May the Fourth Be With The All Skate

[jedi_interrupted]

The bar shifts, or it changed when no one was looking, and now resembles a certain cantina popular with the villainy and scum, as well as more upstanding folks. The air is dryer than usual, and a taste of grit and sand just hangs in the air. It just makes you want some blue milk doesn't it?

Has your character changed? Perhaps...who can tell? The Landlord I suppose but they aren't talking.

[ooc: HI and Welcome to a Star Wars themed All Skate, the best way to celebrate May the Fourth! Party style post. You do not have to interact with any of my characters to play.
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[acertainpov]

Well. That's... quite a swear. Obi-Wan gives it the appropriate double take, hanging back to check that it wasn't the start of some weird magic ritual or something.

When it isn't, he's left with an eyebrow raised, because the only person he knows with that level of clumsy would usually follow it up by inadvertantly destroying the bar.

"Are you okay there?"

[element_wizard]

Weird? Yes. Magical... depends on your point of view. Ritual... not unless you count the possible string of curses that will follow if he hurts himself again. As for clumsy and destroying the bar... well, Alec isn't normally that clumsy, but he could destroy the bar if he wished.

A moment and then Alec pops up, without any knocking about. "Yeah. I'm fine. The chair didn't move out of my way," he said. Which makes one hundred percent sense to him. He gives a quick glance at the general feel for the Kenobi before him, age - clothes - things like that, before giving a hazardous guess of "You're General Kenobi, yes?"

[acertainpov]

"Yes, I am."

Which wouldn't be surprising at home. But here, it's less common.

"Why?"

He sounds slightly cautious. Possibly because he's recently learned that Anakin comes here and is just waiting to be asked to clear up a mess.

[element_wizard]

What to say... what to say... go with half-truths... truth truths...

Eh.

"I've visited your world a few times, heard about you while visiting," he said and then added hastily, "All good things. Never actually hit places where you were."

Intentionally.

Because being crazy weird thing in the Force is one thing here. In Obi-Wan's world... weell... he's not Dark Side he's not Light Side. He's just weird side and its harder for him to contain it within world, because Rules of how that Reality Works.

[acertainpov]

"And by 'world' I assume you mean 'universe?'" Because why would anyone actually want to go to Stewjon?

"What were you doing there?"

He's asking ut of interest, but also because it's good to know which extra dimensional travellers are potentially causing havoc in one's galaxy.

[element_wizard]

"Yes. That."

As for why would anyone one want to got Stewjon? In Alec's opinion - why wouldn't he want to go there? It's somewhere he's never been. He likes going to those places.

He scratches his nose. "Artifact hunting."

Then before Obi-Wan can protest. "I only take things before they'd be destroyed or completely lost. When no one will ever be able to find them even if I didn't take them. I have been trying to find a lightsaber. No luck there."

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan's expression can best be decribed as 'mmmm but tho.' He wears is ==t a lot.

"I wouldn't call those 'artifacts.'"

Not one he approves of collecting like it's a hobby.

[element_wizard]

Alec has seen looks worse than that and completely ignores it.

What else would collecting be? It's better than Alec using some of the stuff he's picked up.

"It depends on your definition of artifact. Lightsabers are one of the defining items of your universe. That, the Force and..." And he's not saying Darth Vader and Death Stars. "A few other things. Show a lightsaber to a universe hopper who has visited your universe they will know exactly what universe you're talking about. It's the like the one of the few things that if you removed it would completely change your history. Making it into something completely different. It's what makes you you."

This is Alec being a very weird Historian.

[acertainpov]

"To the Jedi, as well as the universe," Obi-Wan says, picking his words. "Every lightsaber carries with it part of the Jedi who forged it. You want to take that out of the universe?"

[element_wizard]

"If you mean the crystals, they generally don't like me in any state of being," he said with a shrug.

"As for that other part; I know that. Which is why it's been hard for me to find one that a Jedi, or really any owner, has intentionally discarded. One that they've tossed into a stormy ocean, for example, to give up what it means to them. To give up that reminder of that part of their life, not wanting anyone to know about it. Not want the memory of its existence. One they would destroy rather than let it exist."

Hmm... Oceans...

"Taking one from a Jedi who just dies or accidentally loses it doesn't work because they still wanted it. It's still theirs, still has that bit of soul. Even if it does fall into the ocean to be lost forever."

[acertainpov]

"Hmmm."

He's mollified, but not happy. Mostly because he doesn't want to start an argument in Bar. But he's *definitely* going to be keeping a better eye out when he gets home for smugglers trading in Lightsabers.

"And I suppose asking you not to isn't going to work, is it?"

[element_wizard]

Good luck on that one. At least when you're dealing with people who smuggle sabers off universe. Though there could be some happening around within universe.

He tilts his head up for a moment thinking of a good answer to that question. Because, no, asking him not to isn't really going to work. It'd be like asking the sun not to be hot. But, he does like Kenobi.

Maybe a compromise?

"What about myself? Can I steal from myself?"

[acertainpov]

"Yourself?"

And how, Obi-Wan would like to know, is that going to work?

[element_wizard]

"Easiest way? Find a version of myself that exists in your universe at some particular point in the timeline. One that's Force sensitive and joins the Jedi, then wait until they up and die from whatever reason and not something I do to intentionally cause them to die then take it."

Look. He's everywhere. And everywhen. At some point. Like a bad credit.

[acertainpov]

Beat.

He's not being hypothetical.



"...that's a very specific circumstance."

[element_wizard]

Nope.

"A version of myself exists in every possible universe. The tricky part is finding that version of myself because universes exist for quite a long time," he said and tapped his finger rapidly on the table. "I'm... have you run into the Father, Brother and Sister yet?"

[acertainpov]

"...Yours, I presume?"

And not some weird outer rim religious thing.

[element_wizard]

"Hah. No. I actually call my family by their names. But I'm going to call that a no."

They're not a weird out rim religious thing.

"Right. So. You know how the Force is ... sort of alive? And in every living thing?"

And we're not talking Midichloreans or whatever.

[acertainpov]

"I do know that."

Hello, Jedi Knight.

[element_wizard]

Look. He's got to walk up to this. In steps.

"You've got the Force, dark side and light side, all the living things. And like the Force having a dark and light side, the Force itself has its own opposite. Something that's ... not life," he said. "Now, that other half of the Force can't exist fully in life, but it can a little bit. Just like there's a little bit of light and dark in everyone. There are no absolutes.

"I'm that... not life... and there's a bit of me in every universe. Because of that, there's a me in your universe. But finding it is like trying to find a black grain of sand in a beach. So, I find that one and just... wait."

Which, now that he thinks about it, was probably far too much information.


"And that was far too much of an explanation and I'm sorry about it."

[acertainpov]

...


"No no," Obi-Wan says quickly, "Why would you think that's too much?"

[element_wizard]

"Because I have a horrible habit of over explaining things."

He's aware of these faults.

[acertainpov]

"At least you're self-aware about it."

Some people really aren't.

[element_wizard]

"You get enough fireballs or other things tossed at you..." he shrugs.

He learned. It took him ... a very long while... but he learned.