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, 34th


After doing an exact replica of the piece using the same kind of leather, he pressed them together and made sure they fitted perfectly. Emi then began to sew around the edges of the leather using a durable string he knew regularly was used for leather. When he had done the whole thing but the entrance for the hand, he turned the freshly made glove inside out. It wasn't completely even and had some places where it was drastically too large for his hand. So he turned it back to the first side and opened up the stitches, then he tried to measure the approximate thickness that he would need there and then sew it back. Emi also used a special solution that was supposed to make the leather more flexible, which he hoped would make it easier and more fitting to use-

That time the glove actually fitted quite good and he just needed to fix a couple of more stitches before he was completely satisfied. Emi then began to mark all of the joints on the glove and approximately how big they were. Then he tried to imagined how large the area would need to be to avoid two sides of metal to lock in to each other. That cost him quite a lot of protection, and he began to wonder how much normal gloves were constructed to protect the entire hand. To study the picture in the book didn't give him much information, so he had to try it out himself. That was when he remembered that he still hadn't done anything on the blueprint, so he added in all of the details that he had found out thus far.

Emi then made a hard piece of steel and placed it on top of the leather glove, it was still uncut, so it was by far too large. But he just measured the plate, how much would be needed to be taken off and how much he had to bend it for a perfect fit around the hand. Despite that his hands still wasn't quite fully developed due to his fairly young age, he didn't need to bend the metal that much. But he cut out the metal and trimmed down the rough edges before he hammered on the steel with a few blows before testing the piece again. When the piece didn't feel uncomfortable to have upon the glove, Emi added it to the piece by both wrapping it around with small leather strips, but also by inserting it into metal buttons. It was a little awkward for him to make the buttons as he didn't really know how they functioned, but he had heard that it was the most common way of doing 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, 35th


He felt like he had to try the actual merge out, but after a couple of attempts to remove it he found that it was better than expected. There had been seen tugging in the leather as he pulled, but otherwise there were no discomforts or inability to move. So Emi used the same technique to add on another 14 plates on the leather glove, all of different sizes and shapes. They had been carefully cut out from the steel by Emi making the shapes he needed upon papers, cut them out and had them as templates. That was essential as he wanted to make sure that there wouldn't be too much work on the pieces when they actually were on the gloves. But when Emi had them all on, he made sure that all his preparations had been correct and that the plates hadn't been misplaced.

A few of them were a little angled in comparison to what he had expected, which forced him to twirl them into the correct position. But most of them were actually like he intended, so Emi continued on to the next step and began to give them their final shape. To make it easy on himself, Emi began with the biggest pieces and then moved down to the smallest, which was the fingertips. To make sure that he didn't need to have his own hand in the glove to be able to form it, he used the rounded side of the anvil. As the glove had limited space for it to go in, he had to accept that the roundness on the anvil was too small for what he actually wanted. So he had to make light hits with the hammer to avoid bending the metal-pieces too much.

When each of the pieces were done, Emi made sure to push the glove upon his hand and see how well it fitted himself. Since he also expected to make gloves to other people in the future, he noted down what measurements he needed and were he could find them. To just make a sketch template out of the hand had proven to be too easy to actually show the lengths he needed. The fingers were complicated to do and it forced him to push in the entire glove across the anvil so he could make some forceful hits to bend the finger metal around the edge. Since it was struggling against him and didn't want to bend like he wanted, Emi went and fetched his blowtorch and put the flame upon the metal for a few seconds. When it had softened up Emi was able to form it almost exactly as he wanted, but he saw that the leather shrunk a little beneath 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, 36th


The boy grinned and he quickly poured some water upon the metal to cool it down before it did any further damage to the leather. After some swift investigation of the leather he deemed that it was manageable as the water actually had soften it back up, not like it was before, but close. Emi then moved on to the other fingers and noticed that all of them were equally difficult, forcing him to find another functional solution. What he found was that he could move the finger further out and then hammer it towards a flat surface, making the fingertips flat before he placed it towards the rounded edge and hammered it rounder. It was a strange process, but as he actually got a good result, he maintained the strategy for all of the fingers.

The next piece that confused him, however by another reason, was the plate that he had decided to have on the palm. It had to be fairly small, but since he didn't dare to make it unnecessary small he had allowed to be bigger than he thought would fit. The confusing part was that he had no idea how he wanted to form it. To make it able to protect from anything it had to cover most of the palm, but that would decrease his agility using the hand. So he tried the piece out and hammered it smaller where ever he felt like it was in the way until he had a much smaller disk in the palm. The boy still thought that it felt a little weird to have it there, but it no longer was in the way.

Emi then wondered what he were to do with the edges he had just created, they bend outwards and quite weird. His first thought was to just bend them inwards and make them become a stronger defense for the palm, but then he realized that it would hinder his ability to use weapons. So he instead just cut the pieces off and evened out the edges. That made it quite empty in his hand and he wondered if that protection really would do much if it was hit by anything. Eager as he was, Emi picked up a senbon and tried to stab his hand through the plate, but was unable, likewise when he tried the kunai. The boy nodded and approved of the general protection it gave and grinded down the edges to make them rounded to avoid them cutting the leather. Emi then took another go to just make it shine and to get rid of the small scratches he had just created.

[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, 37th


When everything was attached and he had managed to make everything look fairly decent, he thought that he could start doing some additional pieces. By using his main ones as support he wanted to attach more flexible plates that could move around a little more. To do that he used elastic metal wire that could move almost 20% of its normal length back and forth without loosing any of its pull. So Emi began to attach a couple of plates with that string around his thumb and the wrist. He then had to add another thing plate on top of that to protect the wires from any possible damage. When he had added on the third layer of plates, he looked at his creation and wondered if he really wanted it that fat.

The glove had started to look more like a piece of knight armor than just a normal metal glove used by brawlers. But as he moved around his hand within it he decided that it really didn't matter that much how it looked as it still contained the functionality he searched for. When he was about to put another plate around the fingers to protect those wires as well, he came up with an idea. He could just as well just place some chainmail in between the pieces, which would make it safer and still protect the wire from the harmful cuts. Since he had never made any amour before, he wasn't completely aware on how to make a chainmail. But as he had all the tools to try it out, he didn't expect it to be too difficult to figure out.

So he made the basic part of the chainmail by make a bunch of small hoops that he placed at the workbench for his own convenience. When he had a little over three dozens of rings, he looked into the book for some instructions on how to continue. The notes were rather basic and he swiftly began to put them together and into clusters of chains. As he finished the amount needed to cover the areas surrounding the first finger, Emi welded together all the hoops to make sure that they didn't fall off. The construction was a lot harder than he had anticipated and he suspected that it would be far more useful than a normal steel plate. Emi then had to weld all of the edge hoops in the chainmail to the two parts of the finger plates.

[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, 38th


He liked that he still was able to move the fingers around just as they were completely free, but with some added weight. It was however a little uncomfortable for the boy when any ring got snagged up and pressed itself into the leather. So to fix that he made another batch of chain mail, but with a lot smaller rings, to avoid them getting in the way or getting in weird angles. Since he then had to replace the previous chains, he had to cut them off with a tong and grind down the excess metal before welding them shut. After some finger exercises Emi added a thin layer of leather on top of the chain-mail to give it a better appearance. The edges of the final leather were hidden within the top-most plate on the hand, so it didn't break the layer.

Emi then added on a few other, harder pieces of leather on the edges of the hand to make a nice curve that could be expanded if needed. Then he thought the basic structure had been finished, but he really wanted to add on something more, something that made the item unique. So a couple of ideas went through his mind, but the most intriguing one was to make the fingers look like teeth and the back of the hand like the head of a lion. That would just turn the entire piece into a show-off version, but as he had already gotten sold on the idea, he could help but bring out some more material to try to make his idea come true. As he wanted to make the noble male lion, he figured that he could use the leather to form the fur, bit also the hair. The leather had however had too short hair for him to use in that magnitude.

So Emi took a few of the longer hairs and placed them with their ends together with the next one. Then he took out a tube of permanent glue and added a few small drips along the hair-line, which he then gently blew on to have it harden. While it did, Emi made sure to spin the hair around and forced the glue to form cirkels around it instead of getting attached to the table. The process took a few minutes to finish, and he had to observe the finished piece to see if it actually had worked. Sadly it was far from perfect as the glue was too large, which made it quite visible despite that it was transparent. So he had to come up with a better plan. As he looked at the hair he came to the realization that he could have more hair adding together, making thicker hair.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned again

[~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, 39th


That would both make it easier for him, but also make the transparent glue become a haze surrounding the straws. The idea was easy, but as he just couldn't add in as many hairs as he wanted into the mix, he had to be a little restrictive. A few samples later dictated that he needed to have at least three to hide the glue, but a maximum of five to not look to fat. So to make it easy on himself he decided to have four straws in each and add the glue to the entire thing, as to hide it even further by making it appear to be part of the hair. He did however continue to spin around the hairs as the glue dried just to give it a even spread across the entire thing. When he had made a couple of them and the glue had dried on all of them, Emi looked over at them and noticed that the glue actually reminded him of the natural shine hair have.

So he felt some pride as he continued to create his improvised straws and added them up on a pile whenever they had dried. It was a time consuming task and even though he knew he could make a clone to do it, Emi enjoyed it so much that he just sat there and calmly fixed the straws one by one. After a bunch of pauses for toilet visits and a few meals, he had managed to make every single straw that he expected himself to need. Emi then covered the entire mid and back section of the glove with the leather with the fur attached to it. To make sure that it was firmly attached, he used both a strong glue and sewed it on through tiny holes that he had done in the metal. The string he used was in the same color as the leather, to make sure that wouldn't be noticed.

As the lions hide was in a different color than what he had, the boy had to recolor it. But as he didn't have any colors, he had to check his book for information about handling that kind of things. There were a lot of information regarding how to color metals and even wood, but nothing on hide, so he had to use his alchemy knowledge and attempt a fix. To avoid damaging the fur, he made sure not to add in anything that was acidic or was irremovable. It did however need to be able to manage water, so he had quite a lot of requirements for something that simple. A couple of sighs were heard as the young boy did his testings on some excess piece of leather. When he had tried almost a dozen different kinds of colors, he finally had found one that he liked.

[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, 40th

Frustratingly enough, the color he had made didn't affect the hair-straws as intended as the glue that he had used was in the way for it to color the straw. That was something that the young boy hadn't expect, so he had to try to work around that problem. At first he thought that he just needed to make a color that worked similar to the ones used to paint walls or paintings. But as he tried that out, he noticed that the color got to thick and removed the entire living aspect of the hair. So he thought of ways that he could implement the colors into the glue without ruining its overall function. As the tests he did only resulted in the glue loosing most if not all of its binding ability, he had to abort those trials and find a better solution.

Then Emi came to realize that he could just as well just color the hair before he even added on the glue to it. He looked over to all of the hair that he had already glued up and sighed as he realized that he would need to redo all of that later. So to get rid of the bad feeling, Emi just pulled up all of the hair he had done and threw it out through the window. The first couple of straws that he made turned out quite good, except that when he added on the glue, the color got slightly changed into a darker version. Even though it still was within the parameters of normal lion hair in Emi's opinion, he still made sure to decrease the dark in his own color. That way he managed to get a almost perfect version of the color for his purpose.

So when he had been able to redo almost all of the hairs, he started to attach them to the glove like he had done before. Since the surface had gotten a little rough from the previous glue, Emi had to grind it away and add on a new shine to it before applying on the new glue. Since he already had done that once before, the new hair managed to form a lot smoother and there were almost no visible metal at all on the glove. To create the mane of the lion, he did however need to make a proper sketch of how he wanted the glove to actually look. The idea was a little strange, so he had to accept that the lion would only make sense in certain posture with the hand. The first couple of versions of the lion just looked weird, mostly because his lack of skill painting, but also because he apparently didn't know how to express his vision.

[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, 41st


So he had to accept that it wouldn't work for him to do it like that, instead he made the general ideas which he could illustrate while noting the remaining details. The first thing he had to do was measure up all of the points which he wanted to remove the fur. As he did, he wondered if he wanted to keep the fur underneath the mane or if it would be in the way for him when attaching it. Since the mane would need to be a lot longer than the normal fur, he had to come up with a stable way of holding it in place. After a bit of thinking, he came to the conclusion that he could allow the fur to remain there, but that he could attach a web of strong string to attach the mane to. That would keep the visibility of it to almost zero and it would remain stable yet alive enough that it could move.

So he searched the room and found a couple of strings that was commonly used in crafts, most to do some leather work, but some for stronger things. Those that were made for stronger things all were rather thick and had a strong dark color, which he just couldn't do anything with. But a few ones of the leather version had a clear color that easily could be hidden within the fur. The bad thing with that was however that it was far weaker than he had wanted to use for the mane, as the total weight could rip some of those off after a while. At first he just tried to make a small chain of those strings and attach some strings that were heavier than the hair for the mane would be. Since it had troubles to stay put and even ripped whenever he pulled in the hair, he figured he had to do something else.

Emi wondered if it would help to use glue to cover the surface of the strings as he had done with the fur. But after he had applied some of it upon the strings, he noticed that it had absolutely no effect what so ever. So Emi instead decided that he would risk a less appealing outlook by twinning the strings into a thicker yet a lot more durable wire. The strings wouldn't be much affected by just doing it with two, as he already had learned from previous crafts. So he instead jumped on to try with three strings at once. Emi used the same method to weave the strings together as he had done with the dexorative leather stripes from the sword-shuriken. As he tried the durability out, he noticed that it was a lot stronger, but not flexible at all.

[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, 42nd


It was a good quality for the string to have, as that would force everything in one spot and everything would be more stable. But the boy was worried that if it wasn't flexible, it would take a lot more strain from all the movements in the glove. So he tried to wrap a few laps of the string around the place where he were going to put the mane. While he tried to bend the fingers and wrist, he noticed that his movements actually weren't restricted at all. No matter which way he spun his hand he couldn't feel any strain to the hand, so Emi nodded and decided that it actually would be a good solution. Just be sure however, Emi made the net that he had intended to do and attached it again to the glove.

After he had brushed the fur a little, he managed to have almost all of the net hidden from normal view, which calmed him down even further. The flexibility of the glove was just as good as it previously had been, and even after a lot of trials, the strings remained strong. So he continued on to the next step and began to form all of the hair for the mane by merging a lot longer and thicker straws. He knew that he could've used the same kind of thickness to the mane as well, but since he doubted it would last, he thought it'd better be fatter. Despite that he was running low on fur to create straws from, Emi was convinced that he had enough to last at least for that glove. But to save himself some time, he made sure to make all of the straws twice the length and the hanve them bound to the net in the middle of them.

As he wanted to make sure that neither strings in the net were visible, Emi wanted to cover them all with as much hair as possible. And as he didn't want to spend even more time to make hair when he already knew how to do it, he created a clone for that task. He gave it a couple of easy instructions and told it not to do the mane as bright as he already had done the fur. The clone muttered and appeared to be generally unwilling, but picked up all of the remaining hair and sat down to make all of the straws. Every time the clone had finished one, Emi picked it up from the tray he lay them in and gently began to weave it into the net. It was strenuous task as even though they were still fairly thick in comparison to the fur version, his hands were a little too large to handle such fine knots.

[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, 43rd


When most of the mane had been done, Emi realized on massive mistake, if one of the sides of the hair would be destroyed, both would loosen. His face began to twitch as he considered if he really wanted to redo the entire work. As the hairs would be too hard to remove, he decided that it would be more wasteful to do so and then add them back on. But as he continued on, he wanted to make sure that he didn't do the same mistake with the remaining ones. So he looked in his book for possible better solutions, and even few of the knots actually were used for things similar to what he wanted, he imagined that he could modify several of them to fit his purpose. But which one would be the best one? He wondered and tried to analyze the pros and cons of each one.

The final version ended up as a mixture of three of them, which was a little more complex than he initially had wanted, but still what appeared to be needed. But when he made the first knot and gently pulled in the straw to finish it, he noticed that the knot jumped out and became free. So Emi had to try the knot again and again, but all of the attempts just ended like the previous ones. There was a major flaw in the design of the knot, so he had to start over and analyze the drawing of it. When he noticed that he was unable to find the reason behind the flaw, Emi sighed and decided to go back to one of the basic ones. There were a lot less strength, but it was still a better solution than to have a failed one.

After that Emi didn't have any troubles with the knots, and he was able to get a reliable way of protecting himself from loosing two straws at the same time. To make sure however that the base would not be seen, Emi added in a lot smaller straws that would just fit around the strings. It took a really long time to do, which forced him to take a couple of breaks to eat and sleep, but when the fake mane was done, he leaned back in his chair and sighed. It wasn't perfectly proper, and there were a couple of flaws that was visible once observed for enough time. But since it wasn't made to be one of his normal attire, he thought that it'd do for his practice. Emi then picked up a scissor and cut of some excess hair and made sure that it looked natural.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.