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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
thecag: (listening)

[personal profile] thecag 2015-06-25 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Practical information, though delivered from a source he'll have to extend unearned trust to, is valuable. All the basics out of the way early on. Once he got past the questions everyone surely asked, then he could get the nitty gritty details he determines are relevant. Lee is quiet while Hayley speaks, taking in all that she has to say and filing it away for future reference. If and when he comes across a familiar face, he'll be able to help clue them in too.

A low whistle at the mention of time. Years. A few but still. Lee Adama knows exactly how long that time can feel. To be in the dark all the while? He imagines it must be maddening for those who have been trapped since the earliest days.

"Faster than light jump," Lee said, half statement half question. He's relatively certain that's the only form of space travel that would require such extensive procedures. "This place is far beyond the technology in my system but we've perfected FTL drives. No limitations in days or requirements to be in some sort of suspension."

A nod at the mention of routine and repetition. Lee knows all about that.

"Why the preference for the lowest floors?
consequence: (you were a bluebird)

[personal profile] consequence 2015-06-27 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hayley's head tips, a bit, when he makes mention of his system and faster than light jumps. She's not sure if the jumps here are that fast, but maybe this guy can get in with engineering and poke around. Find some answers.

"SEC made the --," she pauses, realizing that not everyone could be aware of the term even if it seems common sense. "Security made the request. This is the forty-fourth jump, so you can imagine that each jump people are assigned to a new floor. Not everyone sticks around long-term, so having small clusters of people spread out over forty-four floors isn't the easiest to manage. If you want SEC to be effective and make sure you're aware of situations on board, then you stick to the bottom ten floors."
thecag: (contemplating)

[personal profile] thecag 2015-07-01 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Practical experience is no substitute for proper knowledge. While he's happy to help, Lee will probably end up sent on his way to the Flight Deck before long. Still, learning structure and all the trappings of such hierarchies early on is helpful so Lee continues to listen to everything she has to say.

"Seems reasonable enough," Lee nods. He hasn't gotten the full scope of the size of Tranquility yet but Hayley is helping to fill that in. "And how long have you been here Miss ...?"

A not subtle at all way of finding out both her name and credentials. If racking up time on an out of control hell ship counts as some sort of credentials anyway.