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

[magnificus]

"Yes. It was just - this sort of ... entrance. Past the fur coats," Peter explains, with the tone of voice of one who is definitely not teasing him or anyone else.

He wouldn't joke about Narnia.

"It led us straight to the Lamp Post and an everlasting Winter at the time."

[a_quick_study]

He doesn't ... look like he's joking, and he's earnest when he explains, but ... it's strange. He thought he knew a lot about space travel. How could he not, after all those SG team mission reports he's read? But just walking through a door, past ... fur coats? (That's not a phrase he's familiar with, but he can kind of work out what it might mean.)

Actually, of the two things that Peter's just said, the everlasting Winter is the easier for him to believe.

But there's absolutely no sign that the earnest young man is joking. Not even that thing that Teal'c and O'Neill do where they say something like it's completely serious and then keep looking serious, waiting for Jonas to catch on.

"I have to say, of all the ways of travelling between worlds I know, that one's ... uh ... pretty unusual."

[magnificus]

"I don't think it's usual anywhere or for anything but getting to Narnia, if that makes you feel any better."

Peter remembers when Lucy first told them about Narnia and the wardrobe. He and Susan were really rather skeptical. Edmund's beastly behaviour didn't help with that.

But Lucy had no reason to lie, and with a little bit of belief, they'd all discovered that the entrance to Narnia, and Narnia itself was very real.

[a_quick_study]

"I'm not sure it does," he says, his expression a little wry. Well, there are certainly lots of things out there he doesn't know, but that one is definitely one of the stranger ones he's heard.

Jonas is no scientist, but even to him, it seems very strange. But Peter seems to understand that and even to be kind of apologetic about it. Which is kind of nice.

"But hey, that's not your fault. It's just ... kind of surprising. I think of spaceships or the Stargate to travel between worlds, not a wardrobe."

He smiles and gives a little one-shouldered shrug.

"I guess we've all got a lot to learn."

[magnificus]

"That's right, I suppose we do," Peter agrees. "Because in my world, we haven't got spaceships or ... what did you call it? A 'star gate'?"

He looks a little nonplussed.

"It's all very new to me." It's brilliant though.

[a_quick_study]

"Yes. It's a transportation device that allows for almost instant travel between planets. It's how I'm used to traveling between worlds."

He pauses for a moment, then gives a wry smile, noting the look on Peter's face at the mention of the word 'Stargate'.

"I say 'used to', but I haven't been doing it very long. On my planet, we didn't even know what the Stargate was for until some explorers arrived through it."

And in Kelowna, there's no such thing as a spaceship in anything but the distant theories of scientists.

[magnificus]

"Does every planet get one? A stargate."

They sound fascinating, truly.

"What does it look like?"

Yes, this is Peter's curiousity coming out in spades.

[a_quick_study]

"Most of the inhabited ones," Jonas says. "That's how humanity spread across the galaxy from Earth. It's how my ancestors got to my world thousands of years ago."

And how most of the others they've encountered got there, taken from the worlds they came from, as slaves of the Goa'uld or under the protection of the Asgard. Brought as colonists to found new worlds, new societies, so many of them and so different in so many ways from each other yet still, basically, human.

The galaxy is a wonderful place.

"It looks like a big ring," he says, wishing that he had one of his notebooks on him, because if he did, he'd probably have a diagram, or at least would be able to sketch one. "It's several metres in diameter, and it's got symbols around the edge that represent different constellations. You use those to form the address of the planet you want to visit."

The words may sound dull, but Jonas' voice is full of all the enthusiasm he feels for his work and the joy of exploration through the gate.

And that is not dull at all.