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

[inbedbynine]

Jarvis' lips twitch slightly at Howard's excitement. Edwin would never admit it out loud but he enjoyed watching Howard light up when he made a discovery or encountered a new situation. "I have a feeling Miss Carter would enjoy herself as much as you currently are sir," he replies, "she never seemed the type of person who liked sitting still."

[likesfondue]

Turning back to Jarvis, Howard gave his friend a smile. "And I'm betting that you're not. You've found out about the replicators, haven't you?" He laughed and turned to the bar, ordering a glass of scotch. "I bet if you ask nicely, they might give you a kettle? Peg would feel just as strongly as you do, I'm sure. She might enjoy it here, but no tea? She'd go batty."

[inbedbynine]

Edwin sniffed at the mention of replicators. He would have been perfectly fine not knowing where and how he got his mug of tea but now that he does it's difficult to even look at it without wincing. "I'll adapt," he says carefully, "but it does distress me that the art of tea making has gone away in the future. There is just something so calming about boiling the kettle to the right tempature and then wanting for the leaves to steep. "

[likesfondue]

"Well, maybe if we ask them really nicely, they'll let you have a stove and a kettle. Ooh, I hear there is something called a holodeck? Hologram technology. We could hologram you a kettle?" He didn't know how real the hologram might be, or what a hologram was per say, but he really wanted to find out. In truth, he felt like a kid in a toy shop.

And he had his choice of the toys.

"Yeaaaaa, you and Peg would hate it here without real tea."

[inbedbynine]

"Holographic tea isn't any better," Jarvis scolded Howard gently but firmly, "at least this tea looks like tea and tastes like tea. Anything else would be like drinking air."

[likesfondue]

Howard shook his head. "Now now, holographic technology, if it is what I think it is, is surreal. You wouldn't even know. You'd be living, breathing, touching in an atmosphere. You could pick it up. It would taste real. Trust me." Really, had he ever led the good butler astray, he thought to himself.

[inbedbynine]

"And I could go anywhere I wanted this way," Jarvis asked curiously, "and it would feel as real as if I was there? What about people could this holodeck be programmed with certain people?"