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Post by jedgi on Jan 8, 2010 21:39:15 GMT -5
Nik was sent into a vortex of painful memories, most of which he didn't even remember himself. He stood in the middle of field and looked up at the sky. Lightning was crashing against the ground everywhere, incinerating anything that it touched. Within a couple seconds the lightning was striking Nik himself. Nik howled in pain as it burnt his flesh and numbed his limbs, but it was relentless. No matter how much Nik cried out the lightning continued to lash out at him, it was driving him insane and he had only dealt with it for a few seconds.
'Rakurai's don't fear lightning,' a voice said within Nik's mind... Was it... his brothers? Nik let out one last shriek before Nachta woke him up from the Force Insanity.
With a shudder Nik shrugged off the dream and turned to answer Nachta's question. "Scourge of the Black Rider: Dullahan's Bane. Not that I would know how to bring forth such a use of force, but it is certainly the best. Lightning force form at it's finest, pure, sheer, power," Nik surprised himself at both the amount of information he was giving up about himself which he probably shouldn't be; and how his obsession with power was quickly growing among this company.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 8, 2010 21:45:16 GMT -5
Kan was hesitant but eventually said "wouldn't it be to move things with pure will? its the basics im pretty sure so if we wanna learn the other things, this should be our stepping stone."
Kan wasn't sure with his answer, seeing that he had only witnessed little bits of it. the fight outside the temple from earlier was possibly the first force 'fight' he had ever had. He just hoped Nachta wouldn't use that thing she would use what she used on The 'winged man' on him.
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Post by jedgi on Jan 9, 2010 0:11:48 GMT -5
Nik nodded his head with hesitance, the many armed boy was right, "I suppose that could be considered the most important... However the most powerful would certainly be anything pertaining to the lightning force form," Nik's eyes gleamed with the thought of such lightning at his disposal as he responded to Kan's answer.
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Post by DarkSaber on Jan 9, 2010 13:58:45 GMT -5
Ashley watched and listened as Lady Nachta told them not to try her patience and that when she was finished with them that they would be able to do all the abilities which a proper dark side user should be able to do or they would dead.
"What would you nerf herders think is the most important move that any Force user can do and why?"
Ashley listened as the other two students spoke about Force lightning being an example of importance. And then the other student spoke about pure will of using the Force to make things move around.
“Everyone knows that the Force itself is a powerful ally if you know how to use it properly,” she said. “Life creates it and makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. I think Sever Force would be the most important.”
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Post by Gamov on Jan 9, 2010 16:48:58 GMT -5
"What would you nerf herders think is the most important move that any Force user can do and why?"
The question struck a familiar chord in Janus. One that he could not help but relate with, at least on some small level. The mannerisms of the Sith before them, her tone, her icy disposition and her sense of disgust with their lowly status in comparison to her own. They reminded him of his old drill instructor at the Academy on Corulag, Field Marshal Creeve. He was a harsh man. Brutal in his words and down right punishing in his treatment of failure or incompetence. Now that the memory had occurred to him, perhaps the Marshal wasn't all that dissimilar from these Sith. Roughly half of the Cadets in his class ended up dropping the Officer training program because of him.... His own distinct way of weeding out the future prodigies from the failures. Much like the Sith.
Suddenly, Janus felt somewhat confident in himself. He had weathered Marshal Creeve's trials, even gained some valuable knowledge that had helped him along his path shortly after his graduation. Straightening his posture, Janus clasped his hands behind his back and offered the most candid answer he possibly could to the question.
"I am not particularly versed in the maneuvers of the Force, but if I understand it properly, given what limited interaction I have had with it thus far and from what I have seen and heard about it through my years, then it is no different than any weapon." He paused for a second, collecting his thoughts before continuing. "At the Academy, we were always taught to know our strength and our weaknesses, our habits and dispositions. And we were taught how to efficiently control these things to reign in the lust for control that inevitably comes with wielding power so that we may better serve the Empire. It is a fundamental rule that has remained unaltered through out military history that power breeds confidence, confidence breeds arrogance, and arrogance breeds defeat."
Taking a second to bow his head respectfully, Janus finished his thoughts. "If you would permit the comparison, it has always been essential for a commander to know the boundaries of his power and to never exceed his limitations, for doing so leads only to an inevitable fall. Perhaps the most important power or maneuver any being with power, be it the Force or otherwise, could possibly hope to achieve is a complete and unparalleled understanding of themselves. To understand yourself is to understand your power. To understand your power is to understand your limits. And to understand your limits is to understand how to effectively direct your power towards attaining victory."
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 9, 2010 18:09:28 GMT -5
Nachta looked at the rookies as they each gave their answer. In her mind all but the Ebranite did not give a correct answer to her question. "The Ebranite is the only one to produce one of the two correct answers. Telekinesis is one of the most important abilities that any Force user can learn. The other is mind control." She said giving the kid a slight smile and reward of a burst of positive emotions using her empathic abilities.
She extended her hand out and pointed at Nik. "Mitsukai. You disappoint me. You place importance of raw power which offers nothing in return. Power for power sack holds no importance." Nachta said waving her finger at him and using her empathic short burst of negative emotions as a punishment. She focused on the feeling of helplessness sense his drive for power was greater than his ability to think clearly.
She then turned and pointed to Ashley. "Human Female I pose a question to you to think about on your own. What good could come from cutting someone off from the Force. To kill them is just as easy or performing other tasks serves just as good as severing their connection. The ability lacks importance because it serves no use in practice." She said lower her head, she thought the female had the best chance of getting it right but she was wrong. She used her empathic short burst of negative emotions as a punishment, focusing on the feeling of loneliness for Ashley as she felt that being losing one’s connection to the Force was the end all.
She then turned to Junus and looked him in the eyes. "And you human male did not even answer my question. Even the child Ebranite could summon up an answer even not knowing the proper name of the ability or understand the Force." She looking at him and feeling bad she would have to punish such a good looking man. She used her empathic ability to project the negative emotion of failure on him, as he could not even perform such a simple task.
After about a minute of punishing the three students and rewarding Kan she stopped her empathic manipulation of them and figured it was time to move on. "Telekinesis and Mind Control are the bases for many abilities in the Force. Once one learns to do these abilities many more are possible. Follow me." Lady Nachta walked into the elevator and waited for the students to enter. Once they did she hit the button and the elevator took them to the ground floor of the Jedi.
Lady Nachta walked out and headed to the street she reached out with the Force and using mind control forced four people passing by to walk over to her. She quickly wiped their minds leaving nothing more than empty shell, neither truly alive but not died either. "These people well be your targets." She said calmly. She wanted them to get use to using living targets, taking peoples life as they used the Force. "I want you to close your eyes and reach out in the Force. Feel the way I manipulate it, for simply explaining the process is not enough.” Lady Nachta said as she helped each one of them make a connection to her. It was a very limited connection, only really feeling what she was doing in the Force.
Lady Nachta extended her hand and called on the Force flowing around the students. They then began to lift off the ground. It was only a constant push on the bottoms of their feet, like that of the force the ground pushed up on them. “Manipulating the Force to move an object is rather simple. As the Force flows throughout the galaxy it is everywhere. We simple alter the natural flow of the Force and it changes its form to what we wise.” Nachta found it hard to truly explain what she was doing in the Force, sense manipulating it was something that came from practice. It had become second nature to her, much like walking or breathing. She slowly let them down and placed them on the ground. “The intensity and precision you put into it determines the nature of what you want to do wither it is to lift a rock or pull down a building. Now I want you to hit your targets with a hard push. Give it a try and remember that your emotions help you focus on the Force. Find a reason to hate or love these these target, get mad or lust for blood. It is through emotions we truly can become one with the Force." Nachta said aroused at the idea of the power of emotions and hopes of getting sweet taste of her students. She expected that Nik and Ashley having already seen some abilities in the Force would be able to pick this up quicker then Kan and Janus. However Ashley did not poses the killer instinct of Janus so she may also have trouble attacking a living target.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 9, 2010 20:28:04 GMT -5
Kan was somewhat uneasy since all of the others besides nik had completely different answers. all of them older than kan, he felt that Lady Nachta was going to suck out his insides. Surprisingly enough Kan was the only one out of the group to get it right. A feeling of releif already filled his body when nachta gave him the uplifting emotions. He felt a burst of warmth that was very soothing to him. The feeling didn't last long but it was enough to keep a smile on the ebranites face.
When Lady Nachta went onto the elevator Kan followed. They got to ground level and walked out to the street. Kan was behind all of the taller when the were walking. As he watched Lady Nachta he payed close attention to what she was doing. he also tryed to feel through the force how he was being lifted. When he was set back down he listened to what Nachta said and the ebranite complied. He knew he had to incorporate his emotinos into what he was about to do. Kan remembered the vision that he had been put through earlier by cain. That vision made him feel as bad as he had possibly felt in a very long time.Kan put all six hands infront of him and started feeling the molecules of life force around him. Using the hate he had mustered; with all of the concentration the twelve year old could fatham, and with all of his might, he started to compress the force into a sphere of dark power. He launched the dark energy at the body and it knocked the body to the ground. The body rolled across the street actually bouncing the first few times. A bead of sweat rolled down his head, and stung once it hit his cut. Kan had just experianced the force and loved the feel however it was very tiring for him. He looked at Nachta as he hunched over and said "Done."
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Post by jedgi on Jan 9, 2010 21:06:50 GMT -5
Nik shuddered as the life was sucked out of him, every negative emotion that was possible to feel; he felt. Sadness, betrayal, apathy, sickness and much more; luckily it hadn't lasted too long.
Nik listened intently as Nachta explained what was to be done next. 'Killing lifeless, but breathing bodies,' Nik confirmed within his mind, 'shouldn't be too terrible I hope.' Realizing he was just standing still, thinking, Nik quickly turned to one of the breathing bodies. Drawing forth the hatred he felt for Nachta and Cain who was making him go through this pointless training with Nachta instead of immediately teaching Nik himself; he thrust his hand forward, the breathing body fell back and smashed into the ground as if it had been slammed in the stomach with a hammer. Relentless, Nik raised his hand up, and swatted it downward, bashing the body further into the ground of the street. Anger still freely flowing through him, Nik clenched his fist, creating a choking force around the breathing bodies' neck. A slight hacking sound was heard as Nik squeezed the life out of the breathing body. Once it was truly dead, Nik let his hand unclench and felt the anger that he had built up subside.
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Post by 貪欲 on Jan 10, 2010 23:03:31 GMT -5
Landing her Alpha-Class Xg-1 Star Wing Furan beagn her search for a master of the force. This took her about two days of searching around and asking question of locals while enjoying her time on Coruscant. Finally on the second day nearing noon she sensed a large disturbance in the force! (lol) Being that thay far from the eerie feeling of pain and anger floating around the temple Furan approached with caution.
Hold her weapons at bay she walked closer to the temple only to have her answered granted by a group of people fighting. Many of which were using the force powers she had seen through her Kiffaran ability with the broken hilts. Thinking to herself one of her and her father's favorite one liners of their great bounty hunting clan 'Time to nut up or shut up.....' Speaking with a clear voice to capture someone's attention "Are you the feeling that I've been sensing all this time?"
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Post by Cain on Jan 10, 2010 23:19:01 GMT -5
Before Furan could even enter the Jedi Temple she was cut off by a boy who looked no older then thirteen sitting atop the steps that led to the temple's entrance. The boy had a bored look on his face, an apple floated up from his hand and spun around in the air before settling back into the boy's grasp. He took a half hearted bite of the fruit, seeming oblivious to the corpse that lay strewn over the stairs below him. A mangled heap of flesh and metal whose blood was still fresh, cascading lightly down towards where Furan stood.
The boy glanced down at her with contemptuous eyes, tossing his apple over his shoulder but remaining lounged in place, "Another for the slaughter?" he asked with a sigh, "There is nothing for you here but death. Turn back before it's too late."
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Post by 貪欲 on Jan 10, 2010 23:39:11 GMT -5
Looking towards the young boy Furan as if she were a lesser being which did not sit well with the woman before him. Turning her head to the side he spit "Tsk, death huh? Sounds like a fun time." Grasping her whip she ignited the light plasma beam energy to be released and snapped it right into the boy.
Snapping her head back she smirked with malicious intent "You and nothing else will get in my way of accomplishing my goals, little snot!" Taking up a stance of survival Furan prepared herself for whatever would come her way.
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Post by Cain on Jan 10, 2010 23:57:31 GMT -5
"Hmph..." The boy sneered at Furan's display of aggression, still not moving to his feet, "You say that now... they all say that at first. But confidence born from ignorance is no virtue. You should be weary of an enemy you know nothing about."
With a grunt the boy stood up and the scenery around them both began to grow dark, "You now stand before the Dark Lord of the Sith. The power of the dark side is beyond anything you know... I control what you see and feel. I can see your past and your future. I know all of your worst fears. I determine your reality..." Slowly the darkness lifted and the two were now in the middle of an endless desert, dunes of sand surrounding them for miles and miles on all sides. Through the force Cain imposed feelings of loneliness and despair onto Furan... feelings that should have been familiar to her.
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Post by 貪欲 on Jan 11, 2010 0:32:07 GMT -5
Grabbing her chest Furan felt the all to familiar pain of abandonment and loss. Closing her eyes gently as her old memories had return of those hellish five years alone. Soon she began to remember herself and of why she had chosen to leave that forsaken desert in the first place. She also remembered her enjoyment of killing that damned merchants and that fugly slug called a Hutt.
Her grip of her weapon tightening as all the memories flushed through her mind in mere moments of time. Smiling at herself for the 'little snot' to trick her mind so easily. Opening her eyes once more she stared at the boy with a look of disappointment ans easy bat his words. "Control the surrounds all you like...the more you taunts shows how much you truly fear others yourself you little snot! If you can control powers that not even I have seen then teach me to become a better....unless....you don't have the ability to." Crossing her arms in a knowing stand Fyran stared at the boy eagerness for the dark temptations that he was showing her.
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Post by Cain on Jan 11, 2010 12:43:33 GMT -5
"I do not waste time on the weak," The boy retorted with little hesitation, "Your words still drip with ignorance. I have nothing to fear from you... but you should have every reason to fear me. However, having fear does not imply that one must cower in the face of one's enemy. What weakens others, strengthens us..."
As the boy spoke the wind began to pick up speed, sweeping across the desert sand. The longer the illusion was in place the stronger it became. The cold chill of the desert wind as the sun settled beneath the dunes, the sting of the grains of sand that buffeted Furan, it was all becoming very real. As the sun finally fell and the darkness of night took over, two figures appeared in front of the boy, between he and Furan. They were the girl's parents, both locked in the chains typically worn by slaves traded by the Hutts. Their bodies were beaten and bloodied, they could barely stand.
"Empathy is weakness. Attachment is weakness. But what makes us weak also has the power to make us strong. Through passion I gain strength," The boy said, igniting a dark core blue lightsaber and holding it up to Furan's parents, "You wanted to save them... this is your chance."
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Post by 貪欲 on Jan 11, 2010 18:32:06 GMT -5
Slowly Furan's steps grew heavy as she walked over to her parents that appeared before her. Once she was within arms length she fell to her knees in a moment of weakness at there sight. Resting her hands on there faces she stared at them...as if wishing it to be true 'Papa....mama.....' Closing her eye she painfully felt a tear of blood decent upon her cheek slowly only to halt as Furan opened her eyes once more.
Rising her her fallen statue Furan face fell upon the deserts sand to mask her face within shadow. Suddenly she reached for her saber and all in a flash ignited it while swinging it. This effective caused the beheading of her beloved parents. Showing her face to the young boy she leaned it back with a creasing frown. "Think a fool of me you little snot! They died long ago....it's a waste of time to dwell on the past. However you will pay for invading my mind in a sad attempt to shatter my self will, punk nosed snot." Grasping her light whip Furan crack it in the boy's face intending to leave a nasty little scar upon his face.
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