kiwiseeds
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Post by kiwiseeds on Feb 28, 2024 7:43:40 GMT -6
She’s tried to feel her way and just felt like she couldn’t trust her body to finish standing with out the support she was breaking her back to give. She’d listen to Master Cobb.
Now she wasn’t sure she could feel any kind of power from anything but she silenced that part of her mind and remembered she was doing something completely different. It helped that Master Cobb was helping her breathe. She really felt the vibe he was spreading. It almost became instinct it was more than just breathing without thinking. It was breathing in tandem with his sway influenced by it she had a thought.
She felt it warm and honestly if it was longer this could be easier. Her mind did the mental math down to the inch of what she would need to make up for what she currently lacked.
Suddenly with her grip still on the pole it yanked her arm up and she let out a vocal exclamation as she tried to keep up. Her knees straightened and both hands grabbed the power pole digging it deeper in the sand. She worked on keeping her balance as the post she stood on would sway to the change in weight distribution.
Every muscle, and Kiwi was absolutely certain every muscle was stiff and working to keep her up. She breathed to try and make the initial panic stop and really feel if she had control over the situation.
She was standing but wasn’t still quite balanced. However a few more moments she would feel the base of the post come to equilibrium and she relaxed a bit more. Enough to look at Master Cobb and Mayo they might could see the anxiety in her gaze but she waited to see what next or if she was done.
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Post by Vo Lang on Feb 29, 2024 17:38:32 GMT -6
Mayo was ready cause most people end up launching themselves hundreds of feet into the air, or yanking themselves down to the ground from losing balance or being unsure with themselves. However, it seemed Kiwi at least had a better head for exact needs. When she got to full standing height Mayo gave a small look of surprise and nodded his head.
Master Cobb would grin rubbing at his beard before clapping.
"Very good, take a break, try it again. Until you can get onto the totem and stand balanced as if it were second nature."
Master Cobb would walk away to yell at some students who were throwing food at each other at a camp site. Mayo however would help Kiwi down if she needed it.
"Hey, not bad for a beginner. What'd you think of magic? Most people react a bit more shocked to realizing magic is real."
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kiwiseeds
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Post by kiwiseeds on Feb 29, 2024 18:01:33 GMT -6
She finally exhaled and relaxed a bit. She would crouch and grab Mayo’s hand as she used the other to support her descent with her new pole.
“Magic is something I have heard of, I mean I passed by a place rumored to have Fortunetelling witches. However having seen or proof of is a whole new field of unknown… I’m more surprised that I can wield it… I wonder why something like this was able to read my intentions but Ki was not?” She would hold her pole and really get her scouter to measure it. She had questions on if Father knew or if Tuffles had a rule against it. If so that seems like a stubborn and neglected piece of advantage they could have had.
She would make more mathematical calculations to feel it in her hands and intend to shrink it. She felt the warmth again. Watched it, The energy that came off the shortening power pole and her hands was far different.
“I really want to study this more.” Her heart fluttered. She didn’t seek power from this but the learning process she was seeing opened doors to new possibilities and her chest swelled, her eyes glittered, her face couldn’t help but grin and exhale a giggle. It was something she couldn’t hold back and her hand went to her mouth while her feet danced to try and contain her new thrilling endeavor.
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 3, 2024 16:31:45 GMT -6
Mayo would laugh as she seemed a lot more fascinated by it than scared or questioning. He didn't know anything about Tuffle affairs so he really couldn't comment or help her thought process, but he could share his own point of view.
"A lot of the time when it comes to Magic people discredit it without proof, because it's considered unscientific. Since explanations are much more... Mystical, Earthlings like to think it's superstition, and must have a logical scientific explanation, but don't realize Magic if you can harness it fully is just science. So when they explain some magical phenomenon with science, they are right, but also wrong. Yes that explanation is probably what they person who did the magic used, but there was an energy of manipulation."
Mayo would his left hand up, palm up and Kiwi would be able to see some kind of air swirling, if she used her scouter to scan it she would see a density of hydrogen, he would lift his right hand in the same way with swirling air, except it was pure oxygen. He would bring his hands close together and the air would collide and create water. Scientifically water is two hydrogen and one oxygen, both a gas, but when combined through magic with the intent to make two hydrogen and one oxygen fuse on the molecular level they turn into a swirling ball of water. So for anyone who didn't understand what happened Mayo just created water out of thin air, nothingness. An impossibility.
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kiwiseeds
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 3, 2024 19:21:17 GMT -6
She adjusted her scouter like she would her glasses. And her smile didn’t fade her shoulders rolled a bit as she watched and listened.
“Ooooh…You basically used magic as a binder for what is natural and known.” She exhaled a satisfying breath. “That sooo cool!”
What he didn’t know, as far as she understood, and as far as she won’t outright tell, she wasn’t human. Not entirely. Her scope of mind naturally went beyond the basic logic of both races. Walking the line of Tuffle and Human and now walking the line of Science and Magic… she could use that and the benefits can’t even be thought of with her current scope of understanding. But she was getting started.
“Ok…” she tore her eyes away from his hands and looked at him. “I think I found what I was looking for… maybe it’s not exactly fighting spirit but it will inspire me to fuel it. Then we will see what happens.”
Climbing the tower would seem to be pushed back, not off her priorities for she needed to test herself still. But she felt she didn’t need it in order to discover where her strength can come from. Suppose that was the answer she was looking for most of all. On her way here she saw many things and realized the world was way bigger and all it’s problems are not so simple to solve. She definitely needs this, and she realizes now a screen with access to the world web with all its knowledge was not going to bring it to her.
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 3, 2024 19:45:16 GMT -6
"Glad I could help!"
Mayo wasn't sure exactly what he helped with because he wasn't super smart and her explanation left him with questions about some pretty basic concepts so he dropped it and acted like everything was fine.
"So, would you like to try again? Once you find your balance."
Mayo would put his hammer down and it would extend up placing him on a near by Totem, lifting off one leg and causing the hammer to retract he held it out and stood pretty well balanced.
"It gets a lot easier. Then you can learn the technique."
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kiwiseeds
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 3, 2024 19:50:41 GMT -6
“Yes.” She replied with an enthusiastic nod before gripping her pole again and approaching his hands with the post to continue the task at hand.
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 4, 2024 11:38:44 GMT -6
Mayo would help her onto the Totem once more.
"Remember Master Cobb's breathing exercise and use the power pole. When you can retract it down and not use it against the ground and find your own balance with it. You'll be ready."
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 4, 2024 12:35:58 GMT -6
She would do the mental math of what she would need and extended the pole in her hands before letting Mayo help her on the post again. His assistance this time was greatly appreciated. She kept thinking if she had her suit this would be no problem but that was against the point.
Once she had her feet on the top of the post she would have her pole ready. Slowly she would try and feel where the bottom of the post had to be grounded and balanced. Then she would feel with her body where it should be to keep it there. This was a lot of muscle work she had to consider.
It took her a while but she worked on relying less and less of her power pole she didn’t shrink it back but she held it with both hands in front of her in a vertical position if she felt herself become so unbalanced that she was about to eat dirt it went back into the ground to save her.
All the while she was breathing. She tried to keep the fear of falling in check and it helped but she kept getting startled when the shifting in balance moved her.
“I’m not sure I’m going to… Master this all at… all at once.” She said with a struggling tone and every pause was her having to refocus her balance. She did feel like while she could balance here she would see it wasn’t perfect and. It surely wasn’t a secured balance. She was going to tire out eventually, maybe it will take a while. But if she had to be like this for hours that will be something she’ll feel for the next few days.
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 22, 2024 17:53:07 GMT -6
Only a few days would pass as Kiwiw would get to know the other disciples while she tackled the hurdle of the Totem, how the different schools focused on their selected style, developing alongside each other for many decades before getting to where they are now until at the end of the third day she would pass with having found the balance she needed.
"Oh man."
Mayo put a hand to his head as she got the approval of passing.
"You are this much closer to attempting to climb the Tower and meet The Guardian."
Master Cobb would nod from his spot of observation while stroking his beard.
"Tomorrow morning you will learn to use the Power Pole as a new limb. That will be the technique you must master."
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 22, 2024 18:20:54 GMT -6
“Wait… meet the who?” She raised a brow.
Her stance was sturdy. Her body was sore. Her pole was horizontally raised as she balanced with her body alone.
She turned her head with the approval and would breathe a sigh of relief if she wasn’t on this pole she was eating or sleeping.
She would crouch and jerk her feet out from under her holding onto the top of the post before letting it go to drop down completely. To when she was on the ground she would flop to the sand. The work out she was getting would be catching up and it was a level of soreness that made her fully aware of every muscle in her body.
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 22, 2024 18:26:54 GMT -6
Mayo would sit next to Kiwi as she relaxed and would look at her puzzled.
"The Guardian of Earth? The reason we all attempt to climb the tower?"
He watched for a few seconds to see if he could pick out any recognition to his words.
"Wow, uhm. There is a being in a lookout above the clouds here known as The Guardian of the Earth. Chosen by divine beings to protect and look after the planet. A kind of caretaker."
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 22, 2024 18:33:17 GMT -6
“Oh… that sounds familiar some how.” She pondered where it was she might have heard something about that. Maybe from her father?
“I just kind of thought it was like climbing the highest mountain. You put your flag on top or look out across the horizon and just feel success… you know?” She propped her staff where she sat. “Everything else I looked at I took it as almost a myth. Maybe to attract those inspired to challenge it?”
She looked up and squinted at the bright sky and wondered what kind of fellow simply lived up there?
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Post by Vo Lang on Mar 22, 2024 19:02:51 GMT -6
Mayo would think it over. It made sense to him that most people would see it as a superstition. He wondered if he would also have viewed a lot of what he knew now as fact as the ravings of a lunatic if he hadn't been raised in it.
"I guess you have a point. So few people every actually make it to the top and back down that a lot of what we know is word of mouth. I think the last people to complete the challenge were star pupils for each sect who were in the runnings to take over as Guardian."
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Post by kiwiseeds on Mar 22, 2024 19:33:15 GMT -6
“So… it’s a Person? Like an Human right?” She would clarify. “One person protects all of Earth. I guess then the test is if you can climb it then you are in amongst the contenders to replace them.”
That logic pieced together rather well in her point of view.
She fiddled with her scouter to see if it could even see high enough to get an energy reading from the tower.
She was definitely imagining some old wisened sage probably looking to retire. Maybe he or she could help her with some things. She wondered just what kind of knowledge a hermit like that could possess.
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