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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-05-07 08:58 pm

thirty-first 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: There is something very easy about waking from the gravcouches this month. The sensation of being watched is absent, and so is much of the sickness - even for those characters who entered Engineering in February. Instead the jump feels comfortable, the stasis fluid warm on your skin, the medbay lights not too harsh as you emerge amongst your fellow passengers. The sensation may be unnerving in its strangeness, but there will be a deep feeling of being well-rested, calm and content, that will not be completely lost no matter how much you question it.

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You wake up in darkness.


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.

You are not alone.

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.

This is your welcome party.
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[personal profile] fullmoon 2014-05-10 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
He opens his mouth, shuts it, and then says, "A wand."

Severus was doing magic. He's also fairly sure he's seen a few people who weren't human. And if the Ministry of Magic wants to come collect him and punish him for violating the Statute of Secrecy, it'd actually be a bit of a relief.

Wand may not properly convey why she's not allowed to touch it, but he'd rather just move past that point. "What's your name?"
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[personal profile] jondrette 2014-05-10 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"A wand?" She will not let this rest. Eponine is a curious girl, and tries for it again. "You a witch, M'sieur? The sort that eats babies and curses men? That's in league with the devil? I know his sort."

She was one of them, after all.

"Eponine Jondrette." It was the name most knew her by here.
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[personal profile] fullmoon 2014-05-10 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Wizard," Remus corrects, stepping sideways. The rest of it he isn't sure what to do with, honestly—he'd like to think it's funny, but he's a bit overwhelmed. "No, er. No devils."

Or baby eating. Not from the wizards, anyway. The werewolves—

"It's nice to meet you," he says, aiming to distract. "I'm Remus."
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[personal profile] jondrette 2014-05-10 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Pity," is the mark he recieves for that information, as she looks him up and down. "It would be marvelous, to have someone who could call themselves a devil here, standing alongside me." She smirked, like she'd just told a grand joke.

"Remus. You are new."
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[personal profile] fullmoon 2014-05-10 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
He's mildly alarmed, but he's also had stranger conversations, and at the moment this is just one drop in a whole bucket of strangeness, so he doesn't blink.

"I guess, yeah," he says, and, "Are you a witch?"—half joke, half genuine question. She could be. If nothing else, he knows some muggles like to play at magic.
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[personal profile] jondrette 2014-05-11 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
"I have been told I am a devil. I cannot say that they are wrong. But I have no tail and no horns. But I've cuckolded men all the same," she smirks as she speaks.