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[quigonejinn]

- The Jedi version of a utilty belt has serveral pouches containing a three-day supply of food capsules, a medpac, a tool kit, a spare power pack, a spare energy cell, a glow rod, a comlink, an Aquata Breather, and a couple of empty pouches for whatever the wearer wants to add.

- A force spirit is a nonphysical manifestation of a once-living, strongly Force-attuned being. Even powerful Force-users become one with the Force upon their deaths, but some Jedi Masters (and a few other powerful Force-usersers) learn disciplines that allow them to maintain their own identities spearate from the Force. These individuals can visit the physical world as a kind fo ghost, offering advice and ifnormation to those who can perceive them.

Retaining a separate identity denies the will of the Force, htough this is sometimes necessary for the good of the galaxy. A fForce spirit's time is therefore limited; it cannot exist indefinitely. A force spirit can only manifest a limited number of time sbefore it must join the Force. (Dark side spirits are not troubled by this limitaiton, sinc e they actually thrive on individuality and self-indulgence

As nonphysical creatures, Force spirits cannot affect or be affe cted by anythign physical. When they manifest, they remain nonphysical, but Force-sensitive characters can hear them. A Force-user with the Sense feat can see Force spirits. The Force spirit cannot choose which characters present can see or hear it however. A Force spirit can appear to anyone it likes -- even dark side characters -- but it i snot required to manifest (even if a dark side characters has the Guiding Spirit feat).

The Force weapon class ability (used to imbue a weapon with the power of thr Force) enables a Force adept character to weild that weapon against a Force spirit, dealing vitality point damage.

Unlike dark for spirits, Force spirits cannot remain apart from the force forever. Each time a Force spirit manifests, it must attempt a Will saving throw (DC 15+the number of times it has previously manifested). If the save fails, this manifestation is the psirit's last one, and it becomes one with the Force immediately afterward. At the GM's discretion, the force spirit may appear to a character in a Farseeing ivsion or paeerhaps as part of a dream, but it cannot manifest agian.

- Luminara Unduli -- Like other Jedi, Luminara left her homeworld to live at the Jedi Temple when she was still a toddler. She maintained her native culture as taught to her by her master, hwo was also from Mirial. For severla hundred years, the Jedi Temple always had at least one Mirialan Jedi in residence, wach training the next in the Jedi arts and in the history and culture of their homeworld.

[insert totally awersome stuff about tattoos, the notion that destiny is character and destiny/character is shown through completion of these tests, and the destiny/character is shown in TATTOOS on the FACE AND HANDS]

In other news, this book is convinced that Obi-Wan Kenobi is a flamingly gay BDSM fan. There is a picture of him using an Aquata Breather in the footage from TPM, and they've chosen this still where he's got his Padawan braid flowing out behind him, his eyes turned hopefully upwards in the general direction of Qui-Gon . . . and due to the lighting, what looks like A FUCKING BONDAGE GAG in his mouth.

And the book ends with a shot of Master Obi-Wan wielding his lightsaber on a rainbow background.

Comments

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Wait, the Dark Side gets to have immortality, but the Light Side doesn't get to have bodhisattvas? Wacky wacky wacky, and I think I'll ignore it.

The Jedi version of a utilty belt

Oh, bring up the mindboggling images of our favorite Knights in superhero costumes, why don't you? ::Goes to scrub out brain::

this book is convinced that Obi-Wan Kenobi is a flamingly gay BDSM fan.

::snerk::

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Qui-Gon would've looked awesome in a Batman outfit, you know.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Superman. They are both Hufflepuffs, after all.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Would you really characterize Qui-Gon as a Hufflepuff? Loyalty to his friends doesn't strike me as being his major characteristic.

I've probably been polluted by reading entirely too many comics, but Superman is too mentally balanced and respectful of authority, I think, to be Qui-Gon.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would. He's got a very wacky sense of duty, his loyalty is to the Force above all else, and he's got some pretty goofy Ravenclaw traits too (insists on staying in the moment yet totally believes in millenia-old, poorly understood prophecy), but he's a badger to the bone.

His real problem is he is a 'Puff at odds with his sett. It makes him into a very unhappy fellow.

You might want to read sanj's Hufflepuff Manifesto and imadra_blue's Ultimate Villians of Each Hogwarts House (Palpatine is a Slytherin and Vader a Gryffindor, but you knew that), Heroes by House and Star Wars Sorting.

It certainly makes you think about what each house means...

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

See, I'd agree with the tenets of sanj's description and argue that it is pretty much a solid statement of why Qui-Gon isn't a Hufflepuff: sure, he's tenacious like a badger or whatever, but he's also a deeply nonconformist individual. In TPM, he practically double-dog-dares his so-called sett to cast him out. He has no fears about being abandoned or exposed; Qui-Gon practically invites it. While he might "avoid conflict" by using the mindtrick all over the place, I don't get the sense that he has a deep, emotional horror of conflict or whatever. And as, um, we see with Boss Nass, the Council, and Jar Jar (the tongue-grabbing scene), he really isn't very patient at all.

The deal-breaker for me is actually the way that Qui-Gon treats Obi-Wan at the end of TPM. Sure, they kiss and make up in the end, but holy God, the rapidity and SUDDENNESS with which he dumps Obi-Wan in that one Council scene convinced me that personal connections aren't really all that important to him.

Personally, if I absolutely had to put Qui-Gon into one of the houses, I'd say Gryffindor. IMO, he's a lot like both Potter and Black in that they are going to do what they think is right DAMNED be what other people think/what the rules say/what is reasonably prudent. And, you know, if you look at it from another angle, Qui-Gon is kind of altruistic. Sure, he's not necessarily working for the benefit of others, but he is working for the Force.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

If I had to chose a different house, I'd say Ravenclaw. For all that they are portrayed primarily as arm-candy in the HP books, they can be as stubborn as 'Puffs and as convinced they are right as Gryffs.

And they are much better at 'big picture' thinking than anyone else. They lose the small picture, which would neatly explain Qui-Gon's "Look, he's the Chosen One. This is important than you, Obi-Wan." idiocy.