Stormy st. 401 [Emi's house][P|T|C]

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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While he allowed the fine powder slowly cover the blade, he made sure to hit it a few times in between each layer. Flames erupted from the metal and a hazy blue color danced along the blade and into the fire. It was so beautiful that the Hoshigaki stopped for a brief moment as he just enjoyed the view, but that resulted in the flames dying and the color vanishing. Yet again he had to wake himself up from his fascination, what was he doing? He was more professional than that. So he hurried himself to start hammering again, but for some reason the blue color never came back and the flames less eager. At first he thought that it could have something to do with the heat, that it had cooled down enough for the effect being less effective.

But as he put it back into the fireplace and made it hotter than it had been before, he noticed that it wasn't true, he just couldn't get the effect back. Since he had researched about the process in before hand, he knew that the book didn't hold the answer. But it did however have several pictures of all the stages of the metal, so he had to go there and compare his own to the one in the book. There were several different colors in the metal, so he wasn't quite sure which one he'd be able to compare it with. But then he just decided that he just needed to find the approximate colors in the metal piece. So he made a spectrum of all the colors on a line to make it easier to compare before he moved it over to the sword.

Most of the colors were darker in reality and Emi began to wonder if it was due to the dark room, or if he had ruined the metal. So he tried to light up the room as much as he possibly could, with torches on each and every wall and two surrounding the table. The metal did however not change its color tones, which confirmed it, he had ruined the metal. After a couple of curses, he went back to the book to see if he had any alternative to actually save the precious metal from being unusable. At the end of all the descriptions he found some common flaws, but even though it was about the unrefined version, he saw some things that fitted to his. So he tried the procedure, which was basically to have it in the fire for long enough time to burn away the scraps of dust.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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Since he already had tried to put it back into the flames, he doubted the theory, but still felt like he had to try it. The temperature was a lot lower than it had been before, and Emi had to keep it in there for as long as possible without damaging it further. So he pulled out a chair and sat in front of the fire with his head in his hands and observed very focused every change in the metal. When it had gone almost an hour, he gave up and removed the blade from the fireplace and placed it upon the anvil again. As he was starting to consider the possibility to just do the blade anyways regardless of the damage, he saw that it actually had changed. Most of the colors had shifted a few steps closer to what they actually were meant to look like.

So after he had thrown it into the fireplace yet again for a little over an hour, he was able to see almost a perfectly clean mithril plate. Since he would do the same process again, he hoped that slightly affected metal wouldn't get more ruined. As the metal still was very hot and he still had some powder left, he just began to hammer on it and carefully apply the powder. When the same blue flashy light and flames began to erupt from the coming sword, he felt lured to stop, but since he knew what needed to be done he just kept on hammering. When the entire process was finished, he saw that the basic color had changed quite drastically to a brighter version with a flowing blue color running inside it. He got fascinated by the looks, but was quick to compare it to the version in the book, it was a match.

Emi breathed out in relief and put the metal back into the heat again, eager to continue on to the next step. When it shone Emi brought it out and began to bend it over its own surface. That was so he would be able to make it even stronger yet more flexible, but since he already had done it a few times, he thought it'd be enough with another two turns. He then forced the metal in the general shape of the blade before hammering in the material where he needed some stronger metal. Since the only part that was allowed to be flexible was the inner part, he had to find a way to make the mithril hardened. Emi knew a couple of normal ways for steel, but he wondered if it really worked for such a different kind of metal.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Sorry about the delays!

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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So he made a swift look into the book after something similar, and as it wasn't in the description about the mithril he went over to the general hardening process. It made a very good description of something he already knew quite well, but at the end of the page it gave some instructions on using other materials. It was basically just a chart on different temperatures and useful cooling liquid. None of them were the one he was looking for, but he tried to remember the ones that actually were in it. At the bottom of the chart, there were some kind of mathematical formula. Emi tried to avoid them at any cost as he often got something small wrong.

But since he had gained some practice from his technological work, he read what it said and tried to interpret its meaning. Most of it was easy to understand as it was just different temperatures that depended on the heating point of the metal, but some of it was a little vague. So he tried the calculations and added in the information he knew about the mithril which he gained from the pages in the same book. The result varied a lot from the normal stats that were mentioned, but since it was such a different kind of metal, he hoped it was true. But as he was about to spin up the temperature on his oven to almost overheat, he stopped himself. What if they are talking about the overall resistance to heat? He wondered regarding the missing variables.

He opened up a block of paper and did a couple of calculations using materials that he already knew how to handle. It was actually working. There were still one variable that he hadn't figured out, but since all of the materials he had tried it on had received almost perfect numbers, he trusted it. As he wasn't completely sure though, he wanted to make a trial before using the entire piece of metal. Lucky for him he had some scraps over from the refining process, making him capable of forming a small dagger. When the dagger had been through the entire process of heating and cooling down before a long heating session, he noticed that it had worked pretty much as he had hoped it would.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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He was however a little curious on why the note had specially mentioned that he was not allowed to use oil. Which was the most common way of cooling down something that was heated to such degrees. But he really didn't care that much, he opened up the oven again and carefully pushed the sword inside of it with the tong. The heat hit his hands with such intensity that he had to quickly find the proper placing for the sword before closing the oven up. His hands had broken up a little from the heat, so he went over to a tap and had the cold water wash over them to sooth them. Emi then fetched some gloves to make sure that he would be able to avoid any more of those damages.

Since it took quite a long time before the blade would be done, Emi cleaned up a little in the smithy and cleaned up all of his tools. Many of them hadn't been used in months or years, but had managed to keep quite a good quality through the long time. But those hammers that had cracks in them, or tongs that were bend or bench clampers broken, Emi made sure to fix before he continued. When the blade was done he had barely been able to start with the repairing in comparison to the massive amount he had in there, but the blade was far more important. So he broke up the seal and opened the oven again, and after fixing his gloves, Emi grabbed the tong and pulled out the sword-piece. The colors were looking good, but there were some variations that hadn't been there in the dagger that worried the boy.

So to sooth himself slightly, Emi took up the hammer and gently hit the metal a few times to test how it felt. His pulse didn't settle much, but he could confirm that it indeed appeared to have the same sensation as the other one. To avoid loosing the chance, he pushed it into the water and the steam dashed towards the roof and the water boiled within a second. When he pulled it up the metal shone and it had a similar tone to the softer metal laying on the anvil. He then knew that he would need to throw it back into the oven but on a lot less warm temperature. So he headed over there and tried to estimate the temperature that he pulled it down to, it was risky as the machine didn't really want to reduce the heat.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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Emi then waited for it to have the time to reach the proper temperature before he opened it up and estimated it by holding his hands in the front. Since the heat was drastically lower, he hoped that it actually had been working that time. So he forced in the sword there again to make sure that it wouldn't go brittle from the hardening process. While it was in there brewing, Emi turned yet again to his tools and decided that he'd just continue on them as he waited. He found a large amount of different awls on one of the walls and as most of them appeared to be in quite a bad shape, he felt compelled to fix them first. After he had brought out the proper tools to fix them, he realized how easy it would be for him to transform the tools into weapons.

A quick scan was needed for him to figure out all of the flaws on the awl, which he swiftly noted down. Most of them just needed to get sharpened and get a tidy up on the wood to make it look better. But one of the awls were quite badly damaged, which made it almost completely useless for anything but making a small fire happen. So Emi decided that he would restore that one first. So he brought out some spare wood of similar type to the handle and then cut out a fairly large cube from it. Emi then began to carve out the general shape of a handle, but when he was about to cut of a large chunk to make it as small as the previous one he realized that he could make it better.

His mind then tried to figure out which things the handle would need to be adjusted to, but it just ended with the hand being the major thing. So he made a couple of simple measurements of his own hand and then tried to grab a stick with different widths. It was hard for him to determine which one would be the most optimal version. But after he had cut of the pole a couple of times, he found one that he liked especially much. It wasn't that far from being a good handle as well, but since it was only round and had too little excess material to work on, he had to go back to his cube. To make sure that the handle would be extra comfortable he also added in handles for the fingers, so they would fit in place without being awkward.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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There was some need for some trials and errors as he made it smaller and smaller until he found the general shape pretty much perfect for his hands. It ended up a little more friendly towards users accustomed to using their right hands, but it could also be used by the other hand, just a little more awkwardly. Emi then took it over to the grinding machine and replaced the current fine paper with some rougher one. It wasn't so the machine were to remove a lot of material, he just wanted to get the base grind done. He had to be very careful using it and when he thought the surface had become soft enough, he moved on to the finer versions. When the final grinding had been done and the surface was perfectly smooth, he tried it out again and noted that despite his careful grinding, it had grown a little too small for him.

Pondering what he could do to fix it he almost came to the conclusion that he would just need to accept it as it was. But after a while of feeling it up and down, he decided that he wanted it thicker again. So he took out some thin leather and cut it into long stripes that were cut quite thin across the sides. The backside of the leather was rubbed with some oils to soften it up before he gently placed it on the handle. To make sure that it would get stuck towards the wood, Emi put on some glue that was specially made to work on the combination of leather and wood. It smelled quite bad and it itched his nose as he painted it across the leather back, but he needed to cover the entire thing before he could put the tube away.

Since it was extremely easy to make air pockets in between the two materials, especially due to the fact he had different widths on the wood. Emi had to be careful while pressing on the leather to the surface. To make it a little more airtight, Emi made sure to stretch the leather as far as he possibly could while spinning it around the wood. At one point he felt how he almost pulled too hard and the leather risked to break apart, but luckily it managed to survive. When he had managed to make a satisfying work with the entire handle, he realized that the hardest part was left. The top of the handle had been rounded and the way he came with the leather there were no way that he could smoothly end the spinning. So he had to stop himself in the motion and really think about what he wanted to do next.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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The simplest choice was to just cut out a thin triangular shape in the top side a little here and there to force the leather to round the top. It was a hard thing to do only because the seem between the cut out parts just didn't fit together as good as one wanted. So instead of cutting the pieces out Emi decided that he wanted to try something new and innovative. He pulled out one of his senbons and made a clean cut approximately where he expected it to be needed, but then, instead of making an identical one he turned the piece over. That was so he could cut out everything but the topmost layer on the leather, which he then made into a more fitting piece. The boy could then merge the two sides by having a normal surface go in between them, making it look seamless.

Emi also made sure to add a couple of tiny stitches to the seam to make it hold even tighter before he allowed the leather to fall into place. The leather require more and more of the triangular pieces removed as he got further up on the rounded top. But as he had found out a good strategy to handle it, he was doing it methodically and swiftly. The result was quite satisfying and Emi even decided to rub on another layer of oil on the finished product, just so it would glisten some more. Even though he knew the oil was very flammable, he kept it in the proximity of the oven to make the glue dry quicker and have the leather become more snug. Emi then tried the new handle out and was pleasantly surprised that it both fitted his hand better and felt smoother.

Since it still was just a handle though, Emi had to find himself a drill in the proper size to the awl size. There were several ones hiding in a drawer and the drilling process was over in a jiffy, but he got a little anxious when he saw that some leather was torn. It looked like it would be an annoying fix, so he tried to see how much of it would be needed to fix and what would be hidden by the metal. Sadly he was unable to hide any of the damage with the metal, so he had to find a way to make it look better. His first attempt was just to add some glue to the leather and press it back in place, but it just could hold. So he then tried to use the hole to the metal and added it in there as a way to lock it down.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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That proved to be far more effective, but since it still was very visible, he felt that it still wasn't any perfect solution. After a few couple of attempts, some that actually damaged it more, he decided that he had to do an extreme fix. So he brought out some more leather and made a thicker collar of it surrounding the metal pike. It looked a little forced to him, but since it also was, there was nothing else he could do about it but make it fancier. So he colored it into a darker tone and added on some fancy patterns that went around the entire thing. Since it was on a tool, he decided to make the patterns kinda primitive, which in Emis mind was the same as brute runes.

He didn't know if he actually were writing anything of purpose, but since it was only for decorations that only he would ever see, he didn't care. The overall appearance got a lot better and the general feeling he had towards it got a lot better from the simple decoration. So he then moved on by measuring out a new pike as both the length and width was essential for its uniqueness. He then made an entire new one out of some scrap metal in the smithy, which became quite a lot more effective than the previous one as he turned it into flawless steel. After a couple of easy failed attempts to bend the metal he accepted the pike to be good enough.

So he grinded the tip into a needle-sharp tool and then carefully attached it to the handle. As he did, he figured out that he should've waited to sharpen the awl until he already had put it on the handle as it would've been easier to just hammer in. The rough treatment he had to use to get it to stick to the handle almost damaged the top, and it even got a few levels duller. Which meant that he had to re-sharpen it when he knew he was done with it. That meant that he had less metal to use in the future, but since it had almost gone perfect, there were still a lot to use. Emi then added on a layer of spray color on top of the pike, mostly because he wanted it to shine, but also because it would protect things from getting the steel rubbed off on them.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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The remaining awls were far less damaged, which made him finish them all of fairly quickly by just some minor alterations. When he had hung them all back on the shelf, he walked back to the oven and checked the time on it. Since there were only a few minutes left until it was done, he grabbed his gloves and even some goggles to avoid hurting his eyes. The metal shone of orange and blue as he brought it out from the oven and placed it upon the anvil. As the book had suggested that he put it in oil next, he did so and watched as the flames erupted from the liquids while the blade quickly got cooled down. Emi then wiped it off with a towel to be able to see the beautiful surface as he placed it next to the softer part.

That made him able to finally clear the entire blade. The parts were however a little different where they had to merge, so Emi had to change their overall shape slightly to have them matching. So by warming them up in the normal fireplace and then hammering them until they had the proper form, he was able to get an almost perfect fit. Emi then placed them next to each other in the fireplace and had them reached a slightly higher temperature than normally before he took them out. The hammer slammed into the two parts and had the sparks flying around while he tried to merge the bottom of the sword first. Since it was so much moveable metal there it was quite easy to do and the divide was filled withing just a few hits, so he then moved upwards.

Since the hits at the bottom made so the two parts were gliding apart were the forced metal could unite them, Emi had to make a few hits on the hard part to get them closer together. He had to do that quite often, and sometimes it didn't even work as it just went back to the first phase. That forced him to accept that it just wouldn't work like that, so he did the parts that he could and then threw it back into the flames. Some of the metal melted together right in there, so when he brought it out, he saw that he just needed a few more hits before it was finished. Emi smiled and put it into the water as he had completely merged the parts. The merges weren't completely perfect, so Emi added in some welding metal using the same mithral he had for the blade.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

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To make sure that he had some margin for when he would grind the blade, he made sure to add on some extra amount of mithril so it reached above the peak. Emi then spun it around and did the same thing on the other side. It wasn't the same need for it as some of the metal had run down there, but he still wanted it to be perfect. The boy then began the grinding using a rough plane to even out the surface before bringing it to the grinding machine. He had to choose which one he wanted to start with, as he had those that were rough enough that they would only scratch the surface. But since he had done it so many times, he knew approximately which one would be a good start.

To make sure he even began with a finer version than he expected, since it would only need some more time and get the proper result but without the risk of damaging the surface at all. His hands carefully moved the blade up and down on the grinder as he slowly changed the papers to finer version while the blade shone all the shinier by the minute. When the surface was perfectly smooth and the edge was sharper than he had expected it become, he smiled and dragged his fingers across it. There were something very special to grind weapons and make them from brute creations into shiny lethal weapons. Emi then turned his attention towards the end of the blade where the handle was going it to be and started to think about how he wanted it to be like.

The easiest solution would be to just make a circle in the middle of all the swords that connected them, but that also made it less stable. But if he made it into a triangle out of metal as a core, it would be able to take a lot more strain before breaking. After some considerations, he had to admit that it was a little risky choice as the function in combat would be more limited. But he couldn't see a safe structure of it as it was too large to function like a normal shuriken. So he began to make the triangle by welding together three solid rods of metal. Since it had to be more durable than normal mithril and heavier than it too, making him choose the normal type of steel.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.