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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
circumitus: Keep up the good work. (it's a 12/12/12 miracle)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-14 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[By the time Hayley finds her, Rey is at least dressed in clothes. Though it would probably make one hell of a first impression, saying hi to someone wearing only a towel.

[Her head is still reeling from the jump. Not just the sensation, but the warped feeling of passing time in addition to the not-so-pleasant wakeup call of the shadow outside of her pod. A presence she is more familiar with than she would ever care to tell anyone.

[So far she's made good on maintaining a collected visage for her friends (which is still a strange thing to think about -- having friends). The nausea has become overbearing, so she's sitting down on the bench again, distracted on trying not to throw up.]


Suppose it would depend.

[As time passes, Rey starts to remember things. Like the things Ward had told her before the jump. It's hardly a consolation.]
consequence: (true friend's work is never done)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-17 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well, in general, I guess? [Hayley isn't sure if she wants to know all of the different circumstances.]
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[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-17 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Rey's not sure if the first thing she wants to discuss with someone she's never spoken to before about her personal trip back home, so she settles on a more pressing matter.]

You saw it, didn't you? Felt it?

...

The thing outside of the pods.

[That shadow.]
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[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-18 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her mouth draws into a tight line as she nods.]

Yeah... I'm not sure if I'm relieved someone else saw it or not, though.
circumitus: (503): forewarning i'll probably have done those drugs with you (i wanna bring you to show and tell)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-19 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[For Rey, it's a relief. She knows she's fucked up a lot recently and there's a small comfort in knowing that she isn't the only one that "it" is creeping on.

[Her shoulders slacken.]


Think it's been watching us for a long while, because it's not the first time.
consequence: (give it up)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-21 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley nods, affirming that she's felt it before too.]

It was different this time - it felt more direct. Like we were meant to see it, not just that odd feeling.
circumitus: Otherwise you'd be a dad by now. (thank god you're gay)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-21 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a strangely familiar feeling. Of coming out of the pods, haunted by that sense of being watched. Followed. Rey isn't a stranger to that feeling of being watched. Privacy isn't exactly a big deal where she's from.]

Seems like it wants us afraid and unfocused, more or less. Could be a good thing if it's getting desperate.

[Regardless of whatever it learned from the DUPRR pilot Rey had given to it in the White Room. Ugh.]
consequence: (you can match her handwriting)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-23 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley frowns.] I don't think that's it. I mean, some of us aren't fazed easily. That whole spooky vibe doesn't always work.

I do agree that it seems desperate. Trying to get a reaction.
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[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-23 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs, though she doesn't disagree, either. Not everyone here would be an easy scare, and Rey usually isn't. She'd feel bad for any new/newer arrivals who weren't expecting to get spooked, though.]

Well, it must mean we're doing something right, at least.

[Then she stops, and blinks with the look of someone who just realized they left the oven on.]

Apologies. Don't believe we've ever met.
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[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-27 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley shakes her head slightly, just enough to make her realize that she's just rambled to someone that she hasn't even told her name to.]

Sorry. I'm Hayley.
circumitus: We know how you feel. (kid you're lost in the wheel)

[personal profile] circumitus 2015-06-27 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Normally Rey isn't even one to bring it up. She used to spend several months talking to someone without them ever knowing her name unless they asked for it first. Even if her face may ring familiar to some from the network, she's never introduced herself there, either.]

Rey. [Even though Hayley didn't ask, one could suppose some social graces have begun to rub off on her.

[In case there was any doubt, though:]
Everything's fine here, though. Really.

[Says the woman covered in scars.]