The Crypt [T/P]
Apr 21, 2014 11:30:06 GMT -7
Post by Draven on Apr 21, 2014 11:30:06 GMT -7
Tune Tools
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: An artisan may use their tools with better proficiency.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: If given materials sufficient to make improvised tools (Component) for their craft, the tools so improvised give no penalty to skill instead of the normal -40. If given a Basic Component for their art, they can spend an hour and hone them into implements that will grant a +10 circumstance bonus to the user's skill. If given Masterwork Component for their trade, they can use the same customization process to allow them to grant +15 circumstance bonus for their own use, though the tools in question will still only grant the normal bonuses to other individuals. For every additional quality the room will grant a +5 bonus while using the Component, giving a +30 for a Perfected Component.
Limit: Must be an Artisan.
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Draven would run some calculations. He would use this timing as a base and fix all the recipes in his smith notebook so that they could be used in this simple method. This method of heating with the use of coals could be used as long as he had logs and a few simple fireplace tools or even sticks if need be. Thus he would have completed this and took note of the trends with a makeshift forge. He would then move the glowing iron piece over to, well a cobblestone piece laying on the ground. He would place the iron onto the stone and grab a hammer. Now his objective was to shape this piece of hot metal without breaking the stone. If he could do this he could potentially shape metal anywhere he pleased.
Thus Draven would start by banging the metal with the hammer very gently. He would experiment in such a way by slowly increasing the strength of each bang. Once the stone cracked he would know the force at which he would stop at so that he could shape the iron. He would choose a new cobblestone and take the hot iron to it. He would then carefully start molding the iron without cracking the stone. He would shape it and try to become faster at it. He would note to himself how he could strike the iron in such a way that the force would be transfered to the metal and not to the cobblestone underneath.
Draven would do this until he would have a shape that could be created into a weapon. He would have done this not to prove that he could, it was so that he could use other objects as a makeshift anvil. But in the end he would take it back to the forge and reheat the metal. He would take it to the anvil and start calibrating the anvil. This time he would use a good tool and improve his awareness of the tool. He would note that he could increase or decrease the height of the anvil. He would experiment how this would effect his hammer strikes. Indeed at a certain height it was easier to hammer because he would not need to raise the hammer so high with each strike.
Draven would also find a calibration to tilt the anvil. He would play with this option in the tool and find that with this he could create glancing blows for which he could make some killer blade edges with while shaping a metal. There where sided of the anvil that he would use, such as the rounded pointy end. With that he could create different shapes in the metal rather than manually bending the iron through use of the flat surface. There where actually many edges to the anvil that he would use and test out to see what would happen and what kind of improved shapes he could create.
Once Draven was happy with results, he would mark this in his smith notebook and move onto the next tool. He would go to the grinding station and ponder how he could grind without using one of these. The simple answer was using a harder stone and doing this by hand. Thus he would look around for a few and try them out. He would take a stone he found and run it against the Iron. He would take to see what this would do. If the there where metal shavings then that stone was good to use because its hardness was harder than the meta. But he had to use different metals as well and find out which stones could work for which metals.