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

[indecisions]

Rey doesn't recognise Poe, she hasn't actually met him yet at this stage. It's unfortunate really, to be this close to one of the few people who knows what she's really going through and to not at all be aware of it, but such is life. At any rate, luck would have it that they meet anyway, just in unlikely circumstances. Rey's still milling about with her drink when she spots the flight suit, and she's so determined to talk to the person wearing it that she actually ends up slopping the contents of her glass all down the back of someone a few feet away from Poe.

She quickly apologises, of course, but it doesn't seem to do much and a loud argument quickly breaks out. Rey is shuffling and apologising, and before it can turn violent she quickly ducks and darts in and out of the crowd until she loses sight of the person. With that loud, attention grabbing commotion, it's only a matter of time before she finds Poe again, and she grins as she points at his suit.

"I've seen one of those before," she says, without so much as a hello, "Ages ago. Are you a pilot?"

okay so I guess this is turning into spoilers

[resistancepilot]

He doesn't know what started the commotion, but he does see the girl darting around in the middle of it. He doesn't know who she is, either, or have any idea that she's the one Finn organized the rescue mission to find. She's quick on her feet though, and probably good in a fight. Information that he stores away in case it's ever needed.

"I am. The best in the resistance." It's not bragging. It's a fact, the one that caused him to be selected to go after the information that could lead General Organa to Luke Skywalker. A fact that even Kylo Ren had picked up from somewhere.