Lurker visits The Old Republic
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"Can you make the ball teleport if you try to push it?"

"And if you use speed you should be teleported randomly."

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"What! No!"

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"Not everyone can be as fast as you, Ana."

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"But I like going fast..."

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"I can cast on the ball." She doesn't comment on the rest.

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"Yeah, but what about the speed thing? Can you do that one?"

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"Sure," she ducks her head a bit to hide the worst of her grin. "Should I?" This is directed at the group as a whole.

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There is a chorus on the theme of "yes".

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Ana groans in a good-natured way.

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Now, she laughs. "Sorry, Ana." Back to the group: "Anything else? Special rules for teleporting between the circles, maybe?"

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"If you go out of bounds you go to a random circle?"

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"Sure," nod. "Anything else?" She looks around the group, making sure nobody seems to have an idea they're too shy to share.

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No one else seems to have any more ideas.

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"All right. Pass me the ball?"

And a few seconds later, the playing field is set up as requested, and they can get back to it.

It's entirely possible that they pass the entire afternoon this way.

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Not only possible, but likely!

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And the kobold presumbaly learns several common force applications.

When the sky in the west starts to change color, she teleports up a squat obelisk of the local, light grey stone, and gives it a piece of painter's tape and a portal back to the Academy.

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How convenient that the two planets have similar day-night cycles! Several of the Jedi stop to thank the kobold for setting up the game.

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Convenient that the kobold learned that trick already, yep. They won't be perfectly in sync but they'll stay close long enough that she won't end up moving too often if she decides she cares about local time near her base.

She bows to the polite Jedi with a grin. "Thank you for helping me learn."

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What time is it? Food Time! Would the kobold like to come along again?

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Yup!

She doesn't repeat the magical food trick.... well, all right, she'll repeat it a little, here's a pair of tiny fruit pies, one for her and one for Ana. But most of her meal is cafeteria-sourced, this time. She goes a little heavier on the meat than average for this largely-vegetarian crowd, but well within the limits of what she saw people doing earlier. Nom!

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Om nom weird other-universe fruit!

Some of the people from the afternoon want to come over and talk about the game and also about where the kobold learned to do the teleport thing.

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The kobold is pretty forthcoming, since this seems not to be something she's expected to keep a secret. She's from another world, it doesn't have the force and has an entirely different kind of magic, she's not force sensitive at all unless her magic-vision counts which it really doesn't, teleportation isn't the only kind of magic on her world but it's the only one she knows very well, she can teach it but she hasn't decided if she's going to yet, even if she doesn't she can still help them out with stuff - mages like her aren't usually front-line sorts anyway, in the short term it's not much different having her teach versus just having her casting spells to be taken elsewhere. And here's some of the neat stuff she knows how to make - here's samples of some small stuff - and she's still learning; it's not like the force for her, it all comes down to what she has ideas for, so absolutely if anyone has any good ones they should let her know.

She's probably drawing a crowd. One might even get the impression that it's intentional, though past a certain point she'll be a little stressed out by it.

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They don't let it get that big. Ana knows what the kobold's reaction to crowds is, and begins to subtly wave people off.

Everyone is very interested in what she has to say!

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With the crowd never getting too big, the kobold can pay attention to who's paying attention because this is new and exciting and who's paying attention because it's new and intriguing. The latter sort, she keeps an eye on and encourages to stay, so by the time she's been over all the basic information once and most of it at least twice and the crowd is thinning out, the people remaning are a pretty good bunch for a more technical discussion.

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Quite a few of the younger Jedi are mostly interested because of shiny.

The ones remaining are mostly archivists and Masters. Satele Shan showed up about halfway through, and is one of the ones to stick around.

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