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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#10279941)

[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-09-05 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He smiles, ducking his head with a small chuckle. ]

Hell, it's confusing enough already. Plus, it'd give the hivemind deal a whole new aspect of weird.

[ stepping out into the commons room, he gives a jerk with his head, signalling for Pidge to follow as he heads to those rooms he mentioned that are still unoccupied, set to helping her get situated, with the little android toddling along behind him as he chats. ]

A couple months, maybe? Time on the station gets kinda screwy, and we've been on Concordia just over a month, so it comes out to about that.
greentech: (Goofy dork)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-05 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Wait. Pidge's attention shifts from Sam to the android as he steps out into the hall. Apparently she just noticed it. Her eyes widen and she takes a quick break from walking to give it a really thorough looking over. ]

Hey, this thing is cool-!

[ She glances up with an excited grin. ]

Where'd you get it? What's it do?
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[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-09-05 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's an immediate twinge in him, hearing the AI called 'thing' and 'it', but it wasn't that long ago Sam was doing the same thing. Couldn't see them as more than wires and gears and programming. No one gets it until they experience it, and that's okay. He just smiles back, looking down at the little droid (only about a foot tall), that seems somewhat startled over the sudden attention. ]

His name's Daniel and I made him. I wrote the AI code, at least. Angel helped me put together the platform.

[ as that was still when he hardly knew anything about tech, even with the bits and pieces he held onto from his old life. Sam shifts some, peering down at Daniel and tilts his head. ]

He, um. He doesn't really do anything. Just whatever he wants to, honestly. [ well, he keeps track of dates, after Sam asked him to, and tends to remind him of things from home now and again, but none of it is written in directive. at least, as far as Sam knows. He was sort of in a techno-trance at the time. ] He draws. There's a stack of scribbles somewhere in my room.
greentech: (For your consideration)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-07 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's so cute! Pidge seems to fawn over the little droid, giving it a little pat on the head and generally poking and prodding at him and trying to get a better look at the little guy. She's apparently very enthusiastic about robots and technology in general. ]

That's kinda cool! I... well, I had a little guy called Rover for about two days. That... didn't end so well.

[ She frowns. The little hovering robot had sacrificed itself to help her defeat the Galra. She feels a little twinge of regret that she hadn't been able to save the little guy. ]
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[personal profile] frakkincylons 2016-09-11 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry to hear that. [ the fact that she doesn't have him anymore, and her saying it didn't end so well seems like maybe the droid was dismantled or killed somehow. Lost, maybe. And Sam does sound genuinely sad about it. Pausing a moment, Sam crouches down nearby, to watch Daniel's little arms touch at the hands poking at him, curious. ]

He's, um. He's actually more a fragment of another, I guess, AI you'd call him. [ it feels so strange, so limiting, to call Daniel or any of the eight Cylon models they created just "AI". As if they're so simple to program and control, and not the free, spiritual, creative beings that they were. Are, for those that are left. ]

He was killed, very sadly. I don't have the means or the entire coded genome to put the first Daniel together, and even so, it wouldn't really be him, you know? [ Not only for the missing memories. The soul of him. It's... complicated. More that he usually talks to anyone in the Nest about, because they tend to think he's crazy. Instead, he gives this little fragment-Daniel a tap at the back of the head, watching as he does a comical kind of waddle to try turning around. ] So this guy's more like an echo of the first one, I guess. Nice to have him around.
greentech: (Green Lion)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-13 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. So he's degraded from his original programming? That's too bad.

[ It's an innocent enough comment. She still doesn't know that much about how AI or artificial life works outside of her own planet, so getting a chance to see what other people do with it is always a plus. Working with them, on them - it's a passion. ]

I guess it's sort of like theoretical cloning. Even if you made a perfect copy of someone, they still wouldn't be... them, because they wouldn't have the same experiences or memories or way of thinking. They'd just be a really weird genetic twin.