[OOC] Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

[Jerkchicken]

Fine it's a regular old ice box which should be feasible given we're in anime steampunk notJapan.

[RoflsMazoy]

@Jerkchicken
It's not really steampunk, I'd say. Since ClocktowerEchos hasn't come back since their first post, the magical machinery which I had said could exist isn't officially around right about now.

And this might seem harsh but I don't think an ice-box would work either since they were only invented in late 1800s, 1900s-ish(as in the act of using ice in a box to refrigerate), and this is pretty much high-fantasy swordcraft kinda thing. If you say they're just chilled without illustrating how they're chilled I honestly wouldn't mind it, the only issue here is the technology which doesn't fit with the setting, in my mind at least.

There's an item I'll introduce later which you could use for it, but until then, sorry.

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Besides from that, I've decided to do some swordcrafting guidelines instead of the more complex system which I said I was going to do, because a I was writing it it just felt really bad.

New Sword Crafting

Heating Materials:
Should generally take a few hours(at least 4 or 5? Not sure about the numbers), depending on the material. The time it takes to heat it up to a workable standard will generally increase as the tiers go up and the materials get stronger. Some metals will take less time such as Copper, Gold and Bronze because of their properties.

Hammering:
Hammering swords is an intensive process which requires much skill and focus. Depending on how complex your sword design is, you might have to re-heat the sword a few times. The action of hammering is, after all, beating a metal bar into the shape of a sword and making sure it's balanced and would make for a good weapon. The use of casting can make this process easier but requires the construction of a cast, as well as higher heat to completely melt the material. Hammering could almost take longer than the heating itself depending on the sword design.

Despite all that, hammering the sword is not a process that will need to be done in detail because it's probably going to be a pain. Just keep in mind it is an intensive process that takes a lot of time.

Tempering and Quenching:
The final stage of making a blade, involves cooling the sword rapidly or heating it slowly in order to increase or decrease the hardness of a sword. Making a blade harder increases the brittleness, and can result in it breaking more easily. However, it can also increase the sharpness of the edge. Decreasing the hardness via tempering increases the durability of the blade by making it more able to absorb shocks.

Tempering or Quenching wouldn't take very long and can be appended to the finishing of the blade as part of the same smithing action.

Finishing:

Involve creating the hilt, sheath and decorations. Could honestly be just as long as creating the blade, but for the most part you'll be able to time-skip it.

You guys don't have to change very much because we're a little too far in, except your swords will probably need some more work. Since you're in the middle of eating pork, you can place your sword in your forges again to maintain the temperature while you're doing other stuff. Just keep in mind the time actually needed to do everything.

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In all honesty, I'm not sure if I'll ever do a focused challenge like this again using those rules, since they essentially end up with people just doing stuff alone in the RP. If it weren't for @Jerkchicken there probably wouldn't have been any interaction at all, so I'm actually really grateful for your pork roast.

Even @Uno decided to leave because of the lack of interaction :'( so in future, do expect challenges will be given still but they probably won't be nearly as strict as this one.

[TheWendil]

@RoflsMazoy

Who actually is still in the RP?

[KOgaming]

あたしだ

[RoflsMazoy]

It's everyone I mentioned in the last post where I mentioned everyone except for

Uno

Then everyone I'm not sure about:
Otaku95
Sodium
Lady Athena
ClocktowerEchos

And I'm not @ing them because I feel like I do it too much

[KoL]

@RoflsMazoy

Considering the lack of interaction, wouldn't it be interesting to cut down the rest of the challenge and jump straight to the conclusion, after a post out two from everyone? This could potentially help to stabilize things, I think.

[TheWendil]

Can I ask why no one has been concerned about a rampaging wolf, why all the students are getting drunk on campus, and why there's a character who's treating everything like a meta game?

[KoL]

Can I ask why no one has been concerned about a rampaging wolf, why all the students are getting drunk on campus, and why there's a character who's treating everything like a meta game?

@TheWindel

^ x2

EDIT:

Actually, add to that why the freaking freezer / cooler and the modern beer bottles are still there on a medieval fantasy RP? Seriously can someone please try to keep this RP within the premise it was supposed to be based in?

[KOgaming]

Actually, add to that why the freaking freezer / cooler and the modern beer bottles are still there on a medieval fantasy RP? Seriously can someone please try to keep this RP within the premise it was supposed to be based in?

@KoL

The premise was a magical school that teaches how to make swords. Nobody's deviated from that yet because everybody's been making the swords.

[KoL]

@KOgaming

Surely, the medieval fantasy bit doesn't mean nothing, right? Or the idea of a consistent story, for that matter.

Dropping an one liner describing sword making and doing a four paragraphs shit post, isn't exactly keeping to the premise, I think.

[Jerkchicken]

Well, you guys remember that the actual part of the forging process is gonna be handwaved for the benefit of those who don't know much metallurgy, thus it's wrote obvious that a blacksmithing school will have forged for general use (maybe even individual ones for the top students /groups), it's one of those things you can just assume that you will have access to from the very premise.

@KoL

Why are you so adamant about minutiae in regards to the smithing posts when earlier you repeated the GM's declaration that this sort of minutiae involving the crafting process is to be handwaved for the benefit of the people who aren't educated in how the process works? Dude I think you're taking the competitive aspect of this game too seriously. We're only pretending to compete and with the lack of any real imput into the process for player skill and the handwavey nature of the process makes it just pointless to treat it seriously. The only tangible thing the players have is the post and time limit. Everything else is just pure fiat essentially.

Also as an aside regarding the quibble over the setting. Is it medieval? I thought the gm said it was industrial revolution which mixed with magical stuff like turning monster bones and spleens into functional weapons, and with that in the setting it's not that big of a stretch to have things like bottlecaps or coolers existing. I mean if people from thousands of years ago living in the desert in our world can make a system for ice transportation, then shoving something like a chunk of ice into a box seems pretty low key. But honestly it's that important for me arguing over whether these background props exist or not.

[KoL]

@Jerkchicken

I'm not talking about the precision of the smithing tasks, but about making them in a credible way. Speed forging is the thing that has been annoying me, not the level of description. You can't make as much progress as the people over the pork scene are making in less than six hours.

Do things simple, but do them right, that's the gist of the issue.

It would be a whole other story, if someone had speed crafting as their specialty, but no one has it, so it doesn't makes sense.

[KOgaming]

Speed compared to who?

[TheWendil]

@Jerkchicken

I think KoL is less concerned about the competitive nature of the RP and more for the free lance nature of it. Cause so far people have just been doing whatever they wanted with no consequence. Including getting drunk on campus.

[Lonewolf685]

Posting later today

[Sodium]

@RoflsMazoy

I'm still here, just been rather busy. I'll hop in after the godsword competition; give me a mention then, if you would.

[TheWendil]

So considering everyone is still ignoring the rampant wolf, I guess this gives me permission to attack someone with it :V

[ClocktowerEchos]

@RoflsMazoyApologizes but I think Ima have to drop this RP, I hope that this does well though, super interesting concept with the smithing ^^

[KoL]

I'll be posting sometime within this week (depends on when I'll have my day off). You can expect that I'll do a "Whatever" post, since I don't care that much for this RP anymore, unless of course @RoflsMazoy stops lurking around and comes solve the problems we have here, since his last post didn't do much on that front.

I care for him as a GM and player, but admitting he's not even looking at his own RP (which made it devolve into this current state) has kind of rubbed me wrong way, a lot.

I said it once, and I'll say it again. If you don't have time to GM properly (I don't blame you for being busy IRL, mind you), just get a Co-GM, instead of abandoning us on whatever happens happens mode.

[RoflsMazoy]

I am looking but it's just really difficult for me to figure something out .-. I don't quite know what angle to go for or what I want to preserve or change in this RP. Since everyone has different points and my feelings haven't swayed all the way to any given side. I also have my hardest exam coming tomorrow and the day after, I'm not entirely sure what I should be doing right now.