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TEST DRIVE #16 - Turbolifts and Ten Forward
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.
002 - Sorry-not-sorry Pete
"Indeed, this would the Enterprise. Welcome aboard, as they say." There was a sparkle in her eyes. And she would never admit it out loud, or at least not out loud to Pete or anyone that might tell him, but Helena had missed him. While sometimes his playfulness and childish behavior irritated her, he was a genuinely good guy, and she did like being around him at times.
Though sometimes he did remind her a little too much of her brother, Charles, and those were the times when she just wanted to slap him. But that was just Pete being Pete. If women didn't want to slap him now and again, there was something wrong, right? Right.
Haay Ms. Helene, do your thang!
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"Aw, man," he whines. "Don't tell me you're the one who came up with the idea for Star Trek? Don't ruin it for me!" His priorities are in order as always.
He won't always admit it himself, but he does like H.G. You know, when she's not being an evil bitch bent on destroying the world. Myka has had to remind him more than once that she's not that person anymore, and after their last encounter Pete has to admit he's on board with it. It doesn't mean he's going to lower his guard completely, but he does prefer thinking about what she's doing with her new girl-toy rather than wondering if she's trying to blow up the Warehouse. Don't tell him that thing about Charles, though. Or the slapping thing. He respectfully disagrees, thank you very much.
"What are you doing here? Scratch that," he says, lifting a finger. "What are we doing here? I feel like an Enterprise artifact is something I'd remember."
Just you watch!
Which could prove to be a headache, but Helena would try to explain it anyway. It would, at least, detract from her having to say this was the second universe she'd been kidnapped to in the past year or so. And whichever "girl-toy" Pete thought she had, she wasn't privy to that information from home. She did, however, have a girlfriend here.
"It is not the doing of an Artifact, of that I can assure you. There is a being by the name of Q who is responsible for pulling us out of our respective times and places and bringing us here for his own amusement. Though he obviously has some intention with us since there are people here from all manner of realities and universes."
Oh ho! Challenge accepted
He touches a bishop while Helena tries to explain things and then remembers he's supposed to be listening. "You're kidding, right?" he says without looking away from the game. Come on, this whole place screams artifact! How else can you explain the starship Enterprise 1701-D (yes he knows the specs) showing up in South Dakota? It's not like it's on the way to Riverside, Iowa. Or... La Barre, France. But nobody has a Jean-Luc Picard statue in their squares in La Barre, France, if that even is a real place.
Wasn't he in the middle of doing something? Hmm... Oh, right! Listening.
"No way," he shouts, back bowed and balled fists pressing ever-so-gently into his eyeballs as soon as she mentions Q. This has got to be a joke. Claudia bagged and tagged something and before she got it back to the Warehouse she and H.G. decided to play a little trick on him, right? Come on, man. This can't be real! "So wait a minute, you're telling me this is real? All of this?" He sweeps his hand around the room ... and touches a knight. "We're not in some, like, extended universe novel or comic or... something?"
He accidentally knocks over the queen and in his rush to pick her up he destroys the whole third tier of the game in play. He starts apologizing to the players as he works out where all of the pieces were.
no subject
So of course as Pete clearly got distracted, she tried to not sigh. She kept her hands to herself, however, and was trying to remain focused on explaining the situation.
"No, I am not kidding. I am not certain what point in time in our world you are from, but I am relatively certain whichever point it was, I was no where near the Warehouse. So considering that, even if you were near an Artifact before arriving here, it is fairly impossible that I would have been affected by the same Artifact." Well. There could be an explanation for that. "Unless for reasons I really do not want to know, you think about me often enough that I would show up in an Artifact-induced state." Yeah she kind of wanted to throw up at just thinking about that.
Moving on.
"Afraid not, this is, indeed, a reality. I was brought here the same way you were. One moment I was...elsewhere, and the next I was here." She had a momentary pause before saying elsewhere as she'd almost said Niflheim. But she didn't need to mention any of that yet. Pete was confused enough already. She didn't need to completely fry his brain in one fell swoop.