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Private Ferocious Downloading

To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
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ATTN: Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza

Tired of conventional Force training? With Dathomiri magic, you can download knowledge from whoever you can meet! Please let us know what works for you!

Janick Beauchamp
Utai Magic Circle

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Janick was very busy with the mind-machine alchemical business, as well as the computer problems around her. Since Makeb, and even before that, she made no attempt at contacting potential dark-sider apprentices to attempt learning their art by downloading knowledge. She could be forgiven for stopping, especially since all previous students toiled in obscurity at best. That is not to say they couldn't make good use of Drain Knowledge or Memory Rub, just that they seemed content to keep quiet about it around other Force-sensitives. Yet she was willing to give a chance to that newcomer, even though her experience of it taught her not to expect much of them. Maybe she made some enemies in the dark-sided world, especially as it relates to her dealings with the Sith, but if it was the case, she never was more than a passing blip to them since she stayed out of the limelight, NIO, Mando or otherwise. Or maybe her expertise of mental data transfer and mind-machine alchemy was the reason why she wasn't much of a Sith enemy. Or maybe the dark-sided world really didn't yield much in the way of people that could meaningfully engage in MDT. It didn't deter her, but she knew that being too picky can be a problem for the long run. She patiently awaited the response of the would-be student.
 
The young being approach the woman position calm and focused he reach her and stay in front of her starring at her like some curious creature until he finally decide to speak in a cold and calm voice.

"So you said you brought me here because you have what I want ? Are you sure this ins't some trick ?" Ask the child not really confident about the person, after all most of his experiences in life showed him that he can't trust much people, but this one was maybe different, she was the same kind of witch who saved him from certain death a few months ago, meaning that she is aswell from his homeworld or at least linked to it, and while Ferocious feelings are mixed about that she is the best opportunity he have for the moment if he wish to gaign power and become stronger.
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"Oh yes, but first, before you try downloading knowledge from me, or me to infuse knowledge into you, I would like to know what are your goals as a Force-user. It will then determine your training requirements"

It did happen from time to time that someone could stare at Janick like some curious creature, but if he was looking at someone he knew would work with him for the long run, it was understandable that he wanted to get comfortable first. Also, it seemed Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza didn't have much of an interest in becoming a lightsaber jockey, so remained what he intended to do as a more Force-intensive dark-sider. It went without saying that poor training plans, or unforeseen circumstances, could cause a teacher-student relationship to go awry. But even before she could think of infusing knowledge into him, she still needed to get a feel for the student's mental capabilities. In fact, the Fundamental Inequation of MDT was about how fast someone could safely infuse or download knowledge from someone else, assuming the data packet was otherwise painless.
 
"My goals ?"
Repeat the boy as if the question don't make much sense to him, while contemplating the two palms of his hands as the feelings and questions about himself fload trought his mind the boy finally answer with a confident tone as he raise again his sharp look into the Witch.

"Immortality. I wish to be here to stay, after all the more years I live the strongest I will be, and the strongest is the one who have power in this universe."
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"From what I know this calls for alchemy"

Anti-aging alchemical concoctions were long sought after by so many, and even without alchemy. It went without saying that the danger of some methods cannot be overstated. The safest method currently known, best known by its vernacular name of the lich method, required to infuse part of one's essence into some vessel but still requires someone to be killed beforehand. Other people instead went the route of the Jouvence elixir, but most of them were hampered by their lack of biochemical knowledge. Darth Nihilus was the closest to achieving it, but it was horribly painful. Now, Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza may not know that, but Janick was much better known for mind-machine alchemy than for pharmaceutical concoctions...

"I hope you are aware of the dangers of the quest for immortality"
 
"Yes I am well aware. But I know my destiny,I can see it sister."

Answer the child with confidence as he look down for a few seconds thinking on how important this moment could be for his future.

"Why using me thought ? Why would you give me such kind of power ? Surely you aren't doing it out of generosity for your kind right ?" After all while she was herself from the kind of Dathomir she seems to not be under the world rules and traditions anymore, she seems quite different Ferocious could tell. So what could she possibly gain by helping him ? Wonder the young Dathomirian. The child ask this time looking her deep into the eyes

"What do you want in return for this favor ? I am a youngling but I am no fool."
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"It's more about the preservation of the arts: excessive secrecy has caused problems in the past, in that powers can get lost if there has been no one else to pass it on, so what I ask is that, once you are in position to teach these arts, that you actually make an attempt to do so"

And now Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza knows why Janick attempted to distance herself from the Nightsisters. He must have begun to realize that looking deep into her eyes would probably give him a glimpse of what's happening in her mind. Of what her brain holds. Of how easily excited it can be. But more than simply impart knowledge into him, the preliminary lesson has to begin before he could even think of that stuff. Of downloading alchemical knowledge.

"Also, before I can start infusing knowledge into you, or you to start downloading from me, you need to get a feel for whoever you're acting on"
 
"A feel ? What do you mean ? "

Question the boy to his "teacher" now Ferocious understand, she want the legacy, her legacy to be passed and shared with others "worthy" people.

" Also, you want me to pass our powers to others once I get strong enough that right ? However ins't it against our very traditions to share our knowledge with other species ? You are asking me to acting with our own ways right ? Not those of our Planet." At least this his what the youngling can understand, she want to disobey and disrepect the traditions for the greater good, but Ferocious wonder, ins't she seeking followers and pehaps an army of students for her own ambitions ? That is surely a possibility.
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"In this context, getting a feel for someone is about looking at someone's mind in the Force. The main things to look for are to determine what knowledge of interest that person may have, as well as whether there are some roadblocks to get to it. Equally important is how fast is your mind vs someone else's: in general do not attempt to download faster than the slower of your mind or the source's, or there could be painful consequences"

Downloading knowledge had other pitfalls, such as the possibility of accidentally causing someone to forget some memories alongside other forms of mental blowbacks that mostly happened on the weak-minded. Yet dark-siders typically weren't the sort to shy away from that sort of painful consequences, at least not in the way Janick could. Maybe some dark-siders suffered from some kind of mental impairment due to the scars their training left them, or were already present earlier. However, one thing was for sure: neither racial counter-indications nor mental predispositions would account, jointly, for its sporadic use, she thought, while turning to Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza .

"As for acting out on our own ways, the core issue I had with other Nightsister clans was about sharing knowledge, but they didn't Express hostility openly"
 
After a while of pure silence the boy answer in a confident voice as he give his hand to the witch. There is is no turning back this time, he must do it and he must put all of his confidence in this act.

"Show me, I am ready to look for what I seek."

His sharp look inside the eyes of the witch the boy await.
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"Downloading knowledge is about making a mental copy-paste of memories from someone else. Don't worry about me suffering adverse consequences from you downloading information from me"

If it was someone whose memories contained heaps of information, that step would often prove more time-consuming than with someone with less knowledge. Especially if the target's mind was messy and the user wanted to download something specific from that person. Hence why some users were only able to download small bits that may not necessarily be enough for their intended purposes. Maybe some of the more intellectually-challenged would shy away from using Drain Knowledge as a learning aid because downloading in bits and pieces could confuse them more, even if they downloaded from someone else similar to me, she thought, while Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza was doing the "indexing" part by fixing them in the eyes, and she awaited the visions that would flash in their minds of whatever he was attempting to download, once the download would proceed.
 
Ferocious allow things to go as they should listening to the Witch advices when the processus start. Only silence and concentration from his part could happen now, Ferocious would particularry focus on reaching any kind of aggresive powers such as force lighting which would be very useful in combat in the future once he mastered it, telepathy and mind control wouldn't be forgotten either those are tools essentials for a powerful Dark side user. He allowed things to naturally proceed taking what he seeks and leaving aside what he don't. As such if Ferocious manage to do so he will try to learn the following :

  • Pyrokinesis/cryokinesis
  • Force-lightning
  • Telepathy/Comprehend Speech
  • Electronic Manipulation/Mechu-deru:
  • Force-sense/sight
  • Psychometry
 
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Then Janick realized just how big of a datapacket Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza would be attempting to download from her; she could feel he was attempting to bite more than he could chew. Then again, pyro/cryo made some sense to her, as visions of using ichor to excite/calm down molecules, and, in doing so, could use them to cook - in fact, the vision being flashed in both minds as it happened was mostly about using pyro/cryo for cooking. Yes, she knew other dark-siders weren't inclined to use pyro/cryo for cooking, no more than you would see a dark-sider use Force-lightning for recharging dry batteries. But it was then that once he attempted to get to the next datapacket in the "queue" that the mental datachannel was cut short. That he managed to download pyro/cryo from her on the first try was already a good start, but he was only able to get a few bits from Force-lightning, not enough for it to be usable, just that it had different effects on organic targets vs. electronic targets.

"Sometimes trying to bite more than you could chew would hurt, and certainly in the area of Drain Knowledge"
 
Falling to his knees with a striking pain in the head the young Dark Side user can barely hold some tears of pain given how surprising and actually disgusting this feeling was, even for those like him who are used to suffer and experience pain and beating.

"...This is painful.... " After a moment of composing himself the young boy ask.
"And now ? Should I try again ?"
 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"If the technique is painful to you, perhaps it's more about the content being painful, or your energy was being drained"

Exhaustion could cause pain, and headaches if done in the context of Drain Knowledge. It may seem painful to him because he needed to brave the mental firewall, or maybe because of the pain he could inflict by burning or freezing if done improperly. He just experienced what Janick called parasitic pain. The sort of pain that a Drain Knowledge user can feel even if he didn't download too fast. It was also the reason why Janick preferred to download know-how over more intimate knowledge, and likewise with infusion: personal knowledge is more likely to cause parasitic pain. And also why she preferred students to download know-how from her, but she was puzzled by this student: Why is it that I kept my mental firewalls up? Downloading know-how that was used for non-aggression purposes never caused that level of pain to anyone else that downloaded it from me, and it was the only thing that changed! she thought, before asking a new question to Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza :

"Do you want some painkillers before you would try downloading Force-lightning again?"
 



After a moment of composing himself the boy get up with more determination than everi in his eyes, he won't back down Painkiller be damned ,be it a true Sith or a true Dark side user only a weakling while use this kind of "help" none user worthy of such name will accept it, and considering his ambitions he want to be the most worthy possible of the Dark side, with a shake of his head he refuse the painkiller and prepare himself for what it's coming.​


 
To boldly alchemize what no one alchemized before
"The dark side may lead to abilities one could find unnatural, but the larger the burst of power usage, the more time you need to recover afterward, at least at your stage of development" Janick told Ferocious Jalza Ferocious Jalza after taking back the painkillers, and also realizing that he was a more masochistic kind of dark-sider than the kind of person she was accustomed to have them downloading from her in the past. "The whole point of the Fundamental Inequality, and thus of controlling the download speed, was to ensure that, should the source person could still be useful to you later, it would remain usable going forward"

Come to think of it, many who actually learned Memory Rub and Drain Knowledge from her didn't seem to be the kind of people to jockey for power, and even found Pain tolerance was not the only factor that went into using the dark side: maybe a few of those dark-siders were using pain to fuel their use of the dark side. However, she knew enough about the physiology of pain to tell that abuse of painful dark-sided powers was a health risk. That was the key difference between Nightsister and Sith practices: Nightsisters didn't seem to insist on strong emotions that much. Plus it was recommended for beginners in Drain Knowledge to have some downtime between attempts so that the memories thus downloaded could be properly encoded in their own minds, even with a source whose mental defenses were down. Now Janick knew that his energy reserve was being depleted, and so there wouldn't be a mental firewall to come against this time around. Maybe the student of the day was different from everyone else I trained, she thought, while a new set of visions was flashing, of actually using Force-lightning, and, in fact, of telepathy and of Comprehend Speech, to which Drain Knowledge bore some similarities, as was made glaringly obvious in the second set of visions that flashed in both minds when the datapacket associated with Force-lightning was copied in Jalza's mind. And yet, it made sense to download Comprehend Speech before going on to use Electronic Manipulation/mechu-deru: it was about overriding the native programming in electronic devices so that they could be bent to your will. Comprehend Speech was of use here so that it could make the use of the dark side more adapted to a variety of programming languages.
 

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