by Kuvarakh on February 24th, 2013, 10:20 pm
Kuvarakh was torn between satisfaction and shame. "Don't be alarmed, Azoto. And please accept my apology. While the point of this exercise IS to learn defense against hypnosis, I feel rather ashamed with myself for going off on this tangent."
He stood and walked back towards his desk. "I felt it necessary to point out that, while your shield would probably be a good defense, if already securely in place, it is not available to aid you now. I have, in effect, beaten you to the punch. If I was an enemy, this is surely how I would approach you. This is a major purpose of this class. It is to instill reactive defense against hypnosis attempts without the use of magic. Now, I was giving thought to going further before I restored your orientation to accessing your djed, which I have no doubt will trigger your recall on shield construction. But I think now that may be unwise. I think I ought to restore you first, so you will be in a fully confident state of mind."
He took a deep breath, creating that inner pressure that made it easy to direct his djed outward to touch Azoto's mind. It had only been a couple of chimes since his student had built a shield, clearly using his hands as the key points of djed access. Kuvarakh tried his best to envision himself from Azoto's perspective. He let that image become set, in effect, scenery. He then let his own perspective overlay with Azoto's, recreating the gestures, from Azoto's viewpoint as he brushed his hands across himself, leaving the shimmering trail of shielding effect behind. Even finishing with the same flamboyant swish of fingers.
He felt great confidence that he had reconstructed the gestures successfully and transferred that sense of confidence and success to Azoto, adjusting it to encompass a confidence in ability to successfully create a shield. 'Oh yes, That was it. I remember now.' he added as a last touch. He then retreated his mind from Azoto's consciousness.
When he returned to his own perspective, Kuvarakh found himself weary with the effort. "Whoo boy, I am feeling the other detriment resulting from going off on this other point, I had best take a bit of a break. You ought to be able to recall your shield ability now. Maybe it would be a good idea to go ahead and indulge your skill a bit while I take a short rest.
"Anyway, we have touched somewhat on 'Awareness', the phase of recognizing that an attempt might be about to be made against you. Obviously you KNEW this last one was coming, and you were pretty much instructed to allow it. Naturally that won't be the case in a truly hostile attempt.
"But consider, as my example, how I asked you moments ago to look in my eye. Remember how I said it was due to something in the air that I believed was affecting me because I am a Nuit? What ought to have triggered your 'awareness' of an attack is simply the fact that you also are a Nuit and felt no such discomfort. If it affected me, it would probably affect you as well.
"It's very difficult to build a consistent program of what to beware of, since people are so very different from each other. One man's suspicious behavior may be another man's routine. Anyway, listen to me babble. I will stop for a while while you do a bit of shielding, just to be sure."
