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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] songofhappiness 2015-01-08 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
She's passing nearby when she can smell the smoke from his joint. It has her coming to a complete stop, her expression bewildered as she looks around. Her senses are heightened, but Caroline is in denial.

Someone couldn't possibly be smoking on here...can they?

It's reason enough to investigate.

Which is why a few minutes later she peeks around the corners, finally finding the source of said smoke. Stepping out into the open a little more, her hands go to her hips and she doesn't know if she's judging him or somewhat relieved that even stoners can manage to get kidnapped by a space ship.

"Seriously?" She's going for a little of both. "Where did you even get that?"

No, she has no qualms about interrogating a stranger.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-10 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
He gives his joint one good puff before stopping to squint up at her.

Well then. If it isn't someone who is bizarrely reminiscent of his mom, with that pose.

"From my locker?"

Look it's not difficult, okay, it wasn't there and now it is, and I'm back from the dead.

Again. Redux.
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[personal profile] songofhappiness 2015-01-11 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
This answer has her rolling her eyes, though it's more at the ship itself, or whoever was in charge of locker stuff, than at him.

"So, they give us drugs now?" Even as she says it, a thought in the back of her mind pokes at her, saying they give blood bags, how is this worse but Caroline will ignore that voice. "One day someone's going to pull something totally ridiculous out of a locker. Like...a freakin' crocodile or something."

She's not at the height of wittiness right now. As it is, her hands drop from her hips with a sigh. She knows she really has no place to give a stranger a hard time about getting high. "Is this your first time here?"
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-14 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
Snort.

"I think you mean they always gave us drugs. And honestly, I bet someone's already pulled a croc or something. I mean, I knew a dude who had a dead deer crammed in his once. And I had a zombified hand fly out of mine and attack me."

See, totally a thing.

Totally normal space life.
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[personal profile] songofhappiness 2015-01-14 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ew, dead deer. She looks appropriately grossed out.

"Good to know. I'll put that on my checklist of things to be careful of after jumps." God, who knows what could pop out of a locker now. And this checklist of hers? Getting pretty long. Too long for her comfort, but what can she do?

"What did you even do with the hand?"
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-17 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He replies with complete sincerity to that question.

"Kept it as a pet for a little while."

And then he blows a ring of smoke to the side and sniffs.

"Rest in Peace, Zombie Arm."
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[personal profile] songofhappiness 2015-01-18 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
She tilts her head as she tries to decide if that's just gross, or weird. Maybe it's just a little funny, enough to have her snorting a laugh.

"Fingers crossed I don't end up with some kind of gross body part or crazed river monster in my locker, then." She's going to have to be more careful about opening her locker from now one.

"How long have you been on here? I haven't seen you around." Not that she can keep track of everyone, but she makes it a point to memorize faces, just in case.
Edited (LMAO WOW ignore my other comment i haven't slept much <.<) 2015-01-19 00:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-22 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll cross my fingers for you so you have four whole pairs of crossed fingers, madam." He smiles contentedly; isn't he super helpful, yessum. "How long I've been here? Well, I was sort of gone for a while — months, actually. But I was here for a good half a year, maybe almost a year. Something like that."