Handling Your Powers, Tuesday

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"Today, I wanted to talk about daily life applications of your powers," Kaidan said. "Some of you rely on them like that already, some of you don't... some of you might not have to. Still, it's a good exercise in restraint, if nothing else."

"So I've set up a... training course, I guess you could call it. You don't need to do everything - just touch on the stuff you know you can do. You're not getting graded on this either. Just use it for practice."

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Physical Exercises - Movement & Stillness

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This week's class opened with the usual exercises, followed by a meditation session more about exploring your ability for fine manipulation than anything else.

Training Course

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There were several stations set up across the hall. Kaidan threw in another, "Remember, only try your hand at what you can do with your powers," before stepping aside.

Training Course - Ropes

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An array of ropes, hanging from the ceiling just far enough apart that you can't comfortably jump from one to the other.

Re: Training Course - Ropes

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Oh, easy. Evan wasn't going to use his rocket boots for this-- They weren't technically one of his powers, though they were useful in a pinch.

Nope, Evan was going to simply reach from one rope to the next. And, by the end of them, he even skipped every other rope, mostly to see how well he could manage it.

Decently well, really. His arms had a lot of stretch in them.

Re: Training Course - Ropes

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This was more Nick's thing than Will's but he was going to give it a go anyway. He hoped the enhancements he had would make it a little easier for him to swing and climb.

And he did manage though it was slower than he would have liked.

Re: Training Course - Ropes

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Eleanor wasn't sure how exactly she should ideally get across. She settled for teleporting to one of the ropes near the middle, and then one nearer to the end, and then the last platform.

Did that count? It felt a bit like cheating.

Re: Training Course - Ropes

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Of everything in the room, the ropes were the only things that Kathy felt comfortable even trying. She didn't have powers, of course, but she was a gymnast and while the uneven bars weren't her first choice, she'd done enough work on them to feel confident enough leaping from one set of ropes to another, even if they were further apart than she might generally prefer.

A little bit of momentum on the ropes and--there! She was sailing from one rope to another and grinning.

The first rope she grabbed onto perfectly. The second one, she fumbled a little, but caught. The third one, no problem. The fourth--

The fourth she didn't catch at all.

With a yelp, she plummeted to the ground. She tried to relax, tried to remember everything she'd learned about the best way to fall, but that was actually pretty tough to recall when the floor was flinging itself toward her at high speeds.

She closed her eyes when she was about to hit, praying that she'd be okay, that she wouldn't break anything, spraining was completely and totally fine, just please don't let her break anything...

And then she bounced.

There was a second of jarring, painful impact and she was pretty sure she'd wrenched her ankle or something, but the fact that she was sailing through the air in the opposite direction again was really what caught her focus. She bounced up to the ceiling, completely forgetting to grab onto the rope because sAKJHGDakjh bouncing?, then bounced off of that and went flying at a slightly different angle.

Four more times Kathy bounced like a tennis ball against the ceiling, floor, and a nearby wall before finally coming to a stop on the ground next to the clay. And then promptly burst into tears.

Yeah, this was embarrassing.

Training Course - Drinks

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There's a divider with a large open slot in it. Behind it, there's a table with a set of glasses full of water, just out of reach.

Get the glass without using your hands-- or at least using them the normal way.

Re: Training Course - Drinks

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More stretching! This stuff came way too easily to Evan, so he almost felt guilty for just reaching through the slot and making up the difference with his powers, but that was the point of the exercise... so...

Re: Training Course - Drinks

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Easy enough.

Will reached out, found the glasses with his mind, gripped them and brought one back right into his hand. It hadn't even winded him.

Re: Training Course - Drinks

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This was frustrating. Eleanor could lift the glasses, and fling them back towards herself, but usually at such a speed that the liquid ended up down her front.

When she tried it slower, her aim was still off. She could bring it generally towards her, but not to her outstretched hand.

She managed once to snag it with her fingers, only to tip it over in grasping it.

Never mind. She wasn't thirsty anyway.

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Easy enough. Surreal waved her fingers lazily, and the glass floated over to her without spilling a drop.

Training Course - Shooting Range

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Well, sort of.

There's a line of cans set up and, in some places, stacked up on the other side of this range. Use your powers to hit each in turn.

Re: Training Course - Shooting Range

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For this one, Evan chose to use his eye blasts, instead. It was... kind of overkill, but it felt good to have a setup where he could just let go and shoot things with them in a safe environment, too.

Tin cans were way more relaxing to shoot at than unicorn killers.

Re: Training Course - Shooting Range

[livebytherules.livejournal.com]

Still using his telekinesis, Will reached out, picked up each can and then dropped them. Not quite shooting but he hadn't really mastered throwing other objects just yet. This would do.

Re: Training Course - Shooting Range

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Eleanor might have been taking her frustrations from the drinks out on the shooting range. Because the ruins of those cans were now smoking.

Fireballs were just so intuitive to aim.

Training Course - Ceiling Targets

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There are a couple of targets pasted to the ceiling itself here. They're covered in velcro - as are the little balls lying on a table below.

Try and hit the targets.

Training Course - Juggling

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There are juggling balls. This one's pretty straightforward.

Training Course - Clay

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Finally - though Kaidan didn't expect many of them to try it - there was a set-up with some clay. Behind the clay were images of houses in ascending order of complexity.

For those with more creative powers, they could try and mimic it.

The Floor Is Open

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As always, albeit this time after the course had finished.

Talk to the Teacher

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Kaidan stuck around for a while after class. He didn't need to clean things up - it was still the Danger Shop for a reason - but he wanted to take stock of how things had gone.

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