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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! :) ))




adamance: (that is stupid)

[personal profile] adamance 2016-03-16 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a flash of irritation at Romy's initial words, and it remains right up until the end. Lexa isn't going to flash out, but she's clearly displeased. That "clarity" isn't shown through her face, as it remains calm yet oddly arrogant, but through the connection. She's having a hard time reeling it in.]

Among my people, it's rare that something is offered without expecting something in return. It's naive to believe otherwise. [She pauses, and it's then that she steadies her emotions.] You're giving them too much leeway for calling this a "deal."

[personal profile] faul 2016-03-21 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, there's a crap of stuff expected of us.

[ Romy smiles a humorless smile before shrugging. ]

Either way, we can sit on our asses and do nothing, or get the answers we need by ourselves. We might need to fight our way out, but I guess the options are limited as it is.
adamance: (yet another ear shot)

[personal profile] adamance 2016-03-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
We'll likely meet resistance. That's assuming that we even can. [Lexa doesn't know much about the technology of this place, which is the problem—she doesn't know how to go up against it. That's not to mention the other aspects of the Station that have her unnerved.]

But as you've seen, I'm prepared to fight.

[personal profile] faul 2016-03-23 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as we don't give anyone any reason to suspect... it might involve following orders in the end.

[ It's a big "it depends" and she dislikes working like that. ]

Good, it might come in handy eventually.
adamance: (i am going to buy you coffee)

[personal profile] adamance 2016-03-23 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Assuming, of course, we have to fight. They might be compliant, willing to work with us. [But there's that ringing level of doubt. Lexa has had little reason to trust unknowns in her life. That doesn't change now.]

You implied that you're strong. [With the nearly petty remark earlier.] How strong are you?

[personal profile] faul 2016-03-27 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
They do seem the sort to like to talk things through. [ Romy doesn't really mean Cathaway and Prince though, she means whatever is trying to kill them. Now, if they could chat those things up though... ]

Strong enough. [ Romy shrugs, then lifts her hands. Fire sprouts from them, tall and blue-near-white. Is hot enough to radiate heat all the way to Lexa even from where she's standing. ]
adamance: (my 8tracks are better)

[personal profile] adamance 2016-03-28 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[A mixture of discomfort and curiosity arises inside of Lexa, driving her back momentarily as she looks at the appearance of the flame. She's able to recognize it for what it is, but its appearance, it's suddenness, sets her on edge. Every part of her doesn't know how to deal with it (and she's ignorant to the fact that the heat doesn't bother her, not like it should).

Her nostrils flare after a moment.]


How? [A simple question, but it's definitely released more like a command. How.]