TEST DRIVE #15 - Holodeck and Ten Forward

[ten_fwd_mods]

001: Where were you a minute ago? Well, you aren't there anymore. Instead, you're standing in a very large, dark room lined with yellow. There are doors at either end of it.

Here's where things get a little choose your own adventure-y. You could:



1: Approach a console filled with buttons, located a few feet away. Press one, and it'll let you out of the room. Travel down a long hallway and you'll be in Ten Forward, the Enterprises' entertainment lounge. Have a drink, mingle and try to figure out why you're here.

OR

2: Maybe you just muttered some vague request under your breath. Maybe you wished aloud you were somewhere else. Or for help? If you did, might be in a fire station. Muttered something about killing whoever dumped you here? Surprise - you're in a slasher movie!

Though they're confusing, these visions feel about as real as they can be. And guess what - other people can experience those fantasies with you, as if they too were really there. How ever will you escape? Or do you want to?

[OOC: Welcome to the Holodeck! If you choose this option, whatever your character chooses to say out loud will cause a virtual reality program to load and play. While your character feels as if what they're experiencing and seeing is quite real, they're purely living through the latest and best in what he Enterprise has to offer in entertainment. Make sure to detail what your character's fantasy is, so that those threading with them will know how to react.

Open til next month's test drive!]

Comments

[paradoxlost]

He's still angry with her too, for being swallowed up by the Eye of Harmony. That incident might have had much to do with his brutal treatment of her. The Master is truing to asses what this human form can do. If she has the same kind of power in this body... he doesn't care to contemplate what she might be able to inflict on him.

"You keep away from me," he hisses at her. The Master doesn't need to ask. He knows what raw, untamed power is harnessed by a TARDIS.

[cridhe]

She smiles proudly. "And finally he understands. And Time Lords had the audacity to treat us like servants. Funny thing. All those times you tried to steal me away from my pilot and now you tell me to stay away from you."

[paradoxlost]

"Because that's what you are! A resource."

Had the Master's own TARDIS been having a conversation with him, chances are he'd still see it as an aberration. Not that he treated it as badly as he has this one. "Had the Doctor not insisted on being so.. so sentimental about you, reined you in, you wouldn't be walking and talking, or challenging your masters!"

[cridhe]

Anger and a sense of power flash through her - seeming her entire body. "You get one warning, Time Lord. And I have already granted it to you."

She raises her ungloved hand and wiggles her fingers at him, much like the Tenth Doctor might have done.

Re: Dara McCallum | OC

[ashes_ascended]

It's a shame they hadn't bumped into each other in the holodeck. Chances are the creative swearing would go some way towards the male bonding process.

As it is, this angel is also on his way into Ten Forward when he passes the guy with red hair - quite like Kale McCallum's - who seems to be warily assessing the lounge. "S'okay." He says by way of greeting. "Most of them don't bite. So far."

[paradoxlost]

He slips a hand into his pocket, touching the laser screwdriver - it not having occurred to him that it isn't fully operational.

"Are you provoking me?" Of course he doesn't think he can destroy a TARDIS, but some damage, surely, could be inflicted on that flesh and blood body.

[cridhe]

She knows what his hand going to his pocket means. She flinches a little. If her flesh were destroyed here, where would she go? Would she die? Fade to nothing? She still tries to hold her ground.

"I have no need or reason to provoke you."

[clutchfate]

The smile that Dara flashes resembles Kale's as well. "Oh, biting I can handle, that's easy- I just bite back. Randomly being dragged off to some sort of... vessel? That's enough to make a man wary of strangers."

[ashes_ascended]

"Good to hear it." Phoenix can't help a grin. It's only a shame the circumstances aren't too great for making new pals and deciding to stagger off down the nearest watering hole. Because Ten Forward just isn't the same as a good old fashioned Earth pub.

"You just got here, huh? There's a good number of us in the same boat. No pun intended."

[clutchfate]

"Oh, is it press-ganging season already? I must have missed the notice." Dara laughs and turns to properly enter the lounge. "But yeah, just a few minutes ago. I woke up in that room back there, the empty one."

[ashes_ascended]

"Black walls with yellow lines." It's not really a question, it seems pretty normal for most new arrivals. Not that Phoenix has seen many yet. "They call that the holodeck. Look, let me get you a drink and I'll try and break it to you gently."

Because tact and diplomacy are totally his forte.

[clutchfate]

"Oh, you don't have to be that gentle. I can take a bit of rough." Any innuendo that may be taken from these words is totally accidental. Really. Please ignore the smirk.

"But the drink sounds amazing. Bring it on."

[ashes_ascended]

"I'll bear that in mind." Because he really will flirt with anyone, and the angel - who is not the standard holier-than-thou type - will take any form of smirking as encouragement.

He heads towards the bar. "What's your poison?"

[clutchfate]

"Whiskey, please." Dara looks around as he goes, taking in the varied people and things- and the view. "Fuckin'..." Space is enough to distract him from the prospect of booze. "Where the fuck are we?"

Shadow Stalker of Ennien | Star Trek OC | Option 1

[notmyhairball]

[Not unusual, considering where she had been moments before. The fact that her program had ended without her say-so was the unexpected part. Shadow Stalker flicked her tail a couple of times in anger, her ears tilting back and forth as she looked around.

A holodeck. Of course. Sigh.

The Eeiauoan stalked over to the console and jammed her finger into the button to open the doors and stalked down the hall. She was going to find a turbolift and someone who could tell her what happened, but she found herself in Ten Forward.

And the only thing unusual about that is the look of frustration about the six foot tall bipedal black and dark brown cat standing in the doorway.]

[ashes_ascended]

Phoenix orders whisky for the newcomer, and a bourbon for himself. He hands the glass to the young man.

"Fucking outer space." He responds cheerfully. "It's not as bad as it looks though. We're on a starship.. it's a little dated, but for its time, its brand new and uber-efficient. Come on over to the uh.. I don't even know if they're called windows on a starship. Viewports?"

[clutchfate]

Dara takes the glass and heads over to the window, obedient for once in his life. "This is dated? We haven't even got out of the atmosphere at home. Morrigan's ruffled feathers, this is brilliant." He's young enough to forgive the kidnapping for now, since it comes with being! in! space!

[ashes_ascended]

"Eh, well, I'm from over a century in the future." Phoenix stands with him. Looking out at the stars never gets old. The words that fall from his current drinking companion's lips reminds him even more of Kale.

"You're from Earth." He assesses, recalling Kale's annoyance at the word 'Ireland'. "From Eire?"

[clutchfate]

"I've been to Faerie- they've got some mad things there- but never to space. It's amazing from up here." Dara leans against the clear surface, staring out into the stars.

"Yeah, that's right. It's the accent, huh?"

[conflictedhero]

Bruce had been around for some time. He rarely made a scene, and tended to fade into the background, especially when bad periods came along and he felt like he couldn't deal with the world. Such had happened to him a few months ago, and he had withdrawn completely.

Now he was back out in the world, and in Ten Forward, anyway. As usual, for when he was out, there were PADDs and real books, and papers scattered across his table. When he spotted the tall felinoid come in, looking like a disgruntled cat, he knew the look all too well, and he rose, raising a hand toward them.

"Hello. Are you, by chance, confused as to where you are, and why?"

[ashes_ascended]

"The fae realms, huh?" There are fae realms on his own world, but Phoenix is aware that on Earth it's a whole different kettle of fish.

"Only partly. You remind me a lot of a guy I met called Kale McCallum. He fired a dart at me, and I nearly shot him, but I think we sorta hit it off. You could be his brother."

Phoenix is completely unaware of Trever. It might be entertaining to keep it that way.

[clutchfate]

"Yeah. Not often, but I've gone." Sometimes they need a McCallum or two and Dara is far better at navigating fae diplomacy than Talia or his father.

"Well, I am a McCallum. Dara McCallum, at your service. I don't know a Kale, but we all look alike more or less."

[notmyhairball]

"Confused? A little." [Shadow looked the human over quickly. Not a clear member of Starfleet, though perhaps he was an ambassador or something of the sort.] "Can you tell me which ship I am on?"

[conflictedhero]

Bruce nodded. That was one of the four questions always asked first. he smoothly began to explain. he'd done this a lot.

"Yes. You're on the U.S.S. Enterprise, the fifth of it's name, commission code NCC 1701-D, under Captain Picard. And likely, you've just been dropped on board by Q, a cosmic game player who has been doing this for over a year. I'm Doctor Bruce Banner, also shanghaied here, from another universe's Earth."

[notmyhairball]

Shadow nodded, crossing her arms over her chest. "We have heard of Q on my ship..." She sighed again, her tail starting to twitch again in frustration. "Never thought that he would pull someone from my ship, though."

Mostly because of what other Federation crews call the Bonaventure...