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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
goodgodman: (Sure kid)

[personal profile] goodgodman 2015-06-09 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Leonard glances her way before fully realizing that the poor girl is still dressing. Quickly he turns his head away from her, trying to give her a scrap of privacy. Despite the fact he's seen a good half of his fellow kidnappees naked at this point, the mysterious beings who had taken them had already stripped them of enough of their privacy, no sense in contributing to it.

Mouth quirking he leans down and steps into his briefs, pulling them up under the towel slung around his waist, "I'd prefer to be home safe in my semi-comfortable bed. But seeing as how my choices are a bit limited I guess I'll take the underwear. And pants, there better be some god damned pants in here."
circumitus: She literally cut my boxers off with a 8" chef's knife and had her way with me. (tomorrow never knows)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-09 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
Forty-fourth?

If this hadn't happened already, she'd think that was impossible. She may even chalk it all up to being a dream, no different than what happens sometimes when they're in stasis. But that's not possible, either. Her left hand crosses over to her right arm, touching the new scars just to confirm this fact once more.

"Was gone. Or, it seemed that way. Not for very long, just--"

Just long enough for it to make all of this feel like a bad trip.

"Told you this had happened before." She looks to Firo. "It's happened again. That's all."

No, that's not really all. A lot of shit can go down in a few months. Her life on this ship has been a huge indicator of that.
ailand: (opportunity smells like winning)

Lockers

[personal profile] ailand 2015-06-09 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Where's the damned exit?

He stares long and hard at the messages written on the lockers, but the strangely shaped letters confound him. He's accustomed to recognizing place names, but it's been so long since he's done any actual on-the-fly reading that, after an intense stare-off with the letter "O" he curses under his breath and goes back the way he came. Just in case he missed anything while trying to get away from the blue goop they had tried to drown him in.

It's when he's looking over his shoulder, thinking some nasty thoughts about one of the idiots that he's spotted, that he rams into Robin's shoulder.

Despite the queasiness that keeps trying to take hold of him, muscle memory takes over and Ai twists his body to the side, absorbing less impact than he should have for the speed he was going. He slips slightly on some of the blue goo that's spilled out on the floor, but all it takes is a wedge of invisible, solidified air in the right place and Ai jams his foot against it, regaining his balance.

He turns as well, nose wrinkling in distaste as he takes in the appearance of the masked kid.
]

And what are you supposed to be?

[Sorry, Robin. He's never learned how to make a good first impression.]
hacker: (Let me tell you a thing about Walgreens)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-09 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's not hard to notice his concerted effort to respect her (abandoned) modesty, and Skye finds herself smirking to herself a bit over it as she rifles in her locker for her shirt. Even if she weren't already laissez-faire to begin with, being birthed out of a grav couch stark naked had a way of breaking that ice.

"If they're not," she bunches her shirt up, pulling it over her head while she answers, "I saw some uniforms stacked by the showers. For the crew or something, I think, but I doubt anybody's gonna hold it against you now." She stuffs her shirt hem into her waistband and turns to look at him, not thinking twice in how she fails to afford him the same privacy he'd deliberately offered her. "I was thinking of grabbing one myself just because they looked cool."
throwsdown: (YEAH MOTHERFUCKER YEAH)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-09 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
He gasps, flustering a bit. That's right! Some people were very self-conscious about their figures and being naked — and okay, that's not the vocbulary he'd use, but he's six-years-old,so cut him some slack. You're nakey, you don't like that. He can roll with it. "Hang on a sec!!"

He rushes away, surprisingly agile and fast, and returns with a fluffy and clean white towel.

"Here!! To cover your butt and stuff!"

Eloquent.

"It's gonna be kinda weird. I dunno where Rapture is, but this place is weird to lots of people."

You're gonna be totally chill about this, right?
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (How many ellipses do you want?)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-09 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Takeshi blushes a bit, embarrassed by even mentioning it.

It was dumb to remind him, if he forgot.

"It's, um... I just — no... I just guessed."

Good save, right? Totally 100% believable.
queasycrow: (#9180853)

[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-09 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
There's a gap of silence, one Hawke has any number of things to say to fill it -- instead, his brow tips quizzical right back at Fenris throughout enduring study. Yyyyyes?

...yyyno. At the conclusion the elf reaches, Hawke's expression remains fixedly skeptical, right up to dismissal and a beat after. Then; "Ah, yes," he says, with a dimly sarcastic fist swing across his torso, "there's that wacky sense of humour only I have come to appreciate from you during times of stress."

His hands drop to his sides. Flatter; "Fenris, it's me, Hawke. How outside of time could we possibly be?"
ontheline: (look at my baes)

[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-09 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hughes perks immediately, because he's heard those very words before; he's fine-tuned to catch them in the shell of his ear, even. Without skipping a beat, he offers a beaming grin — despite a lot, he's damn good at masking whatever's bothering him. And besides, this guy is asking about Elicia, who is only the most precious little angel in the world, you know?

He scoops up a few pictures, practically glowing as he looks over the edges of them to Bail.

"Thaaaat's right! My little perfect princess!! She just turned three not too long ago; looks just like her gorgeous mother! Don't you think??" Don't worry, there are plenty of pictures of Gracia, too. He's almost equal opportunity, when it comes to his favorite ladies.
queasycrow: (#9180854)

[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-09 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ His arm drops to his side -- confirmation gained, one way or another, not unfriendly as she approaches. Dog isn't unfriendly either, bridging the gap to trot forward and check her out. Foreign smells and people people are all fascinating, and Dog seems inclined to see if she'll scratch his ears.

Hawke is not so focused, taking out the comms device from among more familiar belongings and turning it around in his hand. The observant will be able to see the strange shapes of his strange armour, the tilt of a big sword in the corner, the tilt of an even bigger bladed staff next to it.

And his accent is English adjacent, but not as inaccessibly Shakespearean as swords and shields may suggest. (But then again: the Enchanted Forest.) ]


You mean those big glass things full of truly disgusting tasting blue stuff?

[ Grav couches, he might admit, is more pithy. ]

The only way I'll be stepping back into one of those is fear of death. Which I take it to mean is incredibly likely, what with the 'anything living' bit you mentioned.
Edited 2015-06-09 08:26 (UTC)
sweetmotherofgod: (aren't they fed yet?)

rocks fall, everyone cries

[personal profile] sweetmotherofgod 2015-06-09 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Don't touch me!

[She doesn't want sympathy, doesn't want the care. Sorry Murph, but wrecking herself is exactly what she's aiming for - trying to lever herself up despite William's careful attentions to her ruined limb, shrugging away from Murphy's hand. Rage will sustain her; care will break her. It's a simple choice -

right up until she hears Takeshi, and her head swivels in his direction as abruptly and awkwardly as a marionette's. He looks so scared, so tiny and vulnerable -]


Takeshi, [she says, and it's the first sound out of her that isn't that more suited to an animal trapped and in pain.] I'm - please -

[reaching for him, arms outstretched, twisting to move toward him even as the color drains from her face at the pain of moving that leg.]
brainsqueeze: (sᴇᴠᴇɴᴛᴇᴇɴ)

pods.

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-09 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
For some people the place is old hat to them. This jump makes it the fourteenth for Maria and she's long since stopped questioning the jumps - at least until something different happens.

For a brief moment after waking she's relieved. Like Nill had told her had happened previously their symptoms had abated, and she no longer needs to find herself in almost constant contact with someone to keep feeling like herself. Or as well as they were able to manage, anyway.

It makes Maria go from her pod to the shower with little thought, a routine in of itself but she wants to shower to feel even better - clean, dressed. It's been a while since she felt so good and just being on the ship makes it feel even longer.

Or at least the idea of feeling good makes Maria attempt to go straight to the shower. The loud yell near to her, the quick grab of her arm that pulls her back, turning her to face the man that was loud and unhappy put a halt to that. The exchange doesn't shock or rattle her, her expression remaining as maddeningly calm as it was before.

"Does grabbing strangers usually get you answers?" Her head tilts a little, her gaze dropping from his face to nod to his hand. She could easily answer, but she'd rather do it free. And still calmly - frantic shouting doesn't make the situation any easier. Although if he didn't let go she might drop him to the floor and then tell him everything.
brainsqueeze: (ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ sɪx)

pods.

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-09 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Edible goo?"

Maria had seen his actions, the pod he'd woken from near the vicinity of her own. There was a pause for a moment, a recollection of herself before the routine began of moving from the pods, moving to the showers, the lockers, gunnery.

She pulled her hair back from sticking to her shoulders, trying to squeeze out any excess goo before pulling it into the hair tie that she'd left on her wrist before getting into her pod. She was glad that there seemed to an excess supply of jumpsuits as washing the goo from them wasn't always easy.

"Here." She picked up the towel that she'd left by her pod, holding out to the naked man. She had clothes, and though she might have used it normally to clear some goo from her before showering he needed it more.
brainsqueeze: (sᴇᴠᴇɴᴛʏ ɴɪɴᴇ)

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-06-09 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone in particular you're worried about there?

( Because, surprise, someone has already caught you talking to yourself. Thankfully they're someone that's good at keeping secrets, even if Jemma might still find it a little embarrassing at first.

Maria's already been to her locker - showered, changed, pulling on one of the dresses that had appeared at the previous jump - her life at Stark Industries rather than SHIELD had also come with a clothing change, not just a life change. It was familiar and comfortable, and it was nicer than always having to wear the jump suits. Nicer for something of her own.

The list of people from home has often frequently changed, and Jemma ends up being the first on her list that Maria's checking in with. This month especially, making sure that they're all feeling okay after what had happened, and that they're all back together. Whether anything else changed- she'll be glad they're okay )
queasycrow: (#9180858)

[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-09 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I happen to be a connoisseur of mysterious and strange tasting substances," he fires back, completely truthfully. Lyrium potions are also weirdly blue, if glowier, and less specifically toxic-tasting, but he isn't quite at 'random chatter' level, for all that 'offhanded quips' are always in season.

The look up and down at her is not specifically salacious, even if yes, his gaze gets lost briefly in her cleavage before dragging up to her face.

"Do you come here often?"

Hawke has no idea what's going on. This is like a really weird dream. Probably he has had this dream, if less specifically space age.
queasycrow: (#9204925)

never!

[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-09 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
By now, Hawke has graduated all the way to clothing, currently working on buckling himself into a large girdling belt, all leather and fur. Jagged steel awaits him, armour pieces gathered at the edge of his locker, but twists a look around when he dimly senses Dog's curiousity, the large beast lifting his head and offering a sharp, guttural bark in the direction of the girl staring.

Hawke finishes buckling himself into belt, hands then hanging, regarding the skinny urchin regarding him.

"It's a dog," he offers. "He can't help it. Being a dog, I mean, the barking's unnecessary."

A smaller, disagreeable bark from the mabari follows -- uncanny timing.
queasycrow: (#9204926)

[personal profile] queasycrow 2015-06-09 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Hawke doesn't take the towel immediately, still gunning wary from-- everything happening, and the dreams of moments ago, and not exactly remembering what he was even doing before this moment. But in the end, the cold of the medical bay is prickling his skin, and the slime makes for a greasy and undesirable layer, and he takes towel from her after a moment of thinking about it.

He immediately scrubs at his face, no particular urgency in getting himself decent, not until he feels like he can blink and talk without getting inedible goo somewhere offensive.

"You're not one of my captors, are you?" he says, somewhere muffled.
ex_question191: (➌ ❝ S C R E W ▿ Y O U  ❞)

[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-09 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ More like the medbay was full of unfamiliar people and weird red spray paint and made him feel like shit. At least the corridors on the living levels are exactly and horrifically the same.

Stiles follows Derek into the room, glancing idly around, and doesn't bother answering the question because he's not interested in rising to that bait.
]

Do you have my clothes? Because my locker sure didn't.
worthtempting: (a heart lined with chromium steel)

[personal profile] worthtempting 2015-06-09 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not worried.

[she makes a face that looks pained, afraid, but then it smooths out again. she's trying, but it seems pointless. she needs to be reminded of who she is, why she's fought so hard all this time.]

Did you see the Devil? He was standing over me when I awoke. I remember waking when we should've been asleep and he was there, watching. He hates me now. Well justified, I suppose.

[the part where the devil hates her also seems to pain her, though it's hard to tell whether it's because once she was wanted or because the fact she considers losing that an actual loss.]

My corruption rears its head. One of them.
circumitus: She was stuck there, we simply exchanged rides. (it's not like i paid for sex)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-09 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rey isn't sure if she's ever seen Sophie look remotely scared of anything before. Not that she blames her. A flash cuts through her mind and she remembers what it is they need to be afraid of.

[Fingers covering one eye, she shakes her head. Sophie has seen it, too. It seems they all may have.]


It isn't the Devil.

[She pauses. Now that she's mostly clothed, she has to sit back down, as the dizziness takes hold again.]

Whatever it is, it hates all of us. And if anyone is corrupted because by that thing now it's me. I--

[Her mouth snaps shut, the memories of what Ward had told her recently whipping back to her and she remembers what happened in the dark corridors. The White Door. What she did. And that "it" has hooked its way into her. That it still has her. That she is possibly a danger to the other passengers.

[Her robotic tones are gone. Shaken by a fear of her own. The fear that Sophie has felt as well when it looked into all of them.]


I need you. It may use me again.
foundafamily: (14.1)

[personal profile] foundafamily 2015-06-09 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He thinks back to their conversation in the gardens and nods slowly. It sounds bizarre, but what other explanation is there?

While he would be certain it was something anyway--because hello, wounds--Rey's insistence that there's nothing more to it makes him certain that something very big went down. Something big enough that she shouldn't hide it from her friends.

He shakes his head roughly, probably sending droplets of water flying, but he doesn't care. "But what happened? You're all cut up! And your hair's different and don't tell me you cared enough just to switch it up."

Sorry, Rey, you just don't strike him as the kind of person to get a real haircut.
glacius: (Regarding you.)

Gravity Couches

[personal profile] glacius 2015-06-09 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Another jump, another pleasant unwaking in a pod full of disgusting goo with disconcerting breathing equipment hooked into his gills. Glacius is always glad when that's over with, supporting himself against a wall while the disorientation passes and then looking for something to wipe himself down with.

Normally after jumps, he flees from the scene of the medbay and the lockers as quickly as possible. He's only been here a couple months so he's not big on being seen by quite so many people. The only thing that causes him to stick around for an extended period of time is when someone is clearly in distress, and... the way Eleanor falls to the floor in a tangle of limb and then addresses him with such panic in her tone qualifies. He's not going to just ignore her and slip away. Glacius turns fully, hunching down to hopefully make himself look smaller and less of a threat and raising his hands to show that he's not going to try anything strange.

"Easy there, human," he responds, his voice level and calm, "You are not in any immediate peril. If you will listen, I will answer your questions." Given the fact that the icy alien walks around without any clothes on on a general basis, he has no idea that seeing one naked is shameful or problematic. Ah, cultural gaps.
glacius: (I uh!)

A

[personal profile] glacius 2015-06-09 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, so far Glacius has managed to escape the medbay full of panicked newcomers without drawing much attention to himself. He'd stopped to help a few of the more distraught or disoriented individuals, as his protective nature wouldn't allow him to just walk by someone obviously in need of help... but he's still wary of being caught out in the open among so many people. That, and he likes his personal space, so after enough time of being caught amongst a crowd he really starts to yearn for solitude again. All he's planning on is a quick stop by his locker to make sure his power cell is still safe, and then he'll be heading back to his room to hunker down and collect his thoughts...

... And he's taken completely off guard when one human in particular jumps like that as he passes by. Well, so much for not drawing attention to himself! The icy alien freezes and snaps his head around on its serpentine neck to regard Hermione, and then his eyes flick down to her outstretched hand. He lifts his own in a disarming gesture, taking a step back from her as well to show that he's not going to attack.]

--I am sorry! I did not mean to startle you. I assure you, I am not one of the monsters that sometimes plague this place! [Because that's what he's used to being taken as at first glance: a mindless, dangerous creature. It's a sad reality of being forced apart from his own species. It hurts, still, even if he knows he can't begrudge her for it given the situation.]
worthtempting: (these trees burn with frost)

[personal profile] worthtempting 2015-06-09 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[sophie lifts one hand and then drops it again. rey needs her? but why?

because you're the only one that can stop her. because you won't even be damned if you die here, you'll just be nothing. there will be no more sophie, only christine and her victory and no one to even say oh, how sad. because, because, because, sophie groeneveldt. you will not be your father.

her father, who had died saving them while hating them all the while, who believed until he crumbled to dust that she had betrayed him. her father, who had made her what she is and doomed her to years of torture and pain.

sophie will not be her father. she will not be her twin's creature.

it's more difficult the second time, knowing that the world is purposeless, that there is no hope, that nothing matters. she stares hard at rey, at her new scars and familiar sickness. she remembers lying in bed, stroking her hair as they bled a mess onto sophie's sheets.
]

Give me your hand.
glacius: (Regarding you.)

[personal profile] glacius 2015-06-09 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Whereas Tadashi goes out of his way to go looking for people, Glacius tries to slip away from the crowd of panicked, disoriented humans about as quickly as he can. He's been here for a few months now so he knows that people are generally more accepting, but he's still wary of being seen in such a large group and very much still prefers seclusion. The icy alien stops here and there if he comes across anyone truly in distress or in need of help, but aside from that he's getting out of here as quickly as he can. He only stops by his locker to make sure his power cell is still secure, and then he's on his way again.

That is, until he's caught up by Tadashi's friendly smile. He's not sure if it's aimed at him or just the general populace of humans around him, but regardless, he feels like it would be rude to just brush the person off. The alien lifts his hand tentatively in return, halting for now.

"Hello. Are you adjusting to the jump alright..?" He's unsure if this person is a newcomer, but he somehow doubts it. Most didn't just hang around greeting people after their arrival on board this ship.
uncurse: (☇ didn't approve of me)

[personal profile] uncurse 2015-06-09 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Though she's more hesitant than most to engage the dog, Emma does reach out to pets its head, eventually sliding her hand back behind its ears to scratch. As she talks to Hawke, her hand wanders, journeying behind the dog's jaw to scratch as well, a constant dodge of its sniffing muzzle. ]

We started calling them those, but it seemed long-winded. [ Her immediate reply is dry, but not unfriendly. ] It's just about the only thing that'll keep you from turning into soup when the ship goes through what we call a "jump." From what I understand—and I'm not a physicist, so that's not a whole lot—but from what I understand, it's when we leap across large distances. So yeah. Fear of death is a compelling motivator.

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