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, 64th


As there would be needed to have 5 holes for all the small domes and at least twice as many for the big one, it took him a long time to actually drill all of the holes. Half way through the drill got a little too dull to make any real progress in digging out the metal, so Emi had to sand the edges around it a bit. Since it was a spiral edge, Emi had to use normal sandpaper instead of his machine, making it require a lot of force and time to finish. But when it was done, the drill went through the metal with both ease and speed. So when it was all fixed, Emi matched the holes with some fitting screws and got them all through the domes and into the main body of the shield. As he then tried the shield out again, he happily noted that he could no longer feel the domes moving around.

The domes did however appear to take the exact same damage as he smashed the shield against a wall. But as he was about to start the final possible way of doing it, he began to doubt that there would be any difference with the weld. As the screws hadn't allowed any movements and the weld would only make the attachment harder between the two objects, he wouldn't need to take the drastic measure. The screws could after all be removed quite easily and didn't take much effort to attach either. So Emi shrugged and put the welding machine away and looked at the general appearance of the shield from the frontal view. The screws had made the shield look a little industrial, something that the boy didn't really enjoy.

So to avoid it looking bad, Emi sanded down the heads of all of the screws to make sure that they blended in with the surrounding metal before he coated the metal with a dark-grey color. To avoid coloring everything on the shield using the spray can, Emi had covered the wood with some paper and duct-tejp. The metal proved to be quite hard to paint as he had to make three layers before the color actually were distributed evenly over the entire surface. Then to avoid rapid deterioration or possible rub off on other things, Emi had to coat the color with some protective substance that even made it shinier. When all of the domes had been processed the same way, the boy removed all of the paper and tejp from the shield and threw it into the fire. Even though he had been careful, some of the color had still gotten through the paper and hit the wood, which forced him to sand the surface yet again.

[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, 65th


Emi then felt like he was getting close to the end of the shield, so he started to think of things that he could do to improve the shield as he moved back to the shield made from the heavier wood. But as he was about to cut it in two, he realized that the main shape of the shield, a flat disc wasn't nearly as optimal as he wanted. That made the shield take all of the force in one spot, while if he made it shaped like a triangle or dome, the force would spread out across the shield. That was a revolutionary idea for the boy which completely ruined the concept he had been working on thus far. So a few bad words escaped him as he began to wonder how he would be able to salvage the already used rare wood in the first shield. At first he didn't think that he would be able to, but as he thought some more, he realized that he could just cut it into the shape he wanted and then swap places with the pieces.

The front-most piece had to be cut on both sides, but the more he thought about it the easier it became to fix his mistake. The only bad thing was that the end result would be smaller than he had wanted, but that was a sacrifice that he had to accept. So Emi then measured up the pieces and made a careful painting of where he needed to cut and how deep. Then he brought out the saw, a long one with a handle on both sides. It was intended as he made a clone to stand on the other side so the boys could make an arc out of the saw while they were cutting into the hard wood. It was however harder than Emi had expected and he had to summon yet another clone that could stand and direct the saw in the middle of the piece.

When they had reached so far in that the second clone no longer were able to affect the saw, he had to take the sawing a lot slower and in small motions to avoid having it run in a wrong direction. As the saw escaped the wood on the other side a chill went through him of excitement and it just got worse as the clone revealed two perfectly sawed out pieces. The boy cheered along with his clones as they tried out to put the pieces in the correct order for them to get a shield with an arc. As he had suspected, he had to cut off quite large chunks on all sides of the shield for the back piece to fit. So after some times of removing a couple of small chunks and have fitting tests to make sure that he didn't over do it, he managed to get the desired size. When he held them together it made so much sense to him that it was the way to go and he began to wonder why there even was such an easy flat version.

[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, 66th


Emi immediately began to apply the things he had learned to make the shield better from the start. So he carved out the paths of the attachments to the spikes in between the two halves, which however proved to be much harder as he had to think in 3D. But since he allowed the spikes to follow the shape of the shield, he managed to get them made fairly easy and would only require some modifications on the attachments. But to make sure that he wouldn't forget it, he brought out the small planks he used for the spikes and put them in a cauldron with boiling water. That allowed him to bend the planks after they had been in there for a couple of minutes, but he had to make sure to bend it a little bit extra as they bend back some after a few minutes. When he had managed to give them the proper curve, he cut the top half into a triangle and sharpened the edges.

The reason he had taken wood at that shield was as he expected them to deal approximately the same damage and break about as easily, but a broken piece of wood would leave a lot more fragments left in the opponents body. It was a fairly evil intention, but he didn't care and even made them have some extra material on both sides of the edge to be able to give away some more splinters. Emi then put all of the spikes unto their stations and then drilled two holes through each before screwing some metal through their bodies. He had stopped liking using metal on shields to keep it together as he felt like it was defiling the wood. So he stopped himself from moving forward as he looked at the pieces of metal deep into the wood and sighed. The boy then removed them again and decided to use glue and more wood instead.

When he knew that they were stuck and wouldn't get loose unless broken, he made the holes for the leather strap on and then bound it through the hole. It got quite fancy as his skill in making those leather stripes had improved a lot in the latest crafts. Then Emi just applied a lot more glue in between the wooden discs and pushed them together and kept them in place by using his bench clamps. To make the hold even stronger, Emi drilled a total of five holes in the shield and plugged them with a fairly broad wooden plug. Some of the white sap revealed itself as he hammered the plugs in, but Emi just wiped it off and sawed the excess. When all of the glue had dried, Emi sandpapered the entire surface of the shield and then applied a protective oil unto it.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Book: Textbook: Volume IX: Craftworks: Metals
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Book, Reference
Effect: Volume IX of The Encyclopedia of Loremaster Linus Winterguest pertaining to crafting with metals.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Page Count: 300 pages. These books each focus on a specific group of crafts based on the materials used. Each book grants a -30 Competence Bonus to craft checks that work in the specified materials. Moreover, the books are full of timesaving hints, reducing the time required to make items by ¼.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Special Book Shop. 5% chance finding.
Cost: 13,000 Ryo


0/10


The boy had started to get quite tense in his muscles, so he decided to take a break from the shield and eat some food. But as he was about to walk out from the room, he turned and saw the book, which he decided to bring along. So while he sat at the table and munched on a sandwich with a massive slice of ham, he opened the book and decided to get a little more accustomed with how it was made up. The first couple of pages were fairly unimportant as the writer just mentioned which people he wanted to dedicate the book to. Despite that he didn't care, he scanned through that just to see if there were anyone he knew, but no, only unfamiliar faces. So he then turned to the next page and saw the start of the index of the book, which stretched itself out over a total of four pages. He didn't know much on how writers tend to make those indexes, but he assumed that they were all sorted by letters. But as he looked through it, he noticed that it was absolutely not true.

The pattern seemed to closer to just categories, but not even there it was obvious in which order it started with. But as he read all of the headlines, he got to the assumption that it was ordered by which details would be needed in the crafting. There were however several things that he personally would've moved, but everything made a lot more sense as he expected that order. Emi then familiarized himself with the index and read up on some sub-headlines that appeared to more crucial, like the metallurgy and knots chapters. To make sure that he would be able to find those easiest, Emi closed his eyes and tried to repeat the numbers for them, which he had to do a couple of times before he was satisfied with the result. The boy then swapped page and did the exact same thing with the other pages of the index before he started to read the real book.

Since he was a little too tired to actually read all of the information of the items described as metals, Emi instead tried to locate all the signs that he could need to find quickly. Most of them were information needed only in planning, which he looked over and remembered, but the spots on which temperature it would melt at and critical reactions tab were places he learned how to find in an instant. It wasn't that hard for him to do and he even tried it out on a couple of different metals. But after a while when he tried to locate the temperature, a very weird number came up instead, but only after a few seconds did he realize that it was another category. The metal had twice as many pages dedicated for it. So he sighed and learned how to note those metals and where the information were then.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

The boy sighed and decided that it was the time to actually start getting the components that he needed, so he opened up a window and dashed through it.

-exit-

[~Emi~]

Gallows Whisper
Rank: S
Type: Main, Slashing, Sword
Effect: A weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Hardness: 10
Armor points: 30
Damage: 24 + 20 (cry enhanc.)
Description:
A One-handed Weapon. The Gallows Whisper is made by the rare metal called Pandemonic Silver, which gives it the ability to screech out when drawn from its sheath. The scream is a mind-affecting compulsion fear effect that affects everyone but the wielder within 10m that doesn't succeed on a will save. Those affected covers for 1d4 rounds. The dc depends on how strong the wind is when Gallows Whisper is drawn:

• Light (0–10 mph) – Save 10
• Moderate (11–20 mph) – Save 13
• Strong (21–30 mph) – Save 16
• Severe (31–50 mph) – Save 19
• Windstorm (51–74 mph) – Save 22
• Hurricane (75–154 mph) – Save 25
• Tornado (175–300 mph) – Save 28

When wielded any onlooker is filled with horror unless successful with a dc 35 will save. The blade also grants the wielder a -50% reduction to weapon damage(additional from techniques is not increased, but Weapon size does) after the wielder has landed a successful attack. Against creatures with the exception of humans it does +50% weapon damage (additional from techniques is not increased, but Weapon size does). Pandemonic Silver weapons count as Silver for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction, affecting regeneration, and concerning vulnerability to Silver.

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Gems:

Limit: Gallows Whisper is a unique weapon created by Hoshigaki Emi for the village of Amegakure.
Cost: 1'556'975 Ryo


Sword, Longsword (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Slashing, Sword
Effect: A weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A One-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +8 Amour Points of Damage. A longsword (also spelled long sword, long-sword) is a type of sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around 100–122 cm (39–48 in). The longsword is characterised not so much by a longer blade, but by a longer grip, which indicates a weapon designed for2-handed use or 1-handed use. Examples of Longswords: Katana, Jian, Tachi, Scimitr, Shinai, and Waster.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

(4'000(base price) + 180'000 (Silver, Pandemonic)) x 1,5 (Advanced) x 1,5 (pristine) x 1,5 (perfected) = 621'000

Time spend: 621'000 / 6 (Journeyman) x 0,6 (Crystal mastery) x 0,75 (Craftswork book) x 0,95 (Eldritch smith) = 44'246,25

Components spend: 621'000 / 3 = 207'000 (Previously bought and owned components used and uses one of my cryo enhancements that I already own)

Time per post: 125 (weaponsmithing) + 25 (Blacksmithing) + 20 (Dedicated tradesman) + 100 (Tech path III) + 25 (Artisan skill bonus) + 20 (Master of great renown) + 15 (Skill focus) + 10 (Craftsman) + 660 (Fast item creation) + 80 (Perfected smithy) = 1'080/post

First post at 0/44'247 with 1'080 + 1d100 per post


After Emi had successfully gathered all of the needed items he required for his coming craft, he cleared out the smithy from unnecessary papers, blueprints and large constructs. The boy then spread the items across the benches, tables, workbenches and chairs to be able to get a really good overview look on what he had. During his practices he had learned that one of the most important parts was to prepare everything in before hand, which he surely intended to do. So he brought out a large clean paper and spread it out on the floor with a couple of weights at the edges to keep it steady and a wooden board underneath to get a good surface to work on.

[~Emi~]

Second post at 0/44'247 with 1'080 + 1d100 per post

Since it was intended to be a fairly common appearance on a sword he was able to quickly make some notes on the largest and smallest measurements he had to work with. As he had grown into a larger man than the average person was, he knew that he would need to make it both lighter and smaller than what would be optimal for him. So he decided to first try out the weight of the metal he had to work with, the extremely rare pandemonic silver. After a quick weighing with his hands he figured that the metal bar had completely even in its weight and that it was approximately the same as normal steel.

[~Emi~]

Third post at 0/44'247 with 1'080 + 1d100 per post

To confirm those facts he looked up the metal in his book, and even though the metal actually was lighter than steel, it wasn't much difference. What worried him however was that the book stated that the metal would end up weighing different depending on which temperature that was used during the hardening process. That wasn't anything that he had experienced before, and since his oven didn't work properly he knew that he would need to get a proper way to calculate that. But he shook his head swiftly and returned his focus to the present and began to calculate the possible weights that he would want.

[~Emi~]

4th

After considering a lot of different variables, Emi had found a proper weight that he hoped he wouldn't cross, at least not with more than about 5%. So he then started to divide the weight into the parts that he wanted to have, the handle, hilt, blade, gems and all of the decorations. The easiest part was surprisingly to dedicate the weight for the handle, not only because he couldn't do much with different with it, but also because he had a good idea on what the previous handles he had made weighed. To get the weights of the gems he had to do some research from the book about what the approximate gem weighed.

[~Emi~]

5th

The result proved what he had expected, that it was extremely different from case to case and he had to be a lot more specific on what he wanted to be able to get any result what so ever. But since he didn't have much experience using gems in crafts, Emi looked up a couple of common gems and made the calculations by using three of those. The value he got was more than he had hoped for, which forced him to make the edge weigh less, as the decorations already were expected to be consisting mostly of markings, colors and a few light add-ons. Since he hadn't decided upon the general shape yet, he didn't mind that much as the blade could just as well become as long as he wanted it to be.

[~Emi~]

6th

So when he knew how much materials he could use, Emi decided to be blunt and just remove the piece that made it go over the weight limit. To make sure that he would be able to use it properly in the future, Emi was extremely careful not to allow any extra particles mix up with the metal as he divided it and then placed in a proper container. Emi then turned to face the remaining metal, which he got quite disappointed didn't include for him to use for the edge. So he thought of a couple of different ways that he could increase the length and width of the weapon without actually changing the weight of it.

[~Emi~]

7th

To give the weapon a long hole throughout the entire blade was something he liked aesthetically but as that made the blade less able to take damage, he had to consider other options. When he had found the proper length that only almost was too short with a stable width, he had to accept that he couldn't have as broad as he had first intended. So to make sure that the wielder wouldn't need to hold back any of its strength while using the weapon, Emi had to decrease it at some places to increase it at others. That made it possible for him to form the blade quite nicely and even though it was quite limited, he still had the first unique aspect for it.

[~Emi~]

8th

Even though he realized that he could make it into a beautiful arc going down the sword, Emi instead decided that he wanted to have it slightly more capable of destruction, and therefor made the broadest places spiky. It took him some time to actually make it look nice as it constantly looked too forced to be a real thing. But when he removed the triangular shape on the lower parts and had it go into a long arc he noticed that there were actually a good thing to combine different elements. It did however get quite difficult for him to calculate as the shapes were to different and not really symmetrical. But after some time of struggling he managed to get a fair estimate that looked promising and even allowing a little extra weight to the decorations.

[~Emi~]

9th

After all of the basic blade drawings had been completed, Emi added in some details on the sharpness on the blade, for which direction he wanted to grind it in and then what he would wrap the handle in. To give him some inspiration on that department he did however need to look into the book, as he still wasn't quite experienced using knots and leathers for other things than to bind stuff together. As the blade was supposed to be given as a gift for the Amekage, he wanted to make sure that the knots were a little more advanced than he normally did them. So even though it differed little to nothing in between the usefulness of the knots, Emi went on and painted in one of the hardest one to do.

[~Emi~]

10th

The reason that he didn't chose the one that actually was the hardest to do, was that even though it would impress those that knew what it was, it didn't look as fancy and would hold up as well as the one he chose. The overall look on the picture gave him a little goosebumps as even though it looked quite basic, almost all of the visual things were already on there and he only needed to make it a reality. So he made a couple of quick notes that he knew that he would forget otherwise and then added in some colors to make the picture a little more fetching. Emi then made all of the measurements as clear as he could and added a strong blue color to make them really pop out from the paper, making it impossible for him to miss them when needed.

[~Emi~]

11th

So Emi then decided that it was time to actually start of with using his craft by test the new metal some. As it was so rare, he looked into the book until he no longer were capable of finding any more information regarding how to process it. Then he took up the excess metal and began to warm it up in his fireplace while carefully blowing in some wind to heaten the fire up. As the metal had a couple of clear levels of heated that would produce different effects, Emi had to try to distinguish all of them while he saw the flames gently touch the metal. The searing heat made the Hoshigaki sweat and his skin to dry up, but his focus was uncanny and even though the light made it hard for him to notice all the changes, he did find a few of them.