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Hmmm, I am curious, I know in most alterations. A tap usually comes with the alteration.
My question is, I am wondering if a rub is really constituded as a verb or just another way of "showing" your item, like tap is.
Being a warmie, I am thinking of having a weapon altered. to something like this.
>rub my sword
You place the palm of your hand at the top of the hilt and begin to slowly extend your arm outward, along the blade. Aetheral Streams seem to contort to your hands presense and waver, revealing a blade trapped between the planes, it soon fades back to nothingness.
<name> places the palm of his hand on the top portion of his hilt, slowly extending his arm outward. Aetheral streams seem to contort to his hands presense, faintly revealing a blade that seems to be trapped between the aetheral planes and this world. It quickly fades back to nothingness.
<<Hmmm, I am curious, I know in most alterations. A tap usually comes with the alteration.
My question is, I am wondering if a rub is really constituded as a verb or just another way of "showing" your item, like tap is.
Being a warmie, I am thinking of having a weapon altered. to something like this.
>rub my sword
You place the palm of your hand at the top of the hilt and begin to slowly extend your arm outward, along the blade. Aetheral Streams seem to contort to your hands presense and waver, revealing a blade trapped between the planes, it soon fades back to nothingness.
<name> places the palm of his hand on the top portion of his hilt, slowly extending his arm outward. Aetheral streams seem to contort to his hands presense, faintly revealing a blade that seems to be trapped between the aetheral planes and this world. It quickly fades back to nothingness.>>
Nope, nothing a merchant could do. Too magical in nature. It'd have to be an extremely specialized (probably enchanted) weapon to do anything like this. Even then, I'm not sure the enchanted weapons would have verbs like this. There is an elemental weapon out there with some nifty features, but it doesn't involve the elemental planes unfortunately.
-Chakram
"NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDES"
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" - Mae West
My question is, I am wondering if a rub is really constituded as a verb or just another way of "showing" your item, like tap is.
Being a warmie, I am thinking of having a weapon altered. to something like this.
>rub my sword
You place the palm of your hand at the top of the hilt and begin to slowly extend your arm outward, along the blade. Aetheral Streams seem to contort to your hands presense and waver, revealing a blade trapped between the planes, it soon fades back to nothingness.
<name> places the palm of his hand on the top portion of his hilt, slowly extending his arm outward. Aetheral streams seem to contort to his hands presense, faintly revealing a blade that seems to be trapped between the aetheral planes and this world. It quickly fades back to nothingness.>>
Nope, nothing a merchant could do. Too magical in nature. It'd have to be an extremely specialized (probably enchanted) weapon to do anything like this. Even then, I'm not sure the enchanted weapons would have verbs like this. There is an elemental weapon out there with some nifty features, but it doesn't involve the elemental planes unfortunately.
-Chakram
"NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDES"
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" - Mae West
Alright, so if enchanting does allow something like this, perhaps can I then get it altered so that it would do something like with a rub verb.
I don't understand how that would be too magical, when I can make clouds of ash and fire appear and make it rain deadly balls of fire. Or even slice someone in half by and aetheral whip that I have conjured up.
I understand that perhaps the "merchant" isn't a magical being. Which I could understand. But I am curious is there ANY merchants out there that are magical in nature that are even capable of doing something like that, and if not could we perhaps get one?
I would figure with his expertise (sp?) that he could charge more to have something like what I want to do. Considering its probably hard to focus a blade of a sword to stay permanetly within the aetheral realms until swung or distorted by my whim.
Hell, I wouldn't even mind that if I rubbed it, it would take a good chunk of my harness to distort the aetheral "aura" around the blade, as so that people could see the blade itself.
Also the tap would look like this.
>Tap
<name> taps a blackened hilt that is shaped into what looks like a deviant serpent with a cambrinth orb in its mouth.
I don't understand how that would be too magical, when I can make clouds of ash and fire appear and make it rain deadly balls of fire. Or even slice someone in half by and aetheral whip that I have conjured up.
I understand that perhaps the "merchant" isn't a magical being. Which I could understand. But I am curious is there ANY merchants out there that are magical in nature that are even capable of doing something like that, and if not could we perhaps get one?
I would figure with his expertise (sp?) that he could charge more to have something like what I want to do. Considering its probably hard to focus a blade of a sword to stay permanetly within the aetheral realms until swung or distorted by my whim.
Hell, I wouldn't even mind that if I rubbed it, it would take a good chunk of my harness to distort the aetheral "aura" around the blade, as so that people could see the blade itself.
Also the tap would look like this.
>Tap
<name> taps a blackened hilt that is shaped into what looks like a deviant serpent with a cambrinth orb in its mouth.
Not to mention, it isn't just a verb. Unless I am reading it incorrectly, it appears that the blade of the sword would, in fact, be trapped between two planes of existence, and would normally be invisible. Thus, you usually see only a hilt. The closest thing dealing with the Elemental planes that I can think of would be the sigilated platinum rings, which allow temporary "storage" of an item on another Elemental plane. Really, the entire thing sounds more like a GM auction item (that would sell for thousands of plat), rather than a run-of-the-mill alteration.
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>I don't understand how that would be too magical, when I can make clouds of ash and fire appear and make it rain deadly balls of fire. Or even slice someone in half by and aetheral whip that I have conjured up.
While it may well be in your area of expertise to have it make since that your able to do it, when you die, the barbarian that grave robs you wouldn't 'normally' be able to do it, however would be allowed to by your alteration.
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Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
While it may well be in your area of expertise to have it make since that your able to do it, when you die, the barbarian that grave robs you wouldn't 'normally' be able to do it, however would be allowed to by your alteration.
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Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
Customization of a verb requires a level of QC that is not available during alteration sessions, including scroll alterations. The custom verb voucher merchant is highly specialized and makes infrequent appearances.
Just for the record.
GM Reexa
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Currently Reading: Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell; In the Name of Love by Ann Rule; Flashback by Justine Davis
Just for the record.
GM Reexa
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Currently Reading: Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell; In the Name of Love by Ann Rule; Flashback by Justine Davis
