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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Welcome ladies, gentlemen, beasts, Immortals, Gods, Buddhas, Devils, and all the others! The 304th sensational once in a millennium crafting tournament! This time we have gathered 3 to 5 beings (Gods and magic tranquilizers willing) to compete in making the best magical trinket, medicine, weapon, armor, or honestly whatever the hell they want really. Through the use of many sub-dimensions and a hint of accelerated time enchantments we will be providing everything from the simplest elder dragon core or billion year old booze, to the rarest of ingredients such as a blade of grass grown on a world completely without magic or a herbivore rabbit!

The catch? Well they have to collect the items themselves. Though it isn't like we haven't gathered those capable of doing so. With that in mind we have laid down some ground rules so we don't end up with overlapping tournaments (such as our third which is still ongoing and we expect to finish sometime after our 1000th tournament). There will be 3 parts to our event. Each part will contain three steps of gathering, material preparation, and creation. The contestants will be provided with up to a decade of gathering, a year of preparation, and a day of creation for each piece they want to make during that part. Now most of us don't want to spend that long so we will be using the previously mentioned time enchantments to speed it up from our perspective (yes we are using them for the third tournament, don't ask). Now, lets introduce our 'guest' contestants!

Spoiler: The Rules and other boring stuff (click to show/hide)

Now the biggest catch is that I plan to turn this into a nice little short story after wrapping up (and thus why I am putting a hard limit of 9 turns for creation and 1 turn for presentation). That means I will later be posting the final product to royalroad.com and the Patreon for my writing endeavors. If you are uncomfortable with me profiting off of your participation in this please don't join in (anything I post to RR comes out a week early on my Patreon as that is what I promised).

Anyway, now onto the actual rules for character creation and such. First off as this is a RTD about item creation, your character needs some kind of background in doing so. It can be as long or as short of a history with crafting as you want. We don't discriminate here so a grizzled adventurer who just decided to start doing wood carvings last year is just as valid as a 100k year old immortal alchemist who has long ago formed his golden core and now crafts magic pills that bring down tribulation lightning. You do however need to be in some way capable so as to gather your ingredients. Also while I don't mind if you call yourself bob, having a powerful name and a few titles wouldn't hurt. Besides your name you also need a race. Your base race needs be mortal though besides that I leave it up to you (though include ways to do your crafting, a cat doesn't have thumbs but if it has telekinesis that doesn't matter as much). I say base race as all of you need to come up with some reason your character is immortal. It could be that you where a boring human but through foul alchemy you have become a skeletal menace known by many as a lich or you were the above cat and through living hundreds of years became a spirit because you survived so long. Oh and since your immortal don't expect to die though there can be permanent penalties. Finally choose a tool you brought with you. Give it a nice description and the tool will provide a ±1 stabilizer when being used (using your family heirloom hammer when forging for instance). I do say tool but you can have it be a set of tools though they have to be used together for the bonus. Anyway that is about it for your character. You can write more of a background if you want but it isn't required.

Each turn will be either about gathering materials to craft with, preparing the materials for use, crafting, and the final turn will be displaying your item. With gathering you will choose the type of location to gather in and what you want to find there. I will probably have to bang this into your heads a few times but use adjectives and descriptors. Iron from the side of a mountain is cute and all but if your opponent gets celestial sky iron from the side of a continent spanning meteor crash site warmed by a fel fire that glows green at night which they also collected to use during the forging process they have a better chance of winning at the end if they manage to actually make something out of it.

With the preparation turns you can process as much or as little of what you gathered. Stuff like drying herbs, turning ores into ingots, and other such tasks. You can of course directly use some materials (and may benefit from it in some cases) for crafting or keep the materials around for a future turn (maybe while at the boring mountain you didn't just get iron but also an elder rock worm and now that your at a sea plan to use that as bait to fish up something amazing).

Crafting turns are when you transform something into something else. This could be a complete item like a sword. It could also be a part of something like just the blade. There may be some bleed between this one and gathering. The biggest difference between the two is that I wont let you for instance 'create a sword' during preparation.

Finally is the turn where you all get to show off your item. Basically choose some situations to show off your item being used. Make an awesome sword? Have it chopping through progressively harder things. The only catch is I will limit you to 5 displays and they are done in the order you tell me. This means if you try to start with your iron sword cutting through a wood block then I will likely just let it happen but you pretty much wasted that display. On the other hand you could try starting strong by having your iron sword chopping through a diamond only to have it shatter and get stopped dead in your tracks.

Oh and I will mostly try to keep the pluses and minuses low. No +5s running around unless you REALLY earn it. Basically I want the dice to decide your fate. Though the more descriptive you get the more dice rolling I do, this can be a good thing. If you just say you make the sword then I roll 1 die and we see how that goes down. If you describe doing the different steps to it then even though you might fail at sharpening the blade you can in most cases just try again next turn. Also smaller bits have smaller consequences. If I roll a 1 to 'make a sword' then your likely to just lose all the materials qhile a 1 on sharpening at most might just require you to reforge the blade. Also curve balls may appear and will be dealt with through PMs though they will be posted in a before the turn post and I will note such cases in my PMs.

Anyway I am accepting up to 5 people though once I hit 3 I wont wait too long before starting. To get in on this just post your character like so
Name:
Race:
Tool:
Description: (this is where you put your experience with crafting and how you became immortal)

Spoiler: The Crafters (click to show/hide)

Player: FallacyofUrist
Name: Sankis the Dwarf
Race: Dwarf
Tool: Pickaxe
Description:
-Sankis was a mortal dwarf inventor, a master of clockwork and devices of all sorts, an engineer without peer. Then the god Gai-gen choose him to be his representative among the mortals, granting him a gift of immortality, along with a staff charged with Gai-gen's own power and an amulet that enhanced creativity. As it turns out, immortality lasts a long, long time.
Player: Glass
Name: Erin Quill, Magitechnician and Arcaniturge
Race: Human/magic cyborg kinda?/metal wood robot/I don't know
Tool: Erin's converted barn workshop. Already large, bigger on the inside, with a wide variety of tools and a nice big wall to paint blueprints onto.
Description: (under construction, may be a day or two)
Erin Quill is Inspired. That is, he's a mad scientist. To be honest, though, that's one of his lesser-used abilities.
Erin is also a Technomancer; he can take the type of magic that he uses to power his mad science and turn it into other types of magic. His abuse of this started when he came up with energy crystals, and changed his magic into a solid form, and used these crystals to power his creations; he later managed to shape these crystals into being the creations themselves.
Erin managed to access a universe made entirely of magic. The ground, the air, the souls and gods, all made of magic at the atomic level. Once Erin realized this, he - simply put - had a field day. He turned a lake into liquid fire, a roiling pit of sand, a pillar of crystal. He continued to use his Technomaning powers to create his myriad devices, but now, he would make them out of materials shaped out of raw magic, as with the world he had visited.
Erin's immortality doesn't have to with this stuff - "arcaniturgy", he calls it, the working of magic - but rather with the fact that he's used some of his creations to sustain his body, replaced any limbs that don't work well enough with prosthetics made of ironwood, and added a recording chip into his brain, so that if his head is damaged enough to kill him, his mind (and, by the power of magic, his soul, too) will get uploaded to a supercomputer in his workshop until he can rebuild a new body.
Player: Maximum Spin
Name: Ravana the Bodhisattva of Strength
Race: Kind of an oni thing.
Tool: The Hammer of Sunyata
Description: literally just the demon Ravana
I like Ravana, okay
but this time he's a bodhisattva, don't question it
Player: ziizo
Name: Marlene the dressmaker
Race: human
Tool: workshop in a box, contains her boutique and a small smithy.
Description: Marlene was a simple dressmaker until one day she found a unicorn corpse and decided to use  it's leather and hair as material since then she travelled the world searching for others interesting materials to expand her craft.
Her most famous creation was a dress for the fairy queen Ophelia made of the wings and skin of her enemies, Ophelia granted Marlene eternal youth and immortality as payment for it.
Player: Shadowclaw777
Name: Cacaw The Wondrous
Race: Ravenfolk, or also known as Kenku
Tool: Bionic Hydraulic Multi-tool Graspers attached to the Bird’s Spine (Bionic Graspers, for short)
Description: Many make fun of the Kenku race since they can’t fly and can’t speak because they gave the bird to their Raven goddess, but Cacaw was a extraordinary crow-man who was both a practitioner of the Occult and a 200 IQ Tinkerer, and because how Corvidae can store a lot of neurons inside their heads it’s no wonder that Cacaw was a master of collecting shiny things and making wondrous birdlike inventions, the most magnificent demonic communer for his Occult work and the Crow through his sly cunning of a bird allowed him to trick a devil lord into a contract for the immortality of Cacaw in exchange of the powerful Surtr but it was a knock off instead, and the contract bonds Cacaw into eternal immortality!

Character Introduction Pre-turn

[FallacyofUrist]

Wow. I haven't seen you in a while. Still like playing mafia?

Name: Sankis the Dwarf
Race: Dwarf
Tool: Pickaxe
Description:
-Sankis was a mortal dwarf inventor, a master of clockwork and devices of all sorts, an engineer without peer. Then the god Gai-gen choose him to be his representative among the mortals, granting him a gift of immortality, along with a staff charged with Gai-gen's own power and an amulet that enhanced creativity. As it turns out, immortality lasts a long, long time.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Yeah, I did disappear there for a bit. Mostly a factor of not having a lot of free time at my computer. Forums are not that fun on a phone. Besides that while I still like things like Mafia my current work schedule is too unstable to make things like that viable. I am only attempting this because I am putting a hard limit on the turn count.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

So I am getting a 'not interested right now' vibe

[Glass]

I'm interested! Just gimme a moment to get my sheet up.

Name: Erin Quill, Magitechnician and Arcaniturge
Race: Human/magic cyborg kinda?/metal wood robot/I don't know
Tool: Erin's converted barn workshop. Already large, bigger on the inside, with a wide variety of tools and a nice big wall to paint blueprints onto.
Description: (under construction, may be a day or two)
Erin Quill is Inspired. That is, he's a mad scientist. To be honest, though, that's one of his lesser-used abilities.
Erin is also a Technomancer; he can take the type of magic that he uses to power his mad science and turn it into other types of magic. His abuse of this started when he came up with energy crystals, and changed his magic into a solid form, and used these crystals to power his creations; he later managed to shape these crystals into being the creations themselves.
Erin managed to access a universe made entirely of magic. The ground, the air, the souls and gods, all made of magic at the atomic level. Once Erin realized this, he - simply put - had a field day. He turned a lake into liquid fire, a roiling pit of sand, a pillar of crystal. He continued to use his Technomaning powers to create his myriad devices, but now, he would make them out of materials shaped out of raw magic, as with the world he had visited.
Erin's immortality doesn't have to with this stuff - "arcaniturgy", he calls it, the working of magic - but rather with the fact that he's used some of his creations to sustain his body, replaced any limbs that don't work well enough with prosthetics made of ironwood, and added a recording chip into his brain, so that if his head is damaged enough to kill him, his mind (and, by the power of magic, his soul, too) will get uploaded to a supercomputer in his workshop until he can rebuild a new body.

[Maximum Spin]

I'm interested! Just gimme a moment to get my sheet up.

Wow. I haven't seen you in a while. Still like playing mafia?

Name: Erin Quill, Magitechnician and Arcaniturge
Race: Human/magic cyborg kinda?
Tool: Erin's converted barn workshop. Already large, bigger on the inside, with a wide variety of tools and a nice big wall to paint blueprints onto.
Description: (under construction, may be a day or two)

haha I see you copied from Fallacy's post

Anyway,
Name: Ravana the Bodhisattva of Strength
Race: Kind of an oni thing.
Tool: The Hammer of Sunyata
Description: literally just the demon Ravana
I like Ravana, okay
but this time he's a bodhisattva, don't question it

[Glass]

Damnit *facepalm*

I'm on my phone, so I wasn't able to highlight just the character sheet from the main post. I hadn't noticed I'd pulled Fallacy's comment as well as his sheet. :/

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Wonderful, with 3 people in now I will wait a couple of days then if we don't get anyone else start the show.

[ziizo]

Name: Marlene the dressmaker
Race: human
Tool: workshop in a box, contains her boutique and a small smithy.
Description: Marlene was a simple dreesmaker until one day she found a unicorn corpse and decided to use  it's leather and hair as material since then she travelled the world searching for others interesting materials to expand her craft.
Her most famous creation was a dress for the fairy queen Ophelia made of the wings and skin of her enemies, Ophelia granted Marlene eternal youth and inmortality as paymemt for it.

[Shadowclaw777]

Name: Cacaw The Wondrous
Race: Ravenfolk, or also known as Kenku
Tool: Bionic Hydraulic Multi-tool Graspers attached to the Bird’s Spine (Bionic Graspers, for short)
Description: Many make fun of the Kenku race since they can’t fly and can’t speak because they gave the bird to their Raven godesss, but Cacaw was a extraordinary crow-man who was both a practitioner of the Occult and a 200 IQ Tinkerer, and because how Corvidae can store a lot of neurons inside their heads it’s no wonder that Cacaw was a master of collecting shiny things and making wondrous birdlike inventions, the most magnificent demonic communer for his Occult work and the Crow through his sly cunning of a bird allowed him to trick a devil lord into a contract for the immortality of Cacaw in exchange of the powerful Surtr but it was a knockoff instead, and the contract bonds Cacaw into eternal immortality!

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Okay, that is everyone. I have a little college work to finish but then I will get everything started.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Okay, folks! We have collected all 5 of our crafters so Let's do a little bit of an intro for you all! First up we have Sankis. He’s a dwarf. I know right? Crafting competitions and dwarves go together like beer and dwarves! Anyway, the interesting bit about him is he is a God’s Chosen. That’s right, we have Gai-gan’s own here today personally to try his skills against our other competitors. He was actually the first to show up and arrived a full decade ahead of time with just the clothes on his back, a staff from his God, an amulet also from his god, and oddly enough a pickaxe. Believe it or not he chose the pickaxe as what he would bring with him during the competition. Odd as he is in fact a master of clockwork and an engineer without peer. Anyway, can we have a round of applause for our brave dwarf!

[The audience claps and a few observant people notice Gai-gan in the God section looking proud]

Next to arrive we have Erin Quill. Once a human and after years of self modification something beyond that. Held together only by the sweat of his brow and the magitech of his own making he will be our first cross-dimensional competitor introduced this round! This mad scientist with a skill for converting between different types of magical energy really came into his own when he pierced the veil between worlds. Now why is he here? Simply put he annoyed someone he shouldn’t have. The wonderful playground he found, a realm made entirely of mana, was in fact a sub-dimension to this one. A God of magic was cultivating it to test some theories. Now Anulap didn’t really mind him messing with the realm. However he polluted over ten millennium's worth of research. By entering the realm he introduced non-magic based material to the realm in an uncontrolled manner. To make up for this and not be cursed to lose all magic he is here to win the tournament and gift the prize to Anulap or at least that is the plan. Seeing as we brought his lifeline and key to his immortality here in the form of his entire workshop he will need to think of something or it might be lights out for him! Can he make it? Who knows but let us have another round of applause!

[More applause]

Now for an odd guest. Another dimensional traveler and this one even from an alternate dimension at that! We have Ravana the Bodhisattva of Strength. Apparently this title is an odd one for him to have. Honestly, this is a bit of a wild card contestant for us. Literally as he was randomly summoned because we wanted something different. He is some kind of Oni thing with ten heads and more arms than I can bother to count. The tool he got summoned with is called “The Hammer of Void” though he insists that doesn’t really encompass what it is. Says they call it “The Hammer of Śūnyatā” but our translation spell keeps auto-correcting it. As a compromise we ended up just naming it “The Hammer of Sunyata”. He sort of wants to get back to where he is from. An understandable goal and winning might just give him that. Though don’t worry, we aren’t just kidnapping people for the competition. Our ritual pulled him here during a malfunctioning teleportation which would have scattered his soul and essences across the ether. So let’s have a round of applause and cheer for him to get home!

[Lots of applause and some of the odder folks with a strange number of limbs are particularly loud]

Our next competitor arrived a week ago. Welcome the well-renowned dressmaker, Marlene! Famous for the dress she made for the Fairy Queen Ophelia. Crafted with the greatest of care from the Queen’s fallen foes. In fact, we have Ophelia herself over in the fae corner right now! Please be a dear and fly up so we can show off your dress for all to see! Okay, thank you for that and thank you for bringing Marlene to our attention. That’s right folks, another guest! Both the most boring of ways to get into this competition and the way we get some of our more interesting competitors. Will she just be filling in a slot or will she impress us? For her tool she brought a top of the line boxy workshop! This one modded to not only contain her boutique but a small smithy as well. Let’s all cheer her on, it is always nice to have home-grown talent win!

[Cheering can be heard, especially from the fae and human sections]

Finally, an odd one! Let’s all welcome Cacaw the Wondrous! A Kenku prodigy with a genius IQ and some bionic graspers grafted onto his back. This guy has tricked a Devil Lord into granting him immortality. Can this practitioner of the occult win out over the others? Hopefully, they don’t try to make any deals with him or things might end quickly. A final round of applause then!

[There is applause but over it all the sounds of all the beastkin roar and cawing is heard]

Now let’s get this party started! Now for the first round of gathering. How about we go down to our competitors and ask them were they would like to go?


((Describe where you want to gather from what you are gathering, and how. Where is required and will be rolled. What is also needed but the gathering of it is not. However, describing the gathering can positively affect your chances of gathering what you want. Oh and please don’t just say you want to gather from a ‘real’ place. While it might be fun to try to gather the molten remains of the One Ring from Mordor, this is a competition on creativity.))

[ziizo]

Spoiler: Year 1 (click to show/hide)

Travel to the garden of Leizu (chinese goddes of silkworms and silk) and work there for a year in exchange of enough silk for a traditional dress, if possible try to work with the draconic-silkworms in exchange of divine dragon-silk.

The process of harvesting silk is simple the silkworms are feed malburry leaves grown in the divine garden until they form their cocoon (Draconic-Silkworms are also feed algae and fish if they are aquatic or horse flesh if they are not), once this cocoon is formed is left to dry for a week (or actively dryed in case of aquatic Draconic-Silkworms). Once the Cocoon is dry the pupa is killed through a careful aplication of heat normally trough steam or leaving them in a low heat oven (The aquatic Draconic-Silkworms should have died during the process of drying the cocoons and for the others Draconic-Silkworms one must use the steam of a specially prepared poison).

Dragons are normally divine beings and their killing would be a great offence but these Draconic-Silkworms are the exception, guilty of imnumerables crimes these dragons were partially turned (because is imposible to fully force a shapeshifter into a form without their approval) into their opposites (worms being the opposite of dragons in chinese culture) and condemned to death.

Once the pupas are dead the cocoons are carefully tipped in hot water so the silk filament separate from it, these filaments are then woven into a thread with a silk reel and from threads into cloth trough a silk loom, both of these tools were invented and crafted by Leizu herself.

Every turn is supposed to last a year isn't it?

[Glass]

>Is here because I angered a magic god
Was not expecting that, lol. To be honest, the character as whole is based on an idea for a character to play as for Genius: the Transgression (where I got the "technomancy" term for the changing magic type), with Creation (the setting of Exalted) being the world made of magic that he got access to.

Anyway, for memory's sake: wood, fire, earth, metal, water.

Spoiler: Turn 1 (click to show/hide)

I need a forest.
That does not mean "all the trees in a forest", that means "I need a forest. The whole thing. Intact, preferably". It would be helpful if the forest was particularly magical; either "good" magical or "evil" magical would be ok, but frankly I'd prefer it just be unaligned magical.

It doesn't need to be a huge forest, mind you. I could probably do well enough with a sizeable chunk of a forest.

Anyway, basically I'm going to get some chalk or other manner of marker - probably some other manner, I need it to stick around - and go around the forest (or through, for a sufficiently large forest), setting up the markings. Then, returning to my base, I'll set up and conduct a ritual (well, of a sorts; it involves checking that all the machinery being used for the process is working properly, the bronze pentacle I have worked into the floor hasn't warped at any point, I've gotten all the leylines properly aligned, etc.) that should bring the place in - full-size but also small enough to cover about 1/5 of a globe. I'll be wearing special gloves so that I can handle it without going into it or breaking anything.

I'm going to make a planet. One made of magic, too.

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: Year 1 (click to show/hide)

The Deep Underdark of kilometers beneath the ground of course, I need metallic ores, precious gems, and eldritch artifacts that are bountiful in here. Utilizing my genius level IQ crafting a Infrared-Vision Helmet that fits for a Kenku head and that Demonic Communer which is basically a Universal Translator.

The simple process is metal and gem extraction. First is to setup a stockpile base made of Stone on where I spawn and then setting up a foundry and smithing area made out of stone and coal as its fuel to extract precious ingots out of metal. Then the true harvesting begins, where the search of all metallic ores are desired from the largest preference is for titanium and gold ores and none of that fake gold, as well as for gems any will do but the biggest priority are ruby and topaz. The usage of Cacaw bionic graspers that serve as a multi-tool Swiss Army knife is perfect here because it can be used to extract ores and natural fuels, craft buildings like stockpiles and a foundry for casting metal.

This is a lot of mining and extraction that is required of precious ores, so inside the Stockpile Base, Cacaw The Wondrous will perform very simple demonic rituals because he’s trying to collect imp workers the weakest kind of devils, there intelligent enough to follow basic command though rather small but great servants to be sent to extract precious metals while Cacaw helps by gathering more workers and mining in-between. The imps would even be great workers for the automation that is required in being a laborer for hauling ores and working in the foundry. Now you may wonder that there are a ton of eldritch horrors in the depths but Cacaw with his Legendary cunning guide can even with his Demonic Communer (Universal Translator) will allow him to make any deal of tentacle aberration from grells and hooked horror to appeal to their greatest motive and turn it around on their head, allowing them to leave them alone during mining operations without trouble. If there is trouble, sending imps at the problem is  still a secondary solution.

Now seeing for even an immortal is difficult during the total darkness of the Underdark Caverns and that Crows and Kenku have a thicker retina than most mortals, and their eyes are larger in proportion to their head size. They have much denser rods and cones packed on the retina, giving them superior vision in both black-and-white and color. Therefore through Cacaw intellect, the vision doesn’t really affect the imp workers since they have demonic senses, is that more than just coal-based torches after the beginning stages will be utilized for vision but instead the transition to electrical lights from a coal generator, will be utilized as the copper wiring is in-between and the ore extraction efforts will begin.

As you can see the starting in this area is for the most precious metal of all, a composite, it’s a titanium-gold alloy that has a multitude of uses and is very powerful. The gems will also be useful in making the artifact that Cacaw desires to be very alluring and captivating to look at.