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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
axeyou: (whatev - this shit is basic)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-15 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks." Sweet and tart, with no humble modesty, Johanna smiles at Eponine and takes the knife back. She brushes a few stray hairs off the flat of the blade with her thumb. It's not polished enough that she could see her reflection, but so what? She doesn't really need to.

"Message me, when you decide you want your curls." Business now, she climbs over the bench and pushes past Eponine, back to her locker. "I promise I won't shave your head."
jondrette: (dimple)

[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-15 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course!" She says almost too quickly. Friends! That's exactly what it means. "I shall hold you to that. But I do not trust easy." But, she'd made Johanna's hair look pretty. So hopefully, she would do the same for curls.
axeyou: (ugh - pard my Parisian)

[personal profile] axeyou 2015-01-16 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good. You shouldn't." Trust in general is overrated. Trust in Johanna... double so. She gives Eponine another little glance, flat and wary and curious all at once. What a weird girl.

"Well? Go on and get out of here," she says, too dull to be cruel, "or I'll change my mind and shave it right now. Find your stupid boyfriend. I've got stuff to do."

And she turns back to her locker, pointedly rummaging through the spare contents.
jondrette: (brave)

[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-17 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no one ever said Eponine was the most sane individual. Musical writers must have been kidding themselves.

"Please do not- I will find Michel. And I will find you for more hair!" With a quick giggle, she practically trips over herself as she turns to find her boyfriend. Johanna was lovely, and Eponine believed that she herself had made another friend.