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

[merlinastrice]

"Perhaps for you," he responded. He wasn't sure if he could trust the other sorcerer just yet. But, a different life, a different time, it seemed.

"What is there to do, then? Are there...others like you?" he asked carefully.

[themerlin]

"You mean like us?" Merlin eyed the young man. he didn't believe for a moment that someone with his name didn't have magic.

Not even remotely. try again, Merlin.

"However, we can study the cosmos, other kinds of magic, other cultures and people, and learn more about the universe we are now in."

[merlinastrice]

Us had Merlin's jaw clench tight a bit and his hands clenched a little. He shook his head.

"Like you, I'm afraid. Magic is outlawed in Camelot. Punishable by death by King Uther's laws."

[thesurlyone]

"Oh I have no doubt I'm gonna get home," Piper replied.

He was just a lost boy. She reached out and patted a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry. We'll all get home and you'll be back on the farm with Ma and Paw before you know it."

[of_totters_lane]

He's never failed to listen to her when possible before, and he doesn't hesitate now. He steps closer, gently obeying her instructions, closing his eyes.

"Fascinating, absolutely fascinating!" he said, looking up at her.

"Bi-vascular system with a single heart. Amazing indeed, and thoroughly impossible - as well any form you took ought to be, I suppose!"

[of_totters_lane]

After all they have faced - what terrors could a holographic beast in a holographic labyrinth have for them?

He looks around, using the light to examine every possible angle of the fork.

"None whatever - but a fork alone is strange - pyramids were usually quite straightforward affairs, barring the blockages to deter intruders."

[of_totters_lane]

He arched an eyebrow at her, before turning a corner.

"You are entirely too clever by far," he admits, finally. "Such an attitude is either well-founded or entirely without justification. I begin to suspect it is the former."

[cridhe]

She might blush just a little. "I became distracted during the - assembly process. I could not decide which you would prefer: Time Lord or Human."

It wasn't until after that she learned she had nothing to worry about, but still. The things she thinks about with regards to her Pilot.

Re: Paige Matthews|Charmed

[blind_devil]

Matt chuckles and comes to join her at the view port. "The intake of breath was a big clue. It was less wow and more oh my god I'm screwed."

[professorsong]

"Why thank you, Doctor. That is quite the compliment, especially from you." She smiled brightly, then leaned over as they walked and kissed his temple. No lipstick, just a small pleased moment.

Hi Mom!

[student_lighter]

Chris was in the middle of dealing with one of his (many) charges (really it wasn't fair. 3 he could deal with, especially since they were family. All this? Not cool. Especially since he still couldn't heal and half of his charges seemed to be slightly crazy.) But there was a very familiar jingling in his head, and a very familiar voice calling him. Chris wrinkled his noise, confused and orbed out.

"I swear, it wasn't me." Chris answered, not entirely sure if she was talking about him or baby him. But you know what? Still not his fault. This time. Chris was still dressed in jeans, a tee shirt and a hoodie, mainly because one of his charges hadn't found and burned them all as a fashion hazard.

"Hi Mom."

Re: Paige Matthews|Charmed

[student_lighter]

Chris returned the hug, a bit confused but always willing to give his favorite Aunt a hug. "Yeah....I guess that stab wound didn't turn out too well huh? You guys know it was Gideon right? Did you get him? Is Wyatt safe?"

Chris shrugged, looking around him at the 24th century decor. "Well, we've been kidnapped. As far as I can tell this guys not in the book. He's some sort of omnipotent asshole who thinks its fun to kidnap people from all different universes and see what happens. Personally, I hope he gets bored soon."

[thesurlyone]

"Whoa." Piper stepped back a little when the familiar orbs appeared in front of her.

Not exactly the baby she had left behind but at least a familiar face.

"Chris, what is going on? Where is this place? Am I in your future? Why am I in your future?"

She needed answers and the last time she had met her son this way, he had been a lot more neurotic.

[student_lighter]

"This is a little too much future, even for me." Chris crossed his arms over his chest. "I don't think space ships were invented in the last twenty-two years, do you?" Sorry Mom, he totally got the sarcastic attitude from you.

"Actually, we've both been kidnapped--but this guys not in the book. As far as I can tell, this guy is some bored Upper Level something who likes to grab people from their universe and pop them into others. But I haven't actually seen him, so all this info is like a bad game of telephone. "

Loki / MCU Post-Ragnarok Reincarnated AU

[slive]

His first reaction isn't panic.

It could have been. If this were happening even a few years earlier, it might have been. He'd gone through one of his brief periods of thinking he was insane, after the invasion of New York. It happens. It happens a little more often to him than to anyone else he's ever met.

Glances around the room with the yellow lines, frozen still. There's no one here. And there are too many options for what could have happened to him. His scattered, acid-flashback memories of what he was Before are a little too piecemeal for him to strongly rule anything out. He's not where he was, anyway. That's clear enough.

He steps up, and speaks. "Door, open." To his mild surprise, it does. From there, he steps tentatively out into the hallway. Realizes what he's doing, and he consciously drops tentative, and steps forth. Not confidently, not a swagger or a stride, but just the easy walking pace of someone who's busy but not too busy, who knows where he's going. None of the few people who pass him give him a second glance.

Eventually, he spots two people come out of a room - tables, chairs, the smell of food and the sound of conversation. Loki lets his feet carry him in, as though that was always where he planned to go. He steps over to the window, and consciously does not gape at the stars. He's in space. That rules out a few of the possibilities he was considering. And, frankly, nothing he can think of fits the evidence.

He slides into a seat by the stars, and leans his chin on his palm, eyes out toward the black, listening carefully to the nearby conversations.

[major_egret_msfsod]

She figured a lot would go over his head, or just seem too improbable to process. That's fine, she (unfortunately) had plenty of time to kill, and she could be patient, even if she didn't particularly like it.

"Depends what you'll take for proof. We can find a window, if the light-up walls aren't convincing enough."

[myks]

Myka smiled slightly. She supposed that being bronzed, trying to destroy the world, and getting your memories wiped was worse than being aboard a D class Starship. She looked at Helena, not sure how much the other woman wants to hear about her time aboard the ship previously, or life back home.

She always did have the ability to read between the lines with Helena. It was her thing she supposed, which is why having her knowledge wiped from the world was something that Myka couldn't even bear to witness. "And what aren't you telling everyone else?"

[splendid_roman]

"I suppose this is someone's idea of what a pyramid should be like." Or they decided to put a maze in a pyramid, who knows. "All right, let's take the left fork every time we have a choice." And he proceeded confidently down the left tunnel. Accordingly, the beast (if that's what it was) roared again, sounding closer this time.

[thesurlyone]

"Wow, there's too much future for you?" Piper couldn't resist getting that one in. "Besides,cell phones have been invented and reinvented over the last twenty.

She took a deep breath to really assess her situation. "All right, well, who else is here?"

[merlinastrice]

The light up walls could be explained. SOmehow, some way. Some form of magic Merlin was just not familiar with.

"Right, a window, then. Show me one of those."

[student_lighter]

Chris laughed quietly, smiling. "Cute, mom, real cute." He pulls her into a quick hug. It's been a while since he saw her and it was nice to have family around. Especially Piper.

"Phoebe's here. I saw Paige earlier. And Cole. Who isn't evil. I think. I'm just thankful Phoebe and Cole didn't get put in the same room together, cause I can't handle that. Oh, and Paige better get moving since I have like twelve charges here and I can't handle any more." He could barely handle the twelve that he had.

[thesurlyone]

Uh uh. Kid, you're not getting away that easily. Piper holds onto him, just glad to have something familiar to help ground her. She let go as soon as he mentioned Cole.

"Cole? Cole's here? I thought we vanquished him. And twelve isn't much. I was whitelighter for a day and had to orb all over creation."

[student_lighter]

"For a day Mom. You were a Whitelighter for a day. And....I'm not exactly used to this. I think I'd rather be vanquishing demons. Guiding people is....hard." Chris squirms, not in response to his mothers hug but the situation. And because he was neurotic as hell and since he didn't have to worry about Wyatt anymore he could now worry about his charges. And how he was totally going to fuck them up.

"Yeah. Cole thinks it's like 2000, so he's a little behind. And--here's the kicker. I think he's one of my charges. Isn't that kind of against the rules?"

[thesurlyone]

She narrowed her eyes at that. "Can demons even have whitelighters?" she asked. "Nevermind." She looked around before looking back at him. "All right, so Cole thinks he's from 2000. Are you from when you were with us or your normal future? What about Phoebe?"

[student_lighter]

"Normal future? It worked? You guys know it was Gideon? Wyatt's alright? Like not crazy and power hungry?" Chris felt like he wanted to sink down into the floor with relief. All he had known was that Gideon stabbed him, and took Wyatt. And then, he was here.

"I got here right after Gideon took Wyatt. I was sent right to their sickbay where they got me patched up. " Chris was having a hard time focusing, the news was overwhelming and wonderful.

"Phoebe. What about Phoebe?" Chris asked, trying to get a grip.