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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
circumitus: that's because you have standards... and i have a thing for guys that give me free drugs. (my dad brought home flowers)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-02-28 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Agreed. We've gathered some intel over the years... Still trying to piece together everything that Van Rijn's people just told us before the jump. How we can use that information to help us."

She hasn't yet had the chance to go over all of the conversations before having to rush to the gravity couches. Rey has to clear her head first, and being able to sit down with some water is helping.

There's still a lot that they don't know, but they know a hell of a lot more now than they did when Rey first got here.

"Have no desire to go back into the corridors," she concludes after a drink. "Thinking perhaps some of the answers we're looking for are a little closer."
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[personal profile] servator 2015-03-02 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's usually how it turns out." Shepard sighs, crossing her legs, tapping a finger against the top of the glass. "Seems like the answer's miles away, and it's almost always right there, something you've seen a million times..."

As with the Citadel when it had turned out to be the Catalyst. The one damn thing they'd needed all along that they hadn't recognized until it was too late. Or... almost too late.

"Is all this intel and investigation being collected all in one place somewhere, or is it just bits and pieces between people?"
circumitus: I ONLY KNOW HOLA. (EVERYONE IS SPEAKING SPANISH)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-03-03 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Rey makes a little affirmative hm in agreement. In her experience, the most seemingly complex problems can be answered for by the simplest solution. Perhaps they've been over-complicating things all this time, and the truths have been right in front of them.

"Bits and pieces," she replies. "We've been able to gather more information based on what was provided to us over time, or what we've collected. Such as the core of the ship that was found while by reconnaissance."

She blinks, and for a moment there's a flash of white. Her head shakes, and she takes another gulp of water in the midst of her efforts to separate herself from the past. Easier said than done, but not impossible with the right focus.