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Sweety Wind
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>>547556
No, no one is in here, but it smells like someone was in here this morning. It looks like a pretty simple house, one big room with everything in it, couple cots and stuff, plus a pantry. The pantry is of special interest, of course.
Not much in the way of fresh fruit in here... or really fresh anything. Assorted dried fruits, dried meat, grains... all very tasty, but I think it's a little odd he doesn't store any of his own produce inside his house.
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>>547749
I can't hear you over the delicious taste of food in my mouth.
I don't know what animal this came from but it's delicious. Mmmm.
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Mmmm... yeah, I dunno... I'm already taking so much, it feels like stuffing my pants with food would be a little bit taking advantage of a situation that's already bad enough...
On that note, I think I need to clear up a few things about what it means to be an Aetherian Paladin, since there appears to be some misunderstanding. There's more to it than just doing good and helping people. I'm going to be eating a while, so we have time.
Everyone can - well, all of us anyway, I think the dog-people have a different kind of magic, but that's beside the point - but, yes, all of us can control our bodies from shortly after birth. It's stronger for some than others, and a rare few can even enter a Bloodrage when pressed, but the training of a paladin is one of learning discipline and pushing your body rather rather than the quick bursts and simple most people learn to use in normal life.
Briefly delaying physical needs is one of the more simple practices that finds common use, but one of the first things we were trained in was to refine it into something much more potent - I have not eaten for five days, which is about the limit of my ability to push myself right now. I can also forgo sleeping instead for an about as long, or do neither for nearly two days. Of course, I'd rather not have to, it's exhausting in the long term.
I completed training up to the ranking of Novice and was working on the Adept training before I left, which means I also learned some tricks to ignore stress on my body from physical exertion or harsh environments, but they're a lot harder to do than belayments, and I can't do either for nearly as long.
I haven't completed the main parts of the Adept training, but I know how to do them at least, on a rudimentary level. I can block out pain and give myself what amounts do a sort of prolongued adrenaline rush on command, which is good when I need a burst of strength.
There were things I would have learned later - Master paladins can literally refuse to die until they're decapitated or they're unable to fight anymore due to extensive dismemberment. But... I wasn't really learning to be a paladin entirely for the purpose of the training they gave me, so I sort of... skipped ahead a little bit to try and hurry things up,
See, one of the Journeyman techniques they teach you is to accelerate your body's natural healing by a massive factor, like to the point of compressing a week into several hours. I read up on it when no one was looking and figured out the basic idea of the process, but uhm... they apparently teach you other things first as a foundation for the later things, so while I can set my body into overdrive, I don't have a whole lot of stamina to deal with it.
And I can't stop it. It just keeps going. Until I collapse from exhaustion. I was out of action for several days if I remember right. They were kinda mad at me about that.
But I guess it would be useful in an emergency, where exhaustion and unconsciousness would be preferable to bleeding to death?
Anyway, I think I'm about full now, but there isn't a whole lot of food left in here. The farmer isn't going to be happy when he gets home.
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