Tricks of the Trade [Training]
Nov 21, 2016 18:12:36 GMT -7
Post by Jack on Nov 21, 2016 18:12:36 GMT -7
Tame the Savage Beast
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The Artisan’s ability to create has reached the point that they can start to create items that give an emotional response to people that see or use them.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When learning this technique is limited to only calming the audience. Any that perceive the item that has had this ability crafted into it must roll a save as if saving against a Will Save of 10 + 5 per user's Class level or become Calmed as per the Calm Emotions GenJutsu as long as they can perceive the item in question, to a maximum of 5 minutes per Class Level. At this point the target can make another save. Any made save against this effect renders the target immune to this effect from this item ever again. Building an emotional effect into a craftwork has a cost of 1/10 of total cost (Materials are not purchased), and once the extra component and the original item are both complete, the item is then ready for use. With this and other bonus craft abilities, the Artisan can add multiple layers of components to a single item, so it is possible to have an item built to Tame the Savage Breast, Impart a Hidden Meaning, and use the Fool’s Prerogative all at once, providing that the relevant providing the crafting cost is implemented during the course of crafting.
Limit: Must be an Artisan.
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The Artisan’s ability to create has reached the point that they can start to create items that give an emotional response to people that see or use them.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When learning this technique is limited to only calming the audience. Any that perceive the item that has had this ability crafted into it must roll a save as if saving against a Will Save of 10 + 5 per user's Class level or become Calmed as per the Calm Emotions GenJutsu as long as they can perceive the item in question, to a maximum of 5 minutes per Class Level. At this point the target can make another save. Any made save against this effect renders the target immune to this effect from this item ever again. Building an emotional effect into a craftwork has a cost of 1/10 of total cost (Materials are not purchased), and once the extra component and the original item are both complete, the item is then ready for use. With this and other bonus craft abilities, the Artisan can add multiple layers of components to a single item, so it is possible to have an item built to Tame the Savage Breast, Impart a Hidden Meaning, and use the Fool’s Prerogative all at once, providing that the relevant providing the crafting cost is implemented during the course of crafting.
Limit: Must be an Artisan.
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Jack dusted off a book she had purchased some time back, finally getting a chance to read it, so the first thing she did was read the spine. Tricks of the Trade by Mahake Todokawa, a pretty famous blacksmith who died some time ago, which meant that this book was no joke. Opening to the table of contents, she read until she found what she was looking for. The chapter was titled “Taming the Savage Beast, the art of craft enhancement through emotion”. A little long winded, but it was what she was looking for, so she flipped to that chapter. This was going to help her take her craft to the next level.[Begin Training: Study]
Emotion is not something that is easily placed within the steel of a blade, nor is it something whimsical like magic, but it is the heart and soul of the one who works the forge. He or she that strikes the iron hot, bends the metal to their will, and shapes the destiny of another with an anvil. You must feel this in your bones, your flesh, and your very soul while you pour it raw into your work like molten lead. Jack paused on this bit of writing for the moment, regarding it, studying the words for they were the words that would teach her the ways of the greater blacksmiths. It would be through emotion that she would forge her way into the future, no pun intended, but what were the techniques with which to do this? She would have to study even more. Back to the book it seemed.
There are techniques with which to focus your raw emotions into the blade, to shape them in a way to give the blade sway over you, a crowd, or even beasts. The first of these is known as Tame the Savage Beast, which is rather fitting, truth be told. With this bit of emotional support built into a weapon or armor, even a shirt or pair of shoes, it will hold sway over those that look upon its glory. They will be calmed, soothed, or tamed if you will and will forget their hostile intent for a time. It’s all about the gleam of the blade and how much emotion you focus into your work through hammer technique. Jack tapped her chin as she thought on this, great information to have, but how could she apply it in a practical sense. She noticed that there were techniques to hammer your emotions a bit further down, so she would have to read that as well.
Strike while the core is hot, almost to the point of melting, as you must become one with the iron itself! You must be the steel! Yet, you cannot strike the iron in fury or with speed, but slow and methodical, while keeping your own soul calm as an ocean on a breezeless day. Feel that calm throughout your entire body and will it into the blade, use your instincts and you will know what to do, because your body knows what to do, the heart of a blacksmith knows what to do. This is how you place your emotions! Go out there and try it! Pretty upbeat, but the book was absolutely right, she would need to get out there and try it, or rather, go a few steps over to her new forge and work the steel.