The Sereni-TREE among dandelions

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THEREALME

Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:51 PM

Well, a new thread, our 28th!! Here is the previous one: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=11136

I have made the decision to move us back to the Talk Story forum, since that is where this series of threads started long, long ago. I feel that is where we belong, since we are not really having “General Discussions” about Firefly or Serenity.

Here is the summary of what has gone before:

SoulofSerenity’s evil counterpart, DarkSoul, created a False Sereni-Tree (the Adelai Niska), kidnapped most of our womenfolk over to that ship, and then split off evil clones from Our Heroes. After some confusion as to what was going on, Our Heroes made their way to the False Sereni-Tree by means of their own powers or the three shuttles, fought to recover their friends, faced and conquered their dark selves, and departed before the Cozenroaches could finish eating the False Sereni-Tree.

The last major conflict of the “DarkSoul” plotline was when EvilSimonWho kidnapped ThatWeirdGirl. SimonWho defeated his dark self by (temporarily) stopping his own heart with a needle! The EvilSimonWho dissipated and SimonWho was rushed off to the Infirmary where he is in stable if guarded condition.

Then Soul, on the False Sereni-Tree, rammed the True Sereni-Tree, somehow magically joining all the good and evil bits back together. The (once again) one-and-only Sereni-Tree has been landed in a meadow on Earth-That-Still-Is, so that repairs can be made and so the crew can relax among dandelions a bit before the next great disaster threatens us. This also gives us a chance to re-supply our depleted pantry.

Newly acquired crew members include Bluefishie, XanderLHarris, and Piffle101. Welcome! More alarming additions are the Malcomettes!

The Real Me, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

(The Real Me cannot currently receive messages from this site; he is not ignoring you. But he CAN receive e-mail at realme@pcibroadband.net.)

THEREALME

Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:04 PM

* All night, Bride5 and Bride6 have been helping Bride3 (Trey) make a large, impressive, and colorful sign to hang over the Sereni-Tree’s bar. The three also work very hard to clean and polish the bar and all the nearby tables. All the glasses and mugs are washed. By early morning, they are finished. The sign over the bar says: “TREY’S BAR, WHERE EVERY HOUR IS A HAPPY HOUR!" *

* And so, Bride3 becomes the Sereni-Tree’s bartender, aided by Bride5 and Bride6 waiting tables. *

CALLMESERENITY

Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:02 PM

*Serenity wakes up from her most recent nap. She heads off to her garden where she picks an armload of roses, then heads off the kitchen and scrounges up something that passes for a vase. She drops the roses off with one of the Simon-clones in the infirmary for Simon-Who, who is not yet awake. Then she heads over to Trey's bar (shiny!)and asks for a mimosa.*

"You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment."-Nicholas Nickleby

THEREALME

Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:16 PM

THE REAL ME’S GUIDED TOUR OF THE SERENI-TREE, V2

Hi. I am TheRealMe. Now that the excitement has died down, at least for the moment, there is something that I thought I should attend to. We’ve had some new folks join us lately, so I will provide a tour of the Sereni-Tree, my second. I have paid careful attention over time, and I believe that this layout is consistent with all the stories that have occurred in the Sereni-Tree to date. If anyone has differing opinions, that’s fine, but try to stay true to what has gone before. WARNING: This post is very long.

Below, I also list the crew that we seem to have now, without bothering to track down every poster we have ever had. If I have missed crew or if anyone would like to change my one-line description of them, let me know. There is always the possibility that some missing folks have just been sleeping in their quarters for the last eight or ten threads, or perhaps they have been placed in the cryogenic freezing chamber of the Insidious Doctor Rat. CageyBee? CosmicFugitive? BadgersHat? Apple? ManiacNumberOne? KaySky? Knibblet? Elwoodmom? Aramina? ImEarly?

The Sereni-Tree’s Past

The Sereni-Tree is our home. Originally, it took the form of a tree house built by Ebonezer, and this is the image it has on our flag, the Flag That Shw Made. The tree house was the immediate successor to “The Forgotten Not a Guy/Girl Clubhouse”. Later, PsychicRiver and a few others, including myself, modified the tree house to make it an air-ship, floating through the sky on numerous butterfly-shaped reactionless thrusters. In this form, the converted tree house was named and christened “Sereni-Tree” by Mal-licious, and we left the Tree behind as we flew off. Later, TheGreyJedi made even more modifications, and it became a starship. We have since been traveling the ‘verse, leaving the destroyed planets of Rukus and Black Diamond in our wake (we REALLY have to stop that). Most recently, we have returned to Earth-That-Still-Is to fight the Evil / Enemy Invaders and to face our own dark selves.

The Sereni-Tree on the Inside

The Sereni-Tree is a structure much larger on the inside than it appears on the outside, thanks to my ability to fold space-time in higher dimensions. On the outside, the Sereni-Tree is perhaps the size of a modest two-story house. On the inside, it is larger. MUCH larger.

The Common Room

The Common Room is the center of life in the Sereni-Tree. It is a huge cylindrical room perhaps 15 or 20 yards/meters across and three levels high. There are two encircling balconies, one above the other, around the Common Room. Equally spaced around the Common Room’s curving walls are the exits to the North, East, South, and West Wings. While it is true that the Sereni-Tree can move about and adopt any orientation, the names are traditional, coming from the time it was still a stationary tree house. There will be more about the Wings later.

In the center of the Common Room sits the pool table. In many ways, it is the critical nerve center of the ship, and battles have been waged for its possession. Underneath the pool table is the nest of Captain Ebonezer, where she piles her stuff (although the Captain has a designated room in one of the Wings, that room is rarely used). Also under the pool table are the remains of Cozen’s Pleasurable Torture Chamber, which includes “the Chair”. The top of the pool table is often where the Captain climbs to address the crew. Note that the pool table is missing its eight-ball, which Rat once traded for more Spam.

On the wall between the North and East Wings (and in that general area) is the game arcade. We have many pinball and video game consoles. A favorite is the Whack-a-Fox-Executive game, a device of my own invention. It’s similar to a Whack-a-Mole game, but much more satisfying. Beyond the arcade area is a door in the wall of the Common Room that provides access to the room bey

COZEN

Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:41 PM

Patience, Molly, I'm still wrasslin' with the concept of there being two of me in the one-of-me. This assimilation business can be right nauseating.

"Squarch!"

Scotch? At this time of morning? (Good idea!)

*Ambles over to bar... and finds no scotch!*

*Hands Molly his credit card.*

Molly: your mission, should you decide accept it....

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ldnemeth/images/blackjacksilver.GIF

PIFFLE101

Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:30 PM

Quote:
Piffleponies: Everyone wants a pifflepony, deep down.

It's true...It's true.

I dont wear underwear...You know that...I mean!?!

RAT

Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
We recently acquired a fourth shuttle, a duplicate of the General Lee, which we need to rename if we keep it. The Napoleon Bonaparte?

That works! By the way, on the way back there was a mal-function with the shrink, now the ship is only about two thirds the size of the original!

Acquisitions Officer - Uss SereniTREE.

MONTANAGIRL

Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
The (once again) one-and-only Sereni-Tree has been landed in a meadow on Earth-That-Still-Is, so that repairs can be made and so the crew can relax among dandelions a bit before the next great disaster threatens us.

Yay, I can use my plant identification system that I haven't used since the one range class that I had to take in college! (The following will sufficiently demonstrate why I was an Animal Science major and not a Range major.)

*points at one plant* Dandelion.
*points at another* Not a dandelion.

"Man has an evil side, Pinky." -Brain
"Front or back?" -Pinky

THEGREYJEDI

Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:19 PM

*watches the slow descent into daylight from his floating position. He rotates his body so his feet are on the floor.*

Restore normal life support.

*SereniTREE beeps a confirmation, his weight returning to him.*

Open observation lounge. Disengage door field.

*Two beeps. The large glass half dome of the observation lounge slides back, letting in a rush of warm air into the previously freezing room. Grey walks out onto the top of the ship and takes a seat laying back on the roof of the bridge, staring up at the clouds as he rolls his black cargo pant legs up to his knees.*

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Chief Engineer - USS SereniTREE
http://tomeofgrey.blogspot.com
Real Fans Wait - 09/30/05

CALLMESERENITY

Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:21 PM

Ooh! Dandelions!

*Serenity finishes off her mimosa in one big gulp then heads outside to frolic in the flowers.*

Aahhh. Sunlight, growing things, little wing'ed bugs. This is nice.

*she starts making herself a daisy chain.*

"You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment."-Nicholas Nickleby

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