TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

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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.

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[fuckingblind]

(god life kind of ate me. BUT HI i am d and i have a problem with chris pine faces.)

Danny could hear a bit of movement closer to him than the rest of the bustling room. His head turned to the side, eyes searching in the direction, but the person (he's almost positive someone is there). He's usually eerily good at that sort of thing.

He's pretty sure whoever it was, was staring too, and he hated that. Like, really hated it. Then the person finally speaks up.

"Pretty sure that's not really useful to either of us," he says. His hands went out in front of him, guiding off of her voice so he didn't bump into her, but he wasn't certain if anything else was around that would get in his way.

"Don't suppose this is some kind of elaborate prank, huh?"

[sf_girl_friday]

It actually took her a moment to realize his eyes weren't focusing the way she expected. The similarities between this being and Kirk were too startling for her to notice anything else. He looked enough like the Captain to be his brother. If she didn't know what Sam looked like, she might have believed that was who had been brought aboard the ship with her.

"No, it's not but I thought it was better to tell the truth than pretend I knew what was going on." As she spoke, she remained still so he could get an idea of where she was in relation to him. "I'm sorry if I was rude when I first saw you. At first I thought you were my commanding officer."

Jan wasn't certain if he had noticed her reaction, but it was best to apologize now than have him think she was rude. "If this is a prank, I don't know how someone pulled it off. Even Scotty couldn't arrange something like this."

[fuckingblind]

"Yeah, good idea," he says, voice terse. It usually takes a bit more to ruffle his feathers, but he's in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people with absolutely no clue how he got there.

"It's okay, I mean. I suppose rude is the least of our problems if we've both ended up in some weird place all of a sudden." He gives a slight, nervous chuckle at his own failed attempt at humor. "Commanding officer? Uh, no. I'm---I'm Danny. Danny Valdessecchi."

A beat. "What's your name? I mean, if we're gonna be stuck here and all. It'd be nice to know."

He gives a slight shrug. "I don't know. My brother Larry is pretty good at pranks. Like, scary good. I think making a bar and complete strangers appear out of thin air is a little beyond him though."