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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! :) ))




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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-17 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ She blinks at him, almost as if she has forgotten it, and her ability to speak hangs in throat for a moment. Then she swallows, licks her very dry lips. ]

Ilde. My name is Ilde Vilmaine.

[ The surname is practically meaningless, a tradition from a time when family's thrived, something she recites out of habit not of any real connection to it. Her parents had named her it, she remembered it, even long after they died and all others forgot. ]
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[personal profile] decommission 2016-03-17 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Their eyes meet and he lets out a breath: relief. ] Steve Rogers.

[ He rubs away the sweat on his brow against his knee, pausing before he continues: ] Someone picked me up from Jersey.

[ There's something like wry, self-deprecating humor in the way he says that, faint as it is in his voice. His arms pull around his legs, chin resting on his knees. ]
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-19 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
What is 'Jersey'? Is that the name of your realm?

[ That's all she can really parse from what the consensus presents to her. ]
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[personal profile] decommission 2016-03-20 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ A light huff, like she's said something funny. ]

I'm from Brooklyn - New York. U - S - of A. [ A beat, then: ] Earth. [ He eyes her questioningly. ] Where you from?
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-20 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ None of that means anything to her, not even his question directed back at her. Once her world and its countries had been named, beautiful mysterious titles that reflected the magic of the land, but all that had ceased to matter when the cities and the forests were all burned to nothing, oceans and lakes receding to leave behind cracked earth... ]

I come from the Godking's land.

[ She does not need to describe it aloud, its desolation is clear in her thoughts, a wasteland with a great shadow thrown over, a man's shadow, cast by a fire blazing hotter than the sun. ]
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[personal profile] decommission 2016-03-20 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For a moment his lips are dry and cracked, fever-heat across his brow and throat parched. It's nothing like the humid summer heat of the city he knows, and he pushes back against the foreign sensation of her memories, averting his gaze as though that might break the connection between them.

A silence follows, the question of what is he? kept from passing Steve's lips. What he can't help is how it slips to the forefront of his thoughts, bubbling without answer.

Instead, another question leaves his mouth - ]


You want to go back there? [ Disbelief in his voice, his mouth clamping down as soon as he hears his own words. ]
Edited (added onto the tag bc it didn't make much sense) 2016-03-20 23:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-21 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ She can't deny that for a moment... maybe she thinks she does. That maybe she wanted to die with Dreus, to be a part of his grand design. But her pride cannot be denied. She has done something special by slipping away, a little seed of their world, someone to remember him and his grand designs. The thoughts of a sycophant, there is no denying the fantasy of her thinking when it comes to the monster known as the Godking. ]

No. That world is done.

[ What other choice was there? Dreus would not have allowed those alien things to take his world from him, he assuredly incinerated the last of it, taking everything with him to be consumed in flame. ]
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[personal profile] decommission 2016-03-21 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ He tastes ash on his tongue. ]

You're sure.

[ More statement than question, but it's hard for him to comprehend that amount of destruction. ]
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-23 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ His discomfort touches her, in a way. It is so novel to see someone newly exposed to a world she has lived in all her life. Was it so terrible? Or was there a kind of terrible smoldering romance to it all... ]

Yes. To be consumed in flame... is his destiny.

[ Even if he had not immolated to stem the tide of the aliens, he will one day. It is fate. ]
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[personal profile] decommission 2016-03-23 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's no sense of romance in it for him, not with so many people in his own world becoming casualties of war against a mad man.

He's not sure he believes in destiny either, his mind balking at the word. ]


Can you stand? [ Pulls himself out of the daze of her thoughts to ask. There's got to be somewhere else for them to go. ]
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[personal profile] erbier 2016-03-24 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Confusion flits across her face, as if she had utterly forgotten where she was, what had happened... She had, she had gotten lost in her thoughts on the burned world she had left behind, had drifted back to that place with its smokey air and choked skies. She drags a hand through her hair with a frown, but nods. She can, she would never admit otherwise, and she begins to push herself up to her feet. Unfolding from her place on the floor alerts her to how drenched in sweat she is, the cool air of the room wrapping around her. She feels almost as if a fever has broken, leaving her drained and tired. ]

I... will be fine.

[ He didn't ask, and she didn't want him to, so she cut that off at the quick. ]