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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ooc: omg Agent K, hi I love you!

[ikissdhimbck]

Now, Kate's not usually the sorta folk who'd invite herself to a fella's table, but it's crowded in the lounge tonight and he looks like the respectable sort. More respectable than some, anyhow; or maybe she's just picking up on some old Southern roots.

"Howdy, stranger."

She smiles, looking just as sweet as pie, blonde hair pulled over one shoulder in a braided tress. There's a pair of six-shooters on her hips, and despite being no taller than five-feet-one-inch, she carries herself with the air of a woman who knows full well how to use them.

Kissin' Kate Barlow is nothing if not a mystery.

"Mind if I join you?"

\o/ I'm always happy when people remember him (a surprising number don't)

[most_feared]

Kay was just about done with a sip so he first just nodded and did the faintest of little greeting smiles behind the rim of his cup. He could lighten that harsh face up sometimes- not while he was on business, but right now he was just having a cup of coffee and a polite lady just had a seat.

"Sure thing." He leaned back in his chair and folded his hands around the cup on the table, letting it warm his fingers. "If you don't mind me saying so, I didn't take you for being one of the standard crew." I.E. either from this time or universe. He could be wrong, though.

W h a t ! Sacrilege! K is the best.

[ikissdhimbck]

She laughs as she gets settled across from him, setting a glass of bourbon — or whatever passes for it in these parts —on the table. It's a sweet laugh, like songbirds flirting around church bells, something innocent and disarming.

"I don't mind a bit. As a matter of fact, I ain't. Are you?"

She hasn't seen him on the ship before now, and he don't wear the strange colorful jumpsuits the officers aboard do; however, stranger things have happened. Could be he's at least from a place where traveling by space boat isn't so unusual, and he ain't wrong. All this? Is new to her.

[most_feared]

"Well... the ship is new to me, anyway." So was being able to admit that aliens weren't. It still felt uneasy- he knew that within the rules and restrictions of the MiB in a socially progressive setting with alien contact established actually discussing his work was just fine, outside of confidential case information.

But it still felt odd. Like someone stuck him in plaid pants.

"And this is my first time off Earth for any amount of time, so that ain't too bad. I'm trying to consider it a vacation." And not go stir crazy as a man that had high stress situations on the daily.

[ikissdhimbck]

Her eyes are a sharp blue, keen and bright. She's gotten good at reading people, given her current line of 'employment', so she responds to any perceived feelings of unease or hesitation with a soft, sweet smile.

"Mine, too. Where I come from, there ain't no fancy space travel jus' yet. We don't even got automobiles."

She doesn't seem to be taking to it as well as K does, however. There's a little tension in her shoulders, and even though she's thinking of space travel as the greatest adventure of her life, it may not have entirely sunk in that she's light-years away from Earth. She's just not the sort of woman who shows her hand that easily, so she plays it off in smiles and laughter and little quips, as best she can.

"A vacation from what, if you don't mind my askin'?"