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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Re: Howard Stark - Agent Carter / Marvel Cinematic Universe

[likesfondue]

Howard blinked, looking at her with a mock hurt expression. "Hey now, you just met me, yet you think I know bars? I don't know if I should be wounded or flattered?" The corners of his lips turned up in a smile and he nodded his head lightly. "Maybe I just wanted to know what you were drinking so I could buy you one?"

His eyes raked over her. Unlike most men, he wasn't checking out her traditional assets, even if it appeared it might be. No, his dark eyes were drawn to the screwdriver and the gauntlet. "Or maybe I just wanted to get a closer look at that?"

[electro_kinetic]

"Oh, if you can pull out that kind of line on a stranger, I'm willing to bet on it," Noriko replies, leaning back in her chair. She was used to being looked over in all sorts of ways, and didn't shy back from it, instead lifting her chin like she was daring him to stare at her.

"Assuming you know what it is, sure, you can have a look."

[likesfondue]

"Ooh, a challenge. I like those." Howard grinned and pulled up a chair, glancing at the gauntlet in her hands. Any flirting he was going to do was gone now, instead distracted by the electronics in front of her. He didn't touch, not for lack of wanting too. Instead, he stared at the gauntlet, tilting his head this way and that, trying to get an all over picture of them.

The corners of his lips turned up as he leaned in closer to her. "Hmm, interesting. It's like a regulator of some sorts. See here, this? It means that you can channel the electricity through. I'd bet that that's a pulsor. I've seen HYDRA tech like that on a gun. Some people just don't understand what they have." While he might be right about her gauntlet, it never occurs to her that she might be enhanced like Rogers.

"Where did you get this and where have you been all my life?"

[electro_kinetic]

"Oh, babe," she laughs, shaking her head. "I know what it all does, I built it. It is a regulator, and for electricity, but it's not a pulsor. It's a battery and a capacitor on either end; one from me to the battery, one from that to the discharge point."

Notably, if Howard's paying attention, she's left out the part about where the current is coming from. "I dunno about all your life, but I'm from Tokyo and live in New York. Salem, up in Westchester, as boring as I find it. You?"