[hatch log] welcome to the void-- wait no, waypoint shril

[onemind]

CHARACTERS: New Hosts & EVERYONE
WHERE: The Station, Waypoint Shril
WHEN: DAY :027
SUMMARY: New hosts take the universe for a spin.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. Need a warning added? PM this account please!

YOU WAKE UP and suddenly you're a different person. --No. Wait. Scratch that. Not suddenly. It's been a while, hasn't it? Something feels off anyway - a combination of the strange and familiar right there in your own head - and you know intuitively that you've been unconscious for more than just a blink of the eye. It’s impossible to tell exactly how long ago or how exactly you escaped the danger that had been breathing down your neck, but you know it was more than a moment ago.

But here you are, a small miracle of the multiverse: lying in a small faintly hexagonal chamber, a gentle white light emanating from the surrounding walls. If you were injured during your escape, those injuries have been healed. If you were anxious or frightened or distraught, those feelings have been briefly calmed. There's something strangely peaceful about waking up here. That feeling persists even as you find the tube running from the base of your neck to the compartment's rear wall.

But when the tube's disconnected? Things get loud. A wave of emotion fills that peaceful 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 happening 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. Maybe it's time for a change? 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 the closer you are to these strangers. --No. That's not right either. A sense of familiarity runs so deep between you it might as well be cellular.

Welcome to Station 72. It is... exhausting. There's both a both deep weariness in your bones and a pulse of anticipation crawling under your skin. Your body feels heavy at first, like you're somehow too dense or too real. But maybe that sensation eases eventually. Or maybe you just get used to it?

( ▬▬▬▬▬...There you are. Join us on the hangar, won't you....▬▬▬? )

It doesn't sound like a voice as much as it just resembles sounds, the sensation of warmth and security like napping in a window at the height of summer. If it's followed, you'll eventually wind your day to a massive hangar bay peppered with a myriad of small and medium ships ranging from strange to ornately beautiful to hardly recognizable. Waiting in front of a small silver craft is an aging woman with greying hair, fine jewlery chains tinkling with a multitude of metal charms sound through her clothing and along her forearms. You know instinctively she was the one who spoke to you.

She smiles now, moving to climb into the (very) small ship. There's room enough for all of you if you pack in tight. "Come along," says Cathaway. "The line for Platform Alfa is long enough that we can answer your questions on the way."





WAYPOINT SHRIL might be bursting at the seams with activity, noise and people, but there's no missing when something in the universe shifts. For most older Hosts, they wont quite be able to put their finger on what's going on, but Chuuya and Elena? They know exactly what's happening - somewhere in this universe, new Hosts are hatching and at least one of them belongs to you.

Not that the mystery lasts long for everyone else either. A few hours after the shift, Cathaway's speaks to you. Her voice is clear as a crystal bell, suffused with an intense and simple joy that has nothing to do with--

( New hosts have arrived. Please come meet us at Platform Alfa if you're able. They'll need your assistance. )

--and everything to do with the sensation of a ship hurtling as a bullet through space, the nauseating feeling of darting between other small craft and buzzing around larger class ships.

Come fetch your new friends, everyone. Waypoint Shril could be dangerous for the initiated. After all, the Catacomb Hotel is filled with construction zones and open elevator shafts, the streets are thronged with vendors looking to make a quick Shen off unsuspecting tourists, the area immediately surrounding the Stadium Zone is jammed with intergalactic reporters and especially hot headed or famous competitors filming a pre-competition conference, and - most mortifying of all - the line to leave Platform Alfa is apparently several hours long. What's a new Host to do without a little guidance?

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((OOC Notes: This is the hatch log for the new hosts and anyone looking to greet them after their hatching. You’re welcome to make your own logs separate to this going forward and tag any old logs that have been forward dated to this point or beyond. We're about halfway through the first week at Waypoint Shril, so feel free to touch the mission drop post as long as you're appropriately timing your encounters.


Additionally, you can find a more detailed overview of the hatching process HERE. You can find additional setting information about the Station HERE. Information about Waypoint Shril is located at the Current Mission Brief - you may consider this information more or less ICly known. Last but not least, if you have any questions, please hit up either the FAQ or MOD CONTACT pages!))

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Comments

[shiro2hero]

[That's not fair he can tell this guy is enjoying himself here.]

Do you... really want to.

[lavelly]

[He has the biggest shit-eating grin of the century on his face if it wasn't obvious enough.]

Oh, absolutely. I love a good story.

[shiro2hero]

[Oh god it's like if Lance looked vaguely Altean.]

... we're dating.

That's. The story.

[Definitely doing his best to keep the rest on lockdown behind mental walls, thank you very much.]

[lavelly]

[Lavellan appreciates the effort, Shiro. There are some lines he's not willing to cross.]

Is that all? Here you had me hoping for something scandalous. I'm disappointed.

[shiro2hero]

[That moment when you want to just disappear into a black hole.]

I'm. Really not a "scandalous" kind of person.

[lavelly]

[Don't be like that, you just made a very obnoxious new friend. Who prefers making Shiro feel embarrassed to Shiro fussing over him.]

That sounds like a personal problem to me. Have you talked to him about that?

[shiro2hero]

... wait, what? What does that mean?

[He has to ask. Even if he's not totally sure he wants to know the answer.]

[lavelly]

Well, you never know. Perhaps he might like a bit of scandal.

[He doesn't even know where he's going with this. But his expression is innocent. So, so innocent.]

[shiro2hero]

I... don't think so. Like, at all.

[This is not what he wanted out of this conversation, space lion jesus save him.]

[lavelly]

Have you ever asked him?

[shiro2hero]

Why would I ask him if he liked scandals?

[lavelly]

[The look Lavellan gives him is clearly pitying.]

"Scandal" is meant to be a metaphor.

[shiro2hero]

[He's going to regret this...]

A metaphor for... what, exactly?

[lavelly]

[Good question.]

Ah... new experiences?

[shiro2hero]

That. Doesn't really explain anything.

[lavelly]

Interesting new experiences.

[Now everything is clear.]

[shiro2hero]

...

Interesting.

Like how?

[Shiro do you really want to know.]

[lavelly]

[He exhales forcibly. It's partly a sigh, partly a sign of his resignation to the direction of this conversation.]

I'm... I'm trying to make a sexual reference.

[shiro2hero]

[Please hold.]

[shiro2hero]

[Processing.]

[shiro2hero]

[What are words.]

[shiro2hero]

[What are words that aren't sputtering. Because there's nothing here except for sudden, complete embarrassment on his end of the link.]

[shiro2hero]

[Do not think about Sam Wilson do not think about Sam Wilson --]

[shiro2hero]

[.... god dammit.]

done

[shiro2hero]

... I. See.

[He says, gone red-faced and grimacing, doing his best to seize up literally everything he's feeling emotionally and physically behind the aforementioned space-themed walls.]

Do I want to know why.