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

[magicsprice]

Part of him cursed himself for upsetting the boy once again. He should have just left off with explaining his relationship with the boy. But he had promised in not so many words that he'd tell him what he'd been up to prior to his arrival if Henry cleared up his own confusion as best he knew how.

Part of him wondered if it wouldn't have been better to try pretending to be the man Henry called father, but even as he considered the idea he knew better than to do more than merely consider it. He would fail if he tried that he suspected and to have pretended and let the boy learn he wasn't the man he believed him to be would have been more cruel than this surely.

"Henry? It's alright. No one can hurt you here." He wouldn't allow it. This may not be the grandson he knew, but he was still his grandson regardless. He would not allow anyone to harm the boy if he was capable of preventing it.

"I didn't mean to frighten you. I'm sorry." Inasmuch as he wanted to move and offer some form of comfort, he wasn't certain if he should or if stepping closer would just make the situation worse than it was already. Thus he remained where he stood, looking pained and regretful.

[goldencobra]

He didn't know what to say or think. This was his dad but it wasn't his dad. And this man had tried to save him from Pan at a point in his life just before his arrival here. Baelfire, the boy he had despised and feared for so long, was also his father. But wait? If this Gold wasn't his dad, maybe Baelfire wasn't either back home. Maybe that was just in his world. Whatever world that was.

The idea calmed him slightly, even if it turned out to be wrong, and he finally nodded at the man's words. After a long pause where he finally got his breathing under control, he managed to speak.

"Wa-Wasn't you." It was more a mutter than anything else. "Pan..." He was trying to say the real reason for his fear but the words didn't want to come out. So he tried something else. "You...magic? Dagger?"

[magicsprice]

The fact Henry knew one of his father's names without being told, and given the already established time frame for the boy gave him new questions. However, given how badly he'd reacted to mentioning his father previous, he'd wait for now in asking the boy how he knew of the name.

For the time being, Gold turned his attention to the questions he was being asked which just raised even more questions beyond the issue of his father's name.

"I have magic here, yes. However, the dagger isn't here."

Fortunately for him really that it wasn't. He wasn't all that inclined to try summoning his shadow back to him here. Given what had taken place prior to his arrival, he might not even be capable of summoning it to him. It was entirely possible should he be returned to the moment he'd been taken, or even returned period despite the passage of time, he'd find himself once again prisoner within Pandora's Box.

"How is it that you know of my dagger?"

[goldencobra]

The fact that the man before him had magic almost made Henry take yet another step backwards. But instead, he turned and walked away towards his bag and book, picking up the latter and thumbing through it to the correct page and finally walking back to where Gold still stood.

He handed the book to the man and stepped back, waiting to see his reaction. There on the open page was a picture of a dagger bearing the name Rumplestiltskin. And if Gold bothered to turn the page he would see the same image from a different angle and therefore the man's face. A further page turn would show the face covered in some strange scaled skin. The Dark One.

Henry still hadn't found his voice yet so he was glad to show Gold the answer instead. It seemed obvious to the boy but he didn't realise this book held different pictures and information to the one in the world which the man had come from.