Save a series of items to a sequence.

        Args:
            items (tuple): The series of items to save into the sequence.

        Returns:
            The index of the first item

def save(self, items):
        '''
        Save a series of items to a sequence.

        Args:
            items (tuple): The series of items to save into the sequence.

        Returns:
            The index of the first item
        '''
        rows = []
        indx = self.indx

        size = 0
        tick = s_common.now()

        for item in items:

            byts = s_msgpack.en(item)

            size += len(byts)

            lkey = s_common.int64en(indx)
            indx += 1

            rows.append((lkey, byts))

        self.slab.putmulti(rows, append=True, db=self.db)
        took = s_common.now() - tick

        origindx = self.indx
        self.indx = indx
        return {'indx': indx, 'size': size, 'count': len(items), 'time': tick, 'took': took}

        return origindx