people. But he delivers it so it lands like a joke.]

I shouldn't think a view would be so much to ask. Otherwise, for all we know we could be in a bunker. Or under the ocean.
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[personal profile] pushesback 2014-09-25 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Rockin'.

[Nick repeats that word with a hint of amusement.]

Is that the floor you're on? [But he turns a little more serious when she points to her jaw.] Wisdom teeth coming in or something?
alionsheart: (it's for quick boosts!)

[personal profile] alionsheart 2014-09-25 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's honestly met and spoken with so many people the last few months, he's trying to recollect whether that name seems familiar. ]

We might have met, and I simply can't recall, that's a failing of mine. I've been working with the Security department for quite some time, which puts me in contact with so many people, some of whom I don't meet more than once.

Best to deal with where we are now, I suppose. What do you remember most clearly? Your home, before coming here?
alionsheart: (the animal is inside out)

[personal profile] alionsheart 2014-09-25 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robin tends to be more sociable in general, though his duties with Security right now certainly make it hard to avoid people, even if he wanted to. ]

It has so far, and I'm happy to share a few pints of ale with you should you be interested.

[ He reaches out his hand, to shake the other man's. ]

I'm Robin Hood.

[ After so many months, he's dropped the of Locksley part, realizing no one else introduces themselves like that. ]
traumata: (059)

[personal profile] traumata 2014-09-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
No. I mean there's the treated and the untreated, but that isn't... there's just the one kind.

[ It's all the same. One flimsy dose of medication missed, and he's right back to being rabid. ] Sorry, where did you say you were from, again?
traumata: (058)

[personal profile] traumata 2014-09-25 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ It sounds appropriately dejected, though he plays it off a moment later with a healthy dose of dry sarcasm. ] Well, I'd hate to make a mess.

[ Except that isn't that funny a joke, not when his father had to clean up the aftermath of one death. So much for making light of things. Having tripped up his own attempt to play it cool, he hastily moves on. ] The mobile said the blue lift, right? For the passenger quarters.
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[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2014-09-25 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, totally. I mean what guys really like best is a few nice, slow, chomps." Kate makes an exaggerated biting motion and clicks her teeth together audibly.
Edited 2014-09-25 03:26 (UTC)
bullshead: (do yoυ even wanna go ғree?)

[personal profile] bullshead 2014-09-25 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Don't need to be fast to catch you. [ somewhere in there lingers bitterness that is quickly pushed aside. no point in thinking about it anymore.

he gives the clubs a look, picking one of them up to inspect it further. he can't place the metal, but good metal is better than nothing. ]


I can make another sword out of them.
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[personal profile] songofhappiness 2014-09-25 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Caroline nods, the tension easing from her just a bit. Not that she expected Elena to argue with her on the subject of rooming, but she's already on high alert anyway.

"No, just some clothes and my purse. I left them in there for right now, but we'll grab it when we leave." There's a jumpsuit inside, and Caroline tugs on it a bit, pulling it up for Elena to see. "I went all in on the space suit thing they've got here, but you can wear what you normally do."
pompous_today: (shy)

[personal profile] pompous_today 2014-09-25 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Simon just hoped that the ship's next move wasn't going to be making it explicit that Wash was dead, would never meet his beautiful child. It sounded like that was just its style.]

It's a rare opportunity, isn't it? I hope I get the chance to meet her some day, too.
pompous_today: (focused)

[personal profile] pompous_today 2014-09-25 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Simon shook his head.]

I've heard tell that there are not many members of the original crew left- I suppose that is part of the reason we are here, to fill in for their roles. As for the tattoos- who knows? It seems like they are just here for identification.
axeyou: (ugh - pard my Parisian)

oops tags this a whole week late SORRy

[personal profile] axeyou 2014-09-25 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but those eyes are creepy, and Johanna has seen the everyday creepy. Capitol fashions are sometimes gauche and regularly disgusting, all in the name of weird and tasteless beauty. Body modification, it's so much whatever, temporary or permanent--and even the permanent isn't so permanent. A quick surgery and you're back on your feet.

And still, those eyes are fucking creepy. Or maybe it's more that Johanna does not like being studied, or weighed, or measured. Her teeth go a little more on edge; her fingers wrap around nothing, a flex and a release.

"You're right," she drawls, so slowly it hardly betrays the anger fizzling beneath the surface. "Not me. Because I'd never let anyone try and make me responsible for the brainless bunch of idiots this place collects. Present company included--gosh, I'm just so glad we've found one more."

That's you, paleface. And in case there was any possible warmth misinterpreted in her tone, Johanna adds, baldly: "Did you get all that--" And she points, draws a circle around Simon's face-- "as a gift from the ship, or do you always look that way? The odds are fifty-fifty shot these days, for stuff like that."
Edited (tags late and edits more, human garbage rper ) 2014-09-25 20:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] doggedly 2014-09-25 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Got it in one, Arya.]

What a little sceptic you are, it's disheartening. And probably just 'cos you were given such a lame present. I mean, really.

But if you'd been given a really brilliant present, you'd have to grudgingly accept the old Xmass Spirit, if only out of sheer greed. You just wait until Space Christmas rolls around.
humanistic: (errrrr - i'm done)

[personal profile] humanistic 2014-09-25 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not serious.

Except she is, actually, serious, and dismissive, like she's something. She is something, undefined supernatural, but this is more of a superior something, like she can order him to go and he'll go. There is a moment, then, of dark gravitas, like everything in him gathers, and when he looks at her, it's something else that looks out.]


Yeah?

[Do you have any idea, but she doesn't. And there, plainly, on his face, disgust and scorn shines through--a flash, for a moment, of something blacker and uglier. It all twists in him for a moment, fed by hunger and anger both-- and then he wrestles it down, and shrinks back a step, more chastised than before. He even presses a hand over his mouth, fingers bunched into a fist, as if he's going to be sick, and the hunger in him fights back, weakening his resolve. It's a weird struggle, and eventually Mitchell can only just manage to turn away, with a snapped-out:]

Fine. See ya.

[Or hopefully not.]

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