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, 24th


The smoke was quickly accompanied by some orange flames and despite that Emi was in chock, he was able to get enough sense into himself to throw all of the buckets of water on the flames. The oven could handle the water, but when he realized that the water could've just as well have damaged the metals even more, he began to question his quick decision. When he was finally able to retrieve the blade from the charcoal that was left from the woods beneath it, he saw that there were a lot of damage to it. Most of it was however surrounding the crystals, which for some reason had managed to survive the flames just fine. The young boy began to think about all he knew about metals and how they reacted to each other, which was fairly much. But he just couldn't come up with why they had been so reactive.

The metal was mostly useless at that point, so he cut up it in pieces to salvage what wasn't ruined and then threw away the rest. At first he wondered if he dared to do the blade yet again and if it would make a difference if he added the symbol after the heating, but then he decided that he just had to try. There were no reason for him to stop completely, he had to learn what to do and not when crafting with weird materials. So he just sighed and went into the chest and brought out some more of the metal, which he immediately refined and then made into the same type of blade. Even though he hurried up the process to get it over with, it appeared as his hands had remembered how to do it. The result was almost the same, but with the hole in the blade slightly thinner still and a little further up.

It was mostly because of the aesthetics of the blade than anything else, but that made the area beneath it so much more promising to place the symbol. Emi then made the normal proceedings and hardened it before throwing it into the freshly cleaned up oven. But instead of doing some other things as he waited for the blade to be done in the oven, Emi sat by it and watched through the small window. It was quite satisfying for him to sit there just watching as the flames danced around the blade. When the time was up, he knew that there had been some kind of reaction all due to the symbol as the metals had handled themselves just fine. So when he brought it out to put in the symbol, he worried that it would make some kind of aggressive reaction again.

[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, 25th


To make sure that he wouldn't ruin the final piece of the rare metal, he slowly allowed the symbol approach the designated spot. When it had touched the blade for a brief second, Emi immediately pulled it off and closely analyzed the spot. He couldn't detect any difference in the metal, which made him trust that it safe, at least more than before. So after that began a series of test in which he allowed the symbol touch the surface of the metal for longer period of time for each test. When he had allowed it to maintain contact for over a minute without any reaction what-so-ever, Emi assumed that it was only when they were in the oven. So he attached it to the blade and placed it along its spot at the handle of the massive shuriken weapon.

He knew that it would most likely twist itself again, but since he couldn't do much about it he just fired up the blowtorch and began to weld. As he knew that the leather risked getting damaged from the heat, he had already sprayed it with some water and pushed it further away to make sure they didn't risk anything. So when he had made sure that his weld was solid and even, he immediately turned over to the leather and did a similar check. At first glance it looked a lot better than before, but as he allowed it to take its normal place, he saw that it had stretched quite a lot. There were quite a lot of the leather that he had to remove for it to fit like it had done before. With a couple of stitches he merged the two sides of the leather and tried to make it look normal.

It was however very hard for the boy to hide the damage upon the leather, and after he had tried for almost ten minutes he just walked away from the table, frustrated. Why doesn't anything ever work? He exclaimed on his second lap around the smithy right before he sat down and considered his options. There were a few that he knew he could try, but neither one of them were actually removing the flaw and could just as well allow it to remain visible. So Emi then decided to just remove the leather and replace it with new undamaged version. It was easy for him to find a leather piece of similar type and as he wanted it to be hairless, he instantly removed it. Then he cut up the leather in four different pieces, to make it even easier to apply to the handle.

[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, 26th


He hurried the process to apply the leather, so there were some minor flaws in the braiding, but he really didn't care of those minor things anymore. When it all were attached, Emi tried to spin it around a few times and estimate where its balance-point was. Luckily he found out that he had managed to get fairly close to perfectly centered on it, but to the boy it felt a little awkward to spin it around. That was when he started to regret his decision to allow the handle to be like a triangle. But what else could be bad? He wondered and tried to both stab and throw with the weapon, neither actually failed his trials. So he then began to write up the possibility to improve the weapon by changing the handle in all the different manners.

Since he already had welded the swords to the handle, he didn't want to remove them as that could result in some kind of damage. So the only sensible conclusion was to just add on another handle within the first one. The second one had to be a lot easier to use, which made him think that he had to do what he didn't want to do at first, make it round. But then the second problem came to be, how big did he want it? A simple circle would be a lot easier to move his hands in, but it still required significant room to force the large shuriken into rapid spinning. So to see which size was needed, Emi performed a series of test in which he used a bend pole of steel in the middle of the shuriken.

Not very surprisingly however was that the size that was exactly able to fit within the triangle was the most optimal one. So he made the steel circle into a permanent form and applied it to the previous handle after carefully removing the leather. He refused to redo the entire process of applying a new one again. When he had put back the leather, he wondered if he wanted to apply it to the circle as well, it would give a better overall appearance, but it would be tricky. The boy did however feel like he needed the challenge as the only purpose he created the weapon was to learn more and get some experience with it. So he cut out another four pieces and carefully considered which way he needed to wrap them to make them cover everything.

[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, 27th


Eventually he noticed that he actually needed almost twice as many leather pieces for it to look like a good pattern, luckily there were already a couple of them prepared for him. When most of the wrapping was done, Emi looked at the merges thought for brief moment what he wanted to do with them. They weren't looking classy or unique, they just were there and displayed the lack of thought when constructing the weapon. So he thought that he needed to deal with it somehow and as he looked around he saw the fur that had been removed from the leather. The boy nodded as he imagined how it would look on the places, and it didn't take long before he had managed to glue the fur on the spots. When Emi moved back and looked at the piece, he was quite impressed, the fur really did bring the whole construct together.

But he couldn't consider himself quite finished, as there were still some irregularities in the angle of the weapon. So he had to place it upon the floor and have a large weight laying on the weapon as he hammered down the piece that wasn't nailed down. Emi called in his friend, Zetsubô to assist him with the task. The massive creature was so lazy anyways, so he didn't mind acting as a weight. All the hammering did however disturb his peaceful dreams, so he just lay there grunting at Emi while the boy tried to land his blows evenly. The hard part was however to see how the remaining piece was angled as the bullette was on top of it, so Emi constantly had to guess how much more he had to hammer down.

So when he was close enough to finish it without his friend, he send the beast away and continued on the anvil. His muscles in his arms were sore from all the hammering the past days, but he just wiped off the sweat from his eyes and made sure that he pressed himself into finishing the piece. In his head he told himself that there were just a few hits left until he finished it and could make the real sword for the Amekage, and even though he doubted the truth in it, the though gave him a little extra energy and will to continue. When everything was finished, Emi panted as he sat down and slowly moved a wetstone across the different blades. Despite that the weapon wouldn't be used, he wanted to make sure that it would be ready if ever need be. He had taken the blades through every single step of grinding and when he finished it off, he just poured some water over it.

[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, 28th


The work with the massive shuriken had been draining and he had learned a little about handling different materials, but he still didn't feel satisfied with what he had learned, he wanted to be more prepared. What else was there he could practice on? He thought and went through the book to see weapon examples. His interest was captured as he saw an example of a whip. The basics were easy, but yet he hadn't tried it out. So he gathered the essential items and looked on the blueprint on how it was supposed to go. The handle was described as fairly stable, capable of moving around quickly without the need to bend into the correct directions before affecting the rest of the whip.

So Emi wanted to use a core with metal or wood in the handle, but since he didn't know which one would be the most optimal, he would have to try it out. The main part had to be represented by some basic rope which he attached to the tops of one metal rod and one wooden rod. They were fairly thick to make sure that the boy would get a good grip around it, but also so the rope could be attached through a hole at the end of them without breaking them. Emi then began to swing the temporary whips around and tried to get some actual power in them as he hit the walls or floor. It was however a lot harder than he had expected and it didn't help that they weren't actually any real whips either. So he wondered if he could trust the results as it wasn't all like it was supposed to be during the real versions.

But Emi did notice quite quickly that the metal had been tearing the rope down for each swing, and some of the strings had even been cut off. That was the least promising thing for the metal, as the other tests actually gave a small bonus on the material. So Emi wondered if he possibly could remove the effect by rounding everything the rope could touch, reducing the damage on it. The grinding down session was rapid and made the surface smooth as a table, and to make it even better Emi covered it by some oil. The result was quite satisfying and the boy was capable of swinging it for a long time without little to no damage to the rope. But to be fair to both of the materials, Emi made the exact same procedure to the wood and tried it out for almost the same period of time.

[Shallistera]

+10

[~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, 29th


Even though the wood continued to prove very safe to the rope, he just didn't feel the same control over the rope using the wood, so he decided that he wanted to use the steel. So what about the length then? The book hadn't explicitly stated how long the handle had to be as it was very individual between each whip. So Emi made his pole a few inches longer to the point that he knew it would be impractical to use. Which it also proved to be, but despite that he felt a massive drop in agility using the whip, he noticed a stronger lash. It could've been just his imagination, but he wondered if it actually could be true, which forced the boy to actually try it out. After placing a couple of targets of different hardness around in the smithy, Emi lashed out after each one of them using his longer handle.

Then he removed so that he had the same length as he had before and tried to hit all of the targets again. His accuracy had improved quite a lot and he hit them a lot more rapidly, but as he moved up to the targets he saw that the first version had actually done more damage. That gave the boy some conflicted feelings as he wanted to have a whip that did maximum damage without being clumsy. He had to find a good middle-ground, so Emi began to make a long series of tests to see in which length he could have a decent damage without loosing the agility he had with a short one. When he had found a good length for him, he made a short note in the book about his length, age and the length he had chosen. But that had him wonder if the length of the rope also had similar effect to the result.

A quick attempt said that yes, it certainly did. So the boy sighed and restarted to do all of the trials once more and was even more advanced as he wrote down all of the test results as good as he could measure them. He hoped that the length of the handle and the length of the rope were effecting each other differently so he had to test both of them at the same time. But when he had finished the rope test, he wrote that down at the same place as the length of the handle. Emi then threw both of the pieces away to one of his scrap piles, they had been good for the tests, but had been broken down too much to be actual finished pieces. So he then brought out a fresh lump of iron and threw it into the pot above the fireplace and allowed it to melt into a orange mass.

[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, 30th


Emi then poured the iron out in a mold that shaped it somewhat into a small pole, and to make it even he made sure to move it out to cover the entire mold. Then when it had hardened enough to be a solid form, Emi picked it up using one of his thicker tongs and moved it over to the anvil. There Emi shaped the metal into the finished pole while applying a little bit of coal to make it even harder. The steel was so easy for him to use in comparison to all of the weird metals he had used lately that he briefly wondered if he had forgotten to make it harder somewhere. The boy got so worried that he even swiftly checked the book for the recipe for normal steel, but breathed out as he was still doing correctly. So when he had shaped it into the finished shape, even with most of the rounded edges, Emi threw it into the oven for the hardening process.

When he brought it out, he put it into the newly tapped bath of oil, which immediately burst into flames as the pole hit the surface. Emi allowed it to cool in the liquid until the bubbles had settled before he brought it out from it and dried the oil away. Since the smell was so strong from the oil and he knew that he usually had to just accept if for a few hours of work. He decided to remove it immediately instead of just accepting it, so he rubbed the pole with some water mixed with a cleaning solution until it instead smelled of lemon. It was a little confusing scent for something that was intended for such bloody matters, but Emi didn't care as he just wanted to work undistracted. He then used a few different levels of sandpaper to even out the the rounded corners and make it completely smooth.

The grinding part had always been a process that he really enjoyed as it was so slow and calm, while the piece he worked on was nearly complete and just needed some final love. But as the pole was just the first part in the whip, and he doubted that he would be able to see it after the rope had been attached, he got a little down. When it was done and he had sprayed some protective solution on it, Emi sprayed it with a black color and made some nice rounding patterns leading upwards on it. The boy gently blew on the color to have it dry quicker and when it had completely settled he added another layer of the protective solution. Then he placed it on the workbench and began to measure up where he wanted the lash part would start and how it would be attached to the pole. The easiest part had been like he did during the tests, to just drill a hole and attach it to that, but he wanted it better.

[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, 31st


The solution found in the book was a little more advanced as it used a woven pattern to surround the pole and then attach it by stretching it outwards. The pattern was however so advanced that the boy doubted that he would be able to recreate it into something useful. But as he didn't like to give up, he picked up some of the scrap leather from the large shuriken from before and tried to fit them together like the book said. The first attempts resulted in just a zig-zag pattern that didn't even go anywhere and very quickly fell apart from no outside intervention. But when he had been practicing for a while, he was able to make the small pieces actually hold together from being carefully pulled in. That was a great success for him as he had only been able to do one kind of patterns before, which meant that the handles on his swords had always been the same.

But with that he would be able to do at least one kind more, and when he eagerly checked the book for more kinds, there were dozens. He did however like the whip version, so he fetched some longer leather pieces and began to try to combine them in the same way. It was a lot trickier as he had to keep on moving the entire strips of leather each time he made on move with it, but the result was all the cooler. His fingers ached as he first took a step back to observe his work. He had reached almost half the distance he needed for the lash, but the piece he had done almost looked the same as in the book example. The biggest difference was however that in the book the ties appeared to be a lot tighter than he had, and whenever he tried to pull them harder they almost broke the leather.

His leather was however slightly thicker than the version used in the book, so Emi had to accept that his most likely wouldn't be exactly the same. That was when he began to suspect that the leather thickness also was a variable that he really should've added to his list. But he was so fed up with the variables and just wanted to continue with his work instead of analyzing too much. He did however know that the reason that he didn't need to think about those as he crafted other things, like swords, was because he already knew them so well that it came fluently while crafting. So Emi just finished off the lash and tried to make it as tight as he could while doing it. When it lay before him all completed with a special tie at the end, he sighed and waved away the pain in his hands.

[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, 32nd

Then while he waited for the ache in his hands to calm down, he searched for possible ends to the whip. He knew that it was common to just have a hook there or some kind of metal pike, but he wanted it to a little more special than that. Then as he looked, he found plenty of weird versions, some that were just a pole, while others were far more complex that he had tried out. Something that really caught his eyes was one that had split into three lashes and had a strong grey color. That made him question his own design, he also wanted three of them, even though it then wold be considered to be more of a torture tool than weapon. Then he looked back on his weapon and sighed, that would force him to undo a lot of his work up to that point.

But he had decided and immediately began to untwirl the ties that he had made until he reached the point in which he wanted it to split up. It was almost one third of the way down, which would make each of the lashes a little over 12 inches long. But then he wondered how he would do the splitting as the book hadn't really described the process and the picture didn't give him many clues. So he had to figure out a way on his own, which meant some experimenting with leather that wasn't on the whip, for safety reasons. The first attempt was to just simply split the leather into two smaller pieces which then tied up to a new stronger version. But that almost completely failed as the leather got too weak from it and the merge just didn't look right to the boy.

So he untwined it and removed the pieces with weakened leather and instead tried to force the new leather pieces into the tie itself. That worked a lot better and even though he expected himself to be able to make a lot better merge, despite that all of the three actually were strong enough as they were. But just to see if he could improve it, he untangled it again and tried to redo it with his better idea inspired. It was so successful that he doubted that he would be able to improve it any further, so he just continued to tie together the lashes until they came up to their ends. Emi then added on two viscous hooks on each one of the lashes and made it so they were directed away from each other, to avoid them tangling themselves up. When it was all fixed and done, Emi began to try it out for a couple of lashes, it was hard to control, but boy did he enjoy it.

[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, 33rd


What is next? He thought and first looked at different kinds of whips, but decided to make something funnier instead. His eyes were caught by some interesting looking gloves, the tip of each finger had long nails made similar to senbons. Even though the artificial nails were funny looking, he enjoyed the idea of manipulating gloves into some kind of weapons. As he thought about it he hadn't made any item with joints before, so he wanted to have that as his next task. But since the book thought that it was a custom craft, it had little to no information on how to make the gloves, it just gave the ideas for them. So he figured that he would need to do some blueprints himself, for possible future crafts containing those items.

So what is the different parts of it? He wondered and firstly brought up some metal to the desk before checking closer to the picture with a magnifying glass. There also were some joints that were covered with metal wires, and even though Emi really didn't enjoy how it looked, he brought that out as well. The boy couldn't see much more from the picture, so he had to think of things on his own. The easiest start would to make a normal glove out of leather or some fabrics and then attach the metal pieces to that, he thought. Since he didn't have that much fabrics laying around except for some old clothes, he decided to use the leather he had in plenty. As it had to be smooth enough to not have anything in the way for the metal, he removed all of the hair from the leather.

Due to the previous experience with using leather to craft things, he had learned how to remove it without too much hassle and swiftly rubbed in the necessary oils into it. Emi placed his right hand on top of the leather and painted around it using a black pen and made sure to give it an extra inch. It made his hand look rather odd and the fingers got so tight that he didn't think they'd be possible to cut out like that. So he removed the color with some chemicals and tried to do it again, but that time he had his fingers spread so it would be more space in between. That time it went a lot better and he was able to cut it out without crossing any other lines. The leather extra space in between the fingers got a little thinner as they reached the base of the fingers, but he hoped that wouldn't matter.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned