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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
theroadwarrior: (Hahahaha its a muzzle.)

[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2015-06-08 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Max follows, close by and ready for any betrayal. There's an obvious limp in each step as he goes, the jarring of his knuckles against Tadashi's spine proof enough that he's got something going on with his gait. Once they get to the lifts, Max feels comfortable enough to deal with the rest.

Tragically for Max, he had planned to key in the topmost level anyway, since he figures he's underground — and he'll be plenty annoyed and ready to be nabbed by security on the way down to the lower levels again, no doubt. That's for another time; for now, he snatches away the bag of goods and gives Tadashi one last look look; it's all fierce, all threatening without words: do anything stupid and you'll die. He considers taking the kid with him, using him to lead him properly, because a guy who fears for his life'll do a lot to get their captor away from them, which usually was best done by giving them what they actually wanted.

But he nearly sees the aura of fear around him, and Max isn't completely horrible; he'll scare the guy down to his bones if he needs to, stab or slice him without killing him, but he won't drag this out. It's enough. It's enough that the kid was smart enough not to be a complete moron. He shoves Tadashi backward roughly, punching some buttons as he points the scalpel outward defensively.

His stare doesn't leave Tadashi's, blue-gray eyes glowering through the doors until they close completely.

Now, to figure out where else he can go. Hopefully he doesn't run into a crowd of people, wherever this thing takes him. As long as he can get back outside...
Edited 2015-06-08 15:43 (UTC)