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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!

[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-09 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is...some comfort in finding herself back on the Tranquility. Jemma hadn't had time to wonder about her fate, she'd only had time to scream, and even that had been cut off.

But the greatest comfort is - will be - finding her friends. And that doesn't seem to be going too well, at least not until Jemma spots her.
]

Skye! [There's relief in Jemma's voice as she runs over, arms thrown around Skye to hug her tightly. Maybe even too tight. Who needs breathing when you have friends.] You changed your locker! I couldn't find you.

[Wait.]

Oh...[She leans back slowly, worried eyes on Skye's face now.] You changed your locker...
hacker: 2.11 (about their rooms being dirty)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-10 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sharing in the relief, Skye wraps her arms around Simmons to return the hug when it comes at her. She exhales, smiling at the solidness of the embrace. It's only once Simmons draws back that Skye notices her hair has changed, among other things. Confusion settles in a moment later, a combination of Simmons' locker confusion and Skye's confusion over her hair. ]

I didn't … change. [ How can she change her locker when she just got here? ] Was I supposed to find another one? This had my badge and stuff. [ She points to the locker, perplexed. ] There were a couple things I didn't recognize, but people said the tattoo would match the locker that was mine.
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-10 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She keeps the oh dear to herself, taking a deep breath before she gives Skye her best reassuring smile. Jemma keeps holding one of Skye's hands, patting it with the other in that way people do when they want you to think that everything is okay. It ends up being a dead giveaway that they're not.]

I want you to take a deep breath, and I don't want you to panic. That is your stuff and this is your locker. And it's on board a spaceship called the Tranquility.
hacker: (and they go so fast)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-10 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, Jemma.

[ Skye's brow furrows like guuuurl. ]

Fitz and Thor's long lost brother gave me the run-down when I got out of the goo-pod. Which just happened, so how could I have changed my locker?

[ NOT LETTING THAT GO. VERY PERPLEXED. Something is not jiving and she can get the sense that Simmons is trying to protect her from something and she just wants to know what's going on. ]
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-11 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What's this about Thor's long lost brother?

[She can't mean Loki. Please don't mean Loki. But at least Skye has already spoken to Fitz, got an idea of the basics, and thank heavens for small favors.]

Well, because you had a different locker before - when you were here before. Which...I guess you could say also just happened. But it's alright if you don't remember! I've been told that the same thing happened to me. Just not quite as consecutively.
hacker: (when it starts to snow)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-11 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Blonde guy. [ Comes the explanation, which Skye quickly waves off. ] Beard. Shoulders like he could carry an army on his back. Not the point. The point is how the hell could I forget something like this? [ If she looks very alarmed, it's because she is. Panic wells in Skye's chest, and before long, it roars to a full-blown campfire of oh shit. ] They took my memories? That doesn't make any sense.
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-15 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Jemma's very appreciative of Fitz's shoulders these days, but Skye does describe a man who should be studied by someone for science. But all else comes second to Skye's confusion, near to panic.]

I'm afraid we only have theories, but memory wiping seems less likely than the ability to manipulate time, perhaps paired in some way with the multiverse theory. Can you tell me the last thing that you do remember?
hacker: (sometimes you need to lay on the floor)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-15 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Not the haircut.

[ She gestured to Simmons' appearance accordingly, a grin accompanying her attempt at levity. Realizing it was unwelcome, Skye sobered, and went on to explain. ]

Tracking down the Clairvoyant.

[ Or rather, Ward putting a bullet in him. Several bullets. Unease settled in her stomach, thinking of his conviction as he insisted that he didn't regret it. She scraped her teeth over her lower lip, briefly dropping her head, and then shrugged it off. ]

But I was here. You said it yourself. How does time travel explain forgetting about that? If they snatched me out of time before I ever got here, I never would have been here, right?

[ Her head started to hurt at the mere notion. ]

Like Marty McFly.