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mara jade (jadedancer) wrote in dunwichgame,
@ 2023-02-21 15:31:00

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IP THREAD: Mara & Obi-Wan

Mara Jade & Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rating TBD • 21st February • Dunwich

Mara Jade enters Dunwich and meets Obi-Wan.

Luke’s gift felt cool and heavy in her hand as Mara contemplated its significance. It was more, she knew, than him wanting to offer something as thanks for her help. There was meaning to the lightsaber she now held and, knowing Skywalker, probably some kind of lesson there. She’d been teasing about his farm boy candor, but she knew it wasn’t in his nature to manipulate or control. It was, however, in his nature to leave it to her to draw the right conclusions on whatever he was trying to teach her.

He’d barely made it to the door when she called after him, telling him to wait. “I’ll come with you.” It was a conscious decision to leave her past behind her and move forward to a new life. For the first time, she was truly free to make her own choices.

Just then, a strange fog seemed to creep over the roof. It only took moments for Mara’s view of Luke to be obscured and for her to get the sudden sense of danger or foreboding through the Force.

“That’s not creepy,” she muttered, igniting the lightsaber’s blue-white blade as she trying to navigate through the fog toward where she was certain the door leading off the roof had been.

She never made it to the door, but the fog eventually cleared to find her standing somewhere that was definitely not Coruscant. Or anywhere else she’d ever seen before.

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hopeperseveres
2023-02-22 12:57 am UTC (link)

Obi-Wan had been trying to reach what he thought was a Jawa group post-dust storm. His vaporator was trashed, again, by the storm. This time, the already fatigued metal of one of the drains finally gave and he wasn't going to be able to patch it back up.

Hopefully, the Jawas would have it and he could get back to having water instead of worrying about finding those desert fruits the sand people ate. He had ridden his Eopi out but slid off her to get a better look and suddenly the mist enveloped him. He closed his eyes on instinct and held his breath, worrying it was some kind of poison or gas, but thankfully when it cleared he didn't feel like he'd been drugged.

However, he was far from Tatooine by the looks of it. He couldn't think of a single world that looked like this as he slowly turned around to get a good look at everything. He had his lightsaber and vibroblade in his boots, never left without them after having had to fight Reva to save Luke. But he was loathe to draw and show what he was. Or had been.

He closed his eyes a moment to cast out far with the Force, see what he could sense, and immediately felt at least two Force sensitive beings, one very nearby appearing there, and the other farther away. He turned to the one that just appeared and was surprised to see a woman standing there in clothing he didn't recognize either except that it would be Core world if he had to guess.

The lightsaber in her hand though, it called out to his, to him. He _knew_ it like it was his own. Had maintained it all these years and knew it was in the box for Luke with the first journal he'd began working on. How did she have it?

"Hello there," he said, pasting on an unassuming look and shielding himself well, not all the way so that no one could sense him, that wasn't something he could hold for long anymore. But keeping his thoughts and mind safe for the moment. "I don't seem to know where I am?"

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jadedancer
2023-02-22 03:23 am UTC (link)

Mara blinked again the change in the lighting, looking at her surroundings and trying to figure out the answer to that question, herself. There we resemblances to some of the worlds she'd seen and yet it was still fairly foreign to her. She'd reached out a little more with the Force, trying to get some sense of where the kriff she was. That didn't answer her question, but she did feel a familiar presence.

The man who stepped into view wasn't who it belonged to, but she sensed something in him, too.

"Hello," she called back, masking her own expression rather than betray her surprise at not being able to get past his shielding. She wasn't an expert in the way Luke was by any means, but she liked to think she was coming along.

"It doesn't look familiar to me, either," she admitted. That sense of danger had passed, at least, and she shut down the lightsaber, slipping it into her belt. "Did you just arrive, too?"

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hopeperseveres
2023-02-22 03:36 am UTC (link)

Coming closer he didn't press on her shields but observed they were there, hasty and not elegant but serviceable all the same. Interesting. She didn't feel like a former Jedi to him. Those Temple-raised had a certain affinity for types of shielding as they were all taught the same basics. This, was different.

"I did. One minute I was standing in some sand trying to see what the cloud was, the next I was in it and then here." It was no use to lie about the sand. He was clearly dressed as coming from a desert world and his goggles had sand embedded in the crevices. So did his clothes, and his...everything really.

He couldn't help but look at that lightsaber, it really was Anakin's. Then he let his eyes flick away, trying to determine both where they were and who she was. "I'm Ben," he offered a hand to shake, his fingerless leather gloves on over it as he'd been riding.

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jadedancer
2023-02-26 10:26 pm UTC (link)

Mara reached a hand out to shake his. "I'm Mara."

She could have given an alias, but she didn't feel the need. There was a feeling she could trust him, the kind of feeling she had learned to trust, but more than that, she wasn't the Emperor's Hand anymore, wasn't a spy.

"I was on a rooftop. A strange fog came up and I found myself here after it had cleared." It sounded ridiculous even as she said it aloud, but that was exactly what had happened.

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hopeperseveres
2023-03-09 08:32 pm UTC (link)

"I'm glad to make your acquaintance, Mara. Apparently the fog was the culprit for us both. I am grateful that the Force is here, though it doesn't feel exactly the same." He watched her, she had some training but didn't have the feeling of an Inquisitor.

"Perhaps we should try this building that seems to have others that look out of place and see if we can gain some intelligence on our current situation."

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	jadedancer 2023-03-18 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Mara nodded. It was a smart suggestion and one she might have made herself. "I agree. That seems the most likely place to hold some answers." She started in that direction, trusting her would follow. (Reply to this) (Parent)