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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
cantfixtime: (meanie miss farron)

[personal profile] cantfixtime 2015-06-10 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
"How about you don't murder anyone. Ever." she nearly growls, anger turning from bubbling over in her speech to just below the surface, refusing to let him get the best of her. Arms crossed, she looked at him, peeved more than anything. She understood now that all she had to do was get rid of him. If all his questions were answered, he was likely a threat to no one. At least as long as they weren't violent back.

"Now, do you have any questions? Because otherwise I'm going to my room. I told you there's no exit. Then we can pretend we never met."
ailand: (explain it again around that knife)

[personal profile] ailand 2015-06-10 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if he agreed to that, he would be out of a job. Murdering people was sort of his thing. He was something of a superstar at it, if he did say so himself. More than likely, though, everyone on board the ship would be safe. He might have been good at sticking daggers in vital organs, but he was as inherently lazy as the next human. He tended to not do work unless he was compensated for it. So as long as no one on board had a really, really violent grudge against anyone else...

So he just offered another amused smile, not answering her first statement before shrugging at the next question.

"Fine, fine~. Supposedly there's no exit and I'll die outside. We'll just skip over how that doesn't make much sense, but makes for a great prison." He shoved his hair back from his face, considering whether he actually wanted to ask a legitimate question or not. In most cases, he wouldn't bother, choosing instead to work out things on his own, but in this case... "Where am I supposed to go, then? Seems like a miserable excuse for a prison if there's not an assigned cell."
cantfixtime: (what)

[personal profile] cantfixtime 2015-06-10 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
"The rooms are on floors 1-10. Pick an unoccupied one." she said flatly, not even bothering with the rest of his comments. "You are on floor nine."

Hopefully, she thought, that would be his only question. He seemed to be more happy when she got angry, so she would not give him that satisfaction. She looked off to her side, where her door had been left open. If only he would just go away....
ailand: (smart ass)

[personal profile] ailand 2015-06-11 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ai could tell when he wasn't wanted. Usually he didn't care about knowing that information and it made no difference, but today he wasn't feeling at his best after the fiasco in the blue goo. As much fun as it was to continue trying to rile her up, he was going to call it a day for now and find somewhere secluded to sleep off the nausea from the Jump.

He lifted a hand in a mock salute. "See you around, girlie." Then, because he couldn't resist a final comment before sauntering off: "Gotta say -- it's going to be a pleasure serving time with you."