On The Way To The Secret Base

[Collan]

Collan had wasted little time during the travel to Kota's secret hideout. While Niil healed up, he cleared a practice circle in the workroom and took out his training saber. The sabrestaff stayed in his room for now.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil walked into the work room, a towel slung over his shoulder and a training saber in his right hand.  Waving at Collan with his free hand, he chuckled, "Well, I hope that this will be less risky than our attempt at extreme sky-diving.  You know, I never did ask you . . . when you were sparring with PROXY, what trainer did you ask him to emulate?"

[Collan]

Collan paused and searched his memory. An older man. Beared with a twinkle in blue eyes.

"I've no idea who it was. I asked first if he knew Juyo...and he became a murderous looking Zabrak. When I switched Shi-Cho, he became an older human," Collan proceeded to describe the hologram.

"Who was PROXY for you?"

[Niil Spaar]

Niil laughed.  "The same opponent.  The, umm, 'template' you were sparring with was none other than General Obi-Wan Kenobi.  That's who I was sparring with."  Wait . . . a murderous-looking Zabrak?  "That Zabrak you spoke of . . . PROXY took that form when you asked for a Juyo trainer, right?  Did the Zabrak have a saberstaff?"

[Collan]

Collan whistled.

"The General Kenobi? Jedi Master and all that? Wow. So that's what he looked like," the latter came out as a rhetorical question. But at the same time, Collan searched his memory for what the Zabrak had looked like.

"No...I don't remember a saberstaff. I had 'mine'," the quotes were evident as it really wasn't Collan's but he hoped someday it might be, "but I'm not ready to learn how to use its full capabilities yet. I've almost got Shi-Cho down but need a little more time with it. Makashi or Juyo are my only real options for training now. I don't have the flexibility or strength to handle the other styles."

[Niil Spaar]

"All in time, Collan."  The smile was back.  "Sorry, you have me curious about this Zabrak.  You said he was, umm, 'murderous looking', right?  Anything else you can tell em about him?"  Niil hesitated.  "He didn't have yellowy-orange eyes, did he?"

[Collan]

"More red than yellow," Collan noted, "And an extremely menacing but smooth voice."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil was grinning now, and he replied, "Well . . . it's  good thing that PROXY's unable to spar with us the same way he did with Galen.  I could be way off, but from what you've told me about this Zabrak, he sounds like a Sith lord.  Murderous looking, menacing and smooth voice, reddish eyes . . ."

[Collan]

Collan may have turned a little pale, but his eyebrows definitely went up in some shock.

"Yeah...I knew that...impersonation...wasn't going to win Miss Congeniality at the Galactic Beauty Pageant but not that he was a Sith."

He shivered a bit, "Juyo must cut it closer than I thought to the Dark Side."

[GM Craig]

[Intervening here. Darth Maul was not well known. His role in the Clone Wars was not common knowledge, and would be beyond what Niil or Collan would know.]

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shrugged.  "Like I said, it sounds like he's a Sith from the description you gave me, but I'm hardly the galaxy's font of knowledge on them.  I just remember Master Dhoresh mentioning a few of them.  PROXY would probably know who he the Zabrak is."

He draped his towel over a nearby chair and started to stretch his muscles.  "So, just out of curiosity, did 'General Kenobi' say anything to you prior to the start of your sparring match?"

[Collan]

Collan shrugged, "Not really. He had this somewhat amused tone and asked if I was ready. That was it."

He narrowed his eyes and furrowed his brow in thought. He was curious as to this line of questioning. PROXY was a droid that emulated the combat styles of various masters of the forms. He really wasn't them.

"Why do you ask?" He inquired.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shrugged.  "Just curious.  When PROXY took General Kenobi's form, I ahh, remember saying something like, 'So, how do we do this?  I'm not good enough to spar with real lightsabers yet.'"  Niil chuckled.  "PROXY's not a Jedi, but his response reminded me of a very valuable lesson."

[Collan]

Colln cocked hsi head to one side, asking, "Which was?"

[Niil Spaar]

Niil grinned, and without warning, activated his training saber and aimed an overhead vertical cut at Collan's head.

OOC:  RP response/reaction is up to Collan, but Niil would bring the blade to a halt before it contacted Collan's head.