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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-09-08 12:00 am

thirty-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, another round of new faces.
NOTES: You wake feeling cold and alone. There is a strange sense of emptiness, and the jump holds no surprises for you. There is nothing buffering the jump sickness and disorientation for you this month, and those still suffering the lingering effects of August's plot may find it more difficult than usual to get through the post-jump routine.

New arrivals will find messages spraypainted 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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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] enlistments 2014-09-14 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[If he gets the skinny jeans back they could form a very popular band. The Jolly Rogers or something.]

Indeed.

[It's murmured to himself, thoughts drifting elsewhere for a moment. It seems horrible to wish her on the ship with him. But in this instance it's probably a step up.]

Ah, I beg your pardon. I'm Ichabod Crane.
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[personal profile] capsize 2014-09-19 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ The Headless Jolly Rogers, equal representation. Hook returns the introduction easily, offering his good hand in formal greeting. ]

Captain Hook. [ A brief pause to consider Ichabod, then: ] You can call me Killian.
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[personal profile] enlistments 2014-09-20 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Captain.

[Ichabod repeats the title, interest clear in the lilt of his voice.]

You're an enlisted man?
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[personal profile] capsize 2014-09-20 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The assumption earns a broad grin, though he manages to refrain from outright laughter. ]

Once upon a time, mate. [ Says the thing, oops. ] I'm afraid it's a less official title, these days. I've a ship back home.

[ That's an outright lie. His ship's long gone, but that's hardly relevant to a stranger in space. And just going out on a limb here, based on the general demeanor and that curiosity— ] Whereas your enlistment's somewhat more current, I assume.
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[personal profile] enlistments 2014-09-24 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Did you, by chance, sail for the Crown?

[The suggestion of 'current enlistment' earns a softer sort of smile.]

That would depend largely on your idea of "current", as I am to understand that this ship brings us from all times and places. I now fight in a much different war than I did before, in a town called Sleepy Hollow.

[Said the thing!!!]
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[personal profile] capsize 2014-09-24 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Said the thing hi5!! Hook hesitates on the answer, gaze dropping briefly to the floor before he flashes a smile. ]

Aye, I did, though that's a time long past. [ Vaguely skirts around being really old right back atcha, buddy. He takes a moment to consider the name; almost familiar, but not quite. ] This Sleepy Hollow— what kingdom is it in?
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[personal profile] enlistments 2014-09-29 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
In the United States of America.

[There's an awful lot of pride in his smile and his voice for a man with a British accent. He helped do that.]

In New York, to be more precise. Honestly, the colonies exceeded even our wildest expectations. Which means of course that you and I ultimately fought on opposite sides. But as you yourself said, it's a long time past. I hope we can be gentlemen about it.
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[personal profile] capsize 2014-09-29 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ What.

Hook's eyes narrow slightly in bemusement at New York. The confusion gets worse by the word, and by the time Ichabod gets to opposite sides he's more or less lost.
]

I'm afraid you're mistaken. I'm not from New York— far from it, in fact. [ Because the world without magic is basically just the east coast, as far as he's bothered to notice, and the broader context is going wholly over his head. ]

I am, however, always a gentleman.