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.

Comments

[liamjones]

"And now... we are all here. Another curse, my brother?"

"Who breaks this one, and what happens when it is broken?"

[seekingcrocodile]

"This isn't a curse. This is one of the crew members expressing his affection for the captain."

Or at least that was how it had been explained to him.

[liamjones]

"Once again, I fear that I fail to follow, my brother."

[seekingcrocodile]

"There's a man who, and I admit I have not met him, brings people here at his whim. Apparently out of a desire to communicate some sort of message to the captain."

[liamjones]

"And he cannot just speak with the Captain?" He couldn't begin to think of how furious he would be with a midshipman who decided to bring random stowaways aboard...

[seekingcrocodile]

"I haven't met him, I don't know why he does it. All I know is it's not a curse." Which is actually kind of a relief.

[liamjones]

"The captain allows this? And the crew has not mutinied?"

[seekingcrocodile]

"The captain doesn't seem to mind. At least not that I've heard. We're considered guests on this ship."

[liamjones]

"How often do we put to port?"

[seekingcrocodile]

"Fairly often, but we're in a different sort of ship. We're out among the stars. Ports are rarer. They're not ports like you're used to, Liam. They're not sea ports, they're called space ports, and they're on things called planets."

[liamjones]

"Space ports. And... planets. Are we putting to port the next time, Brother? find a ship of our own again? Or are you satisfied... to remain here?"