The Sereni-Tree: Phoenix by TheRealMe

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The Sereni-Tree: Phoenix

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Monday, March 30, 2009 8:14 PM

This is Thread 65 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
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.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.
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=27832
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=11&t=27832

Early in this link will be an out-of-date crew list:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=11&t=33358

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

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=11&t=35942

Our spaceship, Sereni-Tree, has been docked at the space station Persepolis 8, for a VERY long time. More stuff happened.

(WORST SUMMARY EVER!)

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Monday, March 30, 2009 8:24 PM

The glamourous Quincey's eyes light up.

"Hey, does this mean that I can fly us somewhere ELSE? I've been sort of tired of sitting here in one spot!"

TheRealMe smiles. "Sure, Bride5." He turns to Jet. "Bride4, how long before we are ready to depart?"

The small woman adjusts her glasses as she thinks. "Give me about an hour and a half to run through the checklists and spin up the FTL drive."

"Drinks are on the house!" Trey yells out.

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
Trey, Bride3
Jet, Bride4
Quincey, Bride5

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:23 AM

**jake7, Mai, and SimonWho have all reached the bridge. Only to find it empty.**

Well, this is just bizarre! The 'TREE appears to be docked, so at least we know we're not going to crash blindly into something.

Where is everyone?

**No sooner are her words out of her mouth when she hears a commotion coming from the direction of the common room. Jake7, Mai, and SimonWho look at each other. They immediately race to the common room. The sight that greets them fills them all with great relief.**

TRM!!! Brides! Sparky! Yeti! Man, are we glad to see you!

Something odd's going on here on the 'TREE. Mai and I both last remember being at a party then waking up in our rooms with no memory on how we got there!

There's been strange phenomena, too. Both Mai and I felt odd, tingling sensations on our wrists. We've been pretty freaked out, to say the least!

Where have you BEEN?!?

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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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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6:20 PM

TRM! Oh thank goodness you're still here. As Jake said there has been a lot of strange on the side of heavily strange going on around here lately. Hopefully you can tell us we both just went crazy and fell asleep?

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 2:19 PM

Though it has to be said, strange is our business. Mostly.

Certainly that whole thing with ice cream from parallel universes... freaky. Dennis Rodman freaky.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:05 PM

True. Good point. Although, I don't see what's so strange about ice cream from an alternate dimension. Everyone knows that eating ice cream from this dimension is yesterday.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 4:04 PM

*com link*
Hey, um, I found a pile of junior mints. *munches on a few* Gah. *spits them out* Okay, they are not junior mints. *com crackle* I think I'm in the hangar.

*click*

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
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www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Friday, April 3, 2009 7:27 AM

**jake7 presses her commlink button**

TWG, think you can make it up to the common room?

You must be more than just a hand if you're able to operate the wrist comm...

And don't eat anything you find on the floor!

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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, April 3, 2009 7:45 AM

Xan?

Yes?

Are my eyes closed?

*Xander reaches up and feels Ash's face.*

Ow! Get your fingers out of my eyes! I guess the lights are out. Can you see anything at all Xander?

No.

*Ash and Xander start feeling around hoping to find a light switch.*

Well this is just odd. Ash lets just sit down and make some noise. Hopefully someone will find us soon.

*Ash clears her throat*

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.......

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
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Friday, April 3, 2009 7:52 AM

Yeah, come on up to the common room, TWG. We have actual edible snacks. Still no idea what's going on, but we have snacks!

Does anyone else hear singing?

OOC:
ASH! *attackhugs

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Friday, April 3, 2009 8:17 AM

Xan you really need to work on your harmony. You have no oompf!

Hey...this is a bit hard to do when we share lungs.

...oh right. Well, anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you

No, you can't

Yes, I can

No, you can't

Yes, I can

No, you can't

Yes, I can, yes, I can

No, you can't, no you can't, times infinity!

Xan, that's not how the song goes!

We're singing a song?

*Ash slaps Xander*

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

OOC:
Mai! Huggle!

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
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Friday, April 3, 2009 8:39 AM

I hear it, too, Mai.

It seems rather muffled. I wonder where it's coming from?

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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, April 3, 2009 8:45 AM

Oh good. I'm glad I'm not the only one that can hear the song. Sometimes the voices in my head seem to be louder than normal conversation.

*begins walking around the ship in the direction of the singing.

After about 10 minutes of walking the halls the singing seems to get louder.

*opens a storage room door than was never there before

That voice sounds so familiar. Xander/Ash is that you? What's with the sitting in the dark?

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Friday, April 3, 2009 9:06 AM

*Blinded by the sudden light, Ash/Xander blink the spots away

Mai!

*Ash/Xan jump up babbling

No idea what happened/ It was dark!/ Where are we?/ I think I saw a grue!/ I don't know where we've been/ But we are here now

*Ash bowls over Mai trying to give her a hug

Oops! Got any snacks? We're starved.

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
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Friday, April 3, 2009 9:33 AM

*falls in heap on the floor with Ash/Zan

Ouch. Nice to see you too!

Well I guess it doesn't matter where you came from. The important bit is that you are here now!

Of course we have snacks! And people are starting to rematerialize! Not that I think anyone actually dematieralized. Althoug come to think of it... Anyways more importantly we have snacks!

*Walks with Ash/Zan back to the common room.

Hey guys! Look who I found!

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Friday, April 3, 2009 11:22 AM

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! ....gasp.... bwahahaha!!

I think Ash/Zan just surpassed Abbott and Costello on my all time funniest comedy duo...err... single...err...

Ok, well they? just topped the list.

*wipes a laugh tear from his eye*

Man that was funny... "we were singing?" snort.

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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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Friday, April 3, 2009 2:03 PM

Hmm. It's normally traditional when two people sing Anything You Can Do for at least one of them to be right.

Oooo, my evil side is still around - fantastic!

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Friday, April 3, 2009 3:45 PM

I'm always right/No way I am!

*Ash and Xander stare at the snacks..both seemingly in deep thought.

ooo Wagon Wheels.

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
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Saturday, April 4, 2009 9:19 AM

Ash/Zan! Great to see you again!

I'm glad it seems everyone is coming out of the woodwork. Or, should I say closet?

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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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Sunday, April 5, 2009 12:11 PM

Maybe we should go and check all the closets? Perhaps they all lead to other dimensions where the tree people have been hiding for these many months?

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Monday, April 6, 2009 3:42 AM

Not a bad idea, Mai!

At least we know the cleaning supply closet is cleared. I was already in there earlier and there were no 'TREEers...

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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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Monday, April 6, 2009 5:16 AM

Did you check inside the mop bucket? Some of us are very good hiderers.

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Monday, April 6, 2009 6:35 AM

No, I didn't Simon.

You can, if you like!

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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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Monday, April 6, 2009 11:43 AM

Don't tell me the buckets are bigger on the inside too?!

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 10:06 AM

*Ash looks around, chocolate covering her face.

Mmm, anyone think to check for lifeforms?

Yeah maybe the computer/ship doohickey can look for people. You never know what we could find.

Great idea Xan! Lets go find a computer station. I like messing around with buttons. Like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get when you just start pushing flashing red buttons.

Ooo chocolate!

No you moron it is just a saying.

Oh.

Lets go. Maybe we will find some others during our explorations.

*Xan quickly stuffs several Wagon Wheels in her pocket.

Ok I'm ready Ash.

To Infinity and Beyond!

*Ash/Xan runs straight into the door.

Damn it....stupid non-automatic opening door.

*Looking around, Ash/Xan opens the door and quickly slides out.

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:30 AM

Ash/Zan! Wait a sec! Mind if I tag along?

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:03 PM

*Ash/Xan poke their heads back 'round the door.

Sure!/Of Course!

3 sets of eyes are better then 2!

Mai, you wouldn't happen to know how to get a scanner to find quasi-sentient inter-dimentional beings in a localized entropic field or in a spatio-temporal hyperlink where we could use tensor dynamics to focus a...

You're making that up!

No I'm not!

You have no idea what you're doing and you are just using technobabble crap to cover it up!

Oh shut up. Come on Mai lets go have fun.

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Ash
Vice President of the Juggled Gosling
**********

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 2:41 PM

Quote:
Mai, you wouldn't happen to know how to get a scanner to find quasi-sentient inter-dimentional beings in a localized entropic field or in a spatio-temporal hyperlink where we could use tensor dynamics to focus a

Of course I do. What a silly question. It's easy as pie!

* whispering on Comms
Hey Simon! Do you know how to "get a scanner to find quasi-sentient inter-dimentional beings in a localized entropic field or in a spatio-temporal hyperlink where we could use tensor dynamics to focus" ?

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 1:43 PM

Sure, you just need to set the neuron filters to medium, the multiverse stabilisers to a varying frequency between 7 and 823,321,522 mhz, narrow the stablisation parameters as tight as you can without burning yourself while adding a chroniton particle every 0.5 seconds.

It's that or yell "Yoo hoo, anyone there?" They can't help themselves but respond.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 3:25 PM

Whilst screaming, "Yoo hoo, anyone there", misses adding a chroniton particle by 0.1 seconds.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 6:20 PM

Uh huh. *shakes head confuzed

Now that's all cleared up.....
On with the fun!

Ummm... what sort of fun are we hunting?

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Friday, April 10, 2009 4:16 AM

Wabbit fun?

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Friday, April 10, 2009 7:29 AM

You were going to find out if there are crew hiding in closets!

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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, April 10, 2009 9:02 AM

Oh right! Off to hunt down the bunnies.... err um people. beople? punnies? pennies? buple?

*sings
Little Bunny Foo Foo floatin' through the black...

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Friday, April 10, 2009 5:58 PM

Don't check this particular bucket. It's not bigger on the inside... no siree.

Just your plain ol' mop bucket. No big screen T.V. not surrounded by leather recliners. There's no fridge full of cold drinks or pantry filled with snacks.

Nope not at all. And definitely no Blue-ray sci fi collection prominently featuring the Firefly box set.

Nope. Just a plain bucket. Yup.

Just little ol' me...well...ummm... I'm not here, forget I said anything.

*emulates Twilight Zone intro* Doodly doodly doo... just a figment of your imagination... doodly doodly doo...

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"Not a bunny... I think. Besides, isn't it duck season?"

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:36 AM

TheRealMe stirs in his recliner, reaches over to open another cold one, and turns to his right. "Safe! Quit muttering to yourself and put in the next disc!"

To himself: "Wow. The acoustics in this bucket are AMAZING!"

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 5:20 PM

"They are aren't they?"

*phssssst...glug..glug...*

"Ahhhh..."

*Puts in the next disc*

_______________________________________________________________
"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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Monday, April 13, 2009 4:32 AM

**jake7 flips on her comm**

Hey, Mai! Any luck finding any other crew hiding in closets or buckets?

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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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Monday, April 13, 2009 6:16 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Ow...um, has anyone seen the left half of my shirt?

______________________

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."

I'm blogging about the novel I'm writing! Stay informed, and keep me inspired! Please!

http://havenofsouls.blogspot.com/

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Monday, April 13, 2009 6:59 AM

Something flutters downs from above draping itself over Safe's head.

Removing the offending object, he examines it from under a quirked eyebrow before handing it to TRM.

"Say... this belong to you? kinda looks like halfa shirt...."

_______________________________________________________________
"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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Monday, April 13, 2009 4:16 PM

Sorry, Jake no luck yet. Although we haven't looked through all the buckets yet.

As a matter of fact, there is one over in this corner emanating a strange noise. It almost sounds like people talking...

*lifts up the bucket and shakes it upside down

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:06 PM

*Hear crashing and shouting*

TRM: What was that?

Safe (shrugs): Prolly those dead-heads next bucket over. They're always being rowdy and such.

_______________________________________________________________
"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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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:43 PM

Several unkown people and piles of furniture and books and things fall out of the bucket.

Ooops. Sorry about that. Don't mind me...

*on comm
Jake, there are people in the buckets! I repeat there are people in the buckets! There are a lot of buckets though we might need some help here sorting out the ones with inhabitants and the ones without.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:02 PM

"AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaah!!!" TheRealMe comments as he falls out of the bucket and lands on the floor. The giant plasma TV lands on top of him.

"Ouch!" he adds.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:21 PM

The Man They Call Soul...

"There's the rest of my shirt!"

______________________

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."

I'm blogging about the novel I'm writing! Stay informed, and keep me inspired! Please!

http://havenofsouls.blogspot.com/

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:06 PM

TRM! ARe you ok? I'm so sorry!

*on comms
Ummm Simon, we may require your assitance down the north corridor. I may have accidentally given the Captain a concussion.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:45 PM

Outside of the influence of the bucket, TheRealMe grows to normal size. "Don't worry, Mai. I'm okay. Heh. Rat invented that shrinking technology long, long ago."

The giant television also grows to normal size, pinning him to the deck. "Ugh! But if you could get Sparky to lift this thing off of me, that would be great!"

TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by mai:
Several unkown people and piles of furniture and books and things fall out of the bucket.

Ooops. Sorry about that. Don't mind me...

*on comm
Jake, there are people in the buckets! I repeat there are people in the buckets! There are a lot of buckets though we might need some help here sorting out the ones with inhabitants and the ones without.

**jake7 abruptly stops what she's doing and stares at the comm for a second. She presses the "talk" button and says incredulously**

There are? How on Earth-that-still-is did they get in the buckets. Better yet WHY are they in buckets?!?!

Who is in the buckets?

I don't expect you to just know the answer these questions, Mai, but maybe you could ask the bucket people for the answers?

Where are you? I'll come as soon as I can to help you.

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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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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:55 PM

Jake, I'm not sure of the how or the why. It appears as though someone has applied Time Lord tech to the buckets. I sort of accidentally tipped one over and TRM fell out!

We are down the north corridor past the common room and around the corner from that weird room that no one can ever get into. There must be hundreds of buckets all piled up down here. I'm not sure what to do really as I don't want to cause anyone else harm by shaking them. Maybe I'd better knock on them first?

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM

**hits the comm talk button**

I'll be right there Mai.

**After a few minutes, Jake7 meets up with Mai and surveys the tons of buckets that are littering the place.**

I wonder where all these buckets came from? Seems like a bit of overkill for cleaning, don'tcha think?

We've got to remember to watch our step so we don't step on our crew!

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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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