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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-07-07 10:04 pm

forty-fifth 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.
NOTES: There's a sense of quiet as you wake from the jump, a silence that seems to stretch into the medbay around you despite the slowly increasing sounds of gravcouches draining, releasing, bodies tumbled to the floor. A lack of any shadowed presences could be a relief, but as you fall into the process of cleaning up and getting dressed, you begin to notice it - there's no confused, uncertain faces in the crowd. No new, scared people, number 045 on their arm.

The bustle is thinner, the medbay a little emptier. People have left, been taken in the jump. But no one new has been brought in.

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] familybusiness 2015-07-29 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hadn't quite meant it that way, but she's right. She is here. Trying to distract him, or at least help. His eyes look back into hers, pained but there, as if his appreciation is attempting to not be smothered by his brother's disappearance.]

Yeah. [The word comes out choked.] I do. I know.
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[personal profile] hacker 2015-08-06 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
You're gonna get through this. [ She implores him. ] No matter how much it sucks. You don't have to run away from the fact that it does. It's allowed to suck: you lost your brother.
Edited 2015-08-06 05:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] familybusiness 2015-08-07 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Again. I lost him again.

[How many times had he watched Dean leave? Die? Too many to count.

It sucked every time. It never got easier. But:]


I'll figure it out. I always do.
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[personal profile] hacker 2015-08-12 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
And you'll get him back, again. Whether it's on this ship or when you go back home to him, I swear. It'll happen. It won't always be like this.