TEST DRIVE #6 - The Bridge and Ten Forward

[ten_fwd_mods]

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!]

Comments

not even a minute walk... what could it hurt I thought...

[element_wizard]

At least they make good alcohol. My sister learned how to make some really good vodka from a Russian.

[There's a long pause from Alec as he parses what Erik has to say. It's a bit harder to do it while speaking in Russian.]

Oh! Oh! ... No. No... no... there's no age gap. We're both twenty three... it's just that my birthday ... the physical date... it's on the equivalent of February 29th and she's on February 28th. It's just that... the circumstances that gave me my abilities have made my personal time line a wibbly wobbly mess. Only seconds pass on my world while I can spend lifetimes in other worlds. So. I spend three hours here. Another two years somewhere else. Come back home and no one knows I've been gone.

[He thinks that's what Erik is asking about.]

A lot, clearly.

[magnetic_magpie]

Very good alcohol.

[ though he prefers wine. ]

So is the apparent lack of aging due to your only partially being in other worlds, or do you simply have an uncommonly long life span?

[ Well hello powers talk again. ]

Clearly. :/

[element_wizard]

I like it.

[Alec isn't particular, really.]

It's because of being only partially in other worlds. It also means I can't die. Ever. At all. It just ... doesn't stick.

[He's not happy about this. There's nothing quite like knowing you're going to out live everyone you ever know...]

They don't know that.

some of us are meant to be noturnal

[magnetic_magpie]

Has it's uses yes.

[ Remember what he said about feeding vices? ]

I'm sorry for that. No one who truly understands what it is to live forever would want to.

[ Says the man who's beginning to understand just how long he's going to live. ]

Apparently. XD

[element_wizard]

I like the stuff from my world better, but it's all a matter of what you've grown up with, I think. The food here is made out of reconstructed molecules or something like that. Most people say they can't taste the difference, but I can.

[Yup.]

Yeah. Never understood that. I guess they don't really know what it means. I've talk to my older self occasionally... he goes ... I go... completely around the bend once my world dies. It's like everything that was... that holds me back from being a rat bastard vanishes when that happens.

[They should start a support group. Immortals/really long lived people who realize how sucky it is support.]

[magnetic_magpie]

It probably is.

[ He gets a look, not too thrilled about that news. ]

If the food tastes like powdered eggs, I'm going to have to find another source of food.

[ That's not an idle threat either, he will. He enjoys cooking and good tasting food. ]

I don't think they do. But I am sorry to hear that.

[ They really should. Too bad he won't. ]

[element_wizard]

I think they have a hydroponics garden on the ship. But I couldn't say about fresh meat or other products like that.

[Honestly, Alec doesn't blame him. While Alec dislikes cooking, he has resorted to making his own food rather than eating processed food.]

[He stops and tilts his head, getting a faraway - slightly glazed look in his eyes for a moment before snapping back to the here and now and sighing.]

He says he loves you too.

[magnetic_magpie]

Tch. I'm sure something can be arranged.

[ He'd figure out something, in otherwords. ]

What?

[ He's just going to focus on Alec very intensely. ]

[element_wizard]

[Alec sighs and pinches his nose.]

I told you I talked to my older self occasionally, right? He tends to notice when I'm talking about him... possibly because he remembers himself doing that... and will peanut gallery in my head sometimes.

[magnetic_magpie]

...That sounds confusing.

[ It's actually quiet, not really understanding - because he doesn't have reference for that - but quiet and gentle. Powers each have their quirks. ]

[element_wizard]

It's worse when he actually takes over my body temporarily.

[Alec actually hesitates to see if that will happen, but it appears his older self has wandered off after having put his two cents in.

However, Alec does have a bit of a reference for Magento.]

It's kinda like what happened to Kitty Pryde when Rachel sent her older self's mind back in time to her younger self's body to stop some guy from getting assassinated? Except that I'm doing it to myself for no other reason beyond shits and giggles.

[magnetic_magpie]

I can imagine that would be worse.

[ But the explanation helps, even if it's very strange to hear something generally only spoken of in certain circles so openly. ]

Yes, that would be...complicated.

[element_wizard]

[Alec knows a bit, doesn't he?]

My life is incredibly weird and annoying at times.

[He gives a bit of a wry grin.]

I suppose you can think of this as some sort of demented vacation.

[magnetic_magpie]

[ He does and it's strange. ]

I think that sums up the lives of most people I know.

[ Which is about as much approval as he's going to offer right now. ]

I'm not really one for vacations.

[element_wizard]

But you're on a forced vacation, so you might as well make the best of it.

That's what I do. I do things out here that I won't do back home.

[magnetic_magpie]

Doesn't tend to end well when people try to force me to do things.

[element_wizard]

[There are so many ways Alec is thinking about answering that one.]

So, does that mean you're going to not make this a vacation and do things you'd normally do back home?

[He leaves off exactly what Those Things are, because he's not sure where Magneto is in his timeline or even all the various possible iterations.]

[magnetic_magpie]

After a fashion, yes.

[ He is being vague on purpose? Very possibly. Though it's equally likely to be his version of 'that's none of your business' as it is to be covering plotting. ]

[element_wizard]

[Alec gives him a bit of a wry and amused look.]

It sounds like you're doing better.

[magnetic_magpie]

[ He smirks. ]

I adapt quickly.

[element_wizard]

Well, good!

So, how much do you trust me? After everything I've told you about myself. Because if you do, I've got some stuff with actual alcohol in it that I'd be willing to share.

[magnetic_magpie]

I'm willing to trust you for a drink.

[ It was a place to start, anyway. ]

[element_wizard]

[From somewhere... as he does... Alec pulls out a glass bottle of whiskey. On the label is a crow (or a raven) and the name McCallum Whiskey. Which he then offers to Magento.]

This stuff? I found it in this one universe and the recipe has been handed down through the female members of this Eire family for generations and was originally given to the family by the Morrigan. This is some of that ridiculous expensive and yet completely worth the price and they could charge more if they wanted to stuff.

[Then, from the same place, he pulls out a pair of glasses.]

I don't even know how they make the stuff and I've tried figuring it out.

[The whiskey is really good whiskey. Alec isn't exaggerating on this particular point.]