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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
oversight: ([±] there a problem here?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-02-08 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Blake manages to avoid narrowing his eyes but in his mind he's scrambling just the same, as if he knows he's got tells and they're being read. He feels scrutinized and it's unsettling how very pointed it is.

A long breath escapes and John reaches a hand up to unconsciously rub at his arm where they'd made previous contact.
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Hell no, he wasn't. The guy was crazy rich an' he was born that way. His first car was a Lamborghini at fourteen. Course he wasn't. People like that got time to be more'n hobbyists.

I don't.

[ It's a lie. A bold-faced lie, in fact, even if Blake doesn't have the same support structure. At this point he's just hoping Davis doesn't have more dirt on him than just that. ]
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[personal profile] lostsoldier 2015-02-12 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
People like that don't usually have the drive.

[ Usually because Kate grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth too, but he doesn't imagine she got as good as she did because she had too much time on her hands. People like that need a real good reason.

People like Blake, though? He isn't so sure. His eyes narrow, but there's a funny sort of contentment to it, like he already knows something worth knowing. (Which isn't to say he actually does.) ]


What'd you do after you quit being a cop?
oversight: ([±] startin' somethiin'?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-02-15 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Non-profit.

[ It's automatically — more so than it probably should be — but John's satisfied with the answer because it's legitimately the truth. He tries to shed some of the tension he's feeling but with a swimming head he's not doing the best job. ]

Workin' with kids. Orphans.

[ There's a much, much bigger picture but Blake neglects to fill in those details because that's exactly what this guy seems to want and hell if he's going to make it easy. ]
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[personal profile] lostsoldier 2015-03-22 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ New Guy pls. The slight, skeptical eyebrow raise that answers Blake neatly conveys how much faith he has in that explanation, or at least the amount of faith he'd like New Guy to think he has. (Not much.) ]

If you say so.

[ His eyes slide right, over the passing crowd of equally-naked bodies. Much as he might like to push a little harder, this isn't the time or the place. His weight settles onto his heels instead, opening up the space between them again. ]

Next time keep your memories to yourself, alright?
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[personal profile] oversight 2015-03-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, whatever you say, pal...

[ John waits until the other guy moves away completely to head for the showers.

Seriously, though, what a jerk. Blake still has no idea what's going on, what's happening with his memories and dreams, or why he feels so groggy, but he does know this meeting is out of place and he'll probably be thinking about it for quite some time.
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