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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!))






sistershoggoth: (pic#8730480)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-13 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She sucker punches him, straight up, uses this whole comedy routine as a distraction, and then within two carefully chosen steps is up and in his face with her fist. She licks the corner of her mouth, smiling. She's not even half sorry about it, and there's a dare in her eyes that now it's his turn before she dances back. ]

Pay attention, huh?
servitor: (sus as hell)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-13 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alright, he deserved that one. He rubs his jaw a little, wondering if that's going to be another bruise on top of his too many bruises. He'll live.]

I am paying attention. You mentioned Noctis. What do you know of him?
sistershoggoth: (pbsbyariel_eriko130)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-13 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh.

[ It's difficult because she has a lot of niggly little feelings about Noctis. Her devotion to him is a calming, reassuring focal point for her. He did things like get up in the middle of the night to talk to her when her brain started to pull in the wrong directions, got her to sleep and eat and even drank nasty ass coffee with her just because it was always what she was doing. These are the things that stir in her mind when she thinks about Noctis, like a cool breeze across a fevered brow.

None of that is what Nyx is asking her, and she knows it. ]


Some destined king, blahblahblah?
servitor: (pawns)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-13 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[The sudden tenderness is jarring, to say the least. It's not an active thing he wants to pursue right now, nor is it really his right to do so. That's for her.

And even if he wanted to look deeper? Nyx wouldn't even know how.]


That's the short version.

[More on the matter? Maybe, maybe not. Between himself and Noctis, the situation is confusing at best. Time disparities, repeated Rings, lessened magic or lack thereof in his case, both of them just short of their respective missions...

He sniffles lightly. The damn Ring again. He got shot at and pursued for it throughout the course of 36 hours, and little does he know it's only going to get worse.]
sistershoggoth: (pic#10136189)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-13 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's over now.

[ It's what she'd said to Annabeth too. ]

So I don't care a lot about whatever fantasy thing it was. He's definitely... sad about it, but I figure if I just talk at him loudly enough he won't be able to think about it.

[ It's what she does to herself too, just keeps her mouth running to fill the cavernous empty space inside of herself. She flashes Nyx a grin, but she's empty to the core in that moment, for miles and miles and miles. ]
servitor: (chauffeur)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not over, not by a long shot and he knows it.

The great, yawning, all-encompassing void is just as sudden of a change as it had been with her feeling towards Noctis. The emptiness is almost physical. It's not an emptiness he'd ever personally known, but he'd seen that look before.

It's daunting to try and keep himself from being lost in the nothing. Still, he tries to be a flame unto himself, a steadfast figure that has difficulty being moved.]


You're not as alone as you think you are.

[And maybe it's true, and maybe it's not. Maybe there's something better to embrace the great gap instead of filling it with meaningless crap.]
sistershoggoth: (pic#8730488)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-13 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She looks up at him, eyebrows rising slightly. The words echo. Noctis had told her that too. That soft feeling for the King of Insomnia flutters to life again, but now that bright shining lust she has for Nyx is entwined in it: her stupid moth writhing in one stupid, wonderful flame. ]

I know I'm not.

[ She blinks, frowning, and almost visibly shakes that shit right off. ]

Don't get fuckin' sappy with me.

[ She literally flips him off. ]
servitor: (could be worse)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-14 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[He scoffs lightly, shakes his head, throws up his hands in a mock-surrender. Clear enough she's not about any sentimentality at this point, which is fine. He'll back off.]

You can go back to punching me if you want.
sistershoggoth: (pic#8730478)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-14 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, you ruined the fuckin' mood.

[ Like she's so put upon, but she gives him an idle sideways look. ]

Besides, you just got here. Plenty of time to knock your teeth out.
servitor: (black ops)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-14 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be waiting for it.

[A beat.]

Where are we staying, anyway?
sistershoggoth: (pbsbyariel_eriko125)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-14 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Creepy alien space station, obviously.

[ A laziest smile, she motions that he can follow her. ]

Show you where the bunks are. It's not real private, real hippy dippy open concept bullshit, but the beds are ok, I guess.

[ She was used to the open concept thing. The mansion her all girls school had been inside of hadn't really been set up to house a bunch of students, there had just been a bunch of beds in a big ballroom, some curtains for privacy: which wasn't much of it. ]
servitor: (pawns)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-14 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I've slept in and on worse. It'll be fine.

[Hard dirt and overgrown ruins, tanks and trucks, shitty cots and shittier pillows... A bed's a bed, honestly. He's learned to sleep on pretty much anything.]

As long as the creepy doesn't bite back at night.
sistershoggoth: (pbsbyariel_eriko130)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-15 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, that's just me.

[ She's actually not even flirting right now. ]

Noct and I are trying to figure out how to keep my fucking creeping alien nightmares off the rest of you.
servitor: (sus as hell)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-16 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[What the hell do you say to that kind of thing?]

I'll do what I can, too.
sistershoggoth: (pbsbyariel_eriko149)

[personal profile] sistershoggoth 2017-05-16 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
There you go, you guys can just gang up on me in the night.

[ Wowowowowow. No she doesn't even mean it like that, but she starts laughing like a vulture anyway. ]
servitor: (until daybreak)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-05-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't help but laugh at her laugh, shaking his head all the while.]

You're something else.