TEST DRIVE #5 - Low Gravity Gymnasium and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprises' off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...



Option 02. Aboard the Enterprise, The Low-Gravity Gymnasium: The gym is a large room with several alcove-like sections housing the aerobics and martial arts areas, a parrises squares area, an anbo-jyutsu court, and a separate fencing room. While there is normally a zero-gravity area as well, today all of the gym is in zero-gravity conditions.

Zero-gravity can be, well, kind of weird, because it's not like a gradual loss of the pressure holding you to the floor--you may have taken the turbolifts, just expecting to take a leisurely run, or maybe work out with a treadmill to get in some cardio, but the minute you step into the gym you're floating, as is anything you might have been holding or bringing with you.

Do you freak out, start flailing and trying to swim through the air back to where you can escape? Do you make the best of it and tough it out to get your exercise in, or do you start having fun with the sudden game of weightlessness? Pick your personal scenario and have fun with all the other weightless people.

Comments

tommy d. | never let me go | 01

[hailsham]

There are many things Tommy D. was told he'd never get to do in the short life he'd been given, things as simple as traveling to Paris or Rome, or buying his own car, shopping in a grocery store, marrying, and having children of his own.

Space - even the mere idea of it - couldn't even cross his mind because it was so beyond the everyday simple things ordinary, normal people get to do - much less someone like him, a student from Hailsham. (A special student.

A clone.)

And he's alone. Alone in which he's the only one of his kind; there's no Kathy or Ruth around, no one else from the Cottages either. It's just him, in his much-too-baggy clothes, his coat hanging off thin shoulders, his eyes wide and his expression careful but curious. Maybe even a little scared.

He keeps a hand on one arm, trying not to look too out of place but failing. There are so many normals here, it's frankly off-putting.

How does he act? What does he say? What does he do?

(Kathy would know. Even Ruth would try something. But what does Tommy do? Tommy stands there ... watching. Looking like a complete fool.)

[goodcitizen]

Duke wouldn't say he looks like a complete fool, but after watching him for a while it's pretty obvious he doesn't belong here. Not like Duke does either, but where he comes from everyone is a little... different. So he's used to trying to blend in.

He can't really ignore the kid after a solid minute passes, and he'll damn himself for caring later, for not just sticking to his drink and his own business, but he can't just let him flounder out there like that.

"Hey!" he calls, quirking a smile. "Yeah, you. You just get here?"