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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722017-05-07 07:56 am

[hatch log] everything happens so much

CHARACTERS: New Hosts & EVERYONE
WHERE: The Station
WHEN: DAY :039
SUMMARY: New faces and old losses - a hatch occurs and a number of older hosts go comatose. Coma'd hosts include all auto-piloted dropped characters to date.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. Need a warning added? PM this account please!








NEW HATCHES

YOU WAKE UP and suddenly you're a different person. No. That's not right. You're you and there's no suddenly about it. It's been a while, hasn't it? It feels like waking up from a very deep, extended sleep or like surfacing up from the darkness of the ocean and right there in your own head there's something both familiar and strange. You know intuitively that you've been unconscious for more than just a blink of the eye. While it’s impossible to tell exactly how long ago or how exactly you escaped the danger that had been breathing down your neck, you're certain 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 once 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. The closer you are to these stranger, the louder the sound in your head becomes. --Actually they're not quite strangers either, are they? Something is wound about and between you and these people, whoever they are, are as familiar as this place you've never been is.

Welcome to Station 72. The air buzzes with activity. Somewhere deep in the Station, other minds call to yours. They are bright, brilliantly celebratory spots in your subconscious. They are sun-warm gentle, or they are fire and the taste of ash, or they are a vibrant frenetic whirl, or they are a tangled garden, or they are the feeling of flight through dense cirrus clouds. No two links are exactly the same, but you know for certain that you are connected to all of them in at least some small way.

Which is why it's easy to tell when something goes terribly wrong:



OLD HOSTS

THE ENDORPHIN RUSH of making it back to Station 72 (relatively) unharmed, having successfully acquired exactly what you'd set out to get your hands on can't be denied. Even if you're not necessarily the type to celebrate, there's no ignoring the thrumming celebratory sensation from those Hosts who are.

After a few hours of being back in the void, something else stirs in the air: the clear, prickling sensation of new hosts hatching on the Nesting Deck. They're a rush of mental information - as if someone's turned the volume on the radio all the way up -, a cacophony of sensation and emotional feedback for anyone unprepared to shield against it.

The swell of feeling might make it easy to miss what follows immediately after: the dull, gut-deep quiet as The Darkling, Chuuya Nakahara, and Nasu Rei go suddenly comatose.






((OOC Notes: This is the hatch log for all new hosts. Feel free to make your own logs and posts additional to this if you care do. You can find a more detailed overview of the hatching process HERE. You can find additional setting information about the Station HERE If you have any questions, please hit up either the FAQ or MOD CONTACT pages!))






redheadcarrier: (Flowing hair.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-09 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Damaged. She doesn't like that thought, but she is and she knows it (in more ways than one). She shifts her weight and frowns at him. Especially his ears. She doesn't know how that works, but - Hell. She can't complain, right? ]

I don't know. Place to relax? If you're into nature and plants? It feels out of place. Everything else is... ship? Or facility? But since there's nothing outside, I guess we need it.

[ She scrubs at her good eye with the palm of her head. ]

I guess I'd go crazy if I all I had to stare at was a wall.
lavelly: (jump off the ramparts)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-09 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, he's used to ear confusion by now. He has to laugh out loud at the rest of her.]

Nature and plants is what I'm used to. I'm glad to know there's at least a little of it here, if this is where I'm going to be from now on.

[He can't stop himself from sobering at that. This is the last thing he wants to talk about, so change of subject.]

I take it walls aren't what you're used to, either? Sometimes it seems like that's all there are here.
redheadcarrier: (Steely determination.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-09 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm used to them. I just like having something to do that isn't be stuck in a cell 24/7 or something. I need to be able to go out an do something. I'm an active young woman, dammit!

[ Harumph. She's trying not to let this place get to her, but it's hard at times. Or she was active. She doesn't like thinking about herself in the past tense. ]

This place feels too big. Like there should be more people. It's... kinda eerie sometimes.
Edited 2017-05-09 05:30 (UTC)
lavelly: (chasind sack mead)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-10 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, so far I haven't found any shortage of things to do. [Of course, now that they've left the waypoint far behind, he has no idea what to expect of the coming days. He was having enough difficulty keeping himself occupied back in Thedas.

But of course, this girl was strange like all the others. Or, probably more accurately, he's the strange one, for not understanding. Story of his life.]
And I could stand for it to be a little less crowded, honestly. Do the... voices not bother you?
redheadcarrier: (Persona 3 yell)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-10 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course they bother me.

[ She snaps in reply, but the venom (surprisingly enough) isn't really aimed at him. It's more frustration with the whole situation. She keeps her arms folded tightly across her chest, lips pursed in a perpetual frown. ]

You think I like having all this stuff in my head? But - it's better than being back there.

[ She eyeballs him and tries to change the subject. ]

What's with your ears, anyway?
lavelly: (micromanage)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-11 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't ask her to elaborate. He's still a new host, but he can already tell the difference between him and someone even newer--there's plenty enough impression behind that to make him avoid the topic entirely. He doesn't ask because he doesn't want to know.

(A part of him still hopes he can get out of this without having to give up any of himself. That he can keep everyone, even broodmates, at a safe distance. That means never learning anything about them, either.)]


What do you mean? They're my ears. What's with your ears?
redheadcarrier: (Are you sure?)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-11 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They're all... pointy.

[ She makes a gesture with her hand to illustrate. ]

Did you get surgery for that or what? Or are you some sort of alien?

[ Blunt as ever, isn't she? ]
lavelly: (promote synergy)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-15 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't help but burst out laughing at that. He's met several people by now who didn't know what to make of his ears--as strange as he finds that--but none of them were as impolite about it as Asuka.

He likes it. It's refreshing, and it reminds him of Sera.]


No, this is just how they are. I'm an elf.

[He grins crookedly at her and waits for her to react.]
redheadcarrier: (Say what?)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-15 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
An elf? Like - Santa or something?

[ She frowns, brow furrowed. This is too weird and she's not sure how to react to it. ]

You don't make toys or shoes, do you?
lavelly: (puke on cullen's desk)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-16 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[That is possibly the weirdest question he's ever been asked.]

Well, I don't, personally, but my clan did have craftsmen and tanners. Why?
redheadcarrier: (What?)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-16 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. Where I'm from elves are in stories and they're usually... making toys or fixing shoes. And a lot shorter.

[ Shrug. Sorry, not sorry about fantasy racism. ]
lavelly: (hit on cullen)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-17 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Lavellan makes a face. What, like servants? Ugh.]

Well, your stories would appear to be wrong.

[Oops, he's annoyed.]
redheadcarrier: (I'm flying high.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-17 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, I think you'd like OK in a pointy hat.

[ Asuka rolls her eyes. Wow, why are you so irritated? She was just telling you about her homeworld. ]