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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!))






greentech: (curious and curiouser)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-11 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! He's the paladin for the Black Lion!

[ Pidge actually beams. She has a lot of positive emotions surrounding Shiro, apparently. Family friend, knows her brother. Helped her out with some stuff while she was getting used to being a part of team Voltron. ]

I worry about him sometimes, though. I think he's too hard on himself.
miscreant: ({ in the dark; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-11 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Seviilia digests what Pidge radiates, ears laying back gradually. Though she would not admit it aloud, she rather liked Shiro -- his stalwart stubborn need to be the protector and martyr, a trait she finds herself intimately familiar with. Many of her knights found purposes in the same way.

She'd never been like that -- not really. But she understands the sentiment, and finds a need to guide him elsewhere.]


I agree with your assessment. Shiro was one of the first humans I encountered here.

[After Misato, and Shepard.]

He is...very like many of my soldiers.
greentech: (skepticism)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
That's not that surprise. He was in the space program for a while and it's pretty... militaryish? Is that even a word...?

[ Huh. Well, whatever. She settles against the side of the pool and finally hauls herself out so she can perch. She's watching Sev, but trying not to ogle her, either. Nudity is strange. Cue a bit of a blush in her cheeks. ]

Sometimes I worry about him. But I know he's not going to do anything too stupid.
miscreant: ({ if you show me the way; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-11 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
What makes you so certain?

[Seviilia would have argued the exact opposite, from what she knows of Shiro -- which is very little. But Pidge is young, and there is a worldliness she often felt the need to share since arriving.

She sees the blush, but does not acknowledge it. Some part of her enjoys the discomfort her bare flesh seems to be providing -- but ultimately, it does not trouble her enough to change, nor provide enough contentment to openly acknowledge.]


From my observations, Shiro seems rather willing to do whatever it takes to keep what matters to him in tact -- even something foolish.
greentech: (thats cool)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-11 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Because he knows it's not just him. There's the whole Nest - the team - and he knows that we rely on him. He wouldn't throw his life away just like that.

[ This is like the second time she's had this conversation. ]

He's the responsible one. Really. I've known him for... well. Long neough, I guess.

[ Not that long, really, but when you fight an evil space empire together, you bond pretty quickly. ]

I mean, most of us would do something to save the people who matter to us. Right?

miscreant: ({ the scars will remain; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-11 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[The passion with which Pidge speaks seems to be enough to satisfy Seviilia. Her ears flick back upwards while she considers her words.]

Perhaps.

[There are not many people who matter enough to Seviilia for her to lay her life down in the singular. The exception, being John Murphy, as anything else would bring her to certain death before the mission was complete.

And the mission was more important than any one person, when the entire universe was at stake.]
greentech: (curious and curiouser)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Just "perhaps"? You don't have anyone you'd risk your life for?

[ Pidge doesn't exactly grimace. She looks... curious. She knows that not everyone shares her values here on the Station, so it's still sort of interesting to hear that sort of thing. Even if she's not sure she likes it. ]
miscreant: ({ no longer the same; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-11 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Mentioning Murphy would provide a vulnerability, and while she doesn't actually believe Pidge would be strong enough or have the desire to use it against her, other people could.

To lighten the weight of her response, she offers a wry grin.]


To risk my life, I would have to be living.
greentech: (lance what did i just say)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You know what I mean.

[ Katie rolls her eyes. She doesn't totally grasp Seviilia's state of being, but she's read enough comics to know something about undead. Or at least what her society thought about undeath. ]

Your existence, if you wanna get all technical.
miscreant: (Default)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-13 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Her frustration pulls some amusement from her.]

My life is not meant for any one being. I exist only to make certain that the living may live. Or, at the very least, that you are given the tools needed to make your best effort.

[The instinct to 'survive' for her own unceasing existance had been driven out of her only a few years prior, with some much needed elbow grease. Now, her purpose was the very same as the rest of the Blade. Besides -- until something stronger came along, she would outlive every single being she came across. There was no room for that sort of attachment, especially if it could not be managed without adding more pain to her ceaseless pile.]

I imagine that is why I was brought here in the first place. Though why just myself, when there is a vast army of knights to pick from...

[She knows why -- the swords make a big difference. But that doesn't make her any less bitter.]
greentech: (poor decision making imminent)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-13 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. So you're basically saying you would risk your existence, you just wouldn't have the same motivation.

[ Or at least, that's what Katie gets out of it. She says she exists to make sure the living will live. That's the same thing, isn't it? Fighting for peoples' lives? ]

I don't understand why the Nest does anything. It's so... alien.
miscreant: ({ i'm falling apart; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-14 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Under the proper circumstances.

[She can take from that what she will. Either way, she doesn't seem keen on arguing for or against her perception of it.]

It functions on its own, rather than in a society with its own expectations. Rather fascinating if you ask me.
greentech: (Disgruntled)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-14 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, it is fascinating, I just wish I wasn't having to experience it so first-hand.

[ She frowns. ]

Especially when I have stuff I should be handling somewhere else.
miscreant: (Default)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-14 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
As I understand, whatever was happening in our own universes was simply an extension of what is happening here...so. You are right where you need to be.

[Seviilia shifts, a brief warning to Pidge that she's going to be moving out of the water before she does without verbal preamble. She moves to collect a towel for the purposes of sparing her from her obvious discomfort.]

I was nearly killed before I was found by an enemy hidden among the enemy I was already combating.
greentech: (poor decision making imminent)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-16 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shifts her gaze away, still mulling over Seviilia's words. It... sort of makes sense. But Katies doesn't really like the thought all that much. If she's meant to be here, what's that mean about her father? Her brother? ]

You really think that? That we're here because we're meant to be here? Do you believe in that stuff - like, fate and destiny?
miscreant: ({ the scars will remain; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-22 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
In part.

[She steps across the pool to stand closer to Pidge, pressing the towel closed around her chest. Fate and destiny could be altered under the right conditions. But in this case--]

More that I believe so long that we are here, the hunters have no reason to plague our lands. If we are the prey, then they should be seeking us -- actively.
greentech: (Default)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-05-24 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pidge settles her arms on the side of the pool and does her best not to look up Sev's towel. That'd be... awkward. For a variety of reasons. ]

It's an interesting way to think about it. I guess that makes me feel a little better.

[ She scratches at her cheek with a frown. ]

The station has never been attacked, though.
miscreant: ({ i'll keep you alive; ❄)

[personal profile] miscreant 2017-05-31 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet. Perhaps there is a reason.

[She'd thought about it before, but it never plagued her curiosity so much that she felt the need to ask. Perhaps she would.]
greentech: (hacking intensifies)

[personal profile] greentech 2017-06-01 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Supposedly we're safe in some sort of pocket dimension, but couldn't this enemy find a way inside, too?

[ She's talking out loud, now. Sorry, Sev, you get treated to her theorizing as she starts to haul herself out of the pool. ]

Because we can't be the only ones with this technology. They probably have something similar or they wouldn't really be a threat to so many universes, right? Maybe it's just that they can't track us effectively-