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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-04-08 12:00 am

forty-second 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's a strange sense of contentment that greets you as you wake from the jump. Deep and certain, it doesn't warm you or cloak the unpleasantness of the stasis fluid on your skin and the disorientation spinning in your head. It feels disconcertingly distant, instead, a sense as though an answer has been decided on - and that you won't much like to experience it coming to fruition...

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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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
fade_away: (✇ it won't take long at all)

[personal profile] fade_away 2015-04-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sebastian was one of the people Cole was searching for, and the relief when he sees Starkhaven's heir is apparent on his features. Cole has no poker face. The relief just as quickly fades to a brief melancholy.] My friend Rhys is gone. I wanted to make sure everyone else was still here. I am glad to see you.
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[personal profile] shinywhitearmor 2015-04-11 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that was new. Normally people tended to frown when they saw him, not show obvious relief. But at his words, it was obvious the boy was hurting, and his heart went out to him. Some things were just too ingrained.] I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Hopefully he's gone home, and is fine and well. [Though the way things were in Thedas - possibly unlikely.]
fade_away: (✇ I'd be a prayer for the dying)

[personal profile] fade_away 2015-04-12 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
He is. The Inquisitor said he and Evangeline were not at the Conclave and were found safe later on. I am thankful I was able to see him.
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[personal profile] shinywhitearmor 2015-04-12 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good then. At least they are safe. That's important to know. [Just like he knew Elthina wouldn't be safe, despite his best efforts. At least he knew.]
fade_away: (✇ Was it all you wanted?)

[personal profile] fade_away 2015-04-18 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Cole could tell Sebastian that maybe it would be different. Solas is from a different timeline from him, after all, perhaps in Sebastian's world things will go differently.

But that would be a lie. He doesn't understand lies that help like truths let. He can hear the echos along the webs of pain that connect Sebastian's heart to Elthina's, even to Anders'.

It is already too late. It always has been.]


Ripples in a pond. Far enough away you never knew the stone was dropped until the waves are upon you. The words say to endure, did the hand that write them endure or were they words written to bring comfort when nothing else would?
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[personal profile] shinywhitearmor 2015-04-19 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sebastian was silent for a long moment, thinking, truly thinking about Cole's words. Yes, the boy was odd, but sometimes, just sometimes, his words struck a chord.]

Only the Maker and Andraste know what suffering they went through, that led to those words.
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[personal profile] fade_away 2015-04-25 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how to make your hurting stop, but I am glad you're still here, Sebastian.