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]

"A Ja--a hunter?" He shakes his head, opening his mouth once silently before finding his words again. "I'm very sorry, it is not that I believe you're lying but this is all very--spaceships? Other worlds? I am beginning to wonder if I ate the wrong type of mushroom." Or if Stryker has him again, a chilling thought which draws Kurt's shoulders together in a minute but defensive stance.

[agathaheterodyne]

"What could I show you to help you feel more at ease?" she asked, tilting her head gently. "I'm willing to help. In fact, most people here seem willing to help. Ginny and Percy have been a great help with my inventions, Philip gave one of my Dingbots a good home, and that Remmy guy taught me a lot about the replicators. It seems only fair I help you, now."

[quiteafew]

To his shame, the kind offer coming on the heels of fear brings first a flash of suspicion. Is this a trick? Another attempt by Stryker to tear his mind apart by giving him what he wants?

But a spaceship? Kurt shakes his head again, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I--danke, very much, for the kind offer. I simply do not know how to answer that. This is all very strange, I am not from a place that has--well, dolphins yes, and spaceships but none like this."

[agathaheterodyne]

"In my world, dirigibles go no higher than the clouds we can see, so it is strange to me as well," she assured him. "Is there something I could build to help you?"