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: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III | How to Train your Dragon Franchise

[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.

[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.