The Sereni-Tree and the Madness of Arkham

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THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:23 AM

Time for a new thread, but first, some housekeeping.

TheRealMe’s Guide to the Clubhouse / Treehouse / Sereni-Tree Threads:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=11877

Following is the summary of the previous thread at
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=13705

After the Sereni-Tree’s jump to the vicinity of the Destiny’s Shadow, Static hauls TheGreyJedi’s Mecha, Megadeus, into the hanger bay.

We all start getting an uneasy feeling as an ominous blip approaches. It is the derelict Alliance Cruiser Arkham, supposedly lost with all hands 30 years ago. We believe that our missing companion Emma is on the Arkham, but we can’t quite get a fix on her, so we send over several search parties in shuttles. Oddly, as soon as they get inside, each group seems to be transported to a different reality.

In the General Lee is TheRealMe, one of the Rats, Jake7, Needleseye, Nugget the Meteor Troll, and a pair of Zoe-clones. They find themselves on Whitefall where they face down an entire horde of chaos mutants to save Monkeytail, former cabana boy (how did HE get there?).

In the General Grant is CallMeSerenity, CallMeAth, Safeat2nd, CastIronJack, PsychicRiver, River-clone, Lissa, Mai, PyreFX, GreekToomey, and the Wash Malcolmette. They find themselves in cages around some kind of weird arena. PR uses his mental powers to open the cages, but he opens ALL the cages. The Wash Malcolmette is nowhere to be seen. Apparently, to get out of this situation, someone has to die. River-clone volunteers herself, since she is a clone, “not a real person”. Ath, apparently, kills her.

In the Destiny’s Shadow port shuttle is SoulofSerenity, The Head of Succatash, Static, Jayne-clone2, Jazaf, and (hidden as a stowaway and lagging behind) Bride2. They are traveling through a dark forest to a dark tower that Static seems to think holds his destiny. The Head of Succatash was left behind in the shuttle.

Occasionally, each of these groups witnesses a vision of something happening to another of these groups. There was one case where an unidentified person fell from the Grant’s reality into the Dark Tower’s. TheRealMe is concerned that they are all in a bad “malfunctioning holodeck” episode of Star Trek.

In the Admiral Nelson, ThatWeirdGirl and the other Rat are off into hyperspace. TWG believes that Emma can be found elsewhere.

SimonWho has departed in his Blue Box for an unknown destination.

Everyone else is in the Sereni-Tree. TheGreyJedi is relaxing in his quarters playing video games. Montanagirl has given Cozen a clean bill of health and shooed him out of the Infirmary. XanderLHarris / Ash might still be playing on the potty-go-round in the women’s restroom. Bluefishie is practicing the Mary Poppins trick. There still remains the Napoleon Bonapart or the Destiny’s Shadow starboard shuttle for anyone who still wishes to get in on the fun.

Periodically, I post “TheRealMe’s Guide to the Sereni-Tree” for new folks. It is coming up next. It’s a long post.

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:31 AM

THE REAL ME’S GUIDED TOUR OF THE SERENI-TREE, V3

Hello! I am TheRealMe. We’ve had some new folks join us lately, so I will provide another tour of the Sereni-Tree, my third. 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. 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 dozen threads, or perhaps they have been placed in the cryogenic freezing chamber of the Insidious Doctor Rat. CageyBee? CosmicFugitive? BadgersHat? Apple? ManiacNumberOne? KaySky? Knibblet? 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 the Sereni-Tree 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). We returned to Earth-That-Still-Is to fight the Evil / Enemy Invaders and to face our own dark selves. After relaxing among dandelions and facing some Reavers, we are now trying to rescue Emma by splitting up into a handful of teams and searching the creepy ship of nightmares, the Arkham. Oddly, each team seems to have been sent to a different reality as they entered the Arkham. Does that seem right to you?

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 where the Captain sometimes climbs to address the crew. Note that the pool table is missing its eight-ball, which Rat once traded for more Spam. Above the pool table is an anti-gravity chandelier.

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. I

MONTANAGIRL

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:51 AM

Quote:
Dale, the Intimidator Ferret: Montanagirl’s friend, who takes revenge on those who disparage NASCAR.

IRL aside:
*Hollers across the room* "Hey Dale, you're officially a member of the treehouse!"

*Dale is unimpressed and continues to nap in her blanket.*

Now, back to your regularly schedule looniness.
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"Do you accept gifts from strange men?" -Brisco
"Well, strange is no problem, but I draw the line at men I don't know." -Dixie

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:03 AM

(The Dark Tower crew)

Quote:
Soul wrote:
Then the sky above them opens up, and a cacophony of inhuman screams erupts into the still clearing. Soul swings his bow skyward just in time to catch a glimpse of what appears to be a jail cells, along with a few faces he recognizes--

--And then a bloody body appears from the sky and drives Soul to the ground, just as the screams dissapear...

Jayne-clone2 swings around the muzzle of his rather large gun, takes careful aim, and unleashes a deadly rain of lead against the bloody body. After a moment, he stops. Amazingly, Soul is untouched.

Jayne-clone2 looks around at his companions.

"What? I wuz just makin' sure!"

He looks around again.

"Hey, ain't every day a fella falls outta some gorram hole in the sky!"

PSYCHICRIVER

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:13 AM

*PsychicRiver gasps*

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED RIVER!! YOU BASTARDS!!![/south park]

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:08 PM

*horrified*

Ath, what have you done?

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:27 PM

(The Lee crew:)

* From his position next to Rat on the north cliff, TheRealMe takes careful aim at the mutant trying to climb over Jake7's force field. *

* Suddenly, he sees a vision that looks like Darth Ath cutting down some poor young...*

"River-clone?"

* TheRealMe's long-suppresed Force powers tell him that it is a true vision. *

"Ath! There had to be a better way!"

* For the first time, TheRealMe begins to hope that this IS just a bad "malfuctionaing holodeck" Star Trek episode. *

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

SAFEAT2ND

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:50 PM

Ummm...Ath, I was just about to say..

*Safe pauses momentarily as a howling creature jumps towards them. Safe's gun bucks and a blows a fist sized hole in the creatures head.*

...anyways, I was just about to say, maybe we weren't meant to take the message so literally. Maybe "the only way out is death", meant we'll have to shoot our way out. I sure as hell don't see any results and it's get kinda crowded here.

*Safe turns and focuses on the job at hand. The air is soon filled with the echos of gunfire, the whistle of flashing katanas, the low hum of a lightsabre, and the grunts of exertion as the crew fights to survive*

The blood from River trickles past Safes feet and mingles with the blood of the creatues as it works it's way to the centre of the chamber. A pool slowly forms.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

THEREALME

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:10 PM

(On the Sereni-Tree)

* Kaylee-clone comes running into the Infirmary. *

Oh, Montanagirl! I got me a terrible bad feeling sumthin' awful just happened... Uh... Could you tell me where either o' the Simon-clones got to?

JAZAF

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:18 PM

'Who in the nine hells is that!?!' Jazaf asks

'Recognizing a dead person isn't exactly my highest ruttin' priority!' Jayne-clone2 states

'Not a member of the crew.' Soul whispers

'Can't we just leave the body and continue on with our eerie ass day? Mind you, this place is damaging my calm. Nothing here makes any sense!' Jayne-clone2 vents.

'It isn't supposed to.' Static says calmly.

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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree
Navigator on Destiny

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