The Sereni-Tree and the Neverending Peril

POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 03:53
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OOC: I completely agree with you TRM, and think your plan to keep us all together is a smart one.
I wasn't going to comment at all since I'm fairly new too, so I didn't feel I had any say, especially since people like TWG have been here since the beginning of SereniTree and I've only been here for a handful of threads. But for what it's worth, I don't find the light-hearted fun that interesting.
I mean I just read Soul's last post and I'm thinking "Wow, this is fantastic. I'd love to read a story all about him and his past", but at the same time I agree that the thread is way too confusing. Even if I've read all the posts (I do tend to skip those ones taking place eleswhere), I still need to read your recaps to keep up.
I think the problem is all of us here appreciate the chance to write a little story around our character, and so seize the opportunity to do it.
But that means, even if you've only got 10 people with that passion, you've still got 10 different plots running concurrently.
I know I've thought about just skipping the whole ordeal here and writing the story of "SereniTree Needy" and putting it in the blue sun room. Especially since I've known for a while that many would like the threads to be "not so much with the drama and peril". I just don't find stories interesting without good drama though.

Whatever everyone decides will be ok I suppose, but I do think at the rate things are going, two seperate threads may be needed - "SereniTree" (focussing on fun times) and "SereniTree Unbound" or "Off-SereniTree" (or whatever you choose to call it) which features more exciting plots. With the portals, there's always the opportunity to intermingle with the other side - those that want time to relax can, and those a little bored can join in a little adventure

Just my two cents

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Needy. Male Companion:
First Boy Whore of Destiny
Incredibly Confused Companion of SereniTree
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*Kinda sidles up next to CallMeSerenity, gently massaging her temple.*

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Oooh, thank you Cozen. That feels lovely!

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Originally posted by Jadehand:


*JadeHand... stop(s)only briefly to ask Cozen a question about the thing sitting on top of his pie. "Sorry Coz."

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Cozy, you've got a little something on your face there. Here, let me help you.

*lick*

Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8

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Soul walks back into the common room after removing the letter he wrote for Serenity from their room. He realizes that the letter is the cowardly way out. So now he wants to talk to her, explain his situation, but when he walks back into the common room...

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:



Cozy, you've got a little something on your face there. Here, let me help you.

*lick*

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*stares*

OOC: I'm thinking of starting an offshoot thread, just one, and just to wrap up Soul's storyline, or at least part of it. That way the TREE can have it's fun, and when we're done, we'll come back and join in on the festivities!! I think I'll call the thread "Off the TREE: Soul's Quest".

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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.

Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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OOC: You may find it shocking that I have lately found that the peril too constant. So I can appreciate some down time where SR can be allowed to tinker, make moonshine, cook sourdough, homebrew, redecorate his new apartment, study Zen, practice Tai Chi, perhaps build a lot of book shelves and cumfy chairs thus creating a library/reading room in one of the quieter corners of the Tree. When SR first arrived he was all angst because he had been exposed to non-stop peril, hardship and woe for far too long. He's trying to get away from all that, but like Michael Correleone "Just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in!"

I really like the apartment I have visualized down in engineering, but I do not want a tenants comittee made up entirely of smurfs and clowns. Hobbits I can handle, smurfs are just not welcome. I tend towards a cooler more realistic approach, but not inhospitable.

As far as the angst issue. Well angst is sometimes a part of life. If you want a life without pain try heroin, otherwise there will always be some pain. Right now SR is dealing with Jett's issues. I'm not here to live in permanent angst. In fact I am hoping that the aforementioned domestic pursuits will bring SR back to an even keel. If the situation warrants me angsting then I will. I won't tell other people what they can and can not write here, it's not my place. By that same token it is not TWG's place to tell everyone else what to do. Personally I think she was out of line to make such a unilateral action, but what's done is done and now we are addressing the underlying issues that will hopefully make the Tree a place for all. I do respect TWG's reasons for taking action. It's important that be understood. There are people who are absent, Malicious and Ebo for example, that might feel more welcome in a more silly or festive environment and I would not wish them unwelcome.

If we separate the original clubhouse and only do adventures on the ship that's great. If I have to have my adventures on another thread entirely the so be it. I would still like to keep the apartment, but not at all costs, SR does have his dignity to think of.

Well that enough from the grumpy guy down in engineering.


Scorpion Regent

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OOC: Because I’ve been a bit slower than everyone else, this is a bit late. But I better get this over and done with nevertheless.

Much Earlier:
Needy’s body jolts slightly as he is forced awake by the beckoning call of reality.

The ISSCV. He doesn’t recall walking there but that’s beside the point – the ship is shaking as its engines lift the craft up off of the ground and into the air.

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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
“Citizen? I could use a hand”

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The sound of Seryn’s voice calling out confirms to him that this was indeed reality.

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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
Needy looks around. Again a feeling of helplessness washes over him. He sits at the turret in the back compartment, using the turret’s targeting system as field glasses to watch what was going on outside.

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“What the hell is going on here?” He mutters under his breath as he witnesses the events unfold before him. Needy you idiot, you should have known we wouldn’t rescue Serenity and not get caught in a… Serenity! Do we still have her?!
Needy has to make sure she is alright. They didn’t come all this way for nothing. Still disorientated from jumping between realities, the ship’s shuddering and swaying didn’t help him as he tried to walk.
Who the hell is flying this thing?
Right on cue, Needy spots the ship’s pilot, Seryn.
Ah

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Originally posted by seryn:
Behind her a huge tearing noise suddenly ripped the relative quiet apart, she turned her head in time to see Soul and McQ dive away from the hatch, grabbing weapons, building cover. A loud crunch and the patter of falling debris sounded, followed by breif silence, then the truly unwelcome noise of shouting and gunfire.
She looked to Needy, glad to see he was mostly back with them, and indicated to him to grab the sleeping Serenity and get her somewhere safer than where she is. He got her wild waving immedietly, grinning at her surprise, and lifted Serenity up, grabbing a weapon and retreating to the corner they were least likely to get killed in.

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After setting Serenity down, relieved that she seemed to be okay, he whispers to her, over the loud noise of the ships engines and outside gunfire, “I’ll be right back”

Turning around, he makes for the turret.

“You do realise she’s asleep right?” Serenity answers.
No, it’s not Serenity, it’s the one with her face. The one that exists in Needy’s mind.
He looks around him. He is still on board the ISSCV – no shift in realities this time – only “she” doesn’t belong here.

“Get lost.” Needy plainly states.
“Sorry?” Serenity-Form replies.
“You’re not real, and this isn’t the time”
“I’m not real?” she asks shocked
“This isn’t the time!” he repeats, grabbing the turret scope and observing the terrain.
“No. Tell me now” she orders
Needy sighs before replying. “You’re a figment of my imagination, the result of my mind trying to cope with the situations I’ve found myself in. You only appear when I feel myself stressed out, or in some weird situation which, sad to say, has been pretty much all the time. That is why you have no answers for me.”
“I’ve told you the truth”
“You’ve told me my fears. You’re haunting me. But you haven’t the knowledge to even begin answering my questions. Only what I’m afraid of. I can’t handle pressure so you’ve pretty much gave me the worst news I possibly could have heard”
“It is the truth”
“Funny, that’s what a figment of my imagination determined to stress me out to the max would say. Coincidence?”
“I’ve told you the truth, I gave you back your life. I told you war was imminent”
“You said the battle for the ‘verse…”
“And what do you think this is?”
“This?” Needy raises his eyebrow and looks at Serenity-Form with a smile “This is just a bit of interference”
“That’s how it all starts”
Cozen turns around, certain that the boy whore was talking to himself. But as he eyes him, Needy merely smiles and turns back to the turret scope.

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Originally posted by safeat2nd:

Needy watches this unfold

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