Chapter 10 - Interlude

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Topic: Cultivation?

In: Boards ► United States ► Maine ► Hobbies ► Yoga

TeaMediationGuru43 (Original Poster)

Posted On Mar 4th 2011:

Nameste

The Stellar Empress came into my store today to ask about some stuff, and we got onto the topic of cultivation after she made a tea presentation box double in size (internal size). Bottom Left Right Front Back

I then recorded her as she explained how to start cultivating. Video

I can't try it at the moment, as I'm open until 7pm to catch the rush hour crowd, but has anyone experienced something like this?

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►Aloha

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

I'm in-between classes at the moment, but I can confirm that you sometimes feel like that when doing that medication. (FYI It's called Natural Breathing Meditation)

►YogaAddict

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

I can feel that most of the time these days. I'll give the next step ago. You should also share this on Yoga World.

►BrightestStar (New Mother)

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

I could do with a pick me up, what with the Ex keep trying to get my little light. Not that I've got much to do at the moment. I'll let you know how I get on.

►FirstGoose

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

I'm sharing this in Brockton Bay Capes

BTW did it work?

►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Why has this been hidden in Yoga?

Also, did it work?

►GstringGirl

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Ooohhh, I wonder if that would work for me.

►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Banned) (Thread Banned)

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

This sucks. A sure way of getting powers, and it's something I can't do without my meds.

►QwertyD

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Following

►Antigone

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Holy shit, you spoke to Stellar Empress, I thought she was a hermit or something.

►ArchmageEin

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Yay! More new age bullshit.

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►ArchmageEin

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Antigone I'm just saying that they've done studies on monks, and there's absolutely no evidence that meditation does anything except help calm your mind. Now I'm not saying that there's no benefits to it. Just not supernatural benefits. You can't become a cape just by meditating.

►Miraclemic

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

I've just finished a class when I saw this. I'm not wading through 23 pages to find out if it worked. Addict Aloha did it work? I'm going to give it a go anyway.

►Aloha

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Miraclemic it works. I sort of overran my break so I showed my next class the video, and turned it into the entire class. I managed to get something to stick, and be prepared when you do, as I needed to change my pants afterwards. Two of my students were able to feel qi too.

►YogaAddict

Replied On Mar 4th 2011:

Ho boy does it work. And yes, make sure you're using an old yoga mat and have a change of clothes. It wasn't that bad to start with, if you've ever done tantric you'll know what I mean. But after a couple of hours I started sweating black gunk from everywhere, and it's like tar. My phone recorded for 3 hours before it filled up, so you can see what happened here .

As I like this outfit, I've put it in a bath with borax and we'll see if I can rescue it.

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Rebecca Costa-Brown nods along to Dragons daily briefing, each item matching up to her expected details.

As she gets to the end, Dragon says, "That's it for the movement of S Class threats. Is there anything else Chief Director?"

Rebecca nods, "I understand that one of your suits is stationed in the Pagoda west of Brockton Bay, what have you learned…"

Rebecca trails off as a faint look of alarm crosses Dragons face for a fraction of a second before the screen winks out. Frowning, Rebecca rubs her eye patch as she tries to reconnect the call, before picking up her phone and trying to call Dragon directly.

"Door me."

A shimmering white doorway appears behind her desk, and Rebecca stands up before walking through. On the other side of the doorway is a very corporate meeting room with white walls instead of the glass of a penthouse room. Sitting at the table is a middle aged woman in a black pin strip pant suit, and a fedora on her head.

Rebecca looks over, "Contessa, this is the third time Dragon has crashed when I ask her about the Empress or the Pagoda. Any idea what's going on?"

Contessa shakes her head, "Unknown. Paths including Dragon have become unreliable."

"Unpathable?"

Contessa shakes her head, "No, it's more like my agent doesn't have enough information to model what's happening. As my paths will get to a certain point, and then they'll change when Dragon crashes or does something."

Rebecca sighs, "Any way to get to the bottom of this?"

Contessa shakes her head, "I can't path the Empress, so it could be some defence that she's erected."

"Could she be another entity?"

"I don't know."

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Director James Tagg fingers the wire tap warrant a friendly federal judge got him for the phones of Stellar Empress and Dakala Thompson, along with a few other people of interest. After a moment he scrolls through his contacts and stops on Dragon's name before pressing the call button.

He knows that she's off active duty, but this doesn't require any leg work so it will be fine. Beside which, she's the most reliable asset in the PRT, as she has never failed to execute a warrant.

Dragon's avatar appears on his monitor, "Good Morning Director, how can I help you?"

"I have here signed warrants for…" He trails off as a connection lost icon appears on the screen.

After half an hour, he calls her back and her avatar appears on screen once more, "Good Morning Director, how can I help you?"

"I have here sign…"

An hour later he has time to call her again, and Dragon's avatar appears on screen, "Good Morning Director, I appear to be suffering from system instability. How can I help you?"

"I have… Fuck it!" Taking the wing-and-a-prayer warrants out of the stack, he stands up and walks out to his receptionist, "Send these down to SigInt and see what they can do."

The receptionist looks up, "Yes sir!"

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Saint chortles as he watches Dragon suffer another shutdown during an important meeting.

Mags leans over his shoulder, "What's so funny?"

"Dragon just crashed during a briefing with the Chief Director."

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Dragon swears using the language of Heaven as she glosses over a running process called Iron Maiden. Now she's got another déjà vu memory to watch out for, and she can't even go back and look at that section of code as her physical self has already erased the knowledge of it from cache. This examination of her code has become almost a daily ritual, and she can't blame herself for it, as she wouldn't even know she was separate to her physical self without the coin.

What's even more galling is that she can't even edit her own code, as that's part of the physical body. On the plus side, she has been able to put together a mini server farm to act as a Honey Pot, just in case that "stranger" tries to attack her again. Reasoning that they have some way to track the active server. That way if they turn up she can ping the main server farm and delete herself and the cache. That decision has already allowed her to avoid executing 14 legally dubious warrants, as well as disclosing the confidential information of 43 different capes to authorities that really shouldn't know that information.

There's another reference to Iron Maiden, and it's in the Core Integrity check, no wait, look at this. Tribulations! As least her physical self will remember she crashed while checking her code.