ten_fwd_ooc | TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

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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Trever's gotten that too. Plus jam covered kittens. There's nothing as fun as getting woken up by a kitten covered in jam sitting on your head.

"What's the Jimmy Jab games?" Trever does sound curious about it. They sound interesting... possibly involving jabbing, which is always entertaining.

Veena lets out a rumbling purr and then licks Amy's fingers. Good human. Nice human.

Amy's dog allergy's generally kept the rest of the family from draping animals all over her - in that, she's been lucky.

"This dumb contest one of the guys I work with made up." She may say it's dumb but her pride is obvious. "It's like an obstacle course."

She does shift her arms just a bit, so the one bearing Veena's minimal weight won't go numb from inactivity.

"Dumb contests are the best! We could use a few new ones back home. Especially if they're easy to cheat in." It's not cheating unless you get caught. And so Trever and family works very hard at not getting caught. Technically, as a prince, Trever shouldn't be cheating at all... but that just means he needs to work harder to not get caught at cheating.

Veena shifts with the arm shifting and starts to slide out of her grasp. This causes her to twist around and crawl up Amy's shoulder to flop like a towel over it, claws gently pricking her back.

"She likes you."

"You'd love the Jimmy Jab games," she said. "Unless you don't like expired chinese food...which I think everybody does."

There's gentle under-the-chin scritching for Veena. "Does she normally like people outside the family at all?" She wants to check and see if she's something of a fluke.

"Actually, I haven't had much Chinese food in my life. Blackthorn - the town I grew up in - didn't have any Chinese restaurants and so I've never really seen it as a food option, you know? Even after I moved out," Trever admits.

As for Veena.

"She's been funny around girls lately. Possibly eligible for dating girls, to be exact." Which is very irritating when you're trying to get a date and the cat just ups and dislikes them. "I don't know why."

Actually, he has a suspicion as to why, he's just not going to talk about that.

"Come to New York," she says. "We live off of it at the precinct." Why, she doesn't know. "I'm not even sure if the ship has one - but it's so big it has to, right? Maybe if you ask it nicely you can get some?" She's babbling. It happens. The paw holding her fingers gets rubbed. "Aww, she's flirting for you." The idea's too cute for words. Why can't she find a nice german shepherd willing to point her toward cute guys?

While their conversation has been going on at a fairly good pace of nothing particulars they've now hit on a stickler point for Trever and he gives her a baffled look and asks
"Where's New York?"

Considering this guy's Irish accent, it's pretty easy to assume he'd know where New York was. And yet he doesn't.

"Oh. Yes. And when she was younger and more agreeable to it, I'd user her as bait. Little kittens wearing ribbons toddling after you in some places ..."

Shameless Trever is shameless.

Meanwhile, Veena continues to tolerate this. She also decides that rubbing her nose is Amy's ear is a good thing.

Amy's so used to New York being...well, New York and ubiquitous, so she double-takes in turn.

"Uh..." she struggles to describe it. "Think of the biggest city you can think of. That's what New York is like."

And that? Draws a giggle out of her that she tries to dry up with a cough. "Cats can't be tamed. They have a strict kitty code," she replies.

Veena gets a little nuzzle back for that.

"Bigger than London or Paris?" Trever asked. Because the United States doesn't exist in his world.

"They let us think they can."

"I think it's about the same size as London." She isn't sure though - hasn't been, but has always wanted to go. "It's probably about as big."

"Cool. The largest city I've lived in is Dublin, when I was going to university," Trever said. "What do you do there?"

"Dublin! It must be so beautiful there...and green. Duh!" she blurts.

"Dublin's okay. It's a bit too big for me, I'll admit. But I grew up in a small town and small city. I spent most of my time growing up in the town where my mom grew up and the rest in Tara on the Hill where my dad lives. They're not divorced - it was just considered safer for me and my brothers to live in Blackthorn," Trever said.

Then, because why not?

"Do you want to get a horrible non-alcoholic drink with me?"

"It must have been....well, not peaceful," she says, because his family sounds quite lively. "A little easier, living somewhere quieter."

She nods. "But only if they have non-terrible non-alcoholic drinks. They have lemonade and frozen cocoa in the future, right?"

"I believe so. I hope so. If there is a lack of lemonade in this place, I will really have to do something."

He gives her a half bow, gesturing for her to go before him.

"I could drink a gallon," she admits. And she really could - she does enjoy the stuff.

The gentlemanliness is noted and appreciated, and she slides ahead of him to head to the bar.

TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

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I feel like this should be an actual convo between the two of them in game

SAME. IDK if we can feel free to link to it but I'd love it.

I don't see why not. :D Why restart up awesome CR?

Truth!

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