[open] You always wanted a visit, right?

[highly_gifted]

Who: Feivel and/or Nat and YOU
What: Just opening doors from the ghost zone into places and then?????
When: First half of April, pick your date!
Where: Anywhere!

Exploring the ghost zone is great. It's a weird and new place and a certain set of siblings is having a field trip. Most of the time, they're together, but sometimes they split up or one of them goes alone.

They peek out through almost all doors that they find, unless Nat's Force senses tell her that something bad is behind the door (and then sometimes Fe opens it anyway). Maybe they look out at a street where your character is just standing, but maybe they open a door right into their bedroom too, or something else entirely...

((Please make a note in your subject line regarding if you want to encounter Feivel or Nat or both of them))

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[alderaanda]

"It's like your soul," she says, too patiently. "It has to resonate with you and reflect you, so someone who knows how to look could see you in it. I could make more, I think, if I had the right crystals. She could make some, maybe she even already did, but they don't do much good without all the rest."

[highly_gifted]

"...I might have stones that will be able to do that." Differently, perhaps, but he has a good idea. Now the question is how he will achieve that. And where he will get the other parts from, but Nat will just have to help him with that.

[alderaanda]

"If I tuned them, I could give them back and you could use them but they'd be mine. They'd reflect me, they'd know me." Would they feel bittersweet like this one? Nat's vaguely aware she should re-tune it so it reflects her better, but part of her resists. This crystal means something big to that other Nat, it seems sad to wipe that away.

"Though I could use special stones in general. How many d'you have?"

[highly_gifted]

"I will attempt to make one myself. You just need to show me how to do it." He'd really not want to run around with a sword of Nat's, especially not if one of his glowy rocks makes up the core. But if he could do it himself...

[alderaanda]

Nat shakes her head. "You still need a tuned focusing crystal. Otherwise it just plain doesn't work, it'd do something but not a sword. And I don't think they make the right kind of battery."

She pauses. "Though, maybe like a car battery with a cable..."

[highly_gifted]

"Then I will tune one of my crystals. I might just have to experiment with it for a while longer. Or you could teach me."

[alderaanda]

"I could try, but if you don't feel the Force I really don't think it'll work," she says dubiously. "It's not just meditating and holding it for a few days."

[highly_gifted]

"So I would run around with a part of you in one of my stones, built into a sword?" That is a really weird thought.

[alderaanda]

She has to smile a little. "More or less. You can't do everything yourself, Fe."

[highly_gifted]

"...Isn't that dangerous, if you split yourself up like that?" Different universes and all but that just doesn't sound like a particularly good idea.

[alderaanda]

She's read a lot of the same things. "It's not my soul. It's... I don't know, attention. Focus. It's asking the universe to act like a mold for me, and doing a casting and putting it into something. Sort of. If I change it's not changing with me, I'd have to re-tune it."

Nat turns the red crystal over in her hand, her voice going distant. "In a hundred years, a thousand, someone who can listen and feel the Force can put a hand to the sword and feel me in it, as I was when I tuned it." As the orphan-Nat had been. She's dead, if the major theory - reincarnation - is true.

[highly_gifted]

He nods and then stops abruptly, simply staring into the next wall for over a minute.

To create items of power, to create at all, the creator needs a strong mind. A force of will that is greater than that of anything else; a will that will be embedded into the very nature of the item and remain with it, bound. Not taken from you, but rather enhanced by it being externalized now, and at your disposal now or at that of the person which the device is given to. He's not sure who said it (an adult male, but that is all that he can tell), not sure how all that sudden knowledge was imparted to each other, but it is... Well. Echoes often come without context. It's just a lot to take in at once.

[alderaanda]

She feels it as her attention changes, something hard to describe - like touch, not touch, like a sound, not a sound. It lasts for a while. Nat closes her eyes again, leaning back and wishing she could just lay down and take a nap, but she can't relax now.

So she starts poking him. "Hey. Earth to Feivel. Come in, Feivel."

[highly_gifted]

"I ....think I did something similar." He blinks and shakes his head, coming back. "Not the same, but not that different, either."

It's hard to describe. He wonders if he can do it here, too. "Putting ...a force of will into items can create items of power."