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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: (Harumph.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-09 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor is way too jumpy for her own good, really. The woman she gestures at looks...almost normal, really. So many people who didn't look like splicers, it is more than she's really prepared to deal with.

But her offer makes the teen balk. "Find her? That's the last thing I want." She wrinkles her nose, then frowns and shakes her head.

"A ship? How? Did you dock at Rapture? I didn't even think that was possible, the docks broke years ago..."
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-10 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Alright, sorry."

Jemma's done her share of avoiding her parents, but this might be something a little different. At any rate, it's upsetting her, which she doesn't want.

"At any rate, I think it's safe to say that it isn't one of her tricks, and there's a good chance that she isn't here at all." She looks around for the nearest towel to offer to her. "And...I'm afraid it isn't that type of ship. Not the kind you're thinking of." There's a tightness in her smile before she continues. "It's a ship in space."
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Surprised.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-11 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Normal conversation was something of an oddity for Eleanor, so in a sense it was actually calming her down just to hear someone talking like she remembered from her childhood. No gibbering insanity from a splicer, no condescending speech from her mother, no rambling apologies from Doctor Alexander. Just...regular words.

Even if they were clearly not actually the truth. It was enough to make her forget she was naked, for a moment. "A space ship." She echoed, just kind of...staring at the girl.

"How did I get from the bottom of the ocean to a space ship?"
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-15 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Bottom of the ocean. Jemma hears those words and her chest gets tight. Luckily it's this jump and not the last one, so a little bit of time has passed since her and Fitz's brush with death at the bottom of the ocean.

"That's a very good question, but not one I can answer for you." Jemma gives her an apologetic smile for it. "All of us just suddenly found ourselves here, in the gravity couches, regardless of where we were before."
notyourutopian: (Falling)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-06-20 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't make any sense," Eleanor declared with a frustrated sigh.

"But I guess I can hardly start complaining about none of this being real when it all so clearly is."
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-20 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She wishes she had more for the girl. A scientist...they're supposed to supply answers. It's frustrating when they can't. But at least she can tell her the basics.

"Let's see...the jumps happen about once a month. Oh, and you should check your locker. Sometimes things from home accompany us. That tattoo on your arm should lead you to it, as well as your room. But you might want to move to one of the lower levels where it's safe. The ship is not without its dangers. I'm Jemma, by the way. I know my welcome doesn't mean much to you now, but I hope it will in the future."
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Distant and considering.)

Sorry about how late this is.

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2015-07-02 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor shifted her attention to the tattoo as the girl spoke, tracing a finger over it lightly. With the way she healed, she wouldn't have thought a tattoo was really possible, but there it was.

"It can't be any more dangerous than where I came from," she said as she looked up again. "I'm Eleanor." She wasn't sure what else to say, but at least she was calming down.