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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: (Fight for whats right)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-27 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The only version I saw was an illusion in the Fade, the bones seem about right.

[She still thinks that sloth demon was way too lazy on her illusion.]

Can you tell if any of this is magical? I ran into a Templar who claims otherwise but I'm more inclined to believe a mage.

[She's also more inclined to believe an elf over a Shem.]
underthevines: ([otium] natural)

[personal profile] underthevines 2015-04-28 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Valya takes a second look at the Warden-Commander. But no... Nothing to point that the other elf is a mage. ]

You went into the Fade? How?

[ ...Apparently Valya is already breaking her fortitude to not ask questions at the moment. She can at least try to answer Mira's own. Through the flush that comes at Mira mentioning trust in a mage over a templar. ]

It doesn't feel like it to me. I mean... I'm not in any way an expert, but there's nothing that feels like it here.
storiesandknives: (Create elven heroes)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-04-29 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Sloth demon. Trapped me and my group in the Fade for a while when we were trying to help the Ferelden circle and their demon problem. Stuck us all in our own little "no really this is real life and you want to stay" bubbles. Didn't try very hard on mine. Grey Warden Fortress instead of I don't know, the alienage....

[She shrugs, it's probably a good thing it didn't give her something hard to break out of.]

I managed to get out of that bubble and find the rest of them in the fade. I also got to to turn into a golem and a mouse. I was quite jealous of Shale and Morrigan after we got out.

[She nods at the part about magic.]

That's a shame, I'd rather it be something we know about.
underthevines: ([maero] surprise)

[personal profile] underthevines 2015-05-03 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Excuse Valya while her eyes grow significantly larger. ]

A sloth demon?!

[ Her voice squeaks. In front of the Warden-Commander. Embarrassed, she looks away-- Only to peer back curiously nearly instantly. ]

You shapeshifted...? And were able to free others from the demon's tricks? I thought some of the stories were exaggerated, but maybe they weren't at all.
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.
storiesandknives: (Create elven heroes)

[personal profile] storiesandknives 2015-05-06 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's a pretty hard one to top in pure strangeness. Especially the whole,not being a mage part.