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

[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."

[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.

[of_totters_lane]

"It would appear so, and a poor one. I wonder - has something happened in the intervening centuries to prevent accurate knowledge from filtering through?"

He follows after, watching the walls.

"Keep your eye out for tripwires, Chesterton."

[splendid_roman]

That was just asking for Ian to walk into one. He didn't realise he had until he heard the sound of shifting stone and looked behind him to find the walls were closing in behind them.

He rushed over and tried to stop the stone from moving, but whatever force was behind it was stronger than he was. "Let's hope there's another way out of this maze."

[of_totters_lane]

He tried to brace it with him for a moment, wondering idly at how the 'stone' could exert pressure like that.

"There would have to be - else it wouldn't be fair, now would it?"

He had a theory about these things, that when encountered they tended to follow certain rules, especially the fictional ones.

[splendid_roman]

"Hmm," Ian said, generally unimpressed. "I feel like we're being herded into a trap." Which was only confirmed from him when the next fork of their maze revealed the left corridor to end a few metres away, leaving the right corridor as their only option.