The Sereni-Tree and the Next Big Thing
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, April 7, 2007 04:47
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ooc: Oh, Jake7, that is fantastic news! I'm so glad!
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep
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"As Security Chief, I'm kinda required to know pretty much every weapon, but if I don't have my bow, I prefer something a little more close up. I do appreciate the daggers, but I've got something of my own."
He closes his eyes, and his right hand shimmers, fading. A moment later, his eyes open. In his right hand lies a dagger, the blade dark as night, with some sort of alien writing casting a green glow. The handle is shaped like a scorpion's tail, curving around his closed fist to end in a rather sharp looking stinger.
"That guy that made me the arrowheads, also made me this."
"Heh, I meant no offence I hope you know, nice dagger by the way..."
Catches his .45 as it is tossed back and re-holsters it
"I, too, enjoy the up close more, but, hey, never bring a knife to a gun fight right?"
starts smelling the air.
"Seems we got a might large storm in the pool, lots of fresh ozone there, also the smell of blood , Reaver, and some strange male scent as well... oh crap!!! I left Fishie in there, don't know if shes ok..."
takes off down the hall, running up walls when people get in the way, moving much faster than any normal human has a right too, and drawing both daggers as he runs
"Hope Soul can keep up..." BC thinks
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*Simon looks around as though listening to something*
Was that... did you guys hear that?
Nah, couldn't be. Must be working too hard.
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As BC'07 slides to a halt around the corner, he sees a large man carrying a broadsword and bleeding from the shoulder, as BC looks around he notices the caved in locker doors.
"Hey, you there!! What happened here? Who are you? Was there a girl here and is she ok?"
BC advances on the man, still holding his twin Reaver made 12" blades, and his eyes still have dialated pupils, but the whites have been compleatly overtaken by a deep, blood red color
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"I think someone needs to tell me where I am and what's going on and what I should be doing." Citizen said, a slight look of wild abject terror in his eyes. "I mean this whole thing's beginning to get a little nuts, first I was in the space bar on some mining colony, next I know I'm hanging around WestWorld with a mouth full of dirt fighting off Zombie vacuum salesmen and it's not even Christmas. Now I'm here, back now on the ship and quite frankly I want my mummy."
"He's about six foot tall and covered with bandages, anyone seen him? He may be on a rampage, he gets like that sometimes, no heart you see."
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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BC07 takes off from the Security Office, running faster than any person has a right to. Soul simply turns ghostly and floats down off the balcony and then makes his way across the large common room to the pool area beyond.
“Gorramit!” Without his dimensional portals, TheRealMe is at a disadvantage. He decides to risk using his Jedi powers. He hops off the balcony and lands, cat-like, on the floor below. He runs across the common room, all the while wondering what he is going to use as a weapon. He snags two billiard balls and a cue as he passes the pool table.
He stops at the entryway into the pool, the smell of ozone strong in his nostrils. Soul is nearby and so is BC07, who appears to be on the verge of going berserk. TheRealMe blinks as he sees the large, naked man in the locker room. “Sir Kei? Is that you? I’m TheRealMe. We met in a village inn back on Zanzibar. Welcome to the Sereni-Tree and… ummmm… can we get you anything? Like, uh, maybe some pants?”
OOC: EXCELLENT NEWS, JAKE7!
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
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On the Sereni-Tree, in Bride1's room:
Ace is groggy as she forces her eyes open, making her escape from yet another nightmare. But what woke her? Wait, did she hear something? Was someone there? The room was completely dark. “Lights,” she mutters.
Nothing happens.
Ace grabs for the katana beside her and leaps out of her bed. Her knees wobble together for a bit, but then she collapses onto the floor. In her hands she holds a scabbard, but it is empty; her katana is missing. “What’s going on?” she asks, voice slurred.
“You have been drugged,” someone answers from the darkness.
Ace’s heart almost skips a beat as she recognizes that voice. “You won’t turn me again! The doc stripped out all of my bad DNA before he cloned me. Do your worst!”
“Oh, I will!” the voice replies, seeming calm but slightly amused. “My very worst!”
The drugs complete their work and Ace falls unconscious.
“Hmmm… You have a sharp blade, here. VERY sharp!” The voice from the darkness then lets forth a giggle that would chill one’s blood to ice.
Ace, Bride1
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The wind whips up a driving snow. It chills the face and stings the eyes in such a way that it is hard to believe that it is merely simulated weather.
“Corbin go! Go with SimonYeti and Hewitt! Ervin stay. Ervin stay and face...”
From behind, an arrow hits Ervin in the shoulder. “Ervin… Ervin… cold…” Ice covers the Yeti’s shoulder and quickly spreads to envelop his entire body. Ervin falls over, landing at Hewitt’s feet.
Despite the fact that they are in their very own environment, camouflaged by their white fur, the Yeti are being hunted down one by one in the Sereni-Tree’s snow park.
“Run!” Hewitt yells. He and Corbin leave Ervin behind and scramble up a cliff face, each carrying a burden, each hoping that the boulders above will provide some cover.
Smaller, younger, and nimbler than Corbin, Hewitt leaps over the wall of boulders first. Corbin follows, but as she gets over the wall and starts running after Hewitt, an arrow arcs high into the air above her and comes straight down, striking the back of her leg. Corbin falls, but manages a roll that brings her to her feet. Yet her leg is covered in ice, and it is spreading over the rest of her. “Hewitt!” Corbin calls out. She tosses her bundle away just before she is completely enclosed.
The baby Yeti cries loudly as it flies through the air.
But Corbin’s throw was off. Hewitt drops what he is carrying and runs to be under where the baby will land. “Hewitt catch! Hewitt catch! Hewitt catch!” he keeps repeating to himself. Finally, the young Yeti leaps and extends his long arms to grab little SimonYeti before he hits the ground. Hewitt falls, but shields the baby with his body. In an instant, he is back on his feet and running for the exit.
Slowly, calmly, a figure in a parka walks past Ervin, its fur-lined boots crunching in the snow. It selects another arrow from its quiver and aims upward. The arrow embeds itself into the line of boulders above, trailing a line behind it. The figure attaches a hand-held device to the line, and holds tight as the motor hums and pulls the figure up the cliff. It hops over the boulders and walks past Corbin.
“I wasn’t after your baby, you big stupid ape!”
It walks further to the package that Hewitt had been carrying, but dropped. It carefully lays its bow aside and examines its prize.
“Hmmm… Servos, processors, memory crystals, arms, legs, torso… AND a head. Yes, it seems that we have all the bits and pieces of a complete Baby 3000 here. A robotic practice baby! How wonderful! And I so love putting jigsaw puzzles together!
"But I wonder what it’s going to do when it discovers that it’s been… replaced… by a real child?”
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BC07 takes off from the Security Office, running faster than any person has a right to. Soul simply turns ghostly and floats down off the balcony and then makes his way across the large common room to the pool area beyond.
“Gorramit!” Without his dimensional portals, TheRealMe is at a disadvantage. He decides to risk using his Jedi powers. He hops off the balcony and lands, cat-like, on the floor below. He runs across the common room, all the while wondering what he is going to use as a weapon. He snags two billiard balls and a cue as he passes the pool table.
He stops at the entryway into the pool, the smell of ozone strong in his nostrils. Soul is nearby and so is BC07, who appears to be on the verge of going berserk. TheRealMe blinks as he sees the large, naked man in the locker room. “Sir Kei? Is that you? I’m TheRealMe. We met in a village inn back on Zanzibar. Welcome to the Sereni-Tree and… ummmm… can we get you anything? Like, uh, maybe some pants?”
OOC: EXCELLENT NEWS, JAKE7!
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
Before Soul even finishes re-emering from a wall, BC has one of his guns cocked, saftey off, and aimed between Souls eyes without even turning around, then, as TRM enters he draws his second gun and aims it at TRM's chest, in line with his heart, still facing Sir Kei and watching him with an eary, un-blinking gaze
"I suggest one of you answers my question... what happened in here, and is the girl ok?"
I can't find her... can't find the Reaver eather... gorramit this ISN'T GOOD!!! I need answers, and right now I can't pick up anything with my senses... this ship is to ruttin' BIG, and that damn Reaver isn't leaving any residual... ANYTHING!!!
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"But I wonder what it’s going to do when it discovers that it’s been… replaced… by a real child?”
OOC: That is quite possibly the creepiest thing that's been written in a 'tree plotline yet.
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*awakes suddenly (unaware of the new "makeover") and looks around a barren engine room.
Well, that's the last time I'm playing hide and seek with any of you people. I mean you have a locator for goodness sakes, how hard could it be! Ah well, maybe Serenity just got distracted by baby Sera. Can't blame her for that.
Walking through the ship, it seems eerily quiet and calm. Uh-oh that can't be good.
*walking and struggling to take off the silly helmet. Why won't this gorram thing come off!!! The helmet finally budges, but only slips down over Mai's eyes and refuses to move another inch. She walks straight into someone, busy yelling about missing their mummy, and knocks them both to the ground.
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