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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722017-05-31 07:25 am

[hatch log] it reaches to the fence it wraps it rail by rail

CHARACTERS: New Hosts & EVERYONE
WHERE: The Station
WHEN: DAY :046
SUMMARY: New hatches . ..-and the promise of another.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. Need a warning added? PM this account please!








NEW HATCHES

YOU WAKE UP you are suddenly changed. 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. Right there in your own head there's something both familiar and strange and you know intuitively that you've been unconscious for more than just a blink of the eye.

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. A matching dread. An easy comfort. 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. There's two of you and the closer you are to this stranger, the louder the sound in your head becomes. --Actually they're not quite strangers either, are they? Something is wound about and between the two of you. You know him and he knows you. He is 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 tangled garden, or they are a shadowed black wood, 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.

Maybe that's why the sensation of one of those links blooming into the shape of a thought in your head doesn't startle you:



AN ASSIGNMENT

THE VOICE UNFOLDING isn't really a voice at all. It's a series of shapes, an image of a path curving through the slate and white interior of the Station, of a warm stone and the steady ka-thud ka- thud
of something living. It's mottled light. The sensation of easy momentum, of walking at the edge of a field in summer in a place where the adjacent wood casts a long, cool shadow. It says:

( We have a task for anyone who has time to spare. )


Then Cathaway's mind folds up like a letter and slides back into the white noise murmur of the Station. However, anyone who goes looking to find her won't have a hard time. The Station seems to bend itself to make doing so quickly; familiar paths lead somewhere strange: Cathaway stands in a quiet chamber whose only feature is a case at the center. Inside the case is a large egg with a beetle shell iridescence - one of the many prizes stolen from the ABA!.

"It seems to do best when in the company of something alive. We'd like it if you and the others would spend some time with it." She withdraws her hand from the case and smiles cheerfully. "Think of it as an experiment."






((OOC Notes: This is the hatch log for all new hosts as well as the catch-all for an optional mini-event. If your character wants to babysit an egg, please make a quick note of it over HERE for...reasons. Feel free to make your own logs and posts additional to this if you care to. You can find a more detailed overview of the host 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!))






redheadcarrier: (Monochrome phone.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-15 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
( What are you, some kind of fashionista? What good are you gonna do here? )
shiro2hero: (Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-16 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I don't...

Go where?

[You are a confusing child.]
futurewitness: a drunk guy at the train station that i was from the future ([neutral] pretty sure i just convinced)

[personal profile] futurewitness 2017-06-16 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
( I suppose so. )

[ She's not entirely sure about that, but, you know. Sometimes it's better to just keep on moving. ]

( I don't know about clothes, but there's quite a bit in storage here, from all manner of places. I have to think there'd be something. )
decommission: (pic#9902220)

[personal profile] decommission 2017-06-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ His kicking gets off rhythm, then back again. ]

Starting from when? [ Raised eyebrows. There's a few days he missed too. A pause, the pace of his kicks continuing along steadily as his mind works backward. ]

You miss the big finale? [ The Waypoint. If she'd been asleep then, well, he'd be a little embarrassed to admit he hadn't noticed. Parker was that good at keeping to herself. ] I think the prize was an egg.

[ Helpful. ]
moremischievous: (silly; here's an idea!)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
To find new clothes, of course!

[ His priorities are perfectly reasonable, thank you. ]
shiro2hero: (who took my eyeliner)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-17 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
There aren't any.

Not on the Station, anyway.
moremischievous: (irritation; the glass is EMPTY)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There have to be some. [ He tugs the edge of his white shirt. ] I found these things here.
moremischievous: (confusion; my eyebrows are very puzzled)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
( What are you talking about? )
moremischievous: (neutral; the thing about that is)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
( As long as it's better than these white things. How plain can you get?

So, where's all this storage?
)
shiro2hero: (no i dunno the lyrics to Go The Distance)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-17 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, man... that's about all there is.

[The biggest shrug ever.]

Sorry. You're just going to have to make do.
premorse: (033)

[personal profile] premorse 2017-06-17 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly not.

[ The echo has its own tone, suggesting that he has no more interest in furthering her conflict than she does in perpetuating her pain. There would have been more than enough people who could make it go away back home, or make her mind believe there wasn't any pain to begin with. Hyperion? The best he could do is give her his blood and treat her to an hour of mindless bliss.

He's sure she'd punch him first. ]


What's happening to you.
premorse: (008)

[personal profile] premorse 2017-06-17 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There was no little girl for him, just a presence that somehow made itself female, or so he thinks. That was likely the case, or only an entity's approximation to what Hyperion would have accepted immediately. There was barely any time to say yes. He's almost surprised he managed to remain calm enough (frozen, shut down) to do it. ]

No one can get away from it. That's the point.

She here?
premorse: (019)

HOW DARE

[personal profile] premorse 2017-06-17 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hah. Funny. That almost reminds him of his old days of cracking jokes, except. He would have been too idiotic to use irony in that tone.

But if Nyx's day comes, Hyperion won't be delivering the blow. Ain't nobody got time for that. ]


It does. [ It means that people here are human, and at least some of them are willing to accept and be conflict, instead of pretending they're all supposed to get along. The more you deny that there's darkness, the larger the shadow becomes. ]

It means I've still got some time.
moremischievous: (irritation; grump huff complain)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? [ GROANS. ] This place is the worst.
shiro2hero: (yeah huh interesting go on)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-17 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is what you say over clothes???]

[How is this kid going to react when he finds out the actual worst parts of being here?]


Then maybe I shouldn't tell you about the pool clothes.
moremischievous: (✚ kaoru; little trolls)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? [ Suspiciously: ] They're not speedos, are they?
shiro2hero: (this is it this is how i die)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[He just.]

[Makes this face.]


Something like that.
moremischievous: (irritation; this is dumb and so are you)

[personal profile] moremischievous 2017-06-17 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SLUMPS OVER AND GROANS AGAIN. ]
redheadcarrier: (duh)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-06-18 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
( Someone has told you why we're here, right? )
shiro2hero: (why am i awake at 3am)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
... You gonna be okay there?
servitor: (black ops)

:')

[personal profile] servitor 2017-06-18 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
We've got a lot of time around here. It's what I keep hearing.

[Time he really can't be affording to lose, not with the entire world at stake. There's not to much to argue about it, though, like he told Katie.

It is what it is. Nyx could only make the most of it and make sure everyone stayed in one piece to get back to their respective times and places.]
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2017-06-18 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He is quiet, very quiet, for a long moment. There is a clear and easy answer to her words, as stubborn as she is. It didn't matter if she had an answer for it. The symbiote would ease that. All it needed was time, and unless she did something- foolish- it would have that.

Still, it would only end where it always had, and arguing with her now as the equivalent of kicking something small and helpless while it could not fight back.]


Yes. [He raises his eyebrows, gestures towards the entrance of the space. Unspoken- she would need to stand to find it.]
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2017-06-18 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Prince is silent for a moment, studying the space carefully before he turns his to face the new host, chin dipping slightly.]

The station is designed to respond to the will of hosts.

[Of some hosts, at least. He glances down at his pad, dragging his thumb across it with some kind of finality- allowing it to fold neatly down into a plain and unassuming white rectangle.]

Welcome to Station 72. I am Prince. You have more questions, I would assume?
regalled: (Default)

[personal profile] regalled 2017-06-18 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
You will likely have time to learn, should you chose.

[Likely, unless he should make a fatal mistake. A thing which Prince invested much time and effort into preventing. Should he manage to avoid that pitfall he would have more years than he knew.]

Perhaps. For guardians such as myself, it is a necessary skill, but for other hosts, it is not a requirement.

[It was useful, but that usefulness had a trade off. Occasionally they were reminded of it.]

Perhaps there are other questions you would prefer to ask?
unfavoured: (pic#8500351)

[personal profile] unfavoured 2017-06-18 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She swims over to the edge of the pool, peeling off her sweater and jacket. It plops on to solid surface with a wet sound, but she doesn't really care to take the rest of her clothes off because they are going to be a bitch to put on again. Because that's what you get when you flop face-first into a pool, Addison "Good Life Choices" Parker. ]

I missed everything. [ She gives him a weak shrug, crossing her arms over the edge and laying her cheek on them. ] I don't even remember when I passed out.

[ Which is not a good feeling. Everything a black spot in her memory, like something wipe out of a drive. ]

Did any of you find out anything else about this place? [ That's the priority, it always has been for her. She doesn't care for the mission, but that shouldn't be a secret to anyone by now. ]

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