Rolled 13

>nat1

Rolled 1

Beard you say?

Rolled 66

>>25030654
Rolling for badass beard braids.

Rolled 100

Bearded glory

>>25030664
AWW YISS

My beard is the beard that will pierce the heavens

>>25030654
>>25030664
These rolls, mang...

>>25030654
dont be a 1d1 faggot now

>>25030664
>fuck it, going with the best roll. It's too glorious an opportunity to pass up.

Despite your youth you have managed to grow a most fantastic and awe inspiring beard and moustache. You sometimes think that there might be some Dwarven blood in you, which again would explain the tendency for smithing.

Master Helbrecht's workshop is located in a small hamlet, Hillstone, which itself is based on the outskirts of a much larger city, Belerin.

Belerin is a main trading outpost and a very well populated city, holding close to some 40,000 people. There is a forest to the east and south of Hillstone and there is a small quarry to the west, in which you remember gathering ore for Master Helbrecht.

>Action, O beared one.

>>25030725
Go smith a sword.

>>25030736
lets make a sword that has 3 blades, the 2 outer blades are parallel to the centre blade, and they can be fired as projectilers

>>25030725
Head to Belerin, look for someone who needs some smithin'.
Stroke beard on the way.
Grab some basic materials from workshop

>>25030725
Girdle your luscious beard with a strap of leather and head for the big city. You're gonna strike it big time there!

>>25030736
You have no access to an anvil, Helbrecht has expressly forbidden you from his workshop now that you are a journeyman. You may have to find somewhere else, you can still gather ore if you want.

>>25030746
See above, and this kind of detail will take weeks, if not months of work (read: fuckawesome rolls)

>>25030746
No, let's forge a completely circular sword instead that can be thrown like a chakram!

>>25030757
Steal the anvil

>>25030749
>>25030754
You run your hand down your glorious beard, like some kind of Chinese General contemplating his next plan.

Master Helbrecht gifted you some tools when you became a journeyman, you have a pickaxe, a hammer and a few other bits and bobs.

You also have 300 silver pieces, that you have saved up when particularly pleased customers had tipped you on the side, over the past 7 years.

You start the journey towards Belerin, you should arrive there in a few hours.

Rolled 97

>>25030778
Fantasise about barmaids on the way

>>25030769
Dude, it's master Helbrecht's anvil-wife we can't take it, it would be super grody.

Rolled 90

>>25030795
Fantasize about anvil maids on the way.

>>25030795
>These rolls!

As you make your way to Belerin your thoughts start to wander. You start to think of the opportunities that await you, and also of the new sights that you will witness.

But, as all men are wont to do, your thoughts start to turn to that of Rosie, a young barmaid who used to work in Hillstone. You used to be childhood friends and she'd often pop into the workshop while MAster Helbrecht was away, to see how you were doing. She left the town a few years ago and no one had heard anything from her since.

You are abruptly awoken from your daydreams when a heavily armoured soldier blocks your way.

"Halt, who goes there?"

>You are at the gates of Belerin
>These guys are armoured to the teeth, Belerin is almost fanatical about the presentation of their guards.

Rolled 36

>>25030822
Don't sweat, we're legit. Tell them that we've come to ply our trade here.

Rolled 70

>>25030822
Display your beard at them.

>>25030822
Study their gear.
Say "I am Alaric Tyvin, journeyman smith. I seek employment here!"

Rolled 62

>>25030842
Forgot to roll for.. convincingness

>>25030842
"I am Alaric Tyvin and I come to this city to practice my trade"

The soldier looks at you and weighs you up. After a few seconds he shouts back to the guards behind him, "Open the gates!". He steps to the side and you step up to the massive oaken doors of Belerin.

They creak open as the guards heave to pull the massive wooden slabs aside. You stand in awe as you see the town stretched before you, vendors applying their trade, smiths tempering steel outside, prices of goods being shouted at full volume.

The main street is in front of you, it stretches up all the way to Belerin Castle, at the top of the hill in which the town is based upon.

>Where go?

Rolled 76

>>25030873
Seek out the local smiths. Learn how things are done around here. Also, compare beards.

>>25030877
This. Flaunt your beard, try to figure out what product isn't made here and fill in that niche. Maybe the locals suffer from a lack of decent lamp stands?

>>25030877
You head further into the path in front of you and start to keep an eye out for the various smiths who have set up shops here.

You talk to every blacksmith you see, you judge their wares and compare your beards to them. You tell them you are a Journeyman smith and are looking for some work within Belerin.

>The information on the smiths will be on the next page, they are all willing to accept a Journeyman, however it will be up to you to decide which one to go for, or even if you want to join a shop at all.

>>25030906
>the next page
wat?

>>25031007
Probably the next post? It's taking a while though.

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Rolled 75

>>25030906
roll for seduction, of whomever

>>25031007
>>25031026
Yeh next post, captcha and copy/paste is fucking up at the moment, so give me a few more minutes.

>Master Smith Urist
>Male, Dwarf
>After the Human/Dwarven alliance was founded, trade routes flourished and trade between the two races bloomed. It was shortly after this alliance, that Urist found his way to Belerin and wanted to apply his trade.
>Jack of all trades, Urist will smith anything that he is asked to, yet he has no discerning 'mark' that elevates him beyond the others yet.

>Master Smith El'Galia
>Female, Elf
>A Elven female who has been in the city for as long as anyone can remember. Tall, lithe and due to her Elven looks and heritage, is very easy on the eyes, leading to a lot of customers simply coming to her shop and forgetting to order something.
>Crafts the finest jewellery in all of the city, majority of her customers are women.

>Master Smith Van Gan
>Male, Barbarian
>A gigantic colossus of a man, covered in symbolic and tribal tattoos. The offspring of the Chieftan of the Barbarian Hordes that had allied with one of the main Human cities during a Crusade. After the Chieftan died during a particularly nasty incursion, Van Gan was enstrusted to a lowly Private, John Hessian, now the Captain of the town guard. Van Gan was brought to Belerin and ended up becoming a Blacksmith.
>Due to his strong ties within the town guard, and due to his enormous frame, he is often entrusted to do wotk to the fortifications of Belerin (cannon work, iron banding, some stonework, etc)

1/2

>>25031074
Van Gan, we don't even need to read other entries. We a weaponsmith now, engage muscle friendship mode!

Rolled 3

>>25031074
>Master Smith Urist
We will join the dorf, He has no speciality. This suits us perfectly since we are to green to specialice for now, must build experience first.
Also we experience is in hand we can specialice together with the jack of all trades dorf. I am sure that his dorfish smithing blood(and ours) will manifest if we stand by his side

he is probably also the one with the best beard

>>25031096
>best beard
Aside from US, of course.
Great beards work together.

>>25031074

>Master Smith Anamman
>Male, Human
>A tall, swarthy man, adorned with charms and amulets. His long black hair is plaited into dreadlocks that run down his back and tied together with a custom-forged steel band. Hailing from the desert nation of Al'k'Azir to the south, Anamman has applied his unique blend of smithing to the weapons he forges.
>Has a number of unique smithing techniques that improve the quality and the finish or both iron and steel weapons.

>Master Smith Feland
>Male, Human
>A pale skinned, blonde haired smith, who is the latest of a very powerful bloodline within Belerin. Due to his social status he has been employed by the King to solely produce armour for the town guard and Belerin's soldiers.
>Very good at producing armour, also does a fair bit of engraving work as well.

2/2

>Well that's it, I think I've given a fair choice.
>Which smith will it be?
>Or will you choose none?

Rolled 34

>>25031099
>>25031096
Still the dorf, no need to read more than the first entry

>>25031100
Ok, switching my vote from Van to Anamman, we want to forge the best saber there is. Also, muscle friendship.

>>25031114
But consider that the dwarf is a generalist, he has no speciality to teach us. We want to excel in our field, not become a jack-of-all trades village blacksmith.

>>25031074
>>25031100
Urist is probably the best for starting out, to get experience with a wide variety of techniques before we specialize.

However, you missed out the most important detail. How big are their beards?
inb4 the elven woman has the largest beard

I'll leave the choices up for a little bit, it looks like you guys are having fun arguing over the Master.

Also, if this quest takes off, this won't be the last you heard of these guys. If you stay in Belerin I'm sure you'll see more of them.

>>25031074
go learn from barbarian, attempt to seduce lady elf with beard

>>25031125
exactly, he is not a specialist, which mean we can find our specialization together, like beardbrothers
we have dorfisf blood, This! is enough

>>25031114
>>25031126
>>25031142
I'll add my vote for the dorf.

>>25031126
Urist has a beard that (almost) rivals your own.

El'Galia has no beard, not even a slight lip fuzz.

Van Gan has a beard, but not nearly a threat to yours.

Anamman has a Jack Sparrow-esque beard, complete with braids.

Feldane has a musketeer style moustache and muttonchops.

>I love how this is becoming Beard: The Quest!

>>25031142
But Anamman has totally bitchin' dreadlocks, you can't just ignore those completely. Besides, being trained under a superior weaponsmith is good for getting in favor with nobles and adventurers, that's important stuff.

>>25031172
Yes. I love my beard
>namefagging unlocked

This is turning into my favourite quest!

>>25031172
The very first thing you had us do was roll for beard size. What did you think was going to happen?

Unrelatedly, >tfw barbarian is a race now

>>25031177
but anon his beard is weak how can we align ourselves with such a man

>>25031209
Well you have a point there. Fine, we'll try to fistbump the dwarf, and if he accepts our muscle friendship then we'll become his apprentice.

>>25031203
I knew I forgot something, he's so massive he's barely human.

>>25031177
I imagine Anamman to be a combination of Jack Sparrows good looks, with the Scorpion King's rocking body.

5 more minutes, then i'll tally up the votes.

voting for Anamanaman

Its Dorf time!

>>25031299
I voted for Anamman originally, but maybe we should go with the dwarf for now, and later specialize on weaponsmithing with him. The man has a scraggly beard.

Master Smith Anamman.
I can't say no to dreads.

>>25031229
When we and the dorf have become beardbrothers,
I vote that we stir up a competative mood in the smithy, tyr outdoing eachother for a month. Our results might show us what direction our specialization lies

And stop.

Give me a few seconds, and we'll find out where our beard will take us.

>>25031356
Oh shit was in the creation threads, now you firing this mudafucka? I'm reading!

>No love for Feldane or El'Galia
>1 vote for Van Gan, the Barbarian Blacksmith
>3 votes for Anamman,.

After going over all the choices in your head, you decide to visit the Dwarven smith.

As you make your way down the street you can make out his beard before you can even see his face.

You stand in front of him as he adds the finishing touches to a sword he's working on.

"Aye laddy, back for more are ye?" He says with a thick Dwarvish accent. His mouth barely visible through the thick, Dwarven locks.

"Yes, I think my skills would best be improved working with you Urist." You reply back to him, your beard bristles in anticipation.

"That's Master Urist to you, ya cheeky little bugger, there's tools in the back, a spare anvil and a shit load'a ore we gotta get through".

You head into the shop and get tooled up.

>Dwarvish is also Scottish
>Here's where things get interesting.
>Roll 1d999 to determine what is the next job to come in.
>If it's trips, it'll be something special.

Rolled 520

>>25031443
Out of curiosity, any reason in particular it isn't a 1d1000?

Rolled 546

>>25031443

>>25031443
>No love for Feldane or El'Galia
I would have voted for El'Galia if she actually made something useful and not stupid jewelry

would have been funny trying to get her to grow a beard

>>25031449
>I've got a table in Excel, each digit corresponds to a different value in the categories.
>For example, the first digit would denote the quantity, the second would denote a metal and the third would denote what type of product.

>I did not take 0's into account, so we will go with this roll for now. >>25031454
(There's no real difference in this, as you are so close together roll-wise)

Rolled 43

>>25031443
Enchanted beard ring go!

Rolled 806

>>25031443

>>25031477
Also, noodly elven hands and flimsy build not a smith make.

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>>25031487
>Rolled 806

you win this apple

Wait... How'd we get the dorf?

I saw a lot of votes for anamman.. How many were there for dorf?

>>25031508
but you see, thats where giving her a beard can help, it would make her all manly and strong, like a proper smith should be

that would have been a hilarious quest

>>25031454
"Alright laddy, this should be an easy one for ya"

You strap your leather apron on ready to start the work.

"A few adventurers came in today, they need to get 5 bronze platebodies sorted out. They're around the town for a few days, so they wanna get these by the end of the week." He flips through a small pad of paper he has on his person and scribbles something with a small pencil, almost worn down to the nub.

He looks up and notices you still staring at him. "Well? Waddy'a waitin' fur?"

You hastily turn around and pull a few lumps of ore from the piles in the corner of the workshop.

It's smithing time.

>I understand that Urist's accent keeps changing around in pronunciation.
>I'll explain how the smithing is gonna work, it's not just 1d100 and the success is determined on that, oh no. This is going to be a lot more involved.

>>25031533
3 for anamman and 4 for the dorf.

>>25031533
shut it
dorf 5
amman 2

one dreadlover chnged to dorf

>>25031544
>This is going to be a lot more involved.
The horror!!!

>>25031562
>The pleasure

FTFY

>>25031533
>5 for the Dorf.

Right, at the moment you have access to 3 skills.

Forging
Smelting
Finishing (Polishing, Sharpening)

You have 0 points in each of these skills for now. For every 25 points you get in them, up to a maximum of 100, you are able to make 1 more roll, up to a maximum of 4 rolls.

You will roll 1d100 for the forging of the ores.
You will roll 1d100 for the smelting of the platebodies.
You can then roll up to 5 finishing rolls, but only 1 for each 25 points you have in those skills.

We'll forget about time constraints for now, ignore the '1 week thing'.

You will always succeed in the job. But the rolls will determine the quality of each successive step.

So first up, 1d100 for the forging of the ores.

>>25031579
My nipples are tingling from the excitement!

Rolled 69

>>25031593

Rolled 83

>>25031593
Forgin' them good, we want to impress Urist.

Rolled 52

>>25031593
For the forge!

Rolled 45

>>25031593
Our beard imbues forging with strength

>>25031593
How is this gunna work? You gunna take the highest roll, the first roll?

Rolled 39

>>25031593
Work those ores like a galley slave

>>25031606
>Succeeds as normal. Not low enough to give any disadvantages, but not high enough to warrant any bonuses.

After heaving tin and copper ores into the forge for god knows how long you end up with a small selection of bronze bars.

You place them by the side of the anvil for easy access, wipe the sweat off your brow and get to working making the platebodies.

>1d100 for the smelting of the platebodies.

>>25031625
First roll.

Unless it's very story-related. Then I'll probably take the highest roll in a certain amount of posts.

Rolled 7

>>25031650

Rolled 57

>>25031650

>>25031666
awww shit

>>25031666
Lol we suck.

Rolled 54

>>25031666

YAY
Lucky seven

Rolled 67

>>25031650
Come on

Rolled 93

>>25031666
You ruined it!

Rolled 16

>>25031650

>>25031666
You done fucked up man. Maybe we smelted plateboobies instead?

>>25031694
The dice-gods decide the fate!

Rolled 11

>>25031650
well shit, rolling to make up?

>>25031666
Fuck.

>>25031666
You do a piss-poor job of smelting the platebodies. The bronze just refuses to work with you and you don't know what's going wrong.

You only manage to smith 2 platebodies.

>You have enough time to forge some more bars and have 1 more shot at smithing the remaining platebodies.
>Due to the time wasted, you will not be able to finish these products and will noly be able to present them with what you make.
>Your pay will be impacted by the quality of the job you do.

Roll another 1d100 for a final forging attempt.

Rolled 41

>>25031719
damnit i try to help him and it's still not much better

>>25031702
Then no longer roll sir as the dice gods must find you truly repulsive.

Rolled 9

>>25031666
Above doesnt count

Rolled 58

>>25031730
rolling with the power of the beard

Rolled 86

>>25031730

Rolled 34

>>25031730
I am Forge

>>25031593

Smelting ore, forging platebody sucka.

>>25031741
You heave a heavy sigh and get back to work forging some more bars. The deadline is already rushing up and you are well behind.

>58

You forge another number of average quality bronze bars and shove them over to the anvil again.

1d100 for final smithing attempt.

Rolled 15

>>25031771

Rolled 41

>>25031771
CAPTCHA : CRAFT ckotab.

>>25031772
>>25031734
>>25031666
>>25031606
We done fucked up.

>>25031763
I humbly request your apology.

Rolled 52

>>25031771

Rolled 95

>>25031771

>>25031772
You give the smithing another go and once again you fail to produce the products.

"What in the name of the Great Smith is going on here?" Urist shouts as he walks through the doors, "Is this all you've been doing since you started? My grandmother could make platebodies better than this!"

"I..managed to get 2 done." You pretty much whimper at the Dwarf, now almost frothing at the mouth/beard.

".....Aye, it's alright boy. I'll be damned if I let a Journeyman ruin my reputation. You're in luck anyway, one of my regular clients asked for some platebodies earlier last month. I'm sure he'll understand if we push his order a bit further back."

He grabs your 2 platebodies and heads into the storage room to pick up the other 4. "This is the last time I save your ass boy, if you fail this badly again you're out."

>Urist has saved your reputation for now.
>I wasn't going to let you fail on the first quest, especially seeing as you're having so much fun being the BEARD.

"Anyway, you're done for the day boy. I'll see you tomorow, bright and early!"

>It's the middle of the day.
>What do?

Rolled 79

>>25031842
Work another shift, get in dorfs good graces

>>25031842
Find a tavern and get a room and meal

>>25031856
This then
>>25031858
This

Rolled 95

>>25031856
Agreed. We work through the night and make sure the client gets his platebodies on time.

>>25031842
we shamed our beard and our bearded master. We must refine our skills to make sure this doesn't happen again.

>>25031858
This.

Rolled 32

>>25031842
Shit, we need to improve our work if we want to get back on the Urist's good side. Apologizing won't help, we need to learn bronzeworking tips!

Go out to a local blacksmith bar to listen to the old-timers.

Rolled 19

>>25031856
>>25031874
These three rolls are the next jobs results

>>25031842

See if you can't pick up any tips from the dwarf if he's still working today.

If not, then visit a couple of the other smiths and request to watch them work, maybe even help out if that isn't taboo.

Otherwise, my default is to go to the Tavern, listen for any info on unusual forging techniques.

Oh, and if we can visit the other smiths, I say we visit the elf or Anamman.

I can't believe that she'd only forge jewelry...

And as for Anamman, I'd really like us to learn not-damascus.

>>25031856
>>25031874

Urist heads out of the workshop as you start to pack up your things. As soon as he's out of sight and earshot you immediately drop everything and start forging the almighty hell out of the ore.

>85
>Great

You heave the ores out of the forge after working on them, bringing out bronze bars of a very high quality. They shimmer in the light as you place them onto the anvil.

>>25031874
>95
>Great

Invoking visions of the Blacksmithing gods of old you start to smith the bars. Your hammer rains down blows upon the bars, twisting them to your will.

After a number of painstaking hours you emerge with a set of four, very-high quality bronze platebodies. The light-brownish hue accentuated by the glow of the forge.

You place them onto the table within the workshop, give them a final polish and head off into town.

>You smithed like a man possessed (you probably were), and you somehow made 4 platebodies before the end of the day.
>Urist has gone to get supplies, he will be back in the morning.
>+0.2 to smithing and forging.
>Wat do?

>>25031976
We're probably going to need a place to stay for a while. Look for long term accommodation.

>>25031976
lock up and head to a tavern. We need ale

>>25032003
You head into the housing district of Belerin. There are a number of houses with 'for sale' and 'to rent' signs in the windows.

You manage to find a nice little apartment, 1 bedroom and running water, for 5 silver pieces a day (collected every week).

Of course, you have to pay in advance.

The landlord hands you the key as you hand over the silver pieces and leaves you standing in the street alone.

The house is half an hour away from the shop, so travel won't be a problem. 35 pieces of silver will be deducted from your savings every week, starting from today.

>265 silver left.
>Sleep for the night, or do you want to hit the tavern?
>It is about 9 pm.

>>25031735
Wow, what a douche.

>>25032091
Hit the tavern and learn about the town while making friends.

Rolled 36

>>25032091
probably ebst to get drunk and go to sleep since we worked so late, don't wanna be sleepdeprived in the morning

>>25032129
>>25032153

You head to the tavern with the intent on having a few pints.

You make your way onto the main street and see a few pubs you can choose from. Each of them is usually frequented by a select group, and each of the Blacksmiths you 'interviewed' will most certainly be here, along with a number of other shop owners.

>Death's Door (Van Gan)
>The Last Stop (El'Galia)
>The Dented Shield (Feldane)
>Two Moons Tavern (Urist - not present)
>The Rising Sun (Anamman)

Which one will it be /tg/? I have added the blacksmiths as a number of you did want to strike up some conversation.

>>25032091
Check out the tavern but don't stay too late, gotta work in the morning!

>>25032091
Scope out the local tavern for fine wenches, enjoy a drink or two then head back and sleep.

>>25032214
Rising Sun, Anamman sounds like the best name to try and pronounce while drunk

>>25032214
>The Last Stop (El'Galia)
we are going to drink her under the table, then wake up in the morning next to her, with a beard on her face

>>25032214
Rising sun

>>25032214
>>The Rising Sun (Anamman)
Let's go musclebefriend Anamman.

>>25032214
>The Last Stop (El'Galia)
Elves cannot resist our beard

>>25032214

My first choice is The Last Stop.

On a side note, learning how to forge jewelry will allow us to make ornamental weapons that nobility would likely commission.

So, her craft isn't particularly useless. Dem nobles love some ornament.

Rolled 26

>>25032235
Fucking an elf so hard they grow a beard i'm in.

I'm putting the notion to rest that we cannot give a female Elf a beard.

No matter how good we love her.

She's probably not interested in a 20 year old human with a beard to rival Zeus anyway.

Now, will this influence your decision at all?

>>25032253
Samefag

Jewelry also require very precise and elaborate work for good pieces. Along with high purity smelting foir superior quality of the piece.

Delicate work that requires dexterity... It's perfect for an elf and a craft that a dwarf or regular smith would definitely lack..

Truly, each of these smiths has a fine quality of their own.

>>25032278
this will only make us want to give her a beard harder

Rolled 48

>>25032278
Dude we will befriend her anyway for we are a gentleman

>>25032278
then why put a female Elf in BEARD Quest, if we cannot give her a beard?

THUS IT IS. WE CAN GIVE HER A BEARD

>>25032292
*sigh*.

Tallying the votes now, who knew that Blacksmith Quest would have such a great following of anons?

>>25032278
>notion to rest
>CANNOT give beard

so you're saying we can give her a beard?

GIVE HER A BEARD

Rolled 1

>>25032314
We are Bro's of the Bearded Blacksmith God

>>25032314
No Beard
Gotta have some contrast.

>>25032314

First quests usually see a lot of interest. I'd like to see where this goes.

Also, your creation threads garnered interest as well.

As an aside, I say if El'Galia has any drunken concerns of other smiths looking down on her as a woman and elf, we diplomance her to convince her that in wearing some clippings of our own glorious beard, she will gain the respect she deserves.

>>25032338
give her a beard, down there, that should contrast nicely

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>>25032314
>surprised that /tg/ likes dwarfy things

>>25032316
>You know what I meant.
>3 for Anamman, 4 for El'Galia. Oh jesus, here we go.

You step into the Last Stop, it's a relatively small tavern with lots of intricate woodwork adorning the walls.

You buy yourself a drink and look around the place to see who else is in here.

You notice someone in the corner with long blonde hair, it can only be El'Galia.

You walk over to the table and cough slightly to announce your presence. She turns her head and sees you standing there.

"Alaric, nice to see you again!" She smiles as she speaks to you, she stands up and gives you a slight hug. Your heart skips 3 or 4 beats.

"Come on sit down" She leads you to the seat by your hand, as if you were some kind of child.

"I understand you went to Ulric, what was it about him that made you want to be his Journeyman?" She takes a gulp of her drink (milk) and smiles at you over the table.

>Elf wooing time.

>>25032364
"I am only new to smithing, I need to improve my skills on more simple, robust items before attempting works of art"

Rolled 17

>>25032364
I do not favor a particular niche of smithing and he offered the widest expanse of teaching

>>25032364

"Well, I had in mind that as a dwarf, he'dd be the most balanced smith to learn from.. However aside from working on bronze platebodies, he didn't really teach me anything...

He got a bit mad because I botched my first attempt.. However, I'm interested. Where'd you learn your craft? I appreciate that most of your orders are jewelry, however have you received other sorts of orders in your time within this city?"

>>25032397
ignore the roll i forgot to get rid of dice

>>25032364
Odd to find an Elvin smith, what is it that drove you to the art of metal?

>>25032400
Samefag

Bring up her choice of drink in conversation as well...

"Do you not partake in any... stronger drink? It'd be an honor if I could share a proper drink with you, as friends."

>>25032364
"I figured it'd be best to start in a non specialised environment. Perhaps in the near future I could...diversify."

>>25032345
That is a surprisingly good idea.

"Well he gave me my first job today and I messed it up, so he got a bit mad..." You look down at the table and take a big swig of your pint.

"But I went to Urist because he seemed to be the best all-rounder, and I still need to build my experience with as much training as I can, before specialising in a certain type of product, like you and your jewellery."

"I don't *just* make jewellery you know" She scoffs at you over the table, "I hate the reputation that because I'm a girl, all I can make is pretty sparkly things!"

"Well, what do you make?" You enquire.

"...well...I um.....OK, I've only been asked to make jewellery, but I can make swords...and...and...armor!" She starts to justify herself as you just nod and agree sarcastically.

"Humph!" She pouts and turns away from you as you start to slightly poke fun.

"No I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. Tell you what, if I end up staying in Belerin I'll give you your first proper order. How's that sound?"

She quickly faces back towards you as her hair flicks over her eyes for a split second before drifting back down to the sides of her face. "Really? Do you mean that?"

"I promise" you reply. She smiles at you and takes another mouthful of the drink, her eyes never leaving yours.

"Anyway, I better get going...busy day tomorow!" You finish your drink and say goodbye. Her eyes follow you out of the tavern and through the window as you walk past, her finger tracing the rim of the glass.

>Night time.
>I've got a BBQ for dinner now, so I've got to go.
>I'll be about 2 hours, I will revive the thread then.
>We will continue the thread back in the shop, and Urist will see what we've made.
>If there's any questions about the setting or the system, just ask and I'll answer them when I come back.

>>25032485
>Her eyes follow you out of the tavern and through the window as you walk past, her finger tracing the rim of the glass.
oh we are so going to give her the beard

that is a terrible euphemism

looking forward to when you get back OP

>If there's any questions about the setting or the system, just ask and I'll answer them when I come back.
do we have a beard down there?

>>25032485
>pouty elf

It begins.

>>25032485
Cool beans. Thanks, OP.

>>25032485
And so BEARD QUEST turned into yet another elf waifu quest.

>>25032537
dude, our beard is so awesome it needs its own waifu's

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>>25032503
Our beard is endless and bountiful.
Just like our love.
You thought I was going to say dick.
Fucking perverts.

>>25032566
our dick is endless

there, i said it for you

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>>25032577
You could say we just beardly contain it.

>>25032537

Only your actions can prevent this.

I'm honestly only interested in her right now for knowledge of her craft.

>inb4 her sword/armor is shit.

If she starts coming on, we should at least play hard to get and let any romance come from the workplace.

Also, if we end up as her apprentice in the future we can't have romantic involvement... it'd be unprofessional. . . However, when we set up our own shop that doesn't mean it can't be something more.

All I'm saying is that if she's going to be a waifu I want it to be earned.

Right now our only waifu is our learning and our anvil.

>>25032600
This.

We earn our waifu's, our beard on the other hand...

I really want to know what kind of awesome weapons/armor she can make, and how much it would cost to commission her to make us something

I propose this as thread theme music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5nE4UqqLk

>>25033015
I approve

This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbnT-cIDVM is more badass.

>>25033138
Oh god, I'd almost forgotten about that show.

Since we're in Berlin and didn't come with two and a half million men plus six thousand tanks in our ranks to use as battering rams, I think it's time for some German folk music.

http://youtu.be/HWo3kPp8IJo?t=3m3s

>>25033347
Goddamit Adolf, go to sleep you're drunk.

You step into the workshop in the morning and Urist is standing there, you think he's smiling but you can't be sure.

"Mah boy!" He shouts and grabs the platebodies that you had smithed the other day. "I thought ya were gonna pussy out, but nae, your almost as stubborn as me!".

You can't help but smiles as he appreciates the effort you put into those platebodies.

"I'll see the customer about these, maybe try to see if he'll pay a little more!" He hefts the platebodies into a gigantic rucksack and goes to leave the shop.

"I'm gonna leave the shop in your hands today boy, if anyone comes in, just remember..."

"The customer is always right!"

>Vote time, what kind of job are we going to do?
>See if a customer comes in and take the order?
>Help Urist with the backlog of smithing?
>Or special event smithing?

>>25033573
Special event smithing sound cool.

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>>25032590
CARLOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!

>>25033573
Backlog. Any smith worth his salt, especially in a major city, is going to have a backlog, even if it's just shoeing horses, nails, or even screws(even if those are a bitch to make without machines). We free up some of his time and clear that mess out, as a good apprentice should, and our master smith can teach us what he knows.

We've already proven we can do good and stick with it in a pinch, now it's time to step up and earn our keep.

>>25033573
Backlog!

>>25033677
This is what we should do. Freeing up time to actually learn from Urist is far more important than any special event.

>>25033705
>>25033696
>>25033677
Guys, if anything has special on a sentence is the only right choice! Think about it.

>>25033719
Backlog THEN Special

>>25033677
You look around the shop and find Urist's notebook on the table. You start to flip through and quickly find that he has a fair jobs still to do.

>Smelt some bars to free up more time for smithing.
>Smithing job (1d999 to determine what it is)

>>25033746
The smelting bar sounds sensible enough.

>>25033746
Smelt some bars. Useful stuff the apprentice can't screw up. We will smith something up if there is time afterwards.

Rolled 725

>>25033746
Bars first, then we do whatever it was I just rolled.

>>25033756
Indeed. Having bars and rods(most weapons were forged from rods instead of ingots since they're easier to heat evenly and blend if that's called for) on hand is always a good idea.

Rolled 582

>>25033746
we'll make massa proud

>>25033761
>>25033775
You notice Urist has a lot of orders that aren't difficult, they just take a lot of time. Taking that into consideration you think it'd be better to smelt some bars and then help him do some smithing.

You load ore into the massive forge and start piling up bronze and iron bars in the corner of the workshop. In a few hours you've actually got a fair few done, that'll do wonders for Urist's workload.

You place another 2 bars down into the pile when you see a figure appear at the door. "How can I help?" You start to dust your hands off as you walk towards the figure.

The man standing in front of you is one of the town guard, but he has a large, silver, 4-pointed star on his breastplate. "Is your Master in?" The man enquires.

"I'm afraid he's out, but I'm looking after the place" You motion around to the shop.

The man looks around, surveying the place. "Indeed." He mutters. "Anyway, I have an order for you, I need a set of 7 pairs of bronze gauntlets for the new recruits, and I'll need them in a few weeks."

You start to repeat what he says as you jot it down in the note book, "7...bronze...gaunlets....few weeks...got it!" You place the pencil and the notebook in your pocket.

"I'll be up at the castle when you're done, just ask for Captain Tobias." The man turns around, hands behind his back and walks out of the shop.

Shortly after, Urist walks back into the shop. "Good work laddy," he says as he spots the pile of bars in the corner "that'll free up some time for us."

You hand him the notebook and he thumbs through the pages. "Well I don't see why we shouldn't get to work on those guantlets, they can be tricky little buggers so I'll give you a few tips."

>You've already forged the bars, 1d100 for smithing.

Rolled 91

>>25033886
Here we go!

Rolled 3

>>25033886
Come on dice gods, don't fail me now.

Rolled 8

>>25033886

>>25033917
Thank god you're first

>>25033927
Indeed.

Rolled 45

>>25033886
please don't be low

>>25033917
whew

>>25033917
>91
>Great

You start to smith the small, fiddly parts that go into joining the gauntlets fingers and joints together. Urist starts to work on the large pieces of the gauntlet.

He looks over and see you making very good progress on the joints, "Hey you're better than I expected!" he starts to laugh as he shapes the bars into the necessary parts.

You eventually have all the pieces needed to put together the gauntlets. "Now here's where it gets really fiddly" Urist mentions as he pulls out a much smaller hammer. You study closely as he hammers all the joints, pins and parts for the gauntlet into place, the end result is a fully function gauntlet.

"Now you try."

>1d100 for gauntlet assembly
>forgot to mention +0.5 points for forging all the bars.
>Urist's experience will give you extra points in smithing, depending on the next roll.

Rolled 8

>>25033992

Rolled 93

>>25033992

>>25034008
fuck you dude

we probably lit our beard on fire because of that roll

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>>25034011
Well then, we have our winner I think.

Bit of arms and armor, even if it's not bronze.

>>25034016
Don't give him ideas

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Rolled 17

>>25034016

>>25034016
Dude chill out, it's just a fucking roll.

>>25034011
>too late
>>25034008
You almost drop the pieces as you start to manipulate them into place.

"No laddy, ya almost had it". Urist takes the pieces off you and shows you again. After a few attempts you manage to put together a gauntlet.

"Aye, that's more like it, now you've done one we can get to the rest of them!" He dumps a load of gauntlet pieces onto your part of the table and you start to piece them together.

After what seems like eternity you now have 7 pairs of ready gauntlets, all cleaned up and ready to go.

>No experience gained due to shitty rolls.
>I'm trying to be vague when mentioning time, I'm not sure how long these damn things take, so I'm apprehensive about giving you a proper time limit.

"Right, I'm off to the pub, I trust you enough so you can do what you like!"

>Pub
>Deliver goods
>Forge
>Smith
>Whatever

>>25034077
We need to keep hammering away, we're shit.

Rolled 88

>>25034077
>>Deliver goods

>>25034077
Keep smiting. We can deliver the goods on a slower day since they aren't required for a few weeks.

TO THE BACKLOG!

>>25034076
I'm not really mad, I just figured it was necessary. I'm doing god's work.

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Rolled 28

>>25034129

>>25034101
Wit a roll like that we going to deliver that shit well

Rolled 56

>>25033992
You should try a more sophisticated dice system. It needs to be somewhat reliable and still allow for crits.

The bare-bones of one I'm currently working on is this: First three d20. 11 and above is a success. Crits either remove or add two successes (20 counts as three successes: 1 normal +2 crit). This means there are 14 distinct possible outcomes (-6 till +9; no -5 and no +8).

About 80% of the results would be within the 0-3 range while crits easily move it out of that range. There is about a 6% chance for -1/+4 and 3% for -2/+5.

>>25034084
>>25034112
As Urist leaves you flip through the notebook again.

"Platebodies...chainmail....longsword...." You stop as something grabs your eye.

Someone has ordered a full suit of steel armor. Helmet, platebody, legs, the works.

And it's due in 3 days.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" You start to panic as you run around the shop. Urist is long gone and probably on his eleventh pint by now, so it looks like it's up to you.

During your years as an apprentice you learnt how to forge bars and work metal, but nothing on this scale.

>You gotta start from scratch.
>What do?

Rolled 3

>>25034212
Find the iron ore, calculat how much we need, add 10% to that number to be safe.

>>25034212
Let's pull an all nighter on this baby.

>>25034212

¨My first full plate , this will be my finest creation¨

Rolled 83

>>25034212
Channel the Beard, young one.

>>25034237
>inb4 natural 1.

>>25034178
I've got 1-20 as a poor attempt (crappy quality, decreased number of products).

21-50 is middling.
51-84 is average.
With those 2 you'll get the job done.

Then 85-95 is great, the work will be high quality or you will make more of the products.

And 96-100 is perfect, God-tier equipment. I think if we ever smith a perfect weapon I'll do a full on blacksmithing scene and we'll christen the damn thing.

We also have 4 character stats that I haven't really gotten around to explaining yet. Maybe on the next thread.

>>25034246
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESI5gHPJDs

Rolled 54

>>25034212
Let's smith some bars were gonna need them now or later.

Rolled 40

>>25034212
Full plate takes a little while to make, especially good steel plate.

Time to step up and hop to. We'd best start smelting the iron to make the steel and get as much work as possible done while our master is drinking. hopefully we can get started with the smiting on the morrow.

Rolled 98

>>25034291
second this! we need to prepare, the smithing won`t start until tomorrow, we can still
>>25034101

>>25034310
Smithing will start right now, we have three days and full plate takes a long time.

>>25034276
You do some quick maths in your head, you remember Helbrecht using a ton of ore to make a suit of armor once.

You grab the rocks and pile them near the forge, and add a couple more for good measure, you're no where near as good as he was.

People are still walking through the market place and you are smelting these bars.
The sun disappears behind the horizon and you can hear the merry-making of the tavern-goers, and yet you are still smelting.
Urist comes back in the morning and you are there....still smelting.

"Have you been here all night boy!?" Urist almost sounds angry, you get the faintest whiff of ale from his breath, Dwarves barely let it touch their tongues.

You rub your bleary eyes and give him the notebook. He looks at it and his eyes open wide.

"Shit, looks like we forgot about one." He looks around at the massive pile of steel ingots and rods you have laid next to the forge.

"Get a few hours kip upstairs, I'm gonna need your help for this one...". Urist starts to pile up the bars nearer the anvils as you make your way upstairs.

You find a small room with some blankets in and just fall into them, going to sleep as soon as your head hits them.

1/2

>>25034310
>98
Please let this be used please

>>25034353
The smithing will come later, it's the smelting that we have to worry about right now.

Thankfully the guy doesn't want maile under the plate, otherwise we really would need the smithing gods to pull it off.

>>25034369
Don't be cheaty.

>>25034399
Making a full chain mail suit in those days in under three days may be more then the gods themselves could do.

>>25034368
After about 5-6 hours of sleep you head back downstairs.

Urist throws you a loaf of bread, "you're gonna need your strength laddy, eat up!".

You scoff the bread down and grab a hammer.

Urist starts to lay the ingots on the anvil and focuses on the task ahead. "It's gonna be a long 2 days, let's get this over with!".

You quickly hang a 'closed' sign outside the open doors and rush back to the anvil.

>1d100 for smithing success.
>You will be playing striker to Urist's Master smith.

Rolled 2

>>25034413
Full plate takes at least 2 weeks

>>25034413
I have literally no idea of the timescales that medieval blacksmiths had.

I can understand that chainmail would take a shit load of time, but I have no idea about the rest of them.

Any ideas?

>>25034435
Fuck you ,just Fuck you

Rolled 92

>>25034431
Also are you planning on running more threads or is this a 1 shot?

>>25034435
....really guy

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Rolled 15

>>25034233
>>25034435
seems ive been using a d10

>>25034452
>>25034473

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>>25034464
I plan on running this as a proper quest. Even more so now that I see everyone seems to be getting in on the action.

Also, fantastic roll. This is really gonna boost the efforts.

>>25034435
But is that one smith working?
Also, is he doing full days?
Also, if he a Dwarf?

>>25034464
He's planning on more I guess since there's character development.

>>25034481
Thank fuck

Rolled 10

>>25034246
There are only 5 distinct outcomes. There is a 5% chance for the absolute best one and 20% for the worst one. No matter what we do we will make either fuck up or totally ace one in four attempts. That's pretty extreme. I will stop complaining about the dice-system now though. It's not like it's worse than what all those other quests use.

Rolled 31

>>25034413
I doubt you could draw enough wire for a suit of maile in 3 days.

>>25034449
Generally, a very long time depending on quality, but as we seem to have some kind of divine intervention, I think it's safe to say we can shorten the figures a bit. Munitions plate could be made very quickly, but lordly-level stuff would take months depending on how many other people had to work on it(engravers, silversmiths, etc).

Your current scale works for now though.

Rolled 64

beard gods lend me your scruff

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>>25034464
Despite your gargantuan efforts and your best attempts, the full suit of armor still eludes you.

You have managed to get the platebody and legs in about 20 hours, an incredibly difficult tasks, worthy of the gods themselves.

Urist wipes his brow, "We're not going to get this done without some extra help."

"Go down to one of the other blacksmiths, we'll see if they have some time to spare."

>Choose a blacksmith to help you out for the last day.
>We will go to their smithy and try and recruit them.

>>25034481
Why are you lying about using a d10, if you look at the e-mail field both of posts clearly have d100.

>>25034531
I mean we did promise the elf we'd send her some proper smithing work...

Rolled 8

>>25034532
because he an agent of the Unlucky, sent here to curse us

>>25034531
Go grab the elf lady maybe? We said we'd give her a real job after all.

>>25034531
El'Galia may be helpful. her nimble fingers would be better suited for the articulations in the gauntlets than us, and she did complain about only doing jewelry.

>>25034496
I will probably revamp the dice results for the next thread then.
>>25034500
I know that you will eventually have to submit a master-crafted item to become a Master smith, this might take you years of working though.

But for now, what are the timescales like? Should I be more specific?

>>25034487
You don't have to be faithful to real-times OP, just estimate the work and balance it so it doesn't take the same time to make a fucking platemail than doing just a pair of gauntlets. Besides that, you're golden.

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>>25034587
For exact timelines I'd need a bit more information on exactly what we're looking at. Hoplite style armor is pretty simple and could be done in a few days, but something like pic related with full articulation and screws could take 6 months or better. Also requires that the person be there to fit for it since that stuff has some really close tolorances.

Maile is also very time consuming because it involves wire, and lots of it.

That said, unless we're going for ultra-realism, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

>>25034575
>>25034584
>>25034585
>Pretty much unanimous.

You head over across the street to El'Galia's shop. You knock on the door and she quickly answers.

"Alaric! It's so good to see you!" She looks up at you and notices your coal stained face and your bleary eyes. "What happened to you?"

"You know how you always wanted to work on armor? Well now's your chance..."

__________________________

"Ya had ta bring the Elf didn't ya laddy?" Urist peers up at you after doing the finishing touches on the platebody.

"She's a proper....." El'Galia cuts you off before you can finish the rest of the sentence "I'll have you know I'm as good as any other smith on the street!".

Urist sighs and hands her a hammer. "Now we've got the rest of the suit to finish, much smaller pieces this time so try not to hit them too hard."

"I'll hit the metal first, Alaric you hit it where I hit it and Ellie you hit it where Alaric hits it." Urist gathers you around the anvil.

"It's El'Ga....." She is cut off as Urist hits the metal first. "Oh!" El'Galia exclaims as she almost misses her first hit.

Pretty soon you've worked up a fantastic pace and you can see the metal forming very quickly.

>Smithing success!
>+0.5 to forging, for the awesome forging skills.
>+0.5 to smithing.
>Time to finish the damn suit.

You each stand over the finished suit of armour with pride, "Thank God we got that finished!" Urist shouts, breaking the moment completely.

"Time for the finishing touches, Ellie, I think you might be able to help with that. Do you have any engraving templates or anything like that lying around?" The Dwarf breaths on a rag and polished the knee of the armor.

"I might have something in the back of the shop..." She quickly heads out of the door and you and Urist clean yourself up.

>>25034587
Have thought of using the first three rolls?
A botch will cancel out the highest roll.
Some idiot rolls a 1.
Someone else rolls a 56
And someone rolls a 98

the 98 would be cancelled by the 1. But 56 would remain as our result

>>25034769
The 1 should be only cancelled by a 100... Just saying.

Right time to unlcok a new finishing skill;

Engraving.

Using engraving, you can inscribe or chisel on a pattern onto metal. This can be as simple as carving your initials into the armor, or as complex as a full blown floral motif.

>>25034749
Which is exactly what El'Galia has in store.

"Here we go!" She hands a few stencils and lays them over certain points of the armor. The chest has a central motif and the joints of the armor have a few patterns adorning them.

She hands out a few, vary sharp looking tools and tells you to be very gentle.

"It's been a while since I've done this" Urist says and studies the tool quite carefully. "If I were you laddy, I'd concentrate on somewhere where the detail won't be noticed so much."

>1d100 for engraving attempt.

Rolled 26

>>25034801
oh boy

Rolled 10

>>25034801
May our beard empower us.

>>25034769
Do you know what, that was my first thought. It would make complete fails a lot less common and would also give me more room to define the 'successes'.

Like I said, a revamp is in order, so I will take this into account as well.

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>>25034813
>>25034812

>>25034778
I'm just using those numbers as an example

1-20 is a poor attempt, it would cancel the top results we can roll. f our roll is a godly 98, then it would be removed.

Rolled 64

>>25034801
Let's see how this works out. We may yet have lessons to learn this day.

>>25034769
I like this idea. Going on an average does mean less critical successes, but it also cuts down on the chances of us royally screwing the pooch on something vital.

Rolled 30

>>25034769
Thats basically what my system does. I just reduced the dice from d100 to d20 because I also embraced the possibility of stacking crits. Having ONE of three rolls be a crit should never be the most you have planned for.

>>25034821
Well you can also change it do a d20 system

A d100 system is rather... well I suppose it's just a matter of taste

>>25034867
I like d100 systems

>>25034801
Let's see what happens

Rolled 76

>>25034885
OOps wrong field

Rolled 4

>>25034892
damn too bad you didn't go first.

Rolled 47, 27, 33, 15, 37 = 159

>>25034904
meh
oh well, never rolled dice before on 4chan.

>>25034904
past the beard, this is some of the worst rolling I've ever seen in a thread.

>>25034812
>>25034813
>>25034838
>Going with the average of first 3 rolls, lucky you.

Your engraving is inaccurate, the depth is not uniform and even though you are following the stencil it just doesn't look right.

Thankfully, you're working on the joints near the ankles, so no one should see what a shit job you've done.

"Don't worry Alaric, these things take time" El'Galia smiles at you as she deftly starts to carve the main rose motif into the chestplate.

At the end of the day you are left with a fine suit of steel armour. Expertly smithed and with an average floral motif throughout, it's a job well done.

"Thanks Ellie, we couldn't have done it without ya!" Urist thanks the elf and starts to place the armour back onto it's stand.

"Well it's been a long few days, I'm gonna call it a night" Urist takes his gloves off and places them on the anvil. "You kids can do what you want, Alaric make sure you lock up."

Urist heads upstairs as El'Galia wonders what he means by 'kid'. "I better be off now as well Alaric, I'm tired after all that hard work, maybe armour isn't for me after all."

"Thanks for helping us out El'Galia, and don't be too hard on yourself, you make a pretty decent armoursmith" You smile at her as she walks out.

You breath a sigh of relief and look at the suit of freshly polished armour as it gleams in the moonlight.

"Wow, what a day."

>>25034867
How would chaning from d100 to d20 improve it in any way?

>>25034934
What a day indeed.

Pack up our stuff, lock the door and hit the tavern.

Rolled 87, 43, 39, 18, 41 = 228

>>25034934
Time to lock up and get some rest.
We've worked hard... really hard.

Oh to hell with it.
Time for ale and buxom barmaids!