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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
heartchart: (i herd u were talkin shit)

[personal profile] heartchart 2015-06-26 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
"I doubt I'll ever get used to it." He makes a sour face and puffs again on his cigarette, happy it's starting to get rid of the taste of vomit. "I just want to go home already, but something tells me that's not gonna happen. So whatever." He pretends to be nonchalant, but there's a certain obnoxious singer he's missing so badly that he cries himself to sleep at night.

But that's a matter for himself only. This guy is never going to hear about it. Because he's just some guy, and Eiri doesn't need to go getting close to people. Especially not here.

"By the way, it probably sounds offbeat as hell to casually ask if you saw some kind of creepy figure wandering around the medbay when we were getting out of our pods, but...did you?" he looks at Ellis expectantly, glad to have a subject change again. Because that hand...
myfriendkeith: (Machete Tiem)

[personal profile] myfriendkeith 2015-06-26 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ellis nods in understanding, saddened by his lack of hope. "Don't feel so down. People do go home sometimes." He offers optimistically.

He nods again at the next subject he brings up, but grimly. "Sure did." He shakes his head in a what-a-shame kind of way. "That kinda shit never stops botherin' me."
heartchart: (those were my mother's shoes)

[personal profile] heartchart 2015-06-26 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"And people win the lottery sometimes," he points out. "But it's not the kind of thing that actually happens to you, or anyone you know. It's like a distant kind of miracle; the very tiniest probability of hope that there's no point in putting any stock in." He sounds bitter, and faintly upset, before he shuts himself back inside and his expression becomes lax again.

And then it turns to one of surprise.

"Did you see a hand on your pod too?" he asks. "You almost sound like you're used to this shit."
myfriendkeith: (Hey thar sexy)

[personal profile] myfriendkeith 2015-06-26 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
"No point in givin' up hope, either." He points out, knowing he's not going to change this guy's mind that easily.

He nods again, this time looking a bit surprised himself. He wasn't that surprised to see a thing like that in a place like this, but maybe it happened to everyone.

"Sure did." A brief pause. "In this place, and in life in general I guess, you got two choices. You can run around like a chicken with its head cut off, or you can get used to the weird, crazy shit life throws at ya. In this place, I guess it's just some way weirder, crazier shit than anywhere else." He explains, smiling a small smile.
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[personal profile] heartchart 2015-06-26 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"No point in anything..." it's a bitter, careless mutter. Because there's really not much point here, not when the only thing he really has to live for is god knows how far away.

"That would probably make sense if I'd been here longer," he admits. "But since I'm still fairly new to this whole freakshow you all seem to think is a ship, to me it just sounds like you've gotten so used to crazy shit your brain just goes numb."

Sometimes he feels the same way at home.
circumitus: ...it got messy. (i did a shot of seamonkeys)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-26 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Rey shifts her weight so her back's to the locker, arms folded over her chest as she watches Firo checking his sweetbreads. That looks way worse typed out doesn't it?

"Probably not in your scrawny neck, but yes, there usually is. Suppose some people really like it." She pauses. "For animals, mind you. Mostly."

Emphasis on the mostly part.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-26 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He considers the question for a moment, tapping his chin with his finger.]

Some at home!! And — and there was a bad person here who shot my friend... But I dunno... if he's here no more. 'Cus nobody's been shot for a long time. I think everyone's okay.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-26 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Aha.

"Political situation? Oh, that's always my favorite two words put next to each other."

He gives a impish little smile.

"And how are those political situations?"
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-26 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
( There's a nod, and she reaches her hand out to rest on Jemma's arm )

Come on.

( She's got a couple of rooms - some barely used and never mentioned. It would definitely get the privacy needed )
songburdened: (believe me)

[personal profile] songburdened 2015-06-26 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. That is what they say.

[ Whether or not it's true, though... ]

Have you found anyone else from your home, ma'am?
songburdened: (the world could show nothing to me)

[personal profile] songburdened 2015-06-26 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"You have to be? Why? I-- I don't mean to pry, really, but I may be able to help you."

She'd just explained to another distraught woman that time stopped back in their homes, or... at least, that was the popular theory. Elizabeth studied Eleanor's face, hesitating.

"... At the bottom of the ocean?" And she actually laughs, completely surprised. "How could that be possible?"
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[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-26 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you remember their name, or what they look like? The bad person who shot your friend.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2015-06-26 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Their blood smells... different. [Clearly a diplomatic word choice.] Werewolf blood ranges from dissatisfying to outright toxic, and my limited experience with other shapeshifters suggests it's a similar effect with other types.

[Normally he'd be leery exposing a weakness this way, and in truth, he isn't sure it's the right move. But she doesn't seem like the sort to lace his treatment just to see what happens. He hopes he's not misreading her.]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-27 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Committing those names to memory, then. She's going to assume the mutiny failed.

"Those files available to anyone to read?"
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[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-06-27 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
You dirty person you.

Firo scowls at the thought that he might be lacking sweetbreads, but leaves his alone.

"People like to give it to animals or people like to eat it from animals?"

He raises both eyebrows, looking innocently confused and not at all like he's just trying to be difficult.
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[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-27 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley shakes her head slightly, just enough to make her realize that she's just rambled to someone that she hasn't even told her name to.]

Sorry. I'm Hayley.
consequence: (you were a bluebird)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-27 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hayley's head tips, a bit, when he makes mention of his system and faster than light jumps. She's not sure if the jumps here are that fast, but maybe this guy can get in with engineering and poke around. Find some answers.

"SEC made the --," she pauses, realizing that not everyone could be aware of the term even if it seems common sense. "Security made the request. This is the forty-fourth jump, so you can imagine that each jump people are assigned to a new floor. Not everyone sticks around long-term, so having small clusters of people spread out over forty-four floors isn't the easiest to manage. If you want SEC to be effective and make sure you're aware of situations on board, then you stick to the bottom ten floors."
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[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-27 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Not even sorry at all.

"From animals," she clarifies. "Never tried it before, though."

It wasn't exactly part of the culinary menu at the restaurants she'd been to in Chicago, and the years before that she never enjoyed food enough to have cared.
circumitus: We know how you feel. (kid you're lost in the wheel)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-27 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Normally Rey isn't even one to bring it up. She used to spend several months talking to someone without them ever knowing her name unless they asked for it first. Even if her face may ring familiar to some from the network, she's never introduced herself there, either.]

Rey. [Even though Hayley didn't ask, one could suppose some social graces have begun to rub off on her.

[In case there was any doubt, though:]
Everything's fine here, though. Really.

[Says the woman covered in scars.]
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-27 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's pretty normal," Stiles says, and then lifts a hand, tries to clarify."I mean, I guess everyone's world feels normal to them. Uh. I live in California, in twenty-first century America, with my dad, and a lot of world's seem to have an America so it's... common, is a better word, I guess." A shrug. The fact that he's about to lie is also somehow visible in his hypermobile face. "Nothing special."
forerun: (and go back home but no!)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-06-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"No place is normal. Everyone here has something jacked about their world." He has no idea if that's true, but from all the people he's met, it has to be a majority. It's weird to him, that this Stiles guy would think that anyone saw their world as normal even if it wasn't. To be so disconnected from your home seemed off.

Something about Stiles' face is off, too, and Minho is pretty good at sensing when someone is lying. "I know about America. I'm pretty sure that's where I'm from." He eases into calling him out on lying, but he is going to call him out on it. "So this nothing special you're trying to lie about. How shucked up is it?"
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-27 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yeah, totally," Stiles nods. "There's a kitchen on every residential floor, and the people who work in Agriculture tend trees and chickens and crap so between that and the deep freeze it's... not only space food."

He seems to have given up on getting a shirt and just zips up the jumpsuit, tucks away the last few objects from his locker — keys, a ring, his meds — into the pockets. "You're taking all this pretty in stride."
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Were we, uh...

[ Lifted eyebrows, like he's trying to think of a good euphemism and can't. ]
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-27 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Stiles can't help but laugh at that, a nervous downward kind of chuckle, caught out. If he finds Minho's word choice odd, he doesn't comment this time, maybe assuming that he just has a weird lisp that makes a shh sound instead of a fff sound.

"It's not... I mean, America isn't screwy, unless you want a run down on foreign policy. But my life, my friend's lives, that was a little weird." Stiles reaches up a hand to scratch through the soft, short hair at the back of his neck. Secrecy is hard wired into him, but it doesn't matter so much on the Tranquility, things were more relaxed. "Werewolves and stuff," he says, and while it's awkward with reluctance, this time he's not lying at all.
forerun: (you don't just climb the hill)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-06-27 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a lisp, and if Stiles were to point it out he wouldn't be the first. Minho and his friends just spoke differently than other people, particularly when it came to the slang they used. Sometimes it sounded close to other words—he is familiar with the F word even if he doesn't use it—so it stands that they were maybe once related.

"My friends and I are part of a massive science experiment. Mazes and obstacles and traps. But we're the mice. I won't judge." And he's heard a lot of other messed up stories since arriving on the ship; it'd be hard for Stiles to surprise him. But Stiles says the word 'werewolves' like it's a big deal, so he might be disappointed in the lack of reaction from Minho. "What's a werewolf?" he asked, face blank except for a bit of a frown pulling together his eyebrows. He knows what wolves are, at least, and they're bad news.

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