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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722016-03-14 01:56 pm

[HATCH LOG] IS ANYONE THERE?

CHARACTERS: All
WHERE: Station 72
WHEN: Day :150
SUMMARY: Today is the day you wake up.
WARNINGS: None; will edit if necessary.






A MOMENT AGO it seemed like you willingly took the hand of someone beckoning to safety.


NOW YOU WAKE UP in one of many chambers of Station 72’s nesting deck. If you had wounds, they’re (mostly) gone; if you had doubts they are - for the split second between dreaming and waking - gently reassured. This is correct. This is right. You’re safe here. The only question is what here is exactly.

The compartment you find yourself in is small, though gently padded for comfort with enough elbow and head -room to not be wholly claustrophobic. Still, it’s difficult to re-orient yourself; the best way to get to the chamber’s built in ladder and down to the smooth, polished white floor of the nesting is to simply roll over onto your belly and go out feet first.

First thing’s first though: get rid of that tube running from the rear wall of the chamber to the base of your skull. The moment you’ve done that, there’s the sensation like a rubber band popping - a string in your hand being jerked. The headache that punches in falls like the heavy end of a hammer - not serious, but surprisingly abrupt - as a of combination confusion, resolve, anxiety, certainty, delight, and fear and expectation finds you. In fades after a moment, churning to a low dull pressure and a faint hum. It’s feels like standing outside the door of a small party, sounds muffled and incomprehensible. Some pieces rise and swell above the others then fall again. Strain your ears and realize you’re hearing nothing at all.

On the plus side, you’re not hooked into the compartment anymore. Slide out and onto the ladder, though not too fast or you’ll miss the small cubicle built into the wall near the mouth of the chamber. In the cubicle are all the things you brought with you, every small piece you own of the home you left behind. There’s a neatly folded pair of something like white pajamas there as well. They’re definitely in your size, though you have the option not to wear them since you’re still in the clothes you left home in. Granted, for some of you that might not exactly be a blessing. Your clothes haven’t exactly been laundered or repaired, so best hope you didn’t bleed or sweat on them too much during your escape.

Sliding free from the chamber pod and stepping out onto the ladder, you’ll find yourself in an open space. The room is broad and pale and clean, its sloping walls featuring dozens and dozens of holes like the one you just wiggled out of. There are more ladders and a few other people climbing down, or stareing, or already down on the nesting deck’s floor but the sixteen - seventeen, including yourself - people present would hardly fill even a sixth of the room’s available accommodations.

The noise is louder when you near any of the others. It’s as if you've entered the party yourself. Identifiable now is the low wash of feelings, a hum of emotions that only serves to make the slight headache worsen. They feel genuine. They feel like they could belong to you. Still, that pressure in your head doesn't worry you --Shouldn't it worry you? Does worrying - about the headache, about the world and people you left behind, or the strange place you’re in now, the odd collection of people you’re with and the fact that you feel strangely drawn to five or six of them - make the headache better? Or worse?

If you manage to push the sound aside and listen with your true ears, you'd notice you can't hear anything besides this small group of fellow hosts: their footsteps, their oddly sharp breathing. There’s no sound of traffic, no wind in the trees, no birds, no hum of a ship. Only circulating air and silence.

You may not know what a brood is, but finding yours is easy. There are minds among these strangers that call to yours, their voices louder than the rest, their feelings sharper. The nearer to you they are, the more comfortable you feel. Is that strange? You don't know them, but you do. There are few answers to be found on the nesting deck.

Eventually you will have no choice but to head out of the room. There’s only one way out that you can see: up through a spiraling hallway that arches overhead. When it opens again the space seems slightly less alien. There are doorways of a kind lining the walls and each one opens to a small, nearly normal room. There are no doors, so it's easy to see all the rooms are vacant. In seventeen of them there are items neatly stacked on the bed. Most are hygiene supplies. Some of them - a toothbrush, comb, razor - may be familiar to you. Others less so. There's a flat horizontal ledge beside the bed with a small light and a single drawer. Another table, apparently built into the wall, sits across the room with a chair. A mirror is on the desk; it’s slightly mundane and not quite to the Station’s style.

This room is yours for the moment. It doesn't mean someone won't want to trade - or take. Beyond this life support deck stretches the rest of Station 72. It is quiet and and twisting and perfectly inert.

At its most familiar, the Station is merely a still, empty ship with broad chambers and gently mottled light. At its worst, it’s an Escher painting of strange angles and bizarre platforms that seems grown as much as built. There are many ways to many places and while it seems all doors and passages open to you, there’s an unshakeable feeling that the space doesn’t quite match up - that there’s even more to the Station which you can’t yet see. Don’t get lost!




For now, you reach the floor of the nesting deck. When you do, something blooms in your mind. A voice, disturbingly lacking any identifying traits but warm and comfortable like sweetened milk, says:

( ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬...There you are...▬▬▬..Welcome to Station 72 ▬▬. )


If you follow the thread of that voice, you’ll eventually find your way either to Cathaway on the bridge or The Prince in the training wing.








((OOC Notes: Welcome to Station 72! Feel free to check out the SETTINGS page for more information about the Station. If you have any questions about the setting itself, feel free to ask them there; otherwise, please direct all questions to either the FAQ or MOD CONTACT pages.

Prince’s top level should be live in the evening! Keep an eye out for it if you want him to give your character the introduction spiel instead of Cathaway.

Happy hatchday, everyone! :) ))




insurrectum: (pic#9991327)

at least u didnt walk into a door. cus there isn't one. /fingerguns

[personal profile] insurrectum 2016-03-16 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It is only his stubbornness that doesn't let him flinch, because the pitch that cuts through his ears, piercing his mind and settles in the back of his head like a perpetual, gradual pain is enough to almost make his knees buckle. Like some kind of short circuit. Hot wiring gone wrong.

He does, however, take a careful step back (even with his body is telling him to press forward, go, it is safe, it is right-- but no, it isn't, this isn't him, there is something wrong, he is not like this, ever, and maybe having gone past the eighth hour did something to him and he has to stop and--).
]

I don't care.

[ It is harsher than he usually would be, even if he is usually harsh, but the constant noise, like a landline connection that keeps going off and on. He keeps his distance. He forces himself to want it. ]

Did you see an exit?
vocalis: (014 customer service)

[personal profile] vocalis 2016-03-17 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ That harshness, the quick rejection... it crushes him. He hates that it does, because why should it? He doesn't know this guy at all, yet he knows every breath and every ache. Parker steps back and Aoba mentally recoils like his words had been a slap.

And then he's angry, temper quick to heat like a burner being switched. Grief and fear and pain aren't forgotten, but put aside to make room for the sudden, fouler mood. ]


You don't have to be so rude.

[ It's muttered low and half-whispered. He was just trying to be nice. ]

Uh... this Station is also a ship, isn't it? I don't think there is one unless we're not... flying, or whatever it does.

[ It's difficult to tell, there aren't any windows Aoba has seen in this place yet. Do you want to walk out of an air lock or something dude? Please do. Or don't, because he'd feel strangely compelled to drag him back out, but... no, go ahead. Don't go. Augh. ]
insurrectum: (pic#9991348)

[personal profile] insurrectum 2016-03-17 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There is something ricocheting into him. A feeling of rejection. Like his stomach made out of paper and a hand that does not belong to him but is his anyway reaches in and curls fingers around it, ripping and curling it into a ball. It's unsettling and he can feel his heart race suddenly at the foreign sensation. He bites the side of his tongue. Wants to rip his teeth through it, but barely does not. He does not recoil and does not move from where he stands.

His words, however, bounce off of him like oil on water. Being called rude is something incredibly common.

Or, well, not so incredible because he is rude.

He squints. A station also a ship. Some kind of-- hangar? He doesn't remember getting here. He barely remembers anything but the infection spreading. It is a feeling he, somehow, shoves down, down, and reigns it in. Something he does not want to feel and does not want to share.
]

So, you don't know.

[ Another jab. He's not useful at all. ]
vocalis: (004 nervous)

[personal profile] vocalis 2016-03-18 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ His cheeks burn. Hands curl slightly at the edge of the bed, gripping the overly started fabric. ]

N... no.

[ He wants to shut this connection off. He can do it with some of the others, but not all of them. Why does this guy have to be one of the ones he can't shut out completely? ]
insurrectum: (pic#9991326)

[personal profile] insurrectum 2016-03-19 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If it serves any comfort, Parker is very much trying to shut him out as well. Well, him and everyone else. Pushing against walls slowly closing in seems pointless, but it is not like fighting against pointless battles has ever stopped Parker before.

Parker makes a sound in the back of his throat - a grunt, more or less, clearly dissatisfied with the answer given. He flickers his eyes to the side, to the exit of this great room. Trying to keep an ear out to where it is most silent.

He looks back at Aoba again, this time with a much bigger ambition of shutting him the hell out. It's almost like straining too much your head until you get a headache but he is going to do so until a vein freaking pops or something similar.
]

Have you seen anyone that might know?

[ He may as well have said "make yourself useful for a change". What a rude dickhead. ]
vocalis: (033 cranky 2)

[personal profile] vocalis 2016-03-20 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aoba feels that dissatisfaction like hot air being blown back in his direction, and it fans the spark of his temper. He's only as much help as any of the others, new and learning the ropes everyone else, so why is this guy expecting him to know anything different? But then he's asking the one question he might be able to answer. He'd been to see Cath-

No. Despite the pounding it causes in his head, his stubbornness muscles through to prevent the gap between their minds from widening. ]


Maybe I have.

[ Maybe if he were to apologize, Aoba would be nicer too. ]
insurrectum: (pic#9691640)

[personal profile] insurrectum 2016-03-20 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ He feels that. The wall. The feet dug in sand. It is not unlike him, but in different way. However, Parker might as well be the most asinine stubborn young in existence. Or at the very least, in this station.

It is still a big achievement, all things considered.
]

Where?

[ He stares at him, eyes fixed on his. Neutral expression. ]
vocalis: (066 hey!)

[personal profile] vocalis 2016-03-20 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aoba stares back, red-rimmed gaze narrowing. But no, looking into his eyes makes it more difficult to shut him out, so he looks away again. Stares down at the floor through thick strands of blue, focusing only on it's blankness. Stark and and almost silvery-white like the color of Clear's hair. He grounds himself in the memory to keep from giving another inch. ]

Why should I tell you? You won't even tell me your name.

[ He probably wouldn't even give him time of day. Did he do something to piss this guy off? He hates this, he feels like- like slamming the door in his face!

If only there was a door. ]
insurrectum: (pic#9989330)

[personal profile] insurrectum 2016-03-24 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Is this guy for real?

He stares at him, even with the humming of thoughts that are not his hammering their way into his head. And it's overwhelming and he can barely concentrates, but never let it be said that Parker is the type of person to give up upon obstacles showing themselves more difficult than they look like. He keeps trying to keep those thoughts out. He is not quite sure how, but he will try. Like the idea of something warm and white, something that smells of a familiar shampoo and-- no. No, he doesn't know this memory. It isn't his.

He rejects it as violently as he can. This is his own mind. Nobody else's. He will not become a mindless unity, part of many. He is an individual, he is one (sick and oozing inside with fear).
]

Why the hell would I give you my name?
vocalis: (062 wanna fight)

[personal profile] vocalis 2016-03-24 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Are either of them for real?

That violet pushback burns through their connection and it rubs against a part of Aoba's mind the wrong way. Whatever part that it is, it lurches. Like an uncomfortable animal being prodded in a cage. It claws back through the bars at both of them, digging nails into their shared thoughts and shoving back as painfully as Parker had. The weird thing is, Aoba doesn't seem to be in control of it... definitely not by the outward expression of pain he reacts with. ]


A-ah... tch.

[ He inhales sharp and quick, shutting eyes tights and holding his head. Images of pills flash across his mind but no, he's taken too many already. Has to conserve the last few no matter how bad the pain gets.

When he manages to open one eye again, for the sake of pinning the guy with the most stubborn glare he can manage. ]


We're going to have to get to know each other eventually! Whether you like it or not!

[ Maybe it's bad he's this way, so incredibly stubborn. It could be giving Aoba a boost. Aoba or something else. ]