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.

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Yuna | Final Fantasy X-2 (With previous game history)

[whereishe]

Seeing the bar was more than a little bit surprising. The last she remembered she was getting the coffee shop ready like every other morning. Yuna already knew that something was wrong and she felt her shoulders tense as her eyes scanned the room. This wasn't the city anymore and she still wasn't back home.

Yuna turned to the bar and sat down. "I need a drink." She wasn't one to drink away her problems but she has seen Auron do it enough that she knows it will help her relax. Once again she was stuck not knowing where she was or what was going on.

>.>

[onemoredeath]

"You may be careful about what drink they give you here," said the man sitting next to her. He too arrived without warning, and while he looked human, there was something strange about the way he smiled. His teeth was a little too white, and he held it for a few minutes more than normal before he returned to his study of the drink he was given.

Takegami had said he wanted a strong drink, but he wasn't sure that 'toxic green with bits of red stuff in it' was part of the strength or just made to look like blood floating in acid.

"I believe the bartender has an amusing sense of humor."

lol

[whereishe]

Yuna's eyes glanced down at the man's drink and then back at the bartender. It was just something else she wasn't ready to deal with just yet.

She turned back to the bartender. "What about whiskey?" In this case she was fortunate to have remembered a drinks name. Her memory was usually fuzzy when it came to things names.

Yuna looked back over towards the man sitting next to her. "Do you remember how you got here?" He didn't look like someone from home or someone from the city and then there was the chance that this was his home.

takegami swears he is a gentleman <.<

[onemoredeath]

"Are you sure about whiskey?" It just doesn't seem like the young woman was the kind of person who normally drank anything.

"I do not," Takegami replied, resting his elbows on the bar and folding his hands together. The heavy rings he wore twisted slightly and he lightly strokes them, as if soothing a kind of beast. His clothing had a slightly shabby look to it, although they were probably at one time very expensive, and there was a slight hint of dirt under his nails. "Last I remembered, we were in the middle of rehearsing a musical with the theater troop and then I was here."

Yuna doesn't think other wise ;p

[whereishe]

Yuna sat up a little straighter and looked at her companion curiously. "You are in a theater troop?" She knew this was some place new but somethings seem to transcend worlds. It was interesting and a smile tugged at the edge of her lips as she thought about it.

A drink was placed in front of Yuna and it thankfully didn't have red specs in it. She brought the drink up to her lips but stopped to smell it first. It smelled normal or at least like the stuff Auron used to drink. The liquid burned as she swallowed and sent shivers through her body.

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[onemoredeath]

"I dabble. They found that I possessed a skill long lost to their world and decided that I must be a part of their act," he replied and then decided to take a sip of his drink. a moment, and then he sighed and pushed it away. "I am no fan of gin, so of course it must taste like gin."

With a sigh, he waved the bartender over and asked for something that was not like gin. It took a few minutes, but he was soon presented with something that looked sort of like a peppermint candy stick. Takegami took a sip, deemed it to be acceptable and waved the bartender off.

"Are you use to such appearances happening as well?"

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[whereishe]

"Appearances?" Yuna looked up from her drink curiously. She won't admit that she hadn't paid attention to his last question. Her mind was wandering across the stars.

She took her drink in her hand and took a long sip before setting it down again. She shivered again and felt as the burning hot liquid filled her with warmth.

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[onemoredeath]

"Being plucked from one world and placed into another," he said and waved his hand in a dismissive manner. "It seems that this is not that too strange of a matter to you."

He glanced down at her drink and then looked up at the bartender. "Do you have teas and coffees here?"

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[whereishe]

"It has happened once before but..." She squinted a moment before looking back at Takegami. "I'm still not sure how I got here."


She had been cleaning up the Coffee shop like every morning and a blink later she was here. It was frustrating because she was finally getting used to thinks back in the city. Now all her friends were gone again.

[demilitarized]

Alynna raised her brow at the girl as she sat down nearby. Her body language was clearly tense and she clearly was not comfortable here.

"Excuse me, if I could make a recommendation. You might try some Tarkalean tea, its quite soothing."

[whereishe]

Yuna raised her head from her hands and looked over at the woman sitting nearby. She gave her a nod and a small smile. "Alright."

She turned back to the bar tender and smiled. "What she said." Smiling came easy, even when she was lost and confused.

When the drink arrived Yuna looked at it curiously before taking a sip. "What is it?"

[demilitarized]

"Its a tea I was introduced to a few years ago. It has some soothing properties in addition to be quite delicious."

Alynna toasted slightly with her own cup before taking a sip and breathing in the warm fumes.

"In times like this we all sometimes need a warm cup of tea to settle our nerves."

[whereishe]

Yuna felt the warmth from the cup in her hands as she held the mug of steaming liquid in front of her. She took another sip and felt the muscles in her back slowly relaxed. Her smile warmed into its more natural state as she addressed the woman.

"It's delicious." She usually preferred tea over other drinks and it was exactly what she needed.

[demilitarized]

"Yes," Alynna said, "and unlike some of the more exotic drinks here it keeps you quite clear headed."

She setting down her tea, Alynna reached a hand out Yuna, hoping that the woman was familiar with the convention of shaking hands. "Admiral Alynna Nechayev, pleased to meet you."

[whereishe]

Yuna knows the gesture and is used to people asking to shake her hand back home. She set down her own tea and shook Alynna's hand. "My name is Yuna."

Her eyes glanced around the bar again and then back at Alynna. She wasn't sure if she was ready to ask but she might as well. "Do you know where I am?"

[demilitarized]

"You are on a starship...are you familiar with that concept?"

Alynna gestured towards the large windows as if to demonstrate if the idea was at all unclear.

[whereishe]

She was trying not to freak out. "I've been on an air ship. If it's anything like that."

Yuna looked out the window at the stars and a smile slowly began to slip across her lips. "We're really in space." She was trying to contain her own excitement. It looked just like Jane said it would.

[akito]

Alcohol is not exactly Akito's enemy, per se, but he's gotten drunk out of his mind twice before and while it was great to forget his problems for a little while, the resulting hangovers were awful. It might have something to do with his small stature. Either way, he's not going to risk drinking anything alcoholic and sticks to water for the time being.

"I think that's probably a common reaction here," he comments. He doesn't know her, but he feels the need to commiserate anyway.

[whereishe]

Yuna looked up at gave the boy a weak smile. "I guess so... um... Have you been here long?"

She didn't want it to sound like a weird question but it still did.

[akito]

He shakes his head. "Just a few hours." Akito imagines that, since she's asking, she's probably in the same boat as him.

[whereishe]

"Oh..." Her eyes looked back down at the floor a moment as she tried to sort through her thoughts. Why did this keep happening to her. Yuna turned her head towards the windows and let out a slow breath. "Ever been in space before?" She assumed that is where they are anyway.

[akito]

Another shake of the head. Admittedly it would be pretty cool to have been in space before, at least he gets to experience it now. "I've read a lot about it, but I've never been in space before. Have you?"

[whereishe]

"Nope. One of my friends really loves space." Her eyes look over at the stars for a moment. "It really is amazing."

Yuna didn't know if she could get used to it but then again she has gotten used to a lot of things over the years. She just felt alone again.

...i thought i tagged this... ;_;

[akito]

"There are lots of books and movies about outer space where I'm from," he explains. "It's really neat! I was never as interested in it as some people though." For example, he had never desired to explore space. His interest was in the sky itself, not what was beyond it.

Akito takes an ice cube from his water and lets it melt on his palm, holding it out on the table in a way that lets Plume flutter out of his hood and grab a drink without attracting too much attention.

is all good

[whereishe]

Yuna's eyes lit up at the sight of the small creature. "That's so cute. What is it?"

Any thoughts about their earlier topic left her mind completely as she watched it flutter towards the ice cube.