ten_fwd_ooc | TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

Option 001. Cetacean Pool/Aquatics Lab: Of all the places in the world, you open your eyes and you find yourself in a medium-sized aquatics laboratory, filled with various living specimens along with various science officers bustling about trying to maintain order. There's much to explore here (and hopefully, in the crew's opinion, not break), but the main attraction is the large pool at the far end of the lab; enormous but tanklike in appearance, it contains several dolphins happily swimming about, seemingly without a care in the world.

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Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.

You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.

Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.

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Hello; was that an actual answer, from an actual human being? As sure as the sun rises, his first concern should be to ask about- all of this. The aquarium, what's going on. Why he's here- yadda yadda.

So of course, it's not even close to being the first thing out of his mouth. "Buy it some rocket boots; they hate that."

There's a slight twinge of irritation at how she leans over; okay, he's tiny. Fine, whatever. But that and any questions he may have had in mind disappear when the dingbot moves, drawing his attention and absolutely all of his focus in seconds. What...is that, exactly? A battle bot? Out in the open like this?

Hiro has to consider, if only briefly, just how sane this woman is.

"Rocket.... boots...." She blinked rapidly as she considered that. "Oh! That could WORK! Krosp would LOVE THEM! Thank you!" she said. Her mind started spinning rapidly on that.

A propeller came from the top of the dingbot and it dropped, using the blades to hover as it pulled the spanner off of her belt from where it had twisted behind her. It handed her the tool, then dropped back onto her shoulder and folded away the 'copter blades again.

She blinked at the tool in her hand, not fully sure how it got there, but shrugged. She grinned at him. "Wanna help me build them?"

Usually his sarcastic comments weren't registered to hold any value, so her enthusiasm actually takes Hiro aback for a moment, brow quirking in an unspoken 'are you for real'?

Apparently. Same as her tiny robot, though for the life of him Hiro's not sure how, exactly, it's functioning at all. Hamada Brother's rule 48: it's rude to pull people's inventions apart without asking.

"...Build them?" Oh. His mind clicks into gear at that, expression evening out into a slightly...knowing grin. Help. Yeah, he could help. "I guess I know a thing or two about that, yeah. If you don't mind me helping out."

A big place like this was bound to have endless resources. If no one was going to give him answers, then he'd take a new angle. And fly his way out.

"DEAL!" she said, offering a hand. "Come on, I have a workshop set up in my room," she said happily.

He mind was already running through design ideas and possibilities. "What other features do you think they need to have?" she asked, starting to walk, whether or or not he took her hand, her other arm swinging as she walked.

And of course, to Aggie they could not SIMPLY be rocket skates for the talking cat, no, they needed added functionality!

The hand is...eyed off, but not taken. He's fourteen, not five, and really, there's only so far Hiro can play the innocent and friendly card.

"Well first, we've got to look at materials. I mean, we can go with hydrogen-peroxide fuselage if we have to, but then it, y'know, won't fly for long. A turbojet, that- that would be awesome- if we've got what we need for it." If they had the money for it, too, he imagines. If they did, though; surely she wouldn't mind if he made off with a spare engine, or two.

"Balance and control, though, that'll be the key. And temperature control from the exhaust systems."

(OOC: seriously, between the messes left over from her family, both messed up sides, Gil's family - mostly his dad, and Tarvek's family.... Family making things go boom... common occurrence for her. She's weirded out by how safe this place has been, lol.)

"If you use a steam based secondary engine, you sacrifice some lift and speed at maximum fuel, but it would get faster and stronger, a subtle indication to him that he needs to refuel soon. AND, if we calibrate it correctly, the water kept for the steam will act as the balance."

"Of course, we wont tell him we did anything for balance. He is a cat, after all." she led him to the turbo lift and once they were both in, said the proper deck for her floor.

"My roommate is almost never around, but if she is, don't mind if she seems a bit serious, she's really very nice. Not a Spark like us, and not a minion, but very nice. I consider her a friend."

Which to Agatha means that Tasha... is someone Agatha would go to war to protect. Not that she ever told Tasha this...

TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

Hello girl genius!

This is going to be so much fun!

oh my gosh this is!!!

Can she adopt him? x.x

He might get a bit reserved if she tries bad things happen to his family fkjskj BUT SURE

"Bad things happen because of family" Agatha calls that 2 pm. And 4 pm. And every other am and PM...