The Sereni-Tree: Skiing With Yeti by TheRealMe

The huge, furry yeti named Ervin leads the group down several levels into the ship's cargo section. He stops at a door which has a crudely painted sign that reads, "YETI ONLY. ALL OTHERS TO BE EATEN!".

"Don't mind sign," he tells them with a grin that exposes all his fangs. "Is joke."

"Heh. Funny," Trey mutters under her breath.

"Let's get on with it!" an impatient Deuce demands.

Both human women are dressed in snow gear and are carrying skis (as are any others who are going on the ski trip).

Ervin opens the door to reveal a veritable winter wonderland that seems to stretch on for miles (or even kilometers). "TheRealHim folds space for us to make lots and lots of room," Assan, another yeti, explains.

"Much like our home, Black Diamond Planet," says Hewitt, the smallest and youngest of the adult yeti.

"Many hills. Much snow," agrees Corbin, the mother of SimonYeti.

SimonYeti growls.

"And COLD!" adds Lichna, the other female yeti. "You humans live too hot!"

"We build lodge," Ervin says, "like humans live in on Black Diamond before it goes boom. Come."

The group heads into YetiLand.

Assan the Yeti
Corbin the Yeti
Ervin the Yeti
Hewitt the Yeti
Lichna the Yeti
SimonYeti the Yeti
Deuce, Bride2
Trey, Bride3

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Friday, August 15, 2008 1:04 AM

Okay, everyone find a nice slope and get to the top. We'll work out some sort of lift system later.

SimonYeti, it might be safer if you put this helmet on. Don't worry, it's just to stop your head getting bumped if you fall over. That's it, just slip it on and... oh.

I think if you can break the helmet with your own head, you probably don't need to bother. Right, skis on, poles in each hand and let's start off with a little snowploughing down the hill.

Okay, snowploughing is just the name of the technique, the aim is not to move all the snow down to the bottom of the slope. Don't worry, we'll try again.

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Friday, August 15, 2008 1:15 AM

The two yeti Lichna and Assan approach SimonWho at the bottom of the slope.

"We have lift system," Assan says.

He grabs SimonWho in one hand and SimonYeti in the other. Then he runs at great speed up to the top of the hill, where he gently deposits them. Lichna remains at the base of the hill.

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Friday, August 15, 2008 3:51 AM

*picks up her snowboard and carries it to the top of the hill, sits down and pants a little, then races down after the others*

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Friday, August 15, 2008 8:45 AM

JAKE7

**jake7 watches the gang go down the hall to the Yeti zone. She calls after them**

I'll be there in a little while. I'm a bit tired from the party and I think I'll take a speed nap.

I don't know how to ski, but I love to sled, so I'll meet up with you all very soon!

**she stifles a large yawn and hurries to her room. Once there, she sets her alarm for 15 minutes and then lays down on the bed and quickly drifts off.

15 minutes later, she awakens refreshed. She dresses quickly for the cold -- donning some space age thermals so she won't be quite so bulky -- and then grabs her sled and heads for the Yeti zone. She walks through the door into a winter wonderland.**

Wow! This is incredible!

**She grabs the lift and heads to the top for her first run down the hill**

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

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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:05 AM

BLUEFISHIE

*slides down a hill on her bottom, with the now large purple squid clinging to her head*

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Friday, August 15, 2008 10:03 AM

COZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by jake7:
**jake7... grabs her sled....

*Fervently hopes she doesn't notice the small yet incredibly efficient and powerful nuclear powered rocket propulsion device he has jury rigged to her conveyance of choice*

***

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Friday, August 15, 2008 10:05 AM

*Aiko speeds past the group on skis, laughing as she the cold wind whips her hair*

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Friday, August 15, 2008 2:48 PM

Down in Sereni-Tree's Main Engineering:

"How's that?" Jet asks.

"A little to the left, Bride4. Your left!" TheRealMe is at the fusion reactor watching carefully as the steel tentacles of a Diagnostic/Repair Drone lower the new plasma coil into its housing. Nearby, at the side of the insect-like DRD, Jet is at the controls.

"Perfect, Bride4!"

With a slight twist of Jet's wrist, the fragile device is slowly lowered into place.

"Okay, Bride4. One more of these and we can..." Suddenly, TheRealMe tenses, blinks twice, and faints dead away.

He awakens moments later, flat on his back, Jet hovering over him. "Are you okay?" she asks, a concerned look on her face.

He tries to sit up, but cannot. "I felt a disturbance in the Force!"

"Like billions of people crying out as one, and then being snuffed out?"

He shakes his head. "Worse!"

Jet whispers: "Cozen!"

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
Jet, Bride4, Engineer

OOC:

And we are very happy to have him back!!!!

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Friday, August 15, 2008 2:56 PM

*attacks Cozen with snowballs from atop the bunny-yeti slope.

Wonder if i can get better aim while I am in ski mode. *pushes off down the hill

*swish, swoosh, swish, and ....
CRASH!

ow.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 6:35 AM

JAKE7

**jake7 gets to the top of the hill and goes to place her sled down on the snow when something catches her eye. There, on the bottom of her sled is a strange looking and deadly looking device.**

Huh. That's funny. I've never noticed this thing before...

**she looks at it a bit closer and notices the stamp "Cozen" embossed on one of two cylinders on either side of what appears to be an exhaust port. She shakes her head

and mutters to herself.**

That Cozen. First he disappears in the middle of my last kidnapping, and now he's tinkering with my sled. I can only imagine what he's up to now.

**One of the Yeti comes by slaps her on the back in a friendly fashion. Unfortunately, the Yeti aren't fully aware of their strength and the slap sends jake7 flying down the hill on her stomach. Snow flying about her, she hurtles down the hill at what seems like warp speed.**

Ayeeeeeeeeeeee!

**She slides to a stop at the bottom and lays there motionless for a few moments taking stock of any possible injuries (there are none) and catches her breath. She opens her eyes and then sits up.**

Wow! That was a RIOT! I gotta do that again!

**She gets up, dusts the snow off and heads for the lifts once again**

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

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:47 AM

*wanders aimlessly in a Revolucion adelita costume*

Come on out, Operative! You and I have a reckoning!
*cries* Mr. U.! Mr. U.!

*collapses in the snow*

Mrs. Universe

MR. UNIVERSE---->

<----MRS. UNIVERSE

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:24 PM

Thank you Assan, glad to have finally found an environmentally sound way of getting up a mountain.

Same again SimonYeti, just keep looking down the mountain and bending the knees into the turns. Very good!

Ooo, time for elevenses. Third rule of skiing, always make time for hot chocolate.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:25 PM

*wakes up*

Did somebody say "hot chocolate"?

I want some!

Mrs. Universe

MR. UNIVERSE---->

<----MRS. UNIVERSE

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:37 PM

Moving down the slope at a tremendous speed, Deuce is crouched with her ski poles tucked under her arms and trailing behind her.

Suddenly, she sees a figure in front of her, blocking her way. It is too late to stop or turn. She drops one of her ski poles, whips the other around, and jams it into the snow right in front of her. The ski pole's handle impacts her with great force in the midsection, but this causes her to vault right over Mrs Universe.

Deuce lands badly and falls, twirling a few times as she slides down the slope on her back, then comes to a stop. One ski comes off and continues down the slope without her.

"Ow..." Deuce groans.

Deuce, Bride2

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 6:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bluefishie:
*slides down a hill on her bottom, with the now large purple squid clinging to her head*

At the bottom of the slope the squid-thing wiggles all of its tentacles wildly. That was fun! Bluefishie thinks. That was a lot of fun! Do it again, please!

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:48 PM

well that was fun. the kind of fun that is painful and embarrasing.

*begins to hobble off back to the 'tree

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Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by mai:
well that was fun. the kind of fun that is painful and embarrasing.

There are other kinds?

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Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:20 AM

yes, or so i hear. apparently there is fun that's actually fun. bit weird if you ask me, but i guess whatever trips your trigger...

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:17 PM

BLUEFISHIE

*dashes back up the hill*

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:11 PM

*shakes snow off his hair*

Right, I think that's enough for one day. Now we need to practice the third most important part of skiing (after bending the knees and hot chocolate breaks) - Apres Ski. And no, that doesn't mean finishing your yoghurt.

Now if I just open one teeny weeny interdimensional rift here... there, a portal to one of my favourite restaurants. Everyone who fancies a cracking meal, meet me here in one hour, wear your moon boots because it'll be slippy through there. Yetis... wear a tie and I'll claim you're all part of my latest hirsute experiments.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:40 PM

TheRealMe drags his luggage to the center of the Sereni-Tree's common room. "Mai? Are you ready?"

Mai approaches, carrying her own suitcase.

TheRealMe reaches out with his hand. A spot of light appears. It grows larger, until it is a ring of fire surrounding a dark void.

"Mai and I will be attending Dragon*Con. I'll be sure to bring back some appropriate gifts for all of you!"

TheRealMe begins to step through the hole in reality that he made, then pauses. He heads over to pluck the disembodied Hand from a nearby table. "You're coming, too!"

TheRealMe, Mai, and the Hand jump into TheRealMe's dimensional portal. Soon, it shrinks down to a dot of light, then disappears.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Friday, August 29, 2008 8:35 PM

BLUEFISHIE

*throws the squid down the hill then follows it down once more*

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Saturday, August 30, 2008 9:43 PM

*wakes up, and uses the Mak'Tar stealth haze to sneak aboard the Sereni-Tree*

Whoa!

*wanders into the cryo room*

Brr! It's cold in here!
*notices a drawer*
Hey...wonder what's in here?
*knocks on it*
*walks out of the cryo room, and into the lounging area*

Mrs. Universe

MR. UNIVERSE---->

<----MRS. UNIVERSE

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Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:00 AM

*As she was nearing the bottom of the monsterous hill she was snowboarding down, Aiko activates her left glove, creating a time slip in which she'd always be going down the hill without coming to the actual bottom, until she de-activated the glove*

"Ahh, this is the LIFE! Woo!"

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Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:25 AM

Seryn steps out of the shower and carries on as if the long months of absence were just a dream...

Parking it on a nice comfy sofa she sips her drink and waits for all to return from their skiing.

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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Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:31 PM

Mrs. Universe walks up to the lounging area fridge, rummages around in it, then finally yanks out a diet soda(the kind with Splenda), then moves to the pantry and snatches a bag of chips and a box of Fruit Oaty Bars. She plops down next to Seryn, stuffs a handful of chips into her mouth, then washes it down with the soda.

"So, what are you drinking?"

Mrs. Universe

MR. UNIVERSE---->

<----MRS. UNIVERSE

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Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Aiko:
*As she was nearing the bottom of the monsterous hill she was snowboarding down, Aiko activates her left glove, creating a time slip in which she'd always be going down the hill without coming to the actual bottom, until she de-activated the glove*

*watches her go down the mountain then immediately reappear at the top of the slope*

Ooo, a temporal distortion! They can be good fun but I did know someone that fell and couldn't reach the deactivator as he tumbled. Ended up embedded in a snowball 20ft round.

Come on SimonYeti, we'll try a couple of those jumps.

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Monday, September 1, 2008 7:16 AM

*Seryn nicks a crisp from Mrs Universe*

I am being very virtuous and having a Honey Berry Smoothie made with fat free frozen yoghurt and it is officially nummy.

In fact i think its possibly the nummiest smoothie in the whole wide 'verse.

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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Monday, September 1, 2008 2:49 PM

A spot of light appears in the Sereni-Tree common room. It grows to become a ring of fire surrounding a dark void. Then it becomes a triangle, then a square.

TheRealMe, Mai, and the Hand tumble out of the hole in reality, they fall sideways until they are within the common room, then fall downward, surrounded by their luggage.

"Whooops!" TheRealMe comments, his voice slurred. "Guess I got that a bit off kilter." He waves his hand and the wobbling dimensional portal disappears. "! We had a great Dragon*Con!"

From his sitting position, TheRealMe topples over and starts snoring.

OOC: Seryn!? Seryn is back!

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008 1:41 PM

Ooo, I hear people returning. Guys, shall we do some apres ski?

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:15 AM

where can i get more fruit on the Sereni-tree?

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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Thursday, September 4, 2008 2:20 PM

*runs from the pile of luggage and attack huggles Seryn.

Yay. You're back!

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 3:36 PM

TheRealMe pauses to consider Seryn's question.

"The fruit bowl in the kitchen?"

TheRealMe braces himself in case it was a trick question.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 5:27 PM

If you want to pick your own fruit you can find fresh fruit of all kinds growing on the trees in the animal park. You won't even need a ladder to get to the highest bits as I'm sure Frederick will be more than happy to give you a lift.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 12:02 AM

Right, hot chocolate time. Everyone coming off the slopes, leave your boots on that mat over there and come get some drinks. You have the choice of either regular, calorie free (but with all the taste), with whipped cream, with marshmallows or with a dash of whisky.

No, Simonyeti, the last option is not suitable for you. Oh, don't cry, you'll be boozing soon enough.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 10:17 AM

JAKE7

**Snow-coated and starting to get very very cold, jake7's ears perk up at the mention of hot chocolate**

SimonWho, what a GREAT idea!!! I'm in!

I'll decide what kind I want once we get out of the Yeti zone and back into the common area.

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

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Friday, September 5, 2008 3:40 PM

I'll take that last option thanks! *gulps down a yummy mug of hot chocolate. Oh that's nice. That's very nice.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 8:19 PM

*blinks and looks around, clearing the cobwebs from around his... tomb?*

Huh... this is... new...

*pushes open the door and heads out into the light and the snow*

Hail folks... the Brown Coat is back (sans old account) And I have re-learned my name!!!

*pulls a snowboard out of his bag and joins the group for hot chocolate*

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Friday, September 5, 2008 8:33 PM

Another Jake? Uh oh. This could be trouble.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 9:23 PM

Browncoat2007?

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 12:00 AM

*accepts attack huggle and huggles right back*

I might go in a while collect all of the strangest fruit i can find - when you've all warmed up sufficient for cold drinks. You're all talking of snow and it makes me want tropical - fruit cocktalis and a sandy beach.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 5:09 AM

*chuckles* I promise not to be TOO much trouble... I hope...

And to answer your question TRM, yeah, it's BrownCoat2007

And also.... a tropical smoothie sounds wonderful!!! Have we any rum??

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 5:19 AM

"Where has the rum gone?!!"

Jack ran off with it. CHAAAAAAAAASE!!

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 7:04 AM

*blinks at the young woman rushing by and sighs*

Why chase when I have such a lovely bag?

*opens his duffel bag, thinking of Mount Gay rum, and pulls out a new bottle of the stuff*

Mmmmm.... where are those tropical smoothies? I've found the rum!!!

*holds aloft a bottle of rum in victory*

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 7:28 AM

*continues running after Jack, until she realizes that she does have a snowboard and that she was stuck in a time continum. She shugs, and decided that she was feeling a bit too lazy to run after a gey with a bottle of rum, but also that she was getting tired of snowboarding. She deactivates her glove, goes down the slope one last time, and slides into the gathering at the lodge*

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 10:26 AM

*enlists several people to go get fruit*

anything and everything - we'll try it all with rum!

*thanks to magical Sereni-tree jiggery pokery, is back almost instantly with loads of nummy fruit*

Ok, fire up the blender!

*prays no-one takes her literally*

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 10:31 AM

awww... I had a flamethrower all prepped and handy and everything! You're no fun

(someday.... this emoticon will work again)

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Saturday, September 6, 2008 11:14 AM