Log:Jedi: Getting Jaxed

Getting Jaxed

OOC Date: September 9, 2018
Location: Arisnar
Participants: Jedi: Jax Greystorm, Ax, Rey, Jonn Drayson, Zandra naMuriel, Yuun, and Elrych Cometburn

The Kneeling bench had been moved to into a large circle into the room and the podium has been set to the side of the room. The windows were open allowing natural sunlight to stream into the room.

Jax was kneeling in one of the kneeling benches at the head of the classroom. He wasn't wearing his robes but dressed in a knit shirt and pants. He wasn't even wearing his saber buta heavy blaster. He's got a datapad in one hand as if he seems to be going over last moment notes as he waits for class to begin.

Elrych Cometburn enters, on time which is rather unusual for the Corellian. He's got those shades of his, sneakers, and is just taking out the earbugs from his lobes. His Robes sway as he walks and takes to his knees at one of the benches, nodding to Jax to let him know he's here. He looks around to see if anyone else is here yet, then looks to the door to see who walks in. His Stunsaber is hanging from his Robe's belt, ready to go for when the time comes.

Zan comes in a few moments after Elrych, pausing to glance around. She's not wearing armour - not her flightsuit, not robes, not anything except a forest green jumpsuit with black accessories. It matches, for sure, except maybe for the stunsaber at her side. She has a blaster too, but that's just the usual. She glances over at Jax first, but he's busy with his datapad, so her attention goes to the rest of the classroom. "Hey, Elrych," she greets with a smile.

Yuun is on the heels of Zan as they come in, granted it's not coordinated that way and Yuun is in some long shorts and a t-shirt as he walks in. His stun saber is at his waist, he looks around as Jax is teaching, he smiles. "Alright, hello everyone." he smiles as he looks excited to see so many people in class today

Rey steps through a door in the back of the room with a folded up outer robe in her arms that she sets down onto a table there. She also sets down a metal canister that had her water in it and within a moment she's perched on the table's edge with her feet come up to fold beneath her so she's seated cross-legged. She places her back against the wall and watches the others file in, she shows a faint smile and lets her eyes sweep around the classroom, toward the open windows where the desert air is filtering in with the scent of the ocean on its side. Otherwise the young woman remains quiet for now, folding her hands together in her lap.

~ Ax makes his way into the classroom, a pair of stunsabers in his hands. He was wearing his robes, and from the way he was moving, he looked truly ready for a class that involved swinging sabers at people, yep, truly ready. "Sorry I'm late, I was spending time with my wife on Nar Shaddaa, felt there were some things she and I needed to discuss before I flew back here," the Echani says. He looks around the room to those gathered, giving nods. His eyes settle on Rey for a moment, but he doesn't say anything before turning his attention to Jax. Probably feels good to not be the one leading the class this time. ~

Jonn Drayson was here. He had cargo pants on. He had a tank top on. He had his muscles on. And he had no shoes on. Were this not a dojo of sorts it would be disrespectful! Having earned the right, he had both his lightsaber and a stunsaber on belt hoops. Reducing injury. Considering how badly he wound up wounded during Resistance ops, he needed all the help he could get. "Good moahning all!" he said to the gathering crowd, his smile present and accounted for and his voice full of cheer.

Yuun is happy to see so many people here, it honestly felt good to see this. He walks over to Rey, "Nice to see you again Rey." he gives her a smile and than moves over to where Zan and Elrych are and he finds a spot and sits down on the floor. Though when Ax walks in, he quirks a brow, as he seems Ready for something.

Jax looks up as people strolling into the classroom. He turns to see Rey slip in the back. The Corellian smiles, "Good morning and welcome folks. I'm going to lead this class in more of a style of debriefing we had when I was Resistance instead of lectures that I had in my Corsec Classes." He says standing up and stepping into the circle. "I've been studying Reduce injury since I begin to study with the Aquanon Flare. It's one of a series of Force Skills that do similar things but in different ways. The other skills include Force Shield, Dissipate Energy, and even Protecting Wave. These skills don't seem to be neither light nor dark. Though the emotions and intent can be fueled by the darkside. THough training will probably involve pain and possibly hurting others. These in and of themselves can be dangerous. So I suggest searching your feeling if you want to continue coming to future lectures."

Elrych Cometburn glances back over his shoulder at Rey. He lowers his glasses so she can see his blue eyes a bit. Giving her a sly grin and an upnod. A 'hey what's up wingman' kind of thing. The only thing he's missing is some bubble gum. He turns his head back, sliding his shades back up the bridge of his nose as Zandra enters. "Hey there, Zandra... have a good flight?" He asks, giving a wave to Yuun as he comes in behind her. Then there's Ax whom he nods in understanding to. "No problems here, Ax." His smiles turns into a wide shavt eating grin as Jonn enters. "Papa Jonn! What's up?" He then looks to JAx and listens. "No pain no Gain, Right Papa Jonn!"

Zan smiles at Yuun's greeting. "Yuun, good to see you," she says with a smile. She offers a bright smile and a nod to Jonn, and follows that with a wave to Ax and Rey. Because she can. She settles into her seat as she listens to Jax carefully. And then she makes a face, but she stays silent. Perhaps she even searches her feelings as suggested. "I don't know about hurting others," she says after a moment. "For one thing, I suspect I wouldn't even hit anyone. But - I am okay with getting hit if it helps to learn, I think."

Rey's right hand raises up for a brief moment to give Elrych a thumbs-up gesture, another common pilot thing to do from cockpit to cockpit amongst wingmen. Yuun gets a soft nod from the girl. "To be seen is to be believed." Her smile shows a light grin touch tou it and the others also get a smile from her but she otherwise falls silent as Jax begins his lecture. Her hands remain in her lap and her legs are folded beneath her cross-legged style. She has a lot to learn before she can do these sorts of things herself, as 9 months ago she was living in a burnt out troop transport... and had been for years. Things change though. Another glance is given out the window on her right, but she settles her eyes back onto the others, remaining seated in her corner at the back of the classroom.

~ Ax finds a spot to lean against a wall, listening as Jax talks about it being a debriefing instead of a lecture. "Remember, even a stunsaber can be lethal if you hit just right. So, during training, I suggest holding back," he says. Ax looks to the others gathered. "A weapon doesn't need to be overly powerful if you are skilled enough to use it with precision. That's why this class is important, and something even I am in need of learning to do better." ~

Yuun grins at Zan, "Hey Zan." he says to her. He looks towards Jax as he begins speaking and is quiet for now.

Jax grins at Elrych's enthusiasm, " That is very true Elrych. There will be pain in this training. Though that being said in training if you start to become angry or injured, please stop. There is no need to power through that is not the training. Please stop and seek medical help if you're injured and if angry please stop and cool down. THen resume training when you feel better and in the mind set." He motions to Zan, "THat is alright, though uhm you do have to field test the tecnique somehow. You don't want to rely on the skill for the first time in combat. Also Ax is right. I wouldn't suggest actually using your stun sabers in this training directly at beginning." He gestures to Ax, "That being said would you try to strike me with a stun saber. I let the force flow into me and then out similar to what I do to telekinsis but I shape it as armor around me." He takes a deep breath focusing himself.

Elrych Cometburn nods to Jax, listening intently. "So we're simply shaping it a different way. Hardening it, focusing it to repel. Got it..." He closes his eyes and opens up his sense to the force so he can see How Jax manipulates his own flow and utilizes the ebbes and evves of the current as Elrych likes to imagine it. He dosn't try to replicate it yet though, just observes.

Zan listens, and then nods. "Oh, I am willing to learn," she says honestly. "It'll probably also be good for me to practice using the stunsaber." She then goes quiet, as she too reaches for the force to watch Jax with more than just her eyes. "Okay, I know it will be good for me, and I have been working on it, believe it or not. It's just not something that seems to come naturally to me."

Rey keeps a watch on the classroom and the others in front of her, her eyes focuses primarily pon Jax though but when others speak she'll shift her gaze toward them. "I'll just toss it out that if you hurt yourself, at least a little, let me know and I'll try to fix it." She offers to thsoe within Jax's lecture here this afternoon, but otherwise she remains where she is, though her right hand does drift over to her metal canteen to gather it up and take a sip from the cold water she'd loaded it up with just before coming into the class from the workroom.

~ Ax gives Jax a look, as if asking was the man sure. Then he's moving to approach the guy, powering up his stunsabers, and with a quick flurry, Ax cuts loose on the man. "Good luck," he says, knowing that the blows from a stunsaber were rarely pleasant. ~

"Dat's right, Elrych," answered Jonn, glad that his student was learning something at least through observation. "Payn is nahting to be fyeahed. It is a remindah dat you ah alive," he explained, as he stood from his sitting position to watch closely Ax's technique, and Jax's response. His eyes narrowed as he perceived the lack of impact despite a solid hit. "Dat's verreh interesting," he murmured. "To shaype der Foahse around you like ahmah."

Jax doesn't take the strike proving that he's not completely sure about it. Ax's first slash he dances out of the way as by reflex and the second proving that Jax had learned how to dodge a saber almost by reflex. The third strike hitting him sold in the middle. It should have knocked Jax to his feet and knocked out. The Corellian stands there with no damage and as if he's dodged the attack no worse for the wear, "THank you Ax." He turns to the class, "Zandra, as a jedi you should never feel that you're forced to fight or harm another being. It may require you to find another way. Remember these are tools for your protection and others. Violence is always the last option and some of the masters of old would argue that if we are forced with that option we have failed." He gestures to Rey, "You can also seek out Sesti and probably Ax. THough I won't speak for him with here. If Rey is not around. " He moves out of the circle to pick up a giant cooler and sits it in middle of the room. He then cracks open the case, "These are frozen snow.. I mean ice balls. These are not what you threw as a kid, sorry Ax and Rey. You probably didn't have that experiense. These will sting and hurt. But shouldn't kill you. I suggest a good old fashion snow ball fight to fight."

Elrych Cometburn raises and eyebrow and gives a nod as he watches the demonstration. "That is super useful. Especially for someone who might not be a combatant." He looks to Zan as Jax reveals the Ice Balls. "See, you won't have to really hurt anyone that bad. I mean, I could just run after you throwing these balls in your face... but that's just not productive for me either. We both have to throw balls at each other." He gets an idea, "Every man for them selves... BALL FIGHT!"

Zan looks a bit dubious. "I've never thrown these before either, but - that kind of seems like it might be fun?" she offers. Elrych gets a laugh. "It wouldn't be very productive, you are right. How do we make sure we each get some of these ice balls?"

Yuun is quiet for now, listening to the instructions that are being given and as Ax goes in at Jax and Jax dodges, he blinks as he watches. "There is always another alternative to violence." he says as well. Still the dark skinned Jedi Learner is amazed at Jax, how he didn't show any damage to the hit he took. He looks around at the others.

~ "Snowball fights?" Ax asks. That didn't seem nearly as much fun as stunsabers, but Ax wasn't running the class so puts his stunsabers away.

As Yuun speaks, Ax shakes his head. "No, there is not always another alternative," he says. "It's usually best to search for one, but there will be times, especially in war, when it will be you or them, and in that case, violence is the only answer. You are either prepared for it, or you aren't. Either you defeat your enemies or they defeat you, but it is very likely that you will face situations where violence is the only option."

As Ax speaks, he's approaching the cooler, glancing inside dubiously before reaching down to pluck one out. "That's cold," he mutters before tossing the snowball back into the cooler. ~

Rey offers a soft smile as she hears the rundown of the lesson. "Yes." She softly says. "I would've... had to find a way to pack sand together to create something even remotely similar to this exercise." She says with a little grin tugging at the corner of her lips. "I'll be here should someone need the assistance though, if you... put a little too much ice into it." She's learned enough about ice in the past 9 months to know that it could hurt quite effectively if it was rock solid!

Ooooooh, snowball fight. "You know, dey had snow days on Deh-non," he explained, walking over next to Ax to snag a ball from the cooler. He winced at the cold. The Echani wasn't kidding. Then he started walking. Away. To get a good pitch in, like a spaceball player or whatever. "Hey Elrych! Elrych!" he called out to his young student, trying to get his attention. Then, like all good action heroes, he rolled for initiative and opened the game with a witticism.

"ICE TO SEE YOU!" THROWN SNOWBALL!

Jax was standing in the middle and hadn't gotten a chance to dodge the ice ball thrown by Jonn. The ice ball striking Jax in the side of the head. THe smack revealing there was some ice in the snowbow. "Ouch. It still take a bit of a sting." Then escape from the circle going to close the windows. "Go get an armful before the others do Zan."

Elrych Cometburn was already digging through the Tauntaun cooler scouping up as many balls as he can. Though, he juts up, looking towards Jonn like a womprat in headlights. "What?" But then it's Jax who gets hit. Elrych starts to laugh then before moving quickly and attempting to lob on back to Jonn. "It's okay Jax. I SHALL AVENGE YOU!"

Zan glances at Jax, wincing as he gets hit, and then Oh! She darts towards the cooler, picking up two snow balls at least. heck, even if she can't aim, she can at least add to the mayhem. the discussion about when to use force, when to not, when to try to harm someone to keep them from harming you - all that is for the moment left to simmer. She turns to try to throw her snowball at ... at ... Elrych, just because she can. "Head's up" she calls, not entirely willing to just throw blindly.

As the snowball fight begins, Rey uncrosses her legs and raises her knees up so that her tan-colored clothed legs are up in front of her and her arms wrap around them, her nose goes forward and she just 'peeks' above her knees and watches the combatants as they start to toss the icy-spherse at one another. She's grinning as she watches, but thats not going to be visible as the young woman's using her own legs to hide behind now. "Concentrate." She says to them all though as she's noticing some pretty wide throws!

~ Ax steps back, going back to his spot on the wall. "Anyone hits me with one of those, I'm going to use my stunsaber on," he says with a grin. "I had more than enough snow and ice when we went to Ilum last week. I get any more down the crack of my butt, I'm gonna want to kill someone." ~

"Deyre is no emotion, Mastah Ax," Jonn quipped towards the obviously-joking master. Looked like jibes were being thrown better than the snowballs were! Retrieving a second snowball from the crate, Jonn wore a massive smile as he thought of all the cardio he was doing, running around the room, WORHKING AUHT, good compound exercises! "Cahm-ahn! You gahdda move yoah bahdies!" he instructed, as he threw another snowball into the melee. His intended target, Yuun, was missed wide. And the ball was going close to Ax!

"Remember throwing ice is not the goal of this exercise. You should be watching for the snowballs and trying the technique I explained to you. Pull the force around you." He chuckles at Ax, "Well Ax. You can try next week lesson out ahead of schedule. Take on a saber training remote without your saber." Then Jonn throws at Ax. Jax looks to Rey and just chuckles.

Elrych Cometburn is moving around quickly, his face sobering a bit when Rey tells them to concentrate. "Right, okay." He takes a deep breath and turns just as Zandra's ice ball slides far past him. He's about throw when that ice ball bounces off the wall behind him and smacks him square in the neck. So much for that force shield. It happens right mid thow, sending his own ball in some unintended direction. "Ouch..." He rubs the back of his neck, his other arm cradeling the balls against him. Yeah...

"I'm kind of glad we did not play this game on Ilum," Zan says with a sudden stop. She'd be a perfect target right then, only there are no balls headed her way. She has one though, and with all that is going on, she tries throwing it at ... at ... Well, heck, at Jax! Spin, turn, throw!

Finally getting up and getting out of his head, Yuun starts to participate with the others. Ax's words strike home for him, granted he's never been in war, but he's had to fight against gang members, so did his family. He shakes it off and uses the force to grab ice and sling it at Jax, aiming for his leg. You +raise your Ranged:fixed mounts to 100 at cost of 16 experience points.

Rey continues to keep her cover behind her own knees and she just stares with her dark eyebrows raised up nice and high as this is both intense and somewhat disheartening about her fellow young Jedi and their propsects to join some sports league throughout the galaxy where throwing might be a key element toward success as a team... As she sees Zandra lining up another toss she concentrates on the woman's snowball and tries to aide it silently through the Force to guide it on its intended pathway!

~ "Peace is a lie...." Ax mutters after getting pelted by a snowball. Silver/grey eyes turn towards Jonn. "I did warn you," the Echani says, igniting a stunsaber with one hand to draw attention while he's using telekinesis to launch a retalliatory strike at Jonn from the large man's flank. "Take that, puny little girly man." ~

There was a slight FWING sound as the snowball bounced off Jonn's ginormous pec. Only the lack of a wet patch and the distinctive sound were the indicators that it was Jax's aptly described technique that did the deflection and not just muscle. Jonn ain't got time to bleed. He skidded to a stop on his heels, unhooking and igniting the stunsaber as he went. "Cyeahful!" he said, beaming, cheerful, genuinely having fun at the antics, before he realized that his focus had actually served him well, and that he'd successfully deflected an incoming object. "Oh! Look at dat!" he exclaimed. "Jax it wyerked!"

Jax dodges Zan's snowball and then it turns coming to hit him directly. Though it strikes him in the chest but he doesn't even seem phased. Then Ax calls out a line from a different code and Jax's head whips around and gives Yunn the opening he needed to Tk a ice ball at him striking him in the hip. He grimaces and rubbing his hip. "It's going to be one of those days."

Elrych Cometburn in renewed and so now picks a target, Jonn. "Pay attetion to your surroundings Papa, Jonn." Taking a que from Rey and Yuun he tosses up one of the ice balls then reaches out his hand. It stops in mid air for just a moment but then falls right to the ground again. "Dang it..." He purses his lips and grumbles at his failed attempt. "I at least got it a little bit this time."

Zan dives for the cooler, to pull out a couple more snow balls. She aims one at Elrych, throwing it and the other she tries to TK towards Jonn. The thrown one might be close, but the TK - she's definitely not concentrating enough for that, and it just drops to the ground with the force of gravity. Course she's not running, ducking or dodging, just standing there. And really not getting very far, other than trying to concentrate. If she ever managed that force armour idea that she's supposed to be trying, it's long dropped. And probably she did not.

Scoring a hit, Yuun grins a little. He quickly moves away from the others and tries to keep out of the way. So far he isn't hit by anyones snowballs or ice just yet. Though eh did wince at the hit Jax took from his ice ball. He is going to note not to hit anyone anywhere important.

Rey is continuing to watch the fight from her perch on the table's top at the back of the room and her brow is wrinkled as her eyebrows are still lifted high above her eyes, her nose still down beneath her knees so she's still just peering over them... Once more she calls upon the Force and right after the cooler is abandoned for a moment... 4 snowballs rise up out of it on their own.

One snowball flies at each, Jonn, Zandra, Elrych and Yunn, aiming to pelt them right in their midsections! She's never been in a snowball fight before in her life, but this is training also and she wishes to help?

~ Ax liked messing with Jax's head, which is why he'd said what he did at first, and it had the desired effect. The Echani, stunsaber in hand, was chuckling, ready to swat any further snowballs out of the way as if they were blaster bolts. Yes, it defeated the purpose of getting hit and sucking up the sting, but having been raised on a desert planet, Ax wasn't exactly keen on getting pelted with frozen objects.

Soon, Qassa, one of the children that they'd rescued from the First Order's shadow troopers pokes her head into the room, tears in her eyes. Since coming here, the children have done alright, but they still had the occassional nightmares. Immediately, Ax lowers his stunsaber and gestures towards Jax that he was going to handle things outside. The Echani still wasn't sure how to handle the kids yet, but having recently become a father to twins, there was some pre-programmed paternal instinct that was kicking in. ~

Jonn Drayson, the party tank, was living up to his role. He didn't need to swing the stunsaber to deflect the incoming snowball. It just went blat (and FWING, can't forget the FWING) against his cast-iron stomach. "I am mayde of IHHHRON, and MAAAHSCLE!" he boomed out, daring anyone to challenge his role as the juggernaut. "Wit der powah of der Foahse!" Okay maybe he was indulging in the ham a little bit too much. Not literally this time. It was a miracle the Jedi larder wasn't constantly empty of everything good and meaty.

Jax nods to Ax and smiles. His own father instincts having kicked in with his nephew Senin. So Jax braves going through the melee and snowballs flying. He bends over into the cooler and reaches down to pull out a pair of Corellian Ales. "Yes there's enough for everyone one afterwards." He then opens one walking back towards Rey and holding out a bottle to her. He then takes a sip. "Just remember we got to clean up the class room. We're not leaving this mess to our maintenace guys." He calls out to the class.

Elrych Cometburn dives TOWARDS the ball that Zan throws at him, letting it impact his forehead and face. His shield didn't work their either. He growls a bit and then as Rey's ball pelts him in the gut he doubles over and lets out an "Oufff..." He goes down to his knees and grabs his stomach, dropping all the balls he collected onto the ground. "Ouch... I need more intense practice but I think I'm spent for today..." He catches his breath.

Zan is standing still, so Rey's ball hits her without any problem, and of course Zan's shields are nonexistent, so down she goes, with an oooof of her own. "Ow, that hurt," she says, but a moment later she's laughing, even while rubbing the spot that got hit. "I have never played this game before," she says, softly. She tries to get one of Elrych's dropped snowballs, but it just rolls about an inch and then stops, while she stares at it intently. "I think we should maybe clean up and try again another time," she suggests.

"Ooofff...." is all at comes out of Yuun, he looks in Rey's direction and laughs. "So it's like that and here I thought we were bonding." he laughs as he uses telekinesis and launches a snowball at her. The snowball flies through the air in an attempt to strike Rey, and at the same time he quickly moves behind a desk to get some cover.

Rey's chin comes up then and she pulls her legs a little closer up against her body so that her chin can riest between her knees. "I think Jonn is the clear victor here." She declares in her Core Worlds accented voice. "Well done, Jonn." She says to the large one with the accent that SHE often has trouble understanding. She then looks to Jax as he approaches with the drink and she can tell its an alcoholic beverage, which is something she's NEVER had before, so she just shakes her head and smiles softly. "I got some water, but thank you." She holds her canteen up then to put it on display before she looks on Jax again. "This was a creative idea for this lesson, I like it." She flashes him a quick smile then.. right as she gets a sense of Yuun's attack on her, which makes her yelp and DUCK, right as the snowball zips past her and slaps into the wall behind her!

"No problem. I chose it cause I figured everyone would be slightly sore. It's a mild sedative. THank you for liking the method. The nature of injury and pain make it a hard skill to teach. " Then Jax takes a drink of his and sits the one mean for Rey on the table. "Well Rey's declared Jonn the winner. There's a Corellian Ale for each of you at the bottom of the ice chest. Help yourslef. Let's get this place cleaned up. You're assignment for next week is to practice the concept I taught to you. As I saw lots of Telekinesis today. I expect you to be familar with the concept. I want everyone to share with the class what you figured out to be able to form the armor and any advice you'd like to share. We'll be facing training probes without sabers next time."

Elrych Cometburn nods to Jax, "Sounds good. Thanks Jax..." He stands and moves to the cooler to fish himself out a well deserved brewskie. He drinks it like Chris Pratt drink Mihcelobe Ultra, that sissy.

Zan gets to her feet, and goes to the cooler for that drink. She shakes her head though, as she listens. "I think we can probably manage that. Cleaning up I mean. And homework. Right. You're a touch teacher, Jax," she teases. There is definitely a smile on her face with that comment - she's obviously not seriously complaining.

Yuun grins and begins helping to clean up, "Will do Jax." he says as eh wipes snow off him and begins to work cleaning.