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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722016-09-07 03:56 pm

[hatch log] +1, +2, +3, ...+4?

CHARACTERS: All
WHERE: The Station + Concordia
WHEN: DAY :35 - :36
SUMMARY: Another hatch occurs on the Station; new hosts arrive on Concordia and make their way to Bearings - along with a special guest.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary.






YOU WAKE UP and you will never be the person you were a moment ago. --No. Not a moment. It's been a while, hasn't it? Something feels different. You know intuitively that you've been unconscious for more than just a blink of the eye.

Which might explain how you ended up here: lying in a small faintly hexagonal chamber, a gentle white light emanating from the surrounding walls. It might also explain why any injuries you might have experienced immediately before your escape are also well on their way to being healed. There's something strangely peaceful about waking up here and that feeling persists as you find the tube running from the base of your neck to the compartment's rear wall. But when you disconnect the tube-- Things get loud. A wave of emotion fills the void. Fear, uncertainty, relief, a sense of purpose or loneliness or anxiety; maybe some of these emotions are yours, but they can't all be. After the initial sensory overload, the mental buzz elongates: stretches out into a murmur like the sound of a party behind a closed door.

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. Drop down the ladder to the floor of the Nesting Deck and you’ll find you’re not alone - and that those sounds in your head are louder. Other people’s thoughts swim up: some of them might seem clear, but most of them are a jumbled mess. Every single person here feels like someone you should be familiar with, someone you somehow know. They might look like strangers, but there's something about them that's absolutely vital on a cellular level.

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 your brood members, 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 plans are being put into motion. Stealth missions are being plotted, espionage-laden ploys are being quietly organized, and somewhere Sam Alexander is probably puking into a bucket. If you aren't following someone suspicious - well, maybe you should be? It definitely seems to be in vogue.

But it can't all be derring-do and covert operations; early on Day 35, Carata disappears. Nirad says she's gone to the Station. "I don't know how many more times we'll be able to do this. Someone's going to notice the ship and start asking questions." And maybe some of those questions might lead someone their way. After all, they haven't exactly been keeping a low profile have they?




     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, the rest of your brood is waiting for you.

     IN CONCORDIA
AS NIGHT FALLS IN CONCORDIA, the transport drops into atmosphere and lands in an gutted strip of an industrial waste facility. Once everyone's disembarked, the transport lifts off of its own volition and winks out of sight as its stealth routines come back online. A few minutes later, a transport van arrives being driven by a stoic android. Carata and the other new hosts pile in. It's a long drive to the Bearings Apartment Block, but it feels undeniably like home when they finally reach the Level 13 living space. New hosts are invited to make themselves comfortable. There are as of yet unclaimed rooms, each of which features a customizable digital display wall (pick your color or wallpaper!); there's a fully stocked kitchen (if someone took time to do the grocery shopping) and a great view overlooking Beta Block from the common room. Get familiar with the other hosts, take a well deserved nap or--

     JUST KIDDING.
In the excitement of new hosts arriving, it might be easy to miss it when the powerlift drops back to the lobby a few hours after the arrival of the new hosts. But it's impossible to overlook the android that arrives on Level 13 when it returns. It's stripped down to its most basic parts: a metallic skeleton with a featureless face plate and bright blue ocular inputs, sparks flashing through its internal synthetic viscera like firing synapses.

It looks like a nightmare.

Its jaw unhinges: "I'm looking for Sim Anderson," it says and then abruptly powers down.





((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. Any threads on Concordia can be open to both new and old hosts!

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: (Adjustment)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-13 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't describe myself as a hacker.

[ She sounds slightly miffed and she adjusts her glasses, peering up at Kate. ]

I'm a technology expert. I'm good with computers and just about anything else technological. Using certian computer systems to get into other computer systems is just part of what I do.

[ She can also build cloaking devices and booster rockets. ]

But, uh, I might have been poking around on their internet looking for information.
quivers: wu. (59 ➵)

[personal profile] quivers 2016-09-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm terrible at computers so that sounds like about the closest thing to a hacker there is. Already sounds plenty impressive. And if you're — okay, if you're getting into systems, that's a level of hacking.

[ But what does she know? She goes through enough trouble finding things on google sometimes. She got arrested once for asking a librarian to help her illegally download music.

That last sentence though. That's what Kate likes to her. Her brow raises with suspicious intrigue, the hint of a mischievous smile. ]


Oh, really? So you're digging up the dirt, huh? I'm sure something sketchy has had to show up somewhere, right?
greentech: (More smug lord)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-15 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pidge shrugs, but there's a hint of smugness in her smile. She knows she's good at what she does and she does tend to be a bit show-offy about it sometimes. ]

Well, I'm trying to.

[ She has to echo something someone told her a few days back. ]

Getting caught definitely won't help, so I'm trying to be careful. I've still managed to dig up a few things!
quivers: wu. (140 ➵)

[personal profile] quivers 2016-09-26 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Really?

[ She crosses her arms, leaning in with open ears. ]

What kind of dirt? Not to be totally nosy. But I just got here and I'm pretty much clueless on all the deets with this place so I've got a way curious mindset right now.

[ Because Kate Bishop doesn't quite change no matter where she ends up stranded. She's still bound to stick her nose in any which place she can. ]
greentech: (For your consideration)

[personal profile] greentech 2016-09-26 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing too incriminating, but it's still kinda suspicious.

[ She starts ticking off on her fingers as she speaks. ]

Public Security has been getting a boost from changes in policy pretty recently - within the last couple of years, really - and support from some of the super rich, including this guy "Ven" who runs a giant tech company. No one has been able to provide any real proof that Ngozi - uh, she's the head of Public Security - is involved in shady political or financial dealings, but there's definitely something going on.

[ Well, at least in her opinion, anyway. ]