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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
altercate: (pic#7998872)

[personal profile] altercate 2015-07-19 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ the awkward moment when tyke's name comes up in conversation. or should come up in conversation. the pull of tension in derek's shoulders is likely all the confirmation stiles needs, if he'd wondered what derek was getting up to these days. ]

They still don't have enough people.

[ and derek was gardening rather than attempting to alleviate that, but it was better for everyone. maybe he even liked gardening better, but he wasn't about to volunteer that. ]

There's still room here for you, if you want. You should stay close anyway.

[ for all that's changed about derek, the urge to keep everyone within a few rooms of each other hasn't been altered even the slightest. the idea of scott and stiles heading up to the higher floors together has derek's face preemptively creasing into a concerned frown. ]
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[personal profile] wiped 2015-07-19 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thomas falters. how to explain the scorch? how does he explain any of this? for all the time he's spent on the ship, he's done precious little actual explaining. with william it had been a cheat, william walking through thomas' dreams and seeing it all for himself. putting his experiences into words that hermione could understand, it seems daunting. ]

It's like a desert. The sun it--

[ briefly, thomas gestures, shakes his head. ]

It burned everything.
forerun: (but they're all the same)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-07-20 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
But you'd be lying. [He smiles back, even through his concern for his friend and knowledge that this place isn't very welcoming.] I've been here for a while, so if you ever need help... [Letting that trail off, he shrugs. He's not going to offer his help explicitly, but she can probably infer what he means by it.]
notyourutopian: (Always in mother's shadow)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-20 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone can gain powers like mine. Sort of. [The teen shook her head.] I imagine that's what made them so awful.

[A beat as she considered the book.]

...Are you sure? [She doesn't reach out to take it. Eleanor knows all about reluctantly going along with something.] It looks rather important to you.
notyourutopian: (Reaching Out)

Man I'm sorry, I thought I answered this.

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"...Smiley?" She could deal with the rest of it, in a sense. Changing corridors was unsettling, the idea of a ship that could change...but the fact that there was some higher power that they had no control over.

"What is it?"
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-22 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Studying?

[He rubs his chin. COLOR HIM INTERESTED.]

In what?
mikangirl: (heh)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-22 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Weather science! How to create and shift small weather patterns, more or less.

[She grins, a little proudly. Maybe a little cheekily.] And how to put it to terrible use.
songburdened: (believe me)

It's no problem, I'm late, too!

[personal profile] songburdened 2015-07-23 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can understand that." Though, she tries to keep herself above the rising tides of grief and worry, she knows how difficult it can be.

Elizabeth glances down the hall, aware that they're perfect strangers and that the other woman likely needs time to herself, and clears her throat.

"... I won't keep you," she says kindly, "But... if you need help, or advice, I can offer it, for what that's worth."
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[personal profile] frizzard 2015-07-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Good eye. But Hermione just offers a smile, genuine, if a little tired. ] No, it's fine. I must have read it a thousand times; I'm sure I'll survive without it for a few days.

[ There's something stubborn about the way she prompts Eleanor to take it, like she's making a point to herself. She doesn't need a security blanket (or book, as it were). ]

My name is Hermione, by the way. Hermione Granger.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-25 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
... Create weather, you say.

[PLS SAY MORE

BECAUSE WHAT does that even entail.]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Rain in drought-stricken towns. Dispersing a storm front. That kind of thing.

[Hot luxurious showers that people rudely stumble into. That kind of thing.]
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Well I suppose..)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-27 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you." Eleanor bobbed her head some at the offer. "I imagine we need all the allies we can get here, huh?"

And then she finished picking up her things. "But yes I should go and find this room I've been assigned."
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Oh this is pretty nice.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-27 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[After another moment Eleanor reached out to take it, looking over the cover before she turned it over in her hands to tuck it under her arm.]

Thank you, then. [She bobbed her head, honestly a bit surprised by the generosity. Her irish/british accent was a little more obvious when she spoke again.] It's very kind of you. Ah...My name is Eleanor Lamb.
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[personal profile] myfriendkeith 2015-07-28 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Ellis nods slowly at Eiri. Hell, maybe that's true. Maybe after long enough the part of your brain that gets surprised by crazy shit like this just shuts down and lets you live your weird space life in peace.

"Yeah, somethin' like that. It takes a little while but eventually you're just glad whatever crazy thing's goin' on probably isn't gonna kill ya."
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-08-01 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives an impressed and genuine little smile at that.]

Sounds like you really do a lot of good, then.

For a pirate.
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (c'mon seriously??)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-08-01 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. [The smile this time is frustrated, but there's genuine humour there.]

I only just learnt all that stuff. I'll have to get back to you on how much good it does.

[Though she has distinct suspicion she's not gonna use it for much more than wiping the floor with bad guys. That's still doing a lot of good, right? For select people.]
thecag: (listening closely)

[personal profile] thecag 2015-08-04 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"No Dad, I understand," Lee said quickly. He knew all too well what changed when there was no way to go home and a bleak future ahead. At least they were making better decisions than he in how they dealt. "And I'm happy. For both of you. Gods know we have to take what happiness we can find, when we find it."

There might have been a small grin twitching at the edge of his mouth when he said as much. While Lee wouldn't explain unprompted, it wasn't a derisive amusement. No, he was just pleased to see what he'd felt was a long, long time coming.

"...If this is your idea of a vacation, you must really be tired of the fleet." The image of that bloody, ghostly hand clawing at the glass sent chills down his spine. "Maybe I just need a little longer to settle in?"

Which was, in the long run, not going to help. As his memories came back, Kara Thrace's imminent death and exploding fighter ship was sure to leave him more distressed.

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