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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-01-08 12:01 am

thirty-ninth 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: A feeling of deep dread greets you as you stumble out of the gravcouch, strong enough to hold you still for a long moment, searching your surroundings for the source of your wariness. Nothing becomes apparent, only your fellow passengers waking up. Eventually you gather the resolve to pick yourself up and start moving, the feeling fading slowly as you progress through 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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YOU͘ ̨WAKE̢ ̧UP ́IN DA̛RKN̢E̕SS̶


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.

YÓU̴ ̧ĄRE NOT҉ ̷ALǪNE҉


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.

TH̀IS͜ ̶I͠S͡ ͘Y̵O͝UR ̕W͝E̛L̨C͡O͝M͏E P̛AR̴TY͜
foundafamily: (1.1)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-01-21 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all, if it means protectin' everybody else from you.

[A more sensitive person might hold off from joking with someone who seems kind of rattled, but Firo's optimistic enough to think it'll cheer her up. Maybe.]
consequence: (everybody's life's got static)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-01-21 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hayley takes a breath inward, shaking her head. She suddenly feels like she was bothering him, but it's not like she really had much to talk to him about. Maybe it's that she's missing her own child now that she thought she'd talk about that - but instead, she doesn't want to say anything at all.]

No, I was just -- just saying hi.
kutte: (pic#6833450)

[personal profile] kutte 2015-01-21 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I know someone who's been here since the first jump.

[ are you ears burning tyke?

it's not really something to joke about, regardless. though on some level, jax is always thrown by people who see him as having been there a long time. it didn't seem like much, comparatively. ]


If you're lucky, you stick around for a couple jumps and then vanish. If not, you'e here for the goddamn long haul whether you like it or not.

[ if jax sounds bitter, it's because he is. ]
kutte: (pic#6833430)

[personal profile] kutte 2015-01-21 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ jax gets what she's offering. she doesn't have to explain it farther. he inhales deeply, fingers stilling while he thinks about it. ]

You aren't sick of kicking around my head?

[ it's a stall. it's not yes, and it's not no. jax doesn't quite know what he wants to answer. part of him wants to let the dream go altogether, hope it's not important. it's just a dream, right?

but he knows that most things up here are important, and they need all the advantages they can get. ]
diplomaticsolutions: (AOTC: supper listen)

[personal profile] diplomaticsolutions 2015-01-22 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
To date, people have been quite helpful. I can say that.

[They were all in the same situation, although Padmé knew well enough that there would always be some people who did prey on those who were weaker. She had been lucky so far.]

It certainly was a surprise, and not exactly a pleasant one either.
servator: (out here alone)

[personal profile] servator 2015-01-22 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
If what the Catalyst said is true, then... yeah. We stopped the Reapers.

[ She'd never in a trillion years think in any way that it had been her own doing, that she'd have made it anywhere near the end without every one of her squad. Without Anderson...

Her chest tightens suddenly. ]


It's over, Liara.
inafadingcrown: (hope remains)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2015-01-22 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Then you must forgive me as well, for I have not offered it. [She gives a slight incline of her head.] I am the Lady Galadriel of Lothlórien.
deservesadaisy: (light)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2015-01-22 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
The edges wear down, you know. Give it another century.

[For all Ivan is the one off-balance, Mitchell still seems like a raw nerve, at least from Ivan's perspective. What Ivan does and does not remember from his own over-long set of years is a conversation for another day. The comment has something like sympathy. But he adds:]

I don't like not understanding things, but this ship certainly doesn't especially reward curiosity, that's true.
compressioncoil: (thinking)

[personal profile] compressioncoil 2015-01-22 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, don't ever not take me long t'smile." Ookay, that was like, a triple negative or something, but Zoe knew what she meant.

What was the last thing Kaylee remembered? She paused, frowning just slightly. "Uhm, normal day. Last big important thing? Gorram. I think- Tracy?"
but_civilization: (turning)

[personal profile] but_civilization 2015-01-22 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, it tends to do that sometimes. Luckily, Combeferre's face is pretty calm.]

It...likes to stick around. It's kind of disgusting, but it does come off, I promise.

[He's doing a very good job humaning so far, if that helps. Combeferre still isn't certain what he's saying, but he's used to that by now. At least Cole isn't a shrieking mermaid, right?]

That is too bad. It can help, to know people who are here. But sometimes others do turn up later on. Two of my friends did that. For now though, [He'll be offering a hand.] Let's get this off of you before it dries. That feels even worse.
blackmagus: (♒ hello there)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-01-22 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it didn't give you something awful, too.

[There's only so much a person can shoulder at one time, and Fortescue already feels like she's walking on ice.]

And you're right. The people responsible for this whole mess are probably the best shady folk I've ever come across. [She smiles, although it's more of a grimace.] And I've come across quite a few. Just, uh. Be careful, opening your locker from now on. When I first came to the ship someone told me they'd found a severed head in theirs.
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (Yes we can. Yes. We. Can.)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-01-22 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
He straightens up, the same sort of stance he gives before walking into the fray during a mission, all determination and certainty. "I'm Takeshi! I don't have anymore to my name! My mom did, but that was a long time ago, and I like being just Takeshi."

And then, with the same sort of earnestness:

"I won't forget it!"

And he won't.
throwsdown: (The key to faking out the parents)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-01-22 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Hi, Gogo! I'm Takeshi. Are you a fighter, too?"

Call it a hunch. Takeshi has been around a lot of fighters in his very short time as a fighter himself.
foolproofed: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#5965597)

[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-22 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, you're killing him. He's dead. Again. He rubs the back of his head, looking down and shifting side to side on his feet. "Yeaaaah. I've kissed people before, but uh, nothing that big. Definitely not the big homerun or anything."

But, ahaaa —

"Your crush went for someone else? That's rough. Hard to compete for you, too?"
foolproofed: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (back to the weed spot purchase sum mo)

[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-22 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll cross my fingers for you so you have four whole pairs of crossed fingers, madam." He smiles contentedly; isn't he super helpful, yessum. "How long I've been here? Well, I was sort of gone for a while — months, actually. But I was here for a good half a year, maybe almost a year. Something like that."
mindtricks: (⚖ I N A B S E N T I A)

[personal profile] mindtricks 2015-01-22 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
No. [ simple as that. anderson is used to "kicking around" in people's heads. if anything, she's staying out of jax's head more than she usually stays out of anyone's head out of respect for his wishes, because he's a friend.

(not that she doesn't still read the thoughts at the forefront of his mind most of the time, but that's just natural for her.)

lifting one of her hands to touch it to his where it rests on her shoulder.
] Think about it. [ the offer stands.

a moment later, she drops her hand back in her lap.
]
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-01-22 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Takeshi watches Netherlands retreat to return the chickens, and whatever concerns he has for his space!dad's reaction is quickly distracted by Heather's words. He looks ot her, cocking his head to the side and smiling.]

I can help, but I bet you're gonna be really good at chickens!

We just gotta practice, practice, practice!
sweetmotherofgod: (football season is over)

[personal profile] sweetmotherofgod 2015-01-22 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Makes perfect, right?

[She should be so lucky. She probably hasn't drawn anything since she was about 12. Still, she doesn't have the heart not to try, so she watches Netherlands and his poultry caravan rocket off and moves to her locker to collect her weapons - knife, shotgun and phaser all stashed there in deference to Erik's warnings - and then ruffles Takeshi's hair.]

You got all your stuff? Ready to go? I wanna get a head start.
forerun: (and they think you'll turn around)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-01-22 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Minho just stares at Newt, because he can't honestly believe the words that are coming out of his own mouth. "Yeah, but Newt, they lie. The only thing they've ever done consistently is lie to us." Sure, most of the supplies had WICKED branded all over it, and even they did now thanks to the tattoos on their backs—which reminds him that he's not happy about more mysterious ink appearing on his arm while he was out of it.

"Maybe nobody's tried to kill us because they're stepping up their game. Rat Face said this Trial would be different, more difficult. Could be they're tryin' to make us feel safe. Wouldn't be the first time they'd watch us sweat." Like when the first of them had arrived in the Glade with no idea what was going on and no one to give them answers. All they'd had was each other and the instinct to survive. Unfortunately that same instinct had driven them into the Maze and, for some of them, to their deaths.

He groans, rubbing a hand against the back of his neck. His fingers itch to scratch the skin he knows has been branded by the same bastards who ruined their lives. Throwing his hand back down to his side, he sighs and follows the gesture. "Where's your fight, dude? A few minutes ago you were ready to get out from under their thumb."
forerun: (they got you on your knees)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-01-22 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Usually Minho wouldn't mind, except he's feeling exposed in more ways than one. Without anything to shield himself with, or to fight with, he's totally vulnerable.

Then she mentions Newt, and him thinking about the Gladers, and he tenses up further.]


I was thinkin' about them. [It's said deadpan, a little incredulous. Telepathy isn't a new concept to him, but where he's from it's only between select people and always voluntary. At least, that's his understanding of it.] Why bother saying it, then?
sacrifica: (ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ)

[personal profile] sacrifica 2015-01-22 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
No. ( Caroliiiine ) I have been resting for... I don't even know how long those jumps last but I've been in my pod for too long. I'm rested.

( See how okay she is? Things just feel fuzzy )

I would rather hear every little detail of what didn't happen here and have some gumbo.

( And sneak a blood bag from the medbay later too )

I'm okay, really. I just want to do something.
sacrifica: (ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ)

[personal profile] sacrifica 2015-01-22 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you can go to different universes?

( That is cool but mostly scary. And so weird. It's not even a thing in her world and she'd never though about it until coming here but for it to be normal for this woman? )

How? If you tell me there was pods involved you have to look in that notebook right now.
unmakes: (❝ yep you're a tool ❞)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-01-22 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
If choosing not to be wearing the galaxy's slimiest bra while I get totally shitblasted makes me royalty, then y'know what, I'll take it. [ it's mostly dry, but there's a note of humor underneath. no promises that it's genuine, but at least the effort's been made?

and on goes the shirt, which brings me to the fact that it actually doesn't quite occur to her that he might not be watching. she figures that's kind of the price you pay for voluntarily changing in front of a hundred other people, at this point. but hey, if she had any idea, she'd totally say thanks?
]
unmakes: (❝ maybe we let the pros handle it ❞)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-01-22 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You think I just go inviting random dogs into my bed? C'mon now. [ sirius is literally the only dog she's even interacted with since she showed up, uuuunless you're counting her inner wolf. she prefers not to count that.

as for the moonlight, she's taking a decent-sized drink from her glass and saying:
] I just might be. I mean, there's a distinct chance you're gonna have to carry me down there, but - semantics.
unmakes: (291)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-01-22 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
We could do that. [ and then she actually thinks about it, and: ] No, yeah, we could totally do that. Or like, just have an extra one of my birthday or something, that's good too.