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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!))






somnifacient: (09)

[personal profile] somnifacient 2017-05-12 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
The laughter is welcome, even if intermingled with confusion. It's nice for a change to garner positive emotions from new hosts. Noctis latches onto it, briefly, indulging himself in the flicker of humor before he continues.

"I could keep asking a ton of questions about everything you just said, but I'm going to... restrain myself for now. You're probably not in the mood to be interrogated."
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-13 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
"It took me a little while to understand it myself, so I don't blame you. Ask me another time and I'll give you the whole story." Aloy gives something of a smile, then rubs the bridge of her nose. The memories of the muddled period she'd spent criss-crossing Carja lands, climbing mountains, delving into ruins, and uncovering secrets flashed through her mind.

"It's a long one and I'm not much of a storyteller."
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[personal profile] somnifacient 2017-05-14 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's fair enough."

He feels the sensation of something akin to wilderness brushing past his mind. Exploration, secrets unravelled. A life quite the opposite of one he had grown up knowing, and Noctis strangely enjoys how alien it feels.

But he presses himself to move on, to actually be helpful instead of someone who just wants to peek further behind the curtain.

"Have you seen much of the station yet?"
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-14 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I haven't. I'm still finding my way around and getting used to all of this. The noise is intense." Aloy crosses her arms across her chest.

"I've never seen anything quite like it, though. I still don't know quite what it's all about. So many strange people and strange things and the noise of everyone's thoughts. It's overwhelming."
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[personal profile] somnifacient 2017-05-16 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. 'Strange' is gonna be a motif," he says with a shrug. "If it makes you feel any better, at least you're in good company. I struggled with it too -- I still do, kind of."

Noctis begins to turn on his heel, waving at her to follow him.

"You hungry? I can show you where to find food."
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-16 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Aloy's stomach rumbles a little at the mention of food. She feels like she hasn't eaten in days (something she's sadly familiar with). There's a sheepish grin and she nods.

"That obvious, huh? Something to eat sounds really good..."
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[personal profile] somnifacient 2017-05-18 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He gives her a faint grin in return. "Then I know exactly where to take you."

And that he does. Noctis leads her down a couple of corridors, having memorized this particular route very closely. Eventually, they'll be entering the kitchens area, and Noctis moves over to the equivalent of a space fridge and opens it up.

"Looks like we have some fruit and... vegetables in here. Got a preference?"

There's more, of course, but that requires actually cooking. Or, at the very least, a few minutes in the microwave.
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Aloy follows along with Noctis. It's a hesitant following at first, but when they reach the kitchen, her eyes go big and wide. She stares into the fridge.

"...These are practically fresh. How?"
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[personal profile] somnifacient 2017-05-22 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh..." he respond with, oh-so-eloquently, with his head stuck in the fridge.

"Because it's cold, I guess?"

He straightens, but only after he's grabbed a hold of some kind of fruit. It resembles an apple, but the shape is a little off.

"Here, want to give it a try?" He tosses it at her, and it flies over in a gentle arc.