Test Drive #7 - Ten Forward and Captain's Yacht

[ten_fwd_mods]

Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprise's off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...





Option 02. The Captain's Yacht: Oooh, you sneaky stowaway! You've found yourself in a very exclusive part of the ship: Captain Picard's personal craft, used for short jaunts when a shuttle just won't do. (One must retain some decorum, after all.) It may not be as large as the Enterprise itself, but there are sure to be some surprises aboard once people start snooping.


[OOC: The Captain's Yacht is located at the very base of the Enterprise's saucer portion, so if you put someone in there you can also play them trying to get back to somewhere they know!]

Comments

[asklepian]

"Panem? I don't know any nation by that name." He looks completely baffled. "What continent is it on? I presume Earth...though that is a bit of an ethnocentric assumption, I do apologize for that." Maybe that would explain it, if he was from a colony world.

Though really, he hoped they'd know enough Latin still to not name their country 'bread'. That sounded fairly ridiculous.

[nowinners]

That earned a surprised look and a couple of raised eyebrows. "North America." Was it possible the Capitol had been overthrown and over time they had changed the name? Perhaps. He could only hope that whatever had happened had been for the better. Though to judge by what had been said, it just might have been. Though he's only got one man's word for that right now. It could be worse and it just isn't obvious to certain people. Such a thing wouldn't be anything new to him unfortunately.

[asklepian]

"There's never been a Panem in North America--we simply call it North America now, since the United Earth Government came about a few hundred years ago. We'd certainly not call it 'bread'. That's what 'panem' translates to in Latin. There's a rather famous phrase about it, actually."

Julian does catch himself rambling every so-often, and now is definitely one of those times. He manages to look a little embarrassed, at least.

"I digress. It could be that you've found yourself in an entirely divergent reality, those are surprisingly well-documented."

[nowinners]

Just when he thought he might actually be close to making some sort of sense out of this the man has to go blow that idea straight out of the water. Julian is treated to a rather confused expression now thanks to that little ramble, especially the bit at the end. He finishes his drink and wonders if he should see about coaxing a second of the same out of the bartender. Perhaps things would make more sense the less sober he was. He was about half sober, half intoxicated currently, and rather tempted to fix that situation. "....divergent realities?"

[asklepian]

"Alternate realities. Where things went differently. It's a bit of an idea to get used to, I probably shouldn't have sprung that on you so quickly after this surprise, sorry. One thing at a time."

Haymitch, be advised: sometimes you have to tell him to stop talking.