ten_fwd_meme | TEST DRIVE #15 - Holodeck and Ten Forward

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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Helena had come into the lounge to get a drink and try to mellow herself out enough that she could sleep. Or sleep easier, anyway. Her insomnia had been running away with her while she'd been on the Enterprise. And really, it had been running away with her in Niflheim during the time she'd been on the Egime. She knew Zoey was worried about her, she was worried about herself at this point, but she still didn't want to go to a doctor and seek treatment. Because that most likely meant medication and she really didn't want to take it.

As it was, she was sitting with a drink and trying to figure things out when she heard a familiar voice call out. For a moment, Helena thought she was hearing things. After all, it had been over a year since she'd last seen Myka. Though this time that was not because she'd kept her distance and went to make a normal life for herself somewhere away from the Warehouse, it had been because the Grasp had taken her to Niflheim, and then Q had taken her from Niflheim.

Looking up, Helena realized she wasn't hallucinating, that Myka was there, standing a little ways off, but it was definitely her. Helena stared for a moment, not knowing how her friend would react to her presence, but she got up and moved towards her anyway.

"Myka?" The look on Helena's face was the telltale relief that came with seeing a friend for the first time in ages. She was happy, if having telltale signs she was exhausted. Her hair was also rather long, too long for her own liking, and she badly needed a haircut. She just hadn't done anything about that yet.

Edited 2015-10-17 22:48 (UTC)

Now it was Myka's turn to think that she was hallucinating. She froze, closing her eyes because this could not be happening. Who was she kidding, of course, it could be happening. She worked in the Warehouse she had seen much stranger things than this. She opened her eyes again and smiled.

Her brow furrowed a little as she took in her appearance. She looked tired and that concerned Myka greatly.

"I didn't think I would see you again. How are you?"

A smile was certainly a good sign. Considering how long Helena had spent amongst people who could be pulled from any point in time, she wasn't going to assume that Myka was from the same point in time she had been. The smile told her that she was a welcome sight, and Myka wasn't from the time around Yellowstone.

"I did not think I would see you again either, though that is due to the powers existing in the multiverse seeing fit to take me away from Earth than anything else." Helena had needed distance from the Warehouse, she still harbored a lot of anger and resentment towards it. It also still felt like a prison to her after having been in the Bronze Sector for over a century. The time in Niflheim, and now here on the Enterprise, had mellowed her on that if only because she didn't have to worry about Artifacts ruining the life she tried to build for herself, and she didn't have to hide who she really was like she did where she and Myka were from.

"I have been better, but I have also been far worse," she answered honestly. Myka was one of the few people she could never lie to. Besides, she couldn't quite hide the whole looking exhausted aspect very well. "How are you?"

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?"

"I would not say that I am keeping something from everyone, just something from most everyone." After all, Zoey was aware of what was bothering her, of her sleep issues. It was difficult to hide those things from not only one's girlfriend, but also one's roommate. Her body language changed, allowing her posture to sag a bit, letting Myka see she wasn't going to hide things from her. After all, she didn't know what point in time Myka had come from.

"Nevertheless, being on a starship in deep space without proper sun and divide between day and night is wreaking havoc on my sleep-wake cycle. Though those issues also had begun before I arrived here." Really, it had all started on the Egime, being confined to a ship that had no windows and weeks could pass between dockings. The Enterprise at least had windows, and it had a lot more room and more things to occupy her. But her sleep was being effected, and it was almost to the point where she'd consider going to a doctor.

Which was Helena speak for she should have gone to the doctor weeks earlier.

TEST DRIVE #15 - Holodeck and Ten Forward

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