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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
nutsaboutscans: (doctor doctor)

[personal profile] nutsaboutscans 2015-01-31 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods, silent for a minute as he drinks.] Is it possible to have a love-hate relationship with this place? It takes as much as it gives.

[He sets his hand lightly on her thigh, more there to reassure than to be sexual.] But psh- who wants to talk about problems. Not me.

[So convincing, John. He holds up a finger to tell her 'just a minute' and reaches over the bar, grabbing an empty bottle, and then fumbling in his pockets until he produces a one dollar bill. He places the bill on the bar, then places the bottle, neck-side down, on the dollar bill.]

Okay. Try to get the dollar bill without touching or knocking over the bottle.
unmakes: (275)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-02-05 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ her eyes shift from john to the dollar and the bottle, and in a snap decision to take it semi-seriously, sally leans in just slightly to examine what he's got set up.

then she takes her glass, his glass, and - don't mind her, getting up on her feet to lean over to the dude two seats down and snag his empty glass with the announcement that she's borrowing it. these three glasses are arranged in a vague triangle around the bottleneck, holding it stable while she (ta-daaaaa) pulls the dollar bill out and sets it on the bar.
]
nutsaboutscans: (mood lighting)

[personal profile] nutsaboutscans 2015-02-07 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
What are you...

[He watches her with furrowed brows. When she sets it on the bar, he's trying to maintain his grumpy look with little success. He knows he's beat, and a smile is creeping its way on his face.]

Can I say I find your creativity and rebellious nature hot?
unmakes: (266)

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-02-07 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ creativity and rebellious-... nature.

huh.
]

Wait - was I not actually supposed to make it happen?
nutsaboutscans: (what's that)

[personal profile] nutsaboutscans 2015-02-07 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's a trick. I was supposed to amaze and delight you with the trick to it. Which... sounds kind of douchey, but I meant well!

[He shifts awkwardly on his stool.] The way this woman taught me to do it, you roll up the dollar and push against the rolled part as you roll it until you have it in your hands.
unmakes: ([ ditched. ])

[personal profile] unmakes 2015-02-07 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh. whoops. ] If it helps, that sounds way cooler than my way.
nutsaboutscans: (pull me from the darkness)

[personal profile] nutsaboutscans 2015-02-09 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins, looking down and shaking his head.] I liked your way better.