Challenge Zones
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lynchpin_castleChallenges and Challenge Zones
Challenges between Champions will take place in designated areas at designated times, since this is ultimately a formal contest and competition between the Forces of Creation, and the Forces of Unmaking. The landscape in the void will and can adapt to provide these designated areas. Sometimes, a designated area will have a ‘base’ form, and be used again and again in various ways, with different options. These specific zones are listed below.
The Labyrinth (Primarily Mental)
The labyrinth is, in its simplest form, a complex maze. Long have beings used it as a tool of mediation and focus, navigating its walls whether in the physical or mental realms. The Labyrinth is one of the main challenge-zones that always exists, but what form it takes depends on what the current challenge is. What form it takes may also have limits and restrictions to provide a proper challenge to the champions.
The base form of the Labyrinth is an enclosed and complex maze that resists attempts to break out via any means other than navigating it from start to finish. It’s layout-changes every time, but there are ways to help one learn one’s way. (String, marking the walls, etc)
The Labyrinth Zone may be reached via a teleportation pad within the Observation room of the Castle.
The Mirror Gallery (Primarily Spiritual)
The Mirror Gallery has many names, but this is the most common. Mirrors are reflections, and reflections can be distorted or far too accurate for comfort. This challenge zone also takes different forms, but the theme always remains the same in that champions have their spiritual mettle tested, be it facing their worst fears and flaws, temptation fulfilled but with great cost, or making choices that are life-altering.
The base form of the Mirror Gallery is a small building full of mirrors of various shapes, sizes, and types. Depending on what one wishes to gaze on, one may find the mirror they wish to test themselves and attempt to learn what challenges they may face. (i.e: fun-house mirrors, mirrors that show your opposite, mirrors that show what you desire most…)
The Mirror Gallery may be reached via a teleportation pad in the Tapestry gallery of the castle.
The Field (Primarily Physical)
The Field is a designated challenge zone, that adapts and changes as needed for the challenge provided. It is an interdimensional space which may resemble a racing track one time, or a sparring ring another. It can be a vast prairie, or an arctic wasteland. Depending on the climate/atmosphere of the zone, there may be additional challenges for champions here.
The base form of the Field is a large area with mountains, plains, some rivers, and plateaus. It is reachable via a teleportation pad outside of the Castle-grounds along a set path. Where it exists otherwise is not known.
Challenges between Champions will take place in designated areas at designated times, since this is ultimately a formal contest and competition between the Forces of Creation, and the Forces of Unmaking. The landscape in the void will and can adapt to provide these designated areas. Sometimes, a designated area will have a ‘base’ form, and be used again and again in various ways, with different options. These specific zones are listed below.
The Labyrinth (Primarily Mental)
The labyrinth is, in its simplest form, a complex maze. Long have beings used it as a tool of mediation and focus, navigating its walls whether in the physical or mental realms. The Labyrinth is one of the main challenge-zones that always exists, but what form it takes depends on what the current challenge is. What form it takes may also have limits and restrictions to provide a proper challenge to the champions.
The base form of the Labyrinth is an enclosed and complex maze that resists attempts to break out via any means other than navigating it from start to finish. It’s layout-changes every time, but there are ways to help one learn one’s way. (String, marking the walls, etc)
The Labyrinth Zone may be reached via a teleportation pad within the Observation room of the Castle.
The Mirror Gallery (Primarily Spiritual)
The Mirror Gallery has many names, but this is the most common. Mirrors are reflections, and reflections can be distorted or far too accurate for comfort. This challenge zone also takes different forms, but the theme always remains the same in that champions have their spiritual mettle tested, be it facing their worst fears and flaws, temptation fulfilled but with great cost, or making choices that are life-altering.
The base form of the Mirror Gallery is a small building full of mirrors of various shapes, sizes, and types. Depending on what one wishes to gaze on, one may find the mirror they wish to test themselves and attempt to learn what challenges they may face. (i.e: fun-house mirrors, mirrors that show your opposite, mirrors that show what you desire most…)
The Mirror Gallery may be reached via a teleportation pad in the Tapestry gallery of the castle.
The Field (Primarily Physical)
The Field is a designated challenge zone, that adapts and changes as needed for the challenge provided. It is an interdimensional space which may resemble a racing track one time, or a sparring ring another. It can be a vast prairie, or an arctic wasteland. Depending on the climate/atmosphere of the zone, there may be additional challenges for champions here.
The base form of the Field is a large area with mountains, plains, some rivers, and plateaus. It is reachable via a teleportation pad outside of the Castle-grounds along a set path. Where it exists otherwise is not known.
is all good anyways
Date: 2019-08-01 10:39 pm (UTC)It wasn't like he hadn't had a crush before--but overall his adolescence HAD been very unusual.
Then she leaned in, nudging him up and he was sure he was bright red and blinking at her in surprise. Then she was kissing him--chaste and simple, and only for a moment but also far too quickly. Never mind that he couldn't thought his face could be redder; that hers was red too only helped slightly.
"I...uh..I..." A blink and a huffed breath in and out. "I...Um...you know I have no clue what I'm doing right? But...I do think you're cute." That last part might've been slightly mumbled, but at least he was looking at her.
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Date: 2019-08-01 10:52 pm (UTC)It's not that she hadn't had a crush before. There was Lux Bonteri after all, but she also wasn't suppose to get feelings like that for anyone. It was something her Masters warned her against.
This would have been frowned upon. Her heart tightened a moment as it felt still, like it had stopped, and her face was a brilliant darker orange, a sign of blush in her alien skin. She looked down and away, chuckling nervously. Maybe that kiss was a mistake. "I uh, yeah. I don't really know what I'm, uh, doing either. Or what came over me. Sorry." She mumbled back.
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Date: 2019-08-01 11:02 pm (UTC)Tilting his head just a bit, to return that kiss. Still chaste, and simple, and trying to be more easy-going than as nervous as he felt.
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Date: 2019-08-01 11:26 pm (UTC)As he nudged her to look up and leaned in to kiss her, she closed her eyes and leaned in just a bit as well, pressing her lips back to his. This was bad. This was attachment and feelings and--And she wasn't a Jedi anymore. She wasn't training to be a Jedi. Her masters couldn't say anything about it (she didn't have Masters anymore, did she). It was okay.
She was allowed to feel happy about this. To kiss him back, blushing fiercely, but relaxing into it this time.
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Date: 2019-08-01 11:32 pm (UTC)Her training and order had said no to attachments or feelings, while his had been locked away and transformed into a desire to fight and protect. Along with a deep loathing of the psychopathic cyborgs responsible.
She wasn't a Jedi anymore. She also wasn't likely to try and kill him just for fun. He was allowed to like her, to find her cute. The red flush on his face and the darker orange of her own flush weren't leaving anytime soon; but he relaxed into it as well. Less tense, and somewhat blindly reaching for the last place he'd known where her hand was. Wanting that anchor, and to just hold her hand, and perhaps some reassurance that this was actually happening.