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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
hacker: (harold has feelings)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-14 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A mom and dad here—you mean like a foster family?

[ That seems to strike a personal chord, but she doesn't make much of it. Just softness in her eyes. Empathy. ]
throwsdown: (HEY BABE)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-15 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah —

He blinks.]


A foster family? What's a foster?
hacker: (Wikipedia is very unreliable)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-16 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
A family who takes care of you when you're away from your real family. Because they're dead, or missing, or ... In prison. Something like that—kinda like being trapped on a spaceship away from home. You live with them, and they take care of you.
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (You seem somewhat familiar.)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-18 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh... I get it...

[but wait a second]

What's prison?

[It might sound familiar? But not really, gomen.]
Edited 2015-06-18 07:13 (UTC)
hacker: (and you dived too deep)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-19 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Uhh ... [ She gapes a moment, blinking hard as she realized she just walked herself into corrupting a child a little bit more. ] It's ... a place where they send bad people, when they catch them after they've hurt someone.
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (nishi u a punkass bitch)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [His expression grows a bit serious at that. Very grave.] I know some people like that.

Baaaaad guys.
hacker: (vodka is made from potatoes.)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-22 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You do?

[ Concern flickered through her expression, and she leaned in a little, dropping her voice. ]

Are they here?
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (Your farts aren't manly.)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-26 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He considers the question for a moment, tapping his chin with his finger.]

Some at home!! And — and there was a bad person here who shot my friend... But I dunno... if he's here no more. 'Cus nobody's been shot for a long time. I think everyone's okay.
hacker: (reblog if ur cute & a pokémon master)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-26 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you remember their name, or what they look like? The bad person who shot your friend.
throwsdown: (Default)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-06-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Takeshi shakes his head, a bit frustrated.]

Nuh-uh. He was — he never showed his face on the phone.

And he made his voice sound funny... so I never got to beat him up for what he did.

[It sucks, that Kazama left and he never even got to avenge him.]
hacker: 3.03 (with only mild complaining)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-06-30 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ She chuckled at that, letting his spirited determination generate some levity. ]

But if it was here and on the phone, he must have had a number right? [ She held up her arm, showing 044-084 on her own nanite tattoo. ] Do you remember what it was?
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (Edward Cullen was so misunderstood.)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-07-03 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[His frown deepens. That'd have been real nice, if the number showed who it was.

Instead he's a bit defeated.]


It was an... an—anymous. No numbers...

They was a big scaredy cat! They didn't even let anyone know what they did!
hacker: (when it's burning low)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-07-04 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The worst ones usually are the biggest cowards. They know what they're doing is wrong, so they don't want to be caught. [ She sighed. ] Last question, I promise: do you remember which jump it happened during? That could help narrow it down.
throwsdown: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (Do you believe in love at first sight?)

[personal profile] throwsdown 2015-07-07 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[A-AHA.

He flusters, the tips of his ears going a bit red in his embarrassment.]


I, I don't really... remember...

I was here for a long time, then I went home. Then I came back. And everything was different!

My mom said I was gone for a lotta' months! I dunno about the numbers no more...
hacker: (when it starts to snow)

[personal profile] hacker 2015-07-12 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's okay. [ Skye smiles, shaking her head dismissively. He's just a kid: he doesn't need to know this stuff. ] Does that happen a lot, leaving and coming back after a long time?