[Jean] Chapter 10: Ceremony

[Throndir]

"Ki iz it? Very well..."

Vitaliya began explaining what Ki was. She described it as a river that continued to flow within your body spreading to each of part of your body.

Feel free to roll as many times through the rest of the day as you need.

Trainings
Sense Ki: 1/4

[pringerbeam]

Training Test

Rolled 1d20+6 : 8 + 6, total 14

Forced Training Test

Rolled 1d20+6 : 20 + 6, total 26

Associated CON Test

Rolled 1d20+12 : 6 + 12, total 18

[Throndir]

Location: New World - Wind Temple of Velothia - Training Grounds
Date: Day 4 - 6 PM

By the end of the day, you managed to make fast progress with sensing ki. You weren't quite there yet, but you at least felt like you were making progress.

Trainings
Sense Ki: 3/4

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     Jean finished his training and headed back to the house for dinner.  Afterwards, he sat down to study the book with Anja and check on her progress. 

Training Checks for continuing studying the book

Jean

Rolled 1d20+6 : 4 + 6, total 10

Anja

Rolled 1d20+6 : 7 + 6, total 13

[Throndir]

Location: New World - Wind Temple of Velothia - Training Grounds
Date: Day 4 - 10 PM

Anja had made a lot of progress learning latin. She focused her attention all in this particular section of the book, as the blood magicka that you were attempting to learn seemed to have been written primarily in latin.

Trainings
Jean - Knowledge (blood magicka): 1/4
Jean - Sense Ki: 3/4
Anja - Language (latin): 5/8

It was around that night, when Dalina noticed something.

"The egg! It's pulsating? Guys, I think it's almost time... That was rather fast too..."

Turning towards the egg, as Dalina said it was was indeed pulsating with the green glow. It wasn't quite rhythmic, sometimes it would speed up, or slow down, but eventually the first crack stated to form. Bits of light flooded through the cracks.

"It's opening..." Anja said quietly.

More and more pieces of the egg shells cracked through, as more and more green light shone through. After a few more moments, it appeared.

Spoiler

It was color green, though, there seemed to be green flames that came off from its body.

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     "How long is it usually supposed to take?"  Asked Jean as he got out of bed to stand before the hatching egg.  "Wow...  That's some cool shit..."  Said Jean in awe of the light shed from the bird.  He reached out to touch the flames and pat the bird on the head.  "So...  Guess you're going to need a name...  How about...  Viridio?"  He brushed  the back of his index finger against the bird's feathery breast.  "Was it like this with Gust too?"  He set his arm down in front of the bird like he had seen a falconer do at the zoo and beckoned with his hand to try and get the bird to perch there.

[Throndir]

"For Gust, it took about a month." Dalina said. Gust, sitting near the window, flew in, and landed on Dalina's shoulder. The bird too was looking at the new-born.

When you waved your hands over the flames, it didn't hurt at all. You noticed that the bedding around him too wasn't catching on fire. It seemed as if the green flames was perhaps decorative, or perhaps only willed to burn by the fiery green bird.

"But wow... I've never seen a bird like that before."

When it came out of the shell, it was evident that it was a baby chick. However, it was larger than what you expect a baby chick like Gust would have been. In fact, it was almost the same size as Gust, even though it was a newborn.

The chick chirped, but you noticed your translation didn't trigger for it. Gust started replying back however.

"Welcome! Welcome! Hello little one!"

When you held out  your hand, the baby chick seemed to stare high up ahead, then attempted to flap it's wings, which too, were wreathed in green flames. It managed to take flight, though, wobbly, and eventually landed on your arm.

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     Jean looked at Viridio, now perched on his arm.  "So...  Now what?  Is there some other ceremony I need to do now?"

[Throndir]

Dalina grinned.

"You skipped all of that already! The only ceremony was really a recitation of passages in our scripture, along with the gathering at the end... But because of Anja's accident, and the fact you two were preoccupied with studying the book, I used my position as the Priestess of the Hero to convince everyone to skip over the rest of the ceremonies... Remember the food? I managed to get enough of those at least, with Ren's help."

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     "Alright, well...  Welcome to the crew Viridio."  He looked around.  "Think they need someplace to sleep or roost?  Come to think of it, where does Gust go to sleep?"

[Throndir]

Dalina grinned.

"It's up to you and the Viridio really. Gust sleeps either on my bed, or up on the roof, but he has one too in one of the nearby trees. Gust can help Viridio get situated as well, along with slowly teaching Viridio how to communicate."

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     "Well then...  I guess I'll leave it up to Viridio."  He tried looking into the eyes of the bird.  "As amazing as it is that you're here, it's the middle of the night and we all need some rest.  Hopefully you're tired enough from hatching that you need the sleep too.  Make yourself comfortable."  He set Viridio down in the middle of the room and got back into bed.  He waited to see where Viridio chose to roost for the night before going back to sleep.

[Throndir]

Once you climbed into bed, everyone else began to depart for theirs as well. Each of them continued to look at the new chick.

Viridio eventually decided to hop and flap it's wings towards your bed, and hopping up in it, made itself comfortable at the corner of your bed, near your head.


Location: New World - Wind Temple of Velothia - Dalina's Home
Date: Day 5 - 6 AM

That next morning, you woke up with everyone still asleep. The first thing that greeted you was the sight of the slimeling comfortably propped up against Viridio. As always, the slimeling was already awake, or at least actively moving. It waved a tendril at you when it noticed you were up.

State actions for the day, Anja will continue to read the book, but mention if you plan to help her study it more as well. Gust will be attempting to train/teach Viridio. The other companions will just be lazing around.

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Plans for the Day

Train Sense Ki then train Use Ki if Completed, 3 Sessions
Session 1

Rolled 1d20+6 : 7 + 6, total 13

Session 2

Rolled 1d20+6 : 12 + 6, total 18

Session 3

Rolled 1d20+6 : 18 + 6, total 24

Constitution Check

Rolled 1d20+12 : 14 + 12, total 26

Studying Book with Anja
Self

Rolled 1d20+6 : 11 + 6, total 17

Anja

Rolled 1d20+6 : 2 + 6, total 8

[Throndir]

Location: New World - Wind Temple of Velothia
Date: Day 5 - 6 AM -> 10 PM[/b]

By the end of the day, you managed to completely learn how to sense Ki. Like how Vitaliya described it, it was like a river that flowed in each being. Unlike the sense of mana, where even every blade of grass would have miniscule amounts of it. Ki seemed to only be in beings with a 'soul'. Vitaliya had begun teaching you how to make use of the Ki as well, and you felt like you made a lot of progress for the 12 hours you spent training.

Once you reached back home with Dalina, you began to go over the book with Anja, and taking a look at her own progress as well. By the end of it Anja was able to read and write latin. It was an impressive feat, given the fact that she learned it from both cross-referencing, along with taking down thorough notes and asking you specific questions on everything. Even Dalina was amazed, but Dalina mentioned that Anja always had a knack for learning.

Trainings
Jean - Sense Ki: 4/4
Jean - Use Ki: 3/6
Jean - Knowledge (blood magicka): 2/4
Anja - Language (latin): 8/8

We can move on to Day 6 next. Just state actions/rolls.