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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
troops: (ɢᴏᴅ ғᴏʀɢɪᴠᴇ ᴜs ᴀʟʟ)

[personal profile] troops 2015-01-10 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen isn't quite expecting that name to come up, and when it does, he's not sure how to react. He may not be as good at reading people as some, but he can see the hesitance in her voice and he's aware that it's a bit of a sore spot. It's easy enough to guess what happened between them, with what he knows of how Hawke left things in Kirkwall.

There's a pause, and he offers her a grim smile, shaking his head once.

"I doubt he would be, seeing as to how I'm no longer a Templar." He hesitates, and then before she can respond, interjects, "-though that's... well. Probably another conversation best had over a drink."
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[personal profile] championofkirkwall 2015-01-10 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen's just full of surprises, isn't he? This one has Hawke's eyes growing slightly wider, but only for a brief moment. It doesn't take a leap of logic to guess why he might want to leave the Order. Then again, if he's suggesting that's a story for drinks, it may not be what she expects. Is it ever really what she expects?

"Well, unless you've suddenly developed an aptitude for magic, I expect he'll still be at the very least tolerant." That's more than she feels she can say about the current state of her friendship with Sebastian right now.

She shifts the conversation then, pointing in the direction of the lift. "There's a... moving chamber in that direction. You simply touch a number, and it will carry you to that level." Which seems kind of lazy when Hawke thinks about it, but also brilliant in a way she finds undeniable. Not having to climb eight flights of stairs suits her just fine, really. This is so much more convenient. "Fenris and I live on the eighth level. Why don't you collect your companion, and I'll grab mine, and we'll meet you at the lounge there?"
troops: (ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴇɴᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀsʜ)

[personal profile] troops 2015-01-10 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
What she's proposing makes sense. It would probably be better of them to all meet one another, if they're going to be stuck in this place together. He's never interacted much with Fenris, Dorian won't know either of them, and the sooner they can unify, the better. At this point, any ally is probably a good one, and with the Champion there... well, their chances at surviving whatever this is just got quite a bit brighter.

If this is the sort of thing that needs surviving, anyway.

The moving chamber sounds a bit odd, but Hawke seems to treat it casually enough- there's no reason that Cullen won't be able to manage if she's adapted to it.

"I can agree to that. I'll see you shortly, then?"