Re: Tree Mendous

Who: Joe Craggins
When: After tree mendous
Where: Medibay
Joe stared as a big pink tree bounced into the room, rustling its
leaves. It came over to Joe and began rustling. A nearby nurse, who
Joe didn't recognise said "Its just helping out, its extremely
clever." Joe gave it the beneift of the doubt and sat up. The tree
immediently began pounding his pillows with its branches and rustled
again. The nurse translated "It plumped up your pillows for you",
Joe addressed the tree "Erm, thank you" he said, feeling silly
talking to a tree. The tree swayed in what seemed to be a nod and
bounced off. Joe sank back against the pillow into sure luxury,
thinking that the pillows were plumped up better than a human could
and went to sleep.
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "lucky_coincidence"
<phil_crestor@...> wrote:
>
> Who: The Big Pink Tree
> Where: The Blue Dwarf (I can't narrow it down any more)
> When: After returning from New Paris
> ===============================
>
> The Big Pink Tree merrily bounced its way along one of the lower
> corridors in the ship. It was vaguely aware, in its haze of
goodwill
> to all men, women and plants, that it had been along this corridor
a
> while ago helping the Most Wonderful Creature In The World with
> something. The Tree had never quite got used to referring to Keto
as
> anything other than The Most Wonderful Creature In The World. He'd
> created it (admittedly by accident) and so he was, to the Tree,
its world.
>
> The Tree was oblivious to the fact that Keto did not like this.
>
> It bounced along the corridor with vague memories of assisting The
> Most Wonderful Creature In The World with opening a door, or a
hatch
> or a machine or something. The Tree wasn't very good at
> distinguishing inorganic objects. It thought they were all rocks.
>
> Finally it found its way into an X-Press Lift and tapped the button
> for the medibay's floor with a thin branch. The lift whirred, and
the
> inflight warning videos began to play. The Tree ignored them,
> rustling to itself.
>
> Many minutes later, the doors swished open and the Tree exited,
> bounding excitedly along the corridor and into the
medibay...which, it
> discovered, was very, very full of people.
>
> It rustled to itself for a bit as it looked around, unable to see
the
> Most Wonderful Creature In The World amongst the crowd. It did see
> Tara in the far corner, holding a book in one hand and trying to
make
> notes from it while simultaneously trying to examine one of the
many
> patients jostling around her.
>
> The Tree decided its services were needed urgently!
>
> It quickly bounced over to one of the nearby cabinets and began to
> pull out different medications - oddly, one of the things the Tree
> *was* good at was recognising which of the Most Wonderful Creature
In
> The World's ointments did what.
>
> Then, quickly, it began to bounce around, treating the less
severely
> damaged patients with the ointments at its disposal.
>
> =============
> OOC: Okay, anybody in the medibay who wants to be treated by a
giant,
> bouncing, pink Tree, feel free. Bear in mind that it can't speak
> (except by rustling), and that only medical staff can understand
it.
> It's fairly intelligent for a plant, though. ;)
>