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prolixity rolled 3 4-sided dice:
4, 2, 3
Total: 9 (3-12)
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 Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:11 pm
The Horsewoman in charge of weapons crafting was stern-faced and intimidating. She reminded Siddie of her grandmother, who had been scrupulously fair, stern, demanding, and absolutely terrifying when she got angry. Siddie mumbled a quiet, "Yes, ma'am," to the horsewoman and meekly went over to pick up her materials.
She looked over the raw materials available to her. Bone, shell, and wood all seemed like they would be soft for a knife; stone would be harder to work, yes, but it would definitely make a better blade. She picked up a shard of sharp, glassy black stone and tested the edge. Yes, it was very sharp. This would be good.
The hilt should be ... wood? She could use pegs and leather to stabilize it, sort of tie the wood to the stone. This was difficult. She glanced nervously at the Horsewoman, half afraid she'd get scolded for doing it wrong. If she had a way to poke a hole in the stone ... but it was stone, and she was afraid of breaking it if she tried to hammer a hole through. The wrapping would have to do. Even if it was kind of wobbly.
She paid careful attention to the task of wrapping leather around the knife's hilt; it might not be the best knife, but she could at least put care into the crafting and decoration. If she wrapped it tightly and carefully, it might help hold it together better, and it would just look nicer that way. When she'd gotten it properly wrapped and the ends tucked and smoothed out, she studied the knife with a critical eye. It could still use something.
A bit of thong wrapped around the quill of a feather and then tied neatly to the handle made it look much better. Would the feather get in the way of using the knife? No, Siddie decided; she'd gotten it tied so that it hung freely, and it was a small, neat, shiny feather, not long enough to be awkward. That would do. She held the knife up and examined it.
Well ... it could have been better, but she was okay with it.
Mediocre Pretty Stone Knife: 9 pts
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prolixity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
2, 3
Total: 5 (2-8)
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:15 am
She hesitated briefly before stabbing the mannequin. So far, when she'd fought mannequins, she'd been at the other end of a stick or some other longer-range object. This one was dormant, though. It couldn't fight back. .... Could it?
Don't worry bout it, she told herself. Just stab it.
There was an ominous cracking noise from the knife when she stabbed the mannequin. Oh, dear. Siddie examined the knife again, but couldn't see what had broken.
Damage to target: 2
Damage to knife: 3
Knife HP: 6
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prolixity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
4, 1
Total: 5 (2-8)
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:16 am
The mannequin didn't move or hit back, simply standing with its head lolling, no apparent animation in its limbs. That was encouraging. Siddie held the knife tightly and carefully, and jabbed the mannequin harder.
That approach seemed to work better. The stone blade slid smoothly into the thing's leathery flesh, with only a slight wobbling feeling. It was surprisingly satisfying.
Damage to target: 4
Damage to knife: 1
Knife HP: 5
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prolixity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
3, 3
Total: 6 (2-8)
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:17 am
Siddie pulled the knife out and stabbed the mannequin gain. This time, though, she wasn't quite as careful. Overconfident, maybe. Though the knife sliced easily into the thing again, there was another alarming crack from the knife, and this time, when she withdrew it again, she could feel the handle wobbling, coming loose from the knife.
She scowled. That was just careless of her. She hadn't made the knife well enough, and she hadn't taken good enough care of it. If she got scolded by the Horsewoman now, she'd deserve it.
Damage to target: 3
Damage to knife: 3
Knife HP: 2
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prolixity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
4, 1
Total: 5 (2-8)
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:18 am
She adjusted the handle and pulled the leather tighter around it, attempting a makeshift repair. The knife wasn't going to be good for much longer, and Siddie was really sort of embarrassed; this week was smacking her in the face with how soft and spoiled her life had always been. Horsemen her age made their own weapons and sparred constantly, and did so with far more skill than she could.
She wanted to defend herself and her friends; well, she'd have to practice her skills a lot more.
She stabbed the mannequin again, holding the knife's handle together tightly. It wobbled, but held together. That was good, right? Even with a cobbled-together knife, she'd gotten several good stabs in on it.
Damage to target: 4
Damage to knife: 1
Knife HP: 1
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prolixity rolled 2 4-sided dice:
4, 1
Total: 5 (2-8)
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:19 am
When she stabbed it again, though there was a third crack, and the handle came away in her hand, leaving the blade stuck in the mannequin's flesh. Siddie pressed her lips together in annoyance and took hold of the end of it, working it carefully back out of the target. She looked over the remains of her knife. The materials could probably be salvaged and used again; the wood she'd used for the handle had cracked, and one end of the leather wrapping had stretched and frayed somewhat, but the blade was still intact and most of the leather was okay.
She took what was left of the handle apart and went to offer the materials to the Horsewoman, keeping her head politely bowed. The woman huffed a vaguely disappointed-sounding noise, but she took the blade back and indicated with a sharp gesture that Siddie should put the rest of the materials into a box off to the side. Perhaps the rest of it would be picked through and salvaged later?
At least Siddie hadn't ruined a good blade; and she'd done pretty well for not having made anything of the sort before. She felt pretty good about that.
Damage to target: 4
Damage to knife: 1
Knife HP: Broken
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