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

[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.