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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
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Surprised.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-02 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Safety in numbers is a lie," or at least, it was in Rapture. If there was a crowd of people, they were a splicer hunting party. Some habits would be hard to shake...

But, her eyes went wide at that last bit.

"Alive? You cannot be serious."
brainsqueeze: (ᴏɴᴇ ᴏʜ sɪx)

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-07-04 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
Safety in numbers definitely hadn't stopped them from getting separated in the hall ways but how many more would have died if they hadn't found someone - or been found - later? She probably wouldn't be having this conversation. Safety in numbers didn't usually do much, but there were some situations she wouldn't argue about it.

"I said the same thing." She still wants to hope that there's an alternate explanation for it. "But no one has come up with a better explanation for what happens. The corridors move, things- the changes that happen? It's not natural."
notyourutopian: Do not take! (If I could kill you with my mind...)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-05 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"That hardly means it's alive." Eleanor's gaze shifted to the wall, as if she were examining the bulkhead for a pulse.

"There could be someone behind it, changing it. You said the crew is still here. Maybe they're doing it."

A ship that was alive. And she thought Rapture was hard to swallow.
brainsqueeze: (ғᴏᴜʀᴛᴇᴇɴ)

[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-07-08 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
"The crew don't control the ship. They lost access. Instead there's Smiley-" Which was debatable between person, programme and- something "-and people that don't really want us to be here."

People that she let security take the most contact with. They weren't getting anywhere with them anyway, not anywhere good enough.

"It's not that there's hidden doors changing the corridors. They're different - the ships structure. It isn't exactly stable." How this ship still stayed together she didn't know. It was broken enough without moving corridors.
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?"