TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

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Option 001. Cetacean Pool/Aquatics Lab: Of all the places in the world, you open your eyes and you find yourself in a medium-sized aquatics laboratory, filled with various living specimens along with various science officers bustling about trying to maintain order. There's much to explore here (and hopefully, in the crew's opinion, not break), but the main attraction is the large pool at the far end of the lab; enormous but tanklike in appearance, it contains several dolphins happily swimming about, seemingly without a care in the world.


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Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.

You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.

Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.

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[supervisor194]

One of the things that the Aegis were most concerned with was that the Q was bringing higher powers into the universe; wild cards for all the temporal powers to deal with. Maybe it was to benefit the oncoming end, or maybe it was to create a sturdier defense wall against it. The guiding will of the Aegis had always been different from the trials of the Continuum, and the destructive malevolence of Counter Strike.

Gary Seven regarded Ten Forward cooly as he drank his coffee- a near replica of that of his favorite cafe in New York. He had created the replicator program himself, from memory, without the aid of special requests of the computer. Perhaps that was one of his most eerie aspects; he never needed to ask for help from the machine with anything save the location of a person or two.

A black cat remained settled in his lap, purring with her eyes heavy-lidded, her tail lazily twitching as she regarded others in Ten Forward with her. A "god", a "wizard", people of impressive abilities. They're unique labels were given to them from their points of origin. Gods usually didn't bode well for this universe, but as a "goddess" herself, Isis could appreciate the well meaning intentions of a man of such power and honor. In fact, the idea started to make her purr, rumbling underneath Gary Seven's hand with delight.

Mr. Seven paused mid-drink, then settled his standard issue Ten Forward cup on the bar. "You're considering flirting again, aren't you," he scolded (teasingly) out loud. "Before I know it you'll be trying to hop into his arms like you do with the Vulcan." He already had caught the temporally inclined creature rubbing herself against the blue box in the hanger lovingly, a look of bliss on her face. He could detect through their psychic link that she was fond, and he could feel a little something from it too. What it was, he didn't know. That was another good reason to look around.

With all the people on the ship, he knew there was only so much investigation and acting as a nuetral observer could do. But Guinan had been here all the way through this, for some time. He trusted her judgement. So he would sit patiently and bide his time to speak with her, quietly, hopefully in private. In the meantime, he would just watch.

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[reincarnshaman]

There is now a second black cat near Mr. Seven. She appeared out of nowhere and is now cat-eyeballing the other cat. Her tail twitches rapidly back as if she's trying to decide what to do with intruder. Because clearly this is an intruder. She was here first. At least in her mind.

And as she is a cat, she is always right. Because she is a cat.

But before she can actually decided to do anything her human steps up to her with a sharp, "Veena! What'd I say about territory here?"

She - Veena - flicks her ears and after giving Trever a death glare promptly started grooming herself like she wasn't doing anything at all. Nope.

Trever sighs and gives other man a exasperated but amused look. "Cats, eh?"