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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hello! o/

[mockthedyingman]

These days it was pure reflex, slapping John's hand before it could block his view of the screen, as if Rodney was defending a tray of freshly baked cookies. "Sheppard, I swear, if you don't unlearn to mash your greasy fingers all over my--... wait, what?"

Rodney glanced up and frowned at John before taking a closer look around. "Alternate... oh, again?" His voice pitched up with indignation and he scoffed. "You know, once, just once, can other universes please sort out their screw-ups without getting us involved? This is getting ridiculous! How did we even-- when-- will you stop with the happy face!"

It might have been six months for John but no more than six hours for McKay since he'd last seen his friend. Without context it was difficult to understand the (in his eyes) weird look he was getting. "What's wrong with you? Did they drug you?"

[ltcolonel]

Rodney was a lot more accurate with his slaps than he was with a pistol. John pulled his fingers away at the last second. "There was only one time I tried to touch it after toaster and jam. One time. It wasn't like I spilled coffee all over your copy of Batman."

HIs smile widened. "Calm down Rodney, can't I be happy to see you? You are going to be happy about his particular screw up, trust me." He gestured towards the wall where the Enterprise's name was engraved he figured Rodney was going to be about as excited as he was when he arrived. "Guess where we are."

[mockthedyingman]

"It's unsettling, actually, and I doubt that very much." Rodney rolled his eyes but decided to humor Sheppard. Following his gaze he looked at the engraving on the wall.

Turned back to Sheppard, because really, what was so great about...

His head whipped around once more as the name started to sink in. "What?" He stared, dumbfounded, at the wall, back at John. "That's impossible. That's not what's happening here. You just named another ship and now you want to rub it in. ... Right?"

[ltcolonel]

"Eh," John shrugged and gave him one of his lazy smiles. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that." There is no point in panicking Rodney just yet with the length of time he's been trapped here.

"It's improbable, not impossible," he said. "Do you really think I've had the time to find a new ship, name it and do it up fancy?" He barely has enough time to eat a turkey sandwich some days ."You know what this means though, if the Enterprise is real, then Batman is real."

[mockthedyingman]

"That is a juvenile and speculative chain of cause and effect without any correlation." And beat. "A very awesome chain, maybe, but that's very much beside the point right now."

Rodney shook his head, then froze, a new horrified expression washing over his face. "You're not the Captain, are you?"

sorry I was away on my summer holidays

[ltcolonel]

[ooc: Just to say all of the canon mates love Rodney and we'd love to have you here.]

"Science isn't everything Rodney." He's prepared for the backlash for his blasphemous words. As he sees it the two most important things in Rodney's life are science and food.

The smirk grows, and becomes full blown and it's so very tempting to lead Rodney into believe he is the captain. "Yes, Rodney the Starfleet Federation allowed me to take over their flagship." Deadpan.