The Sereni-Tree, the Immortals, the Octagonal Order, and the Harbinger of Darkness
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UPDATED: Saturday, November 11, 2006 15:48
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At the door to the keep:
"Snarky would you kindly do the honors?" SR requests.
Snarky slams a armored glove on the gate with a rousing BOOM.
"Avon calling!" yells SR.
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*turns away and tries to stop the giggles*
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway?I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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"So...is there any particular reason for me being here?" 13 asked Wil, the only Knight he felt safe speaking to.
The archer seemed to consider this, then answered: "You're a creation of the Immortals. I thought that we might be able to use you as a spy."
"A spy? Apparently, Wil, you haven't noticed the fact that he's a chicken in the full sense of the word," one of the female Knights said scathingly. "And he's colorblind as well!"
"I'd make a fantastic spy! Planting bugs, dropping eaves..."
"I'll drop your eave if you don't shut that beak of yours!"
"Perhaps if we give him something to do he won't be such a bother," Wil said, stroking his chin. "Right then. 13, I now pronounce you...honorary...assistant to the Knights of the Octagon."
"Wow! I'm an assistant Knight?"
"No, you're an assistant to the Knights. Entirely different title. It's mostly for show." Wil thought for a moment, and 13 could swear a lightbulb went off above his head.
"I know what we'll have you do! Go and meet with the band of strangers and...well, I'm sure you'll think of something."
13 bowed deeply. "Gladly. I would lay down my life."
"We hope," breathed another Knight. "A spy, Wil? Really?"
Wil shrugged as 13 headed off. "With any luck, he'll get lost on the way there."
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Back in the Tree Jazaf unloads the cargo, which consists of three colorfully wrapped packages and his suitcase. He walks to the Common Room where he drops off the packages, Each one is labeled for those intended; Soul, Serenity, and there child. Then he calmly walks into his quarters and settles back in.
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Oh, I'm down for taking out some immortals... but about that whole immortal thing.... There's a dream stone?
I'm also up for getting some of those chickens, but wasn't that a crime of some sort?
All this talk about the chickens is making me hungry.....
How do you suppose the fire breathing chickens will get along with the Piffleponies?
oh look, rambling.
Mel always was a bit scrambled. But I'm ready when you are Captain. So these Immortals. Has one ever been killed, permanatly? If so, How?
"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
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The night passed and the Knights of the Octagons took turns in watching The immortal. Wisp payed them very little attention and spent his time monitoring the results coming in tweaking dials on his makeshift laboratory and then napping againn till the next beep came round. The knights viewed both him and The immortal with equal distrust and contempt.
'How could Sir Devan allow a Techno-Heretic o much power and freedom??? He had already created a weapon that could kill anyone on this planet. There was nothing except his word that he wasntworking for the immortals and just sneaking in to get access to the technology to defeat the Octagnol order forever??'
Wisp meanwhile didnt notice the evil stares and continued his work in ignorance. He was nearly there. He was designing retroviruses to Augment the Knights magical powers so they could be just as powerful as the immortals. That combined with his army would crush them.
He was playing a giant strategy game!!
His plans were thrown a skew though when Sir Fesai was on duty guarding Wisp. Fesai stood at a respectable 6 foot with a wiry frame. His armour consisted of lightweight chainmail designed for speed and agility. He carried a Halberd forged from meteoirc Iron however he was the lowest member of the order. He was tired of This Child treating the order like fools and had had enough. As Wisp was in the middle of one of his naps he took his lance and skewered his terminal with all his might. Lightning flashed as wires were split and the terminal shattered, and the immortals cage fell to the ground.
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*Serenity walks into the Common Room and sees the three colourfully wrapped packages.*
Hey Soul! *she calls over the intercom*
Come to the Common Room! We've got PRESENTS!
Also, Jazaf is back!
Did I mention presents?
Serenity,
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Soul walks into the room, an annoyed look on his face. Serenity asks him about the earlier alarm, but he waves her off, mumbling something about Rat, tubs of Spam, and the end of the universe. Then he sees the presents and brightens visibly.
“Presents! Who left these?”
“Jazaf.”
“Jazaf’s back?!?!?!?”
“Gee, are we excited?” Serenity asks with a giggle.
Soul grins. “Well, he does owe me twenty bucks.”
Soul grabs his present and rips it open, his eyes widening as he sees what lies inside.
“A backscratcher!! Sweet!! I’ve been needing one of these!”
Serenity gives him a weird look, and then proceeds to open her present in a much neater fashion than her husband. She lifts the lid off of the box, and her face instantly turns beet red as she slams the lid back on.
“Uh…I think we’ll look at this a bit closer later,” she says sheepishly.
“But what—”
“When we’re alone,” she says, a strange grin on her face.
Soul shrugs, oblivious as always, and begins to unwrap Sera’s present. Serenity pitches in, and once they open the lid, Soul busts out laughing while Serenity stares in concern at the items in the box.
“Soul, please remind me later to thank Jazaf for the very nice miniature katana baby rattles.”
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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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"Lordie they're slow.
Ok, there is always a back door, always, even if its just a trash chute.
Wear something brightly coloured so as they don't think we're trying to be stealthy."
On a small peice of paper, she writes 'You were so bloody slow we've gone around the back to let ourselves in, put the kettle on. And squewers it on a splinter on the huge doors.
After a little while of clambering over bits of rock and bits of grass, they find an opening set in to the ground.
"Oh, thats not inviting. What do you think dear?"
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Sir Luc threw up her hands in frustration. “FINE! Have your feast! Tis not my head that will roll for being late when Sir Devan calls.”
Storming out of the kitchen she pauses to get her bearings. Sir Luc’s ‘ability’ was that she could locate any of the knights, like an inner homing beacon. Each knight had their own special ability. It was rare to have more than one ability like Sir Devan. How she longed to have a more practical ability like Sir Kei’s ability to ‘call’ his weapons and armour. It didn’t help that he was also blessed with great brawn and a natural born fighter. How she hated that he didn’t take it seriously.
Sir Luc worked very hard to be a knight. She considered her ability to be weak so she tended to overcompensate in her approach to knighthood and her training. As a result, people came to see her as hardnosed and abrupt. She didn’t have many friends. Well, except for Kei, but that simpleton liked everybody. She constantly wondered why Sir Devan had chosen her.
Sir Luc looked up startled. While she had been deep in thought she had instinctively followed her inner beacon. She now stood in front of the door to the sacred chamber. What had startled her wasn’t so much where she was, but that the normally sealed door stood wide open and people milled about inside.
Stepping cautiously through the door, she is overwhelmed by the sight before her. The cursed technology was functional but what captured her attention was a cage suspended overhead.
‘An Immortal inside the Keep?? How was that possible?’ But before she can voice her thoughts, the cage crashes to the floor.
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Got a head of lightening
A heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home
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