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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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[personal profile] lilies 2017-05-29 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it is. it's hard to trust when you're flooded with too many emotions to parse out what's yours and what isn't, what's true and what's false. but gladio on the other hand is far more used to working in a team, thrives off of it. the sentiment is something that has a hand in keeping him at an even keel, the thoughts of people in a group relying on the certainty of each other. ]

You're used to working alone?

[ it's a thought that glances off of his own, faint and there and he tries to shake it off just a bit. ]
huntsmachines: (downcast)

[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-05-31 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's a loaded question, isn't it? Aloy takes a breath and her mind roils with inner turmoil. If she's honest, she's used to being alone, period. It's been only recently and rarely that she's worked with anyone besides Rost and even then... as she grew older she spent more and more time on her own. She furrows her brow. ]

Yes.
Edited 2017-05-31 15:51 (UTC)

[personal profile] lilies 2017-05-31 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ loaded, but they'll all have to be honest here in the end. his expression softens up a little bit as he feels it, churning and rough, spinning. it's lasted a long time and he can feel it. he nods down the hall. ]

Walk with me.

[ a suggestion. he hasn't had long to explore the station yet, not since being sent down to the waypoint. ]

Tough place where you're from? [ to openly carry her lance like that--she could have been mid-fight, but there's a wear to her, the kind that indicates survival, and gladio doesn't need a hivemind to know that. he knows survival in someone's eyes. in their posture. you become it. ]
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-06-01 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aloy falls into an easy, loping step as they head away from the turbulent noise of mixed emotions and chatter. It's easier to focus now with that buzzing space in her head being filled by him. She looks down at her lance along with him. ]

Learning to use it was part of growing up.

[personal profile] lilies 2017-06-01 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ he admires it for a bit, tipping his head. the curiosity bites at him in a way he's never quite felt it before, but he leans into it, a light smile spreading. ]

Where did you do all that growing up? Can't say I've seen anyone dressed up quite like you here. Or even back home. Nothing close to it.
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-06-01 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aloy hefts her lance for a moment. The curiosity from Gladio is a bit infectious, really. ]

The Mother's Embrace.

[ As if that explains everything. Glimpses of towering mountains, snow, pine trees. ]

[personal profile] lilies 2017-06-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ the mountains, the snow, all of it strikes gladio dead center. he hasn't really enjoyed this strange ability that they've all been tethered with--to share these kinds of sensations with each other, but the moment he feels it, he takes in a bit of a breath. ]

Mother's Embrace. A name like that, no wonder.

[ the familiarity it breeds only gets him thinking about home as well. trees too, tall and lush, mountains, rivers: the only difference, perhaps, are the great black swaths of road. ]

It's beautiful.
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[personal profile] huntsmachines 2017-06-02 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's very beautiful. I miss it.

[ And part of her misses it because part of her feels that she can never truly go home again. She has seen too much, learned too much of the world to find the Embrace comforting. It will always be home but she feels distinctly apart from the people she yearned all her life to be part of. ]

I don't know if I can spend my time yearning for home here, though.

[personal profile] lilies 2017-06-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [ though the way he says it is perhaps a little half-hearted. settling. it's the truth. it isn't the place so much as his companions that he's ruminated on more than anything, however. ] Wouldn't do any good in a place like this.