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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[magnetic_magpie]

At least you aren't bleeding out in the hall, we've had that happen. More than once, luckily there's an abundance of medical personnel aboard.

[ There's a worn tone to his voice - he hadn't stumbled on those scenes, but he'd heard about them, and lived through enough to know that while he could handle it, it wasn't something he wanted to see again. He raises his hand to pinch the bridge his nose, muffling his voice for a moment. ]

Oh, ok then.

[ He accepts it - but he notes it. The young man's face didn't give anything away, but there where areas of the brain which lit up - at least some of those words where familiar, but if he wanted to claim otherwise, at this juncture, he had no reason to say anything. ]

All right. So people tend to use the word universe to describe space - and that's true, but it's also a dimension. Which is how I'm meaning it at the moment. There's been theories for years - and in some universes proof - multiple universes. The thing is, we don't really know how different universes are shaped. We know they can be shaped in all kinds of ways, most people tend to think of them as spherical, like a ball, and that's possible. I theorize when you have a group of related universes they are similar in shape and all clumped together, like a bunch of grapes. The stems holding everything together might be another universe as well or might be something we don't yet understand. Norse mythology - which isn't mythology in every world - tried to explain it with Yggdrasil, which is neither here or there, just that it isn't a new idea. Anyway, some are shaped like that. Some like doughnuts, round with a hole int he middle, some like any pasta shape you can thinks of or well. Anything. Any three dimensional shape. Some are even jumbled inside a larger universe, like the beads in a bean bag. There's probably a lot of those, actually.

So those are universes. And sometimes, you have people, beings, not human ones but still people who can manipulate their own universe. Those are called reality warpers. In some places, they may be called gods. Some of them can effect other universes not their own as well. Ok? Still following?

[ As he speaks, there's passion in his voice. This is so neat do you see how this neat? it all but screams. It's serious, but ringing with enthusiasm. He's a scientist, so many forget that. ]

What kind of law, by the way?