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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!))






shiro2hero: (this is my chill the fuck out face)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-19 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[When there's no reaction to the offer, he sort of curls his fingers back on themselves, pulling away. Maybe it was too forward. Maybe he's feeling too raw to think clearly. Maybe Lavellan just doesn't want someone this out of control, this alien -- alien he thinks when he hears it move when lance looks at it with horror and doesn't reach back when it hurts and glows and when he wakes in the night feeling fresh weight when --]

Yeah. It does.

[He answers, at length. Pulling himself back to reality by slow degrees, shoving his human fingers into his pocket and roughly dragging them along a coin's edge.]

[The hand at his shoulder registers, distantly, and he manages a bit of gratitude through tightly held shields.]


This is... worst it's ever been for me. We were... something.

[Friends, maybe. Getting there, if nothing else.]
lavelly: (puke on cullen's desk)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Lavellan winces at the stream of imagery, the shields he's been working so hard to cultivate slamming up almost on instinct. It's not subtle, and Shiro will notice--may even take it personally, but Lavellan doesn't really care. He doesn't--he doesn't want that kind of thing in his head, right now.

He manages to keep his hand on Shiro's shoulder, but he withdraws it perhaps more quickly than is natural, settling down across the table again like he meant to do that, but the damage is likely done.

He moves on quickly, hopefully pushing past any awkwardness.]


I never met mine, and yet... [He shakes his head, trailing off.] How can I be missing someone I've never met?
shiro2hero: (this is my chill the fuck out face)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-25 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry--

[He blurts it out almost immediately. Almost as soon as he feels the buffer, the shielding, snap into place. And, in a way, he's grateful. Apologetic, but grateful. His emotions being everywhere like they are, it's almost impossible to hold back.]

[At least... one of them has come kind of control.]
I... I'm sorry. For that.

[And, at least, there's only honesty in the words. He doesn't seem to react when Lavellan retracts his hand -- honestly, it's probably deserved.]

It's what's in our heads. The... symbiote. It makes the connection whether we like it or not.
lavelly: (approve missives)

[personal profile] lavelly 2017-05-28 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not a perfect shield, even so, and some of Lavellan's own emotions probably still leak through--fear (of Shiro learning anything vulnerable), embarrassment (both on Shiro's behalf and his own), anger (that they even have to deal with this, that his own private thoughts can be read so easily), regret (that Shiro has to feel that this is his fault when they're both dealing with the same thing).

Regardless he eases it down, as a conciliatory gesture. He hadn't meant to make Shiro felt like he'd done something wrong.]


And there's no way to get rid of this.

[His voice is flat, but the link still makes it clear: Lavellan is absolutely willing to tear this thing out of his brain if he has any way to.]
shiro2hero: (did anyone save me any space pie)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-28 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[It is his fault. It really is. If he were more in control, if he had better shields or were less of an overall mess... Then maybe there wouldn't be this awkward thing hanging in the air and in their heads. If he was better, if he was what Allura expected him to be, what half the people here expected him to be...]

[Deep breaths. Even if Lavellan hadn't said anything or done anything, he would have assumed it was his fault, regardless.]


Not that I know of, no.

[And he knows that feeling. He's seen it in Pidge. Felt it occasionally, himself. Even if he'd agreed to this.]