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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
muscovy: (hello)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-11 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
You are never too young to learn how to defend yourself, yes? Though most weapons are too large for me.
tongueamok: (➣ it's unfortunate to feel such guilt)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-11 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Well, when you are old enough to defend yourself, then you can talk about someone's weapon and whether or not it looks like it belongs to them.

[And back into his hands his head goes as he presses his palms to his eyes.]

Eugh... I have neither the time nor the energy to be talking to a child about this.
muscovy: (look what I found)

PM me if this is not ok and I'll change the tag

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-11 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Then it is good that I am, yes?

[Giggling and this sure is the tip of a dagger coming for Charlisle's head and, if he doesn't dodge, stopping with perfect timing just as it puts an ever so tiny dent into his skin. Muscovy is still giggling. This is funny.]
Edited 2015-04-11 08:15 (UTC)
tongueamok: (➣ i said i'd consider it)

Fine by me! o7

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-11 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
[With his hands still pushed against his eyes as though he could will the pain away, Carlisle doesn't even move as the dagger comes his way. Thankfully, this is one of those rare instances where it's probably good that he doesn't see the weapon aimed at him, as he'd probably pass out from the fear of his impending demise. And if he didn't pass out from that, it'd be from that fear combining with the pounding in his head. And if he didn't pass out from that, the tremendous nausea would do it eventually.

But until then, he's still conscious and still aware enough to feel the dagger as it pricks his temple. He flinches a little, but mistakes it as some reaction to that constant throbbing going on between his ears.

What's more vexing is the giggling, apparently. He grinds his teeth, trying not to yell at a kid.]


Look. Lad. This day has hardly started, and it's been long enough for me already. I don't know if it even is day anymore. Not a window in sight. So...

[He trails off there, hoping the kid will put two and two together.]
muscovy: (we're good)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-11 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
We might be dead or in a place in-between, and then it doesn't matter very much if it is day or night. [Very factual, still with a giggle in his voice, and not moving his hand with the dagger. And now there'll also be what sounds like joyful chiming of silver bells - Muscovy's fairies have started to laugh along with him. ...which makes him feel a bit unsure about all of this. Fairies being happy about something isn't always a good sign. (Other people might say that it never is, but this is Muscovy and his brain goes its own ways.)]
tongueamok: (➣  the adults are talking)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-11 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not dead. I'm pretty sure I'd know if I was dead. This cannot be what being dead is like.

[And now he's hearing bells. Are those bells? Maybe if he shuts his eyes harder, he'll shut them out, too.

Nope, that just makes his headache worse. Fantastic.]
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muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-11 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Lowering his hand and pushing the dagger back into its sheathe, carried as hidden as possible at his side.

...the silver chiming turns into louder, more aggressive one. This would have been fun, why did you stop?]


How do you know what death is like?
tongueamok: (➣ it's unfortunate to feel such guilt)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-11 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
That is none of your business.

[With his palms still on his eyes, his fingers curl into his hairline as he grinds his teeth. The racket really is too much.]

You hear that, right? That isn't just this headache making me hear things, is it?

[Not that that was entirely out of the question.]
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-11 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hear what?

[He honestly isn't sure what this guy is referring to, he can only hear himself and him and the fairies and some people walking around and talking and getting dressed around them...]
tongueamok: (➣ i said i'd consider it)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Another groan.]

The headache is making me hear things. Spectacular. You know, I was just thinking about how this day couldn't possibly get any worse, and then it did, and now it has managed to outdo itself again. I'd suggest another dozen problems that could arise, but that would be tempting fate, now wouldn't it?

[He lets out an exasperated sigh, letting it drag in his throat.]
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-13 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Fate a person in your home world? Then it would be a very silly idea, because they might hear.
tongueamok: (➣ a touch of uncertainty)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-14 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
No, fate's a concept. An idea. The principle that you can't escape what's coming for you, no matter how much you may try.

[He finally casts a look toward the lad, his eyes bleary.]

You understand that, right?
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-14 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It is that in my world, but in some worlds there are no people like me and in others there are Elves and John got adopted by Death, so it would be very silly to think that fate cannot be a person somewhere, yes?
tongueamok: (➣ it's unfortunate to feel such guilt)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He just stares.]

... Nevermind. You don't understand. In fact, you're probably loonier than I am, or maybe a figment of my imagination, and where in blazes is that noise coming from?

[He covers his ears. Go away, ringing. Go away.]
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-17 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[The smaller fairy suddenly changes sound, and Muscovy can tell that he laughs, and then he flies up and over towards the upset man and around him to his other side so that the chiming will now come from both sides, because the fairies keep talking to each other. Now on purpose.

Muscovy meanwhile tilts his head.]
You are very silly and very rude. Neither is a good thing to be.
tongueamok: (➣ completely unnecessary)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-17 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Carlisle grumbles, uttering under his breath.]

I'd tell you what you are, but I should probably watch my tongue when talking to a child.
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-18 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You should always watch your tongue or you will not have very many friends, yes?
tongueamok: (➣ it's unfortunate to feel such guilt)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2015-04-20 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He lets out another sigh. He's not answering that question.]

I'm not about to be lectured by you. What is it you want?
muscovy: (I can help us)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-22 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
You looked like you aren't very bright and need help.