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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] perceptum 2015-01-11 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ She isn't so terrible with people that she doesn't observe a direct attempt at changing the subject, it's just that this is...frankly, more interesting than whether or not she's woken up in blue sludge before, that's all. Nothing wrong with that, right?

She makes a vague gesture at the question, nose wrinkling into a small frown as her shoulders drop and fall in an utterly unhelpful answer.
] Yes and no. The answer is subjective.

[ That matter - in her opinion at least - dealt with, she moves swiftly back onto her far more appealing topic of conversation, and her hands slip quickly into her pockets as she takes a little step closer, peering at him curiously. ]

Hypoxic. Oxygen deprivation. [ Not a question, more of a statement, and as though in apology for her curiosity, she adds with a wry smile and a slight wave towards herself through the sleeve of the jumper. ] Limbic leucotomy.
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[personal profile] technologist 2015-01-15 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's still watching her, though now it's more like she's a puzzle than a threat. Her own explanation takes a moment to sink in; his brow furrows, concern and confusion in equal parts. ]

That's... surgery? [ It isn't really his field. The only reason it rings a bell is because of Coulson and that awful machine, the research he'd done alongside Jemma to get caught up, figure out how to help Skye. But it's supposed to be a treatment, not an injury.

For a second he thinks she's mistaken. Except she figured out the hypoxia thing easily enough, and even if she's been slightly abstract, none of her wording's been wrong. Fitz still sounds bemused when he hedges a guess, well aware that there might be something offensive in the implication.
]

You did it on purpose?

[ You. Or someone, in any case. Limbic leucotomy isn't something that just happens accidentally. ]