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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] brainsqueeze 2015-01-18 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
It was a quieter month.

( In two ways - less people roaming the ship and nothing all too crazy going on. Just a strange message appearing right before the jump. Huh )

It looks like all of the pods are open again at least.

( Or more have opened than they did last month. Usually there's only a handful stuck, last jump it was a lot more. That was concerning )
oversight: ([-] wait what the fuck?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-01-19 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ As he looks around, he takes note of their setting. Even if they're not near the pods, Blake's feeling as if he should be able to tell the difference if something was really off. Were there pods not opening? Were people missing? He doesn't remember anything like that happening the first time around but... ]

That's good... [ He thinks. Maybe. John's just a bit confused. ] Does that—? Does that happen a lot?
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-01-19 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
There's some that don't open each jump but never on the scale of last jump.

( There's a pause, a small frown as she considers that he doesn't know. Other than the fact that he's new )

What happened your last jump?
oversight: ([±] somethin's not addin' up)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-01-20 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, goo an' confusion an' showers. I don't— [ He waves his hand and then rubs tiredly at his eyes. ] Dunno. Everythin's jumbled up.

Dreams? No, uh— [ What was it again? ] Sleepwalkin'? [ Ghosts? Some of this stuff's really starting to run together. ]
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-01-24 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to say that you were in your pod.

( Maria doesn't know what that means, or if anything happens while they're asleep, but at least he's not alone if it troubles him. The amount of pods that didn't open mean it happened to a lot of people )

I'd get checked out, just in case.
oversight: ([±] gonna be that way huh?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-01-26 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Right, right, in— [ He looks around and then back to her. ] In medical. Definitely gonna do that soon as I— once I get my head on straight.

[ Will it lead to answers? Who knows. But John feels off-kilter and if he has access to some kind of equipment, to tests run by medical professionals, then he might just want to take advantage of that fact. ]

Were you—? Are you okay?
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-01-28 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't stuck.

( She's not disorientated at least, and that's the main thing that she's picking up from him. Whatever happened in the pods was clearly not a good experience )

I'm fine. Nothing dangerous went on.

( Nothing dangerous like the last thing he remembered, anyway. The ship had stopped, something had happened but it wasn't danger for them - maybe for the pods though )

Are you okay?

( Minus having to get his head on straight )
oversight: ([±] lookin' back)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-01-29 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm— I'm okay.

[ This'll wear off. He knows it will. And when that happens maybe he won't be so damn messed up, but for now he's just going to fake it until he makes it. ]

Thanks... The concern's appreciated.
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-02-01 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
We'd be lost without each other.

( They've got to keep each other okay to survive. If only there was more they could do )

Don't forget the med bay later.
oversight: ([+] you think my collar's sexy right?)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-02-01 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You got it, boss. [ He will definitely be doing that. ]