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

[captgreatcoat]

True. Nobody ever knows what's going to happen when the Doctor goes anywhere, but what does happen usually turns out okay for the Doctor, at least. That's a knack that he's got. Those people who aren't Time Lords and can't save the world with a screwdriver and a banana sometimes have to use weapons.

But it's not like he hasn't had that conversation with the Doctor more times that he can even count, so he doesn't need to rehash it.

And, even if he's touchy about the whole gun thing, it's ... good to see the Doctor. More than good, but good will do for now.

"Rose is here? I didn't think that was possible. Didn't you say she was stranded in a parallel universe?"

[thelasttimelord]

That is a set of words to chill any heart. Even his two. Especially now.

Rose came close enough to burning alive, from the inside, taking in the Time Vortex.



"When did I say that?" Those words are fast, but firm. Before they shift. He shifts. "Wait. No." If it's. If that's the truth.

Impossible possibility. Another future. Another possible universe. Like the girl from his future. Then, was Jack, too? Was that why he looked like this? This absolute Fixed Point. That made his skin tighten. Gave him every impulse to back away as fast as possible. Or to fix this impossible, deeply, silently, screaming, wrong, as equally fast as possible.

"When are you from, Jack?" Simple and direct. "How long as it been since we were all on Satellite Five?"

[captgreatcoat]

He knows it's gone wrong the moment he hears the question, sees the look on the Doctor's face. That face is often hard to read, but he knows the expression there now.

It's the danger any time traveller knows, and one any Time Agent -- or former Time Agent -- guards against. The danger of telling someone something they don't already know, of crossing their timelines and forewarning them against something that knowledge might change. That way lies danger, that way lies paradox, and he should have known better than to assume that the Doctor was on anything like the same timeline as him.

So is this the Doctor before they met at the end of the universe? A Doctor who hasn't seen him since he abandoned him?

"How long?" he says, not quite able to stop more than a century's bitterness seeping into his voice. "139 years, Doctor. I've been stuck on Earth since 1869."