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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
sleepallthewayhome: (Not saying nothing)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-10 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Newt seems to think this over for a while. She's slowly starting to realize that Ripley might actually be gone. And her tone drops slightly.]

Over here I think.
undyingbeliefs: (Lemme explain you a thing)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-14 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods, already heading in the provided direction.]

Can you tell me what she looks like, Newt?
sleepallthewayhome: (Clings to)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-14 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She's tall and strong and ....most of her hair is gone now. It wasn't like that when I saw her last. I think she cut it off here.
undyingbeliefs: (Since you put it like that issall good)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-14 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[That narrows it down a little bit it could still be a lot of people.]

Can you think of anything else that might help describe her? A scar, maybe? Or something unique?
sleepallthewayhome: (PJ party)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-14 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Newt thinks it over for a moment.]

I don't think so....
undyingbeliefs: (Come again?)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-14 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's another nod after reaching the lockers where Ripley's is located and finding no one. But it is at least a start. Evangeline still runs other options through her mind.]

Have you attempted to contact her through the communicators? If she is aboard, I am certain she would answer.
sleepallthewayhome: (Please be alone)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-14 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I tried but there's no answer....I don't know if I'm doing it right.
undyingbeliefs: (Lemme explain you a thing)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-17 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
May I see what you sent her?

[Not that she knows what she's doing either on this front. But she can try.]
sleepallthewayhome: (Shit got worse)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-18 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods and hands over her com after a moment. The message reads.]

Ripely where are you? are you lost? please answer.

Mommy? Where are you?


[The only response she's gotten back.]

### Can not be reached
undyingbeliefs: (Admittance)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-18 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a subtle frown on her face at the message.]

It looks correct. Hold on a moment.

[She'll hand Newt back her device and then take out her own. She sends a short message to someone else she knows is no longer on board. The return message is the same and her frown deepens. Again she kneels down beside Newt. It's a sure sign as spending the rest of the week looking for Ripley on the ship, she's no longer here.]

I believe the message you received is one given when people are no longer on board-when they've been sent home. I'm sorry, Newt.
sleepallthewayhome: (Clings to)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-18 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
......

Oh.

[She's quiet for a moment. A loss for words. And she bites her lip and tries not to cry.]

Oh.
undyingbeliefs: (Considering and thoughts)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-18 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[She'll give her another hug, and pat her head softly. She wishes she could do more to help, but she doesn't even know where to start. Something like a hug and small words are all she has.]

You will see her again. She has only left the ship. It will be all right.
sleepallthewayhome: (Clings to)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-19 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[You're being clung to slightly right now because Ripley is gone and she trusts you to protect her and she's just trying to be brave and not cry right now and everything is sad.]

.....She promised.
undyingbeliefs: (Considering and thoughts)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-19 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[No pressure.]

She kept her promise, this wasn't her choice. She would not have left you.
sleepallthewayhome: (Not saying nothing)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-19 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Slight sniffing and she moves to wipe her eyes.]

No. Ripley wouldn't.

[Even though her mother said the same thing and she left. It wasn't her fault. It wasn't her fault the aliens happened, it wasn't Ripley's fault the ship took her away... It still hurt though. It still made her angry and sad. But that wasn't this persons fault. She was still here.]

....thank you for helping me look for her.
undyingbeliefs: (Gentle smile)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-19 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods slowly. And considers what more she can offer or do. It's sadly a short list. Still, she smiles with some small empathy. The ship-if it can be considered an entity and she's believing it can-has been entirely a little too cruel as of late.]

Are you hungry?
sleepallthewayhome: (Please be alone)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-04-20 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She pauses, then nods.]
undyingbeliefs: (No that's actually a good thing)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-21 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we will head to the kitchens and find something for you.

[Perhaps getting away from the pods and lockers will do them both some good.]
sleepallthewayhome: (Clings to)

[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.]
undyingbeliefs: (Gentle smile)

[personal profile] undyingbeliefs 2015-04-27 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Evangeline holds out her gauntlet hand again.]

Shall we?
sleepallthewayhome: (Please be alone)

[personal profile] sleepallthewayhome 2015-05-06 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Newt will take it with a small hopeful smile.]