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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

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've never seen anyone do it like that.

[Like she had gum in her hair. But he doesn't look upset, he just has a relatively calm look on his face.]

My hair's fine this week.
axeyou: (u don't say - with that peer pressure)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-10 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
This week. Does that mean I get to do it next week?

[She grins at him, over her bare shoulder, a grin that doesn't last very long. So what. She's got other things to do, as she ties her other axe into place on the strap. It will fit over her back, easy, and she can carry the one leaned against the locker.]

It'll be fun. I can use scissors if it would make you less nervous.

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Ask me again next week.

[He still has her knife, but he's holding it with full intention of handing it back. And the truth is, Bucky can cut his hair well enough, he's been doing it the entire time they've been on board. It's serviceable. That's as good as Steve needs it to be.]
axeyou: (coy - hair weave killer)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-12 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww. I'd hate to forget.

[Another smile, coy and teasing, as she grabs her space-issue underpants out of her locker and tugs them on. They're flat black and durable, no sexy silk-and-lace number, and yet she still manages to make it look kind of sexy. It's all in the hips.]

Maybe we should set a date.

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-12 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
For you to ask me if you can cut my hair?

[They may be sexy, but he ain't lookin']
axeyou: (heh - i'd get it)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-12 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Your loss, Steve! She's tugging a black standard-issue sports bra over her head by now anyways, less sexy, more matter-of-fact.]

For me to cut your hair. This part is the asking right now. Or we could do something else for our date, if you're really attached to the way it looks.

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-12 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean-

I suppose if you want to cut my hair. Usually Bucky just does it.

[You know, it's usually just.

Well, matter of fact.]
axeyou: (amuse - ooh heckie naw)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-13 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Bucky does it?

[This time, when she looks at him, she's totally focused, and totally amused.]

You're kidding. That's adorable. Do you do his, too?

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-13 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
When it needs doing.

[Adorable, what?]
axeyou: (smirk - best flow in the game)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-13 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[So adorable.]

Can I come next time?

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-13 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You want to watch me cut Bucky's hair?

You're an odd duck, Johanna.
axeyou: (blase - hustlers if you're still living)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-13 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I look like a duck to you?

[A duck with shorn-off hair in her space issue underpants and an axe now strapped to her back. With a smile, Johanna holds out her hand, expectantly awaiting to return of her knife.]

Say yes. It'll be fun.

[personal profile] priceoffreedom 2015-01-13 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a saying.

[He shrugs, though.]

I won't say no if you really want to, you'll have to ask him, though.

[And her knife is handed back.]
axeyou: (careless - girl who gets better)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-13 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wraps her fingers around the hilt of the knife, as her smile curls over her face.]

Great. I'll send him a message right away. And thanks, for the help.

[She hefts her other axe and throws it over her shoulder, haft resting in the dip where collarbone meets shoulder.]

See you then, stud.