onemind: (Default)
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!))






shiro2hero: (holy shit what the shit is that)

1

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[One moment he's minding his own business, probably heading out somewhere to exercise or practice a flight sim, or something. Anything. To take his mind off who they're missing. Over the loss of the Darkling. He'd... taken it a lot harder than expected.]

[And then? Surprise. Sam Wilson in wings doing decorating in the hallways.]

[He just wordlessly takes whatever it is he's offered, looking dumbly at Sam. There's... wreaths? Are those bells? What -- ]


First of all... how long were we on the Waypoint? [Did he just miss out on six months??]
sizeofyourbaggage: (that was actually funny)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-05-09 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ So is Sam. He's aware that a large part of that is the bleed over he's getting from both Shiro and Clint - the aching emptiness that no matter how interconnected he is with them, he can't smooth over, he can only support until it's dulled with time - but he still remembers his last conversation with the Darkling. The struggle between them before Sam took his pain to lessen the load of grief, before he offered to do it again and the Darkling said maybe when he hated Sam a little less.

It feels like a cold reminder, but maybe that's fitting.

That's at the back of his mind now, though, and his expression lights up when he sees Shiro in the hall. He takes the wreath from it and hangs it up before dropping down to land anyway, chuckling at Shiro's expression. ]


Couple weeks. We missed Christmas, last time it came 'round.
shiro2hero: (AM I PALADIN OR AM I EVIL)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-09 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He helps. God, how he helps. He's real and present. He's never once left. Never faded. Just knowing that feels like some kind of ward. Some kind of shield against the feeling of missing pieces. The feeling of his arm being wrenched away.]

[But Sam isn't the only one feeling some sting of guilt, here.]

[He shakes his head, pulling himself back into reality. Back into the present and out of his skull.]


I... thought it was just February. How did we get to December so fast?
sizeofyourbaggage: (look at that)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-05-10 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ If nothing else, the least Sam can do is always be there. Some times, that's the best thing you can do.

There's another chuckle at Shiro's question, and he shoots him a playful grin. ]


We didn't. Or I don't think we did, it's hard to keep track of time. But I figure I missed it, back home, and if we don't really know when it's gonna come around again up here, might as well celebrate whenever we want.
shiro2hero: ([sappy song lyrics here])

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-10 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Being there is, probably, the only thing that can be done here. In this case. But he's grateful for it, regardless.]

[And relieved.]


Okay, that's good to know. I thought maybe I was out again. For a while. [He looks at the bit of decor he's still holding, and offers it out.]

I guess it's better now than never.
sizeofyourbaggage: (affection)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-05-14 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Never found a reason good enough not to celebrate back home, even when I was overseas.

[ He takes the wreath with a small smile, kicking back off so he can hang it up on the next hook. ]

You wanna help? There's food and a present in it for you.
shiro2hero: (im so proud of u nerd)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Makes me wish I could say the same about space. Harder to keep track of time out there.

[He can't help the little smile of his own, in return. Watching him do his thing.]

So if I say no, I don't get fed? That's cruel.
sizeofyourbaggage: (happy)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-05-24 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I’ve noticed that. That’s why I’m doing it now, even though I’ve got no idea when it actually is.

[ Then he grins, wide and playful. ]

That’s how it works, man, you want Christmas snacks and Christmas presents, you gotta help decorate.
shiro2hero: (im so proud of u nerd)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-24 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
You must really be out of sync. You said it was February recently.

[It's nice -- this. This back and forth. Something easy and light.]

You'll have to help me remember how to.
sizeofyourbaggage: (hey there)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-06-06 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm secretly a time traveler.

[ He probably shouldn't joke about that - with all the other weirdness in their lives, he wouldn't rule that out at all. But it's fun, joking around like this. ]

I can manage that. I'll even let you pick - hanging up wreaths or decorating cookies?
shiro2hero: (sure is a cow)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-07 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Is that how you got Oreos in space?

[Why yes, he's not going to let that go.]

... Let's go with the one least likely to put me in front of a stove.
sizeofyourbaggage: (wait and see)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2017-06-11 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
If I tell you my secret you won't be as impressed.

[ To be fair, they were alien fake Oreos, but still. He can't help but tease back. ]

Decorating means the stove's off, man, you scared I'm gonna get frosting in your hair?
shiro2hero: (WHEN YOU GET THAT SWEET THERAPY)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-11 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure I will. There's a lot about you that impresses me.

[This is nice. This teasing back and forth.]

Can't make my hair any worse than it already is.