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Art:  Ice Shader Rendering by Adrián Méndez on Twitter.com

Rarity

Epic

Background

Across all of the world of mortal kind, there have been pieces of the unforgiving and unrelenting frost. In only the coldest regions of these tundras, ice would sprout out from the earth itself. These shards of pure ice hold a temperature even colder than that of the tundra atmosphere itself. Every shard of this ice, no matter the size, is around -320 Fahrenheit (-196 Celsius). These spikes of ice have been commonly referred to as Glacite or by some of the less educated of the lands, Frost Steel.

While no one knows why these crystals of ice exist in the first place, it is only known that every so often almost sporadically these shards rend out of the earth of the tundra itself. This ice would have originated around the same time as that of the first Frost Elves. Both existences are ever intertwined with each other within the tundra. 

Properties

Art: Blade of Lost Gods by AxisPowersRomania on Deviantart

Glacite had garnered its alternative name due to how strong it was. The ice crystals would hold the strength of steel itself, the forging of these weapons required to be done by a hammer and chisel to gain the material to truly shape. Much like typical metal the crystal must be plunged into fiery depths and molded much like typical steel. After cooling down from the heat of the flames the crystal will become as strong as typical mundane steel. 

The temperature of these ice crystals would be comparable to that of -320 Fahrenheit (-196 Celsius), both in its pure and sculpted state. If one were to place a bare hand atop the ice, they would almost instantly start suffering from frostbite. A leather glove would crumble and crack as the Glacite froze it upon contact. This is while still in the climate of the tundra or the tundra itself. If one were to touch it with bare skin or a thin leather glove outside said frozen climate, they would need to hold onto the crystal for two emotes before the frostbite effect takes effect.

If cut by Glacite in or out of the tundra, the afflicted will have a burning sensation as frostbite creeps around the cut area. Upon first contact exposure, the frostbite will be that of frostnip, which is mild and the burning sensation will fade after 2 emotes. When 2 total emote exposure is present upon one's skin it will transfer into second-degree frostbite. This will also continue to be the same for both the third and fourth emote contacts giving third and fourth-degree frostbite when the same region is still exposed to contact. Around third and fourth degrees the risk of losing that limb will be very high. 

Redlines

• -If Glacite is broken down into chunks smaller than a human fist it can be melted entirely by mundane fire. That is if the Glacite is within the flame directly for 2 emotes.

• -Glacite is just as strong as mundane steel no matter the climate.

• -No race can handle Glacite with their bare hands.

• -Outside the tundras, if a Glacite weapon is within magical fire directly for 3 emotes, it will become inert for that combat encounter. If this is done with mundane fire it will take 4 emotes for it to become inert for the combat encounter.

• -Upon the third or fourth emotes of contact in the same region will leave those at risk of losing limbs due to frostbite.

• -Follows all common redlines of Steel.

• -Any Glacite requires staff signatures. 

]]> Glacite

Art:  Ice Shader Rendering by Adrián Méndez on Twitter.com

Rarity

Epic

Background

Across all of the world of mortal kind, there have been pieces of the unforgiving and unrelenting frost. In only the coldest regions of these tundras, ice would sprout out from the earth itself. These shards of pure ice hold a temperature even colder than that of the tundra atmosphere itself. Every shard of this ice, no matter the size, is around -320 Fahrenheit (-196 Celsius). These spikes of ice have been commonly referred to as Glacite or by some of the less educated of the lands, Frost Steel.

While no one knows why these crystals of ice exist in the first place, it is only known that every so often almost sporadically these shards rend out of the earth of the tundra itself. This ice would have originated around the same time as that of the first Frost Elves. Both existences are ever intertwined with each other within the tundra. 

Properties

Art: Blade of Lost Gods by AxisPowersRomania on Deviantart

Glacite had garnered its alternative name due to how strong it was. The ice crystals would hold the strength of steel itself, the forging of these weapons required to be done by a hammer and chisel to gain the material to truly shape. Much like typical metal the crystal must be plunged into fiery depths and molded much like typical steel. After cooling down from the heat of the flames the crystal will become as strong as typical mundane steel. 

The temperature of these ice crystals would be comparable to that of -320 Fahrenheit (-196 Celsius), both in its pure and sculpted state. If one were to place a bare hand atop the ice, they would almost instantly start suffering from frostbite. A leather glove would crumble and crack as the Glacite froze it upon contact. This is while still in the climate of the tundra or the tundra itself. If one were to touch it with bare skin or a thin leather glove outside said frozen climate, they would need to hold onto the crystal for two emotes before the frostbite effect takes effect.

If cut by Glacite in or out of the tundra, the afflicted will have a burning sensation as frostbite creeps around the cut area. Upon first contact exposure, the frostbite will be that of frostnip, which is mild and the burning sensation will fade after 2 emotes. When 2 total emote exposure is present upon one's skin it will transfer into second-degree frostbite. This will also continue to be the same for both the third and fourth emote contacts giving third and fourth-degree frostbite when the same region is still exposed to contact. Around third and fourth degrees the risk of losing that limb will be very high. 

Redlines

• -If Glacite is broken down into chunks smaller than a human fist it can be melted entirely by mundane fire. That is if the Glacite is within the flame directly for 2 emotes.

• -Glacite is just as strong as mundane steel no matter the climate.

• -No race can handle Glacite with their bare hands.

• -Outside the tundras, if a Glacite weapon is within magical fire directly for 3 emotes, it will become inert for that combat encounter. If this is done with mundane fire it will take 4 emotes for it to become inert for the combat encounter.

• -Upon the third or fourth emotes of contact in the same region will leave those at risk of losing limbs due to frostbite.

• -Follows all common redlines of Steel.

• -Any Glacite requires staff signatures. 

]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=57 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:56 +0000 ScoutTheWitch]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=57 Iron/Steel

Witcher's Steel Sword by Vitalii Vatsko

“Ol’ reliable: steel. Stab, cut, slash, whatever. Make it into armor and it’ll keep you decently safe. It’s steel, what else you want? Are you buying or not?” - a Common Blacksmith

Rarity

Very Common

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Within rocks in tropical or subtropical environments

Properties

Hematite-Rich Iron Ore by James St. John

Iron ore, commonly found as haematite, is found as dull reddish deposits in the stone of areas which possess or once possessed a large amount of mineral activity, which include but are not limited to the areas around lake beds and natural springs.

There are a multitude of ways to refine iron ore into iron or steel which can be produced from it. Before anything can be done with the ore, however, one must meticulously clean it of dirt and other debris to make the process more feasible.

The common way to refine is to construct a furnace consisting of a series of heavy bellows leading into a properly ventilated space filled with coal or charcoal. Within this furnace, one heats the raw ore until red hot, before taking it to an anvil where smelters will hammer away and fold the material to remove slag. This process must be done numerous times to remove the impurities, before being sorted and formed into billets.

To perform the less common way, one must heat it in a crucible in a similar furnace by using heavy bellows to properly ventilate the burning of coal as well as coal coke. This allows it to reach a molten state where one skims slag off the top of the liquid metal to produce the intended metals. One may as well mix various metals together in this process to produce alloys.

- The identification and process of refining iron ore into iron and steel forms is common knowledge. Almost everyone would know what iron and steel are. It’s iron.
- One may not produce anything other than the irons and steels with properties listed on this page. Things such as damascus steel cannot be produced without an accompanying lore piece.
- Iron ore, iron, and steel are ferromagnetic.
- Alloys may only be produced if they have an accompanying lore piece. An example is Fulgrum, a type of steel alloy produced by introducing fulgurite in the crucible method.

Armored Elven Spellsword by Sam Kim

Iron and steel are dark silver to ash gray in appearance and bear a corresponding hardness to its level of carbon content, as well as differing uses. Items of them as well rust, especially when exposed to water and humid environments, requiring careful maintenance lest they become weaker and more brittle over time. Its weight and density are decently high, making carrying large quantities of it on one’s person impractical, especially for long distance travel, without the use of mounts.

Wrought and cast iron sit on opposite ends of the carbon content scale. Wrought iron is capable of being shaped at lower temperatures than most steels due to its exceedingly low carbon content, making for excellent fences, window linings, common folk silverware, and other softer domestic uses. Cast iron, called such as it is difficult to shape through anything but the crucible method, bears an exceedingly high carbon content, making it incredibly brittle though excellent at binding to oils, producing a non-stick effect that makes it great for cookware.

Steel is anything between wrought and cast iron and while it bears a multitude of uses besides such, it often serves best as tools for battle. Most armor, weapons, shield bosses, horseshoes, etc. are forged from steel and is the primary metal most’ll see used in combat for their entire lives. Though low carbon steel is softer and tends to deform and high carbon steel is harder and tends to chip, there is no significant difference between the two to need much differentiation and should simply just be referred to as ‘steel’.

Weapons of steel hold a sharp edge over extended periods of use, though slowly lose their sharpness over time, requiring maintenance with a whetstone and oils to prevent rusting. The heft of steel as well makes it useful for blunt implements such as maces or warhammers, though quickly becomes unwieldy, with things larger than the wielder’s wingspan losing a great amount of dexterity, making their parrying ability middling at best compared to the speed of smaller and lighter weapons.

Steel armor is cumbersome but is able to heavily mitigate lacerations and puncture wounds. That is not to say it makes someone immune, meaning that if a weapon catches the material in a way where it does not simply slide off, it will still transmit a significant amount of the kinetic force behind the strike. Mail is a lighter form of interlaced rings of steel and becomes more protective the more rings that are used while plate is solid sections of thin to thicker steel that cover specific parts of the body, both will always bear gaps however and will never provide more than 75% coverage.

The more protective steel armor is, the more it restricts one’s dextrous movement such as running, jumping, dodging, blocking, and especially standing up, with someone in a full suit of plate being able to only dodge or block heavier, slower, and telegraphed attacks, often struck by things such as feints or quick jabs; one’s strikes as well will be more predictable and rigid. Exhaustion comes quickly to the heavily armored, with one wearing more than light mail or scant plate bearing difficulty in running for a long period of time and traveling great distances without a horse.

- Steel serves as the baseline for most other metals and things made from them should there not be differentiation in their descriptions. Steel and similar metals may not exceed their capabilities here unless otherwise stated.
- Rusting, while not a hard mechanic, should be kept in mind with the maintenance of weapons and use in watery environments. For example, sea elves would be more likely to arm themselves with non-steel armor and weaponry.
- The weight of iron and steel should always be kept in mind. Carrying large quantities of iron and/or steel items on one’s person without a saddlebagged or carted mount would be impractical.
- Constructions of iron or steel are not impervious to damage, though bear a resistance. Great destructive force will simply cause them to fail and break.
- Wielding a heavy weapon with a lot of steel in it such as a greatsword must be properly emoted as slow, cumbersome, and exhausting. Wielders will run out of stamina far faster than one armed with a smaller weapon and possess difficulty in blocking or dodging attacks. This must be properly emoted.
- The guideline of “longer than the wielder’s wingspan” only applies to the portion of the weapon made of steel and may not be wormed around through thickening instead. This length grows smaller the longer a haft of a weapon is. Use common sense.
- Steel armor will never provide full coverage. While 75% coverage is vague, it serves as the cap that at least ¼ of strikes on a fully plate armored individual that are able to make it into weak spots, such as sword thrusts or arrow shots, will pierce through entirely.
- The closer steel armor reaches to full coverage, the more it restricts the wearer’s dexterity and stamina. One heavily armored would not be capable of great athletic feats or agile combative actions. It as well would make one’s attacks slower and more obvious. Such should be roleplayed properly. This applies to both mail and plate.]]> Iron/Steel

Witcher's Steel Sword by Vitalii Vatsko

“Ol’ reliable: steel. Stab, cut, slash, whatever. Make it into armor and it’ll keep you decently safe. It’s steel, what else you want? Are you buying or not?” - a Common Blacksmith

Rarity

Very Common

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Within rocks in tropical or subtropical environments

Properties

Hematite-Rich Iron Ore by James St. John

Iron ore, commonly found as haematite, is found as dull reddish deposits in the stone of areas which possess or once possessed a large amount of mineral activity, which include but are not limited to the areas around lake beds and natural springs.

There are a multitude of ways to refine iron ore into iron or steel which can be produced from it. Before anything can be done with the ore, however, one must meticulously clean it of dirt and other debris to make the process more feasible.

The common way to refine is to construct a furnace consisting of a series of heavy bellows leading into a properly ventilated space filled with coal or charcoal. Within this furnace, one heats the raw ore until red hot, before taking it to an anvil where smelters will hammer away and fold the material to remove slag. This process must be done numerous times to remove the impurities, before being sorted and formed into billets.

To perform the less common way, one must heat it in a crucible in a similar furnace by using heavy bellows to properly ventilate the burning of coal as well as coal coke. This allows it to reach a molten state where one skims slag off the top of the liquid metal to produce the intended metals. One may as well mix various metals together in this process to produce alloys.

- The identification and process of refining iron ore into iron and steel forms is common knowledge. Almost everyone would know what iron and steel are. It’s iron.
- One may not produce anything other than the irons and steels with properties listed on this page. Things such as damascus steel cannot be produced without an accompanying lore piece.
- Iron ore, iron, and steel are ferromagnetic.
- Alloys may only be produced if they have an accompanying lore piece. An example is Fulgrum, a type of steel alloy produced by introducing fulgurite in the crucible method.

Armored Elven Spellsword by Sam Kim

Iron and steel are dark silver to ash gray in appearance and bear a corresponding hardness to its level of carbon content, as well as differing uses. Items of them as well rust, especially when exposed to water and humid environments, requiring careful maintenance lest they become weaker and more brittle over time. Its weight and density are decently high, making carrying large quantities of it on one’s person impractical, especially for long distance travel, without the use of mounts.

Wrought and cast iron sit on opposite ends of the carbon content scale. Wrought iron is capable of being shaped at lower temperatures than most steels due to its exceedingly low carbon content, making for excellent fences, window linings, common folk silverware, and other softer domestic uses. Cast iron, called such as it is difficult to shape through anything but the crucible method, bears an exceedingly high carbon content, making it incredibly brittle though excellent at binding to oils, producing a non-stick effect that makes it great for cookware.

Steel is anything between wrought and cast iron and while it bears a multitude of uses besides such, it often serves best as tools for battle. Most armor, weapons, shield bosses, horseshoes, etc. are forged from steel and is the primary metal most’ll see used in combat for their entire lives. Though low carbon steel is softer and tends to deform and high carbon steel is harder and tends to chip, there is no significant difference between the two to need much differentiation and should simply just be referred to as ‘steel’.

Weapons of steel hold a sharp edge over extended periods of use, though slowly lose their sharpness over time, requiring maintenance with a whetstone and oils to prevent rusting. The heft of steel as well makes it useful for blunt implements such as maces or warhammers, though quickly becomes unwieldy, with things larger than the wielder’s wingspan losing a great amount of dexterity, making their parrying ability middling at best compared to the speed of smaller and lighter weapons.

Steel armor is cumbersome but is able to heavily mitigate lacerations and puncture wounds. That is not to say it makes someone immune, meaning that if a weapon catches the material in a way where it does not simply slide off, it will still transmit a significant amount of the kinetic force behind the strike. Mail is a lighter form of interlaced rings of steel and becomes more protective the more rings that are used while plate is solid sections of thin to thicker steel that cover specific parts of the body, both will always bear gaps however and will never provide more than 75% coverage.

The more protective steel armor is, the more it restricts one’s dextrous movement such as running, jumping, dodging, blocking, and especially standing up, with someone in a full suit of plate being able to only dodge or block heavier, slower, and telegraphed attacks, often struck by things such as feints or quick jabs; one’s strikes as well will be more predictable and rigid. Exhaustion comes quickly to the heavily armored, with one wearing more than light mail or scant plate bearing difficulty in running for a long period of time and traveling great distances without a horse.

- Steel serves as the baseline for most other metals and things made from them should there not be differentiation in their descriptions. Steel and similar metals may not exceed their capabilities here unless otherwise stated.
- Rusting, while not a hard mechanic, should be kept in mind with the maintenance of weapons and use in watery environments. For example, sea elves would be more likely to arm themselves with non-steel armor and weaponry.
- The weight of iron and steel should always be kept in mind. Carrying large quantities of iron and/or steel items on one’s person without a saddlebagged or carted mount would be impractical.
- Constructions of iron or steel are not impervious to damage, though bear a resistance. Great destructive force will simply cause them to fail and break.
- Wielding a heavy weapon with a lot of steel in it such as a greatsword must be properly emoted as slow, cumbersome, and exhausting. Wielders will run out of stamina far faster than one armed with a smaller weapon and possess difficulty in blocking or dodging attacks. This must be properly emoted.
- The guideline of “longer than the wielder’s wingspan” only applies to the portion of the weapon made of steel and may not be wormed around through thickening instead. This length grows smaller the longer a haft of a weapon is. Use common sense.
- Steel armor will never provide full coverage. While 75% coverage is vague, it serves as the cap that at least ¼ of strikes on a fully plate armored individual that are able to make it into weak spots, such as sword thrusts or arrow shots, will pierce through entirely.
- The closer steel armor reaches to full coverage, the more it restricts the wearer’s dexterity and stamina. One heavily armored would not be capable of great athletic feats or agile combative actions. It as well would make one’s attacks slower and more obvious. Such should be roleplayed properly. This applies to both mail and plate.]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=27 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:37:32 +0000 ScoutTheWitch]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=27 Fulgrum

Voltedge by the Griffon’s Saddlebag

“Oi’ve never seen tha bastard so smug b’fore. Fucker pulled ‘is shortsword when it started rainin’ and ‘it me sword arm. Gave me a mad shock, oi dropped me sword, and ‘e yoinked it from tha ground. Oi’ll get that fucker back someday.” - a Veteran Mercenary

Rarity

Uncommon

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Within trees struck by lightning

Properties

Formation of Fulgurites by Chase Studio

When lightning strikes the earth, it tends to liquefy where it passes through, causing elements with a low enough melting point to meld together into a glass known as Fulgurite, often made of silica sand. However, in the rare case one is able to find Arboreal Fulgurite, a type found in the remains of trees struck by lightning, it will contain enough carbon to be used in forging a special material known as Fulgrum.

One must first separate the carbon and silica in the Arboreal Fulgurite through grinding the stone into a fine powder, then roasting it at a high temperature. The dust must then be sieved, mixed into water, and boiled in a retort flask. The carbon will deposit in the bottom of the retort flask, and the silica in whatever it’s connected to; one must keep both.

When iron is heated and slag cleaned off, the smith must add the Arboreal Fulgurite’s carbon to the liquid metal and allow it to mix in before pouring the material into ingots for forging. The silica from the Arboreal Fulgurite, or any other kind of silica rich Fulgurite, must be used as the flux in forging the material into its desired shape to achieve Fulgrum forging.

- The process for refining Arboreal Fulgurite into Fulgrum is uncommon and should be learned through roleplay. In the event one cannot but possesses at least four pieces of Arboreal Fulgurite, they may experiment with the material in metallurgy on a whim, destroying all four pieces in the process, but will be capable of discerning the process for making Fulgrum.
- The name of Fulgrum and its association with Fulgurite are assumable as common knowledge. The fact that it requires Arboreal Fulgurite and not any other kind is uncommon knowledge.
- When reforging an item of Fulgrum, they may obtain any piece of Fulgurite to use as flux through roleplay. It does not require an ore of Arboreal Fulgurite.

Lightning Sword by Yvonne Komar

Fulgrum takes on a silvery steel appearance, though gains a faint cyan tint in a pattern like Lichtenberg figures when in contact with water, which as well causes one’s hairs to stand on end when in close proximity. Other than letting out a shrill ping when striking other metal, it produces no other strange effects when used in combat. That is, until it’s wielded in the rain.

When it’s raining, Fulgrum weapons and armor will begin to crackle and spark should it not be in a leather sheath, gaining an electric blue hue and a glow the brilliance of torch light, the zapping sound of electricity able to be heard when moving.

Weapon strikes will send a jolt through the target that causes minor electrical shock, causing an uncomfortable jolt in the muscles of a victim in an unarmored location, causing a lapse in focus. Though if the area is armored in metal, a limb strike would make one drop what is in their hand or lose their footing, a strike to the torso would make them cough up blood, and a strike to the head causes a minor seizure, stunning them for [1] emote round. To a target location armored in leather however, the uncomfortable jolt will be mitigated to negligible.

Metal armor of Fulgrum will cause a reflective effect when struck, with mail causing an uncomfortable jolt to rebound onto the attacker, meanwhile plate armor will send a stronger shock, causing the attacker to drop their weapon at the cost of the wearer experiencing a minor shock which may disrupt one’s concentration.

Anything else crafted of Fulgrum such as jewelry will harmlessly spark during rainstorms and glow the soft cyan hue.

In the rare case that Fulgrum is struck by lightning, it will release a burst of electricity in a five meter radius, knocking everyone within the area unconscious, including the wielder, for the rest of the encounter.

- Mechanical or event rainstorms cause the electrical properties of Fulgrum to occur for their duration. Should combat last longer than the mechanical rainstorm, the electrical properties will only persist should both parties consent. OOCly stalling combat to avoid the electrical properties of Fulgrum is powergaming.
- Fulgrum is roughly equivalent to mid carbon steel in durability, sharpness, etc. and may be repaired by an adequate smith without loss of material. Fulgrum is magnetic.
- Even if not outside in the rain, should a rainstorm be occurring, Fulgrum will be electrified.
- Electrified Fulgrum’s effects will not cause permanent damage should the victim not wish, though Lichtenberg figure scars may manifest in struck locations at their desire.
- Electrified Fulgrum must be used combatively to produce the shocking effect. It will not shock one simply holding it.
- Metal armor is defined as plate or mail, gambeson is considered to experience the unarmored property. Leather armor is defined as any garment made of leather, though should metal be beneath the leather, the wearer will experience the effect as though they were in metal armor.
- One may not simply say that their Fulgrum was struck by lightning. It must be natural lightning which mechanically strikes a player or as a part of an Event Team event.]]> Fulgrum

Voltedge by the Griffon’s Saddlebag

“Oi’ve never seen tha bastard so smug b’fore. Fucker pulled ‘is shortsword when it started rainin’ and ‘it me sword arm. Gave me a mad shock, oi dropped me sword, and ‘e yoinked it from tha ground. Oi’ll get that fucker back someday.” - a Veteran Mercenary

Rarity

Uncommon

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Within trees struck by lightning

Properties

Formation of Fulgurites by Chase Studio

When lightning strikes the earth, it tends to liquefy where it passes through, causing elements with a low enough melting point to meld together into a glass known as Fulgurite, often made of silica sand. However, in the rare case one is able to find Arboreal Fulgurite, a type found in the remains of trees struck by lightning, it will contain enough carbon to be used in forging a special material known as Fulgrum.

One must first separate the carbon and silica in the Arboreal Fulgurite through grinding the stone into a fine powder, then roasting it at a high temperature. The dust must then be sieved, mixed into water, and boiled in a retort flask. The carbon will deposit in the bottom of the retort flask, and the silica in whatever it’s connected to; one must keep both.

When iron is heated and slag cleaned off, the smith must add the Arboreal Fulgurite’s carbon to the liquid metal and allow it to mix in before pouring the material into ingots for forging. The silica from the Arboreal Fulgurite, or any other kind of silica rich Fulgurite, must be used as the flux in forging the material into its desired shape to achieve Fulgrum forging.

- The process for refining Arboreal Fulgurite into Fulgrum is uncommon and should be learned through roleplay. In the event one cannot but possesses at least four pieces of Arboreal Fulgurite, they may experiment with the material in metallurgy on a whim, destroying all four pieces in the process, but will be capable of discerning the process for making Fulgrum.
- The name of Fulgrum and its association with Fulgurite are assumable as common knowledge. The fact that it requires Arboreal Fulgurite and not any other kind is uncommon knowledge.
- When reforging an item of Fulgrum, they may obtain any piece of Fulgurite to use as flux through roleplay. It does not require an ore of Arboreal Fulgurite.

Lightning Sword by Yvonne Komar

Fulgrum takes on a silvery steel appearance, though gains a faint cyan tint in a pattern like Lichtenberg figures when in contact with water, which as well causes one’s hairs to stand on end when in close proximity. Other than letting out a shrill ping when striking other metal, it produces no other strange effects when used in combat. That is, until it’s wielded in the rain.

When it’s raining, Fulgrum weapons and armor will begin to crackle and spark should it not be in a leather sheath, gaining an electric blue hue and a glow the brilliance of torch light, the zapping sound of electricity able to be heard when moving.

Weapon strikes will send a jolt through the target that causes minor electrical shock, causing an uncomfortable jolt in the muscles of a victim in an unarmored location, causing a lapse in focus. Though if the area is armored in metal, a limb strike would make one drop what is in their hand or lose their footing, a strike to the torso would make them cough up blood, and a strike to the head causes a minor seizure, stunning them for [1] emote round. To a target location armored in leather however, the uncomfortable jolt will be mitigated to negligible.

Metal armor of Fulgrum will cause a reflective effect when struck, with mail causing an uncomfortable jolt to rebound onto the attacker, meanwhile plate armor will send a stronger shock, causing the attacker to drop their weapon at the cost of the wearer experiencing a minor shock which may disrupt one’s concentration.

Anything else crafted of Fulgrum such as jewelry will harmlessly spark during rainstorms and glow the soft cyan hue.

In the rare case that Fulgrum is struck by lightning, it will release a burst of electricity in a five meter radius, knocking everyone within the area unconscious, including the wielder, for the rest of the encounter.

- Mechanical or event rainstorms cause the electrical properties of Fulgrum to occur for their duration. Should combat last longer than the mechanical rainstorm, the electrical properties will only persist should both parties consent. OOCly stalling combat to avoid the electrical properties of Fulgrum is powergaming.
- Fulgrum is roughly equivalent to mid carbon steel in durability, sharpness, etc. and may be repaired by an adequate smith without loss of material. Fulgrum is magnetic.
- Even if not outside in the rain, should a rainstorm be occurring, Fulgrum will be electrified.
- Electrified Fulgrum’s effects will not cause permanent damage should the victim not wish, though Lichtenberg figure scars may manifest in struck locations at their desire.
- Electrified Fulgrum must be used combatively to produce the shocking effect. It will not shock one simply holding it.
- Metal armor is defined as plate or mail, gambeson is considered to experience the unarmored property. Leather armor is defined as any garment made of leather, though should metal be beneath the leather, the wearer will experience the effect as though they were in metal armor.
- One may not simply say that their Fulgrum was struck by lightning. It must be natural lightning which mechanically strikes a player or as a part of an Event Team event.]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=24 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:37:10 +0000 ScoutTheWitch]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=24 Wicheri

Daedric Dagger by Jackson Wilson

“It speaks to me, can you hear it? The whispers of the blade, it yearns for its brethren. So either you give it to me, or I shall take it from your corpse.” - a Wicheric Cultist

Rarity

Rare

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

In monsters’ blood, the hands of cultists, or caves near areas of dark magic

Properties

The Bloodstone Shard by Sam White

Wicherite is a curious raw ore taking the appearance of a slick silver that seems to hum and whisper when held up to one's ear, with chunks of it appearing to resonate and glow in a strange, discordant hue when held nearby each other or struck with a brass implement. Through a process much like refining iron ore into steel, once may refine raw Wicherite into Wicheri, also known as Hexsteel.

There are multiple places to find ‘deposits’ of Wicherite, with the easiest being caverns in areas nearby covens of Ancient-based dark magic, where the material seems to oddly ‘tunnel’ towards them from wherever they may be in the crust. The raw material may as well be found in Wicheri possessed creatures (elaborated on later) where, when killed, ore chunks seem to mysteriously appear in the heart, glowing from under the skin, or in pools of their blood.

- Wicherite is able to be identified by anyone who has come into contact with the raw or refined material before quite easily. If not interacted with before, one can still recognize the ore as significant.
- The process for refining Wicherite into Wicheri, while not well known, is simple enough for one to assume and perform correctly from guessing.
- The names Wicherite and Wicheri are uncommon knowledge, but not difficult to learn from one familiar with the ore, likely common knowledge among Dark Mages. Hexsteel is common knowledge, known through rumors and folktales.
- Wicherite must include its hue in the ore’s description.

Magic Sword by Pablo Gerardo

Wicheri takes on the appearance of an ashy gray metal (represented by stone items) that, after being quenched for hardening, a necessary process, will visually hold thin cracks upon its surface.

Whenever held within a meter of another piece of Wicheri it has not been 'attuned' to, via keeping it in that proximity for a day, it will begin to pulse and glow in the ore's hue, or the blended of hues if multiple different hued ores or reforged Wicheri are used (ex. a blood red and cyan would produce a violet hued Wicheri).

When one is struck by a weapon of Wicheri and receives physical damage — whether in the form of lacerations, blunt bruises, or broken bones — the victim will experience mental trauma equivalent to the level of damage taken. A scrape will be minor discomfort, a stab in the gut like being yelled at by a lover, and having a limb cut off will be like watching a close friend die in front of you, and so on. Use common sense. These wounds require a similar amount of time to heal the mental scars as the physical ones, through therapeutic coping methods rather than medicine.

Armor of Wicheri gives a defensive version of the offensive mental damage. When struck by another weapon — even one of Wicheri — it will resonate and reflect half of what it dealt in physical damage to the wearer as mental damage to the attacker.

Items of Wicheri may whisper incoherent things to people who come within a meter which seem to intrigue and tempt one into picking them up, especially if they are the killer of their previous wielder or disarmed them of the item.

When touched, whether they lured one in or not, those unintelligible whispers will fill the mind of the person handling them, though they will be incapable of registering it as anything hostile or malevolent. When held for over a narrative minute, those faint whispers will subside into the subconscious, though eventually, after possessing a Wicheri item for 2 OOC weeks, one will garner a fascination and covetousness with other items of Wicheri they come in contact with, an innate desire for more.

- The cracks on Wicheri do not reduce effectiveness nor change the shape of the edge.
- Wicheri is roughly equivalent to high carbon steel in durability, sharpness, etc. and may be repaired by an adequate smith without loss of material. Wicheri is ferromagnetic.
- The hue of Wicheri’s cracks must be included in the description of ingots or items created from Wicheri, and must resemble the hue of the ore(s).
- The mental damage dealt by Wicheri weapons is up to the victim’s interpretation, but ignoring mental wounds is as much powergaming as ignoring physical wounds. Mental wounds add up, meaning even a series of minor ones can eventually lead to panic attacks and later trauma.
- Wounds dealt by Wicheri may be healed physically as normal, though mental wounds must be healed through time, coping methods such as drugs, alcohol, exercise, breathing, meditation, etc., and talking their problems out with loved ones. They cannot simply be shrugged off nor ignored by characters with ‘detached emotions’, ‘mental resilience’, or any sort of farcical ‘immunity’ to trauma. A near death experience with a Wicheri weapon would leave a character in a dark place mentally and should be roleplayed as such.
- While one may not notice the effect from striking Wicheri armor until after the fight due to ‘adrenaline’, it should still affect their combat performance, driving them more erratic and irrational.
- The whispering or luring effect of Wicheri prevents people from registering it as hostile or dark. To assume Wicheri has a dark or malevolent origin is metagaming.
- One may not understand what Wicheri is saying as Wicheri bears no intelligence to speak. Wielders will oftentimes forget it whispered at all.
- The fascination effect of Wicheri does not force one to collect more. It may be roleplayed as little as one wishes, easily shrugged off should one wish.

Origin

The Color Out of Space by Niko Anttila

In the time when Ancients roamed, one of the more powerful of their ilk took the form of a star in the night sky: Ak'Wichera, the Dark Star of Mania. When the mortals of the time gazed upon its faint light of discordant, ever shifting hues for too long, they would find themselves developing a form of madness that lead to slaughter, lunatic cults forming, and thousands succumbing to total enrapture until they lost all desire for bodily needs, decaying where they stood, staring at the sky. 

And thus, when the great slaughter of its kin began, it was one of the first to go. But Ak'Wichera could not simply be slain, no. To ensure such an entity could not harm the mortal populous further, the gods inflicted ever great a disease upon it, feeding a weaker of their kin into its gaping maw at the edge of the stars which they had twisted and infected. In this cunning, Ak'Wichera succumbed to their guile, its aberrant form petrified into steel.

But it had a plan of its own. Gathering the most of its energy gathered over its long existence, the eminent Ancient decided that time would be the greatest enemy of the gods. Thus, when it was hardened into metal, it burst into millions of miniscule chunks, half of which rained down upon the world to sink into its crust, while the other half were cast in orbit, waiting to strike down until later as meteorites.

Each piece of Wicherite bears a fragment of the dead Ancient’s consciousness, though now reduced to a sub-sentient ‘race’ of drones with only one thought: more. They wished to grow, but could not fathom why, for they had no consciousness to speak of, like cells wishing to join together to form a creature, a desire to one day regain their status as an Ancient but without the ability to know of this past incarnation, nor hold any memories.

- The origin of Wicherite, Wicheri, and the tale of Ak'Wichera is not common knowledge and is merely a setting piece to OOCly understand the properties of Wicheri. Not even high-sentience Wicheri constructs will know why they exist.

Extra #1 - Wicheri Possession [Event Creature]

Vein by Mariah Tato

When a piece of Wicherite falls from the heavens, or otherwise strikes a creature with blood while heated through unknown means, it will — instead of harming the creature — burrow into their bloodstream, leaving an aesthetic radial burn wound in the location. Such will induce a condition known as Wicheri possession.

Nonsentient, bestial, or otherwise monstrous creatures will find their animal instincts taken over by the Wicherite completely, turning them into drones with only one goal: find more and take it, by force if necessary. Their blood will constantly glow in the hue of the Wicherite possessing them, and they will be able to ‘smell’ the nearest piece of Wicherite. They will attack anything in the way of this goal, like a rabid animal. The possession will transfer to any creature who consumes the possessed animal, often leading to the greatest predatory animal in the area ending up possessed.

Sentient people will retain their sentience and consciousness, including their level of cunning. They will feel empowered with that same goal of the beasts — collecting Wicherite — though will often go about it more tactfully. Bandits and guards will find themselves now running gambits and searches to acquire more, merchants and conmen will work to purchase or scam others out of Wicheri items, and nobles and spies will slowly and methodically plan out their acquisitions. They may suppress the glow from their veins, though such becomes more difficult within a meter of n Wicheri item or piece of Wicherite ore and should they be caught off guard, may find themselves slipping. Whenever they would receive or inflict mental damage from Wicheri, they would find their veins pulsing in the hue.

Wicheri possession, while stripping some or all of an entity’s will, grants minor tangible benefits. They constantly bear a halved version of the effects of Wicheri weapons and armor no matter what kind of weapons or armor they wield or don. This means all their attacks deal half their physical damage in mental trauma and all attacks dealt on them reflect a quarter of the damage back mentally. They also find themselves immune to the effects of Wicheri while possessed.

While it is possible to cure Wicheri possession, it is by no means easy or painless. The subject must have their blood extracted via leeches or syringe until just above the brink of death, before being replaced via a transfusion of healthy blood. This leaves the subject violently ill for 3 OOC days. If the blood is from a member of a different race, including if the subject is born of multiple races and the donor is not the same combination, the subject will find themselves violently ill for 7 OOC days instead. Once this is complete, a chunk of Wicherite may be found in the corpses of the leeches — who inevitably die after consuming their fill of Wicheri possessed blood — or within the collected blood in the syringes. Most animals will die from this procedure.

- Wicheri possessed creatures or NPCs may only be played by Event Team members. Wicherite may only be given out by an Event Team member through this method.
- An Event Team member may make a player character Wicheri possessed, in which the Event Team member must be contacted on the death or purging of the character and properly document that they gave the character Wicheri possession with other staff members. Players may not force Wicheri possession on another player.
- While a Wicheri possessed player character may register themselves as being ill or unwell and seek help, as soon as the opportunity arises to remove the Wicherite or restrain them to do so with their knowledge, they must take every opportunity to flee. To ignore such instincts is powergaming.
- To use Wicheri or Wicherite for uncovering a secretly Wicheri possessed character without proper RP studying their changed behavior is considered metagaming.
- Should one attempt to randomly test individuals for Wicheri possession and come across one, they will find their Wicheri item mysteriously missing, having been given over to the Wicheri possessed character. The original wielder will be unable to recognize the Wicheri item in this case and doing so is considered metagaming.
- Should a Wicheri possessed player character wish to sense the nearest piece of Wicheri or Wicherite, the Event Team member may give them a rough location of where they know it to be, but are by no means forced to do such.
- The expelling of excess blood is never harmful to a Wicheri possessed character.
- The method of curing Wicheri possession is uncommon knowledge but can be ascertained through basic study of a Wicheri possessed individual.
- The illness following the curing of Wicheri possession may not be ignored through any method and will leave the cured patient combat ineffective for the time following.
- Should the Wicherite infected blood not be collected in the same container, the blood will break through containers and travel together. Should one attempt to keep Wicherite infected blood from congealing into a piece of the ore, the blood will go inert and the ore will be lost.
- Wicheri possessed creatures may not be tamed. They are always considered feral and hostile.
- Wicheri possession as a property is uncommon knowledge and must be learned through experiencing an event where it occurs or hearing about it from someone who has.

Extra #2 - Wicheric Constructs [Event Creature]

The Cursed Cenotaph by Bruno Magalhães Vianna

When enough Wicheri is gathered in one place, it may create a Wicheric Construct. Oftentimes these are the results of infected individuals succeeding in their goal, though they can also be the folly of those who hoard the metal or simply be the result of a large deposit of ore being found at once. A Wicheric Construct forms from the consciousnesses within Wicheri objects communicating and melding into one entity great enough to bear consciousness, able to speak and subjugate other minds.

Those who surround or interact with Wicheric Constructs find themselves slowly being bent to the Construct’s will, developing first a fascination, then reverence, and finally worship and obedience. This creates Wicheric Cults, who worship and follow the Wicheric Construct’s bidding, which often includes increasing the mass of its material, though can branch out into things such as forming cabals of Dark Magic users, toppling governments, and overall stirring chaos in order to spite the gods. All of this is done instinctually however, and while Wicheric Constructs may pretend to have greater motive, they simply act out of random impulse and remain unaware of their origin, perhaps even inventing their own.

They often take the form of eldritch obelisks, statues, armories welded together, particularly large objects of Wicheri (it’s said a cannon became a particularly bigoted Wicheric Construct), and even by a rather dubious account a Wicheri tea set once developed a rare resonance to form a sort of hive mind Wicheric Construct.

The powers of a Wicheric Construct are rather vague, though they are incapable of moving on their own no matter what. They remain a stationary fixture which can only be destroyed through significant heat capable of melting the metal. In general, they are capable of inducing nosebleeds, headaches, phantom pains, and even Wicheri mental scars in the particularly strong ones to those within close proximity. They are always capable of seeing from all directions from their stationary form and sensing every sentient mind within their area.

At its utmost power, a Wicheric Construct may give a flake of their form to be consumed by their followers. This gives the Construct the ability to perform mental effects similar to if they were in close proximity all the time as well as perceive through their senses and speak in their mind. When seeing through a connected mind, the veins in their eyes will faintly glow in the Construct’s Wicheri hue. In exchange, a lesser form of that particular Wicheric Construct’s powers will be available to the connected individual, which must be described to them by the Event Team member. The strongest this can go to is mental scars equivalent to a scratch of Wicheri, and oftentimes are simple things like inducing headaches, discomfort, or nosebleeds. These powers are limited to eight meters in range. Should a connected individual go against a Construct’s wishes too many times, they may induce a stroke and cause the flake to go inert. This is never fatal, but will leave the individual hazy on certain things involving the Wicheric Construct, up to its discretion.

- Wicheric Constructs may only appear in an Event Team member’s event line. Should players wish to create a Wicheric Construct, an Event Team member is by no means obligated to provide such an event line.
- Wicheric Constructs should not be run often as they would give large amounts of the metal at once.
- While the powers of a Wicheric Construct are purposely vague, they may never be mobile and cannot do anything outside mental effects. The only exception is if a Wicheric Construct is dropped on someone, in which case they will likely take severe physical damage from the sheer weight of mostly solid metal.
- Wicheric Constructs may not give powers to player characters without a demand in turn and Event Team members may not give these powers without an event line being actively run. Should an event line not have an event for it in 2 OOC weeks, the powers will go inert until the next event run.
- The stroke induced by a Wicheric Construct may never kill or leave one in critical condition. It simply removes memories up to the Event Team member’s discretion.
- If one tries to steal a flake off a Wicheric Construct, they will immediately have a nonlethal stroke.
- A Wicheric Construct’s range cannot exceed 20 meters.
- Wicheric Constructs require significant mass to form and cannot be smaller than two blocks. They must be of reasonable size in build to the amount of Wicheri they are constructed from. Use common sense.
- If a Wicheri possessed individual comes in contact with a Wicheric Construct, their possessing Wicherite will be forcibly expelled from their body to attach to the Construct. They will be left at the Construct’s mercy, though they are likely to be grateful.
- For a connected individual to ignore the mental effects of a Wicheric Construct’s possession is powergaming.
- The flicker in a connected individual’s eyes when they’re being seen through is mostly aesthetic and cannot be noticed from more than a few inches away.]]> Wicheri

Daedric Dagger by Jackson Wilson

“It speaks to me, can you hear it? The whispers of the blade, it yearns for its brethren. So either you give it to me, or I shall take it from your corpse.” - a Wicheric Cultist

Rarity

Rare

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

In monsters’ blood, the hands of cultists, or caves near areas of dark magic

Properties

The Bloodstone Shard by Sam White

Wicherite is a curious raw ore taking the appearance of a slick silver that seems to hum and whisper when held up to one's ear, with chunks of it appearing to resonate and glow in a strange, discordant hue when held nearby each other or struck with a brass implement. Through a process much like refining iron ore into steel, once may refine raw Wicherite into Wicheri, also known as Hexsteel.

There are multiple places to find ‘deposits’ of Wicherite, with the easiest being caverns in areas nearby covens of Ancient-based dark magic, where the material seems to oddly ‘tunnel’ towards them from wherever they may be in the crust. The raw material may as well be found in Wicheri possessed creatures (elaborated on later) where, when killed, ore chunks seem to mysteriously appear in the heart, glowing from under the skin, or in pools of their blood.

- Wicherite is able to be identified by anyone who has come into contact with the raw or refined material before quite easily. If not interacted with before, one can still recognize the ore as significant.
- The process for refining Wicherite into Wicheri, while not well known, is simple enough for one to assume and perform correctly from guessing.
- The names Wicherite and Wicheri are uncommon knowledge, but not difficult to learn from one familiar with the ore, likely common knowledge among Dark Mages. Hexsteel is common knowledge, known through rumors and folktales.
- Wicherite must include its hue in the ore’s description.

Magic Sword by Pablo Gerardo

Wicheri takes on the appearance of an ashy gray metal (represented by stone items) that, after being quenched for hardening, a necessary process, will visually hold thin cracks upon its surface.

Whenever held within a meter of another piece of Wicheri it has not been 'attuned' to, via keeping it in that proximity for a day, it will begin to pulse and glow in the ore's hue, or the blended of hues if multiple different hued ores or reforged Wicheri are used (ex. a blood red and cyan would produce a violet hued Wicheri).

When one is struck by a weapon of Wicheri and receives physical damage — whether in the form of lacerations, blunt bruises, or broken bones — the victim will experience mental trauma equivalent to the level of damage taken. A scrape will be minor discomfort, a stab in the gut like being yelled at by a lover, and having a limb cut off will be like watching a close friend die in front of you, and so on. Use common sense. These wounds require a similar amount of time to heal the mental scars as the physical ones, through therapeutic coping methods rather than medicine.

Armor of Wicheri gives a defensive version of the offensive mental damage. When struck by another weapon — even one of Wicheri — it will resonate and reflect half of what it dealt in physical damage to the wearer as mental damage to the attacker.

Items of Wicheri may whisper incoherent things to people who come within a meter which seem to intrigue and tempt one into picking them up, especially if they are the killer of their previous wielder or disarmed them of the item.

When touched, whether they lured one in or not, those unintelligible whispers will fill the mind of the person handling them, though they will be incapable of registering it as anything hostile or malevolent. When held for over a narrative minute, those faint whispers will subside into the subconscious, though eventually, after possessing a Wicheri item for 2 OOC weeks, one will garner a fascination and covetousness with other items of Wicheri they come in contact with, an innate desire for more.

- The cracks on Wicheri do not reduce effectiveness nor change the shape of the edge.
- Wicheri is roughly equivalent to high carbon steel in durability, sharpness, etc. and may be repaired by an adequate smith without loss of material. Wicheri is ferromagnetic.
- The hue of Wicheri’s cracks must be included in the description of ingots or items created from Wicheri, and must resemble the hue of the ore(s).
- The mental damage dealt by Wicheri weapons is up to the victim’s interpretation, but ignoring mental wounds is as much powergaming as ignoring physical wounds. Mental wounds add up, meaning even a series of minor ones can eventually lead to panic attacks and later trauma.
- Wounds dealt by Wicheri may be healed physically as normal, though mental wounds must be healed through time, coping methods such as drugs, alcohol, exercise, breathing, meditation, etc., and talking their problems out with loved ones. They cannot simply be shrugged off nor ignored by characters with ‘detached emotions’, ‘mental resilience’, or any sort of farcical ‘immunity’ to trauma. A near death experience with a Wicheri weapon would leave a character in a dark place mentally and should be roleplayed as such.
- While one may not notice the effect from striking Wicheri armor until after the fight due to ‘adrenaline’, it should still affect their combat performance, driving them more erratic and irrational.
- The whispering or luring effect of Wicheri prevents people from registering it as hostile or dark. To assume Wicheri has a dark or malevolent origin is metagaming.
- One may not understand what Wicheri is saying as Wicheri bears no intelligence to speak. Wielders will oftentimes forget it whispered at all.
- The fascination effect of Wicheri does not force one to collect more. It may be roleplayed as little as one wishes, easily shrugged off should one wish.

Origin

The Color Out of Space by Niko Anttila

In the time when Ancients roamed, one of the more powerful of their ilk took the form of a star in the night sky: Ak'Wichera, the Dark Star of Mania. When the mortals of the time gazed upon its faint light of discordant, ever shifting hues for too long, they would find themselves developing a form of madness that lead to slaughter, lunatic cults forming, and thousands succumbing to total enrapture until they lost all desire for bodily needs, decaying where they stood, staring at the sky. 

And thus, when the great slaughter of its kin began, it was one of the first to go. But Ak'Wichera could not simply be slain, no. To ensure such an entity could not harm the mortal populous further, the gods inflicted ever great a disease upon it, feeding a weaker of their kin into its gaping maw at the edge of the stars which they had twisted and infected. In this cunning, Ak'Wichera succumbed to their guile, its aberrant form petrified into steel.

But it had a plan of its own. Gathering the most of its energy gathered over its long existence, the eminent Ancient decided that time would be the greatest enemy of the gods. Thus, when it was hardened into metal, it burst into millions of miniscule chunks, half of which rained down upon the world to sink into its crust, while the other half were cast in orbit, waiting to strike down until later as meteorites.

Each piece of Wicherite bears a fragment of the dead Ancient’s consciousness, though now reduced to a sub-sentient ‘race’ of drones with only one thought: more. They wished to grow, but could not fathom why, for they had no consciousness to speak of, like cells wishing to join together to form a creature, a desire to one day regain their status as an Ancient but without the ability to know of this past incarnation, nor hold any memories.

- The origin of Wicherite, Wicheri, and the tale of Ak'Wichera is not common knowledge and is merely a setting piece to OOCly understand the properties of Wicheri. Not even high-sentience Wicheri constructs will know why they exist.

Extra #1 - Wicheri Possession [Event Creature]

Vein by Mariah Tato

When a piece of Wicherite falls from the heavens, or otherwise strikes a creature with blood while heated through unknown means, it will — instead of harming the creature — burrow into their bloodstream, leaving an aesthetic radial burn wound in the location. Such will induce a condition known as Wicheri possession.

Nonsentient, bestial, or otherwise monstrous creatures will find their animal instincts taken over by the Wicherite completely, turning them into drones with only one goal: find more and take it, by force if necessary. Their blood will constantly glow in the hue of the Wicherite possessing them, and they will be able to ‘smell’ the nearest piece of Wicherite. They will attack anything in the way of this goal, like a rabid animal. The possession will transfer to any creature who consumes the possessed animal, often leading to the greatest predatory animal in the area ending up possessed.

Sentient people will retain their sentience and consciousness, including their level of cunning. They will feel empowered with that same goal of the beasts — collecting Wicherite — though will often go about it more tactfully. Bandits and guards will find themselves now running gambits and searches to acquire more, merchants and conmen will work to purchase or scam others out of Wicheri items, and nobles and spies will slowly and methodically plan out their acquisitions. They may suppress the glow from their veins, though such becomes more difficult within a meter of n Wicheri item or piece of Wicherite ore and should they be caught off guard, may find themselves slipping. Whenever they would receive or inflict mental damage from Wicheri, they would find their veins pulsing in the hue.

Wicheri possession, while stripping some or all of an entity’s will, grants minor tangible benefits. They constantly bear a halved version of the effects of Wicheri weapons and armor no matter what kind of weapons or armor they wield or don. This means all their attacks deal half their physical damage in mental trauma and all attacks dealt on them reflect a quarter of the damage back mentally. They also find themselves immune to the effects of Wicheri while possessed.

While it is possible to cure Wicheri possession, it is by no means easy or painless. The subject must have their blood extracted via leeches or syringe until just above the brink of death, before being replaced via a transfusion of healthy blood. This leaves the subject violently ill for 3 OOC days. If the blood is from a member of a different race, including if the subject is born of multiple races and the donor is not the same combination, the subject will find themselves violently ill for 7 OOC days instead. Once this is complete, a chunk of Wicherite may be found in the corpses of the leeches — who inevitably die after consuming their fill of Wicheri possessed blood — or within the collected blood in the syringes. Most animals will die from this procedure.

- Wicheri possessed creatures or NPCs may only be played by Event Team members. Wicherite may only be given out by an Event Team member through this method.
- An Event Team member may make a player character Wicheri possessed, in which the Event Team member must be contacted on the death or purging of the character and properly document that they gave the character Wicheri possession with other staff members. Players may not force Wicheri possession on another player.
- While a Wicheri possessed player character may register themselves as being ill or unwell and seek help, as soon as the opportunity arises to remove the Wicherite or restrain them to do so with their knowledge, they must take every opportunity to flee. To ignore such instincts is powergaming.
- To use Wicheri or Wicherite for uncovering a secretly Wicheri possessed character without proper RP studying their changed behavior is considered metagaming.
- Should one attempt to randomly test individuals for Wicheri possession and come across one, they will find their Wicheri item mysteriously missing, having been given over to the Wicheri possessed character. The original wielder will be unable to recognize the Wicheri item in this case and doing so is considered metagaming.
- Should a Wicheri possessed player character wish to sense the nearest piece of Wicheri or Wicherite, the Event Team member may give them a rough location of where they know it to be, but are by no means forced to do such.
- The expelling of excess blood is never harmful to a Wicheri possessed character.
- The method of curing Wicheri possession is uncommon knowledge but can be ascertained through basic study of a Wicheri possessed individual.
- The illness following the curing of Wicheri possession may not be ignored through any method and will leave the cured patient combat ineffective for the time following.
- Should the Wicherite infected blood not be collected in the same container, the blood will break through containers and travel together. Should one attempt to keep Wicherite infected blood from congealing into a piece of the ore, the blood will go inert and the ore will be lost.
- Wicheri possessed creatures may not be tamed. They are always considered feral and hostile.
- Wicheri possession as a property is uncommon knowledge and must be learned through experiencing an event where it occurs or hearing about it from someone who has.

Extra #2 - Wicheric Constructs [Event Creature]

The Cursed Cenotaph by Bruno Magalhães Vianna

When enough Wicheri is gathered in one place, it may create a Wicheric Construct. Oftentimes these are the results of infected individuals succeeding in their goal, though they can also be the folly of those who hoard the metal or simply be the result of a large deposit of ore being found at once. A Wicheric Construct forms from the consciousnesses within Wicheri objects communicating and melding into one entity great enough to bear consciousness, able to speak and subjugate other minds.

Those who surround or interact with Wicheric Constructs find themselves slowly being bent to the Construct’s will, developing first a fascination, then reverence, and finally worship and obedience. This creates Wicheric Cults, who worship and follow the Wicheric Construct’s bidding, which often includes increasing the mass of its material, though can branch out into things such as forming cabals of Dark Magic users, toppling governments, and overall stirring chaos in order to spite the gods. All of this is done instinctually however, and while Wicheric Constructs may pretend to have greater motive, they simply act out of random impulse and remain unaware of their origin, perhaps even inventing their own.

They often take the form of eldritch obelisks, statues, armories welded together, particularly large objects of Wicheri (it’s said a cannon became a particularly bigoted Wicheric Construct), and even by a rather dubious account a Wicheri tea set once developed a rare resonance to form a sort of hive mind Wicheric Construct.

The powers of a Wicheric Construct are rather vague, though they are incapable of moving on their own no matter what. They remain a stationary fixture which can only be destroyed through significant heat capable of melting the metal. In general, they are capable of inducing nosebleeds, headaches, phantom pains, and even Wicheri mental scars in the particularly strong ones to those within close proximity. They are always capable of seeing from all directions from their stationary form and sensing every sentient mind within their area.

At its utmost power, a Wicheric Construct may give a flake of their form to be consumed by their followers. This gives the Construct the ability to perform mental effects similar to if they were in close proximity all the time as well as perceive through their senses and speak in their mind. When seeing through a connected mind, the veins in their eyes will faintly glow in the Construct’s Wicheri hue. In exchange, a lesser form of that particular Wicheric Construct’s powers will be available to the connected individual, which must be described to them by the Event Team member. The strongest this can go to is mental scars equivalent to a scratch of Wicheri, and oftentimes are simple things like inducing headaches, discomfort, or nosebleeds. These powers are limited to eight meters in range. Should a connected individual go against a Construct’s wishes too many times, they may induce a stroke and cause the flake to go inert. This is never fatal, but will leave the individual hazy on certain things involving the Wicheric Construct, up to its discretion.

- Wicheric Constructs may only appear in an Event Team member’s event line. Should players wish to create a Wicheric Construct, an Event Team member is by no means obligated to provide such an event line.
- Wicheric Constructs should not be run often as they would give large amounts of the metal at once.
- While the powers of a Wicheric Construct are purposely vague, they may never be mobile and cannot do anything outside mental effects. The only exception is if a Wicheric Construct is dropped on someone, in which case they will likely take severe physical damage from the sheer weight of mostly solid metal.
- Wicheric Constructs may not give powers to player characters without a demand in turn and Event Team members may not give these powers without an event line being actively run. Should an event line not have an event for it in 2 OOC weeks, the powers will go inert until the next event run.
- The stroke induced by a Wicheric Construct may never kill or leave one in critical condition. It simply removes memories up to the Event Team member’s discretion.
- If one tries to steal a flake off a Wicheric Construct, they will immediately have a nonlethal stroke.
- A Wicheric Construct’s range cannot exceed 20 meters.
- Wicheric Constructs require significant mass to form and cannot be smaller than two blocks. They must be of reasonable size in build to the amount of Wicheri they are constructed from. Use common sense.
- If a Wicheri possessed individual comes in contact with a Wicheric Construct, their possessing Wicherite will be forcibly expelled from their body to attach to the Construct. They will be left at the Construct’s mercy, though they are likely to be grateful.
- For a connected individual to ignore the mental effects of a Wicheric Construct’s possession is powergaming.
- The flicker in a connected individual’s eyes when they’re being seen through is mostly aesthetic and cannot be noticed from more than a few inches away.]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=15 Fri, 03 May 2024 03:37:36 +0000 MeteorDragon]]> https://forum.starfell.online/showthread.php?tid=15 Dualsteel

“Under the light of the sun, I saw the metal change. A vibrant white. Yet, another had told me it would turn the color of a midnight’s sky. How strange.” - An unknown blacksmith

Rarity

Rare

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Hidden in Mountains

Properties

Dualsteel comes in a generally dull form, holding no special properties at first. In fact, it's more brittle than steel, making it generally useless in its normal form. It holds a gray appearance that gives it no real importance, unless held during Midnight or Sunrise. Should such be done, it would gain a purple/golden sheen, depending on the time. Ancient Tavrosi peoples found that you could smith this metal during one of those times and transform it into something new.


- Should normal Dualsteel be struck with any amount of meaningful force, it would instantly shatter.
- Attempts to forge it during any other time than Midnight or Sunrise, the metal would instantly shatter.
- After forging is done, the Lore Team must be contacted and given the RP that was done so they can sign and log the item.
- Dualsteel may only be found during events or from special nodes. It is not an open metal.


Saketh, a name for the metal smithed at Sunrise. In ancient Tavrosi, it means "Sunrise Steel". It becomes a little more durable and a little stronger than steel while gaining a golden sheen at Sunrise. Naturally, now, the metal is pure white. However, Clerics and their god may bless this metal, transforming it even more into Mu-Saketh, "Blessed Sunrise Steel".


Raketh, a name for the metal smithed at Midnight. In ancient Tavrosi, it means "Midnight Steel". Just like Saketh, it will get even stronger when smithed at the right time, but this metal will gain a purple sheen during Midnight. Now, the metal is pitch black, holding that purple color during the right time. Similarly, if an Ancient were to send its power into the metal, it would change further, becoming Du-Raketh, "Cursed Midnight Steel".


- Saketh and Raketh hold no special properties other than being stronger than steel. Other than this and its visual properties, it acts the same as steel.
- Once forged, Saketh and Raketh cannot change colors. The only exception would be during an event.


Mu-Saketh holds truly special properties due to its blessed state. Its white exterior is now covered in golden cracks that flow around it, letting one distinguish it as being different from normal Saketh. The metal will radiate heatless sunlight that reaches out [2] meters in every direction, granting light wherever it may be taken. In addition to this, creatures made by Ancients, and Ancients themselves, will feel a horrible burning sensation when they come in contact with this steel. Clerics who utilize this metal will find that its weight is halved, in their hands, or upon their body only. Those who hold no ties to the Ancients, however, will feel a sense of invigoration, a burning passion designed for that person and whatever situation they may be in, so long as at least an ingot of the metal remains on their person. While this sense doesn’t reduce fear, it may help one gain courage in the face of danger, or help them fight longer than they would have. Some say it has even allowed one to surpass their natural limits and escape from an unwinnable fight.


Du-Raketh, like it's holy counterpart, holds unique properties due to the power of Ancients that have been placed within the metal. Similarly, the black metal gains deep purple cracks upon its surface to ensure that one can tell the difference between it and Raketh. In addition to this, an unnatural darkness will befall the world that resides within [2] meters of the steel, such being equal and opposite in power to Mu-Saketh. A hidden plague resides within the metal, one that plagues those who get cut by the cursed steel. The sliced area will turn black and purple while holding a constant, stinging pain that slowly grows until it covers the entire limb that was sliced. The inflicted area will be weakened to the strength of a scholar as the muscle deteriorates. However, this curse isn’t permanent. Overall, it takes [3] OOC days for the metal to fully take over the limb, such a state lasting until a total time of [1] OOC week has passed since the initial cut. The healing process will take another [3] OOC days where the cursed marks fade and strength is returned to the limb. With the help of a Cleric’s healing, however, the healing will start instantly, meaning that the curse will only stay for [3] OOC days, during which the marks fade and the curse is healed.


- The Light and Dark from Mu-Saketh and Du-Raketh are equal and opposite. Should their affected areas touch, it will be cut in the middle, equally splitting the area.
- The pain from Mu-Saketh is equal to receiving second degree burns and happens upon contact with the creature or Ancient’s flesh, whatever that may be. This will occur against Dark Mages as well, but only if there is no doubt the individual is a Dark Mage. In addition to this, it will also cause pain to those who are cursed by Du-Raketh.
- Mu-Saketh cannot be used as a Darkspawn Test. When using it against a Player Character, the wielder must be absolutely certain they are a Dark Mage, else the Ancient’s Power will hide the individual from harm.
- Mu-Saketh feels half as heavy in the hands of a Cleric. This cannot be used to create Guts style weaponry, however.
- The sense of invigoration from Mu-Saketh provides no material benefit. It is simply a product of the mind, helping one overcome mental barriers. This only occurs if an ingot or more’s worth of metal is on a person. A ring, for example, is not enough.
- Du-Raketh’s curse is only applied if it cut’s one’s flesh. It lasts a total of [1] OOC week and heals over the course of [3] OOC days after this week. Cleric’s healing can instantly start the healing process.
- The pain from Du-Raketh is not debilitating, though it cannot be ignored. The curse marks are obvious to whoever looks at them, even on Kobolds and Moon Tavrosi.
- If the torso is cut by Du-Raketh, then only the chest or back will become fully cursed.
- The weakening only happens in the cursed limb, wherever the mark resides. This will weaken the core should it occur on the torso and will never kill anyone.
- Should one be killed by a Du-Raketh weapon, curses will not show up on their revived body. Attempts to circumvent the curse by killing a character is powergaming and will be punished accordingly.]]> Dualsteel

“Under the light of the sun, I saw the metal change. A vibrant white. Yet, another had told me it would turn the color of a midnight’s sky. How strange.” - An unknown blacksmith

Rarity

Rare

Type of Material

Metal

Potential Locations

Hidden in Mountains

Properties

Dualsteel comes in a generally dull form, holding no special properties at first. In fact, it's more brittle than steel, making it generally useless in its normal form. It holds a gray appearance that gives it no real importance, unless held during Midnight or Sunrise. Should such be done, it would gain a purple/golden sheen, depending on the time. Ancient Tavrosi peoples found that you could smith this metal during one of those times and transform it into something new.


- Should normal Dualsteel be struck with any amount of meaningful force, it would instantly shatter.
- Attempts to forge it during any other time than Midnight or Sunrise, the metal would instantly shatter.
- After forging is done, the Lore Team must be contacted and given the RP that was done so they can sign and log the item.
- Dualsteel may only be found during events or from special nodes. It is not an open metal.


Saketh, a name for the metal smithed at Sunrise. In ancient Tavrosi, it means "Sunrise Steel". It becomes a little more durable and a little stronger than steel while gaining a golden sheen at Sunrise. Naturally, now, the metal is pure white. However, Clerics and their god may bless this metal, transforming it even more into Mu-Saketh, "Blessed Sunrise Steel".


Raketh, a name for the metal smithed at Midnight. In ancient Tavrosi, it means "Midnight Steel". Just like Saketh, it will get even stronger when smithed at the right time, but this metal will gain a purple sheen during Midnight. Now, the metal is pitch black, holding that purple color during the right time. Similarly, if an Ancient were to send its power into the metal, it would change further, becoming Du-Raketh, "Cursed Midnight Steel".


- Saketh and Raketh hold no special properties other than being stronger than steel. Other than this and its visual properties, it acts the same as steel.
- Once forged, Saketh and Raketh cannot change colors. The only exception would be during an event.


Mu-Saketh holds truly special properties due to its blessed state. Its white exterior is now covered in golden cracks that flow around it, letting one distinguish it as being different from normal Saketh. The metal will radiate heatless sunlight that reaches out [2] meters in every direction, granting light wherever it may be taken. In addition to this, creatures made by Ancients, and Ancients themselves, will feel a horrible burning sensation when they come in contact with this steel. Clerics who utilize this metal will find that its weight is halved, in their hands, or upon their body only. Those who hold no ties to the Ancients, however, will feel a sense of invigoration, a burning passion designed for that person and whatever situation they may be in, so long as at least an ingot of the metal remains on their person. While this sense doesn’t reduce fear, it may help one gain courage in the face of danger, or help them fight longer than they would have. Some say it has even allowed one to surpass their natural limits and escape from an unwinnable fight.


Du-Raketh, like it's holy counterpart, holds unique properties due to the power of Ancients that have been placed within the metal. Similarly, the black metal gains deep purple cracks upon its surface to ensure that one can tell the difference between it and Raketh. In addition to this, an unnatural darkness will befall the world that resides within [2] meters of the steel, such being equal and opposite in power to Mu-Saketh. A hidden plague resides within the metal, one that plagues those who get cut by the cursed steel. The sliced area will turn black and purple while holding a constant, stinging pain that slowly grows until it covers the entire limb that was sliced. The inflicted area will be weakened to the strength of a scholar as the muscle deteriorates. However, this curse isn’t permanent. Overall, it takes [3] OOC days for the metal to fully take over the limb, such a state lasting until a total time of [1] OOC week has passed since the initial cut. The healing process will take another [3] OOC days where the cursed marks fade and strength is returned to the limb. With the help of a Cleric’s healing, however, the healing will start instantly, meaning that the curse will only stay for [3] OOC days, during which the marks fade and the curse is healed.


- The Light and Dark from Mu-Saketh and Du-Raketh are equal and opposite. Should their affected areas touch, it will be cut in the middle, equally splitting the area.
- The pain from Mu-Saketh is equal to receiving second degree burns and happens upon contact with the creature or Ancient’s flesh, whatever that may be. This will occur against Dark Mages as well, but only if there is no doubt the individual is a Dark Mage. In addition to this, it will also cause pain to those who are cursed by Du-Raketh.
- Mu-Saketh cannot be used as a Darkspawn Test. When using it against a Player Character, the wielder must be absolutely certain they are a Dark Mage, else the Ancient’s Power will hide the individual from harm.
- Mu-Saketh feels half as heavy in the hands of a Cleric. This cannot be used to create Guts style weaponry, however.
- The sense of invigoration from Mu-Saketh provides no material benefit. It is simply a product of the mind, helping one overcome mental barriers. This only occurs if an ingot or more’s worth of metal is on a person. A ring, for example, is not enough.
- Du-Raketh’s curse is only applied if it cut’s one’s flesh. It lasts a total of [1] OOC week and heals over the course of [3] OOC days after this week. Cleric’s healing can instantly start the healing process.
- The pain from Du-Raketh is not debilitating, though it cannot be ignored. The curse marks are obvious to whoever looks at them, even on Kobolds and Moon Tavrosi.
- If the torso is cut by Du-Raketh, then only the chest or back will become fully cursed.
- The weakening only happens in the cursed limb, wherever the mark resides. This will weaken the core should it occur on the torso and will never kill anyone.
- Should one be killed by a Du-Raketh weapon, curses will not show up on their revived body. Attempts to circumvent the curse by killing a character is powergaming and will be punished accordingly.]]>