NJO 002.5 Zubaidah

Caleb, 8:56 PM

Ok so probably a week into meditation and training you  find yourself during some free time looking through the temple

Caleb, 8:57 PM

More of it has been rebuilt as the week has gone on and the with areas have no easy access anymore though that was just done a day or so ago.

Caleb, 8:59 PM

It is very spartanly decorated from what you have seen and always was it doesn’t feel like a massively grand or impressive structure or even the rebuilt ruins of one. It seems to have all ways been more functional than built for any aesthetic

Caleb, 9:00 PM

((Were you looking for anything in particular?))

Zubaidah, 9:00 PM

Zubaidah was really just looking for some positive vibes, maybe a quiet place to meditate. She's really, really bad at meditating and hasn't really been able to do it at all yet.

Caleb, 9:01 PM

So the group has been mainly doing meditating classes outside not a whole lot of stuff has been happening in the temple

Zubaidah, 9:03 PM

Zubaidah has failed outdoors! Maybe in the temple would be better.

Caleb, 9:05 PM

But going through you would find one spot in the temple on an upper floor it is a small oblong room it hasn’t been repaired but it is accessible and you feel a sense of calmness and serenity emanating from it

Zubaidah, 9:07 PM

Zubaidah will go with that, and try to meditate there.

Zubaidah, 9:10 PM

Zubaidah is usually too distracted and interested in the world to do it.

Caleb, 9:12 PM

Entering in there are no distractions just you and a sense of calmness and peacefulness that feels the exact opposite of the sith temple room

Zubaidah, 9:15 PM

Zubaidah takes a deep breath, pulls her shoes off and sits down to meditate.

Caleb, 9:22 PM

At first it seems to go about as well as usual a bit the feeling in the room helps you focus and be able to start doing the meditative practices that the Jedi have taught.

Zubaidah, 9:25 PM

Zubaidah tries NOT to be distracted this time!

Caleb, 9:28 PM

It seems to be working you start meditating and you seem to be able to rise above any distractions your mind throws at you

Zubaidah, 9:30 PM

Zubaidah tries to reach out in her mind and feel the world around her, like they said!

Caleb, 9:33 PM

You reach out and it doesn’t seem to be working and then for a brief moment you manage to sense all the trainee Jedi and actual Jedi and the temple

Caleb, 9:33 PM

And then you lose it and you come back to normal awareness in the room

Zubaidah, 9:35 PM

Zubaidah gasps.

Zubaidah, 9:35 PM

It does work.

Zubaidah, 9:45 PM

Zubaidah will try again.

Caleb, 9:56 PM

So starting over you calm yourself and try again

Zubaidah, 10:10 PM

Zubaidah does, this time putting her hands on the cool stones beneath her.

Caleb, 10:27 PM

As you do you find your awareness really just go away from the here and now

Caleb, 10:28 PM

That sense of calmness fills and envelops you

Caleb, 10:32 PM

That glimpse you had before is longer and deeper now you sense the temple and everyone around it

Caleb, 10:35 PM

As your conciousness expands or shrinks it’s hard to describe which you sense that cold slimy feeling and you are thrown out of the meditation more violently this time you come back to yourself laying on the ground if the small room

Zubaidah, 10:40 PM

Zubaidah sits up.

Zubaidah, 10:40 PM

… we should blow up that temple.

Caleb, 10:43 PM

As you sit up you feel sore and tosse around whole the room does have that sense of peace there is no padding in it just stone

Zubaidah, 10:44 PM

Zubaidah looks down at her hands.

Zubaidah, 10:44 PM

Zubaidah tries healing those bruises.

Caleb, 10:47 PM

In this room the outer feeling of thenn bin room combines with something inside you and over a period of time you feel and see the bruise fade from sight

Caleb, 10:53 PM

Part of you feels more at ease for having meditated but the intensity of the room is getting to you.

Caleb, 10:54 PM

While it is a comforting feeling it is as pervasive and surrounding as that creeping cold was

Zubaidah, 10:57 PM

Zubaidah kind of enjoys it... but it's a lot. Then again, she likes experiences.

Zubaidah, 11:11 PM

... what do you want, anyway?

Caleb, 11:18 PM

((Just asking that of the room?))

Zubaidah, 11:18 PM

((Yep!))

Zubaidah, 11:18 PM

((Aloud, because she's totally the kind of person who talks to herself.))

Caleb, 11:23 PM

You don’t hear anything but the feeling in the room seems to be pulling you deeper into the room

Caleb, 11:24 PM

You also begin to hear footsteps echoing through the temple about now

Zubaidah, 11:28 PM

Zubaidah stands up and goes to find whoever it is!

Caleb, 11:38 PM

Heading out  you see a heated but brief whispered conversation between wyen and cax they each head off without seeing you

Zubaidah, 11:38 PM

Zubaidah blinks.

Zubaidah, 11:38 PM

... hmm.

Zubaidah, 11:38 PM

((Where were they going?))

Caleb, 11:40 PM

Cax went up a different staircase across the hall from you and wyen went deeper in towards the section that used to have an entrance to the sith temple.

Zubaidah, 11:41 PM

Zubaidah follows Wyen.

Caleb, 11:44 PM

Heading deeper into the temple you notice the light seems dark rot seems your meditation may have gone a little longer than you thought

Zubaidah, 11:45 PM

Zubaidah gets involved.

Caleb, 11:48 PM

You see Wyen up ahead she appears to be inspecting the sealed off corridor not breaching just taking measurements and keeping an ear out

Zubaidah, 11:49 PM

((Which person is Wyen again?))

Caleb, 11:56 PM

(( she is a trandoshan you all didn’t interact with her in the last game she sat alone))

Zubaidah, 11:56 PM

((ooh, right.))

Zubaidah, 11:56 PM

((Zubi probably at least introduced herself at some point though. She's friendly like that.))

Caleb, 11:57 PM

(( I will say over the week yeah Zu I had had at least short conversations with everyone))

Zubaidah, 12:00 AM

Zubaidah watches for a bit.

Zubaidah, 12:04 AM

Hey, whatcha doin'?

Caleb, 12:05 AM

You watch as she whirls around seems to almost go for an object at her waist and stop as she sees who it is

Caleb, 12:06 AM

Wyen: oh hello Zubaidah just checking out the temple while we have a break, didn’t expect to run into anyone

Zubaidah, 12:07 AM

Oh. I thought you might be keeping watch for somebody.

Caleb, 12:10 AM

Wyen: why would you think that ?

Zubaidah, 12:11 AM

((24 insight on her.))

Zubaidah, 12:11 AM

Well, it would be a nice thing to do if someone else was going somewhere we're technically not supposed to go.

Caleb, 12:13 AM

((Hard to get a read on her but she is definitely hiding something, she also doesn’t seem nervous about being discovered))

Caleb, 12:14 AM

Wyen: and what would you do about it if so?

Zubaidah, 12:15 AM

I'd try to convince you we should go down and stop them from doing something dangerous instead, probably.

Zubaidah, 12:15 AM

I think the Sith temple should be destroyed. It's all moist and icky.

Caleb, 12:22 AM

Wyen: don’t you think it’s worth checking though ? Why are we studying tho close to a sith temple?

Zubaidah, 12:23 AM

I don't know.

Zubaidah, 12:24 AM

Well, we did check it, and there was something bad in it. I'm not sure what, but I could tell it was dangerous.

Caleb, 12:26 AM

Wyen: a deal then we won’t make any further moves and you don’t tell the Jedi anything.

Zubaidah, 12:27 AM

I'm not going to tell them, I just don't want anyone to get hurt by... the thing down there.

Zubaidah, 12:27 AM

Can't you feel how cold and... clammy it is?

Caleb, 12:30 AM

Wyen: it’s not the first sith site I have dealt with

Zubaidah, 12:35 AM

It isn't? Ugh, I'm sorry.

Caleb, 12:47 AM

Wyen: did you specifically see anything strange down there?

Zubaidah, 12:48 AM

Yes.

Caleb, 12:51 AM

Wyen: did the feeling seem to emanate from the temple or objects?

Zubaidah, 12:53 AM

Both, I think. Why?

Caleb, 12:56 AM

Wyen: it makes a difference in dark side contamination.

Caleb, 12:59 AM

Wyen: we will meet up in a better place and discuss more later.

Caleb, 12:59 AM

She heads out of the hallway you are in

Zubaidah, 12:59 AM

... well, all right.

Zubaidah, 12:59 AM

Zubaidah does too.

Caleb, 1:00 AM

((Is there anyone else you want to talk to or anything you want to do or just call it a night))

Zubaidah, 1:02 AM

((I think she'd like to talk to one of the Jedi about her experience meditating.))

Caleb, 1:02 AM

(( one in particular or just one of the Jedi?))

Zubaidah, 1:03 AM

((Either one.))

Caleb, 1:18 AM

So you go looking and first Jedi you find is Jedi Ugris

Zubaidah, 1:21 AM

Hi! It works! I meditated!

Caleb, 1:27 AM

Ugris: well done and what changed that you were able to focus?

Zubaidah, 1:29 AM

Well, there was this little room in the temple that felt... positive.

Caleb, 1:30 AM

Ugris: and it let you in?

Zubaidah, 1:31 AM

... does it not normally let people in?

Zubaidah, 1:31 AM

The door was open when I got there.

Caleb, 1:34 AM

Ugris: interesting, and the room allowed you to focus?

Zubaidah, 1:37 AM

Yes!

Zubaidah, 1:37 AM

It really helped. ... why, is that bad?

Caleb, 1:44 AM

Ugris: do you need the chamber to meditate?

Zubaidah, 1:45 AM

I don't know.

Zubaidah, 1:45 AM

Maybe not now that I know I can.

Caleb, 1:46 AM

Ugris : then meditate.

Zubaidah, 1:49 AM

Now? Here?

Caleb, 1:50 AM

Ugris does a slight nod

Zubaidah, 1:51 AM

Oh, all right.

Zubaidah, 1:52 AM

Zubaidah sits down and takes her shoes off, and feels the stone again with her hands.

Zubaidah, 1:52 AM

Zubaidah takes a deep breath, expels it slowly, and tries to meditate again.

Caleb, 1:55 AM

You focus and it is harder but you manage to block out the distractions and manage to sense briefly the force but the connection is fainter than it was in the room but you can hold it longer

Zubaidah, 1:59 AM

Zubaidah holds it as long as she can. She likes the feeling of connection.

Caleb, 2:02 AM

You feel it move through you you sense the other force users in the area the nearby animals, interestingly enough you don’t sense that room or the sith temple this time

Zubaidah, 2:03 AM

Zubaidah tries to project vague friendliness toward the animals! She's that kind of person.

Caleb, 2:06 AM

As you finish pushing those feelings you sense the meditation ending and while it shakes you it doesn’t knock you down like last time, you remain sitting

Zubaidah, 2:07 AM

Zubaidah beams.

Zubaidah, 2:07 AM

It worked again!

Caleb, 2:07 AM

Ugris: well done

Caleb, 2:07 AM

He offers a hand so you can get up.

Zubaidah, 2:07 AM

Zubaidah takes it and stands up, putting her sandals back on.

Caleb, 2:10 AM

Ugris: was there anything else?

Zubaidah, 2:12 AM

Oh. No, not really! Thank you so much, though. I'm sorry I couldn't do it before.

Caleb, 2:13 AM

Ugris: everyone learns at their own pace.

Zubaidah, 2:14 AM

She beams, waves, and heads off to get some food.