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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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[personal profile] bailedontheempire 2015-06-14 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I..." He's really not sure what to say to that. He's still busy sorting out his feelings. Is it possible to miss the same person in all these different ways. "I take back what I said after Luke."

He's not used to this at all.
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[personal profile] toomuchtenacity 2015-06-14 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods. She's not the best with emotions.

"She was a good friend. I'm glad I got to meet her."
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[personal profile] bailedontheempire 2015-06-17 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
He manages a slight smile, though strained. "I'm glad she made friends here." It's something any parent wants for their child. For her to be happy. So simple. Yet so hard to come by sometimes. Especially here.
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[personal profile] toomuchtenacity 2015-06-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Chell nods again. Leia had been a friend to her, had managed to joke with her and not AT her like she was used to.

"I hope...." She trails off because she hopes what, she hopes Leia shows up again, no she's not that cruel. She hopes Bail goes home. ....She'd miss him if he did. But at least he'd be safe then as well.

"I hope you get to see her again soon."
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[personal profile] bailedontheempire 2015-06-18 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
He takes her word in the spirit that they're meant. "It's always a strange thing, here. Missing people. Yet not wanting to wish what happens here on anyone." At least with very few exceptions.
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[personal profile] toomuchtenacity 2015-06-23 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah."

After all she'll never see Leia again if she doesn't come back but at the same time she doesn't want that. And even if she does come back she might not remember her.

"This place makes things complicated...."
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[personal profile] bailedontheempire 2015-06-24 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"That's a rather succinct way of putting it." Making friends across universal barriers. Missing people. Not wanting them to be here. "All we ever can really do is muddle through."

Which was really what he'd been doing for a long time now. Well before Tranquility.