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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[my_guardian_devil]

She isn't sure how much stock anyone can really put in Red's promises. There's so much he isn't telling her that even if he isn't lying to her face, she can still estimate dozens of lies of omission. But for some reason, and god help her whatever it is, she wants to believe him.

So she doesn't say 'Bullshit', even though that's the first word on her tongue.

"Then how did you get here?" she asks instead, eyes drifting back over the room. "And when? I was just with you. You couldn't have had time to sample their scotch before I got here."

Assuming the timeline is right and he isn't lying to her, and that all of this — whatever this is — fits into a neat little box.

[suspense_kills_me]

"It's been about a month, and as far as I know," the look in his eyes said that he knew this was going to be one of the strangest things he'd ever told her. That said something since their lives were what they were back home.

"Something that goes by the name of Q decided to bring us all here. He's bored. When he's bored this is what he does."