The Royal Artificery Society - OOC II: electric boogaloo

[MrAbdiel]

Cooly cool. Well, I think by the time he gets home, it's more than halfway through the day; and he might just put that time into the boat with the lads and daydreaming about his art project for the Archduchess. But the next day he'll get to it.

He's fascinated by the new wood but expects that might take him a little slower, more careful effort to pull off. So his plan is to make a regular violin in the style he intends to make the later masterwork one from the special wood; the masterwork coming in the form more present in particular resonance qualities and such things that are unlikely to radically change through the process. That way, Shandara can get to work imagining how she will get to enchant the thing.

I'll mark off the 1gp,6sp,7cp it costs for the raw mats for a regular violin; but I'll roll even though he's using normal wood. He's trying to make this one with enchanting in mind, with a few of the insights he gleaned from briefly borrowing Shandara's enchanting skill, after all.

I think I'll hold off using that day's +8 luck bonus because... it's starting to feel a tad cheesy to lean on it when we're working in this timescale. A 'little' roll like this doesn't quite deserve it!

Luthiersmanship - (1d20+22)[34]. No need to accelerate the creation, so the DC for a high complexity item is typically 20.

34*20=680sp worth of woodwork in a week, or 97sp 1cp in a day's work. ~9GP is clobbers the base cost of 5GP for the normal quality instrument, though I'll naturally yield to suggestions that it takes more time because of enchanting considerations etc. But under normal conditions he should crank it out the following day and deliver it to Shandara that evening. Then he's free to start doing some small experimentation on the Tundra Oak and Bogwood. If there's anything he can do to increase his odds of successfully completing the product, sort of practical research on the materials in his workshop, he'd be keen to do some of that.