Overdue Learning

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"I apologize for not being clear about the instructions"

Who taught him pyrokinesis? What kind of pyrokinesis user would know only one, knowing the other one is mostly a reverse process of it? I shall show him cryo and why I would typically teach both items as package deals in the same session, she thought, puzzled at what [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] had to say about his experience in pyro/cryo. With that in mind, she went into the kitchen of the temple to get powdered soft ice cream, as well as two cups to hold the ice cream in, while leaving him to his own devices to train in tutaminis, and realizing the remote got stunned by a few hits, and also that the tutaminis demonstration was what allowed him to pick up the pieces. She knew the remote won't last too long if he actually succeeded in reflecting stun-levels of fire using tutaminis, so she would probably stop the drill out of concern for the device upon return, and deactivate the remote she did when she returned with the bowls and ice cream in tow, also feeling that the student's batteries have been steadily decreasing. She wanted him to have some energy left for the final lesson of the day, cryokinesis, while she arrayed the cups, with the contents of the powdered ice cream being split into the two cups.

"That's enough for tutaminis practice: at this rate the remote will fail. There is one final lesson I want you to have for today, especially since you mentioned not knowing cryokinesis. I typically use pyrokinesis and cryokinesis for cooking, so cryokinesis is the last lesson of the day. Essentially cryokinesis is the reverse process of pyrokinesis, in that you take away thermal energy from the target object, cooling it down. Sometimes you will realize that, in cryokinesis, and you likely had realized as much with pyrokinesis, the item's temperature will plateau for a bit until it starts changing again, with the item typically undergoing a phase transition. So, in effect, you may wish to slow down the ice cream molecules in your cup, unless you want me to make a demonstration on my cup?"

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

He hadn't said once that she hadn't been clear, so he wasn't sure what he did wrong to indicate it, but he just kind of shrugged his shoulders in turn. It looked like he'd done some damage to the remote though, just out of battling instinct, and Jyoti was probably going to ride his.... Hello!... For this, but alas... He didn't mind moving to training cyrokinesis. He supposed he'd reached a point in training Barrier and Tutaminis that practice was going to dictate the rest, and she probably didn't feel that he needed her for that. Which was fine, of course. And he supposed that if he was to learn anything new still, it was now, before he would tire.

"A demonstration would be appreciated" He spoke. It was how he'd learned pyrokinesis... From some weird carney dude teaching tricks to passing Padawans. Josh had taken it and refined it to his own ends over the years though, and was a master of the form at this point. Cyrokinesis though... He'd never tried it.

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

So Jessica then proceeded to concentrate on slowing down the powdered ice cream molecules' rotational speed (since the powdered ice cream was a liquid, if a rather visquous one, called powdered because it has the texture of a powder despite its liquid nature) by taking away their thermal energy, inside her cup filled with the powdered ice cream, with said ice cream steadily cooling down before reaching a temperature plateau. She realized that what the latent energy she has been talking about earlier is about how much energy it takes to activate, or take away, the extra degrees of molecular kinetic freedom associated with a phase, long before she even discovered her Force-sensitivity, much less using pyro/cryo in the first place. Which, admittedly, only a handful of Jedi would actually know about, and [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] was perhaps a little unfamiliar with statistical mechanics but he couldn't exactly be faulted. But now that the ice cream has turned into a solid, after spending some time in a temperature plateau of 0 Celsius, the demonstration was over, and was just the reverse of how she went around doing pyro.

"Before you eat the ice cream contained in your cup, try taking the thermal energy out of the powdered ice cream until it freezes"

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

You know, he was curious... The Tutaminis she taught seemed to just be Force Barrier with a different variation result, why was it even given a different name? The concept of that puzzled him, it just almost seemed... Too easy. He could understand how he learned Force Barrier so quickly, he had experience with the maneuver in the past and had practiced some aspects but had never finished it until now. Something told him that Tutaminis wasn't so easy... Perhaps after this, he would consult with a few other Tutaminis trainers to ensure that he wasn't just overthinking this, something that the Jedi did fairly often and he knew this. It would be good to at least put his mind to ease, if anything. He had a meeting with [member="Allyson Locke"] later for a promise he'd made her regarding melee combat... Perhaps she might know someone? She was well connected. But for now, it was best to get back to finishing this lesson.

Eating ice cream? He could dig this as a training exercise. He ate it pretty constantly considering it was his son's favorite treat. So this worked.

So he saw her do... Something, but the rest of what she was saying kind of went over his head. "I'm sorry, what?"

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"Pyrokinesis is about increasing an object's temperature, while cryokinesis is the reverse of that. Whereas in pyrokinesis you're giving an object thermal energy, that is, heating it up, the reverse process cools down an object, so pyrokinesis is, in fact, reversible"

That is why I usually teach those things in the same session, she thought, while knowing that any violation of the second law of thermodynamics implies the usage of the Force. And, on occasion, the second law of thermodynamics could have caused a padawan's mind or two to lock up after learning one of the two, although she knew from experience that only a handful of paddies would actually learn thermodynamics prior to learning pyro/cryo. [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] might not have fully understood what the demonstration was about, but then again, thermal energy was proportional to its temperature in a given phase, and also that specific heat, that is, the energy required to heat up or cool down an object made of a given material by one unit of temperature per unit of mass, was phase-dependent, and also temperature-dependent and pressure-dependent even though most FUs operated at STP. This session was a painful reminder to her that, no matter what one knew about the likely audience, it was not a straightforward thing to actually adjust the lesson content to the audience, and hence didn't feel so great about eating the ice cream in her cup.

"Now, the demonstration I made earlier on the other ice cream cup was about reversing pyrokinesis"

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

"So... What you're telling me is that pyrokinesis involves rubbing and heating air molecules together, while cyrokinesis involves drawing heat away from it, taking energy, to cool it down?" He would inquire, taking a breath. "Well, okay!"

The Jedi Master would think it over a moment, thinking about how the other Jedi had told him that it was done in compliment with pyrokinesis... Hmm... What if...

Josh would hold out a hand, and ignite a fireball in his hands. Closing his eyes, he would focus on trying to drain the heat from it. It took a fair bit of strain, but with her advice in mind, he would manage to cool it to the point that the fireball froze solid, becoming a piece of frozen, solid matter that he could touch, she could touch, anyone could touch. Tossing it up and down in the air a bit, he promptly threw it at the wall, where it would shatter.

"Huh. Neat."

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"Yes"

[member="Josh DragonsFlame"] was, in fact, using cryokinesis as one would in its weaponized state: hurling balls of ice. And yet, while hurling balls of ice was one thing, cooking using cryokinesis was another. He seemed so used to weaponized pyrokinesis that he thought weaponizing cryo was easier than using it for cooking; I could tell that he has some experience in weaponizing pyrokinesis. If self-reliance meant trivializing the Force, so be it, she thought, while the ball of ice shattered on the wall, and ice shards were flying all over the room thanks to the sheer force at which the ball of ice hit. But only a few small pieces landed into the ice cream cup; while that may lower the ice cream's temperature somewhat, it was not enough to get the ice cream to solidify. She was done eating her ice cream shortly thereafter, so Josh may as well eat his serving before leaving. Plus it was about time that he could see the relationship between the two powers. That was why it was overdue to her. She seemed happy about this session, and she would probably wish to see him eat the ice cream before it ends...

"You may now attempt to do that to the ice cream in your cup and then eat its contents once you're done. We'll call it a day after that"

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

Well, he was a combat-centric Jedi. What did she expect? He was the Order's Battlemaster, a lightsaber and combat ability instructor. That was his thing. Of course he was going to try to weaponize cyrokinesis, especially if he could already shoot fireballs and use them as a test subject. Either way, she had given her instructions and he would nod his head as he would focus on the melting ice cream in the cup. As he would drain the heat from it, the ice cream would freeze up. It was a bit too frigid and had a bunch of ice in it for his tastes now, but he would casually begin to eat from it, trying not to get stuck on ice shards, or by god, get his tongue stuck.

"Well, that went well."

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"Thank you for your understanding and patience"

OK, [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] might have turned the ice cream into something that was rather frigid. But Jessica cautioned against any further lessons, feeling that it was best not to teach too many things in one session, especially not given the finiteness of the learner's energy pool. Yet he seemed to be willing to eat ice cream borne out of cryokinesis and, as a result, he realized what kind of ice cream he was, in fact, eating. And it was clear to him now how pyrokinesis was related to cryokinesis; Jessica knew for years that Jedi would get more out of their training by learning sets of powers as bundles. She also knew that it was the sort of power where finesse was often acquired by training a given power as early as it was safely possible, especially when it came to stuff like pyro/cryo, even more so when one wanted to learn Force-healing, although such was not the case with its complimentary power, Detoxify Poison. So she seemed somewhat satisfied with the outcome, but she would in fact call it a day with Josh. With that said, she'd rather at least do the customary closing:

"Have a good day"