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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: (Steely determination.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-12 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want your help.

[ Asuka's voice is a low hiss of anger, but it's going to start picking up into that irritated shriek in a few minutes. She's already on edge and this isn't helping. The secent of smoke drifts over to her; it's pungent and sharp and she hates it. ]

Just leave.
100mitsubishis: (missing cash blacking out)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-05-21 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't leave. He doesn't speak. He licks his thumb then turns it around so the wet side faces the girl. Most of his fingers curl, but his index sticks out straight--a gun. One of his favorite shapes. Guns mean power. One bullet, and most people are bleeding out if not dead a couple seconds later. The man with the gun is the man who owns the world of the one without.

Asuka is a bomb.

Kavinsky is a gun.

Everyone here's a weapon.]


Answer this and I'll think about it: what do you do?
redheadcarrier: (Surly)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-22 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Asuka glares at him and his stupid hand and his stupid "gun". It's childish and she doesn't want any part of it. Cops and robbers? Or something else? ]

I pilot. That's what I do.

[ Or did. She narrows her eye, trying to get a read on him. ]

I fight.
100mitsubishis: (well it's part of the process)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-05-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
You pilot.

[He lingers along the boundary of her mind, ever-present as a guilt born ghost, but he hasn't made a move to infiltrate. Kavinsky shouldn't need to ask what she pilots. This is a courtesy.

She won't receive many more from him.]


What?
redheadcarrier: (Shinji is an idiot.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-24 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
An Eva.

[ Asuka spits back at him. She doesn't know about shields - or she does and she's still shit at them. It's something massive and inhuman. ]

Why do you care?
Edited 2017-05-24 02:50 (UTC)
100mitsubishis: (maybe I've been slipping back)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-05-24 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Massive is right. Gargantuan. Kavinsky has never made anything that big, but now that he's seen it, a craving builds a nest in the pit of his stomach. Would he be able to? Are any of his recent dreams large enough to house an Eva?

What if he made them expand, made them heavy and miserable, ready to burst--all so he could replicate a machine that reminds him of a monster?]


No reason.

[He lies.]

I can't wanna know more about a new kid?
redheadcarrier: (dressed in a towel)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-24 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not here to indulge your curiosity, you know.

[ Asuka keeps on glaring. She doesn't like him, even if she can't place why.

Although, to be fair, she doesn't like most people.
]

So go bother somebody else.
100mitsubishis: (I get it I get it I'm living too hard)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-05-26 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Once again, her opinion is noted, and then slips away, unable to gain any friction or purchase against Kavinsky's disinterest. At least he hasn't left the tree. It's become an exceptionally good anchor.]

Come on. Ask me what I do.
redheadcarrier: (I don't care!)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-26 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her lips twitch and she sniffs dismissively. Maybe it'll get him to leave her the Hell alone. ]

Fine. What exactly do you do, asshole?
100mitsubishis: (shit for luck elbows shredded)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-06-06 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Make shit. Any shit.

[He holds out his hand like a performer, the ultimate magician, except his magic is real. He can't saw the woman in half, but he could dream one already split into two pieces. Not much fun past the initial shock, though.]
redheadcarrier: (Yelling match imminent.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-06 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
So go find a bathroom.

[ Like she cares about him or any of this.

He's still there, though, still pressing on her with his presence and she doesn't like it, doesn't want. Just leave me alone..
]
100mitsubishis: (maybe I've been slipping back)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-06-06 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Kavinsky laughs. A short laugh, nothing fake or drawn out. The kind of chuckle that curls up against the listener's cheek, as snuggly as a cat that knows who has access to its treats.]

Don't be a bitch. I could make you something.
redheadcarrier: (Surly)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-06 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Asuka hates his laugh. She hates his face. She hates everything about him and she recoils. ]

Go fuck yourself, asshole-!

[ Go away, go away, go away- ]
100mitsubishis: (heading south carsick on a Tuesday)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-06-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Go away.

And he should. He might. He is considering the option as a valuable one. Ginger isn't as fun as she could be--he can poke at her and know it will gain a reaction, but it's never a useful one. She won't close the distance between them, physically or otherwise.

The bark of the tree continues to be smooth.]


Everyone wants something.

[A last ditch effort, carelessly tossed out into the ring. Even if she says nothing, their link may reveal something more.]
redheadcarrier: (facing down unit 02)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-12 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want anything you can give me.

[ The words are sour. Bitter, really. An admission that there is something she wants, but nothing from him. He can't give her back a life that was bereft of love, a childhood that wasn't cut short. There are too many things wrong and too many things she wants for him to give to her.

It isn't like snapping your fingers. There is no easy fix.
]
100mitsubishis: (shit for luck elbows shredded)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-06-19 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She's fun like a hacksaw against a man's forearm. There must be a world of things she wants, and Kavinsky decides it has less to do with her wanting it from him, than from ghosts she's decided to hate. Bitterness is the worst addiction. Kavinsky doesn't subscribe to it; instead of feeding his hunger, it would only grow that gnawing sensation to an unbearable peak.]

'Kay.

[He lets go of the tree and starts a lazy forward march.]
redheadcarrier: (Flowing hair.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-19 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ She watches him with hatred and suspicion, scooting away to make room for him to pass. She doesn't like the look of him, doesn't like the feel of him. She'll give him as wide a berth as she can.

She has no words of goodbye for him.
]
100mitsubishis: (and it's time that I stop it)

[personal profile] 100mitsubishis 2017-06-23 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[When he's passing right by her, the closest he's gotten to her the entire time, though there are still many feet between them, he lunges. Snaps his teeth in the air. He's so much a mongrel it's a wonder he doesn't have fleas.

With a snort, he continues on. Misato will admonish him lightly later.]