Guide to the Clubhouse / Treehouse / Sereni-Tree Threads
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40) SERENI-TREE, BOROS CLIFFHANGER, ENGAGING PARAMOURS
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=18193
(Interim Summary. Wow, as the stories get more detailed and complex, they get harder to summarize!)
Oh the Sereni-Tree:
Just as the starship Sereni-Tree is nearing Boros to pick up its misplaced crew, it is intercepted by a threatening Alliance Cruiser. Ath is piloting, and ThatWeirdGirl and TheRealMe are called to the bridge. TheRealMe has a plan to secretly recover the Boros folk, even with Alliance scrutiny, but it requires him to be present on site to make dimensional portals. He puts TWG in command of the Sereni-Tree and calls for the quick launch of the Ocean Cloud, because he thinks that the SEP field on that craft will let them slip away invisibly. TRM encourages TWG to use her Confusion power on the Alliance ship, then he departs for the hanger. A second Alliance ship appears. The sneering Alliance officer tells Ath and TWG that they know everything that is going on, because they have a mole aboard the Sereni-Tree! In particular, the SEP field will not be effective!
SoulOfSerenity and Jazaf make it to the Bridge. ThatWeirdGirl discovers that her Confusion power doesn’t work well at a distance. TWG’s nine Yeti friends make it to the Bridge to pledge their help. Deuce squeezes by the creatures to be at Jazaf’s side. Soul uses his desolidification power to phase through the Sereni-Tree, fly across space, and re-solidify inside the Alliance cruiser Tripoli. With him, Soul has brought TWG and Ervin the Yeti.
TWG left Ath in command of the Sereni-Tree. Ath calls for battle stations and gets the crew ready to repel borders. He sends the remaining Yeti down to protect the Common Room. He asks SimonWho to keep Bluefishie, Piffle, and some other non-combatants safe in his Blue Box. SimonWho agrees, and gets to working on a deus ex machina, just in case we need one. Jake7, Kelly, Jazaf, and Deuce crew the Sereni-Tree’s weapon turrets to defend the ship. Serenity, Mai, and LightMeDark hide in the Sereni-Tree’s animal park, protected by Kelly’s Elvish wards (though Mai and LMD soon wander off to investigate an out-of-the-way, private, and romantic spot for “danger” – a cave).
In the hanger, when they hear that the SEP field of the Ocean Cloud will not fool the Alliance ships, TRM makes a change of plan (after dumping the possibly bugged platinum into a cargo bay). Everything gets loaded into the Napoleon Bonaparte instead. TRM remote pilots the Ocean Cloud out of the hanger first, and Quincey pilots the Bonaparte after it, shrunk to a tiny size. When the Alliance blows up the Cloud, the tiny Bonaparte speeds away to Boros, pretending to be a piece of the Cloud’s wreckage. TheRealMe makes contact with the missing crew on Boros through one of his tiny dimensional portals, but he only gets partial information on their location. They re-enter and head toward the city of Boros Prime. On the Bonaparte are Jadehand, Quincey, TheRealMe, and Monkeytail.
Meanwhile, Seryn makes contact with the Alliance ship in order to surrender herself! She flies the stolen Alliance fighter Nandi out of the Sereni-Tree’s hanger and to the Alliance cruiser Tripoli. There is clearly some “history” here, and they act glad to get their hands on her. Seryn seems to be some kind of Alliance Operative on the run, but swears to Ath that she is not “the mole”. After some conversations, the Alliance types seem more friendly to the Sereni-Tree and one of the Alliance ships starts to back way… but it is a TRAP!
On Boros:
As a result of the firefight in the alley, the badly wounded Needy is loaded onto an Alliance truck by Flechette, Versa, and Amy, and they drive off. They stick a sonic mine on him to slow down the bleeding. While he is lying there, Needy has a significant near-death other-worldly experience where he meets an angel rese
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41) DEFENDING SERENI-TREE AND LIFT-OFF FROM BOROS
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=18568
On Boros:
Making use of Jadehand’s Nametags of Shapeshifting, Jadehand (in the guise of various X-Men), TheRealMe (in the guise of Obi-Real Kenobi), and Monkeytail hold off the Alliance troops outside the hanger on the outskirts of Boros Prime. Inside the hanger, the last Bluehands is dealt with (BTW, the grenades tossed in the previous thread by Bride7 turned out to have been intentional duds, for “psychological warfare”). Then, SafeAt2nd, Citizen, Bride6, Bride7, and Needy take one craft (an ISSCV) and CastIronJack, Flechette, Versa, and Amylisai take another and both lift off from Boros. Quincey, still flying above in the Bonaparte, provides them covering fire as they depart the planet. Safe’s crew and Quincey plan to return to Sereni-Tree. Flechette’s crew plans to go off somewhere to support the underground. Unbeknownst to Safe’s crew, they have a pair of young stowaways on board. Once they are away, TheRealMe, Jadehand, and Monkeytail steal an old Eagle transport from the hanger and follow them.
In space near Boros:
SoulofSerenity, ThatWeirdGirl, and PsychicRiver escape the Triploi in a stolen shuttle. Soul uses his phasing power to float into the Sereni-Tree’s common room where the big battle is occurring. TWG and PR land in the Sereni-Tree’s Hanger Bay and make their way to the Infirmary through twisty air ducts. Somewhat later, the newly deaf Seryn and Ervin the Yeti escape from the Tripoli in her fighter, the Nandi, after hacking into the Tripoli’s self destruct programs.
In the Sereni-Tree Common Room:
The Killgore has docked with the Sereni-Tree and sends over a boarding party. They burn through the main airlock into the Sereni-Tree’s Common Room. Their first attacks destroy Sparky and severely damage the Ebo Golem (who had both been piling rubble to block the airlock). Ath, Kelly, Soul, Trey, Washie, the rest of the Yeti, Nugget the Meteor Troll, and perhaps others stand to repel boarders. ScorpionRegent takes up a position on the upper balcony to act as a sniper. At that moment down in Main Engineering, Jet and Cozen are working on repairs. Cozen crosses the wrong wires, almost electrocuting himself and plunging the entire ship into darkness. The invading Alliance troops turn on their night-vision goggles, putting Our Heroes on the defensive. Ath and Trey are wounded, and taken to the Infrimary, though Trey quickly returns to the action. Washie somehow merges her mind with the Ghost of River-clone, and wields significant psychic power. Kelly exerts power through Narya, the Ring of Fire, and illuminates the Common Room, blinding the Alliance troops. The Alliance commander sends in his secret weapon, a cyborg called McQ.
In the Sereni-Tree’s Gunnery stations:
With the loss of power, the Sereni-Tree’s weapons are all inactive. Kelly had already run off to help in the Common Room. Jake7 activates the night vision button on her gadet and goes, too. Deuce decides to run off to protect the undefended hanger bay. She feels her way toward it in the dark to find an unknown shuttle from the Tripoli! She follows the path of “intruders” through various air vents, and ends up in the Infirmary. She had only been following PsychicRiver and ThatWeirdGirl, who had used the stolen shuttle to escape from the Tripoli.
In space near Boros:
There is a space battle involving Safe’s ISSCV, the Bonaparte, the Eagle, the Nandi, the Sereni-Tree, the Alliance Cruisers Killgore and Tripoli, and the latter’s fighter wing. Sereni-Tree is severely damaged. The Tripoli explodes due to the hacking that Seryn and Ervin did while inside. TheRealMe boosts the Eagle to an extremely high velocity and rams it into the Killgore, destroying its bridge and damaging its engines (the crew of the Ea
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42)THE SERENI-TREE: LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=18808
In the space battle over Boros, after the Alliance cruiser Tripoli was destroyed and the Alliance cruiser Killgore was damaged and driven off, the crew of the Sereni-Tree takes to picking up the pieces. They gather the dead from the battles into a refrigerated cargo bay and begin cleanup and repairs. Mai helps greatly with her squad of automops. Kelly makes food for everyone. A new addition to the crew, McQ the cyborg, carries the body of his lady love, an Alliance casualty, to the Infirmary. Washie comforts him.
Meanwhile, Ath lay dying in the Infirmary of his wounds. He is visited by the Ghost of Riverclone, and she somehow heals him while she, in turn, regains a material form! The newly re-embodied Riverclone takes the body of McQ’s lost love and stores her in a cryochamber. Washie talks to Riverclone about mentats while brushing her hair.
LightMeDark attempt to listen to a disk entitled “Life, the Universe, and Everything!” He convulses in one of his strange dreams until he gets a vision of an angelic Mai, seemingly composed of light. He is helped by SimonWho and Mai.
A group including TheRealMe, Washie, Sparky the Robot, and SoulofSerenity attempt to clear a path through the rubble around the main airlock, which has been piled up by the malfunctioning Ebo Golem. On the other side of that airlock is the ISSCV dropship stolen by Safe, Needy, Bride6, Bride7, Citizen, and the two young stowaways Ghost and Shadow. Eventually, the airlock is cleared, and more patients are taken to an overworked Doctor SimonWho. After the Doctor eventually treats the last critically injured patient, he collapses in a hospital bed, threatening that if he is awakened to treat any minor illness, he will do so with amputation.
ScorpionRegent fears that some of the bodies of Alliance troops may have booby traps or tracking devices on them. He and Soul consider dumping them, but TheRealMe prefers to stick them together in a cargo container first, so that the bodies may be recovered and buried by their families. They compromise, and immediately space only the more potentially dangerous bodies of the soldier-slaves. McQ is worried that he contains such devices implanted inside him. A search and scan of his body is later performed, and a tracking beacon is discovered and destroyed.
After leaving the revived Riverclone to her own devices, Washie goes to find McQ, who has detached his helmet and is looking at his ruined face. She talks to him, and tries to make him feel more human. He is uncomfortable.
Many meetings and reunions occur. Romances are sparked, or flare up, even. Bride2, kidnapped by Cozen, seems somewhat jealous at the idea that Cozen might kidnap other women. Serenity provides her comfort food. Seryn and Jadehand seem to have something that is smoldering. Seryn’s deafness is cured by ScorpionRegent by means of a kissie. It turns out that in addition to the already-showing Serenity, Seryn and one of the Yeti females are also pregnant.
Kelly, NoSkillz, Ath, and Serenity all bond with the orphan stowaways, Ghost and Shadow, baking cookies and laughing (the kids are TOO cute!). NoSkillz’s huge cat, also named Shadow, spooks the kids. Safe later finds them and thanks the adults for watching out for the young ones. Safe thinks he might set up his home in the dropship, still attached to the main airlock.
Citizen reveals to Seryn that he has the equipment and know-how to plant a virus in the Alliance Cortex. Eventually, Seryn gets this device to TheRealMe.
On the Bridge, Quincey detects the appearance of an Alliance Battleship! TheRealMe and ScorpionRegent move to help Jet in Engineering to get the stardrive back online, while Sparky sees to getting the Alliance bodies off the ship. Fighter types get ready to fight another battle. Jake7 goes to crew her turret.
Before the Battleship can overtake the Sereni-Tree, the stardrive is repaired. Quincey
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43) THE SERENI-TREE AND THE TOWN MEETING
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=19045
Safely in hyperspace after the Boros Incident, Our Heroes relax for the first time in a long time.
In the Common Room, TheRealMe calls a town meeting of the entire crew, where he outlines our near-term plans and asks for ideas about what to do next. Basically, when the Sereni-Tree falls out of hyperspace over the hi-tech world of Garrison, Jadehand, Seryn, and others will undertake a shopping trip to get components to build the stealth shuttle Ocean Cloud. ScorpionRegent will go to get parts for Jet for the Sereni-Tree. Mai, Kelly, and others are interested in shopping for Serenity’s wedding dress and cake ingredients. After the Garrison shopping trip, Seryn will need to visit a nearby planet for some particular medical procedure.
Newer folk introduce themselves, including our new medic Witchy.
During the meeting, after TheRealMe mentions some long-missing but important crew members, Washie suggests that TRM should assume the title of Captain of the Sereni-Tree. This prompts Captain Ebonezer to appear for the first time in a very long time.
The meeting concludes.
Ebo looks around for a game of pool and marvels at how many pregnant females we have. She is impressed by the pifflepony ranch that we keep in a cargo bay and by the chocolate jacuzzi in the water park. It seems that Ebo might be staying a while, this time.
The young stowaways Shadow and Ghost have, for now, moved in with Kelly and Piffle in Kelly’s Mallorn tree home. Safe seems content to stay in the ISSCV dropship, still connected to the Sereni-Tree’s main airlock. Needy is confused that people seem to remember him, because he does not ever recall being on the ship before. TheRealMe meets the Ghost of Riverclone, which has somehow come alive again.
The Sereni-Tree falls out of hyperspace over Garrison with no incident.
Since he asked so nicely, Ebonezer reassigns the quarters off of Main Engineering, formerly belonging to TheGreyJedi, to ScorpionRegent. TheRealMe supervises the transfer of Grey’s possessions to a cargo bay.
Chocolate jacuzzi hijinks ensue, with the help of Cozen's new vodka attachment. Montanagirl returns!
Collecting in the shuttle Admiral Nelson for the Garrison shopping trip are Jadehand, Seryn, ScorpionRegent, Mai, LightMeDark, N0Skillz (and tiger?), Serenity, Quincy, Deuce, and McQ (and Citizen?). They head down to the surface of Garrison where Jadehand rents a hanger where they will collect the parts to build the Ocean Cloud. Seryn talks about heading off to a different, nearby planet to get the medical procedure done and to do the wedding shopping. Quincey is up for a night on the town. Deuce is too energetic. Serenity agrees with Mai that she does not want the froo froo ribbons on her maids of honors' butts. LMD appears to be suffering from culture shock (gender shock?) as the women go on about the details of the wedding. Then again, his job is only to carry the packages!
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44) THE SERENI-TREE AND THE SHOPPING TRIP
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=19340
On the Sereni-Tree, in orbit around Garrison:
After falling out of hyperspace over the planet Garrison, some of the crew of the Sereni-Tree decide to undertake Olympic level shopping. The following individuals depart the Sereni-Tree for Garrison in the shuttle Admiral Nelson: Mai, Deuce / Bride2, Quincey / Bride5, Serenity, N0Skillz, N0Skillz’s pet tiger Shadow (not to be confused with the little orphan girl), Jadehand, LightMeDark, Seryn, ScorpionRegent, Citizen, and McQ the cyborg.
On Garrison:
Quincey lands the Nelson in Garrison City. Jadehand rents a hanger, then starts ordering the components necessary to build the new stealth shuttle of his design, the Ocean Cloud. Quincey gets all dressed up and announces that she is going out to party! Deuce spends most of her time exercising and training in the hanger. N0Skillz and his tiger just hang around. McQ heads off to see if he can acquire new weapons or upgrades. Mostly, though, it seems that McQ came on the shopping trip just to get away from everyone back on the Sereni-Tree.
On Commerce:
But building the Ocean Cloud is only one part of the plan. Among other tasks, there is a tremendous amount of girly shopping necessary to provide for the upcoming wedding of Soul and Serenity. Serenity, Mai, LigtMeDark, Seryn, ScorpionRegent, and Citizen climb aboard the Nelson and depart Garrison for Commerce, one of Garrison’s moons.
On Commerce, Seryn stops by a doctor she knows in order to have a certain procedure reversed. It seems that at some time in the past she had a developing fetus in her womb somehow put “on hold”, and she goes to have its growth started up again. After a short time, she re-joins the wedding shoppers Serenity, Mai, and LightMeDark. LMD seems bewildered at the activities around him, but then he is only there to be the strong, clueless male responsible for carrying all the boxes.
ScorpionRegent works on his own to get other items, part of which is to fill a shopping list from Jet, the Sereni-Tree’s acting Chief Engineer.
Citizen heads off to check with some special contacts and undertakes some shady dealing with East European gentlemen to get weapons.
LMD and SR talk about getting a cow or a goat for the Sereni-Tree.
On the Sereni-Tree:
TheRealMe stands outside of Washie’s quarters for a week. When she does not answer his buzzing, he decides she must not be home. 
Needy uses the Sereni-Tree’s T.H.R.E.A.D. archive computer to hunt down when he was supposed to have been on board the ship. He finds logs and vids of his appearance last August, but does not recall them at all. Has he lost his memory? Has there been an imposter? Who’s on first? (no, Who is in the Infirmary!)
Kelly and Safe take turns watching over the orphan kids, Shadow and Ghost. They take the girls down to the pifflepony ranch to do some riding. After a time, Kelly takes a break to go see Ath.
Jazaf fixes his mutant arm by applying a kissie.
Ath, Soul, MontanaGirl, Kelly, ThatWeirdGirl, Needy, SimonWho (?), and Jazaf (?) at various times have fun in the chocolate jacuzzi, which Cozen has considerately converted into a VODKA chocolate jacuzzi!
Young Ghost sneaks away from Safe and her sister Shadow. She finds her way from the pifflepony ranch up to the Common Room. She slips and falls on some stray chocolate goo and starts crying. Kelly, dripping in vodka-chocolate, runs over to comfort her. Down in the pifflepony ranch, Shadow notices Ghost is missing and panics. Safe calms Shadow down and they go looking for Ghost together.
During ThatWeirdGirl’s shower, she and Needy have a discussion about memory loss, future sons, evil twins, and the like.
TheRealMe gets dressed in a nice dark suit to go shopping for DVDs, a video system, and furniture, to replace what was lost during the Alliance
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45) THE SERENI-TREE, MORE SHOPPING, AND SOME PERIL
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=19748
(Sort of a summary – I’m just not able to keep up anymore)
On the planet Garrison, Quincey (Bride5) was kidnapped to a palace in the local Chinatown by members of a Tong. Apparently, Quincey’s powerful father had promised her in marriage to the son of the Tong’s leader. After Jadehand, Deuce (Bride2), N0Skillz, N0Skillz’s tiger Shadow, and the newcomer Wisp overcome the polite but formidable martial arts master Mister Chin and other members of the Tong, Quincey is rescued and they all return to the Sereni-Tree in Jadehand’s new shuttle Ocean Cloud.
On Garrison’s shopping moon named Commerce, Serenity is ALSO kidnapped and threatened by her old enemy Heinz the scar-faced guy. He turns on the crew of the Dagger (Jennings, Grunt, and Bear) who helped Heinz capture her. Seryn gets herself abducted too, and manages to link up with Serenity. Serenity kills Hienz and tries to escape. A drunken Cozen arrives to try to help, but makes things worse. They are eventually trapped inside a sealed building. A helicopter flies in from above, piloted by… a drunken LightMeDark?
An Alliance Cruiser enters the system, launching fighters and shuttles to (presumably) take Serenity away for experiments. TheReaMe and Sparky fly off at high speed in the shuttle Napoleon Bonaparte to distract some of the craft, making them think that perhaps Serenity was escaping on the Napoleon. TheRealMe gets off the shuttle using a dimensional portal.
Also involved in Serenity’s rescue, gathered around the sealed building where she is imprisoned, are the crews of the shuttle Admiral Nelson and Safe’s stolen ISSCV dropship: Citizen, Mai, Jazaf, McQ, ScorpionRegent, Needy, Safe, and Soul. Ath and Kelly had also come along for this rescue mission, but suddenly find themselves in a relaxing forest environment with a pool. The crew of the Dagger decides to help Our Heroes recover Serenity, as they seem to know Safe and Soul. Soul uses his power to phase through the thick barriers around the building, and rejoins Seryn and his love, Serenity. Safe, McQ, Citizen, and the Dagger crew break through the walls with a more explosive method.
On Sereni-Tree in orbit over Garrison, That WeirdGirl is in command on the Bridge with Trey (Bride3) advising her and Quincey (Bride5) in the pilot’s seat, Jake7 and Jadehand are in laser turrets, SimonWho is in the Infirmary, and Jet (Bride4) is in Engineering. They are trying to figure out if they should fire on the Alliance ship or not, seeing as the damaged Sereni-Tree probably could not survive another real fight. Deuce (Bride2) was having a drink with newcomer Wisp at Trey’s Bar in the Common Room, but he went off to find Jadehand. Others known to be recently aboard Sereni-Tree include: N0Skillz and his tiger, BeautifulDisaster, Bluefishie, Bobbi Sue (Bride6), Bride7, Ebonezer (asleep again under the pool table), ItsAWash, River-clone, Montanagirl, the young orphans Shadow and Ghost, Witchy, and Xander/Ash. There may be others around, but they have not posted in the last five threads or more. Oh, there are still Yeti as well, including a pregnant one.
After PsychicRiver stole the Blue Box of his father-to-be SimonWho, he finds himself still elsewhen in space-time, talking to his future or past self.
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46) THE SERENI-TREE AND THE NEVERENDING PERIL
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=20127
On Sereni-Tree in orbit:
The “Alliance” Cruiser that is launching fighters and threatening the Sereni-Tree and her people is determined to actually be a “Blue Sun” Cruiser. Jadehand, Wisp, and Jake7 crew the turrets. TWG, Trey, and Quincey are on the bridge. Bride6 offers to take care of Shadow and Ghost, but Shadow stays on the Bridge to help. Jadehand goes down to Engineering to show Jet the Somebody Else’s Problem field that can turn ships invisible. She figures out how to install it into Sereni-Tree. Also, she programs a crybaby to duplicate the Sereni-Tree.
On Commerce:
TheRealMe and Sparky, in the shuttle Napoleon, are dodging fighters from the cruiser, keeping the fighters’ attention away from the “kidnap Serenity” plot. Just as TRM is using a teleportal to get out of that situation, Washie disappears on the Sereni-Tree. This distracts TRM, and he ends up in the same Monty Pythonesque dimension where Ath and Kelly have fallen (and where they are enjoying a nice swim, and where Kelly latere has an elf-looking-West moment). Soon, TRM makes a portal to return to the Sereni-Tree’s Bridge.
Serenity and Seryn are rescued from the building where they had been held. ScopionRegent has gone missing from the Serenity rescue group. Safe and the crew of the Dagger (Jennings, Bear, and Grunt) make a diversion at the Leighton Docks starport while others (Citizen, Soul, Seryn, McQ, Needy, and perhaps Jazaf) carry the unconscious Serenity and drunken Cozen in a dress to the ISSCV dropship. Citizen blows something up, causing more diversion. Seryn gets in the pilot seat of the ISSCVwhile Needy and Citizen crew the turrets. They lift off, as do Safe and the Dagger crew in the Dagger. For a short time, those two craft and Sparky in the Napoleon fly in formation, but Sparky tries to interpose his shutte in the line of fire to protect the fighters. The fighters are eventually shot down. Sparky veers off. Throughout this time, Needy is having conversations with the Serenity-like angel that only he can see. Apparently, he is some Chosen One who will accomplish great deeds to save the ‘Verse… or he is hallucinating. He tries to ignore his angelic visitor.
ScorpionRegent has already taken the Admiral Nelson off, and is on his way to rendezvous with Sereni-Tree.
Mai and LightMeDark end up in a helicopter hovering over Commerce City. Eventually, they are picked up by Sparky in the Napoleon who offers to return them to the Sereni-Tree.
On Sereni-Tree:
With the enemy fighters approaching, Quincey drops the crybaby, activates the SEP field to turn the ship invisible, and does a quick burn to get them moving. Unfortunately, using the engines allows the enemy to spot Sereni-Tree.
At this time, ScorpionRegent is flying the Nelson to rendezvous with the crybaby that is simulating the Sereni-Tree.
TheRealMe comes onto the bridge, and has the main engines shut down and the reactionless thrusters activated. This allows the ship to maneuver unseen. TRM has Quincey chase after the Nelson while he gets ready with grappler arms to grab it and ThatWeirdGirl gets ready to take over piloting the Nelson, after she tinkers with the com equipment.
As the main hanger doors are opened, the fighters spot Sereni-Tree and TRM has Quincey perform a crude but quick barnswallow move on the Nelson. It crashes inside the hanger and starts a fire, which TRM and Wisp work to put out, which is done by opening the hanger to space. Jake7 and Jadehand in the turrets shoot at the fighters and take them out, but stop just after the hanger doors close and invisibility is restored. TWG is knocked unconscious, and is taken to SimonWho in the Infirmary by Jadehand who has used a nametag to become SimonWho. ScorpionRegent is removed from
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47) THE SERENI-TREE, THE SECOND GALA PAGEANT, AND NO PERIL!
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=20521
After overdosing on excessive Peril in orbit around the planet Garrison, the Sereni-Tree used a hyperspace jump to return to its roots. Literally. The ship has come back to Earth-That-Still-Is and has landed in the original Tree, becoming a treehouse once again, at least for the time being.
Once there, its inhabitants frolic in a peril-free environment, where they are celebrating, flirting, and enjoying various activities with one another (sometimes of an R-rated nature).
Also, many inhabitants of the Sereni-Tree are planning to enter the Second Gala Pageant.
Oh, I believe that this thread is the one containing the list of all of our great inventions!
PERIPHERAL THREAD:
Sereni-Tree, Special Branch: Unbound
An adventure-laden thread split from the "lighter mood" Sereni-Tree.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=20504
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48) THE SERENI-TREE AND THE START OF THE SECOND GALA PAGEANT
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=20841
The Second Gala Pageant begins, with TheRealMe dressed in a tuxedo and top hat as Master of Ceremonies. Malicious is the only one of the judges from the First Gala Pageant to return, but she promptly falls asleep. Serenity is also judging. For the contestants, see the summaries below. Spectators include the contestants themselves and: LightMeDark, Lissa, McQ, MontanaGirl, SimonWho, Seryn, and Jazaf. Kelly watched, at least until Ath slipped and possibly revealed too much (at which point she cheered).
Seryn puts Shadow and Ghost into the care of Ervin so she could go off, but he had to cover their eyes so many times during the contest that he had Hewitt, one of his Yeti friends, take the girls to the park.
TRM suggests that our Doctor SimonWho (who was a leading contender in the First Gala Pageant) should enter as the mysterious time-twisted Contestant 8. SimonWho declines, claiming that he can't time-travel since his son PsychicRiver "borrowed" the TARDIS (privately, he is glad he doesn't have to shave his legs again). Speaking of which, PR sends a minor mind-wave from wherever/whenever he is.
An annoying troll followed Seryn home. Mai suggested a troll attack, but we ignore it and it goes away.
We pause the contest, while we celebrate the second aniversary of the Clubhouse/Treehouse/Sereni-Tree threads. This includes the arrival of tiny faeries who are part of an Olympic formation flying team. They buzz around and spell out "Happy Treeversary!"
Seryn puts a bit and bridle on Schwartz the Llama and hoses him down, giving the llama a much needed bath. ScorpionRegent offers the use of his tranquilizer gun to expedite the process.
Mai and Jadehand engage in much romance, including a picnic in the "This Land" park.
Seryn and ScorpionRegent engage in much romance at various times, including a trip in Nandi away from Sereni-Tree to a private location. The romance starts alarm bells ringing for Seryn. Also, SR shows her his catapults.
Jet uses a DRD to help Quincey spray on her outfit for the pageant, then she gets to work on repairs down in Engineering. During repairs, she stumbles in on Seryn and ScorpionRegent. Whoops!
The Yeti Assan and Lichna engage in some romance, scarring Bobbie Sue's retinas for all time.
Also, Bobbie Sue and Wisp engage in some romance, or at least a little action.
Seryn asks who wants a baby rabbit. Serenity, Mai, and Bride6 all speak up.
At the bar, Trey plies SimonWho with dozens of drinks. Perhaps she has something in mind. SimonWho becomes concerned when he sees Yeti dancing, but is comforted to discover that they are real.
Here are our contestants for the Second Gala Pageant of the Sereni-Tree:
CONTESTANT 1: Ervin the Yeti, in clean fur, tuxedo jacket, and a top-hat.
Swimsuit: Did a cannonball into the pool, and got his fur colored from the paint that came off of Bride5.
Talent: Performed the dance ThatWeirdGirl taught the Yeti back on Black Diamond (the Yeti in the audience joined in). Ervin's movements spray everyone with his still-wet fur, except Serenity who packed an umbrella.
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CONTESTANT 2: Bobbie Sue, Bride6, in a Kaylee-like ruffly pink dress.
Swimsuit: In a bikini, used roller blades to skate down one of the twisting, three-storey slides into the pool.
Talent: In a pretty pink dress with ruffles (the short one, this time), she tapdanced and sweetly sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop".
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CONTESTANT 3: JadeHand, as Dr. Frankenfurter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Swimsuit: A high dive, while still wearing black slacks, shirt, tie, and socks.
Talent: Plays his guitar and sings a Marillion song about a man of a thousand faces.
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CONTESTANT 4: Wisp transformed into the female Wispette, wearing a custom-made outfit and flashing his/her boobs.
Swimsuit:
Talent:
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CONTESTANT 5: Jake7, wearing a long s
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49) THE SERENI-TREE AND THE SECOND GALA PAGEANT WINDS DOWN
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The Second Gala Pageant is running smoothly. Needy is in the middle of changing from his G-swim to a sexy red dress when Serenity, one of the judges, suddenly goes into labor. Then Corbin the Yeti goes into labor, too. Serenity is carried up to her nest in the observation lounge, located on the highest deck of the Sereni-Tree. Since it is the Yeti way to have babies while submerged in rivers or lakes, the other Yeti take Corbin to our Olympic sized swimming pool.
On the way up to the observation lounge, Soul decides that he wants to be married to Serenity before the baby comes. So that we would have a captain to perform the ceremony, TheRealMe assumed command of the Sereni-Tree and ordered her into the air (thinking that a ship must be under way before a captain can perform a ceremony). Quincey on the bridge and Jet in engineering get the ship airborne. Advised by Doctor SimonWho to hurry, TheRealMe performs a quick, improvised ceremony despite Soul’s habit of going catatonic and fainting. Cozen pops in JUST too late to be somebody that objects to the wedding. Jazaf uses his super-power to shape a pair of wedding bands for the couple, then retreats from the scene when the birth becomes imminent. He takes off to call in some favors for a nice present.
The baby girl, named Seraphina, is born. She has darling little angel wings.
Immediately after the birth, one of the Yeti grabs SimonWho and takes him to the swimming pool, where Corbin delivers her baby. In gratitude for the doctor’s help, she names the baby SimonYeti.
Mai and Jadehand spend a lot of time together. Mai’s birthday occurs and Jadehand brings her a cake. At one point, Jadehand takes the Ocean Cloud and travels to the piratical Sea of Wings to get a present for Serenity’s baby.
LightMeDark stirs a few times from his customary seat at the bar to hang around with his animal friends. He encourages bunny dances.
Cozen is aghast that Seryn shampooed his llama friend, Schwartz.
Seryn and ScorpionRegent spent a lot of time together. Seryn’s bunny breeding program seems to have had wild successes. She has begun to distribute bunnies all around the ship, including a pair to Mai’s pet brontosaurus, Frederick.
The baby shower is readied. Jake7 goes nuts with a camera, taking pictures of everything and everybody. The young orphans Shadow and Ghost leave a present for baby Seraphina, as does Safeat2nd (A pair of baby combat boots that were his as a child and a teddy bear with butterfly wings). Cozen supplies a gross tonne of diapers, which Serenity estimates will last a week.
Rat (fresh from the cryo tanks), Wisp (awakening and turning over in his bed of popcorn) and PsychicRiver (still caught in elsewhen talking to another version of himself) sort of pop in for quick hellos.
TheRealMe uses the Sereni-Tree’s grappler arms to transfer the Original Clubhouse from the cargo bay to a branch of the Tree. With the permanent dimensional portal, anyone will be able to go back and forth between the Treehouse and the Sereni-Tree.
Oh, and as the last judge not incapacitated, Malicious declares HERSELF the winner of the Second Gala Pageant and runs off to her quarters with her second set of Miss ‘Verse regalia.
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