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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.))




frakkincylons: (pic#10190996)

wildcaaaard?? idk, after that whole ren issue

[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-08-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sam's gotten very used to the feeling of Kylo Ren losing his shit echoing through the brood link. How many times is this now? Counting isn't really worth it. But he knows, immediately, when it happens, and his consciousness skips over to him, wanting to see what's going on, not just for the want to make sure Ren doesn't destroy anything else, but for fear he might be in trouble.

Ah. Beating up a teenage girl. Of course. He'd been ready to make a dash over to step between it, but he locks onto what Ren says - the warning about killing within the Nest.

You know what? Let him have it. He's seen this girl in his memories, knows she's an innocent, that she's right to be angry with him, and knows how bitter he is towards everything she is. Whatever. Let them have it out. No one's dying.

Some hours later, though, Sam actually goes to seek her out, as A, it's just polite to meet the new people as they'll all be sharing headspace eventually and B, Kylo Ren. Right. Leaning against her door frame, once Rey's found a room to take and settled in, he lifts a hand to wave, giving a friendly smile. ]


Hey, you're one of the newbies, right? I'm Sam Anders. [ Leaning out, he makes a show of glancing down the hallway, and tilting a look back to her. ] You the one that redecorated the hall?
sensitively: (suspicion pt.1)

i gotchu <3

[personal profile] sensitively 2016-08-24 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hours after her visit by the Darkling, Rey is moved to her new room; it's spartan but comfortable enough, certainly more than her humble hollowed-out AT-AT on Jakku. Nevertheless, in lieu of sitting on the soft, plush bed, she sits cross-legged on the floor. plotting. She's used to lesser comforts.

At the visitor in her doorway she glances up but not too quickly, loathe to pull at the newly-forming scar that spans the length of her spine from just above her backside to her shoulder blades. ]


That was me, yes. [ Wryly, with no mirth whatsoever, not even an upward tick of the corners of her lips; sorry, Sam. ]

...Ren helped.
frakkincylons: (pic#10279944)

<3333

[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-09-05 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn’t look terribly comfortable, and whatever weird, paternal feelings Sam’s picked up by being one of (if not, the) oldest in the nest wants to fuss at her to get in bed, but he doesn’t know this girl that well (outside of Ren’s mind, which isn’t terribly kind to her). ]

Yeaaah… I know. [ A bit awkward, with a sheepish sort of look, lips in a tight smile, because: ] I’m in his brood.

[ Which maybe puts him on the list of people to wave laser swords at, who knows. Maybe the girl is just as rash as Ren’s thoughts make her out to be. But he isn’t here to make enemies. ]

I’m sorry, I should’ve showed up to step between it. [ No one was going to die, no, but the girl does have a huge gash up her spine. Then again, petty as it is, she did start it. ] I want you to know, though… he won't kill you. He knows he can’t here, and we’re not gonna let him.
Edited (words omfg words why, this is why you dont tag at 4am, kids) 2016-09-05 09:52 (UTC)
sensitively: (pic#10130714)

💕 so many apologies for lateness btw

[personal profile] sensitively 2016-09-20 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ So this man is one of Ren's broodmates; from the scant explanations she's received, in addition to the understanding she's gleaned of her own brood, it means they share much more — they share emotions, pain, more intimate than just intentional or unintended projected thoughts. She eyes him warily, skeptically, for a long moment.

After that long assessment, she lowers her eyes and shakes her head. ]


You were right not to. If you'd interrupted him, who knows what he might've done. He'd wanted my saber, and — [ a minute frown, her brows creasing slightly ] — to teach me a lesson of some sort, and I don't think he would have stopped simply because you're in his brood.

[ Nevermind that it was actually she who struck first, and Sam likely felt the repercussions of that.

And then she can't help herself — ]
— What is it like? Doesn't he — try to tear your mind apart? Like a...giant, entitled child?
frakkincylons: (pic#10191120)

ffff no worries, im tapping you back 8 million years later ;;

[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-10-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A small, rueful smile touches Sam’s lips, and he looks down at his shoes for a second, shaking his head. ]

I’ve got my ways around him. Not one he likes much, but that’s his fault for acting like a frakkin’ nut. [ There’s actually some hint of endearment in that sentiment - yes, he’s violent, he’s cruel, he’s unhinged, but he’s closer than a brother to Sam now, whether that’s something either of them ever wanted. ] The brood, we’re… he’s not gonna hurt me. That’s not something you need to worry yourself about.

[ ignoring the fact he did hurt steve, but there was regret for that. Regardless of what Ren is to the rest of the Nest, there’s a lot he can’t hide from this family of theirs. He considers the question Rey asks, and it’s a legitimate one, considering who the man is. Considering what their first encounter had been like.

Crossing the room, he comes to sit at the edge of her bed, as his head tilts, going over how to put this. ]


A little, yeah. At first, definitely. But it’s a two way street, you know? [ He glances to her, brows a bit furrowed. ] There’s nothing he can hide from us either. And, you know, despite all the horrible crap he’s done, and how much he tries not to be - Ren’s human.