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

[quiteafew]

Good luck trying to figure that out without asking. Before he'd heard the word 'mutant' and what it meant, Kurt had spent most of his life wondering if he were some sort of fairy child. Demonic heritage was right out considering how many of his adopted mother's talismans would have singed him, not to mention that carving Enochian into his skin as he has would have likely killed him. But the Fair Folk are strange in appearance and deed, and if his mother had been human it would explain why iron holds no poison for him.

Veena's little show of nonchalance brings a laugh out of Kurt, or rather the body language and expressions involved with none of the sound. For a man whose face can be frightening, he has a bright smile that reflects warmth easily. "Oh, the only one? Perhaps that's why she was stalking me; she didn't like someone else doing her trick."

[reincarnshaman]

Trever is actually trying to go through the types of fair folk he knows, which is quite a few. He grew up next to a very important fairy crossing.

"Nah. There are some larger cats, blink panthers down in the jungles 'cross the ocean that can teleport. We compared their stuff with hers. Not a single damn match beyond they're both cats." He shrugs a bit with a sort of 'cats, what the fuck can you do with them' expression on his face. "But that was pretty interesting. I know there are some high fey that can do it, but I've never personally met them. Mum would have my hide if I went that deep into fairy."

Meanwhile Veena has moved into the licking the leg and butt part of grooming, apparently ignoring the humans. Though, from the twitch of her ears, she is paying attention, especially to Trever.

[quiteafew]

"She would be right to skin you; the Kindly Ones are not very, even those of them who wish no harm. Perhaps they're too different to understand the humans who've caught their attention."

Is it rather obvious Kurt's focusing on the part of this conversation he understands? Because the rest of it (blink panthers?) has him decidedly and noticeably nonplussed. A teleporting cat he can easily wrap his head around, but a species of them? He's torn between assuming he's being made fun of, and wondering if the other man has a medical condition.

Kurt clears his throat softly. "Forgive me, but--blink panthers?"

[reincarnshaman]

"Nah more like things have been a bit... tetchy between Eire and them right now. There's a non-aggression treaty coming up that's due for renewal and the High Lords are making noises that they don't want to renew it again," Trever says.

Being second in line to the Eire throne and being a McCallum on his mother's side - a family known for giving the fey a lot of problems among other things - Trever visiting might be seen as an act of aggression.

"Large black cats with purple spots? They live in the Mayan lands? Across the Atlantic? They're almost extinct now."