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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
storiesandknives: (Create elven heroes)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-05-03 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[That makes Mira chuckle.]

Oh I'm sure a lot of them are exaggerated. The strange ones are probably true though. A lot of odd things happened during the blight.
underthevines: ([otium] charm)

[personal profile] underthevines 2015-05-03 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That I believe. I've been researching the Fourth Blight, and some of the things mentioned... are hard to take in.

[ She allows a wry smile. ]

Nothing like freeing your friends as a mouse in the Fade, though.
blackmagus: (♒ yeah okay sure)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-03 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She shrugs a little. ]

Kindness, bonding in mutual strangeness, the basic human desire to connect with someone, pity, laughing at them inwardly... take your pick.

[ Whatever the reason other people do it, Fortescue isn't going to argue against it, certainly. She'd been thoroughly unsettled on her first jump. ]
bracingly: please don't take without asking ([+|-] i want 2 talk 2 u about jesus)

[personal profile] bracingly 2015-05-03 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a sincere but somewhat pained look of appreciation on his face when he takes the towel from her. Secures it firml around his waist, grips the knot with one hand, and holds his free hand out to her again finally. ]

Wick.

[ Which isn't just a random noun, despite the fact that he doesn't explain it. It's his last name, and largely what he goes by. He's heard it so much, he's so used to it, he doesn't even bother saying his first name anymore usually. ]

And thanks, by the way, for the...

[ Vague nod at the towel. For that, and for the few answers. ]
undyingbeliefs: (Come again?)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-05-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[A nod.]

I am.
undyingbeliefs: (That's a little ridiculous)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-05-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Not always welcome?
glacius: (Let me ponder that one.)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-05-03 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A small grunt.] What is "booze". [Sorry, the culture gap is cropping up. His people have alcohol, of course--though that might not be obvious given his lack of mouth might raise the question of how he would ingest it--but this is a new term to him.]
foundafamily: (Default)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, laughin' at people who pop up here is just cruel.

[But he does stop to consider her words, eventually nodding.]

I guess that makes sense. So it's just like prison, then. You're all trapped, so why not help somebody out?

[Because that's obviously an experience everyone can relate to.

He pauses, realizing a slight flaw in his new-found understanding.
]

Except there there's just as many people who'll stab you in the back instead a' givin' you a hand, but other than that.
foundafamily: (Default)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
No way, are you serious?

[Suddenly, Firo's all business. His look of slackjawed surprise tightens into a determined frown.]

All right, well, first thing we gotta do is get you a drink. It's the one thing that'll make you feel better about this place.
glacius: (Nope not that I know of.)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-05-04 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, that's okay, no... [Glacius isn't sure how he feels about being lead somewhere by a human, but the protest is quite honestly half-hearted.] Though... I suppose it would do me well to know where I could locate nourishment and hydration... [Still sort of missing the point, whoops.]
foundafamily: (Default)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[That the apology isn't firm only seems to encourage Firo. He nods enthusiastically when the alien seems to be reconsidering.]

Yeah, well, the kitchen and the bar ain't exactly in the same place, but I can show you both. Like you said, you'll hafta find 'em eventually.
glacius: (Must I..?)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-05-04 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[The alien seems to continue considering for a moment longer... and then his shoulders droop and he exhales in a sigh.] Alright. Lead the way; I will follow. [And silently pray that seeing a giant icy alien walking around doesn't set off any alarms in the general populace, but you know.]
foundafamily: (1.1)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Really?

[He smiles.]

That was easier than I thought. C'mon, then. We get outta the Medbay this way.

[He's already walking, waving his hand for the guy to follow.]
glacius: Focus less on the where and more on the going. (Destination fever.)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-05-04 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Glacius gives a small nod; his long legs allow him to keep up with the human at a very casual pace. If Firo happens to glance back at him as he follows, he'll notice that the alien is curious, peering at things as he passes by... but there's also a strong note of uncertainty about him. He's moving cautiously, like he's not sure he wants to be detected here. This one individual has proved to be amicable enough, but Glacius isn't sure how other humans might react to seeing him--and unfortunately, his bad experiences outweigh the good.]
foundafamily: (13.3)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Firo doesn't have much height at all, but he moves at a good clip as they make their way through the area. Both because they have a mission and because hanging around all the naked and half-dressed people is kind of gross.]

We can stop by the lockers, too, if you think you woulda' gotten somethin' from where you were before. Even if you didn't--

[Mid-babbling, he glances over his shoulder at his new companion. He cuts himself off and scratches his head. Someone being wary is, he supposes, pretty logical in a situation like this. Still, he can't just not check on him.]

You okay, pal?
glacius: (Gentle giant.)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-05-04 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Glacius' gaze snaps down to blink at Firo. He's not really used to humans, of all beings, asking after his state of being. He averts his gaze, but only momentarily, and then his green eyes are focusing back on Firo once more.] ... Yes. Just... ill at ease. This place is strange, and... I do not know how others will react to seeing me.
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-04 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
[The names don't sound a bell, but two sisters... there aren't many girl nations at all, his sisters are the only ones that he knows and those other female nations that he has heard of - the mothers of Greece and Egypt are dead, and Vietnam is terribly far away. If that Russia has two girl siblings, it probably really is him.]

Did he describe them at all?
betterangels: (#8798640)

[personal profile] betterangels 2015-05-04 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rick allows a beat to transpire there like Daryl might jump in and do this for him, but he doesn't entirely expect it of Daryl, doesn't hope for one thing or another, and the task is left to him all the same. Which is probably good and right. Daryl did his part.

He stoops down, as he is sometimes wont to do with Carl, taking a knee to speak on level like his son is still eight instead of growing into the man he is, or will be not so long away from now. ]


It's Judith. She survived.

[ His eyes are very bright and clear and serious and direct. ] He says it was Tyreese, and Carol, that got her out, kept her safe all this time. She's alive, back home.
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-04 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
But they have to be on the ship, yes?
shinywhitearmor: (Blue eyed)

[personal profile] shinywhitearmor 2015-05-04 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes the silly, sometimes the unwanted. Not always what is needed.
foundafamily: (1.2)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Strange? Heck, yeah, Firo understands that. There's also not a whole lot he can do to allay that concern, so he only knows to nod sympathetically until Glacius continues.

Oh. Yep, a huge alien probably would be concerned on a spaceship full of human-y-looking things.
]

I'm not gonna lie, most people here don't really look like you. But you also don't look like the things that go bump in the hallways, so I don't think anybody's gonna attack you.

I mean, except for people who'd just go around attackin' anybody, but I haven't really run into anybody like that on board.
foundafamily: (3.2)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to me. Sorry, kid.

[There'd been a lot of things he'd wanted to ask the guy, but the transient nature of people's presences on the ship had thwarted that.

He's cautious about asking too much and frightening the kid off, but Firo figures he can venture a question.
]

You got siblings too?
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-04 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Two sisters. And I think they are the same ones. Russia is from the same area as I am, east of Poland and Lithuania, just in the future, and there are very few female nations, and only two in my area. Kiev and Minsk.
blackmagus: (♒ jerk)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-04 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Fortescue raises a brow. ]

We're a bit warmer than that, I hope.

[ Otherwise, the ship's in trouble. ]

Is that something you know from experience?
foundafamily: (Default)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-05 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? To be honest, you even kinda look like him. Same eyes and hair.

[And it's not as if they're all common features.]

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