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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722017-03-27 07:07 am

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

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?






((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!))






shiro2hero: (my keywords are an existential crisis)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-09 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Shiro, meanwhile, just drags his hands down his entire face.]

That's not funny.

[It's pretty funny.]
lavelly: (eat a poultice)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-09 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[It's definitely pretty funny. Lavellan is not good at hiding this opinion.]

You're right, I'm sorry. It's--it's definitely not funny.
shiro2hero: (my migraines are named Lance too)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-09 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Fine, okay. Laugh it up.
lavelly: (harassment scandal)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-11 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, Lavellan really is starting to feel bad for this guy. He struggles to get his expression under control. It takes a bit, and some of the muscles in his face still twitch like he's trying not to burst out laughing, but hey. It's a real effort.]

No--really, I'm sorry. You've only been trying to help me, after all. Actually, it's good to know that things can maybe still be... close to normal. Even with all this. [He taps his temple.]
shiro2hero: (SIGHS INTO ETERNITY)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-11 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[All right, deep breaths. Just pretend this is a more Altean-looking Lance and you can handle this.]

"Close to normal". This is about the last "normal" thing you're going to find around here.

... especially on this mission.
lavelly: (direct forces)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-11 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[...That's ominous.]

Why? What exactly is this mission?
shiro2hero: (this is it this is how i die)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-11 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Some kind of arena fight on an asteroid full of demolition derbies, apparently.
lavelly: (my own privy)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-11 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[None of those words mean anything to him.]

Sounds... exciting.
shiro2hero: (shit i can't believe that worked)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-11 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Do... you have any idea what I'm talking about?
shiro2hero: (the fuck is my life even)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-13 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
...


We're on a big rock in space where people are probably fighting for entertainment.
lavelly: (my own privy)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-13 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[Why didn't Shiro just say that in the first place?]

Well, I do that anyway, aside from the big rock in space part. [And the entertainment part. Well, he finds it entertaining.]
shiro2hero: (22 seems excessive)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-13 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Because most people understand "asteroid".]

It's... a giant rock. Floating in the middle of space?

Do you know "space"?
lavelly: (no alliance)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-13 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Anything Lavellan could possibly say would just disappoint Shiro, he figures, because it's all a variation of "nope."

So instead he just grins sheepishly.

He's just a simple elf, friend. Be gentle.]
shiro2hero: (which selfie filter do i use)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-13 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...

[Good thing he's the space nerd. At least he's not annoyed. Because now he has a better frame of reference here.]

When you look up at the sky, at night. You see the stars, right?
lavelly: (direct forces)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-14 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yyyyyyeeeeees.

[Where is this going.]
shiro2hero: (disappointed dad eyebrows)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-14 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
The stars are tangible things. They're tiny suns.

And entire planets orbit them. That's space. Where we are now.
lavelly: (puke on cullen's desk)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-14 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Lavellan stares at Shiro for a long moment.

A really long moment.

Aaaaaany second now.]


You're saying we're in the sky.
shiro2hero: (are we human or are we dancer)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-14 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that...?

More like... above the sky. Does that make sense?
lavelly: (demand a refund)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-17 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He... squints at Shiro dubiously.]

You mean we're in the Fade?

[Because he'd wondered that at first himself, but this doesn't feel anything like the Fade, and he's really tired of the Fade not making any sense.]
shiro2hero: (22 seems excessive)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-04-17 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
In... the what?

[Didn't he just explain where they were.]
lavelly: (puke on cullen's desk)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-04-17 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
["Above the sky" can mean a lot of things, Shiro!]

The... never mind. I'm not sure what you mean, then.