TEST DRIVE #2 - The Holodeck/Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

Where were you a minute ago? Well, you aren't there anymore. Instead, you're standing in a very large, dark room lined with yellow. There are doors at either end of it.

Here's where things get a little choose your own adventure-y. You could:



1: Approach a console filled with buttons, located a few feet away. Press one, and it'll let you out of the room. Travel down a long hallway and you'll be in Ten Forward, the Enterprises' entertainment lounge. Have a drink, mingle and try to figure out why you're here.

OR

2: Maybe you just muttered some vague request under your breath. Maybe you wished aloud you were somewhere else. Or for help? If you did, might be in a fire station. Muttered something about killing whoever dumped you here? Surprise - you're in a slasher movie!

Though they're confusing, these visions feel about as real as they can be. And guess what - other people can experience those fantasies with you, as if they too were really there. How ever will you escape? Or do you want to?

[OOC: Welcome to the Holodeck! If you choose this option, whatever your character chooses to say out loud will cause a virtual reality program to load and play. While your character feels as if what they're experiencing and seeing is quite real, they're purely living through the latest and best in what he Enterprise has to offer in entertainment. Make sure to detail what your character's fantasy is, so that those threading with them will know how to react.

Open til next month's test drive!]

Comments

[morphitudinous]

Billy notes this information with a happy nod. It feels great to actually learn something for once.

He rubs his temple when she seems to be lost for words. "It's wild, isn't it? They're not telling us how they're progressing with fixing the engine, and we could be lightyears away from our home planets. There's no easy teleportation across that kind of distance either."

[electro_kinetic]

"Have they at least narrowed down what the hell the problem is?" she asks.

[morphitudinous]

"If they have, I haven't heard. I only know that the chief engineer is running himself ragged trying to find a solution," he admits. "I'd love to help, but that's a line newcomers can't cross."

[electro_kinetic]

"Seriously? Quarantine, like it's our fault we just got dropped here. Because that's going to earn them friends."

[morphitudinous]

"They don't know why we were brought here, and they know some of us have superhuman powers. I can't blame them for being slightly cautious, but it's slowly driving me out of my mind."

Billy flops back against the chair, exhaling as he stares at the ceiling.

[electro_kinetic]

"Some of us, he says," Noriko laughs. "What do you think the metal opera gloves are for?"

[morphitudinous]

Billy turns his head slightly, surprised. "Metal opera gloves?"

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko just lifts her hands; they're both covered with metal gauntlets that extend from the fingertips to her elbows, articulated for her joints. "See?" she asks.

"I'm a mutant, I absorb electricity, redirect and channel it out as I choose. These let me regulate how much I end up getting so I don't kill everything electronic in the nearest hundred feet. Or, y'know, electrocute everyone in the room."

[morphitudinous]

Billy's eyes widen at the sight. Wow, how...striking. Certainly a useful power.

"Wow. Was it difficult to learn how to control it?"

[electro_kinetic]

Oh, Billy. Compared to the rest of her, the gloves are not the most striking thing.

"Yeah, it wasn't the most intuitive to figure out. But eventually, obviously, I did."

[morphitudinous]

"It's amazing," Billy gushes again, in awe of what she's accomplished. "So I guess you mastered working with electronics?"

[electro_kinetic]

"Uh, no," she laughs. "I still end up melting circuits from time to time. I mean, as far as knowing what path things will take, yeah, I'm almost never wrong. But sometimes i still let out the magic white smoke."

[morphitudinous]

Billy enjoys that mental picture. "I see. So...how are you feeling about the ship so far?"

Because that's the question he loves to ask. It says a lot about the people he meets, he thinks.

[electro_kinetic]

"Well. It's not where I anticipated being, and I...am not particularly happy about being stuck here when my team needs me at home, but. It's not like I can just pop back."

[morphitudinous]

"I feel the same about my friends," Billy confesses with a quick glance at his hands. Not that he can say it, but they're a team that needs to stick together too.

"But I'm hoping everyone can be civil enough to each other to at least make our shared predicament bearable. I've had fairly good luck with that so far."

[electro_kinetic]

"Clearly you have far more faith in people than I do. Being civil rarely happens with more than ten of them in the same place."

[morphitudinous]

"I guess we don't want to rock the boat because we're worried," Billy wonders aloud. "We're so far outside our normal situations that there's not much to do but privately panic. But I hope we can still cooperate---it's probably our best chance of fixing this mess."

If the people in charge would let them try to fix it, of course.

[electro_kinetic]

"I'm not panicking," Noriko says, oddly calm for this situation. Inwardly, she thinks Billy's rundown is definitely spoken like a man who does not have people actively trying to kill him--but then, she supposes she is in the minority there.

She feels confident in her ability to either outrun or mitigate a conflict between humans. And she sees no other known mutants here.

[morphitudinous]

"I didn't say you were, personally," Billy says, lifting up an awkward hand to placate. "I am, and I've heard some other people are---it's new and strange, and we have no idea when we can return to our obligations at home."

He presses the heel of his hand to his forehead. "I just don't be the one to find out what security's capable of."

[electro_kinetic]

"If they get rowdy they're in for a nasty shock," says Noriko. "Possibly literally."


She holds up a hand, which webs over with little bolts of lightning as if she were holding a storm in her palm, though it doesn't arc out of her cupped fingers. "So don't worry."

...And now you know why she should never work for a help hotline Billy.

[morphitudinous]

Billy watches the spark with an awed expression---it almost reminds him of a flash of his own power, but he knows better than to say that.

And now he's sure that he shouldn't stand close---how far can she read energy, anyway? Could she get his? Bad move, Billy.

"I appreciate it," he smiles. "Thank you."

[electro_kinetic]

"No problem," she says with a little shrug. "We don't have the best record with Security groups where I come from. Better to be prepared."