The Sereni-Tree and the Start of the Second Gala Pageant
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Thursday, June 15, 2006 02:00
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Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
She pulls one of the god-awful things, a particularly runny looking peacock, out of the bag and hefts it in one hand
"Figured if it was for research *grins* there was nothing better to volunteer for destruction. You know, for the good of mankind?"
She puts the bag and the ornament down, and rests an appreciative hand on the catapult, Admiring the construction.
"When she's ready of course..."
*smiles*
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"Well ballistae's aren't really designed to launch vases, but I suppose if I were to remove this restraining strap for 0G. Well that leaves the track wide open. You can put that ceramic atrocity in the hot seat. Let's tilt it to say a 30 degree angle. Tug that lanyard there."
The peacock takes flight lightening fast in low arc and smashes to smithereens well over a three hundred meters a way.
"Hmm, interesting,"
Scorpion Regent
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"Whoot!"
Seryn jumps just a little bit with enthusiasm, then something occurs to her.
"Wait, how can you see something well over 300 meters away? Its the middle of the ni..."
She looks down, the dress is beginning to fade really quickly behind them the sun is already starting to break over the tree line.
"Crap!" She grabs a pair of jeans (in deference to us being back on good old earth!)and a shirt from the bag ducks behind an out shoot and pulls them quickly on. As the sunlight hits and the last of the dress melts away, she gives one small sigh at the loss, then smiles at her narrow escape and goes back to the catapult.
"ok, double whammy?" from the back she pull a pair of staffordshire dogs, equally runny and with added stupid bits of gilt highlight. They load them, and SR trips the mechanism. One flys the wrong way, air catching it and it looses velocity, landing only a few dozen meters beyond the Tree, but the other acheives a great spin and flies to land several meters beyond the peacock.
"oh man that feels good"
Soon they've depleated the ceramics from hell and find them selves at a loss. Rooting about in her bag, Seryn looks back over her shoulder at SR and grins devillishly.
"What?"
"oh, you'll see."
She runs off, then reappears a while later with a huge plastic bag full of shiny colourful globe shapes.
"Water balloons?" Sr despite himself, laughs slightly. Shielding her eyes, she scans the ground, then points. He looks in the direction, and sees Shwartz the Llama scratching himself against a tree. "Nooooooo...."
"Yes! Time for some target practice! The idea is not to hit him, just to get him thoroughly wet, theres soap in some of the balloons, its time the smelly old thing had a bath."
Grinning, they load the first batch, and SR sets to calculating angles. Done, he looks up.
"ready?"
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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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CONTESTANT 6: Quincey, Bride5
A beautiful young woman with Oriental features and long black hair struts up onto the stage. She is using a well-practiced walk carefully designed to display the nearly perfect curves of her body. This walk is largely unnecessary, though, as she is completely naked except for a thin layer of paint. She is bright red everywhere, with black tiger stripes.
“Hello,” she purrs into the microphone. “I am called Quincey.” She jiggles a bit as she blows everyone a kiss, then she walks off the stage wearing a confident grin.
In the audience, Bobby Sue sighs and shakes her head. “When I was up there, I DEFINITELY should have flashed my boobs. Now I’m gonna lose!”
Also in the audience, Ervin the Yeti is so stunned by the sight that he is late in covering the eyes of Shadow and Ghost. “Ervin thinks he hunted one of those, once.”
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*Serenity would like it noted that in absence of CageyBee, she has taken residence with the rest of the judges and is taking careful notes on her scorecards.*
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
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TheRealMe takes notes also, except that his "scorecard" looks more like a little black book.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Down in Main Engineering, Jet taps her console a few times, then turns off the feed showing the Gala Pageant. It looks like Quincey made quite an impression on the audience with the body paint that Jet had arranged for her.
"Oh, well, time to get to work," she tells herself. "Since we're not using spacedrives or weapons, we can give some of these a rest."
One by one, Jet powers down all but one of the Sereni-Tree's auxilliary power plants, then she pulls down with all her might on the lever controlling the main fusion reactor. The switch drops, and the hum of the great engine declines in frequency until it is inaudible. Jet marvels at how one fails to notice that noise after a while, but how its absence is felt instantly.
She checks some readings on the main power plant.
"Hmmmm... Knibblet's Stupendous Engine Additive sure increases our power output, but it leaves an unsightly residue."
Jet programs a DRD and gets some automops ready for when the temperature inside the reactor falls to a safe level.
Jet, Bride4
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*JadeHand finishes practicing his song, and returns to the common room, locking Ocean Cloud and activating the SEP behind him. He strolls in and sits back down beside Mai.*
So, did I miss anything?
"Don't give me what's in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter on the bottom shelf?
I'll buy the lowdown deepdown primal truthful self ."
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Oops, just remembered something.
Be right Back.
*JadeHand returns to Mai's room and collects the boa. Drops it off at the animal park and returns to the gala.*
"Don't give me what's in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter on the bottom shelf?
I'll buy the lowdown deepdown primal truthful self ."
-The Damage(Marbles)-Marillion
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Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
"Water balloons?" Sr despite himself, laughs slightly. Shielding her eyes, she scans the ground, then points. He looks in the direction, and sees Shwartz the Llama scratching himself against a tree. "Nooooooo...."
"Yes! Time for some target practice! The idea is not to hit him, just to get him thoroughly wet, theres soap in some of the balloons, its time the smelly old thing had a bath."
Grinning, they load the first batch, and SR sets to calculating angles. Done, he looks up.
"ready?"
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"On second thought you should do the honors." says SR stepping back and offering to let Seryn pull the release lanyard. As Seryn gives the lanyard a pull SR does a quick back-peddle as the water balloons explode dousing her.
"Seems balloons don't take that sort of acceleration well." says SR with a completely straight face.
"You, you knew that would happen!" Yells Seryn, it was not a question. She quickly reaches over and grabbing a water ballon from the box hurls it at SR. Her eyes have that intensity that say "give this woman what she wants, because if you don't she will take it." He dodges, trying very hard not to betray his amusement.
"Snarky if you would be so kind as to go to the infirmary and see if you can borrow a set of surgeons scrubs appropriate to Ms. Seryns size please, expedience on this issue would be truly appreciated."
Snarky zips away playing the William Tell Overture. SR dodges another balloon.
"May I say my dear that you are beautiful when you are wet." The third ballon hits him square in the chest. Seryns mouth shows the edges of a smile, but the fire is still in her eyes.
"Ha!" she shouts and turns for another missile. Cat quick SR is is behind her. He wraps his arms around her pinioning her arms to her sides. His voice whispered gently in her left ear, "I'm sorry." SR places three lingering kisses across the back of Seryns neck. His voice is now in her right ear "will you forgive me?" The releases her and takes one step back.
Scorpion Regent
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She pauses for a moment gaze angled down, to her side, watching his feet shift slightly, all thoughts on how her back is suddenly cold, not really where they should be... a small voice pips up.
Oh, what the hell, I should make that a mantra.
She steps back, re-establashing the contact, a small smile over her shoulder. "Convince me to forgive you..."
He returns the smile, leans closer, and gives it his best shot.
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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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