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

[akito]

Akito has mostly gotten used to not being in Adstringéndum at this point, but it's still hard to adjust to being able to ask for whatever he wants and receive it (within reason). So he relies on what he had on him at the time of his arrival for as long as he can manage, even as Shark takes everything in stride. Akito knows that his cat is being given treats by other passengers; making more friends and being more social than Akito himself. So far there have been no ill effects apart from possibly a bit of gained weight, so he can't bring himself to fret over Shark too much anymore.

It should be no surprise that it's Shark who finds Toothiana first, keen to bum as many scratches from the people in the bar as possible before Akito collects him. Of course, once he spots his bird-lady friend, Shark is quick to change goals from begging for attention to prowling over in order to cover her with his scent.

Miaow, says Shark in greeting, pleased that more of his Humans are showing up. Even if they don't seem to remember him.

While Akito does turn up very shortly after Shark runs up to Toothiana, he is more hesitant in his approach. He's already played this game twice now, and doesn't know if he can take being forgotten by someone important for a third time.

[memoryguardian]

Shark was certainly not the feline she was expecting to see. "Well, hello," she coos, crouching down to give the cat a friendly scratch herself. If Shark is here then that means Akito and Agito can't be too far behind.

Her guess is right. As soon as violet eyes land on Akito, she's smiling wide. "Akito! Oh, I'm so glad to see you." In the blink of an eye, she's up close and instinctively checking him over. Good. He looks alright. "Where are we?" He might not know, she has as an afterthought, but he's the first person she's familiar enough with to ask right out. He's also the first person on this ship she knows can see her.