TEST DRIVE #6 - The Bridge 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 Enterprise's 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. The Bridge: Well, aren't you a lucky duck? You've found yourself in hallowed quarters. Wherever you were before, you're not there anymore. Now you're in a room that could be some kind of command center or control room; there's a captain's chair flanked by seats for his chief officers, computer panels and stations at each interior wall, and before you a broad viewscreen that shows the wide expanse of space rushing towards you. Have you ever wanted to be a starship captain for a day? Well, here's your chance. Feel free to roam around, but try not to touch anything shiny.


[OOC: The Bridge isn't usually available for in-game posts, so if you've ever wanted to play there, here's your chance!]

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[dancing_waters]

"I see, is that what happened?" She asked. Aqua knew it had been an outside force that brought her here, but she hadn't quite realized it could be a specific individual. And, really, she was glad to be out of the Realm of Darkness, so she supposed she should be grateful.

But she also needed to be careful, someone with that kind of power could easily be full of darkness, just like Xehanort. "Do you know who it was?"

[ungrounded]

'I've heard things. Nothing I believe, but I don't have a better answer." Lafiel didn't have the mental framework to consider 'sufficiently advanced alien'.

[dancing_waters]

"And what is it that you don't believe?" It was better than having no answers, Aqua felt. She supposed she could always find the captain of the ship and ask as well. But to even find the captain was going to be interesting. The ship alone was quite large, possibly even larger than the one with Experiment 626.

[ungrounded]

"Something about an alien being so powerful he can bring people here on what is, effectively, a whim," Lafiel said. "If eh's so powerful, why bother with us?"

[dancing_waters]

"Curiosity," She answered easily enough. "Those with power, or those who think they have great power, push the boundaries. They want to see what will happen, if for no other reason that simple curiosity."

[ungrounded]

"Very irresponsible of them," Lafiel said. Of course, she'd been born to power -- a royal family where any sufficiently determined and skilled member could become Emperor or Empress -- but of a nation whose narrative included the subtle refrain that others would not accept their existence, so any ruler must tend to her people first.

Lafiel understood power often meant privilege, but she didn't equate that with the ability to mess with people. Of course, she'd seen other nobles who were less principled about their vassals. (And those who weren't vassals, if they thought they could get away with it.) She didn't think highly of those nobles either.