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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-04-08 12:00 am

forty-second 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: There's a strange sense of contentment that greets you as you wake from the jump. Deep and certain, it doesn't warm you or cloak the unpleasantness of the stasis fluid on your skin and the disorientation spinning in your head. It feels disconcertingly distant, instead, a sense as though an answer has been decided on - and that you won't much like to experience it coming to fruition...

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
servator: (063)

[personal profile] servator 2015-04-25 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright...

[ She doesn't respond to her own first name, though, so she gets it. ]

Sorry. Friend of yours? Anyone else from back home?
lifescience: (pic#9012060)

[personal profile] lifescience 2015-04-25 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[Jemma sighs, lowering her eyes in disappointment. SHIELD was imperfect, Ward's betrayal is proof enough of that. But her team felt a lot like family.

But Agent Coulson...he would be one of those people. And that's enough to bring a hint of a smile back to her lips.
]

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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-04-25 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yes, I would like that.

[The smile that crosses her lips is almost unbidden. She's still not sure about the whole 'wizard' thing, but given her current situation, she can't exactly close her mind off to it. A scientist needs to be open to the possibility, and his files might just be the proof in the pudding.]

What's his name?
lifescience: (Default)

[personal profile] lifescience 2015-04-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hiding from killer clown in space. It sounds more like a terrible grade B horror movie than a holiday. But Jemma realizes what Skye's attempting at the last, and gives her a grateful smile for it.]

I'm sure I will be. We all will, because we can work and watch out for each other, right?
undyingbeliefs: (I can explain but you won't get it)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-25 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[As if anyone appreciates being kidnapped.]

Were there more information to give, you would have it.

What more I can say is this is likely not any ship you are accustomed to; it takes to air and not to water. We're in space.

[Still weird to say and likely never will be something she's accustomed to. But she says it with enough simplicity that it is undoubtedly fact, equally as true as her stating her name.]
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[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
A few, yes.

[And some are missing. But that's just how jumps are, isn't it?]

I assume you came over here first for a reason? Or is your locker nearby?
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-25 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's never been on a ship bigger than those that Sweden used to carry across his lands, but he knows enough about them to well, know certain things anyway. And he understands fires and towns falling to the flames, so...]

What do the other departments do?
muscovy: (what on earth)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-25 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[He puzzles over that explanation for a little bit.

And while he's still not sure in the end if what he thought he understood is right, the thing that he thinks he understood is scary enough for him to look at Firo with wide eyes.]
Even the General could be killed?
storiesandknives: (Lurking in the background)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-25 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? What happened to them?
shinywhitearmor: (Default)

[personal profile] shinywhitearmor 2015-04-25 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye, my locker is close. [Which he pointed to.] I wasn't expecting anyone I knew to be close by. Forgive me. [Meaning 'forgive me for seeing the lyrium vials'.]
storiesandknives: (I heard stab him)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-25 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She seems to pause to think this over for a moment. Then shrugs.]

I've seen enough in my life to not write off insane things as impossible anymore. So space. Is the reason we're not all dead magic?
storiesandknives: (Blood ran through the palace)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-25 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like that if you wouldn't mind.

[And she'll take a seat.]

May name's Mira Tabris.
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[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-25 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[She's still sad, it's going to take a while to sink in really and then it will be worse, but for now she's hungry.]
mspoots: (mixed up with the morning's trash.)

[personal profile] mspoots 2015-04-26 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Right? Not to mention the long-ass shifts. I'm not complaining, but it throws my whole day when I'm in comms forever.

[ She likes her work in comms and when she's not there, she's usually exploring the ship, but she's hardly keeping a normal schedule of 24 hour days with work and three meals. ]
mspoots: (on this dump truck where I lie)

[personal profile] mspoots 2015-04-26 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Me and Fitz have rooms near each other if you want to find one on that floor. Safety in numbers, right?

[ And it just figures that none of the field-trained people on their team are here. The best they have is Hill, who Skye only half-trusts, and Skye's sort-of training. ]

I got a job in the communications department.
foundafamily: (13.3)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-04-26 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Firo watches carefully, afraid that he may have been too quick with the warning. But it's necessary, isn't it?]

General who? Probably.
dewittinvestigations: (the rougish type)

[personal profile] dewittinvestigations 2015-04-26 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Friend is as good a word as any, though Elizabeth might object to the term, at present. Booker murmurs his agreement, then shakes his head. ]

Unless they've just arrived, no. Though that's probably for the best.
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-26 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
General Winter.

He is like Mr. Jack Frost, just older, and he sometimes comes to help me.
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-26 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I am Muscovy.

[He sits down with her and after a moment one of the fairies descends onto his knee, sitting there and watching her much taller Aelfen cousin curiously.]

I only arrived here recently, so I only know things about this place that were told to me.
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[personal profile] technologist 2015-04-26 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Severus.

[ Ridiculous names, all of them. And he and Sev aren't actually on great terms right now, so maybe not. Instead of staying on the topic of introductions, he starts tapping away at his tablet before spinning the screen around to face her; two files are pulled up. ]

The ship's capable of something like— um. [ He raises his free hand, pointing at his own temple. Welcome to charades, Jemma. ] Like the— brains. Brainwashing. He thought it was magic.
blackmagus: (♒ what really)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-04-26 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The quirk of her lips is so dry, it could easily be in the Sahara desert. ]

We're limited by technology, not by self control. [ Luckily. ] Some people have figured out how to send and bring back massive things from other worlds, but their methods were... unscrupulous, to say the least. I imagine, however, that we'll have it integrated with the Gate in no time at all.

[ The Void Gate is almost certainly going to be pillaged for information. ]
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-04-26 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I can imagine. If there's one thing I really miss from where I'm from, I think it would be the sun.

[ Fortescue runs her fingertip idly around the lip of her glass. She doesn't miss much from her world. One person, and the sun. Apparently. ]

Do you like being in comms? Other than it throwing your day, of course.
underthevines: ([sententia] introspection)

[personal profile] underthevines 2015-04-26 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
So it seems.

[ That it isn't the best place to be in. Still, at this moment, there's nothing to break down more over. She nods, offering a small smile. ]

Nice to meet you, too. Have you been here long?
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[personal profile] underthevines 2015-04-26 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Like a true baby animal, the griffon shows no interest at her, busy with her bit of fur. Eventually she noticed the meat held out and makes a lunge to grab that plaything as well, narrowly missing the boy's fingers. The chick mouths it the same as she did the fur with no show of consumption. Valya makes a face. ]

...Too much to hope that she would like cooked meat, I guess.

[ She reaches to tear off a piece from the bit the griffon has, putting it into her mouth to chew it before holding it back to the baby. The chick sniffs it in a show of interest before going back to her fur piece.

Valya is going to have to find a solution for this before long. ]


What a troublesome girl. Thank you, however... [ She hadn't gotten the boy's name. ] I'm sorry; I'm Valya.
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-04-26 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a wise idea.

[Jemma would certainly feel better sticking close to them, especially while she's learning her way around things.]

Skye, that's fantastic! It sounds perfect for you.

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