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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: (Abzuh?)

[personal profile] goodgodman 2015-06-08 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
McCoy quickly lets go of the poor man's arm, "Sorry," he mutters, irritated at himself for his outburst. Poor bastard was as bad off as him.

"So you've got no clue what's going on either? Wonderful," he growls. Running his hands through his hair he squeezes the sopping blue gel out of it then flicks the handfuls of it at the floor. He can't help the quick clinical assessing look he gives the other man, there're no wounds visible, just blue gunk and the haggard look of someone who's had better days. "You alright? Is your sight still blurry?"
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-08 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep, sure is!"

He scoffs, not quite in the mood for a jovial laugh. Close enough, though! He wags his hands at the air, displacing some blue oozy gunk from his hands, feeling a little cold, all things considered. He's definitely in peak health, his body relatively unscathed save for a few faded scars — though one is certainly a fresh pink keloid scar, round and puckered over the whereabouts of his heart.

He blinks at McCoy.

"But I don't think that's going to change anytime soon; I can't see without glasses."

He slips on imaginary glasses as he says it, because he's always been a hands-on guy.

"Which makes this place a little more freaky, all things considered."
goodgodman: (Huh.)

[personal profile] goodgodman 2015-06-09 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
McCoy's eyebrows bunch up in mild disgust and he shifts back to dodge the spattering bits of blue goop. This guy sure is cheery considering, he thinks, eyes lingering on the particularly deadly looking scar on the man's chest. The panic McCoy had felt was still lingering in the back of his mind and the lack of answers didn't help it. But he can't imagine having trouble with his sight on top of that. Maybe he can give this guy a hand?

"I can imagine," he drawls. "Well from what I can see, the rest of this bunch is just wandering towards some showers. I'm getting the impression that no one is out to kill us right this second so that's something at least. What's your name anyways?"
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-10 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes — but Hughes'll do fine." He looks around, despite the fact that everything is really just awkward blobs. He's not completely useless; he's learned how to cope in case of emergency without his vision, but it's still a pain in the ass to not be able to see actual human faces, or what the hell is on his arm. With a sheepish chuckle, he rubs the back of his head, grin turning into a small smirk. "You'd think, right? If they wanted us dead, they wouldn't have booted us out of that creepy tube of goop."