RoflsMazoy

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@Blight Bug
Metals Acknowledged.

I forgot to say in my last post, everyone, but please list metals taken at the end of your posts.

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@KOGaming @Legion02
The main forge for creating ingots would indeed be communal for the purposes of creating ingots and whatnot, although some students if they had the money or time to raise the money could potentially have a personal metallurgy forge in their own workshop for the purposes of privately smelting ores together away from prying eyes.

Workshops have whatever your student has built up over their time at Seishun, but since we're at the beginning of this RP your working furnace will just about be standard fare.

You won't have to worry about resources too much, I've calculated it's roughly enough for about 12 swords so as long as everyone takes just the amount they need it'll work out, but if we actually run out I'll add some extra materials because that'd be my fault for not calculating it well enough ^^;

@Lonewolf685
In terms of handles, you could make one out of wood or other materials but for the purposes of this challenge it'd be better to make it out of complete metal because the God doesn't exactly need to hold the Sword.

Your character is also good from me :D You can start posting whenever you'd like.

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Minor Update on Materials:

• Black Steel 15 Units
  -10 Units @KOGaming
  -5 Units @Jerkchicken
  Current Amount: 0 Units
• Steel 30 Units
  -5 Units @KOGaming
  Current Amount: 25 Units
• Iron 30 Units
  -5 Units @KOGaming
  -10 Units @Jerkchicken
  Current Amount: 15 Units

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@Lonewolf685
While the higher tier metals are obviously going to give an advantage the only real requirement for the challenge is a cool sword. You can easily make something super sweet-looking with just copper and you'd have an equal chance of winning as someone who hogged all the mithril. It just means you can't get a transluscent white-ish blade is all so don't rush it ;)

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@RoflsMazoy Fuck, IC is up. I was planning to change my character's ability. I guess I can't know. Or would that be okay with you? I haven't read the IC yet if that counts for anything.

@Uno

As long as no one else's posted yet, it'll be fine. Actually, you could get a post first getting your metals of choice because your ability probably won't come into it in the very first one. Since the metals are pretty much the only thing you need to rush you can pitch your edited ability to me afterward and I'll look at it because either way you're character is already pretty approved. Your character won't be removed in the forseeable future so it'll be fine :)

Outbreaker Black: A Sci-Fi/Fantasy Anime-Inspired Supernatural Agency RP

@cuttlefisk
Kichiro feels more Ojii-san than Bragi does

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

First post is done. The first OOC post will be edited to include all new information and both will be edited as materials are taken. Please voice any concerns you all may have because this is all sort of way experimental >_<

EDIT: Sword Crafting and Post Limit have been added to the fisrt OOC post. Mercantile Tech and Expeditions will come after this challenge. A summary of the challenge and the material list is appended under the Current Challenge.

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

Seishun Academy of Swords

"Hmph, you're finally coming around." A gruff voice said.

The voice belonged to a musclebound behemoth of a man, squatting on a wooden bench far too small for him. He was extremely muscular and covered in scars. If one could see his palms, they would see the roughness as a sign that he was truly a veteran swordsmith. In front of him stood a solitary cherry blossom tree. Petals danced in the wind as a much younger woman approached from behind. She wore a ceremonial kimono sort of loosely, and she was carrying a bundle of thick rope over her shoulder.

"It's agreed to move on, then, principal?" She asked, putting the rope down.

"Yup, but it's scared of me." The Principal replied, getting up and stretching. The tree shuddered, almost as if it was afraid of the loud cracks from the principal's joints. "I'm not as good with younger spirits as you are, Kasumi, so you're going to have to handle the ceremony solo I'm afraid."

"Hmmm…" She said, also taking the time to stretch.

She was nowhere near as muscled as the principal was but she was still considerably well built. She had short red white tied back in a ponytail, and even though she was relatively standard in terms of height, the principal stood a good 2 heads taller than her.

"I guess I'm alright with that," She replied. "I am this school's spiritist expert, if they need to ask something it'll be better if they ask me directly."

"I'll leave it to you then," The principal said, nodding once. "I'll handle the rest of the preparations."

As principal of the Seishun Academy of Swords, he was the one who had the final word when it came to the weekly challenges. There was no penalty for not participating in a challenge, as the academy didn't really enforce a strict curriculum. Students enrolled were free to leave the school any time, the only condition being not to come back until they were a master swordsmith in their own right.

But for this challenge in particular, the students who chose not to participate would be missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to create the sword Seishun Academy's god was going to reside in. Even in his long history of smithing, he had been requested for a job of this kind of calibre only a handful of times, although the difficulty for this one was not significantly high like the other ones had been.

He was curious to see which of the students would claim the top spot, but he would soon see anyway.

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NEW! - Challenge #1: Creating a God Sword

There is a certain tree in Seishun Academy that has been around for something close to a century. It used to bloom beautiful cherry blossoms year-round but only when there were very few people to see it. Very few students knew the real reason the Sakura tree had lasted for so long; but with the announcement of this new challenge issued to the entire student body, everyone had found out the true reason for the tree's strange nature.

The Sakura Tree was hosting a God. Not a very powerful or old one by any means, but still a god all the same. When this fact had been initially found out, there were plans to seal off access to the tree, but the God itself expressed that it wanted to see how the world was. Time passed, many faces came and went, but now the tree was dying. It couldn't hold the power of a god forever, and the principal has finally managed to convince it to move hosts.

This challenge is a schoolwide challenge aimed at the best swordsmiths to create a God Sword for the God to reside in. The winner of the challenge will be decided by the God itself as well as Kasumi, the spiritual realm instructor.

The challenge will begin with all of the students standing in front of the tree which has been ritually prepared for the ceremony, complete with an altar in front ready to accept a sword. A stockpile of metals to be used is also there. The only materials that can be used are the ones from the stockpile as part of the challenge.

The list of metals are as follows:

• Iron - 30 units 13
• Copper - 30 units 17
• Steel - 30 units 8
• Bronze - 20 units 8
• Gold - 20 units 7
• Tamahagane(NEW!) - 20 units 1
• Mithril - 15 units 4
• Black Steel - 15 units 0

Materials are first in, best dressed. There are obviously more materials for all the students undertaking the challenge but for game purposes these are the only ones you can take.

The Winner of the Challenge is given the right to be able to talk to the God on occasion. Even though it won't be able to directly intervene with anything, it is a good informant that has been gathering information on Seishun Academy for almost a century. The God will appear only to the person who smithed the God Sword unless there is some kind of emergency.
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Sword Crafting(NEW!)

In order to create a sword, 10 units of combined material must be used in order to forge the blade. Other metallic parts such as the handle can be included in the 10 unit cost depending. Embellishments such as gold trim or chains and whatnot won't usually even take up one unit of material but still need to be mentioned as taking something.

Creating a scabbard takes 5 units of any particular material which includes its embellishments, depending on how overboard you want to go with the decorations.

For the purposes of this challenge, a fitting scabbard is required to create a complete sword. The completed sword won't have to be particularly practical, as a god can fit inside any real medium. The only reason it really has to vacate the tree is because the tree is a living object. Since swords are non-living and a fitting host, the God will most likely be able to fit inside any sword the students create.

Kasumi the instructor is there to judge whether or not the sword will be suitable for the god. The winner of the challenge will win the right to be able to speak with the god on a fairly regular basis. The god can provide a lot of information on the school, old forging techniques, monsters of the forest etc. being the household god of Seishun Academy.

There is an 8 post limit per person for this challenge. Students have 8 posts to set up, plan and begin the forging of the sword before time skips the rest of the process and the sword is completed. The post with the completed sword may or may not be included as part of the 8 posts. Banter time and asking the instructor for advice will also be counted as a post. We are basically skipping the introductions, unfortunately. We're jumping straight into it essentially, but if you can manage to fit in an introduction it's all fine really.

Each post should have a maximum of 2 forging elements before wrapping up, such as heating the forge and melting down the metals. You can talk as much as you would like during the post, however, do be reasonable about it. Banter will also be limited to about 2 actions per post but one action could potentially be a lengthy conversation which takes an hour, but do note going back and forth will take up a fair amount of posts.

Be comprehensive with your questions, and be exhaustive with your insults. Aim to get something with every line in order to maximize your time.

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TL;DR

Challenge #1 is God Sword creation. The Sakura Tree hosting Seishun's resident god is dying and a new vessel needs to be made. A God can choose any kind of host to manifest in so any kind of sword will do as long as it is a fitting sword for a god to reside in.

Materials are limited with a first in policy.

New Features:

• New Technical;
  -Sword Crafting
  -God Swords
• New Material;
  -Tamahagane
  Tamahagane is created by placing iron sand in a clay furnace and adding charcoal during the forging process in order to give it hardness. To create a blade using Tamahagane is a complex process involving folding together several layers of metal to create a thin, but strong blade. Mostly suited for creating eastern style swords, its full potential is realized when creating a Katana or a Jian. When creating a Tamahagane sword, the most important component is its core. The edge can be made of different metals but the core must be Tamahagane as it doesn't make too good of an edge without its core.

There is an 8 post time limit for the challenge which is subject to change. The number 8 is an experimental value because I'm not entirely sure how long we'll usually take for this yet. If needed, it can be increased.

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@Lady Athena @Legion02 @FickleSickle
They all look great to me, go ahead an put your sheets in the character tab.

@VKAllen
You can if you would like to, but your character won't exactly be able to come in until a little bit after we start the RP. You'll see what I mean once I get our first post up.

Seishun Academy of Swords, a sword forging RP!

@Otaku95
Oh, right, I should've mentioned last time. It's good.

In other news, I think we'll begin in earnest some time tonight. We've probably been waiting long enough already, so be ready for it, everyone :D

Outbreaker Black: A Sci-Fi/Fantasy Anime-Inspired Supernatural Agency RP

Sleepless Panda ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

^{"I need to sleep..."} She mumbled.

The sight of a pale girl with extremely dark circles on her eyes wandering the halls, toting a large beanbag would no doubt be strange to some; but for a few of the senior staff in the Outbreak Agency, it was a familiar sight. She had difficulties sleeping at night so she sought out people she felt safe around at a pretty much random hour of the day, then simply plonked down and fell asleep. But in comparison to the other times, it was still relatively early.

^{That meeting was awful...} She thought.

She was feeling down about the introduction meeting. She was well known in the Oubtreaker Agency for her bad sleeping habits. The meeting had been her one chance to change that but she hadn't been able to say anything. She had tried but her voice was so small compared to the others... She stopped herself before finishing a word. Despite how she looked, she was fairly sensitive. It's just that her Father had taught her that it was a bad idea to show weakness. It was best to hide it and find a solution to deal with it before anyone found out what the weakness had been, and her one way of dealing with secret embarrassment usually involved one particular member of the Outbreak Agency.

^{"Kitagawa-san..."} She whispered, knocking gently on the door.

She heard a small thud, and Kitagawa-san's shouts. She quietly opened the door to see what the fuss was about.

Sadly, this had the side effect of sending her manga catapulting towards the ceiling and across the room, where it landed near the door.

Quaking and bright red, Miyu turned weakly towards the source of the voice, her entire body shuddering as she did.

"Z-Z-Z-Zann-san...?"

@VitaVitaAR

It was just Kitagawa-san and her personal assistant. She wasn't quite sure why she was so surprised. Would it really be unusual to see her assistant right behind her. Then her eyes gravitated towards the fallen manga, which had conveniently flipped over one page from where Kitagawa-san had been reading. A furious red blush came to her cheeks.

^{"K-K-Kitawaga-san!"} She said, darting forward.

But she had forgotten that she was holding a beanbag. She let go of it to pick up the book, and it dropped at her feet, sending her flying forward. She managed to reach out and snap the book shut before landing with a loud thud. So much noise, there was no way the wouldn't have noticed her. And holding the book in such an awkward position as well...

^{"Y-Your manga..."} She said, still on the ground.

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@VitaVitaAR @Zetsuko