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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
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-12 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wouldn't be," Fortescue agrees, with a noise approaching a chuckle. The war made her sadly used to many things, body parts being one of them. In the beginning she would have felt slightly nauseous to see an eyeball out of its socket. Now she's seen far, far worse things.

Not exactly character growth that she's happy with.

"You can turn it over to medical, if you want. I think it's medical. One of the departments is very interested in the body parts found in lockers."
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-13 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He nearly laughs with her.

"They are? Don't they think that's kinda creepy?"

Says the guy holding a human eyeball. He looks down at his prize yet again. "...I know it's not really fair for me to say that, but c'mon. What do they need 'em for anyway?"

It wasn't an entirely unappealing idea, though. He didn't exactly want to hang onto this thing.
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-16 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
She shakes her head slightly. Whatever it is, it's not her department. She doesn't actually have a department. She just pours drinks whenever she gets bored, which is most of the time.

"They're examining them to figure out where they're from, I think. Or that's the last explanation I heard," Fortescue explains, shrugging. As far as she's concerned, they're welcome to the limbs. Maybe they can dig up something useful on them.
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-17 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh. That's not so weird, if they mean that."

He thinks a moment, then nods thoughtfully. "...Can't think a' why anybody'd wanna get their hands on a lotta body parts, so I guess we've gotta believe 'em." Firo's people usually have the opposite problem: getting rid of them.

"Thanks. I'll think about it. Maybe I'll see if a good offer comes up first." He laughs, even though it's his own joke. Oh, god, he hopes there's nobody that interested in this thing.
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Fortescue laughs softly. "Do yourself a favor. If you get a better offer, run. Or better yet, question them deeply on the matter."

She can think of a few reasons someone might want a severed limb — this is the sort of thinking that she was forced to have during the War — but none of them are particularly good. Unless there's some sort of being on the ship that normally eats flesh, and needs a donation.
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-19 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
He puts his hand on his hip and looks her over. Even as he tries to fake disbelief, he's smiling a little.

Hey, it's much easier to joke around than to let himself get creeped out.

"What, you think somethin' like that's gonna attract shady people?"

Inconceivable.
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-21 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles, still chortling a little as she answers. If they find someone completely comfortable with discovering random limbs in their locker... well. That seems to be an indication that that person needs to be watched.

"I think it could attract... a certain type of person, yes."

Shady is probably a good word for it.
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-21 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That, he can't really doubt.

"Then I guess we'll just know who to keep an extra eye on."

Pun not intended in the least, though the way Firo happens to bring the eyeball-holding hand up as he shrugs may make it seem like he used that wording on purpose.
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[personal profile] blackmagus 2015-05-23 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortescue gives him a Look, though it's a very amused Look as opposed to a cross one.

"Perhaps you should find a strap to fix it you, so you can be a cyclops," she teases him. Very much joking, because that's not really a mental image she wanted, either.
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-05-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
A genius idea. He barely holds himself back from laughing out loud as he nods eagerly.

"Or I could put it on the back a' my head and always see what was sneakin' up on me."

"Hey, I guess this thing is useful." He looks at the ceiling again. "Thanks, boat."