The Sereni-Tree: back at Zanzibar!

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THEREALME

Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:46 AM

This is Thread 60 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

Early in this link is the very long post containing “TheRealMe’s Guide to the Sereni-Tree, V7”. This post is a description of the ship. There follows in the same thread another post describing the crew and passengers.

http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=27832

Here is a summary of our previous thread, located at:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=29782

The crew of the spaceship Sereni-Tree has been trying to form a band of various members. We discover who are the more or less musically inclined among us. As it happens, there is a big recording studio on the top floor of the East Wing, along with a dance hall equipped with a disco ball.

Also, there are the Harry Potter clones created by Seryn as a new subplot. While a few were destroyed in an orgy of literary criticism, some 8 or 10 or the original dozen have survived. Seryn, Mai, and Bluefishie seem to have taken the most interest in guiding these young man-like objects toward sentience.

There was some kind of contest over who can come up with the worst song that gets stuck in one's head the longest. We learn that one of these songs resulted in the birth of Seryn.

Finally, Jet and TheRealMe have discovered and corrected the defect that was keeping the ship trapped in hyperspace. It has fallen out of hyperspace over the planet Zanzibar.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

JADEHAND

Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:56 AM

Ah, the zany Zanzibarians and Zanzabarbarians.... fun.

A man who walks the Earth

THEREALME

Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:57 AM

TheRealMe suddenly wakes up and coughs, expelling a black cloud from his lungs like a Warner Brothers' cartoon. His body is smudged and scorched. He tries to reach for his com-link, but his arm does not seem to move. It is tingly. He reaches across with his other arm.

"Hello, Bride5?"

The com-link is dead.

"Use mine," the nearby Jet suggests helpfully.

TheRealMe takes the offered device with his good hand. "Bride5?"

Quincey answers over the link. "Yes?"

"Are you on the bridge?"

"No, but I'm on my way. I felt us come out of hyperspace. Do you want a new course? I can get us in a synchronous orbit over the Keep of the Octagonal Order."

"Indeed not! They probably still want to kill us. I'm thinking that our bunch of Potters might need some schooling, and a few of us could do with a refresher course or two. Take us to the coordinates I left in the nav computer. It will have us in orbit directly above Puffenstuff's School of Sorcery."

"Right!"

TheRealMe signs off and hands the com-link back to Jet. It is only then that he realizes that he can't quite move and that he is strapped to the back of one of Jet's Diagnostic Repair Drones. She seems to be leading it down various of Sereni-Tree's corridors.

"Taking me to the Infirmary?"

"Yep."

"Ah, then I should think..."

And at that time, TheRealMe sucumbs to shock and passes out.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

THEREALME

Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:01 AM

Okay, maybe I need to give a quick summary about Zanzibar and of what happened when we were last here.

Zanzibar was colonized long ago by New Age mystics, fantasy role players, and Renaissance Faire enthusiasts. When they got here, they discovered that magic worked and they set up a low-tech medieval society. They also discovered that their horses died off due to some unidentified ailment, so their knights took to riding a native beast, some giant, fire-breathing space chicken.

About a hundred years ago, a group of very powerful wizards came to power, the Immortals. These individuals removed their souls from their bodies and hid them, becoming unkillable. They came to dominate the lands of Zanzibar. Each Immortal had an associated color and magic specialty.

Adelle the Burner (Orange) – Fire, Smoke, Energy; ruthless and efficient.

Alatariel the Lurker, of the Black Tower (Black) –Transformation, Illusion. Breeder of monsters; uncaring of the toys she makes.

Arinda of the Silver Eyes, the Empress (Violet) – Mind Control, Knowledge; ugly, vain, and domineering.

Karg the Bloody (Red) – War Magic; gigantic warrior encased in armor. Consumed by battle rages.

Krysta the Whisperer, the Ice Queen (White) – Cold, Ice, Water; a VERY faint voice.

Magnus the Maker (Gold) – Crafter of Magical Items. Somewhat pudgy and timid for a powerful Immortal sorcerer

Ouroborous the Infinite (Green) – Life, Plants, Animals, Earth, Stone; floats, likes snakes, worst backstabber of the bunch as he plots against all his fellows.

Zorander the Storm Caller (Blue) – Air, Wind, Storm, Weather; holds a grudge.

And there was a ninth Immortal!

Opposing the Immortals and protecting the normal humans is an organization of knight-magicians, the Octagonal Order:

Sir Devan - Old, white-haired, bearded mentor in the style of Obi-wan Kenobi.

Sir Elaine - She is temperamental and wields a greatsword with much skill.

Sir Fesai - Has light, flexible armor and a halberd. Least of the Order.

Sir Kei - Large, super strong, cheerful slayer of monsters. Summons armor and weapons to him. Unburdened by great intellect.

Sir Luc / Lucretia. - She can locate the other Knights. Friend to Kei, who annoys her greatly.

Sir Morgana, Baroness of Fairhaven - She is very cautious. Wears flexible leather armor.

Sir Wil - Lightly built; extraordinary archer. First to trust Chicken-man 13.

And there was an eighth Knight!

It so happens that the individual who was both the ninth Immortal and the eighth Knight of the Octagon was our own Jazaf! He was Sir Jazaf of the Octagonal order AND Jazaf the Metal Beast (Grey). His power was control of metal in all its forms. Apparently sometime in the past he left the Immortals and joined the Knights of the Octagon. He had some kind of long-lost romance with the Immortal Alatariel the Lurker.

We came during the middle of a great war between the Immortals and the Knights of the Octagon.

Sir Devon rescued our own Wisp from the clutches of the Immortals, and Wisp helped him out by evaluating items in the Order’s Vault of Technology, where forbidden (but potentially useful) items were kept. The Immortal Alatariel unleashed the gigantic creature that was her part human, part dragon Special Project (which then proceeded to burninate the countryside). However, Alatariel’s created races of chimeras rebelled against her. The Immortal Krysta was captured in a Wards Major by the Octagon, acting together. Sir Lucretia obtained awesome magical power (courtesy of our own Wisp) and mutated into the huge, twisted, uncontrollable Luc-monster. Immortal Karg the Bloody led his troops in an assault on the hidden fortress of the Octagon, where many of our own (including SR, Wisp, Jazaf, and Bride2) helped to hold the walls against them. The Luc-monster fought the burninating Special Project to a standstill. However, she still needed the help

BROWNCOAT2007

Sunday, August 19, 2007 4:15 PM

*wonders off to find breakfast*

THEREALME

Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:04 PM

Oh, and apparently there is some terrible demon or creature named Abbadon trying to break loose.

13

Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:15 PM

And don't forget the Glass Altar thingy that managed to turn me into a human, although what it really did was cause me to shift from man to chicken-man to occasionally pure chicken.

Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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COZEN

Sunday, August 19, 2007 6:26 PM

So, um, this means we're back at the place where I was building my golf course, right? If so, er, can anyone who can pilot a transport large enough to haul me, a whack of dynamite, a few tonnes of grass seed, a few miles of water piping, and three or four largish earth movers, to the site the Serenitree was last parked?

By way of payment, I offer this here handy Sorcery Protectionizer and Majicks Wizardry Inertial Security Extruder, guaranteed 100% effective by it's manufacturer, RoncoMatic, against all of the known powers of common immortals. Heck, if you get me to the site without anything going splodey, I'll gratefully add in the unincluded batteries.

MAI

Sunday, August 19, 2007 7:04 PM

*knocks on Flowers door to see where the wayward girl has gone

"Hello? Anybody home?"

After a minute the door to Flower's apt opens on its own accord. Inside there is a very empty room except for one smallish, silver, rectangle sized container laying on the bedside table.
On further inspection there is a note attached to the container that reads:

"Dearest Mai,

Thanks so much for inviting me aboard your ship. I had to make a hasty retreat and I am sorry that I didn't have the chance to say good-bye. As a token of my appreciation I have left you this small, but very useful gift. I have a feeling it will come in handy in days to come. Enjoy and BE CAREFUL!

P.S. Please don't come looking for me. It may put you and your friends in DIRE PERIL!
Have a great day!

Yours Truly,
Ms. Flower St.Claire"

*opening the box a soft yellow light glows and then flickers out. Laying on its padded surface is a shiny silver wand.

"WHOA. Good present."

*Mai runs back to the group of people still milling about after the singing contest/band rehersal

"Hey guys! Flowers disappeared and look what she's left me! We have to go and help her, she's in some kind of trouble."

*at these words the wand begins to vibrate slightly and a small reflective disc appears floating in mid air.

It shows the blurry image of a small women, being blindfolded and knocked unconscious then drug off down a road by another mysterious looking women in a long cloak. As they make their way down the road they pass a sign that is marked "PS SCHOOL OF SORCERY 2 miles" Then just as suddenly as it appeared the disc evaporates and the wand is still.

SERYN

Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:35 PM

Seryn feels the shudder of them dropping out of hyperspace, and decides to head to the music room to find out what plans are, with several of the Potters in tow.

They enter the room to see the image playing out from the wand, and Seryn feels the air bristle with testosterone as they all in unison puff out their chests and assume grim, determined-with-a-hint-of-heroic faces.

"Oh lord.. why didn't I start with Hermione?"

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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