Reservations with Intentions of Future Shop

[Akio Naito]

NEW SHOP:

With Akio's new Crafting skill, he's officially opening his own shop. But before anything can be sold, it must first be crafted.

Name: Kathedrale - Reichlich
Description: Intended for marking the boundaries of an area for archery training or friendly duels between quincies, this basic Kathedrale consists of four hand-length stakes of soul-synthesized silver capped with quincy crosses. A wooden storage block is included for convenience.
Class: 7
Item Type: Utility
Item Power (IP): 0
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: 100
Bonuses: Driving the stakes into the ground in the proper formation will cause thick lines of blue reiatsu form across the ground, connecting to form a square containing a stake at each corner. Once this boundary-marking ritual is complete, the crosses mounted to each stake will begin drawing reishi from the air to refine and purify it in preparation for arrow construction.

So long as the user remains within the borders of the marked sqaure, they may use their bow to fire Class 7 arrows without a reiatsu cost by creating them from the reishi refined by the Reichlich. Other quincy who enter this area of effect will also receive this benefit.

Drawbacks: For obvious reasons, only quincy (and nakkabaki with quincy bow releases) can use this item to create arrows. They cannot make use of the gathered reishi for any other purpose as it's been pre-processed for specific use in arrows. The Reichlich can only refine reishi for the most basic of arrows, and so arrows of Class 6 or above retain their full reiatsu costs even within its area of effect. The user may only benefit from the Reichlich while standing inside of its area of effect, they may not make use of its benefits while extending any part of their body outside the square's borders.

Removing even a single stake instantly ends Reichlich's effects, though they may be reused without consequences. Destruction of a stake will similarly bring an end to this item as a whole, a very real risk for how fragile they are.

Cost: 1000 Ryo
Crafting Skills: Craft 1, Ginto 1
Donated to Urahara's: Donated to Akio's Shop.

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Name: Kirchenglocke
Description: Made of a specialized glass derived from Heuco Mundo's white sands, Kirchenglocke are sealed ampoules made in the shape of arrowheads and filled with a white liquid reiatsu.
Class: 6
Item Type: Consumable Weapon
Item Power (IP): 400
Offense Type: Spiritual
Durability: 100
Bonuses: Quincy can fire Kirchenglocke from their bows by forming an arrow attached to the glass arrowhead, which may then be notched and fired as normal. While clearly designed with the standard bow and arrow in mind, they may be incorporated into nearly any arrow Form property causing a cosmetic transformation in the projectile that marks it as containing an ampoule.

Arrows containing Kirchenglocke ring like an iron bell upon impact as the glass arrowhead shatters. Freed from the airtight ampoule, the volatile liquid reiatsu within expands into a diamond-white bonfire. This cold, white, smokeless flame is actually a high-density reiatsu that attempts to deconstruct anything engulfed into its component spirit particles.

Non-quincy who wish to use Kirchenglocke may throw the arrowheads by hand, requiring at least 1 point in a thrown weapon skill to compensate for their unintuitive aerodynamics.

Drawbacks: For obvious reasons, only quincy (and nakkabaki with quincy bow releases) can use this item as part of an arrow.

As single-use consumable weapons, Kirchenglocke are as fragile as they are destructive. It applies only half of its IP for the purpose of resisting durability damage. A broken arrowhead ignites instantly, potentially harming the user or their allies.

Cost: 4000
Crafting Skills: Craft 1, Ginto 1
Donated to Urahara's: Donated to Akio's Shop.

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Name: Kyōkai Keisei - Spirit Lock Formation
Description: A thin rectangle of cherry wood marked on one side with a single brushstroke that forms a circle of reiatsu-conductive ink. Roughly seven inches long and three wide.
Class: 8-6
Item Type: Defensive
Item Power (IP): 100 +100 per class [Maximum 300]
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: 200
Bonuses: A user can activate the spirit lock Formation by tracing their finger around the circular marking and filling it with their reiatsu before pressing the blank side against the surface of a door.

Once in place, thin strands of condensed reishi will form a barrier which pins the spirit lock in place and seals the door shut. This reishi barrier prevents anyone other than the user from opening the door from either side. Attacks with intent to force the door or destroy the lock clash must clash against item Power as if it were a defensive stat.

Drawbacks: Costs 25(+10 per class) reiatsu to activate. Only the user who paid this cost may deactivate the barrier by touching it and spending an additional 25 reiatsu to deactivate the lock.

The barrier created by a spirit lock formation is meant to deter the curious rather than stop determined threats. Anyone strong enough to damage it through that defense is free to continue bashing until the lock breaks.

While the spirit lock formation offers a powerful defensive barrier, it can only be applied to doors. Archways, windows, and other such openings cannot be sealed by this item. An enemy unable to break through the barrier may simply elect to break through the undefended wall rather than the warded door.

Cost: 1500 +1500 per class [Maximum 4500 Ryo]
Crafting Skills: Craft 1
Donated to Urahara's: Reserved Akio's futures shop.

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Name: Shikigami - Golden Rabbit
Description: A hand-sized paper talisman embroidered in a pattern around the outer edge and marked by a single brushstroke of reiatsu-conductive ink that forms a verticle line down its center.
Class: 7
Item Type: Consumable Utility
Item Power (IP): 25
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: 100
Bonuses: To use the Golden Rabbit Array, the user speaks a message, which can be no longer than a few minutes, into one of the talismans, then pays 5 reiatsu and names or describes their intended recipient. The recipient need not be specific, "A shinigami" is equally valid as "Yamada Taro", though such non-specific messages will be sent to the nearest person who meets the given description at time of sending.

After a recipient is named, the talisman transforms in a plume of white smoke to reveal a gleaming golden rabbit with ruby eyes. This messenger rabbit can automatically sense the intended recipient's location and immediately seeks them out, running as fast as it can and automatically jumping over most obstacles. The messenger rabbit does not tire from running or jumping at high speeds.

The messenger rabbit continues to chase its recipient for twelve hours or until it catches them, whichever comes first. When it does reach the recipient, the rabbit relays the message exactly as spoken. It then fades away in a faint twinkle of light having achieved its goal.

Drawbacks: The Golden Rabbit Array cannot send messages to other worlds. In the event the recipient is not in the same realm of existence as the sender, the messenger rabbit will run in circles until their target enters the appropriate world. Attempting to send a message to a character actively using stealth techniques will cause a similar effect, the rabbit running circles, unable to deliver its message until their intended target stops using stealth.

Summoned rabbits are harmless messengers, and defend themselves only through escape and evasion. A rabbit struck by an attack immediately dissappears.

Cost: 250 Ryo
Crafting Skills: Craft 1
Donated to Urahara's: Reserved for Akio's future shop

[Koshka Volkov]

Heya Kura! To note real quick, you do actually need to have a the eligible character at Class 3 in order to open up a shop. That said, I'm more than glad to get these going as a sort of "pre-grading" for when that occurs!

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Beginning with Reichlich, this is really really cool!! Given how the item system works though, I'm going to ask that this have an Item Power; even if you'd like to set it to 0.

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Up next is Kirchenglocke, and I honestly don't have any problems here; this is pretty solid!

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Spirit Lock Formation is the first one that really sees any noticeable changes, and unfortunately it's a bit of a bigger one. As detailed in Section 8, there are SkP requirements for crafting higher-Classed items.

When creating an item for a custom shop, the player must first have a skill that relates to the item, such as Weapons – Swords for knowledge on how to craft standard swords and only those weapons, or else have SKP invested in the Crafting skill. Making a Class 7-5 item requires a 1 in the appropriate skill, making a Class 4-2 item requires a 2 in the appropriate skill, and making a Class 1 item requires a 3 in the appropriate skill.

If you'd like, given Akio currently only has a 1 in Crafting, we can set this to a Class 6-5 item for the time being, with an adjustment being submitted each time you gain a new Rank in crafting. The only cost to you that would have to be paid would likely be just the per-class upgrades (if that), given you're not making a brand new item or anything of the like. Other than that, I ask the reiatsu cost be set to 25+10 per class! Gets a little more expensive as time goes on, but given no set duration, I don't think that's going to be too taxing.

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And lastly, we've Golden Rabbit Formation! Where it stands this has rather strong combative application; I ask the speed is toned down to at most, 600 given this is still a Class 7 item. In regards to stealthed individuals, I'd like it clarified that they're by no means good indicators of where those stealthed individuals are, as to make sure it's not a cheap anti-stealth tool. On that note, I'd like the cost increased to 250 Ryo, but that about sums up my thoughts~!

[Akio Naito]

Ahh, sorry. Had the feeling I'd overlooked something, but not what it was. Wouldn't have bothered the grading staff if I had remembered the class requirement. Pre-grading is appreciated but should not take priority over other player's grading requests.

Though with that in mind I would prefer to craft two copies of Reichlich now. I do not with to create the others at this time.

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I'm glad you think Reichlich is cool.

I've added an IP of 0.

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Kirchenglocke was not the one I expected to clear a balance check.

I did make an edit to remove the Kathedrale name from it, because in hindsight I'd rather keep that set exclusive to certain subset of quincy-specific items rather than quincy items in general.

No mechanical changes were made.

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As we gret into the Spirit Lock Formation, I'll admit that the Kyōkai Keisei series of items wasn't the best idea, and will probably need a retool. They were meant to be overcomplicated mystic relics devoted to mundane tasks (barring doors and mailing letters).

I've trimmed it down to a class 6 at highest with the increased reiatsu cost as requested. I also crunched the durability down to a flat 200.

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In hindsight, I should have left the speed and tracking abilities of the Golden Rabbit Formation undefined. They're weren't intended to have any combat or anti-stealth uses. At most, they're a way to call help without a two-way line of communication already established.

While 1800 was far too high, the faster than bala speeds were only meant to compete with more mundane ways of sending a message, like phones. At this point I'd rather remove the mechanical speed entirely and let any uses for calling help be up to cinematic usage.

The interaction with stealth was communicated poorly in my part. I had tried to preemptively shut down sending a stealthed opponent a message with the idea that "general area" meant that it would wander wherever that thread was set without any particular ability to find them. Clarified that by having stealth be treated the same as going to other worlds.

Cost increased.

[Koshka Volkov]

Absolutely no worries~!! I think that's definitely a fair trade-off, given the situation ^-^

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No notes on Reichlich!

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Similarly no notes on Kirchenglocke, was mostly okay with this one due to how it Class clashes!

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Much appreciated on the Spirit Lock Formation changes~! Honestly, I do find this to be really cool as well! There's a lot of real good use that could come from this!

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With Golden Rabbit, changes look good here! I definitely get what you were going for on that, and honestly I dig it pretty heavily! One note though, I'd like this one to have an IP as well x) I apologize for missing that the first time around!! I do really like these items, though~! Super unique, with quite an amount of practical use!

[Koshka Volkov]

Awesome~!! 1/2

[Kitai Yoru]

These are neat. 2/2