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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!))






huntsmachines: (downcast)

[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-16 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, what else are we if we're kept here and expected to do the bidding of... whoever has us here. I don't know what to call them." Aloy shrugs.

"What do you call it?"
shiro2hero: (jfc this man needs to sleep)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-17 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"It's different, for me."

When she phrases it that way, it makes her experience sound more like what he'd gotten from Seviilia. And they probably aren't the only ones in that boat.

"I volunteered."
huntsmachines: (Little hunter)

[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-17 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Volunteered." Aloy finds that hard to believe for some reason and she can't keep the skepticism out of her voice.

"Technically I think we all volunteered. How much choice we had in volunteering is another question, though."
shiro2hero: (disappointed dad eyebrows)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-17 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I guess that's a good point."

Because when it came down to it, that hadn't been a choice. When faced with serving an unknown force or seeing his team die, there wasn't a choice.

His team. Every time.

"But I could have been selfish, if you want to get technical."
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-18 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
"If the choice is 'help us or someone dies' it isn't a choice." Aloy says. Her voice is clear and quiet and she frowns a little. She's not sure how to say what she wants to say and it frustrates her. She half-mumbles to herself, thinking out loud.

"But is that really selfish...? I don't think so. Uh. What about..." She trails off into thoughtful silence.

"I still don't know what to make of this place." Again, words more for herself than for him.
Edited 2017-05-18 04:57 (UTC)
shiro2hero: (disappointed dad eyebrows)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-18 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
"You'd be surprised how many people think otherwise."

Then he quiets, focusing on stars and walls, letting her sort herself out. No reason to rush her. No reason to push her too hard, when she's only just arrived. There's a lot to take in -- he remembers that much.

"It's okay. You shouldn't have to figure it out the first day you're here -- take your time."
huntsmachines: (:V)

[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-19 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"You can get a lot of people to think a mountain is a valley, but that doesn't make it true."

Aloy is frustrated and her reply is more snappish than she might have intended. No doubt Shiro can feel her annoyance leaking out around the crude wall she's tried to slam down around her mind.

"I don't have time to--to take my time. I never do." More annoyance, slowly beginning to blossom into anger.
shiro2hero: (no i dunno the lyrics to Go The Distance)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-20 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I didn't say it was. I'm just telling you the general opinion here."

He holds up his hand, the human one, a placating gesture. Metal fingers still hang at his side. And yes, he can feel her irritation. But he's not as good as others are at dissipating it. Just, trying to deflect it.

"That might be different here. Everything is different here."
huntsmachines: (>:|)

[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-20 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ugh." Aloy groans a little. This whole thing is... frustrating to say the least. She's starting to feel testy again. Almost caged. Shiro's words make her tense and the red flash of hot anger is so tempting. It's easy to indulge it and let herself follow it where it leads.

"Oh, of course everything is different here. I just have to rush off and do someone's bidding to try and save the universe now..."
shiro2hero: (get in the fucking lion)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-21 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry. I don't know what to say."

He really doesn't. He knows it's a frustrating situation for people. He gets that. It's completely understandable, he just... doesn't know how to help. He agreed to come here. He agreed to this.

His situation is so different.