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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722016-08-14 01:13 pm

[hatch log] pull plug, enter multiverse

CHARACTERS: All
WHERE: The Station + Concordia
WHEN: DAY :025 - :026
SUMMARY: Somewhere deep in Station 72, a hatch happens; new hosts arrive on Concordia.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary.






YOU WAKE UP and in a very real sense you are born again. You’re not the same person you were the last time your eyes were open. You’ll never be that person again - well, except for you, Jessica Jones. You know how this part goes, don’t you?

You might not know it right away, though. What you do know is that you’re laying down in a place very different than you were before. The walls angle around you, claustrophobic, and they emit a gentle white light that’s faint enough not to hurt your freshly opened eyes. For a moment you feel fine even if you didn’t before you went under. Whatever injuries you might have had, whatever agony you may have been experiencing, whatever fear dogged your heels, they’re all gone. It’s quiet. When you’re conscious enough to take stock of anything beyond that, you realize that you’re wearing your own clothes and that there’s a faint pinch at the base of your skull - notable as the only discomfort you feel. Reach up, feel along the tube running from the base of your neck to the compartment’s back wall. It pulls free without much fuss.

Then it’s not so quiet anymore. There’s the sensation of something more, something louder, something both big and broad and something intimately near to you. There’s the realization that you aren’t alone, that you won’t ever be alone again. You belong here. This is as correct as the murmur of something like muffled voices in the back of your head is somehow familiar, or how the press of emotion that sweeps over you now doesn’t necessarily belong to you but doesn’t feel out of place either.

You can sit up - barely -, and shift out of the pod. There’s a ladder at your feet, and a little cubby just before it with anything you brought with you, as well as a set of crisp, loose-fitting white clothes; while your injuries are healed, whatever you’re wearing is in the exact state it was before. You can hear a sound in the back of your head, a faint buzzing, something like distant waves or the murmur of a party behind a door. Drop down the ladder to the floor of the Nesting Deck and you’ll find you’re not alone - and the those sounds in your head are louder. Other people’s thoughts swim up: some of them seem clear, most of them are a jumbled mess. Some of these people call to you - their voices are louder, their feelings more clear, they feel right. Further, there’s an awareness that there are others like you - not here, not close, but somewhere: an indelible tug at the back of your mind.

Welcome to Station 72. All new hosts will have one day aboard the Station before being whisked off to Concordia to join the others. Get to know the other new hosts, and ask the guardians of the Station - Prince and Cathaway -, any burning questions you might have. By the time the day has passed, Carata will arrive on the hangar to collect you.



MEANWHILE IN CONCORDIA Angel slips into a coma on :025 at almost at the exact same time that some Hosts become aware of missing pieces fitting into place. Those hosts with new brood members waking up on the station will feel somewhere more complete; you might want to let everyone know you’ll be getting new roommates soon.

Everyone might be putting themselves and their broods back together in the wake of the explosion that left the nest down one host and injected everyone with renewed motivation to either find the people responsible or make sure nothing like what happened at Royal Street ever happens again. Things are progressing on multiple fronts, but on DAY 26 there’s an option to put some of those efforts on the back burner...


     ON THE STATION, the new hosts are herded onto a sleek, black brick-shaped transport. Carata, a woman young enough to almost be called a girl, carefully makes sure everyone is seated and strapped in. She’s all gentle, easy smiles and cheerful responses to any questions posed to her. When everyone’s safely aboard, the ship’s landing platform descends through the floor of the hangar. It snaps into place in the airlock and for a moment there’s a beat of perfect stillness, a shiver of anticipation. Then the transport is flung through the shaft, ejected into the wild black of space. There’s a nauseating lurch in your belly as it bursts through the delicate shell of the multiverse and snaps into real space above the blue and yellow marble of the planet Opia. Somewhere, thousands of miles below in the city of Concordia, your brood is waiting for you.

     IN CONCORDIA
IN CONCORDIA, as dark falls, Nirad announces he’s going to fetch Carata and the new hosts from their landing. Anyone’s welcome to accompany him on the hour long drive to the stealth transport’s landing zone. The rented bus - manned by that same (now very stoic) android - takes everyone to the outskirts of the industrial block. They arrive at a different parking garage just as the stealth transport drops out of the sky, shivering into sight as it touches down. The hosts on the ship step down and then the stealth transport lifts back off the rooftop and wrinkles out of sight. It’s unclear how many more time they’ll be able to get away with this.

Get your meet and greets in and stretch your legs; you have a few minutes before everyone piles into the van and takes the long drive back to the Bearings Apartment block where the hosts have rented out the entirely of Level 13. New hosts will find there are rooms there that as of yet unclaimed, and they’re free to begin making this their home in whatever ways they please. Get familiar with your new comrades, explore the city, or maybe just take a well deserved breather. Officially speaking, nothing much happens until--

     EARLY ON DAY 27

A NEW WINDOW POPS UP IN YOUR EXTRANET PANEL...





((OOC Notes: This is the hatch log for all new and recently returning hosts; any threads on the Station should be closed to newly awakened hosts or Station-based NPCs; a top level for Cathaway and Prince will be going live shortly. Any threads on Concordia can be open to both new and old hosts! For anything happening beyond these calendar dates, feel free to create your own logs and posts.

If you have questions about the mission specifically, direct them to the most recent calendar post HERE. You can find a more detailed overview of the hatching process HERE; you might also want to take a glance at the MISSION CONCORDIA BRIEFING. For all other questions, please hit up either the FAQ or MOD CONTACT pages.))




greentech: (Disgruntled)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-08-19 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
How am I supposed to-?

[ Pidge cuts herself off. He just seems so sure of himself and of her impending death if she'd remained where she was. She couldn't argue too much with that - she'd been in a lot of trouble. That didn't make her feel any better, though. ]

Look, my family is still out there. Finding them is important. I'm not going to give up on that just because I've been dragged here!

[ Admittedly, she's a bit relieved that she'll be able to learn how to control this telepathy thing. She'll have to ask about that later. ]
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2016-08-19 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
You are, if you want to survive, and if you want them to survive.

[He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't need to.]

The thing that came for you will not be stopped. It would tear through anything that stood between it and you.

[No one would be able to protect her for long. They cared so little for the lives of anyone, they would not hesitate to kill to reach them. They never had. He could say, instead- if we defeat them, you can return. You will be able to look for your family again. If they completed the mission they had dedicated themselves to, then they would be free.

He wouldn't. He did not like to give them false hope.]


greentech: (Anger)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-08-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't like this. She's being told that she has to do something and she doesn't appreciate it. With Voltron - Voltron had been different. She'd figured that out herself. She'd decided to do something because in a way, the other paladins had become her family. This was something else entirely and it seemed as if it was just going to drag her away from her ultimate goal of finding her family and bringing them home. ]

How do I know I'll even have a chance of figuring out where they are while I'm here? How long am I going to have to wait?
regalled: (Vexed)

[personal profile] regalled 2016-08-23 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a long moment before he answers. He would prefer to handle this gently, but he was not adept at it, and even if he was, there was more cruelty in letting them believe this situation would change.]

I do not know a way you would be able to find them. If you could, I do not know a way you would be able to help them without putting them in worse danger.

[He takes a breath, knowing that very little of this was likely to stick. Only time would help, and they would not have much time on the station. It was better for them to be with the other Hosts, even if they were in a raw state.]

This is the situation that they have put you in. Understand that you are not alone in it.
greentech: (Anger)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-08-23 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
You're telling me that I'm never going to see them again.

[ She's not that tall, but there's a lot of energy in her frame. Anger and fear and anxiety and quite a lot of stubborn determination. Unfortunately, some of her anger is directed at Prince. It's not entirely fair, but he's the most convenient target. ]

I'm not accepting that! I refuse to accept that!
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2016-08-23 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Fortunately he is used to it,and while he may not enjoy it, he certainly prefers it to tears. The stubborn ones were frustrating at times, but perhaps it helped them to survive this place. If they knew when to bend rather than break.]

I can only tell you what I know, nothing more.

[It might have been a comfort. He was not omniscient. He had only lived this life for a very long time.]

For now, you should rest. You will not have much time before you leave.
greentech: (Anger)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-08-25 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pidge's expression is set in a disapproving frown. Really, it's more of a glare. She doesn't like being told 'no'. Not when it comes to this sort of thing. ]

Fine. You're obviously not going to be of much help, anyway!

[ She'll figure this out on her own - without her 'hosts'. Well, that's what she'd like to do, anyway.
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2016-08-27 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Prince stares at her for a long moment, seemingly unflappable in the face of her glare, before he bows, a smooth, practiced motion. No, he would not be much help, in this. He could not undo what had been done. No one could.]

Very well. You will find the Life Support section back in the direction you came. When it is time to leave you will be summoned back to the Hangar bay. Should you need something else, you can find either myself or Cathaway. Good day.

[It's an abrupt dismissal, certainly, but there was little point in arguing with her, when he knew he could not give her answers that would satisfy her. There were none. The situation was not satisfactory. And with that he pulls the pad free again, allowing it to unfold in his hands. Apparently having written the conversation off as finished.]