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| Chancellor_Kruus | Date: Monday, 14 April 14, 3:11 PM | Message # 11 |
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I'd like to ask the reason for the inability to cause Force Terror? Seems very much like his thing and it'd be resistible by those trained in the ways of the force. Naturally players are always rping themselves as "vastly too strong minded" to feel anything severel.
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I'd be willing to concede that he can only use his Tutamnis if he's unarmed and requires both hands to do so (do cannot combine it with use of a lightsaber).
I'd like to then Replace Storm with a complete Mastery of Alter Environment, it's a group of abilities which ranges to altering tiny things like the passage of a cloud to the more dramatic. Kerethon is able to control the environment within a couple of dozen meters at best but Kadek, having spent years in the Sulon wilderness to practice is able to alter his environment relatively easily if not indoors (although indoors he can still burst pipes by causing sudden pressure within them, etc), being inside is a severe limitation on the applicability of this power. However, it has its uses even there, allowing him to open paths through flaming corridors etc to allow escape etc. While he would not be arrogant enough to raise mountains, he certainly has a gift for control of the elements and things in his environment, being able to alter their state of matter, temperature etc easily, also being able to control the air pressure to throw or lift items without using the force directly (although clearly this is easier on a windy day)
Like Ploo Koon, as a Sentinel he studied physics to a great deal in order to be better able to help the world he was watchman on. And now he has a similar level of mastery.
Concentration is obviously required for anything wide scale than actions merely covering 50 feet or so.. And while this power has great potential utility in battle, using it to directly damage another (by encasing them in ice or trapping them in fire for example) would be considered total deviance from the path of the Light side. Instead the non-lethal is encouraged, mens boots being frozen to the ground, metal weapons frozen to their skin temporarily or bringing down lightning on a nearby tree to damage a hostile vehicle. etc.
In theory, Anakins fantasy could be lived, if Kadek called up extremely high whirlwinds in a bushfire or magma field etc.
It's one of the basic alteration abilities which is taught at the Academy. This control of the natural world and its elements is Kadek's true forte, being an advocate of the living force he has a slightly alternative philosophy of being "one with nature and the force" and so is able to do many alterations others would regard as remarkable like using an extension of his own body. This family of abilities in the control of the elements is likely where Kadek shines out above the rest of the order's Masters, in sheer attachment to the entirety of things he is able to shape them to his will.
However, Kadek dislikes spending time on Coruscant, or in trying to share his abilities with those who ultimately don't share his transcendental and slightly unorthodox view of a universal one-ness, as mentioned, a truly living force, so does not advertise this ability and pretends he has only minor skills in the "family of skills" when in fact he is a master of many elements. It's sugested in the Jedi manual to actually use this ability in battle but Kadek has always avoided displaying the ability when it came to fighting, the closest being his use of Plant Surge in the past.
As he operates under less scrutiny and observation at his own Academy, it's likely he may begin to open up and share his abilities with those who he believes share his approach and thinking.
Kerethon
Happy with the Caveats.
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| Mike | Date: Tuesday, 15 April 14, 12:26 PM | Message # 12 |
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| Kerubiel
I just think it's one of those powers that is better suited towards the 'mass NPC' use, and to be honest, we haven't seen much of Kerubiel to show he even does anything up-close like that. It's not a necessary power and until we see more of Kerubiel, I don't feel comfortable with him using a mess of Force powers.
Kadek
Sorry man. Either Tutamnis or Soresu. I don't want to skirt the line on this one.
I'll wait to see what Jace says on the Alter Environment.
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| Emir_Kadram | Date: Tuesday, 15 April 14, 12:27 PM | Message # 13 |
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| I'll stick with my saber thing then. The absorbing energy thing doesnt seem very Zen. And he's a zen guy
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| Mike | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 3:23 PM | Message # 14 |
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| Well, that's one matter down.
I'm still not convinced by Alter Environment, though.
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| Jamie_the_Hutt | Date: Sunday, 20 April 14, 4:19 PM | Message # 15 |
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| Jace! Arise!
and I suppose for Kadek Replace "Art of the Small" Electronic Manipulation since thats whats I intended it for.
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| Mike | Date: Wednesday, 28 May 14, 1:16 PM | Message # 16 |
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| We still need to hash this out.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Friday, 30 May 14, 9:59 PM | Message # 17 |
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| I vote to DENY Art of the Small and Electronic Manipulation.
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| Mike | Date: Saturday, 31 May 14, 0:42 AM | Message # 18 |
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| So with those denied, Jamie, what exactly is left to cover?
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| Chancellor_Kruus | Date: Tuesday, 03 June 14, 6:40 AM | Message # 19 |
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| Alter environment for Kadek, just his degree of Mastery I think.
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| Mike | Date: Wednesday, 04 June 14, 7:43 PM | Message # 20 |
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| Quote Chancellor_Kruus (  ) being able to alter their state of matter, temperature etc easily
Alter environment is one of those abilities that has always struck me as something of... excess. Granted, expanded universe (or 'Legends' if you prefer the new title) does create a lot of things that are legitimate. The Twi'lek Chir'daki, the Vong (no matter how much people hate them), the Witches of Dathomir and a number of races that are neat, etc. However, the expanded universe also includes Tyber Zann, the Darksaber battlestation and Darth Maul resurrecting from the dead and then taking over Black Sun (if I recall correctly). Point being, not everything that exists should. Things are all fine and good in a novel, or a story, where the writer has sole control over their characters and has a preset outcome. It's for that same reason that we deny super star destroyers, the Vong, the Death Star, etc. as a playable item.
Regardless of Ka-Dek's predisposition as a light side character, I just feel that something to the level of Alter Environment to which you are describing, would put Ka-Dek among the most powerful (if not the most powerful) of Force-users in the RP. I'd much prefer a slightly upgraded version of what Kerethon can do.
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