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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.






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adamance: (do you think i want brats?)

[personal profile] adamance 2017-05-24 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only a natural question. There are a great many around here who are the same. As I said before, your emotions are more likely to impact others at this stage, rather than the other way around. [It had been easier to guide others. She thinks of how Bellamy still bleeds emotions toward her without thinking, without realizing it. By now, she's grown accustomed to it, and has developed the means to deal with it.]

You'll first want to figure out how to keep your emotions away from others. I find that meditation helps, but finding the best means to keep that in will work best. Beyond that, it will be a matter of how you manage your brood.
ergane: feel free to use, just credit me (| must be tuesday)

[personal profile] ergane 2017-05-28 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ annabeth nods at lexa's assessment. she's noticed, too, how most people around here -- the ones who've been on the station for some time -- have had quieter (so to speak) minds. better control. stronger walls. on the flipside, every thought that passes through her head has been open for anyone to see. ]

It's bad enough to be connected to everybody, [ she grouses. ] To be even more connected to a group of strangers for no reason is just annoying.
adamance: (gonna kick someone)

[personal profile] adamance 2017-05-29 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Would you rather be at a disadvantage instead? Some of us are. [Lexa was the first, but is not the only one. Petre comes to mind, though unlike with the purposeful projection of Steve, he doesn't appear there in a literal sense.]

Having a brood is, unfortunately, a matter of survival. You don't need to be close to them to utilize their presence.

[Of course, Lexa wishes she had been more utilitarian before, but her conversation with Prince had come too late.]
ergane: feel free to use, just credit me (| what the what)

[personal profile] ergane 2017-05-29 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ annabeth bites back -- something. she's not even sure herself, whether it would've been a retort or something closer to sympathy. some of us are. she's not sure what having a brood entails or how you'd lose one, but it clearly sounds like a bad thing. ]

How? What's so important about having a brood?
adamance: (clarke stop being a princess)

[personal profile] adamance 2017-05-30 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently, they are meant to make up for whatever failings you have. I don't agree with it. If we're meant to be stuck in this arrangement, we should be able to stand on our own two feet. [Agreement doesn't change the facts of the matter. Lexa despises it, and has since the day she first woke up, left with a mixture of different perspectives in her mind.

But she feels the hollowness in her existence now. It unsettles her.]


But what I want and what is true are two different things. Your brood is now a part of your identity now.