Ishara falls easily into the stance of a martial arts style, and appears to be awaiting your move.
--M. J. Young
Not sure if I have style recognition or not. Could you check please?
I'll fall into ghezuntite (hopefully).
Dramatic pause here.
Pharaoh
You fall easily into your stance, ready for him.
No, you have an attack analysis skill, but no style recognition skill. Still, the stance is not unfamiliar.
--M. J. Young
Steal initiative.
Hmmm. I have an idea. I'm going to try and telekinetically lift him about 10 feet off the ground.
Pharaoh
Although you've never done it before, you find no difficulty understanding how to grab and lift a person.
What you did not expect, though, is that he manages to fight against the force, and remains on the ground. He raises an eyebrow, apparently aware that you attempted to move him by some means he does not understand, but still unmoved.
You have stolen the initiative; what do you intend to do with it?
--M. J. Young
I'm going to try and telekinetically form an immoveable forcefield around him.
Pharaoh
This is not a skill on your sheet, so I'm working on the premise that you are teaching yourself how to do this based on the telekinetic abilities you already know. Do you have an example of this skill that you can copy, or any other bonuses to your ability to learn it?
--M. J. Young
The only example that comes to my mind is the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four.
Well, Jean Grey from the Xmen as well. But nothing I've been shown.
Pharaoh
Sorry, nothing happens; you don't seem to have any real idea of how to create a solid telekinetic force object.
--M. J. Young
Ah, well. Just have to suffer the ass beating, I guess.
It's his move, but I'm getting ready for some evasive moves. I'll review my character sheet for more detailed moves.
Pharaoh
Have forwarded character sheet to your attention. Please at your leisure post any specific defensive actions you wish to take.
--M. J. Young
Ah screw it. Leaping kick.
Pharaoh
Ishara skillfully sidesteps your attack, and you will now fall on the ground (which could be injurious).
--M. J. Young
Blow impact absorbing roll. 1-10, 4-6 bod skill.
Pharaoh
Actually, the blow impact roll works to let you roll out of punches; the skill for this is your 1@5 Fall Impact Absorbing Roll 50’ in cinders 4@6 Bod Home, which means that you will take no damage from the fall if it works.
You hit the floor, but roll out of the damage a bit sore and winded, but unhurt.
Ishara raises an eyebrow.
--M. J. Young
"You're lucky I pulled that attack. All right, cupcake, your turn."
Pharaoh
Um--you're lying on the floor; did you intend to say that from there?
--M. J. Young
Of course. That makes it all the funier.
Pharaoh
Ishara replies, "I did not know you had studied ballet."
He studies you carefully.
"I could, of course, kick you while you are down; but I prefer to wait for you to stand."
--M. J. Young
"I could, of course, break your leg for trying something so shamefully dishonorable; but I prefer that you be able to walk without a limp the rest of your life."
With that, I will stand.
"Mitzu Frenzy. My wife knows that as well. Interesting. Perhaps you are who I seek after all. Come to my quarters after mess."
With that, I'll walk towards the door.
"You've passed your first audition"
Pharaoh
Ishara watches you, with a puzzled look on his face, as you exit the room. He shakes his head, but says nothing.
--M. J. Young
I will attempt to telepathically send the sound of light laughter to his mind.
Pharaoh
I'm not certain what you are actually doing here.
Telepathy does not send words or sounds; it sends thoughts or ideas. You convey them in game as words because there is no way for me to know what you mean without the words, but your character conveys them to another character as pure thought--which is why language is never a barrier, because your thoughts become his thoughts (as from someone else) and he interprets them in his own language.
Project Thought is distinct, actually using your language and planting the thoughts in his mind as an outside communication in your words; it does not make a direct thought link in the same sense, so it is impeded if your target does not know your language. Still, it is concept that is communicated by this skill.
You can Project Emotion, which would let the target know what you are feeling (or what you want to project as your feeling--it does not have to be your actual feeling you project), but this is felt as a sort of empathy in reverse, that he knows how you feel (or how you want him to think you feel), and not that he feels it.
If you wish for him to actually hear laughter, that would be an auditory illusion. If you want him to imagine in his mind the sound of laughter as if you were laughing inside his head, that would also be an illusion, although not auditory.
So I'm going to need a bit of clarification on what you are attempting, as it will almost certainly be either a new skill or a new use.
--M. J. Young
I wish him to hear laughter inside his head.
Pharaoh
You attempt to create the suggestion in his mind that he hears laughter inside his head, but you fail to connect.
--M. J. Young
Ah well. Bummer. Off to my quarters.
Pharaoh
Miralla follows you back.
"Are you all right?" she asks, suspiciously. "That was--well, weird."
--M. J. Young
bump
*Thank you for bumping this for me, Kyler.*
"I know you thought it weird. But I had to know if Ishara had the proper skills. I'm going to ask him to consider training me. There is sometimes method to you husband's madness, dear."
Pharaoh
I have skimmed over the thread, and it seems to me that these are the salient features at present:
- Destiny picked up a rebel organizer named Ruth Mekita, who is still aboard in transit to another location where she intends to continue her operations. You have had some conversation with her, but I have not seen a point at which she left the ship (which I might have missed).
- You just had a bit of a sparring match with Ishara, who is not terribly skilled at weaponless combat but apparently does have some skill at Mitzu Frenzy. You took an embarrassing fall, but there was no real winner or loser of the bout.
- Just prior to that you pulled yourself out of a botch on Alert Rest which required you to restore all of your senses, and you are mentally tired from having done so.
Oh, and welcome back.
--M. J. Young
I agree. And thanks for the welcome, old friend!
Ah, but I will always be your Young friend, I expect--or one of your Young friends.
Your attendance would be appreciated over at the development forum. There are a number of issues to be addressed.
So, having had your sparring match with Ishara, what do you hope to do next?
--M. J. Young
I will tend to my duties, and return to my quarters and see if Ishara shows up.
Is there a reason you would expect him to do so, and is that something you wanted or feared or what?
(I didn't see any reason for Ishara to come, but it may be that since I've been away from this thread so long I just didn't see it.)
--M. J. Young
It is something I wanted. After our sparing match, I told him he passed his audition and to meet me in my quarters after dinner. It's on the previous page of this thread.
Ah--thanks, I missed it.
You wait for a while, then you hit the sack.
Several hours later, there's a pinging.
Miralla says it's the door.
--M. J. Young
I'll answer the door.
It's Ishara.
"You said to come by after dinner. I assumed you meant my dinner."
He smiles in a way that suggests he knows full well that you were asleep.
--M. J. Young
"Whichever. Time means nothing when you have lived as long as I have. Have a seat?" I'll say offering him a chair.
"I'll cut to the chase. I'm looking for a martial arts instructor. I would like it to be you. You'll find I'm a relatively fast learner. Of course, such lessons would be compensated for. If you accept, what would you wish in return?"
He narrows his eyes slightly. "It's tempting," he says, "but I don't think I'm your man. If you want to learn to use blasters, rockets, lasers--just about anything you aim and fire--that's my field. In my opinion, if you're fighting bare-handed, it's because you failed to bring enough weapons."
--M. J. Young