The Crucible (Public Crafting Area)

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post 8

The book was completed, the twins proceeded to lift it up and begun admiring at their creation, a perfected shield that also functioned as a book containing their jutsus and other people's information. They couldnt wait to test it out in an actual battle. With their creation now ready, they needed to begin a different project , the creation of four pistols.

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Crafted.

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Devil’s Advocate (♠️)
Rank: "S" Rank
Type: Secondary, 54 per Slot, Piercing/Slashing, Knife/Card
Effect: A metal playing card denoting the suit of Spades. Taking inspiration from a Kunai, each edge is razor sharp and the four corners end in a piercing point. Essentially, nothing more than an extravagant-looking flat handless Kunai that can be utilised for throwing techniques.
Special: Once regular metallic playing cards – the weapon gained immense power by being used to defeat a Crossroad Demon, after which its soul was offered up as forfeit and sealed into each playing card. Corrupted by this, Devil’s Advocate is constantly shrouded by black demonic smoke that acts as a Non-Detection spell.
Drawback: Sealed within each card is a sliver of the Crossroad Demon’s soul that lost at a game of poker against Zuruel. Now blood-bonded to him by an unbreakable contract, the demon will only allow itself to be wielded by Zuruel or members of his bloodline, while dealing the weapon’s Enhancement Bonus as damage each round to all others. Bearing forced loyalty to the terms of the contract, anyone attempting to wield Devil’s Advocate other than Zuruel or those loyal to him must make a Fortitude Save of 20 or else the Crossroads Demon will force the weapon to leap from the wielder’s hand. Even if the possessor can stave off this struggle, the soul slivers in each card will prevent them from harming Zuruel and his comrades in any shape or form. If disarmed, the weapon will also return to Zuruel’s hand at a speed of 20m per second unless something can prevent that from occurring. Weapon damage will decrease by -2 if the wielder is not wearing a Spirit Amber necklace and by a further -2 if the weapon is not sharpened with Jorga's Whetstone each week.
Description: Identification: Average; Hardness: 10; Armour Points/Inch: 20. A Light Weapon crafted from Anti-Gravitic Ore that measures 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Devil’s Advocate (♠️) does +32 Amour Points of Damage (half of which ignores Hardness) and ignores up to 5 Armour Points of Damage Reduction – while being immune to effects that ignore Hardness. The Range Increment of this weapon is 30 meters. The user gains a +10 bonus on Sleight of Hand Skill when concealing playing cards on their body. Granted power by the Crossroad Demon’s soul, each card can shapeshift into another Light Weapon such as a knife, kunai, shuriken or even simply morph to gain new decorative flourishes. Utilising his Soul Caster abilities, Zuruel can empower each soul sliver twice per day to unleash a vibrant light capable of blinding anyone within a 6m radius of each card for a single round or tap into the power of each sliver to allow each card to unleash a Touch-based attack upon dealing damage. Constantly hungering for a soul to replace its eternal prison, Devil’s Advocate will guide itself towards foes with a +20% Chance to strike enemies with a Miss Chance and can slay even Incorporeal creatures by bypassing any dodge bonuses or damage reductions associated with the Incorporeal status. It’s also this very same prison that prevents the demon from ever escaping Zuruel’s presence. If disarmed or dropped, each playing card will simply begin to orbit an 1m radius around its user, where each one can be grasped as a Free Movement. Additionally, as a Non-Movement, Zuruel can unleash the spirit of the Crossroads Demon to infect the hearts of the ‘audience’ with absolute despair and dread (Despair: The enchanted creatures suffer a -2 penalty to Saves, -5 to Attack Damage, and -10 Skill Checks). A Will Save of 35 will nullify this effect.
Limit: May only be crafted by Kael and Kaelynn.
Cost:  397,002

Kunai (500) – 1,000 (Price doubled to increase size by 1)
Paper, Cards (2)
Doomwarding (192,500)
Anti-Gravitic Ore (500)
Blood Bonded (5,000)
Masking (50,000)
Evoke Emotional Response (3,000)
Changeling (20,000)
Everbright (20,000)
Guided (20,000)
Ioun (10,000)
Jutsu Carrier (60,000)
Loyal (5,000)
Precision (10,000)

397,002

Seals:
Imperial, Ghost Touch, Distance

397,000 / 15 = 26466 - 10% - 10% - 5% = 20366/6k = 24 posts for all the cards

[Starnaess]

post 1

The twins received a rather odd request from man just as odd. His name was Zuruel, and the twins had met him in several occasions. They dont know what a ttracted them to him - but they felt some sort of wierd connection. They knew he was dangerouns and most definetly stronger than them , but regardless of that they still felt like helping him out.

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post 2

The request was unique other than odd, a set of 12 cards made for both playing and killing. A strange tool for a man that to them used to be a ninja once. They did not care, however - for the reward for doing this was indeed worth it,  atleast to them. The promises were many and they knew that if they upheld their part of the bargain so would he.

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post 3

So they begun this project of theirs by researching common cards. They wanted to understand their shape, as well as the various drawings. They wanted to make them look like normal cards being able to use that to the user's advantage was key in being deadly. people often underestimate common objects and discard their potential lethality.

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post4

They begun by scavenging this old forge that they had been staying at for the past months.  They knew that they were not the first ones to use it and that in the past people used to hang out ith their artisan friends and play games with eachother during the night hours. With a little bit of luck they would stumble upon an old set of cards.

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post 5

Using their pulverem powers, they decided to help their hunt for cards and just like magic an old , still sealed card pack appeared in a corner of the room. They begun by unwrapping it and placing the cards in front of them. Clearly, the pack held more than the requested twelve cards, but that just played to their advantage.

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post 6

They didnt want to copy them, rather just draw inspiration from them and make unique cards for their costumer. Handrawn and handmade all by themselves And ofcourse they wanted to leave a little piece of them into the cards - their names and signature, hidden among the various drawings so not to take away from the beauty of the cards themselves.

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post 7

They would stare at the cards for a couple of hours, memorizing every detail, the shape of the drawings - the ink used to allow paper to better  soak it, the various drawings as well as the colors. Every detail was important and had to be impeccable for the cards needed to look normal cards you see everyday and disguise themselves as harmless.

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post 8

after their through inspection was done, they decided to place the cards on the side for the moment and focus on the drawing part of it. They picked up a pencil and a piece of paper and begun scribbling away , drawing anything that came to mind and that reminded them of the odd figure zuruel is. They a lso wanted to make anything that they drew very colorful

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post 9

Alot of red, orange some shadowy black here and there to give  depth to the cards - as well as the use of white to give out that deadly look when combined with all the other colors. It sure  fit his theme atleast a theme that they themselves had created for him in their minds. Once that was decided they b egun by drawing the various card seeds one next to the other

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post 10

They would then fill them up with red and b lack colors giving them their usual look - and right next to it they would draw a little clown hanging from the seeds, the face of said clown wouldnt be just any clown however, it  would have resemblance to both kael and kaelynn's faces. That would be their signature for the cards they were making.

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post 11

As they drew it they would both laugh for they would make their own faces on that tiny clown as wierd as possible - with wide crazy smiles. They would imagine the enemies that were unlucky enough to have these cards being thrown at them, see their faces laughing at them in their last moments. That macabre and scary idea excited them for some reason.

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post 12

The drawing was done, and with the colors picked that part of the job was done. Now they had to gather the m aterials onto the table, decide on the number of cards to make and begin hammering away. Clearly the cards could not be made out of paper, but they needed to be made out of a l ight metal that allowed for throwable things to be thrown effortlessly.

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post 13

Aeroglass would come into mind immediatly, they used said material for various crossbows as well as their jewelry. A material they were experienced with and that was perfect for the set of cards. They placed onto the table enough material for the creation of thirteen of these cards. Number picked by Zuruel that made perfect  sense for an entire set covering all of the seeds and figures.

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post 14

They would begin by dividing the metal into 13 piles to match the number of cards they needed to make - right after they would megin by hammerng away every single piece of metal flattening it out as much as possible. This step was necessary to allow them to later shape it with more ease to better match the shape of a card

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post 15

After the piles were made, the twins would begin to hammer each one of them creating a rough circilar piece of aerometal. As the thirteenth piece of metal was ready , they would lay dwo nteh hammer for a moment and pick up a chakra infused saw and begin to shap e    the metal to resemble the shape of a card.

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post 16

Of course, they had to make it as thin as possible without impacting the durability of the metal itself otherwise the cards would just look like big chunky metal pieces with drawings on them completly defeating the purpose of disguising them as normal cards. After that part of the process was done the base for the cards was ready.

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post 17

They would then place a single piece of now card shaped metl in front of them and as they lay down the saw they would pick up yet another tool, thi time it looked like a chakra powered pen with a very sharp tip that allowed for neat and precise cuts onto metal, perfect for drawing. Every hand movement they were about to make had to be perfect, precise for there were no doovers.