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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
forerun: (and go back home but no!)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-07-14 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Newt. [Unfortunately that didn't help much with the problem of gender, but it wasn't something he usually had to think about. Back home, there'd only ever been one girl Minho knew. Or even ever saw. But he is aware that there is—or was, at one point—a young girl with the same name.] He's a dude with a weird way of talking.

[Hesitating a moment, he stuck out his hand.] I'm Minho. If you use your little comm device thing, you can find me that way.
frizzard: (Default)

[personal profile] frizzard 2015-07-17 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. [ She accepts the handshake, curt and professional, then remembers to offer a less formal smile. ] Hermione Granger. I wish I could say it's a pleasure to meet you, but—

[ Towel, spaceship, missing Newts. It's all a bit less than ideal. ]
forerun: (but they're all the same)

[personal profile] forerun 2015-07-20 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
But you'd be lying. [He smiles back, even through his concern for his friend and knowledge that this place isn't very welcoming.] I've been here for a while, so if you ever need help... [Letting that trail off, he shrugs. He's not going to offer his help explicitly, but she can probably infer what he means by it.]