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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-06-08 12:00 am

forty-fourth 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: Awareness comes to you slowly in the smothering quiet of the blue fluid. In the light piercing through from the medical bay you realise there's a shadow, a figure stood at the glass of your gravcouch, a hand pressed to the surface just above your face. Fear spikes through your gut as waves of alien sensation crash into your mind, a rage that feels endless, all-consuming, furious, molten hatred that you know is for you.

When the fluid drains, door sliding open to deposit you on the medbay floor, you remember it. Remember it coming again and again, like a nightmare that plagued your sleep over and over, leaving you with no respite, no rest. Days. Perhaps even longer.

You remember that the light coming through from behind the shadow was red.

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
dogbane: (profile)

[personal profile] dogbane 2015-06-11 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Ever oblivious, William peripherally perceives Natasi's passage. Doesn't think of it, or realize its significance-- and that of the absence of a SEC escort or the like. He's distracted and in distress.

He only looks in her direction five or six gooey long, long steps after she has already walked away. Unable to discern the particular significance of the prints she leaves, he snaps his head forward again, shakes it. His arms tighten around Heather.]
Nobody's got a fucking towel-- [For awhile, this will seem more pressing than the escaped murderer walking among them.]
goodgodman: (I don't need a doctor)

[personal profile] goodgodman 2015-06-11 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Her tone pulls him up short, and it hits him that he's crossed the line. Dammit. Leonard drops her arm like it burns, and growls, "Occasionally," out of pure obstinance then says a moment later, "Ma'am." She's got this infuriatingly calm air about her that's driving him to grind his teeth in aggravation.

"Look, not to be rude but I have just been kidnapped," Leonard's trying to keep his voice even, honest, but he seems to naturally veer into the dramatic, "I can't say I'm at my best right now. So do you know what's goin' on or don't you?"
circumitus: I have big plans. I'm learning spanish this month. (i need an office)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-11 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
It was the jump.

[In a way, that answers both parts of Sophie's observation. The wounds are old because of the jump. And she can barely stand -- also because of the jump.

[At least she understands now better than she did the first time this has happened. How is this any different from everyone else who can come and go every time they do this same old monthly song and dance?

[Her mouth twists into a crooked smile.]


Actually feel a little better than before, all things considered. Just need to rest.
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[personal profile] oldmanhusker 2015-06-11 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
He's spent a lot of time thinking about Lee. At no point had 'pointing a gun at him' come into his mind. But before he can try to say anything to defuse the situation, it seems to have taken care of itself.

It's a simple question. With no simple answers. Then again, was that any different from the Fleet? "It's complicated. This ship isn't like anything we ever had in the Colonies."

As he speaks, he studies Lee's face. Tranquility has given him so many twisted glimpses of his nearest and dearest... but never right after a jump. And... he just knows. "Most of the people here aren't from the Colonies. They haven't even heard of them."
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Surprised.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-11 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Normal conversation was something of an oddity for Eleanor, so in a sense it was actually calming her down just to hear someone talking like she remembered from her childhood. No gibbering insanity from a splicer, no condescending speech from her mother, no rambling apologies from Doctor Alexander. Just...regular words.

Even if they were clearly not actually the truth. It was enough to make her forget she was naked, for a moment. "A space ship." She echoed, just kind of...staring at the girl.

"How did I get from the bottom of the ocean to a space ship?"
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Just moving along.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-11 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"It's...huge." Eleanor's voice was quiet, tentative. Rapture was a secret, yes, probably a poorly kept one given it's size, but they were somewhere relatively similar, wouldn't he have to know about it? Perhaps they just weren't telling the children.

Or maybe they called it something else. Rapture was a pretty grandiose name. "It's on the bottom of the sea." She continued, searching his face for some glimmer of recognition.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Well I suppose..)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-11 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Eleanor frowned, studying him. She was not going to follow the strange ice monster man anywhere, of course. But how long could she stay here?

Well, long enough to make him fetch her something to wear, at least.

"Just...if you're really trying to help me, go and get one." A pause. "Please."
slurpeesinhell: (#9031527)

[personal profile] slurpeesinhell 2015-06-11 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[At the other end of that arm is a figure of lean strength, skin still shiny wet but starting to dry. On his inner bicep a nasty little creature with a spaded tail spreads its wings, the old ink faded blue. His torso is more or less covered in scars, some very old, some not so old; from throat to waist he's painted with long and thin strips of raised skin (claws, she might think at a glance), small round burns, irregular bumps or gouges left by who knows what. Greying scruff on his chin, hair hanging about his face, narrow blue eyes glancing at her and away again.

He's ready to leave even before she's on her feet, but her voice holds him there, half turned. (Across his back, more chapters of the same story.)]


Huh?

[Did we what, now.]
karone: (Look Down)

[personal profile] karone 2015-06-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
The red certainly makes it seem serious.

[Then again, Karone tends to associate the colour red with any number of serious things. She'd had red hair when she had been brainwashed back into being Astronema. Her long-lost brother had been the Red Ranger. Red was serious business.]

You're not new here, are you? [She didn't seem confused, the way Karone was.] By any chance, do the names Dark Spectre or Trakeena mean anything to you? [Best eliminate the usual suspects before getting settled in, right?]
circumitus: that's because you have standards... and i have a thing for guys that give me free drugs. (my dad brought home flowers)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-11 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Message thoroughly received. Rey is more adept at picking up subtle hints than she would ever care to let on.

"You probably shouldn't do that. Ever." Firo may have that immortality thing going on, but it still looked like it had hurt a great deal when she had burned him some time ago. Rey can at least withstand the heat in a way that it doesn't harm her.

She returns with a small smile when he drops the subject, though. It's much too soon to revisit those events, and she's much too tired to be exercising that many words.

Her gaze drops to the marks across her hands and arms. "No, they've already been tended to with probably what is the most advanced medical equipment from my world a few months ago." She scoffs. It still feels weird to measure time that way when she hasn't missed a jump. "Probably could've had the doctor to heal my scars if I wanted him to."

Which she, of course, didn't.
hacker: (lazy is such an ugly word)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-11 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Straight out of the blue goo tubes," Skye confirms with an almost jovial shrug of her shoulders. On the whole, letting things roll off her back is a skill. Now that she's beyond being terrified of whatever had been terrorizing her from outside the pod, and being abducted in the first place, she can focus on how cool most of it is. "I'm Skye. You?" She leans against one of the lockers nearer to his, folding her arms over her chest and looking him over.
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[personal profile] lostsoldier 2015-06-11 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
The Winter Soldier doesn't exactly have room to talk when it comes to over-preparedness. It makes a certain kind of sense — scalpel in one hand, scissors in the other, may as well make good use of both limbs, and with the things he's seen in these hallways, he might not judge a guy for feeling the need to walk around armed to teeth every minute of the day. Heck, he does, when he hasn't just rolled out of his pod, and if his first post-shower destination is a deserted floor at the top of the passenger quarters, let's just say it isn't for a quiet spot to check his comm.

But he does that, too. A few feet down the hall, the glow of a tiny screen alights the flick of his gaze to the sound of the elevator opening. A beat passes. His thumb rolls over the keys as he pockets the device.

(Sure, he's been the crazy guy with the scalpel before — and he's grateful as hell for the times somebody stopped him.)

"Hey," he calls out with a nod to the stranger. Jump suit half on half tied around his waist, undershirt leaving metal arm and scar-mottled skin exposed to the elements, but his fingers don't twitch for the sidearm strapped to his leg, and his stride is easy. "You lost, pal?"
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DDDDDDDDDD:::::::: everything is terrible nothing is good

[personal profile] dogbane 2015-06-11 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my fucking Lord on a stick, [mutters William, who's not being irreverent; he means it fervently. As fervently as humanly possible. He slants Murphy a quick look to confirm the man's all right, not accidentally injured in some crazy brutal way, as can easily happen when everything underneath the slippy goop is bone-breakingly hard. No? Not concussed? Minimal likelihood of internal brain bleeding?

All right then. Back to Heather. And Takeshi now. The sight of them, the combined shapes of their bodies bent together like the outline of an uneven heart, makes him pause in the midst of reaching for Heather's shoulder. It's probably better anyway. He doesn't know how complex psychically healing her would be, given the involvement of advanced prosthetics. His hand wafts over her arm harmlessly instead and he falls back. Balances the towel between his hands, then carefully heaping it up higher over her shoulders. Careful not to disturb.

To be honest, there's nothing constructive to do. However hazy the past few weeks have been, William recognizes this with perfect clarity. Takeshi's the only one who can properly save Heather right now, and Heather, him.]
All right, bruv? [he asks Minho too. He isn't exactly sure what he's asking, doubting that any friend of Thomas would be so emotionally fragile as to fall totally apart upon witnessing the separation of a woman from her lover. It seems like the kind of thing a doctor would ask, though.

He hugs his ruined labcoat closer around himself, blinking wearily into the cold corridor light.]
tadashiwashere: (defeated: maybe I'm not ready)

[personal profile] tadashiwashere 2015-06-11 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
He's shaking hands with an alien. An alien that appears to be made of ice. Dimly, the curiosity that makes him take so well to scientific endeavors starts a quiet stream of self-addressed questions, such as what this sort of alien's tolerance to heat might be, what causes the eyes to glow, what sort of tech he might know about if he had his own ship... But Tadashi brushes those thoughts away as quickly as they come as he puts his hands into his pockets.

"It's nice meeting you," he says instead, before slowly nodding. While he misses his Aunt Cass and his friends, he has to agree that it's probably best they aren't here. Even if that might mean he never has a chance to see them again. "We have. As best we can, anyway. I've been trying to keep on top of all of the past data to know what to expect, but..."

It was still tough. The bleeding and headaches had really started to scare him once Hiro had started suffering, too. If it had gotten worse instead of dissipating...

"How about you? Holding up okay with everything that's happened recently?"
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2015-06-11 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
The flash of metal makes him think of Furiosa, gives him that split second of memory — it feels like it'd only been no more than an hour, maybe two, since he'd seen her last. This entire thing... it felt like falling right into the tar pit of his madness, into the sinkholes that just swallow you up like they do foolish sprogs trying to cross dangerous and vast deserts. His eyes are hard and focused, sweat on his forehead from both the pain lancing through his leg and arm and from the anxiety coursing through his veins. He has no clue where to go, no idea where the exit is. And he's not so foolish as to run blindly into yet another long fall like he had in the Citadel. He needs to weigh his odds — he's not at his best, but he needs to make due.

Eyeing the man up, he can tell he's a strong fighter. It's not hard, just watching his stance and how he composes himself. Not like the kid from before, scared and hesitant. This was a warrior, one that felt confident. He's not sure if the guy is just fucking with him and giving him a good old runaround, or if he's genuinely not aware that Max is a barreling object smashing through the landscape as always. But his grip does tighten on the scalpel, scissors too.

Maybe he's just lost himself completely, because there is no one here.

It's all darkness, all repeating sequences, door after door after door and no end in sight.

And it makes the voices louder. Clouds everything up. He had been doing so well before, too; had dealt with the past by ignoring it in favor of Furiosa's mission. Feeling a piece of himself return, and now to be trapped again, the same as when he had been tattooed... he still feels the painful tug of healing skin on his back, still has no clue what the exact words of his medical factoids are, upside down for perfect reading when he's hung from the ceiling like a true blue blood bag. He faces the man fully, riddled with scars himself.

"Tell me how to leave. And get out of my way."

He's not going anywhere with you, not without a fight. He will get out.

He's always gotten out. How far did they take him? He had been only an hour's drive from the Citadel. And now... it doesn't make sense. It really, really doesn't.
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-11 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
What's the last thing that happened?

( Whilst Maria didn't know everything about what was happening on his team - not the finer ins and outs, things outside of her intel or larger developments - she knew enough that there was a chance she'd have a vague idea of what had happened to Jemma.

Maybe she'd finally get her confirmation of whether her own memories could be believed. The previous jump she'd gotten a year of her life, and there wasn't anyone on the ship that she could check with. Natasha hadn't gone home, there were no other Avengers, Pepper, or Coulson. At least Jemma had the team, whether or not they all knew )
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (what did I say about resting)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-11 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
They existed. In the wrong place.

[She kicks a pen just to emphasise it. Hughes can be all pleasant, but Nami majored in Dark Muttering 101, okay. She takes a solid swallow of rum just in an attempt to calm her nerves some, and eyes him from her place on the floor warily.]

You seem cheerful enough. Used to this or something?
brainsqueeze: (ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴛᴡᴏ)

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-11 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
"We've all been kidnapped." With her arm dropped Maria pulls it back to her side, eyes moving back to his face. She understands the frustration, and even though she hadn't acted in outburst herself she'd seen plenty of others that did. Her only control on that was herself - she was too tightly wrapped to act out so much. Too controlled to let, or want others to see her out of control.

"Some of us have been here longer than others." She offers the second part more of an explanation - a better explanation of why she's not phased by what's happening. Any amount of time in kidnapping is too long, but when it gets to years it's far too long. It's not new.

"We're on a space ship - the Tranquility." She'd found that idea odd at first. She'd seen others from other worlds and space, but to be there herself? Okay, that part was new.
mikangirl: (oh please)

Lockers part II

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-11 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Nami gives a faint snort of laughter as she hears the question. She's not in a great mood, but when in doubt, retreat to snark, right?

"Not unless you've got a secret love of wearing bikini tops." She dangles a green and white one at him before shoving it away in a bag. "Or pink. I've got a tank top in here somewhere."

We don't recommend the tank top.
muscovy: (what on earth)

pods

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-06-11 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
She'll almost fall over a boy that was trying to peer into the pod upon opening - as he's been doing for a while now, check on every pod that's opening to see if he knows the person inside.

He falls backwards, recoiling from her unusually quick emergence from the pod, and hits the ground hard, scrambling back to his feet after only a moment. The fairies that were fluttering right above him have risen higher up in the hair, and Sophie is greeted on the ship with the sound of chiming silver bells, a sound that would be happy and joyful if it didn't sound so angry. They're just out of reach, and will quickly retreat if she lashes out against them.
muscovy: (from the east)

A

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-06-11 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't want to throw away something that you don't understand just because you don't understand it, yes?

[It's likely unclear to her where he came from - Muscovy is good at approaching people without them noticing and then standing nearby and watching them further without them realizing that he's there - and there is no warning to him speaking up - the voice probably coming from somewhere near her hip, as he isn't particularly tall. He's still covered in good, clearly very recently emerged from his pod, and alone.]
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (...I'll kill him.)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-11 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
OH YEAH WELL I'M GONNA JUST--

--flop back onto the floor with a gasp and rethink this whole getting up thing while I try to breathe, fuck you very much. Blurry vision catches a glimpse of Mr Naked storming out, and she doesn't get a real good look at him, but the fact that he's naked makes her think this might have been the better end of the deal.

Also, that's one hell of a back tattoo. Totally kicking you in the groin if we ever meet again, you ass.






Hrk. Ow. Jerk.
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[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-11 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
This news brings about what is almost a mental short circuit, confusion visible behind his eyes even if his expression remains fixed. He thinks, in a way more sudden than he has in years, Bethany?, but that makes no sense at all, and something about this place tells him that that's not what Fenris means, nor does he mean Leandra, even if he's not got a clue what else he could possibly mean.

Contrary to popular belief, Hawke is not a stupid man. This time, he doesn't say the stupid thing.

Like what? Or, you're not making sense, even if that's a valid question, and that's an incredibly valid statement.

"Then I suppose this would be a bad time for you to get to know me," he guesses, with a sort of gesture that encompasses his slimy, naked self, and the slimy, naked selves around them, and the universe at large, delivered easy as if part of him doesn't want to grip Fenris by his shoulders and shake him. He goes on, anyway. "Hawke, Garrett Hawke. Champion of Kirkwall. Rallying cry of mage freedom across the land, but we've both agreed by now no one's perfect. And I'm rather sure I know you."
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (okay go on)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-11 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This guy looks younger than she is and at least vaguely approachable, unlike some other people she could mention. She's found her locker and dressed in the uniform she found there, finally jamming everything else into the designer bags and hauling them along with her, her free arm resting lightly across her stomach. Max is a jerk.

"Hey." She's not trying to be rude, and she's calmer than she was, but there's still an abrupt edge to her voice. "Please tell me you're not new."
brainsqueeze: (ғɪғᴛʏ)

room search.

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-11 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Maria still had a room on one of the higher numbered floors. They all did, all of the later arrivals, although most ended up taking the advice of staying on a different floor. This room wasn't one that Maria often stayed in but given the lack of people on this floor she did use it for storage. Being so quiet she figured - she hoped - that it was more secure for some of her belongings.

That was why, when Maria found someone down that same floor, someone looking rather than knowing where they were going, she found it a little unusual. There were people that ignored the messages, and to be honest a message written in red paint on the ship - a harsh warning - wasn't the most welcoming thing to follow.

"If you're looking for someone they'll probably be on a lower floor." She'd waited until she was closer to the stranger before speaking, not prying but just offering a hopefully helpful guidance.

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