The Sereni-Tree and the Next Big Thing
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, April 7, 2007 04:47
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Even later:
TheRealMe is sleeping in his bed, feeling comfortable and relaxed under the covers. He is in pitch darkness. Then he wakes and opens his eyes. "I knew you would come here, eventually," he says without emotion.
FemaleReaver is calm as well. "And why shouldn't I? You were the one who imprisoned me. Who hunted me down when I escaped your cage."
"Who kept you alive when there were easier solutions?"
"But I have you now! You are not fast enough to escape my blade!" She lunges at him, still unseen in the darkness. TheRealMe puts a certain pillow over his face. There is a spark as metal strikes metal. "What? Are you wearing some kind of body armor, or…"
"Excelsior!" TheRealMe says, voice muffled by the pillow.
"What?"
The computer answers, "Acknowledged."
Immediately, dozens of hi-powered lasers flash into being, slicing through TheRealMe's bedroom, their criss-crossed moving pattern and multiple origin points ensuring that no object larger than a mouse could escape being hit. The paths of the beams cut across TheRealMe numerous times, but he is wearing metal armor that is so highly polished that beams are reflected. The pillow protecting his face has a similar mirror surface. All of the possessions and furniture in the room are melted, set on fire, or otherwise destroyed.
The FemaleReaver is fatally hit multiple times, but manages to phase through the floor as she did before.
TheRealMe smiles. "Gotcha!"
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In the chamber directly below TheRealMe's quarters, Soul gets the signal he was waiting for. "Get ready, people! She's coming! Remember the plan!"
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
Even later:
TheRealMe is sleeping in his bed, feeling comfortable and relaxed under the covers. He is in pitch darkness. Then he wakes and opens his eyes. "I knew you would come here, eventually," he says without emotion.
FemaleReaver is calm as well. "And why shouldn't I? You were the one who imprisoned me. Who hunted me down when I escaped your cage."
"Who kept you alive when there were easier solutions?"
"But I have you now! You are not fast enough to escape my blade!" She lunges at him, still unseen in the darkness. TheRealMe puts a certain pillow over his face. There is a spark as metal strikes metal. "What? Are you wearing some kind of body armor, or…"
"Excelsior!" TheRealMe says, voice muffled by the pillow.
"What?"
The computer answers, "Acknowledged."
Immediately, dozens of hi-powered lasers flash into being, slicing through TheRealMe's bedroom, their criss-crossed moving pattern and multiple origin points ensuring that no object larger than a mouse could escape being hit. The paths of the beams cut across TheRealMe numerous times, but he is wearing metal armor that is so highly polished that beams are reflected. The pillow protecting his face has a similar mirror surface. All of the possessions and furniture in the room are melted, set on fire, or otherwise destroyed.
The FemaleReaver is fatally hit multiple times, but manages to phase through the floor as she did before.
TheRealMe smiles. "Gotcha!"
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In the chamber directly below TheRealMe's quarters, Soul gets the signal he was waiting for. "Get ready, people! She's coming! Remember the plan!"
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
"Plan?" McQ asks out loud although there's no one nearby him. "Why was I not informed of any plan?" He grumbles and tries to figure out exactly what he's to be doing in this plan and heads to the lower level to find where FemaleReaver ended up...
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A FEW HOURS EARLIER:
"...so she'll be sure to come eventually to taunt me or kill me." TheRealMe then points to a location on the Sereni-Tree deckplans. "This is a half-deck below the West Wing. It's for machinery, maintenance corridors, air ducts, and the like. You'll be waiting here, directly below my quarters, with all the firepower that we have left. Collect your people quietly, in person, no e-mails. If she survives the laser barrage, you blast her again. If we can keep her confused and off-balance, she might phase down through the floor again to escape, and that would mean..."
Soul smiles. "That would mean that she would phase outside the ship completely."
"And be caught in the raging turmoil of hyperspace. If it didn't destroy her, then most likely she would fall out of hyperspace to some other destination than Sereni-Tree, where she would be caught in a vacuum."
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
OOC: Well, McQ, if I related the plan FIRST, then we would have lost the element of suspense in that last scene. I'm sure that everyone was concerned that TheRealMe was a gonner! Oh, nobody cared? 
Oh, and if someone has an alternate plan, it could be incorporated. The important bit though is that FemaleReaver should be outsmarted. She's too clever to fall in a frontal assault, unless we have OVERWHELMING firepower.
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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
A FEW HOURS EARLIER:
OOC: Well, McQ, if I related the plan FIRST, then we would have lost the element of suspense in that last scene. I'm sure that everyone was concerned that TheRealMe was a gonner! Oh, nobody cared?
OOC: Awww Cap'n I care if no one elles
Thanks for that bit of medical attention as well... wake me when something interesting happens 
Or I could join in with the blasting? I mean, doesn't take much stamina to stand around and wait for her to show up...
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I don't know the Hi lo Trick a lo one. How does it go? But I do know "Trot, trot to Londontowne".
Here's Pattycake. Babies LOVE it.
Patty cake patty cake, baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it and pat it and mark it with a B
Put it in the oven for baby and me!
OOC: we now return you to your regularly scheduled peril....
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep
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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
OOC: we now return you to your regularly scheduled peril....
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep
OOC: *blinks* LOL... sorry, I'm random today... I only have 3 hours of sleep!!!!!!
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The space was cramped, but Soul stood firm, the machine gun held tight in his hands. He heard the whine of lasers from above, and saw the bloody form of the FemaleReaver drop through the ceiling. He held up a hand, and waited until she stood again. Slowly, she gained her bearings, and as Soul watched, her wounds began to heal. She finally noticed him, and bared her teeth.
"You!"
"Lovely evening, isn't it?"
She cocked her head quizically, and Soul dropped his hand, the sound of gunfire filling the small space. The FemaleReaver screamed, and began to phase through the floor. The gunfire continued until she was gone, and Soul held up his hand again. He walked forward to the spot where she had disappeared, and, removing a coat from where it was hanging on one of the pipes, he dropped the heavy leather jacket on the floor.
"You might need this," he said snidely. "I hear it's cold out there."
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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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After raiding the lockers in the pool change room for spare articles of clothing, Sir Kei now wears a sweatshirt, minus the sleeves in order for it to fit, track pants, uncomfortably tight mostly for the people around him, and S.R.'s cloak, flung cockily over one shoulder.
He follows the rest about the ship gawking at the sights.
After being told numerous times “Don’t touch that”, Sir Kei walks in sullen silence behind the others scratching unconsciously at the bandage on his shoulder.
Sir Kei brightens when another large man clad in metal rounds the corner. “Well met Sir Knight!”
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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Hearing an annoying beeping sound, BC'07 decides it's time to get up... When trying to roll over in bed to turn off his alarm ends up sending a shooting pain through his chest he stifles a moan. As he slowly opens his eyes he notices that he is in the med bay, and everything comes flashing back to him and he naturally begins to panic. BC ignores the pain in his cheast and, sitting up hurridly, he begins to tear out the I.Vs in his arm, and the heart monetor attached to his chest...
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*still reeling from all the action around her, Bluefishie stands in the same room as she had been in before, looking around, dazed*
"...where's the medical room? I don't wanna stay alone..."
*sits down, waiting for someone to come back so she can follow someone as to not get lost*
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