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[action 1]
[Inspired by Japan, Crowe, and remembering the words of others who had spoken to him recently, Lucas, too, has decided that it is time he reclaim some of his lost battle skills. Once strong enough to stand to all but the deadliest of chimeras, the boy hasn't fought now in over a year . . .

Still, he can manage a sandbag propped up on a broomstick. The problem had been to get the stick not to snap immediately with a single hit, but he had managed by tying several together. Being shier in nature, Lucas is holed up in his backyard and practicing hard. It is possible, though, to hear his occasional shouts or grunts or even the thump of his bat smashing against the bag. Those who investigate will find that the boy has little technique whatsoever . . . He simply hits as quickly and powerfully as he can. But he moves with an awkward fluidity, and it appears he normally fights with chained attacks - 'comboing' hits with kicks, punches, and blows as he ducks and weaves and almost occasionally seems to glide through the air.]


[action 2]
[The accident happens about an hour in. Caught up in the fervor of combat, Lucas smashes the sandbag hard enough that it flies straight up into the air. And instinctively, with some sort of retained muscle memory, he thrusts out a hand and cries out.]

PK Flash!

[And immediately regrets it. The pulsing ball of green light gathers for a few moments before barreling outward to smash into the sandbag, catching it up and propelling it high into the air. Reaching about thirty feet in altitude, the PSI energy eventually flares outward in a massive burst of green light clearly visible from a distance. The sandbag explodes.

Lucas drops his bat and runs to his front yard. If you're anywhere nearby, he'll be running up to you with an expression of severe panic.]


. . . Are you alright?! Are you feeling OK?! You . . . Please say you didn't see the light!
((Lucas's PK Flash has odd effects. It's a burst of psychokinetic energy infused light that alters the brainwaves of those who see it. To be brief, PK Flash causes spontaneous crying to the point where your character is blinded by their own tears, paralysis, which is self-explanatory, feeling strange, which can be interpreted as violent hallucinations and delirium, or instant death. Or nothing, of course. Please don't choose the death option, aha.))
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
[She kneels down so she can be at eye-level with him. Her tears soon dry up.] How do you do it? [She's confused and genuinely curious. Psychic powers existed in her society, but they didn't quite work like this]

OK, no problem.

Date: 2011-03-05 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . It's a type of psychic manipulation. I don't really know how brains work, but the light messes with the way it works. I'm very sorry, again.

Date: 2011-03-06 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
Oh, sarches! Psychic powers don't work quite that way where I'm from.

There was no lasting harm done.

Date: 2011-03-06 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . Let me make sure.

[Lucas holds up a glowing hand again, concentrating to see if his PK Flash had done any further damage. A few moments later, he nods and the PSI dies away.]</small. I'm glad . . . I just hope I didn't hurt anyone too badly with that. You have psychics in your world too, then?

Date: 2011-03-06 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
[She nods.] We call it Sarches power. It depends on the individual, but some people can fly, use telekinesis and telepathy, among other things. I had powers myself, but I lost them when I came here.

Date: 2011-03-06 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
I guess that's fair, then. I can't do any of those things, although . . . I've never really tried, either. What kinds of powers do you have?

Date: 2011-03-06 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
Well, I could understand plants and animals. And when I sang, plants would grow. [And oh, she misses those abilities so much.]

Date: 2011-03-06 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . .

[Lucas stares at her with something approaching reverence.]

That's amazing. Any sort of plants at all . . . ?

Sorry, ATP ate my brain

Date: 2011-03-06 07:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
[Oh man, is she used to that expression or what. She was pretty much a religious icon back home, after all, precisely because of these powers of hers.] Yes, any kind. It's a little more difficult with animals because they're more complex organisms.

Date: 2011-03-06 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
There are people who can make animals grow by singing?

Date: 2011-03-06 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
Oh, no. What I meant to say is I can commune with plants and animals, but I can only make plants grow.

Or I could, before I came here.

Date: 2011-03-07 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . Still, that's really something. There was another person here who had power over growing plants. I still have her flowers in my garden.

Date: 2011-03-07 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] istheatmosphere.livejournal.com
Really? I'd like to see them sometime.

Date: 2011-03-07 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . She's a little dangerous. Maybe you don't want to meet her.

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