video | merriment one, evening

[weifinder]

( Here it is, in the evening after platform is now behind them, and Wei Wuxian is... reaching out. To all y'all. )

To those who offered to help with running illusion training, I've drafted a schedule to run through for a first session. Miss Spider, I'm more than happy to come to you! Curufin Fëanorion, Young Hero Casper, Caleb Widogast, Zewu-jun, Wen Sizhui, you make up the rest if you'd like to come to me, though Casper I know we're still seeing how it'd work.

( Then he claps his hands and smiles at the camera. )

To everyone else, we'll be using half the training gym on Merriment Three from morning to mid-day for people wanting to continue or begin training in illusion recognition and breakthrough. It's about time for another mission to end up falling into our laps, so best prepare as we can, ah?

( Lowering his hands, he only pauses to again shake a finger at the screen: )

There are also eleven extra pendants in illusion resistance I had made from people's donated extra crystals! If you'd like to borrow one for training purposes or mission, ask myself or your Team Lead. No promises on effectiveness as of yet, but they may help.

( Cheery wave and then off goes the camera!

ooc: Given how much will be going on wrt mission coming up, at present I'm not planning to put this particular training log up and would say handwave it: this is likely to be ongoing if Wei Wuxian has his way, so future sessions (probably in non-mission months OOCly) will have logs! )

Comments

[helborn]

[He's gonna die. Again.]

J - just Casper is fine! You don't need to be so formal with me...

[sciencegirl]

I would like to at least observe this practice if any participants are willing. Not only would it show me examples of successful resistance, I really want to research these crystals!

[weifinder]

( He smiles, holding his hands up. )

Informality is in degrees, but if you insist, if you insist! Just Casper it is.

[weifinder]

I don't see why they wouldn't, but asking each, ah, that may be best? Observation might also mean participation in a passive degree depending on the session, as a warning.

( And a pause; )

The crystals in particular interest you?

[sciencegirl]

Oh yes. I study them. Crystals are a major power source, magical conduit, and data storage unit on Etheria. I'm very interested in what created these.

[weifinder]

Ah! That's fascinating, while they can be used for various things where I'm from, nothing like that. Did you end up claiming any of your own?

[sciencegirl]

Sadly, no. I'm not very good with illusions. I have a habit of taking things literally, and it turns out this extends to visuals as well. I can resist them if I have external help, but on my own?

[It's like asking someone committed to a chair to get up and walk. It's a mental weakness. She needs the external help. But needing help isn't a thing that bothers her like it would many people.]

If I can build and augment something to help me, I'd feel much better.

[blitzcheer]

Oh, hey, cool! So you got this set up? So uh, what's the set-up? We going to be meditating...?

[ Like they did at the monastery? There's no grimace or anything from the question, but a simple curiosity. ]

[helborn]

No, I - sorry. I just... I'm not that important to be called something like that.

A[h, self-doubt. His old companion.]

[weifinder]

You're a teammate, ah? More than important enough. Besides, we're saving worlds, haven't you heard? Sounds like you definitely qualify for "young hero." You know, just remembering not to do the young heroing all alone.

[weifinder]

Makes sense to me, I'd do the same in your situation. Well! Whatever I or the crystals can do to help, let me know!

[weifinder]

Mm! Meditation overviews for anyone who has trouble with it, but this is more like what we've encountered between the last two missions. Following the categories the monastery caverns seemed fond of, so: active mediation in some cases, re-centering of selves in others. Direct fighting secondary to the rest, but for those who specifically want to work with that, we can arrange as much.

[sciencegirl]

Excellent! If you have any spare small crystals I definitely would want to use one.

[weifinder]

Of course, let me find...

( Digging around offscreen and then sitting back up, showing a pendant of one crystal. )

This is from the cavern with the perception based illusions.

[so_dark_a_road]

I'll be in the gym on that day!

[weifinder]

( He laughs, nodding his head to Curufin through the ICP. )

Great! Saves people from just dealing with what confusion arrays I can set up for them to navigate out of.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin laughs too. ]

What are your confusion arrays? What do they consist of?

[sciencegirl]

Oh, good! Excellent. I would love one of those.

[Anything would be good, really. But it did seem like people got a number of those crystals. Seemed like the easiest of all the tests.]

[weifinder]

Right! If you want to swing by...

( he pauses, then leaves, to go look at his room number since after two and a half months, it's changed. firmly offscreen: )

Upper Four B? It's all yours. Just give us a word if you suspect anything might end in fire, yeah?

[soldier_blade]

How do the crystals work?

[Anything to extend her own prowess for the sake of the team, but she's also just curious.]

[weifinder]

In the sense we know they should, or the sense of what we've tested outside of on world during our three days of intense potential training?

[weifinder]

Oh, setting up talismans in an area to keep it and anyone who walks into it contained. There's a wide variety, I just happen to know a few. Think more... wandering lost in mist, can't tell direction, that kind of thing for what I'd manage in a quick and dirty way.

[helborn]

I appreciate it. I mean... technically in my world among people like me 'hero' is a rank? But things like titles and such get skewed when you're dealing with a lot of pantheons.

[sciencegirl]

Not with that crystal, I don't think.

I have others that do that. [Thanks, Tidus!] Alright, I'll be there shortly.

[blitzcheer]

Ahh, that sounds like what I was doing when Pi taught me meditating, but I was still bad when it came to the illusions...

[ There's a sigh, a thought - was it because he never really thought to apply that study to the illusions? ...probably. Thinking and being rational are hard tasks for him to apply in the first place...

Nevertheless: ] I'll come! If we're gonna meet that big guy again soon, I wanna be ready!