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

[barn_owl_king]

It's not particularly enjoyable to be on the other side of a kidnapping for a change.

Especially when whoever is responsible didn't even do a song about it--that's not how these things are supposed to work. There are rules to follow. Traditions. Someone clearly needs to be taught some style.

Still, it's nice to get away from his goblins for a while. They need to be told when to laugh at his jokes. They're not the brightest.

So here's a goblin king, performing an epic lounge in Ten Forward.

[electro_kinetic]

Okay, Noriko is usually not one to comment on other peoples' appearances.

Especially given her hair is blue and currently braided into a mohawk with neon beads attached, and the rest of her is not exactly what you'd call sedate.

But for real, that is some hair. And some kind of outfit. And she does not want to look below the belt because she gets the feeling that would be illuminating in all the wrong ways.

Except she really can't help herself. "Man. Is that lace on your sleeves?" she asks.

[barn_owl_king]

He looks fabulous and he knows it. Eighty percent of his job is image, after all--people expect things of him, and he will not disappoint them.

So he glances up, rather enjoying his lounge. That's quite a color she's got going on--why don't they make goblins that look like that? It would make things more pleasant.

"Lace is the mark of a gentleman."

[electro_kinetic]

"And grandmothers," she says, resting her hands at her sides, fingers looped under her belt. "Nice boots."

Her hair clicks with the beads in it, hanging down over one side of her head. "You mind if I join you?"

[barn_owl_king]

He's pretty clearly not a grandmother.

Old enough to be one, but that doesn't show. Avoiding boredom: it's the best way to stay young.

"That depends on your intentions."

[electro_kinetic]

"Sitting down was pretty high on the list," she says, ending the wait period by plunking herself down in a chair, though the way she's sitting couldn't exactly be called comfortable lounging by any stretch. It's the cautiously semi-reserved stance of the unsure, and there's something under that that seems too quiet for the girl of such vibrant color.

"Anything else, who knows."

[no_powerover_me]

[*screams* Oh god, oh god, oh god. You are bringing Jareth to TF?]

[barn_owl_king]

[^__^ thinking about it, yup!]

[no_powerover_me]

[Where are you playing him from? Any idea related to the movie, or the manga, or, or, or? I am all curious now.]

[barn_owl_king]

[I usually end up leaving that up to potential canonmates, because I can start from pretty much anywhere. Haven't reread the manga in a good long time though.]

[no_powerover_me]

[I haven't either, and I don't even have my hands on anywhere near a copy at present. What time frames have you played him from before, if you have? Or your thoughts on them? I'm all aflutter with thoughts, and absolutely no goals yet. I'm just so excited to see Jareth in the test post.]

[barn_owl_king]

[I've normally done a vague sort of post-movie, pre-manga thing, but taking the additional background and worldbuilding from the manga, because it gives a better idea of what he does when not sitting around waiting for people to wish for him. If memory serves it might also help with what powers he'd have when not in his labyrinth, because I doubt he'd have that command over the local area when on the Enterprise.]