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

[nosmallfry]

Whoever this girl was, she wasn't Padmè, so her presence irritated him. Someone could get the wrong idea; Padmè could get the wrong idea. He felt a sense of the Force around her, and stifled a groan, barely. She didn't dress like a padawan; did she think that was enough to fool him?

"I'm not taking on students," he informed her flatly, aware he was being blunt. Doubtless, she would go whining to Master Windu, and he'd get an earful later about behavior unbecoming of a Jedi. That was later, though. Now it would be worth it to get rid of her before anyone saw them together.

Of course, now he was thinking about students. Would the stuffy council let him teach, or keep insisting that he wasn't ready yet? He would ask Padmè and Palpatine what they thought. He might ask JarJar too, and just do the opposite.

[indecisions]

"Students?" The irritation doesn't surprise her - who really likes being interrupted by strangers - but his response clearly does. "Are you a teacher? That's not what I'm looking for. Do you know Jakku? Have you been to the Niima Outpost?"

Obviously the only way forward is to repeat her question, a little slower, as if that will somehow help him understand her and vice versa. She doesn't understand this vague familiarity that comes with recognising another Force-sensitive, and simply thinks he must have visited the outpost - or maybe he'd been in Maz's bar and she just hadn't realised that she'd seen that face. There had to be a reasonable, non-magical balancing power that fuels the fight of good and evi explanation. The Jedi weren't real, those lightsaber visions hadn't been real. There was a reasonable explanation for all of this weirdness, she just had to find it.

[nosmallfry]

Yes, he was certainly getting irritated now. He spied an unattended decanter of water on the bar and reached for it, using the Force to bring it to his hand. Master Obi Wan would be irritated with him if he saw that, but if Master Obi Wan were here, he could have foisted this youngling off on him.

"I have never been to the Niima Outpost, and I do not know who, what, or where Jakku is. Did you need help finding your way back to the Temple?" he asked, a bit acidly. He might have been kinder, in fact, he probably would have been, if he wasn't afraid of this becoming a problem for him and Padmè. He would do anything to protect her, from anything. Even the pain of a misunderstanding.

Of course, if this was the Council trying to break things up between them, if they thought it was a good idea to hurt her to break his attachment... well then... he would have more than just things to say to whoever was involved.