Ten Forward | Boredom is a Many Splendered Thing (OTA)

[and_she_waited]

Oh, so the engines are working again, are they? It's about bloody time. She can feel the shift in things as she's walking Deck 11 on her way to the holodecks. She hasn't been inside one yet, but she's heard other people (mostly Rory) going on about how great they are.

"All right, Computer," she says, stopping at the entrance to one and frowning at the console. "How do you work?"

What follows is a lengthy and aggravating conversation as she works out how the holodecks work, but not what they can do. They can't recognize any of the alien planets she asks about, and there's no place on Earth she's eager to go see. Definitely not Leadworth. Definitely not Venice. She might give Provence a go, but thinking about Vincent makes her melancholy, and from there her thoughts stray.

"Computer, can you make the TARDIS?" Beep. "That location is not on file." "Computer, can you make ... Gallifrey?" Beep. "That location is not on file." "Computer, can you ... can you make The Doctor?" Beep. "Specify Doctor." "Time Lord." "That species is not on file." "You're bloody useless then, aren't you?"

Dejected, Amy gives up on the holodecks and returns to Ten Forward. It's been too long. The Doctor should have come looking for her—come looking for them—by now. Where is he? It's not like Rory's been any help, going about the ship like a little boy oohing and ahhing and talking about warp drives and tricorders and god knows what else. She doesn't even know where he is right now.

No. She's on her own with this one. Again. No come along, Pond. Now it's come along, Doctor, and bloody hurry up with the TARDIS, will you? Maybe things will be different now that the ship is moving, but whatever the case she figures she's on her own finding her way back home. She watches the stars streak past the windows, sat at a table with a cooling cup of tea. It's no big deal. She's done it before.

She just wishes she didn't have to.

Gymnasium | Deck 12 | At the heavy bag (OTA)

[stark_spangled]

There is a female Captain America on this ship from an alternate dimension.

His partner of the last two years has informed him she's actually 86 years old.

He's been running along the Volga River, Russia, in 1936, and racing motorcycles through places he's never seen before, all without leaving the ship.

His best friend (deceased) has arrived, a POW for the last seventy years thanks to HYDRA, and they've done things to him that have left him changed.

There's no way off this ship.


Steve's at the heavy bag in the gymnasium, the same place he's been for the last two and a half hours. It gives him somewhere to think, something to do, a goal to accomplish in some fancy tin can where he's about as useless as a white crayon. His mind keeps rolling back to Bucky, stuck on repeat, wondering if it's his fault, his dimension, his timeline, his world, just wondering if he left his best friend to die.

'For years... There has always been a mission. How do you sit still on this ship and do nothing?'

His blows fall harder, angrier, until the heavy bag comes off its chain with a sickening creak.


[ooc: Steve's working out some stuff, but I promise he's totally approachable. He won't try to murderate you. Honest. ^^; Grey text is taken from this thread.]

Wolf on the Holodeck

[psychowolf]

Clay has put off his change too long, he can feel the wolf coming out of his skin. Of all the places he has explored the holodeck seemed like the best place. He tells the computer to make a forest, any forest but his own. It wouldn't be right, it wouldn't be the same. How he misses Stonehaven, misses Jeremy, misses Nick, Antonio, Pete, and even Logan. He's also worried about them. What will happen to them with him here.

Already being ready for the change, adding the worry and stress, the change begins before the forest has finished. It's a pain he knows well enough to barely notice at time. It's no less painful it's just as routine as brushing his teeth. When the forest has formed he starts taking off his clothes as he finds a place in the forest to finish his change. The change itself takes about ten minutes.

When the change has finished there is a large golden wolf on the holodeck. He begins to run through this forest, working off the energy as quickly as possible.

[OOC: since no one here yet knows that he is a werewolf I would ask that you not have your pup enter while he is changing without contacting me first. I will be logged onto aim all day, username: gwynnbochanan. Thank you.]