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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
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-07 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I want them to be happy, yes.

[And when people smile they are happy, aren't they? That is what people say, so...]
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-08 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's awfully nice a' you.

[He knows it's not very nice to grill a kid, but he's curious about something...]

Does them bein' happy make you happy? Is that how it works?
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-08 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a really good question actually. He'll have to think about that.] I hurt when they hurt. [Such connections are much easier to make because it's they are so much more clear and happiness is just there, and you notice it more when it's gone.] So maybe I'm happy when they are happy.
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-08 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[So the kid knows about hurt, but happiness is just a guess, huh? Firo can't help but feel a little guilty for asking.]

Does it work the other way around? Can you make 'em all happy just by bein' happy?

[As if it's ever that easy. ]
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-08 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I can be happy about meeting my sisters even when everyone is starving.

[That one he can answer fairly easily. Surely people aren't happy when they're starving.]
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-08 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Yeah, having gone without the essentials himself, Firo understands that you're not always chipper when food is scarce or nonexistent.]

...Well, at least you're okay then, huh?

[Though he can't really imagine how that feels to be a nation and have all your people starving. If he hurts when they hurt... Then is it magnified for him?

He can't stop his face from crinkling in sympathy.
]
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-09 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
I like being with my sisters. [He loves them a lot, even though he can't see them often. One day though... one day they will live in the same house, he's sure of that.]
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-09 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Firo beams, oblivious of any downside to that thinking. Who doesn't love family?]

Yeah, that's what family is, isn't it?

[The people you love being with the most. The ones you can be with because they'll never turn on you.]

...I hope you'll see 'em again soon.