The Sereni-Tree, the Second Gala Pageant, and NO PERIL!
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, May 20, 2006 04:45
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*walks over to Seryn*
Self tying ropes?? egads! Everyone knows the tying is part of the fun. Wraping the silk snuggly around the wrists, ankles.. and watching the expression as you pull them tight around the posts.... Which reminds me.... I have something for you Seryn. Well, for you and for her... Care to join me in the hanger bay?
Plus, I need help with this weird costume thing, any ideas? Black leather corset? Really? you think?
*Stops by and welcomes Malicious back to the fun.*
"Good to see you again."
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But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion
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Bobbie inclines her head and looks down to evaluate her handiwork. The numerous curls had set, and the little pink ruffled dress actually fit. She smiles. Bobbie Sue has just finished transforming young Ghost from a scruffy street urchin of indeterminate gender to a little Shirley Temple clone.
Bobbie tosses back her own curly blonde hair, takes the hem of her skirt in each hand, and executes a perfect curtsie.
“Look sweetie! You are SO pretty. We’re like twins, now!” Bobbie squeals with delight. "Isn't dress-up fun?"
Little Ghost stares at herself in a mirror, not quite believing her eyes.
Bobbie suddenly realizes that Ghost may not be entirely happy with her new look. “Uh, hey, sweetie, would you like one of my Barbies? I’m a collector, you know.” She throws open the doors to her walk-in closet, revealing from floor to ceiling a carefully ordered, cataloged collection. “Here!” She grabs one and displays it for Ghost. “High Society Barbie! Isn’t she gorgeous? And what fashion sense! It’s very rare. I had to get TheRealMe to go to some other dimension to find it for me.”
Ghost continues to stare at herself in the mirror.
Bobbie is unsure of what to do next. “Uh, would you like to go find your sister?”
Ghost nods gravely.
Bobbie Sue, Bride6
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TheRealMe bows deeply.
"Malicious! Mistress Most High! I convey to you my most sincere thanks that you answered my petition!
"Did you, by any chance, return with the Gala Pageant Regalia? There was a crown, a scepter, and... oh yes, the 'Miss Verse' sash.
"Oh, right. Ahem! Arrrgh! It be a mighty fine thing, you comin' fer this here shindig! Yer a sight fer sore eyes to be sure! Arrrgh!"
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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We are certainly an imaginative bunch! Over time, we have invented, created, developed, or discovered a number of odd and sometimes useful objects or beings. Some, like my robot Sparky, are still around. Others, like the Inviso-Katana of Bride1, are lost to us. Still, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to list all of these wonderful things. If I forget something, please let me know!
THE AMAZING INVENTIONS, IDEAS, DISCOVERIES, AND CREATIONS OF THE SERENI-TREE CREW
Bluefishie:
* Blue Fishies
* “Magic” marker
Bride1:
* The Inviso-Katana of Bride1 (given to ImEarly, who “disappeared” with it)
Bride4:
* Pifflepony flying harness (used by Bride6 in the pifflepony race; left behind on Earth-That-Still-Is)
* The Crybaby which can perfectly duplicate the Sereni-Tree
CallMeAth and Lissa:
* The Sereni-Tree’s Kissies, with soothing medicinal properties
CallMeSerenity:
* Serenity's garden in one of the cargo bays
* Serenity’s nest in the observation lounge
* The Baby3000, aka CallMeCharlie, aka CallMeChucky, an evil robotic “practice” baby (destroyed… or IS IT?)
CageyBee:
* The band “The Fireflies”
* The Pillow CageyBee
* The Aluminum Foil Dress
* The Saran Wrap Dress (without the gum)
Cozen:
* The Chair of Pleasurable Torture
* Black Jack Silver, mouthpiece parrot(MOSTLY dead; currently plugged into a wall outlet to recharge)
* Cozenants, Cozenroaches, Cozenspiders, and various other Cozenbugs (currently exterminated)
* Piffleponies (yes, it was Cozen; Piffle adopted them immediately, however)
* The Planets of the Cozen Cluster, and everything and everyone found on them, including the BDH clones, Yeti, Windmill Giants, and possibly ImEarly, Ath, Lissa, Serenity, and Needleseye! (The Cluster, planets, and clones are long gone by now, except for Riverclone.)
* The original jaccuzi, and later the vodka attachment to the chocolate jacuzzi
* Twenty finely made katanas acquired on Earth-That-Still-Is, including those of Serenity and Bride2
Ebonezer
* The idea of the original “I Am Not A Guy” Clubhouse
* The Treehouse (later converted into the Sereni-Tree Airship)
* The Captain’s Nest under the pool table
* The original Gala Pageant
Emma:
* Stolen spherical starship (shrunken by Rat and kept in his pocket)
* Nugget the Meteor Troll
EvilSoul, aka the Dark Soul:
* All of our evil dark selves (hopefully gone, but they keep resurfacing)
* The Adelai Niska aka False Sereni-Tree (merged with the Sereni-Tree)
Gunhand
* The structure of the original Clubhouse
Jake7:
* Force Field / Night Sight Gadget
Jadehand
* Nametags of Shapeshifting
* Ocean Cloud class shuttle
* The Somebody Else’s Problem (SEP) field generators, for individuals, for shuttles and for the Sereni-Tree
* Hand-held nukes
KellyofLuthien
* The Elvish Ring of Power “Narya”
* Mallorn tree near the pifflepony ranch
Knibblet:
* Knibblet’s Stupendous Sunscreen / Engine Additive / Bug Killer (and probably great as a salad dressing, too!)
Lissa:
* Discovered the Merry-go-round in the ladies’ bathroom aka “the Potty-go-round”
Mai:
* The Leaf Dress
* The “Land of the Lost” Dimension
* The “Sea of Wings” Dimension, though it already had piratey inhabitants
* MollyTheParrot, cloned from Cozen’s parrot Black Jack Silver
* Automops, along with the related Autospinners
* Pants-less (ie, trouser-less) Twister
Malicious:
* The Fine Art of Thread-jacking
* Mal-Mageddon
Malicious, ManiacNumberOne, PsychicRiver, ThatWeirdGirl, TheRealMe, and others:
* Th
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
When ScorpionRegent returns to Engineering, Jet is waiting for him with a large book sitting on a nearby table. "Here, I just ran off your own copy of 'Grey's Anatomy' for you, including my updates and annotations." She holds up a small crystal. "And here it is on a holocrystal, if you prefer. Complete design schematics of the Sereni-Tree. It's a bad idea for me to be the only one around here with a clue as to how things work."
SR leafs through the tome. "This will help a lot. There is nothing worse than having to reverse engineer a piece of custom made technology under life threatening circumstances all because the creator couldn't be bothered to keep good notes. I'll use the book a lot more than the crystal, but both will be extremely handy. I'm moved by your trust and gift, you do realize how dangerous these could be in the wrong hands? I will keep them both close at hand and safe."
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Jet gives him a grin. "So, do you want to learn how to work the hovering Engineering Command chair? Want to take a ride?"
Jet, Bride4
"In all honesty the seniority dictates that the chair should be yours. Also my body is prone to go south if I don't use it. Hence I use things like powerchairs sparingly unless the need is great or the situation dire. So I must decline, but it's awfully cool."
SR can tell that Jett is trying to decide if her feelings should be hurt. He trys a different approach.
"Child I'll just turn into a old fat man in that, but you look cute in it. Get yourself all dressed up and have your hair done you would look down right regal in your own flying throne. 'The Queen of the Machine.'"
Jett's eyes go slightly out of focus and twinkle as she visualizes SR's narrative. SR knows that he has just avoided his first landmine. He gives her a few minutes to day dream while he looks through 'Grey's' and just when he starts to see Jett's attention come back to the now he speaks.
"a ha, I think I found a goood location to hook up a heat exchanger for the still."
Scorpion Regent
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Jet smiles at ScorpionRegent. "Silly, the command chair is not a throne, or a toy, or all for show. All ship systems can be tied through that chair. Also, I drove it around while Grey was still here, as did TheRealMe and Needle. It's a tool, and a useful one."
Jet then rises to her full height (which is, frankly, not impressive) and looks up at SR. "Also, don't treat me like a kid, please. I'm not a kid. I'm not even the youngest of the Brides. I have a year or two on Deuce, I think."
SR is still staring at the contents of the large book, looking a little puzzled.
"Oh," she says, "I might not have mentioned that Grey was a technomage and a tech-priest of Mars, whatever that means. Some of his devices require incantations and the like."
Jet, Bride4
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Wisp is now thoruoughly rinsed and sitting in a corner holding doris like a rag doll and telling everyone he can see that:
"i love you!!!(hiccup) Your my best mate!!"
"can someone please remove this drunknen bum from me i far too sophisticated for this"
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
Jet smiles at ScorpionRegent. "Silly, the command chair is not a throne, or a toy, or all for show. All ship systems can be tied through that chair. Also, I drove it around while Grey was still here, as did TheRealMe and Needle. It's a tool, and a useful one."
Jet then rises to her full height (which is, frankly, not impressive) and looks up at SR. "Also, don't treat me like a kid, please. I'm not a kid. I'm not even the youngest of the Brides. I have a year or two on Deuce, I think."
"Do you have any idea how old I am? Of course you don't, because it doesn't show. As far as I'm concerned everybody on this ship is a kid, but that's a good thing because once you get to my age you are either a freak like me or dead. That is if you're human.
I'm sorry I made the error of trying to appeal to your vanity, a ploy that sometimes works for me when I deal with women. It was a mistake it won't happen again. Smear yourself from head to toe in grease for all I care, just mind the carpets and the furniture when you go into someones quarters.
I'll tell you what, you keep the command chair and I'll use Grey's here to get the schematics for the shipboard interfaces and make my own control unit. If I need to move around above my height or put myself in a positon awkward to the force of gravity I'll rig up a repulsor harness."
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SR is still staring at the contents of the large book, looking a little puzzled.
"Oh," she says, "I might not have mentioned that Grey was a technomage and a tech-priest of Mars, whatever that means. Some of his devices require incantations and the like."
Jet, Bride4
"Oh that, I have heard of such things. I have never been comfortable with the blending of magic and technology. There are too many people who can't tell the difference to begin with. I like tech, it obeys the laws of physics. I don't like trusting life and limb to magic, because it can't be properly explained, at least to me, and that bothers me. Don't get me wrong I'll use tarot cards and one day I'll learn how to do the I-Ching if I ever get more than three days of down time in a row, but those are for entertainment, not something that I want to trust my life to. There's only one form of magic I'll use to save my life and I wouldn't say I trust it."
Jett takes all this in and decides to play the foil.
"Well you had better believe it. We've been flying around using Grey's technomagic for a long time now."
"And if I don't? Do we fall out of the sky? We seem pretty stable for the moment."
"touche."
they both start laughing in a low key sort of way.
"I think we could both use a drink so let's hook up that still, eh?" SR suggests.
Jett nods and smiles. "Yeah, let's,"
"After that I have something I want to do with, no strike that, I want to do for Snarky."
"What's that?"
"I going to teach him how to talk."
"Oh that's easy,"
"Yeah in the generic sense, but I want to give him a sense of humor and personality. It will probably be a disaster, but I want to give it a try."
"And you say you don't believe in magic."
"Touche!" SR smiles and then he adopts a false gruff front. "Still! still! We need ethanol!"
Scorpion Regent
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Hiccup
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
There! Have I forgotten anything?
You forgot Destiny's Shadow, piloted by the disembodied head of 'Tash in a jar!!
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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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