Appointments

[thefinaljedi]

This thread is for IC Appointments. If you need to reach Luke for anything, feel free to leave a message here.

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[seaoflight]

Oh?

[She raises an eyebrow imperiously. The effect may be spoiled by the fact that it's a hologram.]</small How should I act? What were you expecting?

[ignite_the_stars]

“I’ve… never seen a Grandmaster sit…” [He gestured to all of her. Especially the feet that had kicking.] “Like that.”

[seaoflight]

[She laughs and leans back, studying him with that same summery smile.]

And how many Grandmasters have you met that live as a spirit inside a holocron? And for that matter, how many have you met who weren't Yoda?

[ignite_the_stars]

"Well, none besides Master Yoda."

[He paused.]

"I've never actually spoken one on one with a Gatekeeper before. Holocrons were only accessible to Masters, and I mostly only saw them in group lectures."

[seaoflight]

Then you have no idea what it's like. Coming out feels freeing, frankly. That's why I'm probably not quite up to Master Yoda's standards, but...then I'm also nowhere near as old as he is. At least, I wasn't when this recording was made.

[ignite_the_stars]

[Anakin looked down with suspicion at the holocron in his hands.]

"So... you can tell when you're inside? Like, you're trapped inside a box?"

[seaoflight]

No. I don't really feel anything in there. I'm just a digital imprint, you understand. But I know when it's been activated and deactivated. And I do like being on, because it means I'm doing the things a holocron was meant to do.

[ignite_the_stars]

"And what's that? What were you meant to do?"

[seaoflight]

Guide the Jedi of the future, of course.

[ignite_the_stars]

[Anakin snorted.] "If you're a Master, you mean?"

[seaoflight]

Well, in my time only masters are permitted to make Holocrons.

[ignite_the_stars]

"In my time only Masters were permitted access to them." [He said it with a shrug, he guess that was a sort of symmetry. And though it wasn't entirely accurate, on a rare occasion a Master might utilize one during a group lesson, but those instances were so very few and dependent on the Master teaching the lesson that it was basically the same as saying only Master's were permitted to use them.]

[seaoflight]

Is that so?

[Nomi frowns, looking at the glowing crystalline matrix that was projecting her form.]

That is not what was originally intended. There were dangerous holocrons, yes, recovered artifacts of the Sith. But Jedi like Master Vodo-Baas or Odan Urr? Surely they are not so similarly restricted.

[ignite_the_stars]

[Anakin's blank look at the mention of those names should reveal all that he knew about those individuals. He had a feeling he was supposed to know more about them, but he couldn't place their names.]

"If the Council kept a store of Sith artifacts, they didn't tell the rest of the Jedi. And only Masters were granted admittance to the holocron Archives. Anyone of a lower rank wasn't allowed to possess or use the ones in the Archives. The few outside the Archives were... really just glorified storage devices, no Gatekeepers. I think a Master used a holocron for group lessons maybe... five times that I can remember."

[He shrugged.]

"I don't know. Maybe other Masters used them when training their Padawans. But they weren't used with me."

[seaoflight]

[His lack of knowledge was pitiable, honestly, given the level of importance they held within the Order's history. Nomi's frown only deepens.]

That is unfortunate. Extremely so.

[She takes a breath, or seems to anyway.]

A waste of knowledge. Pure and simple. But, no matter I suppose. I was not your teacher, or you'd have received that sort of instruction. Now, however, I am here.

You activated my holocron for a reason. What questions do you have?

[ignite_the_stars]

[Oh... well, if a waste of knowledge disappointed her so much, his inquiry was not going to please her.]

"I wanted to know what you knew about making Gatekeepers. That was also not taught to me."

[seaoflight]

[She clicks her tongue and drops back to the floor.]

Was the secret lost? Or just not taught?

[ignite_the_stars]

"Both? I wasn't taught, and I think they lost the knowledge to make them. But I don't think they would have taught me if they still knew how to do it."

[seaoflight]

Because of the prophecy surrounding you, I assume?

[ignite_the_stars]

[That shut Anakin up for a few moments. She'd clearly struck a nerve. He just stared at the hologram and contemplated deactivating it. But he felt that would somehow be wrong to the Gatekeeper.]

"I think they only reason they taught me anything was because of that prophecy."

[seaoflight]

I highly doubt that, Anakin. I truly do. All Force Sensitives are a blessing. Those with your talents? Well, let's just say you aren't alone in feeling that way.

[ignite_the_stars]

[Anakin's brow furrowed as he tried to make sense of that.]

"No... they refused to train lots of Force Sensitives. All the time. If someone was too old the Temple would not accept them. They rejected me at first- they never told me why they changed their minds."

[seaoflight]

[And she frowns as well.]

That...is not the Order I know. I was not trained until I was well over twenty, and had a daughter of my own. [A sigh.]

That is not why you wished to speak to me, though. You want to know how to create a holocron gatekeeper?

[ignite_the_stars]

"No, wait-" [YOu couldn't just drop information like that - a Grandmaster who didn't start training until she was over twenty years of age and already had so many attachments - and move on like it wasn't anything.]

"Go back to that. You were over twenty? There is a splinter group of heretical Jedi who accept adults initiates, but they were shunned from the Order and you couldn't even speak of them. You had a daughter? Did you have to leave her in someone else's care to become a Jedi?"

[seaoflight]

I was. I was twenty six when Master Thon began teaching me. And after that, Masters Odan Urr, Arca Jeth, and Vodo Siosk-Baas instructed me.

[She seems a little puzzled.]

And no, of course not. I did during the war, certainly, but Vima apprenticed under myself when I had the time to teach.