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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
bespectacle: (oblique)

psst can u mention teh snapes next tag or 2

[personal profile] bespectacle 2015-02-08 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that might be true, [Harry snaps, and then, because narrative pointed it out.] You haven't bloody changed at all. You're lucky I have. Piss off.

[It's ruder than Harry was as a child, but then, McGonagall isn't around and there's a lot of stress even besides that Crookshanks seems to be wandering out of the periphery of his vision. It does occur to Harry, for a split-second, that it's strange that Draco is running around without his wand-- what sort of place is this, where wizards so tender still from war and ever hot of disposition aren't going around armed? But the breathing tubes, the strange message scrawled across his locker.

The shape and smell of these windowless corridors. Draco's right, obviously. But Harry doesn't trust him to recount the details any further than he'd expect the other boy to care for a peacock that he regrettably didn't Jump in with this go-around. He gestures with his wand.]
I'll hear all about it from someone who isn't being a git.
foolproofed: (Gross.)

[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-02-08 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
... Ah. So Carolyn's even gone.

Shit. His shoulders slump a bit.

"Feels like a new high school with new freshman rolling in and all the seniors graduating."

For some, leaving is fucking fantastic. For others... not so much.

dogbane: (look down)

[personal profile] dogbane 2015-02-08 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
William had heard about Takeshi's Earth parents. They did not seem like [prize-winners at all, and this turn of tiny adorable kid phrasing, as much as anything else, tells William that this is the legitimate for real Takeshi.] Holy fuck, [says the one who has never parented anybody before, any place or plane of reality.] Holy fuck.

[William leaps to his feet in excitement, then totters slightly.] We've got to ow shit. [But not potty right here Takeshi, don't do that. He grasps his head in his hand.]

Heather's been in pieces since you been gone. I can't believe you're back.
unmakes: (❝ i actually kind of don't want to ❞)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-02-08 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ supervillains? she-... what? that's so far down the wrong track that it gives her pause, and she tries to think of how to backtrack and explain but there's just so much of it. ]

I-... It's kind of a long story. Like, this is actually the extremely short version so far, like 5% of it or maybe 6% or something, just a super tiny number. And there's like - fricking magic and vampires and werewolves and the Reaper, kind of, and it's just. A mess.
alldamned: (73)

[personal profile] alldamned 2015-02-08 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of seems like pets should be low on the priority list here to begin with.

[Seeing as all kinds of things that would probably kill them outright keep showing up.]

Could do without the naked part, personally. Don't mind the goo, it washes right off, but some of us are old-fashioned.

[He's just saying.]
alldamned: (74)

[personal profile] alldamned 2015-02-08 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wants to ask her more about it. Every shift in her stance, even the wry quirk of her smile is so telling that not asking is almost impossible, except it's clear, very clear, that she doesn't want to talk about it.

He could pry, or he could respect her space. For the moment, he chooses the latter, though his gaze lingers on the book, curious, flicking back to her face a moment later as if trying to gauge exactly how she's feeling about the ship's offering.

'Not good' doesn't even begin to cover it. For now, he goes with the change of subject, though he's sure they'll come back around to the book and its previous owner. Seems like the sort of thing they oughta talk about.]


And here I thought it was me appreciatin' her. She's a good influence.

[One he's not sure he'd have made it very far on the Tranquility without.]

She could use a little family onboard here. Turns out, so could I. Goes both ways.
protohistory: (09)

[personal profile] protohistory 2015-02-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods, just once, in firm agreement.]

If we have to be here, whatever length of time it may be for...

[She smiles, just a touch.]

Then I'm glad we're here together, Shepard.
alldamned: (10)

[personal profile] alldamned 2015-02-08 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Shared failure. It might not be all that inspiring, but it's what they have in common, a place to start-- or start over, as the case may be, something they've both probably already had their fill of, but it doesn't matter. Being tired isn't enough reason to stop, to give up, even if it feels like that's the only option left.

He sighs, raking a hand through his short hair before fixing the other vampire with a hard look; for all his frustration, he understands. He'd given up. He'd decided that nothing would ever be enough and he'd let his head get taken clean off, let himself get sent back to Purgatory.

It hadn't helped anything. Then he'd been yanked out, shoved here and as hellish as this place was, it was another chance, one he knew damn well he didn't deserve but that he'd better take.

"I ain't that good, but I've got people countin' on me. I've got friends, too-- not a lot, I'll grant you that, but enough that I don't wanna disappoint them all over again. I gave up before I got here. Let myself get driven to the end of the line because I thought it would just be easier to be dead, not have to deal with bein' hungry than to even try to be good. Did that and I still wound up here, with those same friends starin' me in the face, expectin' me to hang on and stay on the wagon and the thought of them seein' me anything like what I used to be-- it just ain't an option. I can't go back."
pompous_today: (Default)

[personal profile] pompous_today 2015-02-08 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can't blame you for being surprised," Simon admitted, with a tinge of bitterness in his voice. Oh, he'd been so stupid. "But as long as you are willing..."
blackmagus: (♒ listening)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-02-09 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Fortescue nods in agreement.]

She checks up on me, ever so often, and I try to do the same.

[Life on the ship would be a great deal harder without forming bonds to others. Even if that occasionally backfires, when the person leaves. She still misses Stark, even if he's better off... wherever he is. Maybe. Probably. Who knows?

Her smile is smaller, more in the edges of her lips than anything, but it's also edging toward brightness, rather than the wryness she'd had just moments ago.]


I can't talk to Jazz too much without getting odd looks, so it's better for everyone if I nag at people, really.

[Look, even the shadow of a joke!]
inspirited: (pic#3063473)

[personal profile] inspirited 2015-02-09 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah— my boyfriend worked at a pieshop back home with that name so he set up something similar here.
oversight: ([-] really wanna go there?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-02-09 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just another universe nothing like his own, apparently. John hears more about vampires and magics and werewolves than anything else. But super villains? Those he knows better than he probably should. ]

Sounds like it. It's, uh— [ He scratches at his temple. ] —diff'rent. Than what I'm used to. Little hard to imagine, that's all.

So, you miss that or is here better?
tectus: all by bungalows @ dw (cause darling i'm a nightmare)

LITERALLY THIS IS SO OLD SO DON'T FEEL OBLIGED TO TAG BACK but yeah w/e w/e fite me

[personal profile] tectus 2015-02-09 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Octavia. [ maybe offered too quickly, but while suspicion is in her nature withholding certainly isn't, and she doesn't see any real problem in handing out her name - even in a creepy spaceship she doesn't trust as far as she can spit. ] Do I get one back?

[ she finishes up with her hair before offering her hand -- all manners this one, although it's more being so unused to meeting new people than anything else. the fact of the matter is, octavia's only met a handful of people in her life, and almost all of that has all occurred in the last year. she doesn't really know how to do social yet, and so falling back on taught formalities seems as good an idea as any. ]

Nice to-- meet you I guess? Is it even polite to say that when everyone's been kidnapped?
nutsaboutscans: (pull me from the darkness)

[personal profile] nutsaboutscans 2015-02-09 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins, looking down and shaking his head.] I liked your way better.
brainsqueeze: (79)

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-02-09 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard of offers like that.

( They were usually offers from the other side - Hydra, other governments. SHIELD may have had one or two slight similarities but nothing quite as manipulative. Or at least they liked to pretend they were a step above it all )

There's never an end to them either.

( Although when you end up with that many secrets it's hard to get out even if you could )
compressioncoil: (worried)

[personal profile] compressioncoil 2015-02-09 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaylee blushes crimson at the mention of the good, handsome doctor. "Shucks- now you're just bein' real flatterin', Zoë. Don't have t'do that fer me." But she liked hearing it, all the same.

She shakes her head. "Me neither."
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[personal profile] compressioncoil 2015-02-09 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"hey now," she frowned at him, "Don't be bitter. We've got each other now, don't we? I'm more'n willin', if you are."
pompous_today: (hmm)

[personal profile] pompous_today 2015-02-09 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're right, you're right. I apologize." He kissed her hand again. "It's just... I'm so glad to see you. It's been so lonely here and I don't want to lose you again."
but_civilization: (glasses squinting)

[personal profile] but_civilization 2015-02-10 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
That is an excellent way to think about it.

[City boy that he is, even if that city is one near the sea, Combeferre wouldn't have put it that way, but he has to admit it's the best description he's heard of in a long time.]

A waterfall that you con...

[And then Cole's finding out with the cold setting and Combeferre is wincing for him a little before he figures it out. ]

Now, the soap they keep here isn't so bad. A little...plain but...

[Yes, it's all back to the soap. Oh dear!]
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[personal profile] troops 2015-02-10 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Which leaves him only then realizing his state of undress.]

I should- can we speak after I find my clothing?
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[personal profile] troops 2015-02-10 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
...no, probably not.

[She doesn't seem like any elf he knows. She's too tall, for one, even though she shares their ethereal nature. If anything, she looks more like the statues the elves worship than one of them.]

It was my mistake, I apologize.
blackmagus: (♒ frown)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-02-10 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
There's one end. A casket.

[Idly, she swirls her drink in her glass.]

I ran, but we'll see how long that lasts.

[Maybe she shouldn't say that, but she's too far into the conversation to back out now. She's trying to get out. Running and hiding is the only option.]

What I did, you don't get to leave. That's not part of the contract.
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[personal profile] songofhappiness 2015-02-10 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She has to wrinkle her nose as she thinks about the goo. For a clean freak like Caroline, it's absolutely disgusting. ]

I guess that's a plus, but there are way too many cons about the whole process for me to be happy with it. [ Yes, she made a mental pros and cons list. ] Anyway, I'd rather be in a tube than not when a jump happens, since that's supposed to be bad news.

[ Which has her distracted for a moment to ask: ]

Hey, do you know what happens?
better: (embraces her newness)

[personal profile] better 2015-02-10 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Erica rakes her eyes down him and then back to his eyes. It's nothing she hasn't seen on almost every other person on this ship... but she shrugs.]

Sure.
talkingaintdoin: (That's a start)

[personal profile] talkingaintdoin 2015-02-10 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do I seem the type to go around flattering people, Kaylee?"