| "Oh ok, hmm guess I gotta find a master after I finish my jobs, can't take to big a break or I could lose them to some other hunter." (That's what she calls mercs) Leafz said. Maybe sister could teach me later? |
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| "Well, with good master you can learn very quickly, since more skilled smiths also knows better how to teach the techniques and basics of metallurgy" Tilly explains getting the blade done, she tests the blade to confirm it's sharp enough. She gets couple sharpening stones and hands them to Leafz "These are for keeping the blade in good condition, do you know how to use a sharpening stone?" She says |
| "No this is the first time I've ever had to do repairs or sharpen it... I usually take better care of it" Leafz said, being genuine and unknowing of the techniques |
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| "Hmm, i see, well it doesn't really matter how well you take care of it, admint is a metal that doesn't stay sharp for a long times, so it'd be good to know how to use sharpening stone so you can keep it sharp. So take a close look on to use sharpening stone" Tilly says and gets another sharpening stone and a dull sword "Let's start with dull weapon so you won't hurt yourself with your scythe, it as sharp as it can get at the moment, but take a close look" She says and shows Leafz slowly how to use sharpening stone, explaining every detail about the technique and how to do it safely and so on and so forth |
| "Who knew there was so many differnt things to be aware of when you sharpened a weapon?" Leafz began thinking that being a blacksmith isn't her foray. |
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| "Oh and sharpening weapon is first thing you have to learn when you become an apprentice, but i can tell you, using these stones are much harder to use than those big ones we use" Tilly says and gives the blade and stone to Leafz "Now you try it, if you just do as i guided you, you can't mess it up, and don't worry about accidentally cutting yourself, i didn't sharpen it enough to so any real damage" She says |
| Leafz tries to sharpen the blade as she was instructed, but after a few movements dropped the stone. "This is way harder then it looked or sounded! I bet sigfried is getting a laugh out of this..." Leafz said frustrated that something so simple looking could be so hard |
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| "He won't he has learned to use completely different stones, since he is axe user, but the technique and stone you use are harder to handle, just don't stress it, just take it slowly, most important thing at the moment is that you figure out best way for you to hold the stone, just don't be hasty. I'm sure you learn the technique pretty quickly if you don't stress it too much" Tilly explains and gets the scythe staff and couple other parts and sits next to Leafz and starts installing the blade back to staff |
| "Ok I'll try one more time" Leafz picks the stone up and began making the movements need to sharpen the blade, after a few minutes she puts the stone down" I did it" she exclaimed holding the sword up to be seen by all. |
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| Tilly shifts her focus on the sword, takes it and checks the sharpness "It's not perfect, but much better than needed, want to try on another blade to hone that technique, my suggestion is that you'd sharpen at least one more to really get hold of that technique" Tilly says and gets back to the scythe. She puts the blade back to it's place and uses the removable part that was already with the blade to keep it in place, then she picks up the parts she got from the storage "I will tweak the scythe a bit, just to make it easier for you and the smiths to maintain the blade in the future" She says |
| "Thank you very much, and yes I would like anouther blade to practice with. The sooner I get the hang of it the better, don't want to be out on a hunt and my blade stop cutting right?" |
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| Tilly gets up and gets a dull scythe blade "Try with scythe blade, it's a bit different from the sword but the idea and technique are completely same, it would be just better that you learn to sharpen scythe blades since that is your weapon of choice" Tilly explains and finishes Leafz' scythe, "Okay, so i'll explain briefly how the blade works now, so i tweaked the blade so that the blade is completely removable, earlier the thing i took off the scythe was forged so that it couldn't be removed, but now there is this mechanism *Tilly shows the mechanism and how it works* that allows to removal of the blade, but otherwise the folding mechanism is completely same, just make sure that the new mechanism is locked before you start swinging" She explains |
| "Cool, alright time to practice with a scythe blade. Also since the blade can come off is that only for sharpening or do I need to take it off everytime i told the blade up?" Leafz asked as she set to trying to sharpen the scythe blade. Well I think the sword was harder she thought to her self. |
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| "It's only for sharpening or if you ever need to get it repaired again, it can save you up some coins, most of the smiths around the world doesn't tell you the price before they are done with the repair. Reason for that is because they ask for money depending on how much extra work they have to do" Tilly explains |
| "Oh, well I'm not too worried about money, but thank you. That helps me in the future with my choice of smith" Leafz said. Though she belonged to the working class she had a good store of money, she only ever spent it on repairs for her cloak and her scythe. She always hunted for her food so no problem there. Usually two or three nights a week she didn't eat tho because unlike Rangers she wasn't skilled at tracking or following hunting trails. |
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| "Except if you visit me, i just require ingredient when working with rare metals" Tilly says and observes Leafz' sharpening |
| " thank you, i don't have anything to store stuff in so I just carry what I need" Leafz replied. " maybe I should get a satchel or something so I can bring more stuff around" Leafz was contemplating this when she cut her self on the honed edge she made by sitting there talking and thinking while she was sharpening the blade. "Owchy!" |
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| Tilly gets some bandages from the storage and walks to Leafz, "I'll patch that up" She says |
| "Thank you so much, you've helped me so much. Is there anything I can get for you while I'm out next? I can find a lot of cool things in beast lairs. Oops I wasn't supposed to say that..." Leafz said getting flustered and holding her hand out to Tilly. |
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| Tilly patches up the wound "No, there is nothing i want, but if you want to pay me somehow, you can always bring me materials from your travels, any metal works. except scrap metal, so no broken swords or anything like that" Tilly says |
| "Ok, I think I can find some intresting metals on my journey. I know we're a good store of admint is although it is highly dangerous getting there. |
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| Siegfried looked to tilly for a moment and asked "might I ask why no swords?" He admitted he found this part strange. Why single out that one particular thing? He was curious as to her answer. |
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| "Ah, you misunderstood, swords was an example, what i meant is that i don't want scrap metal like weapons or armor" Tilly clarifies |
| "If the repairs are done on my scythe is there anywhere I can test them on?" Leafz asked anxious to try her blade out after not having used it for a week. |
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| "There's couple training dummies behind the house" Tilly says and hands her the scythe |
| Leafz heads behind the house looking for the training dummies. When she sees them she's suprised, it looked like a small army could train there. Whatever she thought not my problem. She then began spinning the scythe in front of her, in rotation with the curve of the blade. When the blade spun around and the tip was inline with the ground, she spun around striking the dummy with the staff and pulling the blade in on the dummy. To move in closer she folded the scythe as she closed space. Once she reached the dummy she spun around it and slammed the tip into the middle of the dummy. "Well I'm a bit rusty, but that should all come back with a little practice." She said sad that she was losing her edge after only 12 days await hour practice. |
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| (Quite a display, she was just testing the weight and if she could still do maneuvers like that. After all she did fall 30 meters and could have easily lost a bit of agility she would have to retrain) |
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| You can notice the scythe being a bit heavier than before Tilly yawns and shuts down the forge, it starting to cool off slowly, she turns to Siegfried "Any more additions you want to the axe?" she asks |
| He thought for a moment. "Well... You know what. Why don't you do what you originally planned. I have no intention of relieving myself of my current axe so why don't you go ahead and make the axe the way you would like too so that it's made and done. Once it's made even if I don't use it right away I can get used to swinging it. Oh and I don't believe I've shown you the symbol have I?" He said as it jumped to the front of his mind. |
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| Tilly perks up when she hears what Siegfried says "Really!? I promise you will never find better axe than the one i will make" She says overflowing with excitement now "And no, you haven't shown the symbol" She adds |
| He smiled and grabbed a sheet of paper and drew it with one of the pencils That was close by. "Then it will be for the all father when I pass into the next life. But in this life it shall serve me." The symbol was a Valknut. |
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| Tilly nods as she sees the symbol "Ah, this is familiar one, this will be my greatest piece of work i have ever made, i can promise that" She says, her eyes burning with passion towards this project |
| "For now perhaps. But me thinks you'll end up making greater in the future." He said to compliment her. |
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| Leafz walks in with the scythe unfolded and over her shoulder. " if you want I can get you some admint. It'll take a half-day to get it if everything goes well and I don't fall off a cliff again." She said jokingly. "I have nothing to do other then go to the castle anyways" she added. |
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| Tilly nods at Siegfrieds comment "That is very true" She says and turns to Leafz "I would appreciate that, not that i need admint, but it is good to have some in storage for the times when i need it" She says |
| "Ok well I'll be off, I can't show you were I keep it as its were I keep all my treasure but I can bring some. I also have some other things you may like. And sir sigfried, have you a need for a shield? I found one recently, it's made of what looks to be pure diamond." She didn't know much about smithing or jewels so she guessed it could be possible... |
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| (A shield made of diamond would really be only good against pricing weapons, any sword can cut thru them with a lucky slash(if you hit one of the (I forgot the name :() points causing it to be useless haha, but whatever :p |
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| "Well if it's pure diamond, then it is ornament shield, gems doesn't work in smithing battle gear" Tilly comments |
| " oh well, I got it I'm my last raid... Lots of weird creatures in that cave haha" she said laughing nervously. "I ended up with shields, swords, axes and arrows all looking like that. I was lucky I didn get hit by those buggers." She said trying to keep exactly what she hunted semi-mysterious. |
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| "I have myself a shield though any more combat and I might need to get a new one." He looked to the Smith "are you familiar with northern center grip shields?" He asked. |
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| "Yes, i'm familiar with those" Tilly answers and looks at Leafz "What exactly were you "hunting"?" She asks |
| "Umm, nuthing specific... I just went into a cave and killed what was in there" she said avoiding the question. God forbid she found out it was a village she was sent to wipe out, every last one even the poor little kids. |
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| "Hmm.. strange, since i thought crystal weapons and shields were a thing that they do at southern countries" Tilly says |
| Leafz face sagged as she relized that she may have to tell em the truth eventually. She didn't like the truth. " really, if I bring some over can you confirm that?" Leafz asked trying to sound curious. Even though she already knew exactly were they were from. |
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| "Easily, i'm not stupid Leafz" Tilly says she said earlier that she was hired sword, she talks about her missions as they were hunts, and she has tons of crystal weapons at home... she pretty much radiates the word assassin from herself Tilly thought and raises an eyebrow |
| "Well I will see you in half a day" Leafz turns and walks out of the building with a purpose(I'm just gonna wait to time skip for her to come back, I want to keep what in the cave a secret still haha) |
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| "Yeah, see ya" Tilly says and picks up piece of parchment and starts planning the axe |
| (Mind if I insert the time skip here and. Return?) |
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| (i think it would be better to let Ookami get his char out before timeskip) |
| (K, well I wonder were he is?) |
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