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.

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Re: rey ( star wars: tfa ) spoilers!!!

[agathaheterodyne]

Agatha had been sitting at a nearby table, surrounded by parts and tools, goggles over her eyes that would have made Mas envious. She looked up when the hand was offered to her, and pushed the goggles up. she offered a grease covered hand and shook what was offered.

"Agatha," she said, as she claimed her hand back. She waved it to the seat across from her. She very specifically was not giving her last name.

A small little clank, looking like the bittiest droid ever, climbed up to the top of the table and looked between them, then walked over to Agatha and took one of the small cogs she had been working on, and set it into the device she was building, taking over the work while she chatted.

[indecisions]

Rey would probably have commenced a lot of pestering questions regarding the bar, her arrival there, how it all happened et cetera et cetera had it not been for the timely entrance of the little droid. Her face immediately lights up, and she drops down slightly until her head is near-level with the table so as to better look at the little thing.

"Oh my, he's amazing. Does he have a name?" she asks, glancing from Agatha to her droid and back again. "Do you have a name, little guy?"

[agathaheterodyne]

"What?" Agatha asked, blinking, then followed her line of sight. "Oh, that's Dingbot Prime. The first thing I ever made that actually worked." Well, she wasn't too sure about when she had been a child. SOMETHING had prompted her uncle to make the mind disruption device that kept her stupid for ten years.

The dingbot turned and looked at Rey, then glanced back at Agatha questioningly. Aggie nodded and the dingbot walked over to Rey, inspecting her while letting her inspect it.