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

[wizard_is_wizarding]

Now that is something he hasn't seen before, and it's not magic. It's definitely not magic. If it were magic, she would have just killed the lights even deader than Harry did. Unless she's not mortal; no mortal spellcaster can use technology, let alone revive it when a wizard's just killed it.

"Yeah. Uh. It's not exactly something I can control."

It takes a lot of effort to hold off the effects his aura has on technology, let alone doing any magic without setting sparks flying and things breaking.

Still. His voice is a little sheepish, because it's a damn pain that he can't go anywhere near technology without something like this happening. There's a reason he has an icebox instead of a refrigerator and candles instead of light fixtures. It just took way too many lightbulbs.

"If by 'new' you mean 'just kidnapped', sure." He shrugs, like this whole thing isn't freaking him out, like he's not expecting an attack at any moment. If he doesn't keep that under control, he's just going to undo whatever she just did to fix the lights.

He lowers his amulet, letting the will he'd been channeling through it dissipate.

She doesn't bother asking for his name, but that's Mouse for you. He always gets the attention.

"This is Mouse."

It seems an entirely ridiculous name for a dog who looks like he could be half bear. At least he's not growling anymore.

[electro_kinetic]

No, no, not magic. And Noriko has never been--and very likely never will be--magical in any way save for certain assumptions drawn from Arthur C. Clarke.

"Ah, well. At least that one I've got some experience with," she says. "Don't worry about it. I did something similar but less impressive when I got stuffed in here too. Just...understand that yes this is kidnapping, but I promise most of us aren't going to hurt you. We got stuck here too." And no, she is not from space originally.

"Nice name," she chuckles. "And yours?"