TEST DRIVE #16 - Turbolifts and Ten Forward

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Option 001. Trapped in a Turbolift: This space travel thing is new to you, and you're starting to think the ship is purposely out to get you. A turbolift is just a grandiose name for an elevator, which should be the safest way to travel after all! But someone out there is out to get you, you're sure of it. Because the next thing you know, the lights flicker and the lift grinds to a stop. You're trapped, with whomever was unlucky enough to be in the lift with you.

It could be hours before you're rescued. These turbolifts span the entire massive ship, and don't just travel straight up and down. No, they can travel horizontally, vertically, sometimes even diagonally. You could be stuck between any deck now. There is a small access panel on one of the smooth walls, but how good are you with getting these things to work? Let's not forget that sudden stop tossed everyone around a little, and people could be hurt. Time to put your emergency thinking cap on, and make friends with the people beside you fast. You could be the only way back to freedom.

Conversely, you could slide that pack of cards out of your pocket and start a rousing game of gin rummy. Really it's up to you.







Option 002. Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, minding your own business, and now you're on a spaceship in the middle of a crowded room! It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens, and some of the food is looking rather strange too.

You've managed to land in Ten Forward. A long bar with barstools and a bartender span one side of the room, with a bank of strange computers on that same wall. It looks like people are ordering food and drinks from them. Tables are sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but floor to ceiling windows with a view out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.

Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.

Comments

[the_blood]

"You could always ask," she pointed out, rolling her eyes. "Males," she muttered under her breath, shaking her head.

"In that, she is right," Theiorn said. "Ask what you want about this place, if we can answer, we will."

[kaylinneya]

"No mortals had until it rained blood the first time. Hopefully everyone who is a mortal now will be dead before they come again."

*****ed closed mouthed Barrani and Dragons, not telling them in time to be of any use.

"They weren't fun," she added, making a face. She was irritated just at the memory.

[resistancepilot]

"It sounds like they wouldn't have been."

He remembers that the creature is trying to hide behind him. "Do you need some help catching it?"

[resistancepilot]

"Alright, so where are we then?" A quick look around the place reminds him that it's new to him, and obviously not where he intended to be. "And how did I get here?"

[kaylinneya]

"It's probably better to not get it angry. If it bites you, I'll have to strangle it, and I'm not fully certain it can die." Of course, there was some speculation into Kaylin's own mortality at this point.

[the_blood]

"This is the lounge of the Enterprise. It's, well, they claim it is a ship that sails through stars as though they were water," Theiorn said. He floated a carafe and a glass to the stranger. "Feel free," he offered. He had no clue that made him look like a Force user. He had no clue what the Force was.

"It is commanded by Picard, the Warlord Prince of the Enterprise," Ailyshia said. "They call it Captain. We serve him while we are here."

"Can you tell how thrilled she is about that?" Theiorn said dryly. "We were brought here by a powerful being called Q, I would say male from the stories we have heard, but it is hard to believe any male would have that much power."

She nodded, for once agreeing with him.

"And even if he did, even the most powerful males are always beholden to a female, always serve. The more powerful the male, the stronger the need to serve."

[youwillbe]

A little green creature in a sailor suit turns to look at her. The Force is strong with her, there was no question of that. Yet he had no idea who she might be. Another strange thing about time here, it would seem. "Yoda I am called. The Enterprise, this vessel is. Far from our galaxy, we have found ourselves."

[rhapsoidein]

"Yes, I've heard of aliens," She snorted slightly. Part of it was inside of her, but it was probably best not to say that. Still, she hadn't heard of one teleporting like this. "What makes you and I so special?"

It was downright creepy, to be quite honest. Random teleporting, fine, Genesis could deal with that. But from an alien she has never met? And what for? What was the reason?

[diplomaticsolutions]

She pressed her cheek against his palm, a smile lingering there. The man before her was the man she had fallen in love with, the man she loved with her whole being. In a way, it did almost seem too good to be true. All she had ever wanted was him, and here he was, himself, not looking on her with such negative emotions, but with love.

For now... For now she did want to linger in that, to be selfish. Didn't she deserve at least that? "It's because my love for you grows daily in turn."

[nosmallfry]

"Then love must truly be the greatest power in the Force, if it can continually improve upon and redefine perfection."

His stomach reminded him quietly that they had come there to eat, or rather, that he was meant to meet her somewhere so they could eat. He would rather just drink in the sight of her, but he should obey his stomach before it became any more insistent.

"If this is not the resteraunt I expected, how is the food here?" he asked her, his gaze still on her eyes, still loving, as though the words of food had little to do with the moment they were in.

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[radishearring]

"You're in space for one thing!" came the voice of a girl a little older than Hiccup dressed in jeans and a pink coat. What would stand out is the fact she's wearing radishes as earrings,"You're onboard the Starship Enterprise and I'm Luna." she added to explain her statement. "And need a hand?" fishing her wand from her hair if aid was indeed needed.

[spare_legs]

Hiccup turned towards the voice, not recognising it at all. Still unable to see due to the sack over his head, she also couldn't see him and his confused expression. What in Thor's name was a Starship Enterprise?

"Er, yes please...Luna." He was still struggling with the bonds that tied his hands. Those twins were going to get an earful when he got back to the Edge.

[radishearring]

With a scary level of ease Luna casts a simple charm to remove the bag and bond from Hiccup. "That help any?" she called?

[spare_legs]

The light in the room was bright and Hiccup used his now free hands to shield himself for a moment while his eyes adjusted.

"Yeah. Thanks." He finally answered, looking around and standing up. This was like nothing he'd ever seen before. He quickly checked his leg was working before looking back at his rescuer. Not the strangest person he'd ever seen, considering Gobber, but certainly getting towards that end of the scale.

"I'm Hiccup. Where did you say we were?"

[radishearring]

"Starship Enterprise." Luna explained. "To make a long and somewhat insane story short: we got grabbed by a being called Q and well people are from all over the place time period wise. Like I come from late 1990's Europe." she attempted to explain more.

[spare_legs]

Hiccup is still lost. Very lost. He didn't understand what she was saying at all. So he tried the direct approach.

"Which way is Berk?" Because who wouldn't know where Berk was.

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[kaylinneya]

A child... sort of.... tied up. Kaylin rushed over and knelt to cut his arms free, then pulled the sack from his head.

"You're fine now," she said simply. "Are you hurt anywhere?" There was a gentleness to her, he was close enough to being a child to trigger it. Most people never saw the unguarded look she now wore, the open concern. No one ever did, unless there was a child nearby. With the children, and in the Tha'alaan. These were the only situations in which Kaylin Neya compleatly dropped her guard.

[diplomaticsolutions]

His question did redirect her train of thought and her focus shifted off to the side. It was a little motion that she made towards a part of the establishment. "They have what is called replicators here. It can reproduce various foods, both those I know and those that are foreign."

Her gaze moved back to Anakin then, giving a shrug of her shoulders. "For the most part, it is good? There are some foods that I certainly won't try again, but it is much better than rations."

[nosmallfry]

"I would shudder to think of a food that wasn't," he said with a small smile. "How do they work? And what would you recommend? They do take galactic credits, I presume." He wanted to be sure of that, that he could pay for their meal. He wasn't certain he could convince a droid that their meal should be free, if it came to that.

[spare_legs]

Hiccup winced as the light hit his eyes while his hands rubbed at his wrists. He clearly wasn't on the Edge and he'd never seen this woman before. She seemed friendly enough though so he carefully stood up and shook his head.

"Er...nowhere new." He chuckled, because of his leg. "Thanks for that." He turned in a circle, trying to figure out where he was but failing. He looked very lost and confused.

[kaylinneya]

She didn't know if she could heal a lost limb, but she was pretty sure she couldn't. She couldn't heal scars.

She nodded, though. "You're welcome. Do you need any other help? Any food?"

[spare_legs]

Hiccup didn't know what to say. Usually he was the one offering aid. "You haven't seen a dragon, have you? Large black thing with a saddle?" He didn't want to start shouting for Toothless through the crowd.

[kaylinneya]

She had opened her mouth to answer until his second question. Then her jaw just stayed open for a long moment before she sputtered, incredulously, you... put.... a saddle...on...a DRAGON?!" How the *****s was this kid still alive? She wanted to pull him back and protect him, though she was realistic enough to know that would just make it so that she died a moment before him.

And then the rest of the sentence caught up with her. She only knew of one black Dragon. Makuron. Fear - mostly for him - filled her face, and she moved over more protectively.

[diplomaticsolutions]

"It's fairly simple, really. You just walk up to them and state what you want, although it's better to be clear. If you say tea, you should say what kind, and whether warm or cold." Padmé did give a shake of her head though. "No. They don't even know what those are here. There is no cost, at least I haven't come across anything that has had a price tag attached to it."

[nosmallfry]

"No cost?" the former slave asked, a bit startled. "They ask for service in exchange, then?" He rose and offered his arm to her, to help her rise so they could go and see this machine. It sounded interesting. He wanted to investigate it. But more, he wanted to spend time learning something new from her.