A New Home

[hadthehighground]

WHO: Obi-Wan Kenobi and YOU
WHERE: The Museum aka The New Jedi Temple
WHAT: Making a new temple for the Jedi!
WHEN: All of April
WARNINGS: None atm

The first days after they arrived back from Coruscant, Obi-Wan was busy. The Jedi essentially hitting the ground running now that he’s been energized by his vacation back home. The first priority was making sure Padme and the twins were comfortable. Then came the task of finding an appropriate place in Temba for a temple.

Before the impromptu trip to Coruscant someone had suggested the amphitheater. However upon looking it over the Jedi decided it didn’t suit the purposes that were needed. So he kept looking. Though he didn’t have to look far as he came across a cluster of buildings that seemed to be a museum complex. After looking over the overgrown and run down grounds he decided that it would be perfect. It would just need some cleaning up and repurposing.

Thus a call is put out on the network. Asking for help in setting up this new home for the Jedi if anyone is willing. Those with the engineering data points would be especially appreciated, as would the advice of those with agriculture for setting up a garden. But really any free hands would do with the promise of the favor being returned down the road.

The time didn’t matter as Obi-Wan will be working on it all month. Cleaning out the buildings and their exhibits. Pieces of artifacts carefully picked up and put away for later sorting and hopefully reassembly. One of the smaller buildings being converted into a holding place for animals and/or potential vehicles. The other intended for living spaces. The largest building was a grand hall and Obi-Wan intended this to be the main structure for learning, sparring, meeting, and whatever else they could use it for. Last but not least the smallest, yet very tall building with a large platform inside was to be made into a place of meditation.

There is a lot to be done and more hands make light work!

((OOC: Feel free to consider this a mingle thread! Obi-Wan isn’t the only Jedi around but I’ll throw him at anyone unless specified otherwise.))

Comments

[noch]

"I do not need my hands for that," she says plainly, sounding slightly puzzled by the simplicity of the request. But hey, if that's what Ezra needs, then she'll oblige, moving over to stand in front of the patch he'd indicated.

Green ichor flows from her hands and into the earth, where the dirt opens up into a series of holes about the size he'd indicated, lined up in neat rows and columns. She leans over them, inspecting her handwork, and makes a pushing sort of motion with her hands so that the holes get a little deeper. She leans back, satisfied. "That will work?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Uh. Yeah, I think so," Ezra replies, not even trying to hide that he's staring. He does get up to come around and actually look at her handiwork.

"That's...a lot of fine control. And fast and all at the same time? Like, yeah, I could dig with the Force, but for something small like this, but might as well use a tool."

[noch]

Sorry, Ezra, Nightsisters will pretty much always use their magick first, even if they have two perfectly capable hands. Or legs—case in point, Merrin takes every chance she gets to teleport when walking would work just as well.

"I did not realize the Force was so limited." Her tone is very dry, like she... could be teasing him. Actually, she kind of is. The Jedi and their Force still strike her as very strange, but after all the time she's spent with Cal and Cere, it's an endearing sort of strange.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Well, I'm a Padawan and not one of the wise masters," Ezra shoots back, smiling. "Maybe it'd be easy for someone with more experience. But we're also supposed to be prudent and restrained...."

He smirks, because he does know that probably doesn't make much sense from the outside looking in, that so much of Jedi training is learning not to use their powers, or their lightsaber.

[noch]

Prudent and restrained. No, it really doesn't make much sense from the outside looking in—at least to Merrin. What's the point of honing your skill if you aren't allowed to use it?

Her feelings are probably plain in the skeptical look she shoots him, her eyebrows raised. "You are... restrained from using your Force?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"We're encouraged to learn and train but not use it just because we can. I think it goes back to the idea that we shouldn't get wrapped up in power for power's sake?" Ezra offers.

"Balance," he adds, after thinking for a second.

[noch]

Ah, well. Considering she's seen exactly what happens when a Jedi gets wrapped up in power for power's sake, as he puts it, she kind of understands his point there. Still, she's... not entirely sure how that connects back to being prudent and restrained.

"So if you use your Force too often, you fear losing control?" she asks, her tone still slightly incredulous. But Cere had expressed a similar sentiment to her once before, so in her own way, Merrin is trying to understand.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra scrunches up his face. "I don't think I'm explaining it well," he says, apologetically.

"Not losing control in a way someone untrained might, doing something on reflex. I mean, maybe if you were really emotionally unbalanced, that could happen." But in his experience, that's not how the Dark Side really works.

"I more mean...losing perspective. Justifying things to yourself."

[noch]

"Ah. Yes, I understand that well." The reply is immediate, straightforward but slightly muted, and she nods her head while she turns her gaze away. Losing perspective, justifying things—she'd let revenge slowly consume her in just that way, after her sisters had died. But she'd never felt like she was losing control of her magick so much as her sense of self.

Maybe they're not so disparate, though. After all, she'd used her magick to attack Cal, even after he'd tried to reason with her, to offer peace. At the time, she'd even thought it was justified. The Jedi's idea of the dark side is still a nebulous concept for her, but she thinks she understands Cere's fear of it a little better now.

But first... "What do we do now, with these holes?" Plant things, she supposes?