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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
better: (keeps her cool)

[personal profile] better 2015-07-05 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Erica nods, agreeing about the messed up angle of the ship. Of course, that goes for things other than just recycling people and plot ideas from sci-fi movies. The entire thing is weird that it just takes people and then plays with them as if it is trying to figure out how humans manage complex situations and problems. Like, it's trying to learn how to "human" better.]

Well, I won't be asking you if you rememeber anything, because I don't know anything to even ask. You can get a Ttranquility Blank Slate from me.
workout: (415)

[personal profile] workout 2015-07-11 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Great. [ What a dumb response. But that's the only response he can come up with, even if it does make him feel kind of like a dork, which is... sort of normal around Erica, actually. All things considered.

Scott stands there for a second, complete with awkward pause, then casts a quick glance down the hall.
] I should — move in, I guess? Are you on the ninth floor?

[ That's where the cool kids are, right ???? ]
better: (worries her brow)

[personal profile] better 2015-07-12 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I'm sharing with Isaac. [Though, there's an unsaid bit that speaks to the level of unsure she is about that. They'd locked him up and she knows that Isaac hasn't been home. She also knows that she's not entirely sure she trusts Isaac since he didn't seem to trust her with the whole... taking to a text message thing.]

He hasn't been around, though.
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[personal profile] workout 2015-07-17 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [ He considers telling her that Lydia had mentioned something being... wrong, but he doesn't want to drag names out. He isn't sure how complicated things are between them, assuming there's anything between them at all.

But he ran into Isaac at the jump, and that's enough context, anyway.
]

Is he okay?
better: (builds her concern)

[personal profile] better 2015-07-18 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Erica takes a breath. She wants to lie, to cover for him - he's her best friend, that's what friends do, right? - but she knows that he's not okay. He's feeling trapped and that's by his own pack, but it's difficult to explain that when you're part of the problem.]

He didn't really tell me what was going on... not until it got to the point that he couldn't hide it anymore. [talking openly on the network about killing someone would do the trick.]

I want him to be okay, but I don't think he is.

I don't know what's going to help either -- not at this point, at least.