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[tarotgal]

Fic updates of the day! :-) Which is far more fun than listening to me bitch about Bush. LOL

• Came up with a lovely idea for a Legolas & Gimli story. No sneezing, but some h/c and lots of angst. Don't have time to write it yet, but I wrote a page an a half worth of an outline so I wouldn't forget the details that popped into my head- you guessed it!- in the shower tonight
  
• I finished the R/S drabble that came to me a few nights ago. It ended up being 3 pages long. LOL It needs editing, I think. And I rejected a good title in favor of a crappy one because the good one fit other bunny ideas much better. LOL We'll see.
  
• I wrote more of the Obi fic. I'm having second thoughts about posting a part later today. I'm rather worried that once I start posting I won't be able to finish the story... you know my record with WIPs. I really wanted to post it on the first of the month... maybe I should wait until next month. Ugh. Then I'd never get this done. Ugh. I'll probably post it tonight.
  

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[tarotgal]

Glad you found the link useful. It's got a lot of stuff about the extended universe as well, which is helpful. I use it a lot to check spellings and things, though lots of SW terms are now in my MSWord dictionary to save trouble :-)

I find it pretty easy to describe Squee to someone in person (just make the sound. LOL!) but I've had to explain it to people when I was just chatting or not in a place where I was able to actually squeal. It's rather hard, isn't it? LOL But, yes, been there, done that! LOL

Hope you enjoy my new fic. It's been fun writing it so far. I hope I haven't gotten in over my head.

And I'm online tonight chatting (pretty much every Friday, I'll be online) so feel free to look me up if you see me

[tarotgal]

I think I'm just going to be on chat Friday nights. But if you wanted to bounce ideas of my in LJ I'll definitely be there.

heehee! Glad you had a good night!

[tarotgal]

Oh, you'll definitely have a lot of time to check my fic out... it'll be going on for quite a while ;-)

Yummy Orli... *drool*

[tarotgal]

heehee Thank you- and I read your fb onlist- which was great. Thank you for that, too! :-)

Your idea seems quite possible and very good, actually. A council meeting (not a Jedi council, but some meeting of delegates of other worlds, or a local planet's goverment or something like that) is a good excuse. I know I've used that myself at times to lure the boys to specific planets :-)
But I like the idea of them not getting far with it. Poor Obi *hugs* And strange medicine and ways of healing on a planet would be very interesting to see! As would an incubation pod-type thing that blocks their master-padawan bond. There are a number of fics out in the world that deal with a Jedi's reaction to suddenly being cut off from the force (or from his master). I've read stories where fevers or comas have done that much, and it might be interesting for Qui-Gon to finally get them to release Obi from the incubation area (or allow him to enter as long as he agrees not to leave) just to find that it's the illness, not the facility, that was making it hard to communicate with him using the force. Just a thought... :-)

But in general, yes, your idea sounds great and you should definitely run with it! :-)

[tarotgal]

thanks! *bounces up and down* i definitely like that idea--how would Qui-Gon try to connect with him? Just touching Obi's palm and trying to get him to connect? Id be curious as to what kind of meeting I should have them going to...maybe one of the planets has requested their help for lack of supplies that they have? and they're going to negotiate a proper deal for it. :)
The meeting idea sounds great. Possibly an environmental disruption (flood, avalanche, volcano, drought, famine, etc.) that causes the need for supplies to be sent from Coruscant or nearer friendly planets.

As for the connecting, Jedi communicate with the force on many levels. I would think that Qui-Gon would try to contact Obi-Wan on many levels as well. Simply talking, touching (I love the image of him holding his padawan's hand), and thinking (telepathy). The master-padawan bond is expressed many times in fics as the private exchange of thoughts and emotions from one to the other. (denoted as //thought-speech// in many fics) It's also possible that through the use of the force they may be able to simply sense each other's presence on a level we can't really understand as mere humans ;-) So the fact that Qui-Gon suddenly can't sense his padawan's consciousness might be a huge blow to him.

[tarotgal]

Gah!!! Don't use Endor! Ewoks are like cute fuzzy little bears. They're not green and they're not humanoids and they don't speak English and would never ask for help from the Jedi let alone know how to work a communicator to call Coruscant. Endor is a focus in the last SW movie (which you obviously have not yet seen) so I definitely wouldn't use that planet, whatever you do.

If an earthquake happened elsewhere, it would just be called a quake. Or some other term (tectonic plate shift, land rumble, etc.)

[tarotgal]

I would suggest just making up a planet. That way you have more control of their technology, needs, people, and government. The universe is vast and SW fans usually don't mind when you create a new planet just out of nowhere. If you don't want to do that, however, I still wouldn't use one of the planets that are seen in any of the movies, just because none work well in that situation. Well, Naboo probably does. If you really want to, go with that one. They're friendly to the republic, so they would be calling on the Jedi for help in negotiations. But remember, if Obi was that young it would be before Amadala's time in power. Still, I think the best thing would be to pick a planet not used in any of the movies or make one up yourself.

[tarotgal]

You could still use Naboo, you would just have to invent another Queen for that point in time.
As for the made-up planet bit. You're right that the council part would not be that important. But you'd also have to take into consideration how advanced the civilization on the planet was. They have to be technologically advanced enough to have a way to communicate with the Jedi through subspace, yet not posessed of the proper natural resources to make a recovery on their own. And they must be medically advanced enough to have isolation wards and official procedures. But obviously not advanced enough to be able to cure (or detect) any/all illnesses. Perhaps recent paranoia on the planet or nearby ones makes them more cautious about foreign illnesses. For them to order/force a Jedi into an isolation pod/room takes a lot of guts... or a lot of naiveté. One of the two. To get the right combination of the civilization and culture needed to make a story like your believable, you would really almost have to invent it from scratch.

[tarotgal]

That's a little close/personal to me so I'm not sure I can offer an opinion on it... but that would indeed work. The sympoms are more flu-like than cold-like.