TEST DRIVE #5 - Low Gravity Gymnasium and Ten Forward

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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

[kelpface]

Give Percy a room full of monsters and he will work out a way to handle them, he's less good at handling his girlfriend - he's got a bad habit of putting his foot in his mouth. "Did Gaia call it?" he said as he dipped his head and rested his head on top of hers. His arms tightened around her at the thought. When were they going to catch a break?

He couldn't resist placing a kiss on her hair. "Because I want to drop kick her into space right about now."

[architekt]

Well, he's learning and that's kind of the point. Annabeth can forgive him for his blunders because he's just so earnest about them.

"Mm." For a moment, Annabeth simply stays where she is, breathing Percy in, relishing in his warmth and this one moment of calm before the inevitable storm they're going to have to deal with.

Ah, the life of a demigod. There truly is no rest for them.

"There's a lot I want to do to Gaia right now, drop-kicking her being the gentlest of the options running in my head," she says, breaking away from him. She'll keep her hand in his though, unless Percy has an issue with that.

"Surprisingly, though? This has nothing to do with her. Or any of the other gods, Greek or Roman."

[kelpface]

Percy is never going to complain about any affection Annabeth shows him, he doesn't have some boys hangups about a girl touching him in public. It would be embarrassing to admit, but as long as he and Annabeth were touching, they could get through anything.

"I've got a mean drop kick." Percy frowns at the new information. "Then who is? Have we stumbled into another monster food chain big enough to rival McDonalds?"

[architekt]

Annabeth would never admit it aloud, at least not to anyone else except for Percy Jackson himself, but she feels the same way. So long as they were somehow connected to each other, even if it's sitting close enough that she can feel his solidity next to her, then she knew they could and would be able to get through anything.

Ah, young love.

"Well, I don't know about monsters." Annabeth laughs at the joke. "But aliens? If you could believe it? Some alien with god-like abilities thought it'd be hilarious to pull a prank of universal proportions on the captain of this ship."

She shrugs.

"I think it's safe to say that no one finds this funny at all."

[kelpface]

Percy thinks that nothing should surprise him anymore, if he believes in the Greek gods, which he has no choice but to (thanks dad), then aliens and Santa Claus were both plausible. "Does this mean we need to start wearing those tin foil hats?" He remembers a kid at his third school who always wore one and it is easier to joke while he works things out.

"So all we need to do is beat this new bad guy and we can go home?" Home, Percy's stomach wrenched, hopefully they would still have a home to go back to.