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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
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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.
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-22 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
(( I'm so sorry about how late this tag is - I had an unexpected RL thing but I do definitely want this CR! Please PM me if you'd rather do something more up to date, otherwise I'd be happy to continue this thread. Thanks so much for understanding, sorry again!! ))


Stiles' immediate response is to pull a face, nose crinkled, buuut... "A tank top wouldn't be so bad," he muses. "Mostly I just wanna wear it under the TQ jumpsuit." He pulls at the fabric in question, currently unzipped to his bare chest, functioning as his pants, though because he's stupidly body shy he also has a towel still draped around his neck. "They itch." But as willing as he is to compromise his supposed masculinity and wear pink, as he glances over the girl who made the offer he only ends up looking more dubious. "Uh, though somehow I don't think I'm gonna fit into any of your clothes." He's a beanpole, but he's not tiny.
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-23 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
She wasn't expecting him to take her seriously, and after a moment Nami can't help smile a little. "Itching is the worst. But yeah, I think you're right; it'd be a little short on you." Among other things.

"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this place is severely lacking in clothing stores?"

(( it's totally cool! We can continue this no problem. ))
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-06-24 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not much of a limb," Stiles says wryly, gesturing vaguely to encompass the bedraggled blue-goo-smeared people, the vast spaceship interior, the red spraypaint across their lockers. It's not exactly the Mall if America around here. "No shops period. No money. There's plenty of jumpsuits and uh, underwear, and towels, but otherwise it's whatever clothes you get in your locker." The corner of his mouth lifts. "Or borrow."
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-25 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe I should be happy they saw fit to bring all my shopping with me then," she says tartly, giving her bags a shake. Despite that, she elected to wear the jumpsuit. What she bought isn't gonna be all that practical for a ship in... well. Space, if that can be believed.

"What about things like food and water? Please tell me that's free to anyone." Nobody here looks particularly starved, so she's not all that worried, but when someone says no money she has to check her options.
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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] mikangirl 2015-06-28 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Nami breathes a faint sigh of relief at the news. The fact there's trees somewhere in this place makes her feel so much better.

"I don't have much choice. I just finished being being stuck somewhere with no warning, and now I'm here." She snorts. "Maybe I'm getting used to it. Trust me, I'll throw things later."
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-07-08 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I feel you," says Stiles emphatically. "But seriously, this place likes to mess with your head, so it's good you're kinda... taking it okay." He's not sure he should provide details on just what he means by that, from finding bodies to losing a year of memories. In fact, he quickly changes the subject, since she's new and he doesn't want to scare her. "There are cool things too, though. You ever wanted to fly a space shuttle?"
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-10 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Her look turns thoughtful, but luckily Nami just thinks about how this place is already messing with her head (Space? Really?) and she cants her head with clear interest at the mention of flying. Although her smile is sheepish.

"That... all depends on what a space shuttle is."
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[personal profile] ex_question191 2015-07-11 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Stiles gives a little laugh, clearly not directed at her, and passes a hand over his face. "Oh, man," he says, "You are in for a serious learning curve. This whole place is a space ship, and a shuttle is kind of like a smaller version that can only hold a couple of people. So you can fly out to do repairs or land without having to bring the whole ship down to earth." Except he realizes that if she doesn't have any concept of space then that's still not going to be a clear explanation. He wishes he could just print a bunch of explanations off the internet for her.
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-13 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! It's like the mini-Merry..." Mostly said to herself, but she taps a finger to her chin deep in thought. She recognises the concept, definitely, although space is...uh. Definitely new. Ish.

"I'm the navigator of a ship back home, and we've got-- ah. Kind of the same thing, though I'm guessing there's a lot of difference between the ocean and space." Just a little, Nami. "I only know of one person who ever tried to reach space, and he was kind of a moron. I guess it's a little... beyond us."