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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-05-07 09:14 pm

forty-third 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: As you emerge from the grav couches following the jump, the chill of the medical bay pales in comparison to the hollow feeling that settles deep within your chest. Grim and foreboding, the grip of isolation spreads through you like a gnawing void, as though you've been left behind. That nagging sensation of neglect that comes from someone turning their back on you only worsens as you move through your routines, leaving you feeling distant, disoriented, and unwanted.

New arrivals will find messages spray-painted in red 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
blackmagus: (♒ amused)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-11 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, we could always get you some bunny ears for the gym.

[ She smirks just a little, to show purposeful misunderstanding. Besides, he'd probably look pretty cute in bunny ears. And maybe a little bunny poof for a tail. Although no one else in the gym would be able to concentrate on exercise. ]
oversight: ([±] hey there)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-05-13 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ The mental image isn't something that John finds particularly pleasing, but then again, who's he to say it wouldn't be worth a few laughs? ]

Hey, if they're on a decent pair of headphones, I'm not entirely opposed. The kind the block sounds, please.
blackmagus: (♒ haha no really)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-16 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Fortescue gives a quiet chortle in response. ]

Perhaps the floppy-eared type of bunny, then. Noise-cancelling flop. [ She nods at the boot. ] I'm glad it didn't come with a severed foot in it or something.
oversight: ([-] }}}:()

[personal profile] oversight 2015-05-17 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Christ, me too. That woulda been— [ He probably would have shit himself, to be perfectly honest. ] Definitely glad there's no severed foot.

You get anything this time 'round?
blackmagus: (♒ casual)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-17 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head. ]

No, nothing. Perhaps it's gearing up to try and startle me.

[ Nothing for several Jumps, and then wham! An arm. It would take a lot to surprise her, at this point, though. ]

But I hope not.
oversight: ([-] don't like this)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-05-18 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
What's the craziest thing you've gotten?

[ He's almost afraid to ask. ]
blackmagus: (♒ distracted)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Fortescue's expression shifts slightly, a brief flash of trepidation before she shrugs her shoulders and smiles as though it had never happened. She doesn't want to think about the last things the ship had given her. They weren't really crazy, anyway. Just hurtful. Very hurtful. ]

Oh, just some objects from home. Nothing disgusting.

[ She glances briefly at the ceiling. ]

Which, I hope, doesn't give anyone any ideas.
oversight: ([±] lookin' back)

[personal profile] oversight 2015-05-24 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... guess it doesn't hurt to kinda hope the same. Don't think it does anyone any good to have their heads messed with.

[ And yet he can't stop himself from wondering how it knows what to pick and why it picks what it does. ]

The canned shit's a mystery to me, though. SpaghettiOs? Really?

[ He is not a fan. :| ]
blackmagus: (♒ orly)

[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ She arches her brows upward. That one's beyond her. ]

What are they?

[ Beyond her time. And not something brought back from another world, oddly enough. Or not so oddly... ]