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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.))




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[personal profile] erbier 2016-08-19 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
It was, a great deal of work.

[ For all that she thinks she was quite spoiled, she did a great deal of physical labor in that garden. ]

But it was my work to do, and I was happy to do it.
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[personal profile] tropism 2016-08-20 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
The king must like you a lot.

We don't have kings anymore back home. [ a pause, and then he clarifies; ] Well, we do have some, but they don't hold as much power as they used to. My country used to go to war for different kings and queens, but that's way before my time.

The titles and faces have changed with who rules and where, but everyone still fights for the right to maintain power. Of course, everyone loves their comforts, cars and houses and gardens, too, though I think golf courses kind of replaced the latter, now.
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-08-21 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She looks away at nothing, her expression unchanged, but this talk of how much her king must have liked her... disturbs the dust of her memories, like a sudden gust of wind through an abandoned hall. The faintest whisper of his voice, mesmerizing in sibilance. ]

You seem to be from Earth, yes?

[ She has met enough of them, there are some hallmarks even when their Earths were different. ]
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[personal profile] tropism 2016-08-24 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. [ a frown as he adds, ] Naples, 2000. Most of us seem to be.

[ he's never truly met an alien, at least one that looks like they're from the shows he's watched before; and the proliferation of worlds that he doesn't recognize is interesting to him, if a little frightening given how many of them were plucked from certain doom. ] And you?
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-08-25 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His additional description of his origin is meaningless to her, a vague impression that she honestly brushes off; as something she will never see. ]

No, my world was not an Earth, even before it became the Godking's, before it was burned.

[ The ruined cities, smoldering eternally, whispered of what that world had once been. Beautiful and green and full of magic. ]
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[personal profile] tropism 2016-08-26 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
How terrible, [ giorno murmurs, and ilde can sense that he genuinely means it, that there is pity and good intentions wrapped in his words. he cannot imagine his home being destroyed, though he supposes if he returns he'll find what that's like to begin with. being away was a small price to pay for protection no matter how unhappy it makes him in the end. ]

Do you like it here?
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-08-26 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Not particularly.

[ It was not fair to say not in entirety. There were things she enjoyed about modern comforts, in general, but... ]

It's a petty, frivolous place.
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[personal profile] tropism 2016-08-30 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
How so? It's different, certainly, but it's not like we're being asked to live in it permanently.

[ whatever faults concordia has, giorno views it - so far - as more of an inconvenience than anything else, as in that they have to stay here when there are surely more interesting worlds out there asking about the question of life in other ways.

on the other hand, he can't exactly say he dislikes it either. there were too many new things about everything to him and he still holds a sense of wonder about being here. ]
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-08-30 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but we are asked to live among them all the same. They have nothing more pressing to worry about, and so they fight amongst themselves, create melodrama for their own entertainment. Indolent and fragile... They don't know the worth of their own existence and yet they deign to dictate it to others.

I dislike it. I dislike them.

[ I mean. You asked. ]
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[personal profile] tropism 2016-09-06 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
... that's almost the same with some people.

[ he did indeed ask. but was surprised with the amount of dislike that came with it. ]

But it's not a reason to dislike them. If anything else, that makes it difficult on our part to do any work trying to help them. Our circumstances are complicated enough to begin with.
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-09-06 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ A small tilt of her head, there's a thrum of irritation. Not a reason to dislike them? WHo is he to say. ]

Is it?

[ She wouldn't know, she had spent all of her time beneath the palace, talking mainly to a madman and ignoring the simpering of the few he deemed members of his court. ]