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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 2015-04-18 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [It's prompt and really, it's a very simple answer.] Nobody in my family is. [His sisters are nations, too, his father and his father's blood relatives are Elves, and he isn't sure what aunt Sif is, but he can tell that she's not human.] And my lord father is an Elf, and he looks like you but not really. [Because he's male, he's taller, and he's ...older, somehow. Bigger on the inside, faded as he is.

He is thinking about her reply when he mentioned the ears though. This is the first time that someone actually complains about him calling their ears silly.]
They aren't as silly as fairy ears. [He cedes after a moment.] Fairies cannot wear proper hats at all because their ears are so silly.
storiesandknives: (Create elven heroes)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-18 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. My apologies for assuming.

[She actually is sorry because she would be super offended if someone just assumed she was human.]

If I see your Lord Father I will tell him he being looked for. What is your name?

[And the ear comment is less :| after knowing he's not human so that actually gets a smile.]

I have a friend who doesn't wear hats or helmets. She's a golem and so she's made out of stone. I don't think she even has ears.
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-18 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not sure why she apologizes - after all he does look human, and as long as she doesn't demand that he be with an adult at all times just because humans his apparent age should be - but moves on.] I'm Muscovy.

...But she can't hear if she doesn't have ears. [That sounds pretty troublesome. And the concept of a person that is made of stone should probably phase him more but he's encountered all kinds of mythical beings at this point, so he is a bit more prone to believe that such a creature exists.] How does she know what people tell her?
storiesandknives: (Create elven heroes)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-18 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
My name is Mira.

[She chuckles.]

I'm sure she'd like to be able to use that as an excuse to ignore people. No I think she can just hear. Or maybe her ears are stone and part of her head but hard to see. I'll have to ask her when I get home and meet up with her again.
muscovy: (we're good)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-18 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Or if she comes here.

[One of the fairies on his head has been woken by the conversation and peers over at Mira blearily. There is a chime like a silver bell, once, twice, as she makes a comment about her to Muscovy that the little nation doesn't understand, and then curls a bit tighter into her companion.]

They say that there aren't very many people here, though.
storiesandknives: (Call me knife ear just once)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-18 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I have yet to meet anyone I know here. Hopefully they're all safe at home.
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-19 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
The ship is very big. Maybe you just haven't seen them yet.

[That is what he hopes, at least.]
storiesandknives: (Scouting ahead)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-19 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to start looking then. Don't want them lost without me.

[She was planning on exploring anyway.]
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-19 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
The man that knows my lady aunt says that if you go through those doors there is a box that will take you to the rest of the ship.

[He sideeyes that prospect a bit, but if it promises to get him to Galadriel he will attempt it. As soon as that man is back.]
storiesandknives: (I heard stab him)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-19 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
....a box?


Does it teleport you with magic?
muscovy: (we're good)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. But he says that it is the only way.
storiesandknives: (Lurking in the background)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-19 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Now she is side eyeing the doors.]

Does this person work on the ship?
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-19 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
He lives here. [Which, to him, means that he's working here in some capacity. Every unit of a household works in it one way or the other.]
storiesandknives: (Scouting ahead)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-19 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he has some more answers then.
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-19 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
He went to look for a cart to put my things on, but he will come back.
Edited 2015-04-19 21:28 (UTC)
storiesandknives: (I'm not Dalish I'm not at home here)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-22 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'll wait around then. He might be able to tell me more.
muscovy: (Default)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-23 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You can sit if me, if you want to.
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.
muscovy: (Default)

[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.