The Sereni-Tree, More Shopping, and Some Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 02:08
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Sorry, McQ, but you are not on the same world as Serenity! Our people are split between the world of Garrison and its moon, Commerce. Serenity is missing on Commerce. Quincey is missing on Garrison. Also, if you want to join the action rather than just sit around, do so, or invent your own action that occurs at your location. Here is a current update of where people are:
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On the planet Garrison:
In a rented hanger are the shuttles Admiral Nelson and (the invisible) Ocean Cloud. McQ the cyborg is standing guard, and there are also Cozen and LightMeDark, both drunk.
Wandering in a Garrison City Chinatown looking for Quincey are Jadehand, Deuce, Wisp, N0Skillz, and N0Skillz’s tiger, Shadow.
Last seen held captive somewhere in a Garrison dungeon is Quincey.
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On Commerce, shopping moon of Garrison:
Somewhere on the streets of Commerce City are Seryn and Mai, terribly worried about where Serenity just disappeared to. Citizen is somewhere about, trying to track Serenity’s captors. The shuttle Napoleon Bonaparte has just met up with Seryn and Mai. Inside are TheRealMe and his robot, Sparky.
Also in Commerce City, Serenity has been dragged away from Seryn and Mai and rendered unconscious by Jennings, one of the men hired by the scar-faced guy. No doubt Jennings will return with her to his ship, the Dagger, where he will meet up with his partners, Grunt and Bear, and with the scar-faced guy who hired them (who is Heinz, certainly).
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Lost somewhere in Spacetime:
PsychicRiver is elsewhen, talking to a future or past version of himself.
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On Sereni-Tree:
Everyone else of note is aboard our starship, the Sereni-Tree, which is orbiting Garrison. In case anyone else wants to come down to one of the planets, the Sereni-Tree still has the shuttle General Lee, a couple of one-person speeder pods, and the fighter Nandi. It is possible that TheGreyJedi left one of his mecha there, too. Also, the Sereni-Tree is capable of landing.
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*gets on com
Attention Soul, Ath and all SereniTREE crew Serenity has gone missing with the help of some very disreputable man.She not been gone but a few minutes but its not looking good. PLEASE GET DOWN HERE NOW! Looks like we're going to need all the help we can get!
*Follows Seryn through the alley
They can't have gotten that far yet. We have keep following. I'll keep open so everyone else knows exactly where we are. What kind of
*freaks out and starts screaming
"SERENITY! Serenity! Serenity!!!!!!!!!!!
(right that's not helping)
*breathes*
Seryn! Look at this, looks like our kidnapper wasn't so smart *points at booted foot prints and dragging prints on the dirt path.
Mai, Secretary of Unmentionables.
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Quote:
Originally posted by N0Skillz:
Scanning the area for any sort of high class place or someplace for information, N0Skillz finds what he's looking for.
Gesturing to a upper class building with 2 guards out front of it, N0Skillz says " Alright guys that seems a likely place to figure something out. I don't know to many nightclubs that have guards out front but no waiting line and no neon sign. Must be the local big shot in town, they should know at least something."
Pulling out a .45 and then the other, N0Skillz checks the camber for a round and places one of them back in its holster. Changing his pace N0Skillz starts to quickly make his was towards the building, stopping a decent distance from the building.
"So how we want to do this. The hard way, i.e force our way in, or easy way all sneaky backdoor like?"
-ooc: if y'all make any moves during the day today, i'ma be at work and prolly wont be able to post, feel free to drag me along in ur posts
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RAF Lakenheath
Security Deputy of the Sereni-Tree
"I can't feel my Danger Zone" Jayne Muppet!
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“Naw!” Deuce says. “These might not even be the bad guys. They might just run inside and fetch Quin for us. Let’s just talk to them. Watch!” Deuce confidently strides up to the two guards at the front of the ritzy palace place.
As she approaches, the two well-dressed guards become alert and put their hands on their weapons.
“Hi!” she says, and waves.
“What is your business here?”one of them demands.
“Looking for someone,” Deuce replies. “A friend.” Without taking her eyes from the guards, she presses a button on her com link. A life sized hologram appears next to her. It shows seven confused-looking young women of various types, all wearing wedding dresses and holding bouquets. Deuce herself is clearly the second in the lineup, though the image of her has much longer hair. Deuce strolls up and indicates the fifth woman in the line with a wave of her sheathed katanas. “That one. Pretty, huh? Seen her around here?” Deuce has pointed to a very beautiful woman with Oriental features, dark eyes, and long, straight black hair.
The guards exchange knowing glances. One of them backs inside the building. The other says, “I can help you. Follow me.” That guard starts walking away from the grand entrance, along the main street.
“See!” Deuce calls to the others. “Come on!” She deactivates the hologram.
Jadehand, Deuce, Wisp, Noskillz, and the tiger follow the guard around the grand building. Many people along the street step back, wary of the huge cat. As they turn into an alley, Jadehand glances over his shoulder. “We’ve got company,” he whispers.
“Yeah, sorta saw that comin’,” Deuce shrugs.
Behind the SereniTree group are eight strong-looking young men of Oriental descent, wearing loose-fitting clothes and headbands and bearing martial arts weapons. The expressions on their faces are grim and unfriendly. They seem to have stepped right out of a Hong Kong action flick, and are blocking the opening of the alley.
The well-dressed palace guard slips into a secret door somewhere and disappears.
Deuce turns to face the newcomers. She stares intently at the threatening young toughs. A bone-chilling smile comes to her lips. “Hi, boys!”
“Do you know these guys?” Wisp asks her.
“Naw,” Deuce says, still grinning, “But I’m guessing I’ll know what kind of fighters they are in just a bit.” She pauses to evaluate their stances with a critical eye. “Heh. I can take them!” Deuce calls out to the gang. “So, are we gonna be able to solve this all peaceful-like?”
The gang members ready their weapons. “You will not leave here,” the leader states.
Deuce laughs. “I’ll take that as a ‘no’!” With a flick of her wrists, the scabbards of Deuce’s katanas fall to the ground, leaving a gleaming razor-sharp blade in each of her hands. “Okay, which of you is going to tell us how to find our friend? H
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On Garrison: Feeling rather put out, by being dismissed by JH and having to carry Wisp's bag back to the shuttle SR rediscovers his foul mood. On the way back to the hangar he stops at a street vendor selling sandwiches and orders himself a sandwich and several more for McQ, LMD and Cozen.
(OOC though for the life of me I can't understand how Cozen got from the Tree's shuttle bay to the Garrison hangar without the benifit of a space craft. But what do I care?)
"Finally a chance to eat," he thinks to himself as he takes the first bite of his sandwich. Then Mai and Seryn are screaming about CMS on Commerce over his comm-link. With a sense of weary fatalism SR wraps up his sandwich in a napkin and puts it in the bag with the others and makes his way to the hangar. He toggles up his comm-link and places a call to TRM.
"TRM this is SR. I was about to depart from Garrison to the Tree with the Nelson. I have MCQ, LMD, Cozen and a goat as passengers. Should I return to the Tree as planned and ferry Soul and other personel down to Commerce or should we join you directly on Commerce? Before you make your decision you should know that Cozen and LMD are three sheets to the wind and are less useful than the goat at this point. I will wait for your answer before take off."
SR finds himself at the hangar. He walks in and finds himself blocked by a fearsome artifact of incredible bulk and complexity. He takes a deep breath and steels himself for the moment. He exhales, "Terribly sorry we haven't been properly introdouced yet. I'm Scorpion Regent, you must be McQ." He offers his hand. "I got you a sandwich, it's not kosher I'm afraid, but things are a bit hectic as of late."
Scorpion Regent
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As TheRealMe is trying to get a coherent story out of Mai and Seryn, ScorpionRegent beeps him on his com-link.
Quote:
SR wrote:
"TRM this is SR. I was about to depart from Garrison to the Tree with the Nelson. I have MCQ, LMD, Cozen and a goat as passengers. Should I return to the Tree as planned and ferry Soul and other personel down to Commerce or should we join you directly on Commerce? Before you make your decision you should know that Cozen and LMD are three sheets to the wind and are less useful than the goat at this point. I will wait for your answer before take off."
"I'm sorry, ScorpionRegent. I'm occupied with the Serenity rescue at the moment. You are on the scene and have access to information that I don't. Also, I don't know where we'll be in the Bonaparte in the next five minutes. I'll trust you to use your best judgement."
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
On Garrison: Feeling rather put out, by being dismissed by JH and having to carry Wisp's bag back to the shuttle SR rediscovers his foul mood. On the way back to the hangar he stops at a street vendor selling sandwiches and orders himself a sandwich and several more for McQ, LMD and Cozen.
(OOC though for the life of me I can't understand how Cozen got from the Tree's shuttle bay to the Garrison hangar without the benifit of a space craft. But what do I care?)
"Finally a chance to eat," he thinks to himself as he takes the first bite of his sandwich. Then Mai and Seryn are screaming about CMS on Commerce over his comm-link. With a sense of weary fatalism SR wraps up his sandwich in a napkin and puts it in the bag with the others and makes his way to the hangar. He toggles up his comm-link and places a call to TRM.
"TRM this is SR. I was about to depart from Garrison to the Tree with the Nelson. I have MCQ, LMD, Cozen and a goat as passengers. Should I return to the Tree as planned and ferry Soul and other personel down to Commerce or should we join you directly on Commerce? Before you make your decision you should know that Cozen and LMD are three sheets to the wind and are less useful than the goat at this point. I will wait for your answer before take off."
SR finds himself at the hangar. He walks in and finds himself blocked by a fearsome artifact of incredible bulk and complexity. He takes a deep breath and steels himself for the moment. He exhales, "Terribly sorry we haven't been properly introdouced yet. I'm Scorpion Regent, you must be McQ." He offers his hand. "I got you a sandwich, it's not kosher I'm afraid, but things are a bit hectic as of late."
Scorpion Regent
McQ shakes SR's hand accepts the sandwich from him.
"Thanks," he says and stops for a moment looking at the sandwich. "It's been a while since I've had actual food. Don't know if I'm able to digest it but I suppose it's worth a try."
He takes a bite and despite being from a vendor, it's the best thing he's tasted since before being turned into a cyborg.
"So are we finally leaving this planet?" McQ inquires.
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Seryn looks around, she leaves Mai to explain what happened, and investigates the scuff marks, following them down the alley, pausing at door ways to try and see sighns of disturbance.
She steps back, and something cold and slimy squelches between her toes. She closes her eye's, forcing her self not to look, hoping thats its just another variety of mud.
She opens her eyes again, and instantly notes the letters roughly sprayed on the brickwork.
"C, I, T. Arrow... " she touches the t, paint coming away on her hands. "damn, I hope thats who I think it is...
"TRM! Mai! come here!..... .... Citizen is ahead of us,at least I hope thats what this means *indicates the letters* I knew he was here I just don't know how he got ahead of us.
They were in a ship, that was the warning, before all of this started, they could be taking her to a ship, but... it could not be. I have to follow this. If you, can you track the ship that appeared? If it took off from the docks, could you follow it?"
She grabs Mais comm and activates her beacon.
"If I don't find her here, i'll follow you, if I do, i'll alter the signal, you come follow me."
She pauses, then grins.
"grab the shopping on your way back. I know one thing, that blanket was a bargain and if we looses it, Serenity's going to be really pissed with us."
She turns and runs down the ally way.
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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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*over the comms* "SR? Get over here, I need you. Follow my beacon, do that blinky transport thing if you can, just get here."
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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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Quote:
Originally posted by Bride2:
Suddenly, hidden gang members spring their ambush, and the SereniTree group is attacked from all sides at once.
“Hey!” Deuce is upset. “No fair! Don’t you guys have to attack us one at a time?”
The SereniTree men start shooting. The gang members seem to be taking the shots without too much discomfort, though a few go down.
Deuce is outraged. "Armor too?! Don't you guys ever watch movies?"
"Maybe they're zombies or robots," Wisp suggests.
"No, just time for bigger guns," Noskillz says.
Bride2
Pulling one of the grenades from his belt N0Skillz pulls the pin and rolls it towards teh largest group of thugs.
Noticing Jadehand, Wisp, and Duece just standing around he yells, "Umm... move the other way people!" and everyone dives away.
"Well thats one approach" Jadehand mumbles.
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RAF Lakenheath
Security Deputy of the Sereni-Tree
"I can't feel my Danger Zone" Jayne Muppet!
http://walkerboh.deviantart.com/
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Quote:
Originally posted by McQ:
McQ shakes SR's hand accepts the sandwich from him.
"Thanks," he says and stops for a moment looking at the sandwich. "It's been a while since I've had actual food. Don't know if I'm able to digest it but I suppose it's worth a try."
He takes a bite and despite being from a vendor, it's the best thing he's tasted since before being turned into a cyborg.
"So are we finally leaving this planet?" McQ inquires.
SR's comm-link beeps. "Excuse me a moment." he says to McQ.
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"I'm sorry, ScorpionRegent. I'm occupied with the Serenity rescue at the moment. You are on the scene and have access to information that I don't. Also, I don't know where we'll be in the Bonaparte in the next five minutes. I'll trust you to use your best judgement."
*over the comms* "SR? GET here, I need you. Follow my beacon, do that blinky transport thing if you can, just get here."
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"If wishes were fishes we'd all be eating sushi. Blinky thing has no predictable destination, I could wind up on Ariel, Whitefall or goddess knows where. It will take time for me to get to you, but I'm on my way." SR breaks the connection. He waits to see that MCQ has a chance to finish his sandwich which he does in short order.
"Yes McQ we are leaving, quickly. If you would be so kind as to see to secureing those two," SR indicates LMD and Cozen "in the passenger compartment of the Nelson, I'll fire up the engine."
SR turns to the drunks as McQ approaches them and yells. "Boys we have to get back to Commerce, now! McQ will see you to your seats."
McQ lifts LMD and Cozen by thier jacket collars and carries them into the Nelson.
SR runs a lightning pre-flight and sends the Nelson skyward. The inertail dampers are unable to compensate properly for the acceleration and SR accutally feels G-force for about a ninety seconds. As he is doing this he sends the following message over the comm-link on a open line so the entire Tree is in the loop.
"This SR I am enroute to Commerce with the Nelson, ETA forty minutes with the engine at the limit."
Once clear of atmo and the sub-orbital traffic SR plots as direct course as possible at maximum speed and locks it into the the autopilot. He finally takes the opportunity to eat his sandwich, once finished he takes the last two sandwiches to Cozen and LMD and finds them both passed out in their seats. He looks to McQ
"You didn't...?" He starts to ask.
"They're just sleeping it off." McQ answers.
"I hope it isn't necessary, but you might want to clean your guns for this one." says SR as he pulls a bag out from under one the seats and opens it revealing a small but tidy collection of weapons and equipment: A dagger, a cutlass, a pair of compact binoculars, a pump action shotgun with a folding stock and a varoius assortment of shells, a bullet proof vest, a pair of automatics with six spare ammo clips and revolver with three speed loaders. Everything is old, but extremely well cared for. SR takes off his jacket and dons the vest and then a double should holster rig followed by a heavy belt with a holster on the right hip, and various pouches. SR loads and checks the pistols and puts them in the holsters, automatics in the shoulder rig and revolver on his hip. The cutlass scabbard has a clip to hook onto the belt, but he chooses to leave it off for the moment (sitting with swords is uncomfortable.) As he is gearing up SR though focussed on his work begins speaking to McQ.
"You don't have to do anything once we arrive on Commerce. I'm not an officer, I can't give you orders, but I can tell you this, any help you can provide will go a long way. As a team we can do a lot. I should warn you that politically speaking when this is all over you would be well advised to keep your distance from me, as I am sure to get a large share of the blame for CMS going missing. It won't matter a fart in hell, that the ladies would be safe
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