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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] ontheline 2015-06-24 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
... You're absolutely right. She'll need her independence eventually!

She can be taught on the art of making pit traps.

[NAMI NO STOP ENABLING HIS BEHAVIOR]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-25 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey at least she's not bringing the idea of fees and penalties into the equation. You just know she's thinking it, but Nami does have some standards.]

Teach her how to use a big stick, too.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-27 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You're absolutely right!!

I knew I could count on you, ma'am. You seemed sensible!

[I HAVE AN EYE FOR SENSIBILITY.]

At any rate.... welcome aboard?
mikangirl: (who's there?)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-06-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. Likewise, I guess.

Where'd you come from?
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-06-30 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
A place you'll likely not know whatsoever!

But Amestris is the shorter name for it.

[Have you heard of it. No? Okay.]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-01 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Never heard of it. Got a lot of oceans where you're from?

[She really doubts they come from the same place, but it's not like Nami knows the name of every place in her world.]
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-05 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, where I'm from is pretty land-locked.

[............. yeah the FMA world is mysteriously absent of oceans

i don't know, nami, i just don't know]


Why, are you an ocean-faring sort, yourself?
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-06 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Most of our world is ocean. I'm a pirate.

[She slouches a little more against her locker.]

I was meant to be going home.

[And instead I turn up here. Life sucks.]
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-07 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
My apologies. If I had a say, I'd fix this place's magical slingshot and get you back to your ocean.

...

...

A pirate, though.
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-09 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thought's appreciated.

[Ugh. Hughes at least registers as harmless, so she shrugs and gives him a cheeky smile at that last part.]

I sail around and find treasure and everything.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Pirates usually have a pretty bad rap, don't they?

[He doesn't seem very phased by being near said pirate, though.]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-11 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Terrible one. For most crews, it's warranted. [Huff.]

My crew don't attack people unless they deserve it, if that helps.

[...if they bought the last meat at the market or something. Or Sanji hears a stranger insult a girl. Or-- look, those are not piratical doings okay, they're just my-crew-are-idiots doings.]
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-12 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
... Helps a little.

It's good to know you're not planning on lunging at me at this very moment.

[HAR HAR HARDY HAR]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-13 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Not unless you're about to tell me you're a pirate. Which I doubt.

[Or your Elicia photos skip past a certain line of tolerance.]
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-16 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a pirate of love! I maroon all the anti-romantics.

[CLEARLY SO SERIOUS]

So you go out to find treasures; how's that working for you?
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-18 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[SNORT. Okay, you're kinda funny. In a lame sort of way.]

I'm a pirate. We're good at finding treasure! [Holding onto it, not so much. You can blame Luffy and his ambush expensive parties for that one. Ugh. She misses him.] Though I've been studying the last couple years, so I haven't had much of a chance.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-22 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Studying?

[He rubs his chin. COLOR HIM INTERESTED.]

In what?
mikangirl: (heh)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-22 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Weather science! How to create and shift small weather patterns, more or less.

[She grins, a little proudly. Maybe a little cheekily.] And how to put it to terrible use.
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-07-25 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
... Create weather, you say.

[PLS SAY MORE

BECAUSE WHAT does that even entail.]
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-07-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Rain in drought-stricken towns. Dispersing a storm front. That kind of thing.

[Hot luxurious showers that people rudely stumble into. That kind of thing.]
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[personal profile] ontheline 2015-08-01 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives an impressed and genuine little smile at that.]

Sounds like you really do a lot of good, then.

For a pirate.
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[personal profile] mikangirl 2015-08-01 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. [The smile this time is frustrated, but there's genuine humour there.]

I only just learnt all that stuff. I'll have to get back to you on how much good it does.

[Though she has distinct suspicion she's not gonna use it for much more than wiping the floor with bad guys. That's still doing a lot of good, right? For select people.]