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Who: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Broadcast: Text
Action: Iskaulit
When: Jan 30th

A: TEXT

I think it's time I retire from teaching for a while.

I don't suppose anyone knows a decent way to pass the time?

B: ACTION

[ When Stefan announced the prayer room, a quiet place for meditation, Obi-Wan had been thrilled. While he enjoyed and cared for the Huntress, quiet is not something they are known for. After talking to Anakin, he knew he was in dire need of quiet and inner peace

He does not regret ( he can not regret )

And yet.

In a way he had envisioned as a child, it had always been Master and Padawan, together. Even when separate, they fought together, learned together, believed in each other. But Qui-Gon died all too soon, and for so long, Obi-Wan threw his hands up against tradition. When Yoda told him to be Anakin's master, he chose to be Anakin's friend. He did not caution against attachment, only warned where it might lead.

He breathes heavily, his legs folded on the mat. It's not working. The Force is still too quiet, too alien at this moment. It doesn't understand his sorrow.

Obi-Wan chuckles, opening his eyes and pushing his hair back. It should be used to that by now.

Looking down at his hands, he's quiet when he speaks. ]

Please help me.

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It depends on how healthy you want to be about it. I could give you suggestions anywhere from gardening to piracy. What did you teach?

I am a Jedi Master. I taught many things from lightsaber training to other life skills.

And I've done things such as gardening and piracy with aplomb. So I'm hoping for something a little more quiet and manageable on a ship.

[She's one of the few who actually has no clue what a Jedi is, but let's file that away for another time. He wants to give up teaching; probably he doesn't want to delve into that right now.]

Gardening is still manageable if you've an interest in it. There's a community garden on the Iskaulit that's always looking for people to help out. Otherwise if you're looking for something on your own ship, there's always reading. Studying the local cultures. I make maps in my spare time. Card games, both by yourself and against others. They don't have to be particularly loud. If you know computers, there's all sorts of weird files buried in the network. You didn't strike me as the piracy type.

I've dabbled in it. Also one of my acquaintances is a self-proclaimed lord of pirates. He owns a planet and always thinks about profit.

[ And Obi-Wan likes him in a weird way. Hondo is easy to read, easy to understand and yet Hondo can always surprise him, like offering a share of the wealth. ]

what do you mean by "weird files?"?

Sounds like a very successful pirate. Has he got any morals? Weird files like... you can requisition your weapon if you're willing to give yourself a headache finding the right form. In trying to find that I also found a survey on the food, applications for captain, various charts I didn't recognise, and a whole bunch of other fill-in forms I didn't really get the purpose of. It's a headache in there, but someone more tech savvy might find some use in them.

Very loose ones. But they are there.

These forms certainly sound fascinating. And maybe they can be beneficial in the long run. I still wish I could procure my weapon of choice.

I wish you luck. I put the forms in for my own weapon, but that was two months ago now. I did get a message saying there was a "problem with Customs", whatever THAT's meant to mean.

So the chances of a form working is really dependent on the Atroma.

That is . . . deeply frustrating.

What weapon were you trying to get?

The climatact. I designed it at home, so it's not exactly replaceable. Though I guess I'm making a start on its component parts. [Inasmuch as she...has a normal staff. Hooray. She hasn't seen anything remotely approaching weather tech in the places they've stopped at thus far.]

I assume yours is also pretty unique.

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A lightsaber. Think of it as a sword whose blade is made of concentrated light. It can cut down any metal, strike away any energy and moves like it is a part of your body.

The parts, however, are not easily found or I would construct one myself.

That sounds both very useful and complicated. [It reminds her first of Kizaru, then Zoro, and she thinks with a grin Zoro would love to get his hands on a blade like that.]

The climatact is a staff combined with various chemical reactions. It can create weather patterns on a small scale. I'm starting to think the science for it might be unique to my own world, though.

It certainly sounds like it. I haven't heard of chemicals that can replicate weather patterns on a small scale. That's quite amazing.

I don't suppose you know exactly how it works?

The chemicals don't replicate the weather itself. The climatact generates combinations of rapidly cooling or heating air that someone with expert knowledge can then manipulate into causing weather patterns. That involves implementing certain technologies I have no idea how to create on my own, or I might have better luck. I just co-opt them into a weapon when their usual use is to help countries in drought and the like.

[Don't dig too deep, Obi Wan. One Piece science is a rabbit hole of wtf-ery.]

It would take a massive amount of air and movement to produce that kind of effect. We have our planetwide weather system on Coruscant but that really only applies to the richer planets.

Shame you don't have it here. I would have loved to study it.

[ He has his nerd moments ok. ]

It does, which is why I can only produce small scale. Think a room, or a courtyard. And if I ever get it back or manage to remake it, I'll show you.

[Though probably not long enough to actually study it. She's missed the security it brings a great deal.]

I'd like that. To the future possibility of us regaining our weapons.

I'll hold onto hope.

Likewise. And I hope you find a bunch of things to keep you occupied! That, you know, you actually enjoy doing.

I'm positive the right opportunity will present itself.