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!]

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[foreverinred]

Roy quirked an eyebrow at the man, grinning. This guy had a sense of humor, at least.

Roy turned a chair around, and straddled it backward, smiling. "So what the heck is happening, here?" He paused. "It is the League of assassins? Or Damian Darhk?" Two many mystic supervillains, damn it.

Roy met his hand, and shook his hand warmly. "You have a good hand." The callouses and the drawing both show skill.

Re: Roy Harper | Arrow (Post-Season 3) | Ten Forward

[redarrowqueen]

"Never Roy, if anything you're a sight for sore eyes." came the voice of Thea Queen. But she was nothing like the girl Roy saw last: her eyes were bloodshot red from lack of proper sleep, her hands were shaking and she had lost weight. "But first things first: I own you a hug."

(PM if you end up apping just to hash out Roy/Thea? She's last ten minutes of Broken Arrow so had just been stabbed and I would love for them to be BFF's since she's got a romantic line in the works.)

[foreverinred]

Roy Turned and smiled as he saw her, eyes wide as he saw how she looked. "Thea? What happened? What's wrong?"

And he had no objections to a hug. In fact, he swept her up in one of his own, pulling her close and tight. "I've got you."

[redarrowqueen]

"I got pulled here when Ra's Al Ghul stabbed me. Cue the fallout." Thea was honest. "Add in a lot of old ghosts coming out of the woodwork and that leaves a screwed up me." since Roy knew all her secrets from her past drug habit to her guilt in Sara's death. But when Roy swept her into a fierce hug it was what she needed at that moment, something to calm her shattered soul. "Nothing makes sense and everything hurts."

[foreverinred]

Roy winced, then gently gripped her arms, and sighed. "You're not screwed up. You're hurt." He didn't want to let her go down that path. He had too much respect and care for her.

"Then we'll figure out how to make it right. Together.' He nodded at her. He would help her.

[redarrowqueen]

The confession poured out, it was like Thea knew she would not be judged. "I've basically stopped eating, I barely sleep, I'm so numb its not funny." a few rare tears falling down her cheek. "Took me long enough to even come clean to Ollie and Felicity."

[foreverinred]

"Sounds like it's about damn time I got here, then. Time to get you back on track, Thea." He gently kept hugging her even as he led her toward a chair. "How dd you manage to avoid people on a spaceship?"

[redarrowqueen]

"Something Queens do well, we shove our pain and let the world think everything is fine." Thea was honest. "Hard to avoid people so cue the shoving." she explained.

[foreverinred]

Roy sighed. "Then I'll just have to keep poking you until you unshove." He chuckled and joked with her a little. "I know several of your hiding places."

[redarrowqueen]

"You know me too well." Thea cracked a rare smile. "And I think Felicity will be happy to know there's more people keeping me and Oliver in check." she confessed.

[hey_heyhey]

"Hey hey whoa whoa whoa now," he stutters once the soft heat of her mouth registers, slipping out of her arms and putting his hands on his hips. Folded across his chest. No, hips. No, chest. Folded across... hips... you know what? Never mind.

Of all the times he's thought about kissing Myka (which is like, not that many times! Honest!), he didn't expect his reaction would be a stuttered laugh and the sudden inability to move his appendages. "Yeah it's... it's, uh... you know, it's really freaking awesome, Myks, but I didn't think it was kiss me awesome. Not that I'm complaining! Whoo, get your Captain Kirk on!"

He makes a little dance with his hands and then goes back to the hips/chest debate. No, okay, you know what? They're both adults here. "Are you still feeling a little of that Maribel fever? Because that was ¡muy caliente!"

Or at least one of them is.

[foreverinred]

"Just well enough, I hope." He cocked an eyebrow at her. chuckling. "Hey now. I didn't sign on to keep Ollie in check, too. Besides, he hits harder."

He grinned at her.

"I'm here, though, and I'll help. Who's your doctor?"

ooc: gah, I'm so sorry for the slowness, RL clobbered me ;~;

[and_she_waited]

"Oh ho, your parents had good taste," Amy singsongs, turning about to grin at the other Amy as she walks (backwards now) towards the bar.

There's a lot about the room that could seem like some elaborate prank, but it's too real to expect anyone's mates would be taking the piss. Not without a lot of money and probably a good deal of magic.

"Amelia Jessica Pond is my full name, you can call me whatever you like, Amy," she says, not unfriendly; "an' this is Ten Forward. You can get almost anything you want here."

[and_she_waited]

The only word to properly describe this moment is 'surreal'. He has her rather taken by surprise by the time he rises from his bow that everything else almost goes right past her.

Almost.

She lets off a quick burst of laughter, both her eyebrows knitting together as he takes her hand.

"You're joking," is all she says.

If she comes to find out The Doctor's been hiding the name John Who from her for all these years she is never going to let him hear the end of it.

"Don't look at me," she adds a heartbeat later, back to her fire and petulance; "I'm none too pleased being locked in one time or space myself!"

She tosses her crimson locks over her shoulder and holds her chin up high, smiling crookedly for the old man who feels both like a kindly old relative and a new challenge to mount.

"Amy Pond-Williams, galactic traveller an' best friend to a Timelord," she says by way of introduction.

[redarrowqueen]

"What kind of doctor?" Thea asked Roy. "Because I was in counseling for stabbing related fallout but that was before things took that turn." but a tiny smile escaped at Roy's joke, some things never changed like the banter she freely played with around him.

[hoodandarrow]

"We need our friends right now," Oliver says softly, "Thea is doing about as well as I am and it's been a struggle to help her and try to help myself. Thea's barely sleeping. I barely eat. We just need to know it's okay to be the broken ones for a while Roy."

[thenameisdoctorwho]

Doctor Who arched an eyebrow. "Hardly, young lady." He squinted at her, a little, then shook his head.

"Well, I'm sure I can have a conversation with whoever is doing this. They can't be more stubborn than those idiots I encountered traveling time..."

"A pleasure to meet you, Amy Pond..." He paused and stared. "a Timelord? What the heavens is that? Sounds rather an arrogant title, don't you think?"

[foreverinred]

"Both." Then he sighed, and nodded. "A better doctor, obviously." He slid an arm around her more comfortably.

"Either way, I'm here now. And that means no more hiding, no more lying." He nudged her with his hip. "No lies anymore, remember?"

[foreverinred]

"I've got your back, Oliver." A rarity, that, but he did it, here and now, using his mentor's name. "You've taken care of me, been there for me, saved me. Now it's my turn."

He nodded. He was Roy Harper, Red Arrow, Arrow, and Arsenal. He could do this.

no need to be sorry <3

[notthatpond]

Amy doesn't really have friends, maybe one or two but as most humans would put it she doesn't have friends, she knows people though. They might not have money but they do have magic. Some of them quite a lot. That's not counting the many different monsters and angels. Tricksters, jinn, various demons, not including herself. Though she didn't have magic like they did.

It was when the other Amy said her full name that she stopped. So Pond wasn't her surname, it was certainly the one she'd been using for a few years now. She'd forgotten exactly where she'd picked it from, just happened. Maybe it was time for a new name or was that what being normal was. Bumping into someone with the same name as you? Sort of the same name as you.

"Almost anything..." She really doubted that she'd get what she wanted there. But regular human food wasn't so bad for her neither was drinking. "Guess I could use a drink."

[redarrowqueen]

"No more shoving and no more lies, have to see its ok to be the tattered and broken one for now." Thea mused. "You saw me at almost total rock bottom after all, I'm just right back to the girl I was. The darker girl."

[foreverinred]

"You're always a woman to me. Always Thea. Always true." Roy grinned and then he nodded.

"Lets find a place to talk, calmly, eh?"

[hoodandarrow]

Oliver smiles and claps Roy on the shoulder. "Good, now tell me how are you feeling. It's a lot to take in at first."

[foreverinred]

"I think if it wasn't for you, and it is wasn't for the situation, I'd be overwhelmed. But, well, I'm used to operating in crazy happenings, right? As long as I have something to do, something to focus on, I'll be okay." He grinned at Oliver, that cheeky grin of his that came out sometimes.

"I'll save my breakdown for when it's my turn, later."

[redarrowqueen]

Thea pulled Roy into one of the back booths: not only was it calmer but she could hide the fact she was shaking like a leaf. "Nothing has made sense in weeks. I mean I know I'm not alone but my head and my heart are basically in a battle royale leaving my soul as damage." she attempted to explain.