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Tweak says, "There are other things."

Poofy/Cross (Himura Kenshin) (wanderingsword) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-11-24 16:25:00

Entry tags:

!days 290-299, alice liddell, aoi 'santa' kurashiki, cheshire cat, chrono, danielle 'dani' phantom, dean winchester, edward elric, excel, himura kenshin, hizumi mizushiro, juuri kuran, kisugi haruto, kudo shinichi, kuroba kaito, lady, lulu, nakamori aoko, tazendra, yuffie kisaragi

Who: Anyone!
Where: The Lake (or other places, if you prefer)
When: Day 292, morning
What: MINGLE

[A Pavo has decided that today is a good day to do laundry, and has acquired himself a nice place near the lake to settle down and do as much.

What are you doing this morning, Sabra?]

(I ENCOURAGE AND STRONGLY SUGGEST MINGLING. Feel free to use this post for your own whatever. ♥)

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 01:31 am UTC (link)
	. . . It's said that a demon under a contract is made to be the servant of their contractor. So just tell me what you expect me to do and I'll do it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 01:34 am UTC (link)
	[...there is something just a bit...unpleasant about this and I'm not sure why.] You're not a servant. Do you know how to pull back energy when you form things like blasts? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 01:39 am UTC (link)
	No. Restraint isn't one of the things I'm known for on the battlefield. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 01:40 am UTC (link)
	Then that'll be the first thing. It's better to pull in a blast than having to waste it, and that's a quick way to use up energy. How good are you at focusing on the actual flow of energy? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 01:46 am UTC (link)
	...demon bodies manage the energy naturally, in all its forms. It's not really something we think about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 01:49 am UTC (link)
	Then we'll have to change that. Even if something works well subconsciously doesn't mean it can't be controlled consciously. [I am gonna focus on being a teacher mode.] Can you at least control how powerful the blasts can be? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 01:53 am UTC (link)
	More or less, yes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 01:56 am UTC (link)
	Good, that gives us a basis. [And shifting back to human.] How much of those abilities can you access like this? And is there a difference between power level and how easy it is to use the abilities? [There's a point to these questions, yes.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 01:58 am UTC (link)
	The most I can do in this form is heal and create barriers...and even those powers are muted from how strong they would normally be. The reason this form exists is energy conservation. Everything is harder this way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 02:01 am UTC (link)
	Ah, but no blasts? Too bad, that would have made things go a lot faster. If you can do it when that sort of thing is harder, it becomes almost natural in the stronger form. Hmmm, doesn't really work as well for barriers either....though that'll be good for energy gauging, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:06 am UTC (link)
	[:/] What do you want me to do? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 02:08 am UTC (link)
	[Hrm.] .... Right. Okay. Shift to the other form and sit down. [And sitting down herself.] No more than three blasts. If we don't get it this session, then we'll quit with that until I can think of a better way to teach it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:18 am UTC (link)
	[. . . MODESHIFT GETS...the baseline drag of energy that always exists in the background, perhaps usually forgotten, ramps up a notch or two.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

copyofaphantom
2011-11-27 02:21 am UTC (link)

[Will just...ignore that, yep. OKAY.]

This is gonna require a lot of focus. You need to pay attention to what your body is doing, every step of the way.

[Putting her hands together, the green energy forming along her finger tips before forming an actual ball in her hands after a few long seconds.]

Try and feel how the energy is going. Where is it coming from, which part of your arm is it flowing through, where is it coming out with your skin. It doesn't need to be strong, something weak will do, but you need to pay attention to how that energy is flowing and hold the path it takes from beginning to end in your head.

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:32 am UTC (link)
	[SO ABOUT THAT HONESTY THING] [He summons energy of his own--different from hers, though it glows with its own light--and holds it there. The tug of Astral is certainly there, though not as wrenching as when the barrier was summoned.] Then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

copyofaphantom
2011-11-27 02:36 am UTC (link)

[TO BE FAIR, SHE ASSUMES HE KNOWS ABOUT THAT. =|a]

Then you're going to pull it back. You keep that path in mind and you focus on the energy going back the way it came, back to where it is when it's not being used.

[And will demonstrate, pulling back in the energy from the blast in her own hands, the ball shrinking in size and light intensity until it vanishes back into her body.]

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:42 am UTC (link)
	[He draws the energy inward, allowing it to dissipate along his claw, up his arm and to the shoulder. The tug on her Astral lessens as he does so.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	copyofaphantom 2011-11-27 02:43 am UTC (link)
	[Smiles!] Good, you did it! That means we can keep practicing it, without you needing to use any extra astral. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Even then...in an actual fight, that energy isn't going to be re-absorbed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

copyofaphantom
2011-11-27 02:50 am UTC (link)

That's not the point of this.

The point of this is for the blasts that don't need to be USED. Sometimes a threat can go a very long way. Sometimes someone surrenders and you don't need to use the blast. There can be a lot of ways to fight that doesn't ever involve laying a hand on the opponent, just showing that the power exists.

Being able to reabsorb the energy that doesn't need to be used is part of making sure energy isn't wasted, which is the point of these exercises. More than that, being able to do this also gives you better control of the amount of energy you use. So you can avoid overkill and over use.

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 02:58 am UTC (link)
	That won't always work, and you know it. Sometimes you have no choice. And if you're transformed at the same time... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

copyofaphantom
2011-11-27 03:02 am UTC (link)

[Flat look.] I am aware of that. I know sometimes you have to fight. That's why this isn't the only trick I'll be showing you.

The point is to make sure you ARE efficient and RESTRAINED enough in a battle that you can safely use a set amount of energy you get before hand so it doesn't come to that.

That's why we're focusing on the solution instead of the problem. You can't get anywhere if you just think about the cons and not the solutions to avoid those cons.

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 03:12 am UTC (link)
	[...hahaha restraint hahaha] ...Fine. What now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

copyofaphantom
2011-11-27 03:16 am UTC (link)

Don't give me that look. You can learn restraint. I'm an emotional thirteen year old half ghost and I learned it.

We'll get more into other restraint techniques a bit later, but that's why we're doing the more obvious things like saving blasts when it's obvious you can save them. If you can't be restrained in battle, at least you can do the obvious big power savers until we get those down.

For right now, practice that until you feel you can do it without needing to be hyper focused on it.

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	overclocking 2011-11-27 03:31 am UTC (link)
	[I'LL MAKE ALL THE FACES I WANT, THANK YOU. That's just about the only thing I seem to be allowed to do anymore.] [Though he does go back to producing and retracting the energy blast] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)