Academic

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Who: Meetra Surik and OPEN
Where: The facility formerly known as the Knight Academy (okay it's still called that)
Summary: Bored Jedi dispenses wisdom and possible swordfighting skill
Warnings: Introspection, hitting people with sticks
Meetra was a bit surprised she hadn't gotten more expressed interest in combat lessons given the...kind of things that tended to happen in this city. On the other hand, it stood to reason, since most Visitors seemed pretty capable despite being by her count at least 75% kids.

Well, she had been a "general" by the time she was twenty herself.

Still, she diligently waited on the steps of the training academy she'd sort of inherited, just in case anyone felt like coming to learn a lesson. Or just talk. It was starting to occur to her that she'd been here far longer than she'd been on any one planet in years and she was starting to get antsy.

Clearly, that was the reason she was playing with the familiar Pazaak deck she'd found by her bed. Re-learning how to count cards was a distraction. Good for meditation, in its own cynical way. She laid the red, white, and blue card-chips out in front of her as she waited to be bothered, her mind wandering backward...

"Ten, one and two needs seven. One ten on the table, eights and nines in the deck, thee, four, five, six..."

Funny how a deck of cards could move you somewhere faster than a hyperdrive if you had a strong enough memory.

Comments

[greyerrant]

"This sounds like an intriguing distraction. Let us play."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Alright. I haven't got any money, so we'll go with what we call Republic Senate rules back home..."

She took eight cards out of the main deck to hand to Garviel as a 'starter' side deck and shuffled to begin the game...

[This was tedious enough in the actual game, so feel free to skip to a win or loss.]

[greyerrant]

Garviel looks mildly put out to have been beaten by the Jedi.

"Well then. You appear to have gotten the better of me this time."

He gives her a joking squint.


"Did you use sorcery?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"No, I just counted cards and had a better side deck," she explained without a hint of shame. "Another reason this is so popular is that it's almost impossible for most Jedi to use the Force to cheat at it."

[greyerrant]

"Nothing wrong with that, those are simple tactical ploys."

He raises an eyebrow.

"Why is it impossible to use the Force to cheat?"

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Like I've said, seeing the future is very difficult compared to reading someone's emotions or physically affecting something," she said. "Since both sides rely on a blind draw, that's the only way the Force could help. Games where you hold all your cards are hard to play against a Force-Sensitive since an unscrupulous one could see through your eyes, and don't even bother with dice games."

[greyerrant]

"If someone cheated whilst gaming with me I'd probably kill them as a matter of honor, unless they were an unaugmented mortal, in which case I'd laugh it off."