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.
The Rules are simple:
- This post, and any post with the subject heading ALL SKATE are open to everyone.
That means old characters, new characters, retired characters, doubles of characters, original characters, non-canon compliant characters.
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- Gratuitous behavior, either of a violent or sexual nature, will not be tolerated in the Comm. Take that to an OOM, and then Content Warning the hell out of it before you link it.
- Communication is paramount. Everyone's keyed up, let's just have some fun.]

Comments

[last_kallig]

From Ibani's point of view, repressing emotions is just a waste of potential power! Also, futile, because you will eventually fail and have to DEAL WITH THEM. Possibly this is why when Jedi Fall they tend to Fall hard enough to leave impact craters?

"It's more effective at certain tasks, but you can get by without it," Ibani replies. "Well, not with force lightning, but everything else seems to work without tapping the Dark Side."

[acertainpov]

"So I don't use Force Lightning," Obi-Wan seems to think this is no great loss. "It looks messy, anyway."

[last_kallig]

"Not as much as you'd think, and it does have applications that don't involve hurting people." Ibani shrugs. "I have something of a knack with it, which is why I was discovered by the Sith." She was using it to kill the man who murdered her mother.

"So far as I know, I'm the only Sith who's discovered that you can use positive emotions to call upon the Light side of the Force instead of using negative emotions to call upon the Dark.

[acertainpov]

"Tell me more about that," Obi-Wan says calmly.

He's much more likely to understand this more emotive use of the Force than be able to master the Force Shield - although he'll definitely be trying that.

[last_kallig]

Ibani tries to think about how to explain. "I'm not sure where to start. I can't remember a time I wasn't aware of the Force. I didn't know what it WAS, but I could....do things, when my need was great enough, when I was terrified or in pain."

"You take the feeling, let it fill you up, burn with it, and your mind and will shape that power in the Force into the effect you want. That's how we access the Force, not through stillness, but passion. 'Through passion, I gain strength,'" Ibani intones, speaking part of the Sith Code. Her belief and her passion echo in the Force.

"The desire to protect, love, the NEED to make things BETTER, they are fire also, fire that creates rather than destroys."

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan ducks his head, thinking. Listening to her feelings in the Force, but for once not really echoing it with any of his own.

Eventually.

"You think that stillness and passion are contradictions?"

[last_kallig]

"It has seemed to be, to me. Dead air, dead water are still, without attachment or interaction there is only stagnation in them, not life."

[acertainpov]

"And yet in many cases still waters can be teeming with life," he says. "That you can't even see if you stir it up."

[last_kallig]

"Perhaps," Ibani replies. "I was never around much liquid water until very recently. Ilum is all ice, and Korriban is a cold desert."

In Obi Wan's time, Ilum is deserted except for the odd Jedi there to seek a lightsaber crystal or watching over the place. Which raises the question of what in the Force Ibani was doing there.

[acertainpov]

Well.

Khyber.


"Even the harshest desert planet can harbour more life than you'd expect," he says, pushing the metaphor. "Stillness isn't a lack of life."

[last_kallig]

"A poor metaphor on my part, perhaps, "Ibani admits. "But stillness is a poor fit for me."

[acertainpov]

"It can be learned, he offers, "although you seem to be doing a good job of staying alive so far."

[last_kallig]

"I am quite good at staying alive," Ibani replies, her smile turning wry. This time, nothing leaks into the Force to tell of just how much blood and how much pain that has cost.

"Things should be a bit easier now that I am no longer an apprentice."

[acertainpov]

Well done, Ibani. You're learning (terrible lessons)

"And what do you do now you're no longer in training?"

[last_kallig]

Ibani has learned a lot of terrible lessons! From a certain point of view, her entire time on Korriban was one terrible lesson after another.

"I'll be administering part of the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, probably a portion of the Imperial Reclamation Service, the non-Force sensitives who deal with finding and exploring both ancient Sith ruins and other such places of interest."

She takes a sip of her tea. "Although I'm sure there will be other duties tacked on to that from time to time, especially with the War going hot again. Hopefully they won't be sending me in to break Republic bases, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that."

[acertainpov]

"Hopefully at least the first part of that will lead to fewer attempts on your life."

[last_kallig]

"It should," Ibani says after a moment's thought. "Most non-Force sensitive Imperials wouldn't even THINK of trying to kill a Sith, and I'm not important enough to be a target for other Sith."

Ibani's smile turns darkly wry. "Not that we're allowed to murder each other, officially." The trick of course, is getting away with it.

[acertainpov]

"Oh well," says Obi-Wan. "Officially you're probaby fine, then."

[last_kallig]

"So long as I'm careful about 'accidents', yes," Ibani replies. "Or getting volunteered to the do the impossible. Again."

"Care to spar?"

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan smiles at her. "I thought you'd never ask," he says, and in one draft, he finishes the tea in front of him.

"Shall we?"

[last_kallig]

Ibani grins. "I left some training lightsabers with Bar, unless you can adjust the one you're carrying for that?" Training lightsabers sting when they hit and can leave a welt with too much contact, but they won't maim people like a 'normal' lightsaber.

"Thank you, Bar," Ibani says as three lightsabers appear on Her surface.

[acertainpov]

"It's been a while since I used one of these," Obi-Wan says. He holds his hand over the three handles, chooses the one that calls to him most strongly, and extends the blade to get a feel.

It's been a while since he did any sparring, to be honest.

[last_kallig]

The lightsabers are the same in hilt design, though two are yellow and one green.

"I'd never seen one until I came here," Ibani replies. "We used Sith warblades on Korriban, which were metal."

Ibani hasn't sparred recently, but she fights Force users for real with great regularity. Such conflicts are a GIVEN for Jedi and Sith alike, and they are trained with that in mind.

[acertainpov]

It is the green that Obi-Wan has chosen, and he likes the feel of it, although it's lighter than his own blue saber.

He also is more experienced in fighting other orce users than he's like to be, given his peacekeeper title, but at least it's fun.

He smiles warmly at her and steps aside, opening his body up to clear a path to the back door.

"After you."

[last_kallig]

Ibani grabs the two yellow sabers and smiles.

"Why, thank you," she replies as he steps aside. Once they're through the door to the Outside, Ibani looks for a large, open area. The amount of ground two sparring Force users can cover is....considerable, especially when one of them favors the more aggressive lightsaber forms.

"Over there will do, I think," Ibani says, gesturing toward an area near the lake shore.

She grins excitedly at him as she activates both of her training sabers, yellow blades humming to life with a distinctive snap-hiss sound. She swings them once or twice to get a feel. "Ready when you are."