Ekkaidaina sare, friends tho or opposite genders tho, raasulu/ raasi phalalu gurinchi matladithey, videvadra baabu annatu chustharu. Adhey "im scorpion, nenu generally calm" , "nuv gemini kadha.. thelusthundhi" antey cool ga chustharu. Infact flirting ki kuda vadatharu. Yee?? Why this vivaksha?
First Summer Night's March is here. Get out there and ruck with the rest of us!
As there are two events this Saturday, Raasi and Mikkeli, there are 4 different distance requirements in two series.
Civilian series:
- No weight requirements.
- Distances: 10 km and 42 km
- No gear requirements
- No time limits
Military series:
- Minimum 10 kg ruck
- Military uniform and military boots
- Distances 25km and 30km
- No time limits as the organizers want remote marchers to be safe
Good luck everyone! Get after it!
So, my group just wrapped up a campaign and is about to start a new one. I'm going to be playing a Jedi Armorer who learned the art from a 3,000 year-old manual he found in an ancient, derelict Jedi starship, as well as the ghost of its author. The manual was written by the Jedi Master Raasi Qu-Dhan, and everyone he has shown it to who isn't familiar with the Force thinks it reads like "mystical claptrap scrawled by an inebriate or a lunatic", but it makes sense to my character.
I've come up with a few of her quotes about how a Jedi should approach crafting, but I'd love to have even more of them in my pocket when the campaign starts up. If anyone wants to take a stab at some Jedi blacksmith mysticism with me, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I've got so far:
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“Open yourself to the songs of your materials as you shape them. Hear the metal exalt when it is at the proper angle. Learn to anticipate, and cease your cutting or your hammering before it screams in anguish. Quench it when it is thirsty.”
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“The Force speaks to the materials we use, as surely as it speaks to us. Listen well to what it tells them. Somewhere in the Galaxy, a vein of ore can sense its destiny to be forged into the blade that cuts down a tyrant; a garden of flowers dream of dyeing banners of freedom. Listen to these visions, and heed them. The steel that knows it is meant to be a plow will break in protest— always at the worst possible time— if it is forced to pretend to be a sword.”
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“Nothing is impossible if it is the will of the Living Force. If the river tells you its destiny is to become armor, it will be so. If a certain tree tells you its destiny is to carry you to distant stars, it will find a way through the Force. It is the craftsman’s job to guide them on this path, not to tell them it cannot be so.”
I want a vibe of like, you have to go out and meditate to sense the right materials to use in crafting. A lot of it probably requires abstract thinking on the crafter's part. Like maybe the river in the third quote carries a lot of sediment rich in minerals that would be useful for crafting or it's important to use that river's water to quench the metal that you're smithing, stuff like that, not like, literally making armor out of the water.
