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

[deadmanbusiness]

"They're a more substantial form of ghost. My mother is one. We were in an accident when I was eight. My father didn't get there in time to prevent her from dying, but he was able to anchor her to this world so she wouldn't move on. It allows her to interact with the world," Theo explains, watching Theiorn do his thing with blood and fire.

"How did you do that?"

[the_blood]

"How did I do what?" he asked.

"Did she want to move on?" she asked. Both looked at him oddly for different reasons.

[deadmanbusiness]

"How did you pull that goblet and wine bottle out of nowhere?" Theo asks. And then, "I honestly don't know. I was eight at the time and in quite a bit of shock when it happened, broke my arm among other things. And afterward... well neither my father or mother ever talk about it."

He has a feeling that his mother wanted to go on, but his father made her stay. His father is a very strong and possessive person who has a hard time letting go. Apparently when his first wife died giving birth he tried to keep her alive by hanging onto the spark of her life, but eventually had to let her go.

[the_blood]

"I just called it in," Theiorn said. "It's basic craft."

[deadmanbusiness]

"Called it in from where?" This is fascinating.

[the_blood]

"My... personal storage..." he said slowly, as if he was trying to figure out why someone was asking a question he's never had to answer before.

[deadmanbusiness]

"You have your own hammerspace? In real life?" Forgive Theo for that. He's been hanging out with his cousin and been watching a bit too much anime lately.

[the_blood]

"Hammerspace?" he asked, totally confused, now.

[deadmanbusiness]

"Sorry. It's a term that means a character in a story's ability to pull things out of nowhere... that they shouldn't be able to have on their body or in their pockets. Like a large hammer."

[the_blood]

"No hammer, but I do have an axe..." he said with a shrug.

"I wager my gardens will have plenty of mulch," she muttered darkly.

[deadmanbusiness]

A quick look at the two of them before Theo goes on, "In any case, it's not a thing people in my world can do... or have."

[the_blood]

"It never occurred to me just how hard Landens have it," she said simply.

[deadmanbusiness]

"No. I suppose not, but I'm sure we can do other things you can't. At least the people on my world. I couldn't speak of other people and other worlds."

[the_blood]

"Perhaps," she said, nodding, but she did not sound like she much believed it.

[deadmanbusiness]

Theo thinks upon for a moment trying to pick something that he's fairly certain is unique to his world. "Well, let's see... what about fortunate fools?" Theo asks. "Wait... let me rephrase that. The seventh son of a seventh son is unusually lucky. They can bend probability into their favor. Or necromancers?"

[the_blood]

"No clue what a Necromancer is, and... we do not generally have such overly large families," Aiylshia said simply.

[deadmanbusiness]

"We don't either, which is why they're very rare and dangerous," Theo says. "As for a necromancer, we can raise and create undead. I could take someone who has died and bring them back to semblance of life. Into some one like you."

He nods his head to the demon prince.

[the_blood]

"For us no one needs to do that on our world," he said, "it is a natural process."

[deadmanbusiness]

"I can do it for people who don't have an excess of will. And I can create various other kinds of undead." He twitches a smile. "I can also control them. Even intelligent ones."

[the_blood]

"If someone does not have enough will to survive to remain, why would you force that on them?" Ailishya asked, horrified.

[deadmanbusiness]

"Because they ask me to do it. I'm not going to force it on someone. Or I create unintelligent undead. Skeletons and zombies." Theo's not evil, after all.

[the_blood]

"IF they do not have the will, how do they ask?" Theiorn asked.

[deadmanbusiness]

"For the unintelligent undead I'd just be using their bodies, their soul has long departed. Generally that makes people uncomfortable and they consider it a desecration of the body so it's been made illegal in most parts of the world." Theo doesn't offer his opinion on the matter.

[the_blood]

They just both looked at him so oddly. This was so far outside of anything they had ever imagined that they had no ready response.

[deadmanbusiness]

Heh.

"Well, I guess there are some things my people can do that yours can't."