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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
righteously: ([Pointing] Gesticulation)

[personal profile] righteously 2015-01-08 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
[That's what he's here for. To be the preserver of her modesty.

Obviously someone has to do it, especially since Blake's MIA. Speaking of which, that guy's going to shit himself when Dean tells him. He takes the fact that she has even any remote interest in clothes as a sign that she's good enough mentally to handle herself for a while, at least long enough for them to part for a few minutes and clean up.

He points toward the door.]


Through there is a shower. You're covered in goo, that shit itches after an hour, so you're gonna need to take one. If anyone looks at you below the neck, punch them in the face and tell me later.

[He points, because that's a serious instruction, thank you very much.]

There's a tattoo on your arm with a number on it. After the showers, there's a locker with the same number- there are clothes in there for you and probably some other crap too. Got it?
perceptum: (093)

[personal profile] perceptum 2015-01-08 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's something about the 'punch them in the face' instruction that reminds her so forcefully of how close they'd been, and how much more bearable wonderland had been with him present. it rises in her chest like a lump in the throat, and for the first time since waking up with that godawful tube down her throat everything does feel like like it's going to work out. it's going to be survivable, at least, and honestly survivable has been just about all river has aimed for since her and her brother first went on the run.

another spaceship, an unfamiliar piece of the galaxy, but simon was here, and dear friends that could well have been lost to her in any other universe. it's not good, sure, but river can certainly think of worse spots to be in.
]

There wasn't a tattoo before. [ she sounds vaguely displeased by this, but not 'sprint in full panic' levels of displeased. the rest of the instructions are fairly simplistic, and she nods quickly in time with them before raising a hand to mirror that point of his. just one question: ]

Should she really punch them in the face?

righteously: ([talking] I know you think you're right)

[personal profile] righteously 2015-01-08 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[It's good to know Dean's violence touches the hearts of the people he cares about, because that's pretty much the only thing he's got going for him if he's being honest with himself. Survivable is about all any of them can ever really manage, and if it's survivable together, that's about as close to good as Dean needs it to be.

Something of a smile twitches at his lips at her question, but he surprises it in an instant because

yeah, he is 100% freaking serious about that instruction. He makes sure it's spread all over his face without question, all pointedly determined eyebrows.]


Yes. Abso-friggin-lutely.

[He orders.

Then nods his head toward the showers.]


Beat it, kid.
Edited 2015-01-08 11:50 (UTC)