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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
birdarang: (i have stood my ground)

[personal profile] birdarang 2015-06-10 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Robin could see trouble brewing even if he was blind. That overpowering sense of JUSTICE was what brought him over to Max, considering the commotion he was making.

A part of him had to wonder if he was new, since (the whole 3 months!) the time he came here, Robin had never seen anyone react like this before. A reaction to his new surroundings? Possibly. But after everything that's happened, Robin wouldn't doubt if he had been here for ages, and was still having the same thing going on. The last few weeks weren't...pleasant in the least.

He walked calmly over to the man, holding his arms up. "Easy. You're okay here."

More or less.
theroadwarrior: (suspect as fuck)

[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2015-06-10 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
If he had a dime for every person who tried to get him to take it easy — well currently he'd have no dimes, because he can barely hear his own thoughts, let alone all the things people are spinning at him. He feels like he can't focus, like he's snapping his fingers in front of his face but all he gets are the ghosts again. All ghosts, with voices from the past. His dark and stormy gaze turns sharply to Robin and he turns away quickly, making a move for anywhere other than the place someone is attempting to corral him. He's a short fuse ready to lash out, prepared to fight, but he really doesn't want to. It's reluctance, and it's only that Robin isn't rushing him or closing in too quickly that Max doesn't ram his way forward at Robin in his attempt to escape the room.

He's leaving; get the hell away from him.
birdarang: (im chill even if someone is dying)

[personal profile] birdarang 2015-06-11 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Robin doesn't try to hoard Max into a corner when he attempts to move. What's most important here is everyone's safety, something that's constantly in jeopardy as long as he's around. When Max moves, Robin makes sure that he's out of the way, allowing the other man to roam. But that doesn't mean you're off the hook, mister.

He trails behind, far enough away so he's not in Max's face, but close enough to where he can intercept if something were to go wrong.
theroadwarrior: (oh my god)

[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2015-06-12 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, Max is very, very keen on when he's being chased or followed; that's the bright side to being in a desert where bandits ride in to attack at any moment. It's good to know when to try to make a run for it and hope for the best. So Max makes a zig-zag, re-routing to shove through a crowd moving toward the exit — and when the crowd dissipates, the 5'9" man with the broad shoulders and obvious glower is suddenly gone.

It's good, to slip away when needed. Max has no tolerance for being chased, followed, or driven towards. No, especially not after the War Boys trying to brand him after giving him this less-than-desired tattoo.
birdarang: (i have fought plenty of battles)

[personal profile] birdarang 2015-06-23 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Robin...doesn't know whether to follow or not. There's the whole argument of 'well, this guy is kinda maybe a little delusional and needs to be calmed down' versus 'this guy needs a bit of private time' going on in his head, and Robin's not sure which side to take. He's been in this kind of situation before, and it's really not fun. Any time someone tried to get involved when he was this far deep in, it didn't end well for either of them.

That spurs him on anyway. Robin jogs on after Max, but has enough troubles trying to push and weave his way through the crowd. Before Robin can blink, Max is gone.

He tries to catch up as fast as he can, but all he can find ahead is an empty room. Robin pauses. "...Hello?"