The Sereni-Tree and the Neverending Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 03:53
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Originally posted by KellyofLuthien:
"Oh, that's it, you're getting it now!"
Kelly darts over to the edge and drags Ath kicking and screaming into the water.
"Fear my Elven wrath!"
*Ath pops his head out of the water, sputtering. Once he catches his breath, he looks at a grinning Kelly and holds out his hand.*
"I'm sorry. That was mean of me. Truce?"
*Kelly looks skeptical at first, but seeing nothing but honesty in Ath's blue eyes, she shakes his hand.*
"Truce."
*Ath pulls Kelly toward him with the shaking hand and with the other, dunks her.*
"Truce on that!"
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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Originally posted by ItsaWash:
ItsaWash fades into the ether, dematerializing from the storage room in which she was sleeping soundly. Other people, places and times call her away.
((/me cries))
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double post...guess i really needed to cry over that ;(
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Originally posted by ItsaWash:
ItsaWash fades into the ether, dematerializing from the storage room in which she was sleeping soundly. Other people, places and times call her away.
During spring cleaning on the Serenitree, Sparky the robot will find the comforter from Washie's bunk in a heap on the floor of the storage room and will add it to the laundry.
Such small items as are left behind in her former quarters as are usable, she bequeaths to whomever can use 'em.
OOC: sniffles... :( :'( cries...
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*JadeHand watches as Jet looks over the device, and runs several tests on it. She nods approval and pulls out a set of bridge schematics to find the best location for the new equipment. Attaching a mounting bracket she goes over the proper placement and power source for the device with JadeHand before ushering him out of engineering and getting back to her other duties.*
*JadeHand heads for the bridge.*
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Safe looks around “Where’s Jennings?” At that moment Jennings and Citizen run out of the warehouse grinning.
“Heinz owed us for pukin’ in our ship. Plus he had somethin’ what was ours.” Jennings says as he tosses Grunt his antique rifle and pockets a small bag of credits.
“I never like to turn down a potential business opportunity. Blue Sun technology is worth its weight in gold” Citizen grins, patting his pocket. “Plus, we left a little parting gift.”
“Alright already, times a wasting.” Soul grates impatiently.
The group had no sooner enter the alleyway when a troop of men jog by on the road towards the warehouse.
“All plans are off, we gotta move!” Soul hisses urgently.
**
At the airfield, the well groomed gentlemen stand by their shuttle surrounded by a small squad of soldiers.
Hidden in the shadows of a nearby hanger, Grunt whispers to Safe “I’ve got a clean shot” Never taking his eye from the scope of his rifle.
“No, that would be akin to poking a beehive with a stick. We do this quiet like. You got us covered?” Safe asks already knowing the answer. McQ, Citizen, SR, Needy and Seryn all nod. Soul crouches quietly, still holding Serenity. “Wait for my signal. Then go in small groups.”
“Let’s do this then” Bear reaches down and grabs Safe, throwing him onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Grunt and Jennings fall into step and the three men walk nonchalantly towards the Dagger while the rest wait expectantly.
As they get closer, Grunt angles towards the soldiers. “Excuse me, I have a message from a Mr. Heinz for Mr.’s Johnson.”
Soul watched the exchange with interest. The plan was, Grunt was to relay a message to the leaders from Heinz, how he needed them back at the warehouse, thus thinning the squad and allowing time for the others to reach the ISSCV while Grunt, Jennings and Bear keep the remainder occupied. Safe was to be newly collected bounty, and he was doing a good job of it, hanging limply over Bear’s shoulder.
Safe raises his head slightly and nods. That was the signal.
Soul nods at Citizen, who produces a small device with a single button on it.
Grinning like a kid at Christmas, Citizen mouths one word as he presses the button “Boom”
**
The walls of the warehouse were built to withstand external force but still managed to contain the majority of the explosion. The force of the explosion, however, incinerates everything inside the warehouse including the late Mr. Heinz and the squad looking for him.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Originally posted by Jadehand:
*JadeHand watches as Jet looks over the device, and runs several tests on it.
Jet spends a short time inspecting the SEP device that Jadehand had given her, turning it this way and that in her hands. She takes the device over to a workbench and plugs some wires into it. Then she calmly cleans her glasses on her coveralls while she examines readouts on the diagnostic instruments.
“Hmmmm…” She puts her glasses back on.
The small woman goes over to a nearby table and returns lugging a huge book, one seemingly as large and heavy as she is. With some effort she heaves it up onto the work bench, and starts turning pages. She smiles at Jadehand. “This is the book I call Grey’s Anatomy. It contains the complete technical specifications of this ship as designed and implemented by TheGreyJedi.”
Jet ties her dark hair into a ponytail to keep it out of the way. Then she leans over the book and slowly turns the pages one by one with her left hand, using the index finger of her right hand to carefully trace her way amongst a maze of circuitry diagrams.
“Here!” Jet calls triumphantly, pointing at some particular tangle of schematic lines. She takes out a red pen and makes a series of incomprehensible doodles on that page. Jadehand notices a number of other alterations in red on that and many of the other pages of the book. Jet is excited, animated, as she explains. “See, all we need to do is to boost the signal of your field generator a little, and then we can feed its output directly into our defensive screens. It’s almost ready-made. Your gizmo would just enhance their normal functionality.” She becomes quiet for a moment as she stares at the ceiling and thinks. “Ummm… I’ll need to provide some more power, though, and bring in some control lines. And I need to make a socket for this thing to plug into. Not too hard to do. An hour. Maybe two.”
Jadehand scratches his head, still looking at the large book. “Uh, wouldn’t it be easier and safer to store that information in the computer?”
Jet grins. “Oh, I do! I do!” She takes her com-link from her belt and uses it to take a capture of the recent changes. “There, stored all safe and sound. It’s just, well, I LIKE books. And I like THIS book, especially. TheGreyJedi wrote it. He gave it to me.” She seems a little sad. “It’s sort of like a good luck charm for me, and a memento.” She looks back at Jadehand, smiling again. “Plus, it’s no good to have our specs stored on the computer if we’ve lost all power!”
Suddenly, Jet seems startled, and reaches up to shake Jadehand’s hand. “Oh, hi, I’m Jet, but I guess you knew that already. It’s just that I don’t think we’ve actually met before. I’ve SEEN you, of course. I can see everything from down here.” Jet gestures to a wall full of security monitors. “But I don’t get out, much.”
Before long...
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She nods approval and pulls out a set of bridge schematics to find the best location for the new equipment. Attaching a mounting bracket she goes over the proper placement and power source for the device with JadeHand before ushering him out of engineering and getting back to her other duties.*
*JadeHand heads for the bridge.*
Jet, Bride4
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Originally posted by ItsaWash:
ItsaWash fades into the ether, dematerializing from the storage room in which she was sleeping soundly. Other people, places and times call her away.
Suddenly, in mid-portal creation, all of TheRealMe's chakras become un-tuned and unfocused, causing a disturbance in his powers. He is sucked into his newly forming dimensional portal, lost somewhere in space-time.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
“No, that would be akin to poking a beehive with a stick. We do this quiet like. You got us covered?” Safe asks already knowing the answer. McQ, Citizen, SR, Needy and Seryn all nod. Soul crouches quietly, still holding Serenity. “Wait for my signal. Then go in small groups.”
On closer inspection SR seems to be strangely absent from the aforementioned group. Where might he be, where indeed?
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by ItsaWash:
ItsaWash fades into the ether, dematerializing from the storage room in which she was sleeping soundly. Other people, places and times call her away.
During spring cleaning on the Serenitree, Sparky the robot will find the comforter from Washie's bunk in a heap on the floor of the storage room and will add it to the laundry.
Such small items as are left behind in her former quarters as are usable, she bequeaths to whomever can use 'em.Pic courtesy of KellyofLuthien
OOC: This can't be good. SR was going to get counseling when all the peril settled down and after all the armaments were built. It just goes to show, you just can't keep good help these days.
Scorpion Regent
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