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.

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[thepowerofthor]

Thor heard the commotion and turned toward the direction of it. For a moment, he stared at the man, and then slowly nodded. The boy's name was very much elusive, but the memories from that world were more full than any other, and he would find a way to sort them, later.

"What is wrong?" Thor stayed back, but knelt nearby, a few feet away, hands out to the sides, to show he meant no harm. "You are safe here." As safe as on their own world, really... so not safe. Really.

[southernreaper]

He stares at the man. Now he's being made fun of. The man is taller than him, to be sure, but he's crouching like Kevin needs to be soothed like a child. He's not a child.

He hates being treated with kid gloves. He doesn't need it. Everyone else are the fragile ones. His powers prove that.

"Where is here?" He wants to know everything. He's not sure he trusts anyone right now, but answers will let him know what's going on.

[thepowerofthor]

Thor was reacting to how the man appeared, young and backing away from others as if afraid. And so Thor was cautious.

"The U.S.S. Enterprise, a ship in Starfleet, in the 24th century. We have been pulled here by an indifferent entity called Q, and we have, as far as we know, no way home. Thus we all have to find a way to survive here. None here will harm you. If something is wrong, let me help."

He waved a hand around. "The people here accommodate us and help us, and we do our damnedest to make sure we do not cause them problems in return." Thor's speech as both archaic and not, a mix that came from his time as an actor, and his newer time as a god.

"My name is Thor. What is your name?"

[southernreaper]

"Bullshit." He's seen Thor on TV more times than he can count. He's a huge Avengers fan. always has been. He wanted to be Captain America when he was younger. "You don't look like Thor." Not his Thor, anyway.

Kevin clenches his hands in his pockets, wondering how many lies he's going to have to wade through before he gets the truth. If they can't even tell the truth about a name...

What's he gotten into this time?

[thepowerofthor]

"I am, nonetheless, Thor." He pondered this somewhat rude young man. And remembered his own youth. Hmmm.

"Perhaps the Thor you know is one of another universe? It seems many of those who are brought here come from different universes." Thor was trying to be helpful.

[southernreaper]

Alternate universes? He wishes he'd paid more attention in that class, but the math had just gone over his head. He's not sure that he ever understood anything that was going on, when it came to things the X-Men dealt with.

And, frankly, he hadn't been the best of students anyway. then they'd turned him over to the FBI.

Better to not get into that now. He wants to get some answers. "I need a pair of gloves." He says, finally. He wants himself to be safe for others to be around. Then, he'll worry about everything else.

[thepowerofthor]

"Gloves? Those are easy enough to procure. Wait here one moment, good sir." Thor turned and gently u8shere all those near away as he made his way toward the replicator. There he asked for gloves, and briefly got into an argument with it when it asked him which kind, and he had to simply ask for gloves again, several times. Finally, with ten different sizes and kinds, he made his way back to the young man.

"Here. The computer apparently has many kinds of gloves, and did not have any that were simple." He placed the different ones in front of the man.

[southernreaper]

It takes three pairs, before Kevin actually gets to put a pair on. The others just disintegrate under his powers. He blinks his eyes hard, pulling on the pair that works.

"Thank you." He tries to be polite, he's just not always good at it. Sometimes, his mouth gets the best of him, especially in high stress situations.

"Now what's this about alternate universes?" He asks, dusting off his pants. The ashes fall to the floor. He's so used to it, it doesn't even phase him.