Umbralite

Form V

The point of this form is essentially to beat one’s way through their opponent’s offences and defence and hack them into little bits.

Anakin/Darth Vader and Luke.

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Form IV

This form is nearly the opposite of Soresu in that its practisioner almost never holds still and throws presision to the winds, at least as much one can in combat. An integral part of this form is the use of augmentation from the Force and general acrobatics.

Yoda, Qui-Gonn, Darth Maul, and Obi-wan at that point as well.

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Form III

This form provides neigh impenetrable defences with lightning quick ripostes to utterly frustrate one’s opponent, while he’s still alive that is.

Obi-wan Kenobi, in Episode 3 to be technical.

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Form II

This form emphasises precision and thus works towards exploiting the ungainliness, or, in fact, any unnecessary movement, of the opponent. Djem So has a tendency to kineticly overwhelm its defences, but it is still the only form that allows one to remove both their opponents elbows with a single flick of the wrist.

Count Dooku, Shaak Ti

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Form I

The basic lightsaber form. This is a prerequisite to all the other forms. It is fairly plain with a balanced emphasis on the aggressive and defencive and a moderate threat radius, but it is not ineffective if used well. The only consistent drawback to this form is that it only last about 30 seconds against Makashi.

Theoretically, Kit Fisto uses this form and I suspect that Ki-Adi-Mundi does as well.

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Well, for the past couple days, instead of drawing mermaids and working out the social political/structure of the League of Umbrellas, I have been hard at work on a project that only I will really appreciate. But that’s all right; you should all be satisfied with the fact that I’m posting.

So, combining my fondness for Star Wars, categorizing, and runic, (and thus showing the dangers of doodleing in class) I have gone and made a sigil for each of the lightsaber forms and will be supplying them over the next week or so along with who uses what, or something like that just to put things in context those who don’t have this sort of thing memorized.

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With the onset of his career as a blood-thirsty marauder, Patrick Guthwine, being keenly aware of his own deficiencies in the areas of personal prowess, tactics, and general seamanship, commissioned his mother to make a flag which would set him apart from the other sundry pirates and communicate by sheer nastiness of visage general thoughts of surrender and suchlike things to the minds of those unfortunate enough to gaze upon said bit of cloth on the high seas. His mother was only to happy to lend any amount of aid to her son’s financial endeavors being of the opinion that as Patrick had already failed in every other career he had ever gotten himself into, he would need as much aid as he could get. So, on the eve of her son’s maiden voyage Jemima Guthwine proudly presented him with the flag he had requested and sent him on his way, apparently unaware of the mental anguish which this gift had cast over Patrick.

Scholars generally agree that the dark image, which Patrick Guthwine had intended as the outer face of his persona had almost certainly been a black scorpion, but either because Jemima was unfamiliar with scorpions or that she disagreed with her son artistically, the flag he flew on his first voyage, bore the image of a black silverfish. “It may even have been miscommunication,” says one such scholar, “In a moment of mental abstraction, Patrick may very well have just waved his hand vaguely and said, ‘Oh, you know, those arthropods with tails.’”

At any rate, when Captain Guthwine reentered port two days later to pick up the powder kegs he had inadvertently left behind, he made the mistake of patronizing the local tavern. The other clientele, his fellow sea captains, felt it necessary to enlighten Patrick as to the extent to which he was entertaining the local populace. They made it perfectly clear that to be symbolized by what was essentially an upper class cockroach was not at all lacking in the humorous. Patrick Guthwine tragically died in the brawl that fallowed and his already disillusioned crew abandoned the ship and scattered to the winds.

When Jemima Guthwine was informed of the event and circumstances of her son’s death she rounded up her younger relations and, livid over the insult to her handiwork which she found to be quite well up in the viciousness department, set out in her son’s ship to track down those responsible.

The slaughters that fallowed were purportedly ghastly to behold. Within the space of three weeks Jemima Guthwine had sent four ships to the bottom. Thus obtaining a fondness for life at sea Jemima continued on, carving herself a place as the thirteenth most feared pirate of that time. This number, though, was no accurate depiction of the woman’s tenacity and bloodthirstiness which was well above that of any other pirate captain. She was, as one historian puts it, “a knitter.” In fact, the only reason Jemima did not attain the status of other less dangerous men was that the rampant destruction and death that marked her pirating exploits were only sporadic, accruing only when the orchestrator of such events was running low on wool.

But even if it was slowly, hampered by infrequency and the short life expectancy of eyewitnesses, news was spreading. In a letter to the family taxidermist Jemima’s nephew Archibald describes his aunt, “The old lady would set into battle with a glee bordering on the infernal.” And soon whispers and only half-believed tails of the Black Silverfish, Demon Granny of the Caribbean were heard in taverns the world over.

The ultimate fate of Jemima Guthwine remains clouded in mystery and though her involvement in the Lady Katherine affair is probable, the details concerning that event are known only to few.

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Speaking of snowmen…

This was actually the charcoal’s idea more than mine. No one in their right mind tries to depict sunlight passing through the body of a being of varying translucence composed primarily of corporeal shadow, but my medium has been nagging me all semester and I’m never in my right mind anyway. I think I’ll leave off explaining the deep inner meaning of this picture just yet, so Rachel can be ambiently smug for a bit.

My conscience is now clear.

Beware, Josiah.

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1. The Star of Earendil
2. The Land of Gift
3. Vision of Avallone
4. The Counsels of Sauron
5. Of Isildur and Nimloth
6. The Temple of Melkor
7. The Fleet of Ar-Pharazon
8. The Eagles of Manwe
9. Nine Ships
10. The Strait Road

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6/24
7:02 am

We have narrowed our choices down to cathedrals B and E. When the director arrives Saturday we should have a probable location for the tomb. She’ll be pleased about that.

9:57 am

Have managed to get beneath cathedral B through the sewers and are digging into the catacombs. Ed forgot the potato chips and has gone back up for them.

11:23 am

Inside the catacombs now, will eat lunch just as soon as Ed gets back.

11:41 am

Something is wrong. I sent George back to see what was keeping Ed but he couldn’t find him anywhere. He says the pigeons outside have vanished.

12:16 am

I think something has followed us into the catacombs. There has been a lot of unexplained noises down out off the way tunnels and our equipment was ransacked when we weren’t looking. I’m making for the cathedral exit but don’t know if it will work.

12:55 am

George disappeared a few minutes ago,we heard him scream and a lot of snarlish and rendy noises. That can’t be good.

1:12 pm

I count at least three pood-

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