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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
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[personal profile] altercate 2015-01-27 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
It is.

[ but derek doesn't say much more about it. losing his powers is a lot of things, and derek doesn't want to talk about any of them. truthfully, he hasn't even let himself consider any of them. and while he doesn't think he necessarily has to articulate them to river, who seems perceptive enough on her own, he thinks he should, considers it for a half second before giving his attention to what she's trying to explain. ]

Are you saying you're different? That's happened before.

[ not even just to other people on the ship, to the two of them, to her. ]

You recognized me. Was that not...?
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[personal profile] perceptum 2015-01-30 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ but derek talking about ur feelings is healthy

she doesn't press, just stares a little more and nods - she's curious, of course, intensely so, but she doesn't ask. there's plenty of time for that later.

the explanation doesn't come easy, and she mulls over her words a little before actually expressing herself. clarity, here at least, feels important, and she doesn't want to have to repeat herself. granted derek has been doing an admirable job of keeping up all the same (the familiarity, it has to be that) but she wants this to be direct.
]

The balance was out anyway, two familiar faces and familiar minds is one thing but to ask for a third? [ she raises her eyebrows slightly, 'ridiculous right' certainly implied, and powers on, ] There was another place, before this. A mansion. You were there, but it wasn't you, and we were- ...friends. Friendly, at least. Grumpy. And then a ship, and I was here, but not me, and we were friends, but not as I know it. Does this make sense?