Well I came down to the garden house to check on some of the plants.. reminded me of something I'd been meaning to do for a while. Decided to have a look at this artifact thing Plo found, and gave me to study. Well actually I was just gonna' put it there.. kinda' leave it on the desk or in the cabinet to look at later.. Well I couldn't help trying to take just a peek, and I was thinking it was a holocron, so I tried to open it up that way. The thing proceeded to branch out and grow.. almost twice my height. It filled the room. It was radiating some kind of energy.
......no such thing as a quiet day, I guess.
I.. kinda' freaked out a bit. Never seen anything do that before. So I got on the network, and reported the what-the-kriff in my livingroom. Zan, Keren, and Muaarga were the first to come out and look at it. We all just sort of stood there for a few, wondering what it could be. Muaarga looked into it and sensed a bit of a darkside taint.. but other than that it seemed to be disrupted by something. Difficult to see. Keren tried to move it telekinetically. It grew larger. Zan theorized it was sucking up force energy, so he tried to suck energy back out of it. It started breaking and chipping as soon as he did, bits of stucture shattering on the floor in bursts of energy. That didn't keep up long, because soon enough, Ek'fe had tracked down Zan and come out here to yank him away.
She is.. something. I guess Zan's healed her so many times that the two have formed a force-bond similar to Mine and Muaarga's. She can find him anywhere.. and I don't think she particularly liked finding him near a big scary darkside crystal thing. She actually tried to come into my house, and shoo us all out of it. Heh. That was less than successful.
Still.. we did need to get this thing out of the house somehow. It couldn't fit through the door. Muaarga suggested we just cut a hole in the wall. Not a bad idea.. though we ultimately decided on moving the hole to the ceiling. He sliced the hole with his saber while Keren held up the bit of ceiling. Then Keren tossed out the bit of ceiling, then the arifact. Pshyooo.... pop! The artifact was out of the house........
.......and sitting on the grass outside of it. So... now what? I was hoping we could have moved it. Keren wanted to destroy it. Ek'fe wanted to kill it.. hurt it.. get away from it.. get Zan away from it..... we took a closer look. It started to display some life-like tendacies, now that we could sense it better. Crystals that are alive in the force aren't.. exactly.. outside the realm of possibility, though it's rare that they're actually sentient. It is probably alive, and perhaps possibly sentient, but it's more likely that it's been imprinted on like a holocron. I admit I bent the truth a little.. telling Keren that it was positively alive and probably sentient. He values life more than I value knowledge, so I know he wouldn't destroy it. Zan and Muaarga kept Ek'fe from throwing rocks at it while Keren tried to "talk" to it, and I eventually ended up translating, because it was communicating like a plant. At some point, here, Stlian and Dosni showed up. Stlian gave it water, and it seemed to like that. Keren tried to negotiate with it.. tried to reason with it like a sentient or train it like an animal.. but you can't reason with a plant. In the end, we discovered that it had grown following the pattern of a plant, so we convinced it to go back to its dormant state-- sort of like roses in winter. I told it Keren was "Winter" so that it would become dormant, and not act up again while it's in his care. They were already suspicious of each-other, so it worked well. Crisis averted, for now.
We headed inside, and I stayed behind a minute with Muaarga and Dosni searching for the last broken fragments in the grass. Then went in, made tea, and got my brains out of plant mode. Keren had to go soon, for some kind of duty at Red Sands I guess. Then Zan had to go, to do something with Ek'fe and Nero... A.K.A the traitor from Virantis. Kriff, that brought back memories.. Zan wasn't around for those days, but Muaarga and I remembered well. I'm worried that Zan underestimates the fellow.. apperantly he's after Ek'fe, and Zan has a plan to make a deal with him. Just hope he knows what he's doing.
Speaking of knows what he's doing, Stlian's also on an adventure it seems. An old friend of his has been under-cover, and something went FUBAR so now she's in danger. A friend of hers is giving him missions that will lead to her rescue, but he's operating pretty much in the dark. He's got my sympathy in this case.. reminds me of when Lawrence goes undercover- no communication whatsoever. Operating together at all requires a lot of trust, and precision. I think Stlian can tough it out, though.
On a lighter note, finally found out who's been... ehh.. this is gonna' sound weirder than it is.... noogie-ing people. You know.. sneak up, hop out, rub knuckles on head, and disappear. A noogie. I been caught a couple times, and it makes me paranoid as shit, because I keep thinkin' that same person is gonna' jump out and break my neck or something someday... makes me twitch that I can't sense the danger. Well.. turns out that I can't sense the danger because there is no danger. It's Dosni. Muaarga's padawan. That one.. was a shocker. He always just seemed so quiet. It was weird. It was all just a big joke. Heh.. a prankster.. who knew. Always the ones you least expect, eh?
Muaarga, Dosni and I stayed up at the garden house a bit longer than the rest. I ended up rambling on for much of that time about Force Alchemy regarding plants. Understanding plants in the force was something I meant to talk to Keren about, after what had happened earlier. I think I had mentioned that, and that's what got us on the subject. Muaarga was interested in it, actually, which pretty much made my day. I don't talk about the alchemy much, and it's not something I practice out in the open.. it's more of a behind the scenes thing that tends to get mentioned in passing when someone sees the end-results of it. He didn't know I was as practiced in it as I am. Truth be told, I was nervous about mentioning it to him much. I know he's got a lot of respect for the Kashyyyk natives, and them him, and stuff like this is part of the reason the Kerritamba wanted me banished. You know.. the whole sinning against nature bit... Anyway, the alchemy isn't something I particularly meant to hide, just not something I wanted to throw in his face either. But when he told me not to hold anything back from him... what was it like? It was like a pirate being able to show off his ill-gotten gains.. like a smuggler getting to tour through his best underground getaway route.. like a spy sharing the memories of his favorite covert schemes.. all with smiles on their faces and not a single worry about the boys in white. It's like.. I don't know.. I'm not the one here with the gift of precognition, but I forsee.. knock on wood ..good things in the future here.
*END*
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......no such thing as a quiet day, I guess.
I.. kinda' freaked out a bit. Never seen anything do that before. So I got on the network, and reported the what-the-kriff in my livingroom. Zan, Keren, and Muaarga were the first to come out and look at it. We all just sort of stood there for a few, wondering what it could be. Muaarga looked into it and sensed a bit of a darkside taint.. but other than that it seemed to be disrupted by something. Difficult to see. Keren tried to move it telekinetically. It grew larger. Zan theorized it was sucking up force energy, so he tried to suck energy back out of it. It started breaking and chipping as soon as he did, bits of stucture shattering on the floor in bursts of energy. That didn't keep up long, because soon enough, Ek'fe had tracked down Zan and come out here to yank him away.
She is.. something. I guess Zan's healed her so many times that the two have formed a force-bond similar to Mine and Muaarga's. She can find him anywhere.. and I don't think she particularly liked finding him near a big scary darkside crystal thing. She actually tried to come into my house, and shoo us all out of it. Heh. That was less than successful.
Still.. we did need to get this thing out of the house somehow. It couldn't fit through the door. Muaarga suggested we just cut a hole in the wall. Not a bad idea.. though we ultimately decided on moving the hole to the ceiling. He sliced the hole with his saber while Keren held up the bit of ceiling. Then Keren tossed out the bit of ceiling, then the arifact. Pshyooo.... pop! The artifact was out of the house........
.......and sitting on the grass outside of it. So... now what? I was hoping we could have moved it. Keren wanted to destroy it. Ek'fe wanted to kill it.. hurt it.. get away from it.. get Zan away from it..... we took a closer look. It started to display some life-like tendacies, now that we could sense it better. Crystals that are alive in the force aren't.. exactly.. outside the realm of possibility, though it's rare that they're actually sentient. It is probably alive, and perhaps possibly sentient, but it's more likely that it's been imprinted on like a holocron. I admit I bent the truth a little.. telling Keren that it was positively alive and probably sentient. He values life more than I value knowledge, so I know he wouldn't destroy it. Zan and Muaarga kept Ek'fe from throwing rocks at it while Keren tried to "talk" to it, and I eventually ended up translating, because it was communicating like a plant. At some point, here, Stlian and Dosni showed up. Stlian gave it water, and it seemed to like that. Keren tried to negotiate with it.. tried to reason with it like a sentient or train it like an animal.. but you can't reason with a plant. In the end, we discovered that it had grown following the pattern of a plant, so we convinced it to go back to its dormant state-- sort of like roses in winter. I told it Keren was "Winter" so that it would become dormant, and not act up again while it's in his care. They were already suspicious of each-other, so it worked well. Crisis averted, for now.
We headed inside, and I stayed behind a minute with Muaarga and Dosni searching for the last broken fragments in the grass. Then went in, made tea, and got my brains out of plant mode. Keren had to go soon, for some kind of duty at Red Sands I guess. Then Zan had to go, to do something with Ek'fe and Nero... A.K.A the traitor from Virantis. Kriff, that brought back memories.. Zan wasn't around for those days, but Muaarga and I remembered well. I'm worried that Zan underestimates the fellow.. apperantly he's after Ek'fe, and Zan has a plan to make a deal with him. Just hope he knows what he's doing.
Speaking of knows what he's doing, Stlian's also on an adventure it seems. An old friend of his has been under-cover, and something went FUBAR so now she's in danger. A friend of hers is giving him missions that will lead to her rescue, but he's operating pretty much in the dark. He's got my sympathy in this case.. reminds me of when Lawrence goes undercover- no communication whatsoever. Operating together at all requires a lot of trust, and precision. I think Stlian can tough it out, though.
On a lighter note, finally found out who's been... ehh.. this is gonna' sound weirder than it is.... noogie-ing people. You know.. sneak up, hop out, rub knuckles on head, and disappear. A noogie. I been caught a couple times, and it makes me paranoid as shit, because I keep thinkin' that same person is gonna' jump out and break my neck or something someday... makes me twitch that I can't sense the danger. Well.. turns out that I can't sense the danger because there is no danger. It's Dosni. Muaarga's padawan. That one.. was a shocker. He always just seemed so quiet. It was weird. It was all just a big joke. Heh.. a prankster.. who knew. Always the ones you least expect, eh?
Muaarga, Dosni and I stayed up at the garden house a bit longer than the rest. I ended up rambling on for much of that time about Force Alchemy regarding plants. Understanding plants in the force was something I meant to talk to Keren about, after what had happened earlier. I think I had mentioned that, and that's what got us on the subject. Muaarga was interested in it, actually, which pretty much made my day. I don't talk about the alchemy much, and it's not something I practice out in the open.. it's more of a behind the scenes thing that tends to get mentioned in passing when someone sees the end-results of it. He didn't know I was as practiced in it as I am. Truth be told, I was nervous about mentioning it to him much. I know he's got a lot of respect for the Kashyyyk natives, and them him, and stuff like this is part of the reason the Kerritamba wanted me banished. You know.. the whole sinning against nature bit... Anyway, the alchemy isn't something I particularly meant to hide, just not something I wanted to throw in his face either. But when he told me not to hold anything back from him... what was it like? It was like a pirate being able to show off his ill-gotten gains.. like a smuggler getting to tour through his best underground getaway route.. like a spy sharing the memories of his favorite covert schemes.. all with smiles on their faces and not a single worry about the boys in white. It's like.. I don't know.. I'm not the one here with the gift of precognition, but I forsee.. knock on wood ..good things in the future here.
*END*
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