a fateful meeting; Yvette and Ellie
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She is the first one there because she's still pissed and being pissed makes her extremely efficient.

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The overseer scowls and doesn't say anything until the rest show up. Posture, then the lovers. Still no sign of the Gran, and the overseer doesn't wait for him.

"You maggots will be having separate trials today. You, Nils," he throws a datapad at Posture, who catches it. "You are going to the library. Read the books listed. Move." Posture leaves.

"You, slave." This is directed at Nariveth. "Weapons training. Second floor practice room. Go."

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... Okay? This seems surprisingly non terrible for an assignment from the overseer, she's confused. Is he trying to get - Nils, apparently, is his name - to gain on her in Force powers so he can kill her later? That makes the most sense, but she can get weapon training while working on her strength with the Force, so as long as she doesn't exhaust herself and keeps an eye on the area around her with her sensory abilities, she should be okay. Probably.

She blinks, then goes to the second floor practice room without delaying to grab breakfast, because there could be a Sith teacher involved, and they don't like to be kept waiting.

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There aren't any Sith in the practice room when she gets there. There is a flashing terminal to one side of the door. It reads:

{ENTER TRAINING LEVEL - NOVICE -- INTERMEDIATE -- ADVANCED}

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... Oh.

Well then.

She's getting breakfast.

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The cafeteria is serving grey gloop.

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Eh, it's calories. Nom.

And then it's time for training with the computer system.

Is it really just three different modes? No other side buttons for a customizable experience?

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Yep. Three sizes fit all.

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... She is very apprehensive of this.

But she thinks the overseer hates her enough to say she failed if she turns around without taking any weapons training at all, so...

She draws her sword, and then presses the novice button.

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There's a whirr and clank from inside the wall, and a hidden door pops open. One humanoid droid steps out, carrying a single vibrosword. It strikes a guard pose.

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It's clear why the Overseer sent her here, she is going to get cut to ribbons.

She - doesn't really have any idea what she's doing. She also strikes what she thinks is a guard pose? Heavily matching the droid's form? ... What the fuck is she doing, this is a terrible teaching method.

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When she puts up her sword, the droid moves in to attack. Its swings are slow and broadly telegraphed. It only has about four different cuts in its repertoire, and three ways to parry.

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Oh! Oh this isn't completely awful! Okay!

She can work with this!

She practices responding to its strikes before she figures out how to deal with its parries, defense seems important for her to get sorted before she moves on to how to kill people.

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This droid is very stupid. It will keep doing the same cuts for as long as she keeps responding to them.

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She's okay with that.

Once she's gotten how to defend against these specific cuts, she moves on to trying to figure out how to stab it.

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It can bat her blade to the left, it can bat her blade to the right, and it does sort of a swoopy loopy thing when she tries to stab at it.

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Oo, swoopy loopy thing, clearly she must figure out how this works and copy it.

She'll briefly be distracted from trying to stab it by trying to copy the swoopy loopy thing.

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The swoopy loopy thing is pretty easy to get the hang of, after she sees it a couple times. If she stands just so, she can get the droid to use its stabbing move more often to practice.

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She notices this and stands just so to get in her practice, and then once she has gotten the swoopy loopy thing down she goes back to trying to stab it. ... In different ways, to see how it reacts.

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It only has the one response. Plus the two slash defenses.

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Sigh. She was hoping for a bit more.

Well, that makes it easy to get past its defenses, doesn't it? She figures out a way to do that, and the droid is stabbed.

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Bzzzt. Now there is a smoking hole in its chest. The terminal chimes and flashes.

{NOVICE TRAINING COMPLETED}

{ENTER TRAINING LEVEL - NOVICE -- INTERMEDIATE -- ADVANCED}

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She'll sit down and have some water before poking the intermediate button, but she does think she wants to poke it. This is actually some very useful knowledge she's getting, she learned a lot from the novice droid, and she is not going to be able to win by shying away from learning things.

After she's caught her breath and had a proper rest, she goes and enters 'intermediate.'

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Further whirrs and clanks from inside the wall, and another hidden door pops out. Another droid walks out, of a similar model to the last. It too strikes a guard pose, though somewhat more fluidly.

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She matches the guard pose, stretching out with the Force to see if she can figure out where it's going to hit before it hits so she can defend it early, and reflexively checking the hallway for anyone because oops she really should have done that sooner.

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