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

[cridhe]

"Of course it is. This is the second time I have had flesh form."

Technically true.

"Though the first time I had it thrust upon me. Not unlike what you did in turning me into the Paradox machine. He called himself 'The House'. Ask me what I did to him?"

It is a dare as much as it is a promise of things that await the Master.

[paradoxlost]

He's still angry with her too, for being swallowed up by the Eye of Harmony. That incident might have had much to do with his brutal treatment of her. The Master is truing to asses what this human form can do. If she has the same kind of power in this body... he doesn't care to contemplate what she might be able to inflict on him.

"You keep away from me," he hisses at her. The Master doesn't need to ask. He knows what raw, untamed power is harnessed by a TARDIS.

[cridhe]

She smiles proudly. "And finally he understands. And Time Lords had the audacity to treat us like servants. Funny thing. All those times you tried to steal me away from my pilot and now you tell me to stay away from you."

[paradoxlost]

"Because that's what you are! A resource."

Had the Master's own TARDIS been having a conversation with him, chances are he'd still see it as an aberration. Not that he treated it as badly as he has this one. "Had the Doctor not insisted on being so.. so sentimental about you, reined you in, you wouldn't be walking and talking, or challenging your masters!"

[cridhe]

Anger and a sense of power flash through her - seeming her entire body. "You get one warning, Time Lord. And I have already granted it to you."

She raises her ungloved hand and wiggles her fingers at him, much like the Tenth Doctor might have done.

[paradoxlost]

He slips a hand into his pocket, touching the laser screwdriver - it not having occurred to him that it isn't fully operational.

"Are you provoking me?" Of course he doesn't think he can destroy a TARDIS, but some damage, surely, could be inflicted on that flesh and blood body.

[cridhe]

She knows what his hand going to his pocket means. She flinches a little. If her flesh were destroyed here, where would she go? Would she die? Fade to nothing? She still tries to hold her ground.

"I have no need or reason to provoke you."

[paradoxlost]

The slight flinch tells the Master she's not necessarily indestructible. It's as close to any kind of upper hand he suspects he'll gain, regarding this strange new personification.

He also believes she has reason enough to inflict damage on him. After all, choosing one's words is his forte. The lack of desire for provocation does not amount to a lack of desire for revenge. The laser screwdriver remains in his pocket. For now.

"We're trapped in a finite space together. It's to our mutual advantage to refrain from tearing lumps out of each other. Now, if you'll excuse me. I'm going to have a very large scotch, and then I'll find myself a Doctor."

[cridhe]

Cridhe considers his statement and replies with a truth. "If I am in any sense trapped. It is only because of something that came here with me."

She simply has her powers reduced and she knows it. She's quite certain any the Doctors would be able to figure it out, given time. Her voice drops and becomes a bit menacing.

"I would think that my not dividing all of your atoms is much more to your advantage than to mine. But, please, feel free to have a drink. As for finding the Doctor. There are four of him here, it should not be too difficult."

[paradoxlost]

"Not lasering off your limbs is probably a desirable outcome for you too, wouldn't you say?"

Outnumbered. Fantastic. Five to one including this little novelty. The phrase 'kill me now' springs to mind, but the Master isn't going to voice it, even in jest. "Goody. Can't wait."

[cridhe]

"Providing your laser screwdriver even works. Many of us have found our devices our abilities limited since our arrival."

Not said as a challenge, simply informative. Best he not jest about that with her around. She might take it as an offer. She smiles.

"It is rather good."