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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!))






erbier: (pic#10267030)

[personal profile] erbier 2017-06-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her expression is faintly cheerful, disguising any disappointment. ]

You will grow used to it, with time.

[ Soft as a threat: time. They all have so much of it, and yet so little. So many hosts fall away so quickly, and those who withstand the pressures of the symbiote... nothing but the promise of grief. She is an old old friend to grief. ]
servitor: (call the glaive)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-06-04 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep hearing that, yeah.

[He doesn't want to get that used to it, in truth. He has to get back, finish a job, and...

Nyx won't think too hard on that right now. He just has to get back.]
erbier: (pic#11429589)

[personal profile] erbier 2017-06-05 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ She does hate those obsessed with returning home. They were the ones who tended to fall away, too focused on the old and unable to accept the new. Her expression does not change, she shows nothing of this. ]

Your life has changed, irrevocably. Time is the only balm to such things. One acceptance at a time. It is a pleasant transition for no one.

[ Not even for her, and she is quite disposed to the symbiote, to Rho. ]
servitor: (black ops)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-06-05 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[If only she knew how used to change he really is.]

Been there, done that.

[Not in this sense, but at least he can say he's had some experience in the matter. He'd get used to it, adapt to it, same as anything and everything else in his life.]
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[personal profile] erbier 2017-06-05 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

[ That he was game for it was at least something. ]

Perhaps you will do well.

[ But she doesn't really hold her breath over any of the new hosts. Even those who truly seemed well-suited to it all have fallen away, into the empty dreams where no one could reach them. ]
servitor: (black ops)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-06-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Like my life depended on it.

[That's his MO anyway. Work it to death, be the damn best he could be. He's earned distinctions because of how much time and dedication he put into the magic. This would be no different.]
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[personal profile] erbier 2017-06-06 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
It does.

[ Her smile is oddly bright for such a dire statement, but really she's just glad he's ready to address the severity of the situation. Perhaps he was imperfect and misguided in other ways, but he had some potential. ]