Posted by Lieutenant Siennadye Nox (Counselor) in USS Korolev - Alternate Quantum Reality: Tuesday Night

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in USS Korolev - Alternate Quantum Reality: Tuesday Night

SNIP

He walked towards the doors, and they lumbered open, revealing the familiar yellow-on-black Holodeck grid. He made a point to walk pretty close to the center of the room. The door shut behind them.

“Oh,” he said, as if he had forgotten something. Casually, he handed her a pair of sunglasses. “You might want to put these on first. I don’t really need them.” If she did choose to wear them, she would find that they fit her face perfectly.

Sienna walked in behind Johann and took the offered sunglasses with a wide smile. She wasn’t surprised that they fit her perfectly. She couldn’t keep the smile off of her face and wasn’t at all shamed by her enjoyment of a good old fashioned surprise.

=/\= Computer, resume program. =/\= The computer obliged, acknowledging the situation with a series of tweeps and twerps.

The standard whoosh of the Holodeck scene rendering was quickly lost in the crashing of a wave against the shore that they were now standing on. The warmth of the golden sand that had they were now standing in was cooled by the white foam from the ocean almost sooner than they could notice. The room had vanished, replaced by the sun illuminating the world… whichever world this was. It was a world with a light blue sky, and no clouds in it. The beach itself seemed to extend forever in every direction except what must have been the west, which was occupied by both the sea and whichever star this planet orbited.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

Her happy smile changed to a suitable o of surprise and then back again. The sandy beach where they were standing was rolled over by the smallest vestiges of crashing waves, soaking her feet and making them sink a little in the pristine sand. She rotated slowly, taking in how beautiful this place was. Wind ripped gently at the tendrils of her dark hair and caused the skirt of her beach dress to billow around her legs. Then she turned her face up towards the sun, enjoying the warmth, however manufactured. For her, the magic of the holodeck was real enough. Sienna loved it.

“This is very lovely. Where is it?”

Nox, CNS

“The simplest answer to that is ‘nowhere,’” Johann said cryptically.

“This is Sandy Island, in the South Pacific Ocean on Earth. It was first discovered in the 18th century by James Cook, and several people claimed to see it in the 19th century. But then it was ‘undiscovered’ in the 21st century. Turns out it had been listed on many maps, but nobody actually verified it was there. People got very confused when satellite imagery and topographic data didn’t match. So someone actually sailed out here to find out it never really existed.”

“This is my own little program based on the idea of it actually existing. I guess I kind of have a thing for programs about places that don’t exist anymore.”

– Johann Dvorak, CO