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Faction I Just Happen To Have A Chance Cube Here (any Jedi)

If Jacen was interested to see how Serya would work with another master, he was absolutely fascinated to watch how she would work with another student.

He hadn't expected Serya to have such an appetite for learning. Slowly, he was learning to stop having expectations for how she would behave. To get on with teaching her.

Jacen turned to Jend-Ro.

"So if you wanted to mess with a game of cards...it would be too late when the deck was down right? At that point the cards are in their places and you'd have to cheat more conventionally?"

The war hero seemed very focused on cheating at cards.
 
Jacen Voidstalker Jacen Voidstalker

"As I understand it, yes. Which is why when a skilled Suerton gambler walks into a casino, the effect is already present in some degree, consciously or not - so the cards are as they should be before the game begins. Think of it less like a trick in the moment and more like the equivalent of an attention-deflecting aura or an ongoing Sith aura of fear." He scratched his ear absently, thinking about other ongoing auras and effects - the fictional 'infinite improbability field' for one. "Good luck, if you want to see it that way, applies to a whole situation, as a foundation to any single event. Does that make sense?"
 

Serya Talith

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Bast...ion?

She had studied a good deal with Jacen over the basics. Control. Breathe. Calm. Lift things-- no just the rock. Feth, put the tree down. Don't panic. Breath. Control.

These were the words that had made up her journey over the last few months, and they had grown into a comfortable boundary of what to expect. Imperial, siege, bastion, sith? Serya's eyes widened ever so slightly as Auteme spoke.

Jacen would definitely be facing questions later.

She listened though. As closely as she read the feeble texts inside his ship, she paid attention and she absorbed. She huffed softly as Auteme patted the dice, encouraging her to try again. What's the worse that could happen?

She was sure Auteme didn't want the answer to that question.

She pursed her lips, closing her hand over the cubes. Right. It means nothing. It's just colors. What did she care? She tossed it out, the die turning end over end until.... red.

He breath escaped her in a huff, her shoulders dropping. "It's ok," she dismissed immediately, a smidge of guilt at the effort wasted.

"I've never needed luck before. I don't need it now." She yanked her sleeves down over her palms, gesturing absently. They weren't words of pity or defeat. She called the dice back to her, frowning at it before throwing it out again.

The force tugged subtly over the edged. Blue. She smiled wrly. "This is easier, anyway."

Auteme Auteme
 
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Jacen Voidstalker Jacen Voidstalker

"As I understand it, yes. Which is why when a skilled Suerton gambler walks into a casino, the effect is already present in some degree, consciously or not - so the cards are as they should be before the game begins. Think of it less like a trick in the moment and more like the equivalent of an attention-deflecting aura or an ongoing Sith aura of fear." He scratched his ear absently, thinking about other ongoing auras and effects - the fictional 'infinite improbability field' for one. "Good luck, if you want to see it that way, applies to a whole situation, as a foundation to any single event. Does that make sense?"

"No," he replied plainly with a shake of his head. He had been arrogant and lazy at school up until he dropped out for the Jedi academy and then he had been thrown out of there.

He was enjoying the training anyway. It had been a long time since he had sat down and tried to learn something new.

"But I'm going to try and stop thinking about it and roll some more chance cubes," he chuckled.
 
Jacen Voidstalker Jacen Voidstalker

"Probably the best approach," Quill chuckled. "The less you get stuck in your own head, the better it works, eh?"

He pivoted to Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri and her question. "If it did, how could you be keeping chalk from breaking? I've done that exercise a hundred times and I have no idea what the normal odds are that it won't break. One time in ten? Fifty? No, you don't need me to tell you the odds to use the technique. But you still need to understand that the less likely the event, the harder it is to influence."

That wasn't a direct linear relationship, though, which got at the heart of the situation versus event thing he'd tried and failed to explain. If two blasters fired at you, each with half a chance of missing, the chance that both of them would miss was one out of four. That uncompromising exponent scaled up nastily the more blasters were involved. But there had been occasional times - I am one with the Force and the Force is with me - when Quill had walked through blizzards of weapons fire pretty much unharmed despite exponential odds. Between that experience and the repeated jackpots of the legendary Suerton gamblers called the Lucky Three, Quill was fairly sure the Force overruled those odds at some point.

Since most Suertons did all this unconsciously, Quill was also fairly sure that he and Auteme understood Force-based probability manipulation as well as anyone alive. But there were still many, many question marks.
 
if they're watching anyways
"That's fair," she said, again giving an encouraging smile. She respected the girl for deciding her own limits. Even so, she'd come all this way -- why not try a little longer?

Auteme wandered off, watching the others practice. A little doubt wiggled its way into her mind the more she watched. The results were mixed, after all. She approached Master Quill, waiting for a lull in his teaching to speak to him for a moment.

"Do you think the lack of... 'real stakes' affects the manipulation? I mean, it makes it much easier to practice, because you can detach yourself from the result without worrying much. But it could also be holding you back, like... the Force decides the result really doesn't matter, and so it doesn't change anything for you." A paradox of sorts -- one had to believe that the result didn't matter, all the while the Force needed to decide that the result mattered. She hadn't encountered the problem herself, but she'd used it in more dangerous situations than not.

"Maybe I'm being silly," she said, smirking. "Maybe everything matters."

The idea that something greater than her would choose what mattered and what didn't was both a comfort and a terrifying prospect.
 
Quill grimaced. "You have a point. Let's see...can you hold the fort for five minutes? I'll be right back."

Four and a half minutes later, he returned to the cozy library bearing a basket of training remotes. Their little stinger blasts wouldn't so much as singe a book's cover - but nobody liked getting hit. The dull gray spheres bobbed out of the basket and hovered around the room, waiting for the signal from Quill's datapad.

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"These are standard Jedi training remotes," he said to the room. "I've seen them used to practice lightsaber work, Force shields, precognitive instinct, Force speed, telekinesis, even energy manipulation. Please don't do any of that." He tapped a few options on the datapad. "I've skewed their accuracy a touch. If you don't figure out the basics of affecting probability, maybe you'll get zapped, maybe you won't. It's a chaotic environment and there could be stinger bolts coming from any direction. Go on, let's try it."

Auteme Auteme Serya Talith Jacen Voidstalker Jacen Voidstalker Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri
 

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Serya had stopped rolling.

She didn't much like those dice, nor the point of this lesson. There was nothing new about that-- She often gave Jacen trouble for not teaching her just the thing she wanted. She still thought she could barter what she did and didn't learn. One might even say she didn't understand the levity of the place they were in.

The force had been nothing more than a tool of survival for the girl. The term Jedi, surely, didn't apply to either one of them. It did to the training objects brought in. The old man rattled out abilities whose names she hadn't even heard of.

Don't use them.

Not a problem.

She leaned forward, giving the closest sphere a curious look as he explained the rest. A snort caught in her nose. "You won't zap us," she challenged, a smile caught on her lips at the dismissal. The sassy look slipped to Jacen, expecting validation.

Jacen Voidstalker Jacen Voidstalker Auteme Auteme Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri Jend-Ro Quill Jend-Ro Quill
 
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Jacen decided to take the chalk. He turned one over in his hands. He could feel the fragility there. No insight into the future was required to know that it was destined to break when he dropped it.

Holding it up between finger and thumb by the tip, Jacen let go.

It stopped itself a centimetre before the floor. He stopped it a centimetre before the floor. With a sigh, he resigned himself to the fact that such an abstract lesson was going to play out much more easily for the younger students in the room.

"These are standard Jedi training remotes," he said to the room. "I've seen them used to practice lightsaber work, Force shields, precognitive instinct, Force speed, telekinesis, even energy manipulation. Please don't do any of that." He tapped a few options on the datapad. "I've skewed their accuracy a touch. If you don't figure out the basics of affecting probability, maybe you'll get zapped, maybe you won't. It's a chaotic environment and there could be stinger bolts coming from any direction. Go on, let's try it."

If he couldn't drop a chalk without cheating, he was certainly going to struggle when he knew he was going to get zapped. Holding up his hands he took a few steps back and pressed against the wall.

"I'll...let them give this a go first.

"No cheating," he said to Serya. He grinned at her and wagged a finger.
 
If he couldn't drop a chalk without cheating, he was certainly going to struggle when he knew he was going to get zapped. Holding up his hands he took a few steps back and pressed against the wall. "I'll...let them give this a go first."

"If you want," said Quill quietly, eyes on the younger set and the buzzing remotes, "I'll send you home with some of my notes and research materials. I learn best when I sit and mull over things on my own time. Maybe that approach will get you some traction." He twitched his bristly beard toward Serya. "The girl - your Padawan? How long has she been a Jedi?"
 
"I am not sure I would say Serya is a Jedi yet at all," Jacen replied. "Not to say she isn't skilled, she is perhaps more powerful than my son. Stubborn too, potentially very dangerous."

Jacen rubbed the back of his neck and grimaced. There enough enough parallels there. He couldn't say that he had succeeded in getting any sense into his own son.

"It's just I haven't been digging into Jedi teachings as such. Just the basics for the last month. She was using the Force without training when I found her."
 
Quill nodded, still watching Serya out of the corner of his eye. "Early days, then. She certainly seems to have a good deal of fire - the sort of girl who could go any which way depending on what teacher she finds. I tend to see more value in potential students like her than in the...let's say 'traditionally good' ones who'd probably never wind up as Sith anyway. And once students like her start to commit, far as I've ever seen they commit hard.

"Have you taken her to a proper temple yet? There's quite a few these days."

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Oh they were gonna zap her.

Seyra scrambled up, tension hitting her shoulders as she look quickly around the floating devices. "Super solider train- youch!" The first beam shot out and, as luck would not have it, got her square in the shoulder. She clasped at the harmless singe, the faint smell of burnt fibers tickling her nose, and shot Jacen another look of horror from across the room.


Because clearly, he was responsible for this.

Also the butt had bowed out and left her to all the damage, the weasel.

The rest of the devices whirled almost silently, winding up before unleashing the chaos. It really shouldn't have come as a surprise to Serya. The old man had told her what they would do. The space came alit by a flurry of red beams, shooting haphazardly around the two girls left to die.

Serya, with none of the grace of a solider nor the calm of a jedi, lost her shit. She jerked to the left, intercepting a shot to the foot. She scrambled back, falling on one to her butt. All one had to do was stand still breathe, but Serya, for all her hidden education, went blank. It was like running through rain-- the more surface area you move through, the more you get hit.

"Son of a--" A droid turned, its haphazard beam suddenly looping right for her face. The dice flew up, catching the shot and clattering to her feet.

"Stop it," she snapped at the droid. It whirled and shot again.
 
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"Where would you suggest?" Jacen asked quite seriously. "I don't want her taken somewhere near the front lines. Not somewhere a Jedi Master might think it a good idea to send her to war."

Jacen watched Serya scrambling about. He chewed on the inside of his cheek as he felt her building frustration.

"What I haven't done is show her around a training drone yet...this might be a little much. Could you turn that one off?"

He raised a hand. The drone harassing Serya suddenly stopped. It twisted a fraction so that none of the weapon ports were facing towards her.

"Want me to have a go first?" he called out to her.
 

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Serya glowered at the droid, whose shot had aimed far and wide as programed --not even for her-- .

'Want me to have a go first?'

The force wrapped over the droid, whipping it towards Jacen's head at a speed that would dent walls. Unintentionally, of course. The belated widening of her eyes as it flung away promised him that much.

That was, um... that was a yes...
 
"I've got a temple and enclave roster you could look at," he said, calling up the old file on his datapad. (Far too much of being a Jedi Master required a datapad these days, but he couldn't see a way around it.) "The list is a couple of years out of date, but it might give you some ideas."

He heaved a sigh for the lost OPA. "There's some lovely spots here in what was OPA space - Binaros is a nice quiet enclave, for one. I heard from a few sources that there's a little enclave hidden on Cato Neimoidia which might suit you. I know a good few of these are in CIS space now - Rannon, Sullust - not sure what their status is. Corellia...Corellia has a couple of good safe options as well."

At Jacen's request, Quill nodded and tapped his datapad. The drone went dead in midair. A heartbeat later it accelerated toward Jacen - and ran into a quick, clumsy Force grip from Quill. He made a little 'heh' sound under his breath and wasn't sure if that was amusement or surprise or effort, maybe all three. The kid was strong.

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Interpret IC as needed:
PlanetLinkCreatorTerritorySizeStructure still standing?Active site?Hidden?Training specialties?
Denebahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-jedi-enclave-of-deneba.96621/ArenaisCISLargeYesYes
Monasteryhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/jedi-temple-of-monastery.120198/RiaCISMediumYesYesHealing
Alderaanhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-alderaan-jedi-temple.92841/GarithContestedLargeYesYesForging, holocron creation, alchemy
UnknownUnsubbedTacitusEternal EmpireYesYesHidden
Tythonhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/vur-tepe.106993/ArenaisGraysonLargeYesNoForging, alchemy
Tythonhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/stav-kesh.106037/#post-1624218ArenaisGraysonLargeYesNoControl, martial arts
Coruscanthttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/new-essonia.131363/GraysonGraysonLargeYesYes
Coruscanthttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/coruscant-jedi-temple.105685/TaeliGraysonLargeNoNoHealing, artifact containment
Jutrandhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-jutrand-jedi-academy.119902/ArenaisNoneLargeYesYesScience, piloting, lightsaber
Rannonhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-rannon-jedi-temple.119433/ArenaisNoneLargeYesYesScience, piloting, lightsaber
Eira Pechalhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/eira-pechal.110573/MarielNoneSmallYesYes
Atrisiahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/xiwangmu-temple-complex.100831/#post-1569471HissNoneLargeYesNoMatukai combat
Nadiemhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/nadiem-jedi-enclave.103760/Kian KarrNoneSmallYesNoHidden
Eclipse asteroid belthttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/eclipse-jedi-base.127806/Kian KarrNoneMediumYesNoHiddenPiloting, zero-g combat
Sabarenehttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/aberash-temple.35715/ManuNoneMediumYesYes
IktotchUnsubbedOrdoNoneSmallYesYesHidden
Hothhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-hoth-enclave.24389/QuillNoneSmallYesYesHidden
H'ratthUnsubbedRomiNoneSmallYesYes
N/Ahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/exis-temple-station.69625/SynNoneLargeYesNo
N/Ahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/peace-the-jedi-space-station.133592/WyattNoneLargeYesYesHidden
Hyu-Ken Carkahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/ghurkani-temple.98318/YuroicNoneSmallYesNoHidden
Svivrenhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-jedi-enclave-of-svivren.127689/ArenaisOPAMediumYesYesHiddenMeditative internal abilities
Sullusthttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/jedi-sentinel-training-center-sullust.103639/CorenOPASmallYes?HiddenSentinels, personal combat
Binaroshttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-temple-of-binaros.77579/Sor-JanOPASmallYesYesHidden
Corelliahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/temple-de-uhl-verta-chielo-the-corellian-jedi-temple.82949/SedaireRepublicLargeYesNoHiddenPiloting
Corelliahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-saber-coronet-city-jedi-enclave.133648/post-1872992GilamarRepublicMediumYesYes
Cato Neimoidiahttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-cato-neimoidia-temple.28898/MicahSilversSmallYes?Hidden
Kashyyykhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/silver-rest-sjo-temple-kashyyyk.100283/KitraSilversLargeYesYes
Commenorhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-commenor-jedi-enclave.119078/Sor-JanSilversMediumYesYes
Alaris Primehttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/the-alaris-temple.105402/Sor-JanSilversSmallYesYesHiddenPadawan teams
Ruusanhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/vatsu-location-contest.103620/#post-1597827SynSilversLargeYesNo
Commenorhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/temple-of-the-unifying-force.125702/ZarkSilversLargeYesYesForging
Ruusanhttps://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/our-sacred-lady-of-martyrs.121235/ZarkSilversSmallYesYesHidden
 

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