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The Sereni-Tree and the Next Big Thing

POSTED BY: THEREALME
UPDATED: Friday, April 6, 2007 18:47
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 2:04 PM

SERYN


oh, Hi Lo Trick-a-lo is simple really, but not.. if you know what i mean - you sit opposite each other, and put your hands, palms together, out in front of you with the back of one hand against the back of the other persons, then you sing the song, and every time you say 'hi' you clap the free hands above the two touching ones, 'lo' you clap below and 'trick' you clap your own hand in the middle. The song goes 'Hi lo trick-a-lo, trick-a-lo hi lo, hi lo trick-a-lo, trick-a-lo hi! and you just keep doing it faster and faster unti you both collasp in the inevitable pile of giggles from clapping each others elbows and thin air all the time.
Whiled away hours in primary school it did.

*thinks* there is a remarkable amount of peril going on outside... should we be trying to do something do you think? or even, you know, watching whats going on?
You do have that disturbing tendency to become the one everyone wants to rescue you know... should we be finding something for them to rescue you from?

Hairy monsters and supercreeps maybe?

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!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 2:38 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


Quote:

Originally posted by Bluefishie:
*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*




BC decides that what he needs is some sleep in his own room... sleep and a meal, a big one... and mabey some pants...

*looking down at the hospital gown that isn't doing much to cover him he nods to himself*

"Most definately some pants..."

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:43 PM

MCQ


Quote:

Originally posted by TheRealMe:
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.



OOC: Oh yeah - that plan. Gee, things have been a bit confuzzling lately. Maybe my cyborg side of me needs a recharge or some new memory to keep up with all this randomitis. Yeah, that sounds good.


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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:54 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


*Looks around, and, finding no one rushing in to see if he is ok, BC goes to the footlocker at the end of his bed and pulls out his blood stained pants*

"huh... *grimaces* well... better 'n these hospital fits..."
*pulls his pants on under the hospital gown and then looses the offending piece of "clothing" he also notices his shirt, with the giant hole where his heart and lung should have been*

"huh... wonder how I actually managed to survive that one..."

*shudders and decides to forgo that somewhat... morbid... line of thought, and that article of cloathing as well, and begins to make his way, slowly, to his bunk, holding a hand over the wrap around bandage that is going across his cheast and the neatly stitched togather skin over his heart, and, if the tight feeling in his shoulder is any indication, the duplicate set of stitches in his back. Rounding a corner, BC stops dead in his tracks as he sees a rather dazed... and, more importantly blood covered Bluefishie sitting with her back against a wall, one that happens to have a tear, as if from a sword, in it, and a massive pool of blood under it... Seeing this, BC rushes into the room and slides to the ground next to Fishie, not knowing what to say, he sits in silence with her*

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:43 PM

BLUEFISHIE


Quote:

Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
*Looks around, and, finding no one rushing in to see if he is ok, BC goes to the footlocker at the end of his bed and pulls out his blood stained pants*

"huh... *grimaces* well... better 'n these hospital fits..."
*pulls his pants on under the hospital gown and then looses the offending piece of "clothing" he also notices his shirt, with the giant hole where his heart and lung should have been*

"huh... wonder how I actually managed to survive that one..."

*shudders and decides to forgo that somewhat... morbid... line of thought, and that article of cloathing as well, and begins to make his way, slowly, to his bunk, holding a hand over the wrap around bandage that is going across his cheast and the neatly stitched togather skin over his heart, and, if the tight feeling in his shoulder is any indication, the duplicate set of stitches in his back. Rounding a corner, BC stops dead in his tracks as he sees a rather dazed... and, more importantly blood covered Bluefishie sitting with her back against a wall, one that happens to have a tear, as if from a sword, in it, and a massive pool of blood under it... Seeing this, BC rushes into the room and slides to the ground next to Fishie, not knowing what to say, he sits in silence with her*



*leans her head on BC and smiles*

"You're okay? Everyone left me behind..."


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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:48 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


*drapes his arm over her shoulders*
"I'm ok... don't rightly know how, but I'm ok... mending I guess you could say *cracks a wry grin*"

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:54 PM

BLUEFISHIE


"Guess that's your rapid healing ability? Can't think that I helped much..."

*grins*

"I think maybe we both should at least change our clothes."

*stands up and looks down at her bloody feet*

"And clean up...nasty bare feet are no fun..."


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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:18 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Nope, never did Hi lo, though it seems a good one. We had Miss Mary Mack. That was the popular clapping game. Do you know that one?

As for the peril, I think that protecting our offspring IS doing the important thing. I am content to sit this one out, as just got back from rescuing Mai, anyway. But, if you feel the need to go risk life and limb, you can go and I'll watch Finn. I confess I like my peril in small, controlled bursts.

You think I'm the one that always needs rescuing? I thought that was Mai! Oh well, I guess we all get our turns.



Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:24 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


Quote:

Originally posted by Bluefishie:
"Guess that's your rapid healing ability? Can't think that I helped much..."

*grins*

"I think maybe we both should at least change our clothes."

*stands up and looks down at her bloody feet*

"And clean up...nasty bare feet are no fun..."




"Oh, rapid healing is all well and good, but I think that you may have done more than you think... took a look at the shirt I was wearing *shudders* even I couldn't re-grown a heart or a lung... thought you said your magic marker didn't work on people *grins* yeah... clean clothes would be a good call *looks at his own bloody clothes*"

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 7:31 AM

JAKE7


**OOC: I have no idea where I was supposed to be during all this. So, I'm going to be on the last floor to watch FemaleReaver phase her way out of the ship -- if that's really going to happen, but it is possible she'd figure things out at the last second...**

**jake7 nervously fidgets with her remote as she waits for the FemaleReaver to phase her way down through the ship. She desperately wishes she had taken some kind of combat training, but she's never had much in the line of arm strength. She can handle the gunner duties, but hand-to-hand combat has never been something she's been good at.

Hearing the gun/laser fire from the floors above, she gets ready to activate her shield. She calls to her fellow floor mates (OOC: whoever they are)**

Anyone who wants to be behind the shield, get close to me! Gunfire will go harmlessly out through the shield, but I don't know about lasers.

I'm going to activate in 10 seconds...

--------------
MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
***********
"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 12:20 PM

SERYN


no, i'n no particular hurry to go find some peril, i was just finding out if you were... i think motherhood has mellowed me. a year ago i would have found the nearest flame thrower and been ut there with a grin on my face.

now i want to learn that miss mary mack thing you mentioned.


ooc - do get me to teach you that hi lo thing at D*C Serenity - its a fun game especially when one or more parties is stinkin drunk!

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!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 12:23 PM

CALLMESERENITY


ooc: can you be the stinkin' drunk one this time?

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 1:30 PM

SERYN


it depends on who mixing the drinks really - or if i can find a bottle of tequila and some limes... we could always get someone else stinkin drunk

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!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:09 PM

CALLMESERENITY


ooc: thou art wicked! I like it!



Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:54 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


OOC: Realy now ladies, please, young, impressionable, college level ears here yeah, like I haven't drank anything yet

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 2:28 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
OOC: Realy now ladies, please, young, impressionable, college level ears here yeah, like I haven't drank anything yet



What say you, Seryn? Sounds to me like he's volunteering!

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:17 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


[GUOTE] What say you, Seryn? Sounds to me like he's volunteering!

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep



ooc: well I would if I could find some way of getting to D*C =(

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:22 AM

CALLMESERENITY


You've got 5 months. Get crackin'.

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:28 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
You've got 5 months. Get crackin'.

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep



heh, right, I'll get right on it

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 6:34 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


After takeing a long, hot shower and changeing into some clean clothes, BC'07 makes his way to the bridge and looks over the co-ords input into the jump station... looking again, he sees his eyes weren't deceving him and punches the overhead com unit on the consoule next to the jump point

"BC'07 to... EVERYBODY!!! I need to call a meeting right now about where we're headed... FemaleReaver screwed us but GOOD..."

gets off the com unit and begins to pace like a caged panther...

oh hell we are SCREWED... I can't belive even someone like the female reaver would send us there...

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 9:56 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Okay, Seryn: Miss Mary Mack.

When you say "Miss" you cross your hands on your chest. When you say "Mary", you place your hands on your legs on "Mar" and then clap them together on "ry" and when you say "Mack" you and then clap your partner's hands. You always say the last word three times and you always clap first with the right hands, then your own, then with the left, then both hands. And you just keep the pattern going. Got it?

So, it goes like this:

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons, buttons, buttons
all down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifteen cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
That jump the fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They reached the sky, sky, sky
and they never came back, back, back
'Till the Fourth of July, ly, ly

And, of course, you do this over and over getting faster and faster until you end up hitting each other or falling over. Like your Hi Lo one.

I was great at these clapping games when I was little. I knew one that you had to clap up and down and do all sorts of crazy twisty things, but I can't remember it now.


Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 10:23 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Serenity, when you talked about "Miss Mary Mack" the first thing that came to mind was a song by Great Big Sea called Mari-Mac.
Here are the lyrics if you're interested.

GREAT BIG SEA LYRICS

"Mari-Mac"

There's a neat little lass and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas try to get her on her back
But I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early

[Chorus:]

Mari Mac's mother's making Mari Mac marry me
My mother's making me marry Mari Mac
Well I'm going to marry Mari for when Mari's taking care of me
We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mari Mac


Now Mari and her mother are an awful lot together
In fact you hardly see the one without the other
And people often wonder if it's Mari or her mother
Or both of them together I am courting

[Chorus:]

Well up among the heather in the hills of Bonifee
Well I had a bonnie lass sitting on me knee
A bumble bee stung me right above me knee
Up among the heather in the hills of Benifee

[Chorus:]

Well I said "Wee bonnie lassie, where you going to spend the day?"
She said "Among the heather in the hills of Benifee"
Where all the boys and girls are making out so free
Up among the heather in the hills of Benifee

[Chorus:]

The wedding's on Wednesday, everything's arranged
Soon her name will be changed to mine unless her mind be changed
And making the arrangements, I'm feeling quite deranged
Marriage is an awful undertaking

[Chorus:]

Sure to be a grand affair, grander than a fair
Going to be a fork and plate for every man that's there
And I'll be a bugger if I don't get my share
If I don't we'll be very much mistaken

[Chorus:]

There's a neat little lass and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas try to get up on her back
I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early

[Chorus:]

It's a real tongue twister to sing at the speeds GBS sing it at.


_______________________________________________________________
"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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Thursday, April 5, 2007 10:37 AM

CALLMESERENITY


That's a very funny tongue twister song, Safe! And it made me think of my favourite tongue twister song, by Trout Fishing in America! It's called "What I Want is Proper Cup of Coffee" and I sing it a lot in the mornings.

A Sultan sat on his oriental mat
In his harem in downtown Persia.
He took a sip of coffee, just a drip,
And he said to his servant Kersia,
"Aw curse ya', curse ya', curse ya',
That's the worst cup of coffee in Persia!" 'cause

Chorus:
All I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot.
I may be off my dot,
But I want a proper coffee in a proper copper pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots, they are no use to me.
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot,
I'll have a cup of tea.

In days of old, when knights and men were bold,
And whiskey was much cheaper.
Ben Turpin rode to a coffee shop
And showed his pistols to the keeper
He said, "Stand and deliver!
Can't you see that I'm all a quiver?" 'cause

Chorus

When Bonaparte found that he was in the cart
And he lost that Waterloo fight.
He gave his sword to Wellington, my Lord, and he said,
"Those British can't half fight.
Now you've had your Waterloo, sir, tell me what
Am I having with you, sir?" 'cause

Chorus (with silly French accent)

Now King Solomon and his queen would carry on,
So we heard in the ancient scandals.
He bought her lots of silver coffee pots
With diamond legs and handles.
And said the queen of Sheeba,
"I'd rather have any old tea bag," 'cause

Chorus
Chorus (fast)
Chorus (really fast)

Serenity,
Singer of Silly Songs, Temporary Thread Hijacker (Someone's got to do it while Malicious isn't around.)

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 10:44 AM

SIMONWHO


*strides over to BC07 and BlueFishie*

What on earth... you - you're supposed to be recuperating. And you... you shouldn't be in a pool of blood. Hold still while I scan you.

Ick. Okay, let me just apply some medical training here... and done. Now, back to bed for goodness sake. We have a strict no dying rule here.

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 10:49 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


"yeah yeah, no dieing, I got it... *yawns* Do I really have to stay in there?? I'm all stitched up, and I'm feeling fine again..."
*wanders off to his bunk while muttering about getting fussed over when he is, infact, FINE!*

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 2:59 PM

THEREALME


Quote:

Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
After takeing a long, hot shower and changeing into some clean clothes, BC'07 makes his way to the bridge and looks over the co-ords input into the jump station... looking again, he sees his eyes weren't deceving him and punches the overhead com unit on the consoule next to the jump point

"BC'07 to... EVERYBODY!!! I need to call a meeting right now about where we're headed... FemaleReaver screwed us but GOOD..."

gets off the com unit and begins to pace like a caged panther...

oh hell we are SCREWED... I can't belive even someone like the female reaver would send us there...



TheRealMe reaches the bridge in a rush to find BC07 still pacing. “What are you talking about, BrownCoat2007? FemaleReaver plotted a course, put the ship into hyperspace, then erased the data record. I looked! There was nothing left of…” TheRealMe examines the console. “Hmmm… She must have set some process on a timer to display this information when we were near the end of the Jump.” TheRealMe shudders at whatever caused BC07 to shudder.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:08 PM

MAI


Hours later...
*finally breaks free of the awful scary helmet

Phew! Ewww now I'm all sticky with yellow goo. I think I'll take a dip in the pool to get it all off (cause I'm too lazy to go all the way back to my room). Care to join me?

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:17 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


"Well, sir, don't know if ya wanna keep this on the down low, or let everyone know but... she plotted a course into a... precursery experemint to the Pax... a whole gorram Pilgram jump point turned Reaver overnight... they disabled the transports on the station so that they had no where to go, gave them a sense of community, this bunch, and made 'em so they can starve, just not to death... had the bright idea of just leaving them out there, middle of no-where in space, a whole gorram moons worth or more of Reavers, starving and un-able to die from it... just sitting there waiting... drove them right crazy I would wager, that is, if a Reaver could become more crazed... Also, I don't think FemaleReaver wanted to give us the option of escape... I took the liberty of doing a bit of back hacking on her time release seal... seems she found it a good idea to wire the warp engine to short out after we had reached the spot... has a few other things set to blow as well... external defences, weapons, all engines... basically all we'll have is life and the ship itself, and a moons or more worth of food crazed Reavers... that she oh so thoughtfully got us to have a docking sequence with right after leaving hyper-space... before putting lockdowns on, well, all of her "modifications" of the 'Tree, meaning, if we try and shut it down manually, we'll be just as humped as if we were to get to our intended destination... probably more so, seeing as we could eather explode in hyper or just drift out there forever... in between shifts so as to never be found... *starts his rant while continuing to pace* On a... "less likely to die," note, I'm already nearly fully healed, also, my little... accident seems to have affected me... useually I have to get angry to tap into my powers, well, the almost dieing in 'em caused my body to belive that my senses were that good to begin with *finally turns to TRM and looks him in the eyes, showing off the golden halo around his pupils and the golden flecks in his normally dark brown eyes* It's not nearly as powerful, but it DOES give a slight increase in speed, endurance, strength, sight, smell, and hearing... haven't bothered to check if it will still go up as much as before when angry... but hey, I'm not complaining *tries to give a weak grin*"

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 4:49 PM

BLUEFISHIE


*stands, in clean clothes, in a corridor somewhere on the ship, rocking back and forth on her feet*

"I'm hungry...and the drawn food doesn't taste as good as stuff actually cooked...now how do I get to the kitchen...if there is one..."

*yawns, still unwilling to move much*


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Thursday, April 5, 2007 5:58 PM

THEREALME


TheRealMe gravely considers BrownCoat2007’s discovery. So, it seems that shortly after dropping out of hyperspace at our destination, ship defenses and engines would be shorted out, after docking with a Reaver-filled planetoid. This could not be allowed to happen, especially since the crew of Sereni-Tree has been under pretty constant peril for the last six or eight threads, ever since the time of the Second Gala Pageant. The war between the Immortals and the Octagonal Order, Mai-quest3, the return of FemaleReaver… Too much peril! Some breathing time is essential.

He brings in ScorpionRegent, Jet, Wisp, TheGreyJedi (if he is still around) and anyone else who has demonstrated significant technical expertise. Various options and ideas are discussed (and please do so in succeeding posts!).

TheRealMe spends a lot of time on the bridge, working at a console there, modeling possible outcomes and attempting to undo FemaleReaver’s sabotage, with only partial success.

Suddenly, TheRealMe smiles, and glances up. “Ah ha! I got it! The damage from the sabotage only occurs AFTER we drop out of hyperspace! Hmmm… Well, without Static, Ath, or Bride5 available, I suppose that we don’t have a dedicated pilot.” TheRealMe climbs up from the bridge level into the pilot dome and squeezes himself into the cockpit. All around him is an unobstructed view of the raw, swirling, mind-bending un-reality that is hyperspace. He tries not to look at it. He touches a few controls on the pilot’s console and many displays come to life. He activates communications. Then he grabs the control grips on either side of the chair.

“Bride4? This is Me. Are you still in Engineering?”

“Jet here. Yes, I am.”

“I’d like to bring the main maneuver drive online. Push it up to maximum thrust. That’s what, 20, 30 gees?”

Jet sounds dubious. “But we’re still in hyperspace. That won’t change our course or anything. It can only impart a velocity to the ship with respect to normal space.”

“Yes. And so, if we run the maneuver drive now for a day or so, when we finally do drop back into normal space…”

“We’ll appear, from nowhere, with our velocity conserved. Suddenly, the ship will be moving at a hell of a clip. Even if those engines are disabled at drop-out. Smart.”

“Right. If anyone is waiting for us, maybe we’ll be too fast to be caught. Also, just before we drop out of hyperspace, I plan to kill the engines and activate the ship’s S.E.P device that Jadehand installed long ago. It is not in the original blueprints. I traced some control lines and couldn’t find a problem. I think that FemaleReaver missed it.”

Jet ponders this. “So we’ll drop out of hyperspace and instantly shoot off in some direction, with no engine output to track, AND covered by a Somebody Else’s Problem field? Nobody could stop us, and probably nobody would even see us. There’s a problem, though. If we drop out and our velocity vector just happens to be pointing toward any sizeable object, like say a planet, we’ll be squashed.”

TheRealMe shrugs. “True. I think that is a small chance.”

Jet does not respond.

TheRealMe continues. “But that will probably give us the time we need to get us ready for another Jump, possibly including undoing sabotage and repairing any damage that occurs. Then we can go somewhere of OUR choosing.”

“Course?”

He scratches his chin. “Hmmm… I don’t know. Maybe back to Zanzibar. ScorpionRegent had something he wanted to do there. Or maybe we can go back to Earth-That-Still-Is. We’re coming up on our third anniversary near the end of May, and it’s traditional to go home and have a party.” He sighs wistfully. “I could stand to relax among dandelions, again. But first things first! We have to get the Jump Drive operational. We might need replacement parts. We might need somebody to head off in our shuttles to get these parts.”

Jet seems incredulous. “From the Reavers?”

TheRealMe shrugs. “From wherever they can be had.”

“Maneuver Drive coming online… now!”

TheRealMe twists the grips on either side of the pilot chair, and points the Sereni-Tree in the direction away from where the planetoid is expected to be when they drop out of hyperspace. He runs the thrust up to maximum and leaves it there.



TheRealMe, Captain of Sereni-Tree



P.S. This compromise allows for those of us who still wish peril can use our shuttles to invade Reaver territory to get spare parts, while still allowing others of us to relax in a peril-free environment. Pick your sides!

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 6:06 PM

THEREALME


When Mai finally gets her helmet off, she notices the unconscious Yeti next to her, and the bawling Yeti baby in the creature's arms.

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:05 PM

SCORPIONREGENT


SR listens intently to Me's proposal. It makes enough sense that he is willing to give it a shot. He looks over most of Femalereaver's time triggered sabotage and figures that there is one factor in that can be if not overidden at least delayed, time. He suggests that they glitch the nav computer to slow down its internal clock so that they remain in hyperspace aproximately 15 more minutes longer than originally need to complete the trip. This will cause them to arrive in the same planetary system yet not neccessarily at peril's front door, this may also give them enough time to allow the jump engines to recharge without the need of out in out combat. SR does admit that this also could place the Tree smack dab in the center of a asteriod field or the crushing depths of a gas giant, but what is life without adventure?



OOC: lost internet for a couple of days. Looks like I haven't missed much.

Scorpion Regent

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:13 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


Quote:

Originally posted by TheRealMe:
TheRealMe gravely considers BrownCoat2007’s discovery. So, it seems that shortly after dropping out of hyperspace at our destination, ship defenses and engines would be shorted out, after docking with a Reaver-filled planetoid. This could not be allowed to happen, especially since the crew of Sereni-Tree has been under pretty constant peril for the last six or eight threads, ever since the time of the Second Gala Pageant. The war between the Immortals and the Octagonal Order, Mai-quest3, the return of FemaleReaver… Too much peril! Some breathing time is essential.

He brings in ScorpionRegent, Jet, Wisp, TheGreyJedi (if he is still around) and anyone else who has demonstrated significant technical expertise. Various options and ideas are discussed (and please do so in succeeding posts!).

TheRealMe spends a lot of time on the bridge, working at a console there, modeling possible outcomes and attempting to undo FemaleReaver’s sabotage, with only partial success.

Suddenly, TheRealMe smiles, and glances up. “Ah ha! I got it! The damage from the sabotage only occurs AFTER we drop out of hyperspace! Hmmm… Well, without Static, Ath, or Bride5 available, I suppose that we don’t have a dedicated pilot.” TheRealMe climbs up from the bridge level into the pilot dome and squeezes himself into the cockpit. All around him is an unobstructed view of the raw, swirling, mind-bending un-reality that is hyperspace. He tries not to look at it. He touches a few controls on the pilot’s console and many displays come to life. He activates communications. Then he grabs the control grips on either side of the chair.

“Bride4? This is Me. Are you still in Engineering?”

“Jet here. Yes, I am.”

“I’d like to bring the main maneuver drive online. Push it up to maximum thrust. That’s what, 20, 30 gees?”

Jet sounds dubious. “But we’re still in hyperspace. That won’t change our course or anything. It can only impart a velocity to the ship with respect to normal space.”

“Yes. And so, if we run the maneuver drive now for a day or so, when we finally do drop back into normal space…”

“We’ll appear, from nowhere, with our velocity conserved. Suddenly, the ship will be moving at a hell of a clip. Even if those engines are disabled at drop-out. Smart.”

“Right. If anyone is waiting for us, maybe we’ll be too fast to be caught. Also, just before we drop out of hyperspace, I plan to kill the engines and activate the ship’s S.E.P device that Jadehand installed long ago. It is not in the original blueprints. I traced some control lines and couldn’t find a problem. I think that FemaleReaver missed it.”

Jet ponders this. “So we’ll drop out of hyperspace and instantly shoot off in some direction, with no engine output to track, AND covered by a Somebody Else’s Problem field? Nobody could stop us, and probably nobody would even see us. There’s a problem, though. If we drop out and our velocity vector just happens to be pointing toward any sizeable object, like say a planet, we’ll be squashed.”

TheRealMe shrugs. “True. I think that is a small chance.”

Jet does not respond.

TheRealMe continues. “But that will probably give us the time we need to get us ready for another Jump, possibly including undoing sabotage and repairing any damage that occurs. Then we can go somewhere of OUR choosing.”

“Course?”

He scratches his chin. “Hmmm… I don’t know. Maybe back to Zanzibar. ScorpionRegent had something he wanted to do there. Or maybe we can go back to Earth-That-Still-Is. We’re coming up on our third anniversary near the end of May, and it’s traditional to go home and have a party.” He sighs wistfully. “I could stand to relax among dandelions, again. But first things first! We have to get the Jump Drive operational. We might need replacement parts. We might need somebody to head off in our shuttles to get these parts.”

Jet seems incredulous. “From the Reavers?”

TheRealMe shrugs. “From wherever they can be had.”

“Maneuver Drive coming online… now!”

TheRealMe twists the grips on either side of the pilot chair, and points the Sereni-Tree in the direction away from where the planetoid is expected to be when they drop out of hyperspace. He runs the thrust up to maximum and leaves it there.



TheRealMe, Captain of Sereni-Tree



P.S. This compromise allows for those of us who still wish peril can use our shuttles to invade Reaver territory to get spare parts, while still allowing others of us to relax in a peril-free environment. Pick your sides!



"HAHA!!! Peril!!! Just what I signed up for plus, it'll be the perfect opportunity to try out the new skills... and... *wicked grin* these!!"

*BC'07 holds up a pair of fingerless leather gloves with strange nodes at points along each of the nuckles, a point at the lower side of the hand, and one at the wrist, sliding them on, he flexes his fingers into claw shapes and blades shoot out of the nodes, one covers the lower part of his for arm, a spike shoots out of his elbow, and claw like blades come out of his finger tips*

"God I LOVE these *gives a feral grin as his pupils begin to slit and take on a cat like apperance*"

*retracts the claws and removes the gloves*

"I'll be in the kitchen..."

*wanders off to find Fishie in the halls, looking for the kitchen as well*

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:22 PM

BLUEFISHIE


Quote:

Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:

*retracts the claws and removes the gloves*

"I'll be in the kitchen..."

*wanders off to find Fishie in the halls, looking for the kitchen as well*



*is still standing in the hallway, completely spaced out, as BC comes up behind her, on his way off to the kitchen*


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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:34 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


*wraps his arms around her waist from behind*

"Hello there, I was just gunna grab a bite, wanna come with?"

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:36 PM

BLUEFISHIE


"...Okay."

*grins and starts walking*

"So long as you can show me the way to my fishie tank before so I can get a few of them. Okay? I can never not get lost."


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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:41 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


*gets his bearings and leads Fishie to the pool area first*

"So... I vaugely recall something being said about someone being stupid... although I must admit I was a little spaced at the time... someone other than 'that stupid bitch' *grins at Fishie* were you worried about me?"

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:45 PM

MAI


Oh No! Come here little guy, poor baby SimonYeti. It's ok.

*picks up the baby and gets on the comm link

"Simon, I realize your probably a little busy at the moment, but we've got an unconscious Yeti in the passageway. Think you could get down here and have a look? "

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:50 PM

BLUEFISHIE


Quote:

Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
*gets his bearings and leads Fishie to the pool area first*

"So... I vaugely recall something being said about someone being stupid... although I must admit I was a little spaced at the time... someone other than 'that stupid bitch' *grins at Fishie* were you worried about me?"



*talks as she walks in, grabs her fishie bowl and climbs to the top of the tank on a built in ladder*

"Well...what else do you call someone who leaps at an attacking person without a weapon? Don't tell me brave. They're synonyms most of the time."

*dips the bowl in and waits for fishies to swim up and into it*




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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:53 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


"well, I couldn't just let her stab you in the back, now could I!?"

*He asks while watching Fishie with her fishies, and ready to catch her if she slips*

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:55 PM

BLUEFISHIE


*decides the fishie bowl is full enough with five or six fishies and pulls it out of the water*

"Well...yes, but...um...you shouldn't have gotten hurt you know..."

*begins to climb down*

"...on my accounts and all."


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Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:00 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


"I would much rather see myself hurt than you... *offers his arm to Fishie as she steps down from the ladder* don't know what I would do if you got hurt and there was something I could have done about it..."

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:03 PM

BLUEFISHIE


*puts fishie bowl into the waiting arm and hops off the few remaining rungs*

"Well, whether someone else could get hurt or not, you're still stupid."

*takes the bowl and starts walking out of the room, then stops, never having been to the kitchen before*

"Well? Are you coming?"


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Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:06 PM

BROWNCOAT2007


*blinks at her response and shrugs, following her out and takeing the lead towards the kitchen*

"Soooo... what would you like?"

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:45 PM

JADEHAND


Previously:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jadehand:
"Comm 3, check. Water tow...... wait. This isn't right."
*JadeHand shakes his head trying to make the images in his head go away.*
"Grey, use channel 2, and try the roof of the hotel on the other side of the jail. This happened before, and I can't be here. If I'm here, people die. I have to go. Tell her I'm sorry."
*JadeHand removes a nametag from under a coat, changing shape to his normal self. He turns and leaves the group to return to the Sereni-Tree. Once on board, he heads to the hanger bay, and departs on board Ocean Cloud. Vanishing into the black.*



*Ocean Cloud Drops into a high orbit around a small moon. JadeHand runs a few scans to check the population below. "Reavers, why did it have to be Reavers?" It's just as the flash of deja vu back in westworld had shown. How could this happen? Why did he see the things he saw? If he had stayed with the others, several people close to him would have died. He hopes that by leaving when he did, that they survived, that things went differently than before. But fate, she is a bitch. Last time, the Tree ended up here, and not doing well.
JadeHand prints out the results of his scans and begins reviewing the "colonies" on the surface. Weapon systems, power stations, wreckage of destroyed ships that chose poorly when deciding to land here, hangers with a couple of small functional ships obviously pieced together from the wrecks of the other craft. "Great, they can leave the surface too." JadeHand is thankful that he left the SEP up when entering the area.
JadeHand pulls out of orbit and heads towards a small asteroid belt. There he begins to launch the grappling spike from the top of the Cloud into asteroids and moving them out of the way.
Hours pass, but soon there is a gap large enough for the Tree to pass through. JadeHand flys to the other side of the Asteroid field and confirms that he is far out of any surface scanners' range before turning off the SEP and waiting for his friends to arrive.

OOC: sorry, had some crazy in the personal life with work and family, couldn't focus here. Calmer now, hope it lasts.

"I will stare from the window
At the shapes in the rain." -Beyond You - Afraid of Sunlight -Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.



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Friday, April 6, 2007 4:16 AM

THEREALME


OOC: Jade! Welcome back!

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Friday, April 6, 2007 4:51 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Sir Kei wanders about the ship gawking. He had become lost trying to catch up to the other 'knight'.

Thinking back on it now, the other knight did have some mechanical aspects to him armour.

Sir Kei's instincts, the other instincts, lead him finally to where he wanted to be. The kitchen.

How sterile this place was compared to the Keep's pantry. After some searching, Kei finds the foods in an upright chest. The chest was obviously enchanted as the interior lit up when the lid was opened and it was cold inside.

Taking a large platter of various vegetables, cold meats and fruits into the common room, Kei sits at the large meeting table.

Kei again marveled at the things he found in this new world. The table had cup holders constructed into the raised sides of the table and the table was covered in a soft green fabric. These people must be rulers of some great land indeed.


_______________________________________________________________
"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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Friday, April 6, 2007 7:06 AM

JAKE7


**OOC: OK, I'm confused. Last I read of the FemaleReaver prior to my last post, she was still phasing out of the ship. Seems a whole portion of the plotline got lost here... Did she really phase uneventfully out of the ship?**

--------------
MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
***********
"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."

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Friday, April 6, 2007 8:12 AM

CALLMESERENITY


ooc: I have no idea what's going on, either, Jake7. No idea at all.

Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
Wielder of the Magic Frying Pan of Sleep

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Friday, April 6, 2007 10:21 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


OOC: looks like she DID just phase out of the ship... but then again, she did screw over the ship, itself, royally!

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