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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] lifescience 2015-06-24 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[She knows that he's right. Jemma can't even be sure that she can maintain it herself, especially when he describes it in those terms. It's not him personally, but differences haven't spelled good things lately.

Then again, Ward's as human as they come, and could she hate anyone more? Nope.
]

A shapeshifter? [Jemma arches a brow, folding her arms in interest.] How can you tell?

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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2015-06-26 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Their blood smells... different. [Clearly a diplomatic word choice.] Werewolf blood ranges from dissatisfying to outright toxic, and my limited experience with other shapeshifters suggests it's a similar effect with other types.

[Normally he'd be leery exposing a weakness this way, and in truth, he isn't sure it's the right move. But she doesn't seem like the sort to lace his treatment just to see what happens. He hopes he's not misreading her.]
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[personal profile] lifescience 2015-06-28 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That is absolutely fascinating.

[Jemma smiles a little to herself, distracted from all the horrible things and unanswered questions that she'd opened her eyes to.]

So if there's ever a shapeshifter running amuck, you could stop them.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2015-06-28 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[His efforts to take her mind of what was troubling her seem to have been effective, though his small grimace suggests he hadn't exactly planned the conversation to take this turn.]

I could, in theory, but unfortunately the toxicity doesn't go both ways, and my strength isn't what it would be if I were feeding at my regular levels. What I could do, however, is possibly identify a shapeshifter in human form, at least if they're similar enough to one from my world for me to notice the... Their blood smells rather like meat that's gone rancid, for lack of a better metaphor.