TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

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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.

Comments

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[eternallyhazel]

Artemis looked curiously at the creature hovering before him. It was as if someone had taken Chix Verbil and shrunk him down to the size of...well...what ever this was. So he asked. In his own special way of course.

"And just what might you be? A shrunken sprite or a distant cousin perhaps? You certainly have the vocabulary of a brain so small."

Awww, thank you!

[petalwing]

"Silly Smallyoung Bigthing! Petalwing is Petalwing! A preserver! Highthings send Preservers to keep alive!"

The creature's voice was screechy, and made nails on a blackboard sound plesant on comparison.

[eternallyhazel]

"Certainly not one of the People, then." Or he'd have heard of them through Foaly's database. The voice wasn't fun but he rationalised it through science. It helped only a small amount.

"Keep what alive?"

[petalwing]

"Smallyoung Bigthing stay stillquiet, Smallyoung Bigthing learnunderstanddo!" the creature screeched happily. "Petalwing Do! Petalwing remember!"

[eternallyhazel]

"Petalwing needs to learn how to speak English. Or is that too much for your small, and most likely privative, brain to comprehend."

[petalwing]

"Petalwing speak bigthing mouthwords just fine! Bigthings always grumpygrrr! Never stillquiet good. This why Petalwing stays with Highthings! Highthings listen and tell Petalwing whatdo!"

Not... that Petalwing generally listens to the Highthings it chooses to stay around. If it did, it would have wrapped itself moons ago.

[eternallyhazel]

Artemis sighs and shakes his head but a thought had come across his mind making him chuckling every so slightly inside. Only for a moment, he was amused. Then he turned his attention back to...Petalwing.

"What is it you want? Did you bring me here?"

[petalwing]

Petalwing cocked it's small head, curiously. "Petalwing no bring Smallyoung Bigthing! Petalwing just comesee! Many Bigthings and the forest is gone!"

[eternallyhazel]

"So you were also brought here." It seemed as though many were. And most likely just as much against their will. He pondered this, not saying anything else. It would barely be comprehended after all.

[petalwing]

"Smallyoung Bigthing stand still quiet now? Petalwing make wrapstuff?"