The Sereni-Tree and the Next Big Thing
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, April 7, 2007 04:47
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This is Thread 56 of the adventures of the Sereni-Tree!
For “The Guide to the Clubhouse / Treehouse / Sereni-Tree Threads”, telling our story and providing links to all such threads:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=11877
Following this post is a very long post containing “TheRealMe’s Guide to the Sereni-Tree, V7,” which is a detailed description of our spaceship. Following that is another post detailing the crew and passengers.
Following is a summary of our previous thread, located at:
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=26750
The Sereni-Tree is still in orbit (or has it landed on) the planet Zanzibar, colonized long ago by new age mystics, fantasy role-players, and Renaissance Faire enthusiasts. The great war with the Immortals is over. However, we lost Mai! She sort of vanished.
Thanks to the extra-dimensional portal superpowers of TheRealMe, a group of Our Heroes went off to search for Mai. She had ended up in a strange American Old West setting, circa 1885, except that there was an evil lawman who had magical powers, including that of creating zombies. Mai died for a time, existing as both a ghost and a creepy zombie. However, our resourceful crew managed to get her back to normal. And a good thing, too, considering our “no dying” rule.
TheRealMe ensured that everyone was accounted for and returned to Sereni-Tree and then closed the dimensional portal to Westworld.
Now, all we need to do is figure out what the Next Big Thing is!
Meanwhile, there are newcomers aboard Sereni-Tree!
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THE REAL ME’S GUIDED TOUR OF THE SERENI-TREE, V7
Hello! I am TheRealMe. I will provide another tour of the Sereni-Tree, my seventh. I have paid careful attention over time, and I believe that this layout is consistent with all the stories that have occurred in the Sereni-Tree to date.
WARNING: This post is very long.
The Sereni-Tree’s Past
The Sereni-Tree is our home. Originally, it took the form of a tree house built by Ebonezer, and this is the image it has on our flag, the Flag That Shw Made, an interpretation of which can be found among ThatWeirdGirl’s Blue Sun items. The tree house was the immediate successor to “The Forgotten Not a Guy/Girl Clubhouse”. Later, PsychicRiver and a few others, including myself, modified the tree house to make it an air-ship, floating through the sky on numerous butterfly-shaped reactionless thrusters. In this form, the converted tree house was named and christened “Sereni-Tree” by Mal-licious, and we left the actual Tree behind as we flew off. Later, TheGreyJedi made even more modifications, and the Sereni-Tree became a starship. We have since been traveling the ‘verse, leaving the destroyed planets of Rukus and Black Diamond in our wake (we REALLY have to stop that). We returned to Earth-That-Still-Is to fight the Evil / Enemy Invaders and to face our own dark selves. After relaxing among dandelions and facing some Reavers, we boarded the nightmare ship Arkham. After that, we recovered ThatWeirdGirl and went on a second Mai-Quest where we befriended pirates. Then we got all caught up in the Boros Incident, where the Sereni-Tree was heavily damaged in a battle with two Alliance cruisers. We faced a lot of peril on the planet Garrison and its moon Commerce, and held our Second Gala Pageant. Next we went to deal with the Immortal magicians and the Knights of the Octagonal Order. Finally, we have just returned from Mai-Quest 3 to a setting in the American Wild West.
The Sereni-Tree on the Inside
The Sereni-Tree is a structure much larger on the inside than it appears on the outside, thanks to my ability to fold space-time in higher dimensions. On the outside, the Sereni-Tree is perhaps the size of a modest two-story house. On the inside, it is larger. MUCH larger.
The Common Room
The Common Room is the center of life in the Sereni-Tree. It is a huge cylindrical room perhaps 20 yards/meters across and three levels high. There are two encircling balconies, one above the other, around the Common Room. Equally spaced around the Common Room’s curving walls are the exits to the North, East, South, and West Wings. While it is true that the Sereni-Tree can move about and adopt any orientation, the names are traditional, coming from the time it was still a stationary tree house. There will be more about the Wings later.
In the center of the Common Room sits the pool table. In many ways, it is the critical nerve center of the ship, and battles have been waged for its possession. Underneath the pool table is the nest of Commodore Ebonezer, where she used to pile her stuff. The Commodore has a designated room in one of the Wings, but that room has rarely been used. The top of the pool table is where the Commodore sometimes climbs to address the crew, but mostly she is absent, stopping by every nine or ten threads to see how we are. Rat had once traded the pool table’s 8-ball for more Spam, but TheRealMe acquired a replacement. The pool table’s cue-ball is still stained purple from travel through the purple dimension. Above the pool table is an anti-gravity chandelier. Also, there is some kind of device to switch out the pool table for a snooker table (it being a game for “true gentleman”). There might be a retractable dancing pole over the pool table for Needy’s use.
On the wall between the North and East Wings (and in that general area) is the game arcade. We have many pinball and video game consoles.
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THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE SERENI-TREE
Hello! Under active crew I have put everyone who has posted something in the last two threads (about the last three months). I shuffled others off to the MIA list.
If I have missed crew or if anyone would like to change my one-line description of them, let me know. There is always the possibility that some missing folks have just been sleeping in their quarters for the last dozen threads, or perhaps they have been placed in the secret cryogenic freezing chamber of the Insidious Doctor Rat. CageyBee? CosmicFugitive? BadgersHat? Apple? ManiacNumberOne? KaySky? Knibblet? Aramina? ImEarly? GreekToomey? PyreFX? Superpup? Witchy? See also the ‘missing in action’ section of the crew list.
The Active Crew and Passengers of the Sereni-Tree
Bluefishie: Often just wanders around. Has pet blue fishies. Power: “Magic” marker.
Browncoat2007: A 5'6" brown haired, brown eyed college kid, joined at the very end of Mai-Quest3. A merc. Powers: Calling forth his dufflebag from thin air; rapid regeneration; "Browncoat fury".
CallMeSerenity aka Serenity aka Bride8 (Gardener): Ath’s sister; built greenhouse in cargo bay; Parent of baby angel Seraphina (with husband Soul); Skilled with katanas. Power: flight via blue-white angelic wings.
Citizen: A businessman of Boros brought to the Sereni-Tree after the Boros Incident. Has connections and an impressive armory. Recently found in Westworld during Mai-Quest 3.
Cozen aka The Infinite Goof: Kidnaps women and subjects them to pleasurable torture; Power: insect and clone creation / control. Has pet llama, Schwartz.
Finn: Seryn’s recently born son.
Jadehand aka BlackJackRackham aka EVERYBODY! (Brewer and Gunner) : Power: nametags of shapeshifting, which allows him to become anyone, at a price! Brought aboard after Mai-Quest 2.
Jake7 (Gunner): Volunteers for all the hard missions; enjoys a game of pool. Power: gadget that projects force fields and grants night vision.
Jazaf aka Sir Jazaf of the Octagonal Order aka the Immortal Jazaf the Metal Beast: Master swordsman, mystery man, Sensei to Bride2; has once mutated arm that MIGHT be fixed now; Powers: metal-shaping. Immortality.
JonnyQuest: Newcomer, joined at the very end of Mai-quest3, or at least peeked in at us.
LightMeDark aka LMD aka Elemdee (Animal Handler): Tends to remain drunk; Powers: banana powers?? Understands speech and writing of all creatures. Joined just before Mai-Quest 2.
Mai (Cruise Director / Tour Guide): Not an attack-and-kill kind of girl; has pet dinosaur Frederick; sometimes disappears and has to be quested for. Power: light generation.
McQ, aka “Modified Combat Quarters” and once Alliance soldier Patrick McQwertz: A cyborg, formerly an Alliance experiment. Not big on people skills. Powers: impressive guns, a jet pack with wings that flip out, durable armor, infra-red vision, and other cyborg-ish gadgets. Joined during the Boros Incident.
PsychicRiver (Security Deputy): Son of TWG and SimonWho from the future. Just a little crazy; knits. Once took his dad’s TARDIS out for a spin, but has since returned. Powers: telepathy, precognition, telekinesis. Powers are GREATLY enhanced for a time after consuming blood from an Eldritch Horror from the Purple Dimension.
River-clone: River-clone seems to be back from the dead after a part-ghostly existence. Powers: a mind-reading genius with a leaky brainpan.
ScorpionRegent (Engineer): Red-headed pirate formerly with Nell’s crew. Very competent fighter and sniper. An engineer. Friendly with Jet. Getting romantic with Seryn. Powers: Appears and disappears from nowhere with time shifts throughout the multiverse; Piratey Angst. Joined around the time of Mai-Quest 2.
Seraphina aka Sera: Baby daughter of Soul and Serenity. Has cute little angel wings.
Seryn aka VoodooNell (Nandi and Bonaparte
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*holds his head*
"Wow... what an... interesting crew ya got here TRM, I'll take a bunk, any bunk, I'm non too picky, now, I see ya have a pool table, a weight room, and a pool..."
*random flashing colors appear behind him and with a large CRACK a large duffel bag shows up behind him, pulls out a pair of gym shorts, a pair of wakeboareder trunks, and a towel*
"I'll be in the gym or the pool, if anyones interested in a game of pool later, well, I'll be around"
*goes off to lock his weapons up in the equipment locker*
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*hands over a resume for TRM to look over*
Name: BrownCoat2007
Look: 5'6" shaggy shoulder leangth brown hair, Dark Brown eyes, martial artists build
Powers: Phase shifting (can call forth a duffel bag with whatever he needs at the time, occasionally able to transport self), Empathic (almost psychic), fast healing (neigh on immortal, he can survive damn near anything, given the proper medical attention), Hunters Furry (if angered during a fight, his pupils dialate, his range of vision increases to nearly 360 degrees, and he can track people by body heat, heartbeat, and scent, his heartrate speeds up along with his reaction time, and his strength and endurance sky rocket... think a semi-controlled Reaver)
Skills: 3rd degree black belt in multipule martial arts, highly skilled with his weapons of choice (both short and long blades), good marksman (most small arms), can play a mean electric, accustic, or bass guitar
"Not gunna try and be pretty about it, I'm an all around merc, I'll take any job, so long as the pays good or I deem it a good cause"
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Bluefishie walks around, searching for people, holding her fishie bowl to her chest. As the echoes of her feet hitting the metal floor fly up and down the hall, she adopts a confused look on her face.
"Where the hell am I?"
More echoes.
"I hate echoes!"
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*bumps into someone while walking down the hall*
"Whoa there... *catches fishbowl in one arm and throws the other around the young womans waist* hello there, sorry 'bout that, kinda in awe of this ship here... You'd be... Bluefishie, right? Kinda assuming 'cause of this fishbowl and all the little blue fish in it..."
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Looks at the arm around her waist and the other around her fishie bowl. Then grabs the fishie bowl and runs the opposite way down the hallway.
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*blinks at the sudden dissaperance*
"Uhhhh... bye?"
*offered lamely to the empty hall, BC'07 shudders at the dull, metalic echo from the hall*
"I gorram hate echos..."
*heads towards the weight room, this time keeping an eye out for people*
"wow.... shiney gym here"
*sets up a bench and sits, beginning his reps*
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Follows 2007 to the weightroom, not making any echoes on the floor. Peeking in.
"What'cha doin' that for?"
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