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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:52 pm
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Post 13/13 for Woodsmithing Crafting: Shrine
Post 2/2 for Woodsmithing Crafting: Nails
"Oi, Princess, Maimakterion, come here!" Bast shouted toward her household as she strolled through the front gates leading to her estate. "I have work for you two! Oh, and bring the birds!"
While she waited for her golems to gather, Bast drew a summoning seal in the dirt. Summoning the lumber would be much easier than carrying it, and there was no need to waste paper on the task, so the dirt would do. By the time she got done with it, her attendants had arrived and were waiting.
"Alright, Maimakterion and the Hoatzins will head out into the Residential district and clear a small area away for a shrine. You'll be in charge of moving the large chunks, and you lot will have to carry the rubble away." She pointed at the blob and the birds in turn as she spoke. "Normally I'd have the Princess do that, but she'll be needed here for now. She'll be helping me lift and manipulate lumber, and eventually to carry the coffin here. Now get to work!"
Maimakterion rolled off in his blob form while the birds took off to survey the area from above. The Princess stood still for a moment, then seemingly had an idea and walked off. She returned a few minutes later with much of the carpentry equipment that had been in the workshop. Bast summoned the lumber while her golem set up a makeshift outdoor workshop. She also drew up a few plans in the dirt. This wouldn't be a very complicated project, even if it was larger than the other woodworking she had done.
The plan was to make a one-room shrine entirely out of wood to provide Sage Mitamashiro's body a proper resting area. It didn't have to be fancy, as it was mostly just a temporary holding area until a more proper shrine could be built. It would have one door, a sloped roof, and a small pedestal at one end.
Simple as it was, though, there was a complication: the woman had no metal nails. She would have to shape some of the lumber into wooden nails even if she cut the planks to lock into each other, simply to ensure that the whole structure did not blow away in a wind storm.
The woman set about cutting down the lumber as soon as the basic plans were drawn up. The sizing was fairly easy to keep track of because the shrine would be roughly a cube in shape, with alterations later for the door and roof. Fairly quickly, she had a small pile of lumber that could be sanded and smoothed.
She first sent all the pieces through a plane, then moved them to the shaver. As soon as the wood was done being smoothed down, she laid it out into several different piles based on the intended use of the lumber. One pile would be used for floor boards, one pile for the roof, four piles for walls, and several piles for the different kinds of beams to be used in the supports.
Next came the finer cuts. Carefully, as though constructing a puzzle, Bast cut out small sections of the boards for the walls and floors. These would be used to lock those pieces together without the need for nails. She repeated a similar process for the supports, but also chiseled out a few holes here and there for the nails. Before moving on, she partially assembled the floor and walls to make sure they held up and locked together properly. After making a few adjustments, she was satisfied with the way things held together and moved on to making the nails.
The nails were by far the easiest part of making the shrine. After measuring the holes she had chiseled through the frame pieces, she measured out a few lengths of wood and laid them along the ground. Then she chopped them down to size and smoothed them over. A quick test showed that the bundle of nails fit in the holes she had made, so that was a solid success. She carefully etched numeric identifiers into the ends of the nails and the holes that they fit into in the shrine supports. Thereafter, she immediately returned to the construction of the shrine proper.
While the Princess put together the walls and floors and locked them in place, Bast built up the support structure and roof. The former was the first to go up, and when the walls were all up, she cut away wood to form the peak, leaving behind a solid piece of wall on either side to support the weight of the roof. From here, she slid the lumber for the roof into place and nailed down the final support beams into place across the top. Lastly, she carved away the wood on one side of the shrine to make a door, used some of that wood to make a small pedestal for the coffin, then placed a summoning seal on the structure.
"I'm heading to the Residential District," she told the Princess as she strolled away. "Clean up properly, would you?" |
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:34 am
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Ergo War rolled 1 10-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-10)
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Mattysandwich generated a random number between
1 and 10 ...
5!
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:45 pm
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Mattysandwich generated a random number between
1 and 10 ...
5!
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:49 pm
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Mattysandwich generated a random number between
1 and 10 ...
10!
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:51 pm
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Bast popped into existence on her property and released the two new cats into a room in her house. Their alarm sent them skittering for cover, but that didn't worry our intrepid protagonist; instead of chasing after them, she called out for Asha, her first cat, which came into the room riding on the shoulder of Mononoke, one of the woman's golems. It hopped down after a moment, but froze when it spotted the two new arrivals. There was a long window of time when the three cats squared off against each other, but Bast watched with warm fuzzies in her stomach as they started to play. She almost didn't notice the weird bone cat wander in, but it was creepy enough that there was no way she couldn't.
They all needed names. Asha was a given, of course, but the two--no, three, if she counted the weird one--new arrivals would need something to go by. She wracked her brain for ages to come up with names that matched the cuteness of these tiny creatures, names that would capture the glee with which they were chasing each other around (or silently staring on through eyeless sockets, in one case). Then, she decided: the furry one was Furaha and the new furless one was Nyah. That bone abomination was going to be Hecate.
Wait, she realized, they needed some sort of identifiers in case they got lost. But where around here sold collars or tags? Curse living in such a militarized city! She'd have to find something to use for now. No... it was off to the crafting arcade! She'd make them nice collars in different colors! |
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:02 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:53 pm
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And now there was something new to deal with just as Bast was getting her cats adjusted to the new living arrangement. Not only was there snow outside, some hooligans had signed their own death warrants by vandalizing her property.
"Mononoke, take the cats out of here," she ordered her golem, who scooped up the creatures and fled, leaving behind Hecate, the bone cat.
Bast listened to make sure her golem and cats were clear of the building before activating the High Air Pressure technique and stepping outside. The Jutsu would at least be a serious deterrent to the snow coming inside the building and would have some rather nasty side-effects for anyone trying to break in.
"You're being a nuisance!" the woman shouted at the horde of snowmen from up on one of the slightly raised walkways that encircled her house. "Get off my lawn!"
At that, she formed a few hand signs and let loose a lasting wall of wind from her mouth toward the nearest group of snowmen, attempting to either disrupt them or at least send a cascade of snow and wind their way.
Techniques used: Koukiatsu [ High Air Pressure Technique ], Daitoppa [ Great Breakthrough ].
Chakra: 1925/1965
Stamina: 1350/1350
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:47 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:31 pm
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Despite Bastet's mastery over ninjutsu, not even she could defeat the snow creation technique covering her area with such a low powered ninjutsu. Her attempt to try and raise the air pressure did nothing for her. However, her strong burst of wind chakra did successfully blow away a dozen snowmen because of their presence. As they fell, however, more rose. Lahil would be able to see with clear clarity the chakra in the snow mold on its own into further snowmen. The snowmen readied themselves as they threw their carrot noses at the lady. A barrage of carrot noses were fired as they synced their attack in order to make a grand korabo technique. At the same time, a chuckle broke through the harsh winter gale as Bastet's trusted golem stopped dead in its tracks. The entire then became encased in ice and shattered, causing her kitties to fall harmlessly into the snow below them. The cats were now very cold as they looked around for guidance. All the same, the snowmen, who correlated the attack from the former kazekage with her cats, now started to make the animals targets as well. The snowman closest to them went for a simple sweep, nothing to kill but definitely something to knock them around. Finally, Lahil's enhanced eyes could track the source of chakra to a presence which floated above the area. Although her eyes would lack detail, she could see the presence and know that there was an enemy attached to this ordeal.
(Snowmen throwing carrot noses: C boosted to B via korabo
That one truly evil snowmen attempting to hit the kitties: E-ranked only because Ergo may actually reach through the computer screen and kill me if I do anything to his character's cats). |
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:57 pm
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I really wish I had some fire right about now, Bast thought, feeling slightly put off that her house was getting so wrecked.
She felt something weird in the snowy skies, like a spirit. It wasn't anything she could see or hear, but almost like her intuition was kicking in and letting her know that something was off. That complicated things somewhat, but it could be dealt with. She stepped forward and exhaled a long high note, summoning a gate underneath her feet to intercept the carrots and move her upward. She then whipped out a scroll, laid it out on top of the gate, and willed the doors to swing open. A vortex centered on the opening doors would start sucking in the snow and the snowmen and sealing them into the scroll.
Then came a horrible sound, a sound of cats being dropped in the cold snow. That meant something had happened to Mononoke, likely not good. She needed an extra pair of hands. She made three extra pairs of hands, three Shadow Clones for three cats. One clone grabbed the other two and hurled them over the building; from its new vantage point, another clone saw the cats being abused by the snowmen and used the Silent Homicide Technique to place itself in harm's way to protect them; and the last clone saw the snowmen, whipped out a spool of wire, and let out a wave of cutting force toward them.
Techniques used: Rashoumon (B), Fuunyuu (B), Kage Bunshin (3 clones, 60 Chakra & Stamina each).
Chakra: 1620/1965
Stamina: 1170/1350
Clone A: Hurls the other two toward the imperiled kitties (B Hard Physical). (Chakra: 60/60; Stamina: 20/60.)
Clone B: Silent Homicide (C). (Chakra: 40/60; Stamina: 60/60.)
Clone C: Ayametori (C). (Chakra: 40/60; Stamina: 60/60.)
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