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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 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
A pestilence?

[Sometimes he's surprised at how the demons of Sleepy Hollow can be found elsewhere. Perhaps it's just the nature of evil. And while it feels like far less time has pass for him, he knows how it goes.

He thinks about this all before managing a smile for her.
]

Well, I can at least take comfort in old friends here, and hope to offer the same in return.
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[personal profile] skjalf 2014-09-15 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
An illness, yes. Some of us from further back in time thought it might be the Plague revisiting us. Thankfully, by the grace of God and the intelligence of many people, we were cured.

( the demons of history itself, to be honest. it had her thinking of danse macabre art and poetry.

now it is gone. thank god. she forces herself to smile a little for his sake, and nods. )


Though I am sorry that once again you are trapped here, I am gladdened a good deal to see you again. Did you recall the ship while you were away at all?