The Sereni-Tree and the Shopping Trip
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Thursday, April 13, 2006 08:44
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Originally posted by LightMeDark:
Your points are well taken. And the milk cow is a good idea. I'm the animal handler, so perhaps I'll have some say in it. I'd like to find one with a good personality, though. Many tend to be rather annoying. Say the darndest things...
"You should have a say in it. In fact you should choose the cow, but now I'm thinking that maybe a goat would be better, takes less space, less flatulence. Probably best that we wait till we get to somewheres a bit more beucolic first and trade some of the more finished goods for a goat, get a better bargain that way. Let's drink on it for a while."
"Yes let's,"
SR checks his watch and the bottle and sees it's down to two thirds. He motions to the bartender.
"Can we takes the rest 'to go'?"
The bartender nods, quotes them a price and mutters something about leaving the glasses. SR shakes his fist at LMD indicating a rock paper scissors contest to see who will pay. They tie both rocks. They tie again paper. They tie again scissors. the bartender rolls his eyes.
"Let's just split it, otherwise we'll be shaking our fists all day." SR suggests. LMD chuckles and they both dig into their pockets for cash. SR tips the bartender after getting a reccomendation of a place for good secondhand electronics.
As they walk out the front door SR has a strange thought. He gestures for a rematch.
"One more time just for fun." he asks.
"Sure,"
They tie again, paper.
"Four in a row, what are the odds of that? Could it be we're psychicly linked?"
"It could be the whisky."
"It could be."
"If this bottle of whiskey has psychic powers we should save it."
"What will we drink then?"
"Well get something else at the next liquor store."
"Okay, but what?"
"We'll decide when we get there."
"Maybe it's not the whiskey, but the bottle that has the psychic powers?"
"That's just your thirst talking."
Two partially toasted spacers ramble on down the street in search of alcohol and other ways to spend their money.
Scorpion Regent
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*Inside Ocean Cloud Jadehand finishes making connections on several electronic parts, and closing the consoles he worked within. He steps outside the shuttle and glances around for SR who here not long ago, but now seems to be MIA. JadeHand shrugs and goes back inside. Slowly he goes over every part inside testing each item he comes to, securing some lose connections, tightening some bolts. Hours later in the back of the craft he completes his primary inspection. Returning to the cockpit, he initiates a startup sequence, tests power levels, activates several screens and runs diagnostics. Pleased with the results, he reaches over to the SEP and activates it. JadeHand tunes the radio, and waits for contact from the shoppers...*
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As he examines the outside of the Ocean Cloud, Jadehand finds Deuce using a fin to do chin-ups. She drops to the ground and looks around.
"So, are we ready? Where's everybody else? Hey, does that thing have a shower?"
Bride2
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"Hey Deuce. Yes, I think we're ready here. Well, If you've finished shopping for additional weapons and ammo. I think everyone else popped over to the next planet for the more frilly, frou frou bits. I was thinking they would call when they wanted us to meet them, or to tell us they were on their way back here. And Yes, of course there's a shower, mid-ship port. You're more than welcome to partake. I'll be up front, I have a little..um, meditation, to tend to."
*JadeHand shows Deuce the way and manages to find her some shower supplies, shampoo, conditioner, soap, towel. JadeHand heads to the Cockpit. He leans back in his chair and closes his eyes, soon finding himself back on the astral with 2 personas standing before him. Heading down a small spiral to a table, He begins with the man named Forge. Finding his way inside his mind, he finds himself on a native reservation, in a sweat lodge. "This is different". "Yes" The Maker responds "I've no demons for you to fight, no troubles for you to solve. I am a man at peace. You're task is to learn some of our ways, and bring yourself closer to being at peace as well. I will teach you." JadeHand takes a deep breath, and ponders his troubles, what it must be like to see them clearly, and understand them fully. "Very well." He says. "Let us begin." Hours pass and soon the lodge is opened. "You are ready, use your new skills to help him, his mind is far more troubled than mine." Jadehand steps out of the lodge and finds himself back on the astral. He shakes the hand of the Cheyenne, who nods and turns and fades as he walks away.
He turns to face Eric and takes a step forward. Eric speaks, "Your kind is always meddling, what do you think you can accomplish? You hope to fix me, when even Charles has failed?" JadeHand's head drops, his chin to his chest as he shakes his head. "No, Eric. I'm not going to fix you. I don't think you're broken. Odd that you do." He steps forward again and enters the mind of a man troubled by the predjudices of the simple. A man born to a faith, that became a subject of hate. Born with a quirk in his genes, a gift, that only brought more hate. Things out of his control, have made him a victim. His strength has made him free. JadeHand goes to work inside the troubled mind. Destroying the symbols of hatred inside, releasing from cages the memories of those that Eric could not save, the memories that he refuses to forgive himself for, that bring him pain to fuel his return of the hate so generously given to him. Several hours later the exhausted JadeHand finds a doorway opening, light issues forth, and he steps through. There Eric holds out his hand, "Perhaps not all of you are as simple as I thought. I.....thank you." JadeHand shakes his hand, "You're welcome." As the Master of Magnetism fades JadeHand turns and runs back up to the surface and leaps through a light. He wakes with a start still sitting in the cockpit of Ocean Cloud .*
"Huh? what is it?"
*He turns to see Deuce standing behind him wearing fresh clothing and running a towel through her still damp hair with one hand shaking his shoulder with the other.*
"You snore a bit Jade, oh and the radio...." Deuce chuckles and returns to the rear of the shuttle.
*JadeHand takes the radio into his hand and presses the button. "This is Jade, we're ready when you are..."*
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'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion
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I guess I'm getting a little confused as to where the Shopping Trip people are.
Seryn, ScorpionRegent, Mai, LightMeDark, Serenity, and Citizen took the Nelson from Garrison to a nearby planet for Seryn's medical procedure to turn her baby back on (?!?!) and to do the bulk of the girly stuff shopping. Citizen seems to have gone off alone to make some shady deals with a creepy east-European guy.
Jadehand and Deuce are in a rented hanger on Garrison, inside the brand-new shuttle Ocean Cloud, ready to take off.
McQ and Quincey both seem to have wandered off on Garrison, the former to perform good deeds and the latter to acquire rooms for the night and to go clubbing.
I think I lost track of NoSkillz. Is he still watching the contstruction of Ocean Cloud? Did he bring his tiger with him?
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Oh, and I have reached the point where the Guide to the Threads contains some kind of summary on every Sereni-Tree thread from the very first up to the present time. Some are done from old memories and need more detail, especially those of the eras of Rukus, the Evil Invaders of the MicroSith corporation, and the Dark Soul. I'll try to get back to those eventually.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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well, the main reason for thew trip was the girly shopping, (the other bit, getting the procedure that temporarily halted the babies development reversed, was just finishing offa storyline that I really shouldn't have started in the first place, seeing as no-one gets it 
exposition avoidance, its a bugger)
as far as I know, everyone is where you put them, with the possible exception of MCQ who I think is one the commerce planet (anyone want to name it? I meant to go through the planet chart, but i'm blind as a bat) with the bulk of us.
Noskillz may be hiding on the shuttle until is safe to presume he won't be made to carry bags.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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"Uh, care if I join for a dip?" Kelly asks.
"I'd be hurt if you didn't."
*Kelly smiles and gets in, only to be splashed by both MG and Ath.*
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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Ghost rode the pony around for a bit, keeping Shadow in her sight at all times. Seeing Ms. Luthien leave Ghost quietly got off the pony, like Ms. Luthien had shown her, giggling as the animal nuzzled her. Scanning her surroundings, she saw Mr. Captain Safe walking beside Shadow and her pony, talking about something. Neither of them noticing as the young girl walked right out following the direction Ms. Luthien had left in.
Ghost was, by nature, a curious child, she was shy with people she didn’t know well but curious about everything, which explained a little bit of what was about to happen next. Being five…almost six…curious, and a child she didn’t really realize how big their new home was, didn’t realize that she could easily get lost. She was too busy exploring her new home that she didn’t realize how far she had gotten from Shadow.
She had been walking for awhile before she did realize it, tears forming in her eyes as fear began to enter her. She was about to start crying when she heard Ms. Luthien's familiar voice nearby and ran toward the voice stopping to peek in a doorway when she reached the source.
OOC: Thank you for all the birthday wishies 
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Somewhere in the market place on the moon adjacent to Garrison.
"No we are not getting tatoo's. We need to get back the fabric shop and disengage the women folk from their fabric fixations, then check the shuttle and then we can all go to dinner and if you want maybe for dessert you can get a tattoo."
Scorpion Regent
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