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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Because I cannot resist..... (And am watching the orginal episodes with my father)

[professorsong]

The doors would slide open. River had wanted to check out this holodeck technology, but when the doors opened, she stopped, seeing him.

Oh, she knew who this had to be... but... how? Just to be sure, she pulled her notebook - Tardis blue and designed to look like the sides of that beloved blue box. She flipped through the pages, looked at her image of him, and... her notes. Then closed the book with a grin.

"Well. Maybe it is my birthday after all," she said with a flirty smile.

Oh. This would be fun.

(Originals are pretty great in their way)

[of_totters_lane]

He looks up, and nods.

"ah, hello there. Tell me, are you...employed here?"

It never hurts to check, after all. She doesn't look hostile, far from it. And since she isn't in the process of warning others, screaming in alarm, running, or aiming a weapon, that ensures a more positive result.

posted from my iPad, please excuse errors and brevity

[professorsong]

She tapped the book against her lips, waiting for him to notice, as she smiled. "Early days indeed. No, I am not employed here, no more than you are, Doctor."

Because really, what fun is it seeing your husband almost a thousand years before he meets you, if you can't be a mystery to him, if you can't mess with his head. Blimey, though, to see him so young. That was something she had never expected. Well well well. Just one more little gift from time and space.

So much better than being dead. Or whatever it was she was being.

I will somehow live :P

[of_totters_lane]

"Ah, you know me then, well well - that narrows down the possibilities."

Not all of them good. Traps are a thing that he encounters with fairly staggering regularity.

He stands tall, hands going to his lapels.

"You have the advantage of me - who are you, if I may ask?"

Re: I will somehow live :P

[professorsong]

Narrows down the possibilities? Oh, he had no idea. Still, to see him so young. It was its own special kind of wonderful.

"Spoilers," she warned, with a smile. "But you can call me River. River Song."

[of_totters_lane]

Young, unique, something else entirely, really. Regeneration was a process, and it was believed to be something like photocopying copies. Something was lost each time. It was a strange trade. You gained experience but grew a little thinner.

"Hmph," he said, sizing her up. Well, she didn't seem a threat, but he didn't like such reticence. Spoilers?

"Well. I suppose I need to ask you other questions you already know the answer to - where precisely am I?"

[professorsong]

"In that, I'm afraid I'm as clueless as you are, sweetie. But then, that's fun, we can explore together."

She grinned, and she couldn't help herself. "Like companions."

[of_totters_lane]

Sweetie?

"Well, better not to go alone," he replied, intrigued despite himself. Though it was all a little silly, wasn't it? A masquerade being acted out obviously, like a farce. She clearly knew him well, but was saying precious little.

But damned if that wasn't precisely what piqued his interest to find out what lay at the far end of the line.

"Companions? Well, as good a term as any," he replied, striding forward, ready to explore.

[professorsong]

She moved to walk along side him, while still letting him take the lead, make the decisions. For now. Sometimes the Doctor needed to be led, sometimes he needed to be followed, he always should be heeded, but sometimes he was just too muh fun to watch. And while this might be an old face of his, as she hadn't seen it yet, it was new to her.

So much to learn. Oh, she could always look back at her notes, remember what she already knew, but why? When this was ever so much more fun, why?

"So, tell me about yourself, Doctor. Tell me something you think I could not possibly know, see if you can surprise me." Wouldn't that be a fun game?

[of_totters_lane]

He stops, then, turning to her. A hand goes to his lapel, looking at her with all the authority of a wrathful and not particularly forgiving god.

The better class, of course. Not the sort with tentacles.

"Young lady, you may seem to know me at first glance, but I am not in the habit of giving away bits of my life history and personal anecdotes to people I have just met. Now, I am all for mystery in one's life, but I will not take on mere account that you are a force for good in this situation - or my existence."

[professorsong]

She burst out with a brilliant smile, as though his response was exactly what she hoped for.

"Alright then, Doctor. I shall earn everything I learn. I look forward to it."

[of_totters_lane]

He nodded, then strode off again - with no clear idea where he was going, but in all his lives that mere accident of fact was never going to stop him.

"Very well, then. Do keep up."

[professorsong]

She nodded, doing just that. "I will always do my best to keep up with you," she said. The word sweetie danced on her lips, but never escaped them. She'd run with the Doctor too long to be that careless. Blimey he was young, though. It showed the most in his eyes. Such young eyes, so unburdened.

And she realized that this might be the first chance she's ever had to be with the Doctor that wasn't either the occasion of her death, or after he knew how and when she would die. His eyes had looked young in the Library too; and it saddened her to think she was to blame for some of the weariness in him that made him seem so much older.

"So?" she asked, shaking her hair, to shake off any melancholy before the Doctor could become aware of it. "Where to?" my love

[of_totters_lane]

Thankfully for her efforts, he was concentrated on the environment around them. He pointed with his cane.

"This way, I should think. And you can begin by telling me everything you know about this place, hmm?"

And he was off again, a certain subtle spring in his step. Old he may look, and old in this body he may be - but the Doctor was always the Doctor.

Just more or less crotchety depending on incarnation.

[professorsong]

"Now, if I had it, that would be information I could give you," she said, though she sounded more amused than disappointed. Then she grinned, a bit of a reckless thing, really. "This place is a mystery to us both."

[of_totters_lane]

"Hmph," he says, setting off again, taking in every detail.

"Clearly a starship - though whether it is civilian or military..."

There was much to consider about this place. The architecture certainly seemed civilian, but there was more to it than that, though it was difficult to put his finger on it.

"Perhaps both."

[professorsong]

"Both is always fun," she said. "Gives us something to stop and something to protect." Well, gives him something to protect and something to stop. Her idea of fun when she's on her own, didn't match his.

For her, there would be much more flirting, fighting, and guns. But anything with the Doctor beat anything on her own.

[of_totters_lane]

For a moment, he almost smiles, then casts a look at her, as if reappraising. Well, certainly the right attitude.

"We shall see, certainly," he replied, turning a corner.

"Such bland architecture," he said, trying very hard to pretend the previous moment hadn't happened and that she hadn't seen it.

[professorsong]

Ah but she had, Doctor. She had indeed. River has spent multiple lifetimes making a study of the Doctor, and she was keeping a watch - sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly - learning this new face, this new Doctor. This young, old Doctor.

"Well, it would look better in blue," she said with a grin, glancing out of the corner of her eye.

[of_totters_lane]

"Hmph," he responded, letting only an ounce of amusement onto his face. "Most things would."

She knew of him, certainly. Enough to be charming. He wasn't at all sure what that meant.

[professorsong]

She grinned a bit at him. "Maybe hints of white for accent?" She was having fun.

[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."

[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.

[of_totters_lane]

"Madam!" he said, wiping away with a handkerchief in case.

"Do control yourself. Taking such a liberty. Really."

[professorsong]

"So old fashioned, for one so young," she teased. "Oh, Doctor, whatever shall I do with you?"