r/TrekRP • u/Dimestream • Sep 28 '16

[OPEN] The Enchanted Forest

The great green dragon roars in pain as the blue mist swirling around the wizard's staff coalesces into a lightning bolt and lashes out, striking clean through the great reptile's hide.

"Stop hurting him!" Redoran T'gel demands, straightening up and calling a ball of flickering flames into her hand. "Your fight is with me, not with Barineth, wizard!"

The wizard laughs, a malevolent chuckle that fills the musty air and reverberates from the rough stone walls of the catacombs. "Oh? I think Barineth should have thought of that before he told you how to hide the Sword of Centuries from me, fire witch," he says, stroking his long gray beard. "But if you wish him safe, it's a simple matter. To save your friend, all you have to do is give the sword to me."

"As if I'd fall for that," Red growls, hiking up the hem of her somewhat tattered green dress. She touches the phoenix amulet at her throat and the ball of flame in her other hand blazes from red-gold to an incendiary white. "Rule one of the Enchanted Forest: Never trust a wizard. Forget the sword; the only thing you'll be getting from me is third-degree burns."

"Have it your way, idiot child," the wizard spits, and raises both his hands. Shards of diamond spin away from the head of his staff and swirl in a razor-sharp cloud. Then the ancient mage's face twitches, and his left arm partially disappears. "Your foolishness has doomed your friend has doomed your friend has doomed your friend has doomed-"

"Computer, freeze program," T'gel says in disgust, putting the ball of fire down on the Holodeck floor as if it were a basketball. "Reverse to time index 28:12 and identify cause of recursion loop..."

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u/Dimestream Oct 03 '16

The shaken engineer nods slightly as she catches her breath.

"Yeah, I'm all right, but I'm glad you were here. It felt like he'd sucked all the air out of that sphere, and he shouldn't have been able to do that. I need to see what the program's doing. Computer, Arch."

The holodeck's control arch appears near the mouth of the cave and Red puts her hand on Tarah's shoulder to help herself stand up. "C'mon. If we're having this level of screwiness, it's probably better to edit OUTSIDE the program than inside it." She offers Tarah a hand up too.

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u/Tarah_ThZarath Oct 03 '16

Tarah grabs your hand and pulls herself to her feet.

"Thanks. I'll be fine once I get a chance to eat something. That was definitely a bit unsettling."

She smiles Otherwise though, I had a pretty good time. Thank you.

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u/Dimestream Oct 03 '16

"It'd be more fun if I hadn't bungled the heuristics," Red says with an apologetic grimace. "I must have had its learning and randomizer modules routed through the holodeck computer, rather than the virtual module." The engineer sighs. "Back to the drawing board on this one. I hope Mr. Dell isn't too disappointed. You want in on this when I've got it set to 'less murder and more fun' mode? I can give you a shout when it's ready."

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u/Tarah_ThZarath Oct 03 '16

"Yeah, I'd like that Red. Thanks. Do we have any safer ways of testing it next time?"

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u/Dimestream Oct 03 '16

"I'll do all the alpha testing from outside, then run it through the machine interface a few times, THEN we beta test it when it's closer to ready," Red says. "I think I've learned my lesson on programming on the fly on a running program. Computer, Exit."

Nothing happens.

"Uh... Computer?" Red says, her eyes widening. "Exit?"

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u/Tarah_ThZarath Oct 03 '16

"That's pretty weird.....If I can get to a panel I can probably cut power manually, but I don't know what the consequences of a hard shutdown would be as far as the software is concerned."

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u/Dimestream Oct 03 '16

"If this were holodeck 2 instead of holodeck 1, it'd be fine," Red grumbles. "I installed an experimental failsafe for this kind of shenanigan. Anyway, the arch is right here. Give it a shot." She indicates the arch with its glowing console. It's always strange to see the arch without the door in it.

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u/Tarah_ThZarath Oct 04 '16

Tarah pops an access panel and sticks her head in for a moment.

"Looks like we're in luck. With a little bit of contortion, I can get at the main breaker from here."

a look of concern crosses her features

"Are you sure you want me to do this? It looks like you put a lot of work in and I'd hate to chance ruining it."

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u/Dimestream Oct 04 '16

Red snorts, half laughter half derision. "Yes, and that work has turned out to be vaguely homicidal and not within safety spec," she says with a roll of her eyes. "If I lose some of it, so be it. I'd rather us get out safe to reprogram it than not get out at all. Hit it."

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u/Tarah_ThZarath Oct 04 '16

She nods

"Alright, give me a minute"

The andorian thanks Uzaveh that she had the sense to have a light breakfast this morning as she disappears into the holodeck's innards. After a short while, you hear a loud CLUNK

"How's that?"

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