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[stellationing]

Leave me a scenario (one of your own or choose from here) and include any particular preferences as well if you wish.

Or, if you want to just leave a comment with a picture or a word as a prompt and suggest which muse of mine you want, that works too! I might just be a bit slow with those.

Make a reply asking for anyone here on the subject title.

If you choose a character on the maybe list, I will definitely be slow with them.

If you know a specific "verse" of character you want, specify. If it's a cross-canon scene and you don't specify, you might get a CR AU.

Alternately, if you'd rather place a comment on the muse's contact post. Or if you want to do something a little more privately, let me know and I'll set something up elsewhere.

Go to the RNG if you don't have a specific scenario in mind.

Have fun!

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[lifelines]

There were, quite literally, a thousand things he could have done that would have been worse than what he had. Though Nikola had earned Helen's very pointed stare, it was expected and not the worst thing he could have done. Helen might be mildly frustrated, but she is far from outright angry. This is something they can handle.

She does, however, roll her eyes in response as they move forward through the streets. Of course he would prefer to be Holmes. Naturally. She's starting to think that this might not have been the best endeavor if she didn't want to feed his ego.

"Don't let it go to your head," she mutters, glancing around the streets and gently tugging Nikola in the direction of Baker Street.

It's unfortunate that they won't get very far with this, as the holodeck program flickers for a few seconds, causing Helen to stop in her tracks. It... wasn't supposed to do that.

She manages to get out, "What in the world," before the program flickers again and everything freezes. Helen and Nikola can still move about, but nothing else is working and when she calls for the computer to show the exit, nothing happens.

Nothing happens at all. The whole holodeck seems to be broken and, for the moment, the two of them are stuck inside.

"Bloody hell."

[vampere]

To be fair, neither of them had really known who they were going to be, before stepping into the simulation proper. Not to mention that Tesla, at least, isn't familiar with any particular renditions of the story where Dr. Watson had been female. But neither is he familiar enough with holodecks to know when and where their programmed to make slight changes in the way things had been laid out in the story - not to mention for all he knows, the computer generated characters are seeing her as a man.

(Which is an interesting thought, and one he might have to look into later.)

It's the flickers that catch his attention first, although - as ever - it's Helen who manages to succinctly sum up the situation. He agrees with her assessment too, or rather the unspoken comment that none of this bodes well. He might certainly have been able to convince the program that they'd had a bit of money all along, but this is something entirely different.

"It is fascinating, though. Worrying, yes. But still fascinating."

[lifelines]

"Fascinating enough to get stuck in here?" Helen questions, looking around to see if the exit is showing yet. Luckily, at least one of them helped develop this technology, so whatever has happened shouldn't prove impossible to fix. Difficult, certainly, but not impossible.

"Computer, exit," she commands. Again, nothing happens. She sighs in frustration. They're stuck. A rattling somewhere off in the direction of Baker Street tells her that either someone is trying to get in through a side maintenance shaft or they're trying to pry open the doors. Either way, at least they know that someone is trying to get this fixed.

"Looks like we're stuck in here. We need to find a way out. Do you think you can use your magnetism again, like you did in the computer system in Old City?" It won't quite be the same, but it might at least be a good attempt. Better than sitting around here to wait for a rescue.

And while she made a conscious effort not to phrase the magnetic question the same way she had back then, she still manages not to phrase it in a way that doesn't leave things wide open for him.

[vampere]

"Fascinating because we're stuck in here," he answers, mostly as a correction. It might not have been anything they'd intended to come out of this evening - or at least, nothing he had intended to come out of it - but that doesn't mean there might not be unique opportunities all the same. And given that he's heard the rattling in the distance, he's fairly certain that they're only going to have so much time to learn whatever they can by this.

On the other hand, he supposes it's probably a good thing that someone's noticed that things aren't exactly running as they should be. Even if he isn't entirely certain if someone breaking into the system from the outside would be a good thing just at the moment.

But that's a minor consideration. Especially given that despite her best efforts to the contrary, she has given him the same sort of opening that she did so many years ago, when they were stuck inside a different sort of computer system.

"Mmm, I'm not sure. Would you say you were experiencing some attraction, just at the moment?"

The tone of his voice is more than enough to imply what he's getting at, although the unspoken 'or should I try harder' is all but audible all the same, especially given the grin that accompanies his comment.

(He'll get back to the actual question she's asked in just a moment.)

[lifelines]

Helen doesn't even bother to answer right away. Her immediate reaction to his innuendo is to berate herself inwardly for leaving herself wide open to that one. Perhaps if they weren't in this particular situation, she might be more open to it and willing to banter back with him; she has, after all, loosened up in her old age. However, with things the way they currently are, the most she wants to do is get on with finding a solution.

"Focus, Nikola," she says instead of any of this. "We need to find an access panel. From there we can access diagnostics." If the computer can tell them what's wrong, they have a chance of fixing it easily. Otherwise, this will get very difficult very quickly.

Either way, she starts towards the back wall. They might not have built this holodeck -- no one on the station did, seeing as the station itself was a Cardassian station built during the Occupation of Bajor -- but they have seen enough of the technology of this century to figure it out. Eventually, her hands run across a panel that she pries off. "Here we are. Let's see what we can find here, shall we?"

Nikola might stand the better chance of actually doing anything with the system due to his abilities, but Helen is on hand for advice and bouncing ideas.

[vampere]

He notices it too, the way she doesn't offer something in return. It's not necessarily out of the ordinary, not when the entirety of their lives are taken as a whole, but it is unusual. Especially these days, when he's come to take her having loosened up somewhat rather in stride. But he doesn't blame her either. Flirting aside, even he has to admit that it's not exactly an ideal situation. Not when they can't exactly stay indefinitely - the holodeck might be all well and good, but he's pretty sure it can't do anything about the fact that they do still need to eat.

(And he highly doubts that this particular story is one that is particularly well-geared to dealing with his... unique dietary needs.)

Still, he follows her without so much as a second thought. With everything frozen at it is, he can't very well track any spikes in the power grid like he did the last time they were trapped in a virtual reality. But an access panel is good enough. Or perhaps even more than, considering that it's a much more direct way to get at the system than anything he'd been dealing with earlier.

"Well. It's not exactly a system I can claim to be familiar with. But it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's gone wrong."

Not when he has his electromagnetism to call on, and this is - if nothing else - a much more benign use of than what he'd done earlier, as he places a hand gently on the wall not far from the panel. It'll take time, yes, but they should still have that, if nothing else.

(And it's certainly not as if the still-frozen characters are going to be so much as the slightest danger, besides.)

[lifelines]

Helen watches carefully, taking note of what she can see of Nikola's efforts from this side. She has a feeling that whatever he's trying to do isn't going as well as the last time they had to do something like this. Or, rather, it's going about the same.

She may regret making that comparison later.

"I wouldn't be so certain of that. It is a Cardassian system," she points out. The Cardassians are known to the Bajorans for being ruthless and she's heard stories of how finicky the station itself can be. Still, this is Nikola working on it. How hard can it be?

She'll regret that thought later, as well.

"Was the power supply somehow interrupted? Can you tell?"

While he works, she keeps an eye out for the characters in the program, just in case he should get it restarted. The last thing they need is a repeat of her entrance into 1898 London. The second time.