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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:30:51 GMT -8
And he'd let her keep looking so she could revise and expand on her answer. But she was making progress.
Qi use 15/42
Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:37:20 GMT -8
He was only part of the answer, and the majority of the energy came from below him, pooling beneath him, but she kept getting those glimpses of something else.
"You're absorbing it - the energy that's' there."
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:38:54 GMT -8
"Yes, but where is the energy coming from?"
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:44:27 GMT -8
A longer pause this time to reassess what she was feeling as well as what she knew.
"You're drawing it from the earth around you." His own qi was earth-based, but she had a suspicion that wasn't the full answer he was looking for. "Everything that's in it. Like when I thought I was feeling roots at first - those too."
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:45:27 GMT -8
"Would you say plant matter is enough to account for the energy you are feeling?"
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:47:19 GMT -8
"No." She tried feeling again, but the sense of hitting a wall came back.
"I'm not sure what all you're drawing it from. You did it in places like Dra Aht and when we were pulled back into the war, right? There weren't plants there."
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:47:56 GMT -8
"So if that is so, what would I be drawing from?"
Qi use 18/42
Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:53:20 GMT -8
She recalled how he had shown both Spike and her how to consume physical things for qi and energy. How he had taken a bite out of the ground of Dra Aht.
"It's like how you eat the earth sometimes, isn't it?" She cocked her head to the side. "The energy that's already there in the earth."
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 12:56:20 GMT -8
"That is part of it, but that energy has to come from somewhere. And I know it seems silly, but I want you to understand the how and the why. And I want you to get used to looking at things from another perspective rather than waiting for me to tell you. No matter what happens with this war you are going to be going on a journey of discovery and growth. I want to help you be equipped to deal with anything that you come across. So take a deep breath, look at where the energy is coming from, and tell me how you think that much got there."
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:09:27 GMT -8
It did see a bit silly, but he obviously had a point in doing what he did, even if she didn't understand it. But she'd try. Wherever this war and the aftermath took her.
With another deep breath, she nodded and refocused, following the trail of energy down...down...and down some more. She'd feel it shift outward once in a while, clumps of a higher concentration. Even when she felt like she couldn't go down further, there were more flickers of it. But it also all felt the same in a way, all a part of the earth they stood on; a moment of reflection off the same surface.
A different way...so what was there, for him? If it was someone who didn't look at things the way she did?
"Those that came before. People and animals that died, things that were left behind and decayed." Things that once had energy before returning to the ground.
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:14:09 GMT -8
"In part. But energy isn't just life. Think of the movement of the plates. How we get Earth Quakes. Think of volcanic activity under the ground. The core of this planet and it's mantle always in motion. Heat, formation, destruction, decay, growth. The Earth under our feet contains all of it, just waiting to be grasped and used by someone that knows how."
He clicked his tongue and sighed.
"Earth Benders and other Elemental manipulators may seem a common type of ability, but that is only because the raw energy of the basic elements is so plentiful and easy to grasp. The difference between an Elementalist manipulator and a master, however, is the ability to understand and shape the core of your element. To know why it works lets you understand the limits of what it can do, and how you can push it to the very edge of possibility. I want you to try and feel the energy around mine. To feel how it moves to me, how it pools."
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:28:18 GMT -8
Everything connected from the ground up, pun unintended. She gave a smaller nod, considering it and wondering just how far down he could pull from. She'd seen other elemental qis before, true enough. But knowing what it could do, like her father mentioned, meant knowing the limits and what you could push. It made her curious to see what she could push for herself.
Focusing on the energy below her, she started with Mathew's energy, the easiest and clearest to spot and follow the flow of. Once she felt she had it, she pushed outward, feeling the differences. It flowed towards him, steady and constant, but still moving. She stayed at the space for a moment, feeling it. Despite the science lessons when she was a kid, she figured it was more solid, more enduring. It was slower than the flow of her father's energy to the point she'd missed it at first.
The center was the hardest part. She could feel it pull directly beneath his feet where it touched.
"It's steady," she mused after a moment. "It matches yours, but it's a little slower." After a while the difference between he two energies blurred. "I can feel it moving up, though...is that why you're barefoot?"
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:30:35 GMT -8
"Direct contact makes it a lot easier to manipulate and pull it in."
He gave her a smug smirk.
"With practice, you can manage it with some distance between you and your element. In my case the ground."
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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Post by Evelyn Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:33:17 GMT -8
She heard the smug tone even if she coudln't see the smirk, and it sparked the curiosity further.
"How much distance can you work with?"
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Post by Mathew Amtrum on May 18, 2019 13:34:04 GMT -8
"That something to worry about after you have a firm grasp on the basics."
No spoilers for Eve today.
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Level 10 - Gift of the Earth: Allows Mathew to increase a chosen stat of his target by 1/2th his energy. This is still an Earth Based Qi (energy)
Attack: 83
Speed: 53
Defense: 104
Perception: 50
Energy: 177
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