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

[electro_kinetic]

"Must be hot enough to melt your teeth if there's enough pepper in there to turn it red," Nori replies. And believe us, if she didn't have a very large cup of tea herself--it's the lowest caffeine she can find--she'd be asking for one more or less just like it.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

She grins.

"Only way to have it."

[electro_kinetic]

Nori smiles back. Oh yeah, that sounds familiar. Several of her classmates love spicy food; several are also farther removed from baseline human than Noriko is.

"I would be all over that," she says, "If I knew how much caffeine there was in it." As it is, that can be shelved for a later date. But in the interest of making a new friend--or at least a hopeful non-enemy--Noriko offers out a metal-covered hand, complete with armwarmer for those people who feel weird touching metal limbs.

"I'm Nori. Ashida Noriko."

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"Mmmm," she inspects her cup thoughtfully. "Well it's really chocolate-y so maybe, uh, if you were avoiding a lot not a great idea? Sadly."

She shakes Nori's hand, carefully. But given the bandage visible over her wrist, and the cuts on her hand hand, it seems more to do with injury than metal-discomfort.

"I'm Gaila Illey. Nice to meet you."

[electro_kinetic]

"Sadly indeed, because I love chocolate," she says, but shrugs.

"Gaila, that's pretty," Nori says--and she's okay with careful. "Hey, um. Do you need any antiseptic or anything for those cuts?" she asks. Yes, she carries it around with her. It's important and burns hurt enough that she needs the constant reassurance of Neosporin with Pain Relief.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"Ohh, no, they're from a couple days ago." She glances the dark amber cuts, and grimaces a little. A few days ago, and her rather dramatic entry. Fortunately, it'd been in a hallway.

[electro_kinetic]

"You alright?" she asks. "I mean--and this is going to sound way worse than I mean it to--the only green guy I know, when he gets cut it doesn't turn amber. So I don't know if they're irritated or anything to be worried about."

Sure, she only just met Gaila, but Noriko likes people being uninjured. It's a thing with the X-Men as a rule.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"It's normal for my species. Besides," she adds with a crinkled nose, "this is Starfleet, they wouldn't let me run around being infected."

[electro_kinetic]

"I didn't want to make any assumptions," she says with a shrug. "I haven't gotten any input from anyone official yet. Ikind of wan to avoid it as long as I can."

Large organizations that proclaim they're not military very loudly tend to go badly for her in ways Nori's pretty sure people don't want to get into.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

Gaila looks at her for a moment, considering.

"I get that," she says, finally. Escaped slave, Orion - she does. "And you can get bad, or really really really rule-bound Starfleet guys. But these ones seem pretty okay."

[electro_kinetic]

"Yeah, it...in my world, people like me tend to be assumed guilty of something, and I have a lot of that already," she says, rubbing the back of her neck.

"So you're in Starfleet too. What do you do?"

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"Computer programmer," she says cheerfully, and then stops. "Well. I was. I got pulled from my own time so I have to catch up. But it's really interesting what they are doing nowdays."

She's torn between genuinely being excited, and desperately trying not to get depressed by it all.

[electro_kinetic]

"Righteous," Noriko says with a grin. "I'm--well, I'd like to be an engineer," she says. "But companies don't really hire mutants, not like they do normal people."

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"Ew," she says flatly, with the weight of living as a visibly different, and much scorned, species behind it.

"Starfleet isn't...okay like they try really hard, but sometimes they can be idiots too. But if you're stuck here you might be able to get into school and study up? They let in my people in my time."

[electro_kinetic]

"Yeah," says Nori, completely understanding being visibly weird, and outcast and occasionally the target of mass murder, even if not because of a species difference. She hates thinking of them as Homo sapiens superior because it constantly sounds like asking to get smacked with something.

"You're way ahead of me, then," she says. "I got kicked out of my house when I manifested. Quit school, moved halfway around the world." Well, she says moved...she means illegally hopped a military transport out of Yokota Air Base. It suited well enough except for that.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"I also moved," she says lightly. "Sometimes it helps a loooot."

[electro_kinetic]

"Yeah, sometimes it does," Nori agrees. "I'm in a school--technically--now, which is good, but I wouldn't say we're really the kind of school people usually think about."

The kids get attacked a lot more than they ought to, really. This is a huge contributing factor.

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"What does it teach? You mentioned...being a mutant?"

[electro_kinetic]

"What, the school? It teaches everything, from science and literature to how to not kill each other with our powers. It's the only one of its kind."

[writes_with_digital_ink]

"Is it a good school?"

[electro_kinetic]

"I think it's good, yeah. There are some people who want it shut down, but...those are generally the people who don't like us much."