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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
ailand: (how to counter that~ inanity)

[personal profile] ailand 2015-06-12 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'll stay.

[But he's going to smirk in your face Robin, unflinching and not backing off. You're a weird kid in a mask to him and he's having such a day after waking up in blue goo. Such a day.]

You're free to leave, mm? I'm not playing any games. I just asked some questions. Isn't that what people are supposed to do here?

[He looks around in feigned thoughtfulness, taking in some of the general confusion of the gravity couch area and nodding as if his point has been proven.]
birdarang: (i will rip out your spinal cord)

[personal profile] birdarang 2015-06-14 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robin looked around as Ai did, observing the distraught newcomers. Even those who had been here ages before him looked like they were just as confused. Robin returned his attention to the other man, frowning and crossing his arms in front of him. ]

But you're not asking relevant questions. Instead, you're concerned with what I'm wearing. [ He attempts to jab a finger into his chest. ] Which isn't any concern of yours.

[ He shakes his head. ] If you have any useful questions, you'd better ask while I have the patience.
ailand: (so done with this ship)

[personal profile] ailand 2015-06-16 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Personally, Ailanne is fairly sure the kid doesn't have the patience for anything he would be willing to throw at him. And he isn't willing to ask the kid any actual questions. It feels too much like revealing a weakness. So, instead, he picks at an imaginary speck of lint on his shoulder.]

Seemed relevant enough. Masks aren't exactly signs of good tidings, last I~ checked.

[Ai twitches a hand toward Robin in a vague shooing motion in the next moment.]

But whatever, kid. Beat it. The grown ups don't need your help.
birdarang: (im chill even if someone is dying)

[personal profile] birdarang 2015-06-23 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's enough to make Robin snort. He shrugs a shoulder. Ailanne is...kind of right. It doesn't take much to make his patience run thin. And send help to the poor person who happens to be in his line of sight when that happens. ] Take masks how you want. That's not my fault.

[ He's not one to get snappy when it comes to adults or whatever, but in this case Robin narrows his eyes. ] Like you? Seems like you're doing a pretty good job. But what do I know? I'm just a kid.