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.

0/10


It was the metal he had used the most, so he knew the changes of it as the back of his hand. So he managed to both fix the triangle perfectly on the first try, but also add the blade unto it without having any breaks in the mithril. The merge didn't look flawless as the metals were not accustomed to each other and even though it was strong, it didn't look very appealing. So he did as he had done before and wrapped some leather surrounding it, long pieces with the same type of runes written on them. Emi then formed a couple of wood pieces and screwed them on each side of the metal handle. It was important that all of them were connected at all the tips of the triangle, so he made another couple of pieces which he put on there.

When they were all on, he took up a portable grinding machine and began to remove all of the excess material on the wood. He allowed the middle parts of the handle to still be free of the wood as he didn't think it hindered the use of the handle and also because he thought it looked neat. As the wood looked a little pale from the lack of color, he thought of add some but then instead decided to just add on some oils. The smell made his nose twitch, but the darker and clearer color it gained was definitely making it worth the irritation. Emi gently blew on the oil as an attempt to make it dry up quicker, even though he knew fully well it didn't do much. Since it was only oil, must of it dried up within a few seconds anyways, making him able to continue his work without almost any delay.

To make the overall appearance have the same theme, Emi began to burn in a pattern along the wooden handles. The heat did however ignite the not quite dried oil on the surface, making a small blue flame cover the handle for a swift second. He covered himself behind his arm as he got surprised from the effect before he looked over the result of the flame. Some of it had a small degree of burn damage, while most of it had managed to stay the same as before. But since he didn't want any damage at all, he had to change his idea by grinding away the damaged wood and replace it somehow. For second he even considered to go back and remove the entire pieces of wood from the handle, but as he really had grown accustomed to the sensation, he didn't.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+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.

0/10

Instead he looked around on his desk to see what he could do to replace the lost wood with. The first thing he saw was a pile of the leather he had used before, something he reluctantly had decided not to use. But as there no longer were a viable way to continue without it, as the possibility to change the woodpieces or add on to them just felt a little brute to him, he just had to accept the leather. Since it would be a lot harder to actually apply the leather to the handle, he put it in some water to soften the leather up. The water had to be warm, so it wouldn't damage the structure of the leather, or make it shrink. When it had gotten almost 15% longer, Emi pulled it out from the water and slapped around with it a little to get the worst out.

The consistency felt so weird for the boy, it was almost like he was handling paper mache and treading it around a pole. But since it wasn't quite the same thing, he actually had to use some glue underneath the leather to get it to stuck completely. What he hadn't been thinking of however was that due to the water the glue barely stuck, and some of it dripped down from the handle. Emi swore under his breath and dried off the ruined glue the best he could while trying to squeeze out the remaining water from the leather. After some seconds in front of the fireplace, he trusted that it was dry enough for him to try again. So he added on the glue on the handle and gently circulated the leather around it as tightly as he could.

He had to start over a couple of times as the leather just kept on gliding off the position he had put it on. When he tried to clamp the leather to the handle, it either glided down faster or got horrible marks. That resulted in him needing to replace the leather as well as come up with a better solution. Emi had considered to just nail the leather to the handle, but he knew that it would also be a crude solution. So he instead chose to just be patient and do the wrapping part by part. Which meant that he twisted it a few laps, waited and then did the same thing again when the glue had dried enough to stay put.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned

(Can you put how many learnings you have in your post? It makes it easier to track. )

[~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.

0/10, 16th time


That actually proved to be the best solution for the task, and he managed to make the entire handle in that way. It was time costly, but effective none-the-less, so while he waited, he added on the details that he previously had sought for the handle, but that time he used black ink. The end result was actually more pleasant than the burned wood anyways, he just had to make sure to really engrave the ink into the leather. To make the effect pop up even more, Emi removed the surrounding hair, so that it would be the only thing the viewers eyes could land on. As he observed the final result of the handle, he decided that it actually did look better without the hair. So he began to carefully remove all of it from the handle and rub it until it no longer showed any indication it had been any there at all.

His hands wandered over the handle a couple of times before they firmly grasped it and pulled up the sword. Since it was supposed to have at least another two swords attached to the handle, the entire creation was badly unbalanced. He swung it around a few times and tried to determine where he would need to place the other swords to make it more like he wanted it. At first he got eager to try to fit in four or even five swords on it, but as he started to think on how he would need to do it, he hesitated. The creation would be too hideous for him to even want to wield it, so to make it aesthetically correct, he had to accept to only have three swords. Emi then brought out some more metal, but then as he was about to throw it into the flames to soften up, he hesitated.

What if he was to just try out some other materials while he was at it? He thought. Obviously it had to be a material of similar density as the mithril to make him capable of having the same shape without getting it unbalance. To make sure that he just didn't estimate any of the weights, Emi headed over to his book to get a true value. There were a lot of metals that were as light as the mithril and some even had a similar blue shine as it did. But very few did in fact stand out as a useful metal for crafting of weapons. So Emi had to look a little more careful and broaden his criteria to be more accepting to differences.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+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.

0/10, 17th


When he had found a couple that were reasonable good, he also thought of a way to decrease the weight of the blade, but cutting out some in the middle of the blade. That would require more from the durability of the metal, which made the boy hesitant that it actually would be any. But to his great happiness there were actually a dozen metal within the margins of weight and durability. So since Emi had made a list, he began to search through the smithy to see how many of them he had in there. He noticed that the listed metals had been as rare or even more so than the mithril and had only been able to find a very small amount of a few of them. But since he only needed a small amount to make the blade with a hollow core, he didn't let that get the best of him.

He brought out some large pieces of paper and taped them together to create an even bigger one and then drew the first sword on the top of it. Emi then made a few alteration, firstly on the parts on where he wanted the hard and soft part of the metal. Since he had decided to start off with the metal that had almost the same density, he didn't remove the core of the blade. But he was careful to calculate all of the weights of the metal at different stages of the work, to find out if he really could make it balanced after all. After some work, he found out that if he had almost twice as much soft metal in the back as the mithril version had, it would be the exact same weight. He thought about it for a brief moment as he knew that would make the sword do less damage, but also be able to absorb greater shocks.

That was a little worrysome as he didn't want to give the blades too much of a difference in capability. But as he pondered over it he knew that he just couldn't do much to hinder different types of metal from behaving differently. So he accepted it and continued to make the blade by cutting out a big chunk of the metal and placed it in the fire. While he waited for it to reach the critical temperature for its solid form, Emi read up on the particular metal. As he found out that the metal reached the desired temperature a lot faster than most metals he breathed out and looked into the flames, relieved that he wasn't to late to find that out. It also gave him a good image on how it were to look when it was supposed to be done.

[Shallistera]

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.

0/10, 18th


So with the knowledge he was able to time it almost perfectly as he removed it from the hearth and placed it on the anvil. There it was supposed to behave as normal steel, but give away some different lights depending on the current heat. That part was also incredible true, and Emi wondered why that metal wasn't more commonly used as it was almost impossible to do wrong if one followed the instructions. But when he had bend it, thrown it into the flames and then brought it out for the second time, he noticed a major difference. The metal had become extremely hard to work with, it didn't move much despite that Emi was hitting it with almost full power. Impressed he finished hitting the piece and then rapidly cooled it down.

That was supposed to be the softer part of the blade, so he adjusted the shape with some decisive hits and then placed it to the side. The hard part of the blade was a lot harder as he had to be extra careful with the heat. The proper heat levels weren't instructed in the text from the book, which meant he had to do the same thing as with the mithril and calculate it from scratch. As he read the results he firstly couldn't believe it as it was so far beneath any level he had ever used before. That almost made him change his mind in using the metal, as it would melt quickly in the presence of any fire-attack. But since it was only a test weapon, he had to accept that it had some flaws, after all he could find something extraordinary.

That did however explain the fact on why the metal was rarely used and it wasn't taught in the schools about it. Emi walked up to the oven and decreased the temperature further and hoped that it would yet again cool down as intended. When the meter said it was down to the proper temperature, Emi opened it up and tried to sense if it was close. That read was however a lot harder than the previous one as the temperature hadn't dropped that much since the long lasting one. So to make sure that it actually had dropped, Emi looked for some kind of thermometer from somewhere in the smithy. The boy did not find any and had to settle with a piece of metal that had a proper melting point towards the heat he was looking for.

[Shallistera]

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.

0/10, 19th


When the metal bend over and fairly quickly began to transform into a liquid state of existence, Emi knew it was still to hot. So he closed the doors to the oven and tried to decrease the temperature further down by actually manually removing some of its fuel. The reaction was quite drastic and he knew that by the sudden drop of heat radiating from it that he had succeeded somewhat. So he did the test again and placed the metal in front of the oven. The result was far better that time and he was even able to put the metal into the oven for almost half an hour, which was very close to a perfect temperature for him. So the boy smiled and removed the test metal just to throw in the proper one while making sure it lay sturdy.

He closed the door as the flames shoot out from the small opening, trying to reach out to something and set it ablaze. At first the boy was about to go back to repairing his tools, to make them tip top shape. But he hesitated and thought of making the final sword as a way to decrease the total time spend on the weapon. The pros were so overwhelming that he just sighed and brought out the paper that he had written all of the metals on and tried to find the most proper one. The one inside the oven had been the best choice by far among them, so he had to lower his standars quite a lot. But the final choice was actually not that bad and had several good qualities that made it better than normal steel at least.

It also had the problem with being heavier than the mithril, but as it also was heavier than the other one as well, he had to use his possible solution from before. Emi looked at the sketch he had used for the second sword and then took up a pen and added a long and fairly broad hole in it. His gut told him however that he just couldn't add something as crucial to the sketch and that he needed to see how broad it actually could. Emi bit his lip and looked at the calculation paper, extremely troubled that he yet again had to go to that solution. But as there were no solution around it, he sighed and quickly went through all the weights and balance points that he needed to consider. The results were far from satisfying as he had to make the hole further down on the sword and broader for it to be balanced.

[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.

0/10, 20th


That would however make the blade extremely vulnerable to any form of damage, which forced the boy to think other possible solutions. The other possibilities were useful at best, but he really didn't like either one of them as they looked so simple. But as he was drawing for a new version he just thought "why not?" to the most attractive solution. To just add on weight to the other blades by having details decorated unto them using a heavier metal. It was easy for him to find such a metal and one that actually were fairly good looking such a task, but what did he want to make? The most obvious suggestion would be to just make a couple of sharks, but he wasn't quite sure if he really wanted something that simple on it.

He had never really been part of the Hoshigaki clan, and to make weapons with that engraved in them would almost be an insult to himself. But what would be a good representation to himself and what he believed in? He wondered as he brought out a book of images to inspire him. Most of the images were common symbols of love, death or varied mercenary signs that were commonly used as tattoos. That was however not even close to what he wanted, so he had to try to find his own inspiration, but what was his driving force? It took him some time and a dozen failed attempts until he find one that he actually did enjoy. The picture contained a stick figure with a depressed body-language with a massive dark shadow behind it.

Since he wanted the shadow to represent a demon or devil, he had to add some details to the overall appearance, but as that just added layers it just made it worse. So after some considerations he decided that he instead wanted to remove from the metal, and have it open on the areas to display the mouth and eyes. He looked over to his calculations and tried to figure out how much metal he needed to use to make that difference disappear. As he would need two different colors on the metals applied, he figured that he would need another type to represent the shadow. That made it possible for him to find a much heavier version that would allow the symbols to decrease in size, as he thought that the shadow was way too big.

[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.

0/10, 21st

Luckily he had been extra careful to use the extremely light materials up to that point, so he had a lot of materials to choose from. The one that was most appealing was the almost pitch black crystal called onyx crystal. The sad thing was however that since it was so rare in his parts was that he couldn't afford it, and since there were no traces of it in the smithy he had to accept something else. But as he was looking at the onyx, he noticed another crystal that was on the same side as it, the umbrite. It was a far more common version and the black color was almost the same as onyx, but as it also had a cool effect by creating shadows around it, the crystal would be perfect. Emi had recently seen that kind of crystal in one of the cabinets, so he rushed over to it and pulled out the last piece of the umbrite.

Despite that it a depressingly small amount, he expected that he even would be able to save some afterwards as the the density was so much greater. What worried him however was that while he had been analyzing what pieces to cut off to get the proper shape to the crystal he noticed that the shadowing was far stronger than anticipated. If he were to make details by just cutting out holes in the crystal, he doubted that it would be seen. So he made a few quick attempts to see what he could do to have it useable and noticed that it even darkened anything he placed upon it, far less, but still. Emi then decided that he would need some kind of extra metal in top, one that could reflect enough light to actually be seen. So he cut out the shape of the shadow and made sure that it was thin enough to be able to add on some more weight to the symbol.

Despite that the crystal ended up just a quarter of an inch thick, the piece still held an impressive strength which made Emi wonder if he wanted to remove even more. But he decided not to and made the stick figure of the first chosen metal, a little thicker than he had wanted at first. Emi then gently brought them to his scale to measure them. As the scale was normally used to weight things of a dozen pounds or more, he had to readjust it so it would even be able to measure the pieces. When he was done, Emi wrote down all the numbers on the paper and began to add in them to his previous calculations, they added up. He still had some weight that he could fill up with the eyes and the mouth, so he went back to the book and searched for a metal that really shone.

[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.

0/10, 22nd


Some of the descriptions said that they had shining qualities, but as he knew the metals by heart, he knew that to be false. So Emi instead went over to the crystal once again, as he trusted them to have more special attributes. When he had searched through them all, he had found three that explicitly said that they shone as strong as fires. As he knew that they were none of those in the smithy, Emi exited the building and headed towards the local shop. In there he ignored the shopkeeper and looked for those three he needed for his craft. To his disappointment two of them were embarrassingly weak in their light, which forced him to get the last one. When he got back home he placed the crystal on the table and carefully drew out the details that were needed to get out all the essential parts.

He was barely able to get all the things he needed from that small piece, but since it had been so expensive, he didn't want to go back and get more. When he was hacking out the pieces and he found himself shaking from being so tense or stressed, he stopped himself and took a few deep breaths. The process was quite nerve-wrecking and required a lot of skill as just a small shift in his wrist could cost him the entire crystal. But when he was done, he had all of the pieces he wanted and some final scrap pieces that he could use for something else if needed. Emi then began to place the pieces on top of the umbrite crystal, at first to measure up and make sure that they were seen, but then when confirmed he glued them shut. The resulting shadow had turned out better than he wanted and he even wondered if he had given it life or not.

The stick-figure almost looked too plain in front of the cool shadow, but as he didn't want to redo it and risk damaging the shadow when removing it, he allowed it to stay. When he had made the two proper pieces, Emi added the first one to the sword that it was supposed to belong to. Since the book had clearly stated that the crystals didn't take any damage from massive heats, he hoped that to be true as he intended to allow one of them to go through with the blade. So he attached it to the blade before opening up the oven and swapped places to them. The orange-heated blade complained as Emi pushed the crystals into the fabric of its body. It was easier than he had anticipated, but it was also very hard to get it to stay the way he wanted.

[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.

0/10, 23rd

So when it was in a proper position Emi poured cold water on it to solidify it once more. A few dropped shot off the blade and hit him in the face, stinging him for a brief moment, but the boy barely twitched as he maintained his focus to hold the ornament down. When he was certain that the piece actually was completely attached, Emi filled in the newly created void right around the piece. He did that by making a very fine welding along it, but as he had to stop twice to move around the piece there were small cracks in the weld. So Emi had to bring out the other welding machine to correct it. That forced him to move around with a slow and steady pace, but the end result was nearly perfect.

Emi had his fingers wander over the weld as he closed his eyes and tried to locate any flaws, but when he had made a complete lap he smiled and opened his eyes. It was time for him to add on the blade to the handle, so he opened up the leather without harming it, before he put the metal against metal. He had to use a few tongs to make sure that the leather really stayed open, but when it was secured he used the blowtorch and merged the pieces. The boy constantly made sure to direct the flames upwards or at least away from the leather as it damaged easily from flames. Sadly he got a few burn marks on a small piece of the leather and made it stiffer. He could easily hide it or replace that small part, but he actually liked the new look.

Perfection had always been his thing, but something spoke to him as he saw the bruised leather. It was as a glimpse back in time. Emi shrugged some sense back into his skull as he yet again had drifted. He had to be focused on the task. So he took a hammer and first hit his hand to wake up before he hammered in the blade in the right direction. Due to the heat from the blowtorch the entire shuriken had twisted itself slightly, forcing him to hammer in the whole thing. When he was almost done, Emi looked at the oven and wondered if that one would also make it turn like that. Since the clock rang that it was time to take it out, he figured that he was about to find out. But when he opened up the oven a dark smoke met him and immediately shot up to the roof.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.