Titus picks up the piece that would become the shield and plunges it in the water. He doesn't know if he should leave it or pull it out after some time. He concentrates at the bubbles coming out the hot piece as steam esapes into the air. He the pulls ht metal out and places it on the table. Hopefully that's how she will do it...
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 2, 2013 12:38:50 GMT -5
Poppy glances over to Titus, keeping her gaze mostly on the forge. He was doing... alright. Better than many probably would've done for their first time. But that plate of his would not be able to stand against the power of high quality weapons, no first-time smith's work could.
She uses her industrious tongs and pulls her plate of metal out of the flames of the forge and places the plate on the anvil. She lifts Whomper once more and brings it down on the plate, starting to shape it further. Slowly, the plate starts to take shape, becoming flatter and wider.
It would seem she was creating one side of a plate mail chestpiece.
Titus observes Poppy repeatedly, sometimes mimicking everything she does to learn from smithing. The he looks back at his own plate. He plans to a make an ancient shield from old antiquity: a scutum. He decides to place the plate back into the fire. Using the tongs, he picks it up and places it back into the fire.
The forge's intense heat starts to get to him. Titus' own sweat rapidly drips down from his hair. By now he's already panting like a dog.
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 3, 2013 12:49:51 GMT -5
"If you wish so. I usually work for hours on end like this, yet you've only been working for maybe half an hour. I guess that shows how hard of a work this craft is."
Poppy chuckles and lifts Whomper up to her shoulder and nods towards the living room, walking over to the room first herself and sits down, leaning Whomper against her chair as she waits for Titus to come over to the room.
Titus removes the metal piece sitting in the fire and cools it again before placing it at the table. He places the hammer besides the table and wipes his sweaty forehead. When Titus walks out of the forge and back to the living room. The air in the living room is still warm, but somewhat relatively cooler than the forge. He sits down in the chair opposite of Poppy and looks at her warmly.
"Well smithing is harder than I imagined. I thought it's just hammering away till you get something.
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 3, 2013 15:07:19 GMT -5
"That's the difference between a starter smith and a master of the craft. Starter simply try and smash the metal into shape, and hope it is strong.
A master will carefully mold the metal, tempering it, shaping it, melting it if it isn't up to standard and starting over. No matter how long it takes, a master smith will create a masterpiece that will stand against anything that other smiths can create."
Poppy takes one of the cups and pours juice into it, taking a sip and leaning back against the chair before continuing.
"You know the type of blade that Shen, the Eye of Twilight, uses? That blade is perhaps the strongest and hardest blade to create that is mere metal. The blade is at the beginning a wide plate. Then it is folded on itself once, shaped, folded again, shaped again, and so forth over a hundred times. It takes weeks to create, and it is sharp enough to cut through your average armor as if it was made of leather instead of metal.
That is the power of a master smith, and that of patience."
((From what I remember, the japanese Katana were actually created like this. The blade was folded on itself hundreds of times to create the amazingly sharp and strong swords the Samurai used.))
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 4, 2013 15:56:36 GMT -5
"Indeed. Do you not want anything to drink? You seem quite thirsty."
Poppy takes another sip from her cup, not exactly tired or showing any signs of exertion yet, despite working as hard as Titus had. It was obvious that she was in exceptional shape from both her work on the forge during her childhood and the constant work on the League, and training for the League matches.
"Also, despite needing a lot of strength, you need to be accurate with your swings. One missed swing can take an hour's work to revert. Smithing is not an easy profession to learn."
He felt like he wants to take off the blacksmith outfit. He remembers one time when he discovered an exoplanet with a blanketing carbon dioxide. For a moment, Titus felt like that exoplanet as the heat couldn't escape. He's thirsty and sweaty.
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 5, 2013 14:25:41 GMT -5
Poppy sighs, pointing at the pitcher of juice and the cup in front of Titus.
"This is all I have right now in the smithy.
And how does anyone become a master of their craft? They practice, they work on their skills, they work tirelessly. My father spent decades perfecting his skills...
And by doing that, he became the best smith Bandle City has ever seen... one of the greatest the world has ever known."
Titus takes the cup and a pitcher of juice and pours it down to the cup. Then he takes the cup and takes a massive gulp before refilling it. Titus is really thirsty but the juice helps it.
Post by The Iron Ambassador on May 6, 2013 1:57:56 GMT -5
"Most do..."
Poppy grabs Whomper and lifts the massive hammer up quite casually, looking at the hammer. Memories start flooding her mind as they always do with the hammer, and she seems to lose focus on the world around her as she wonders in the memories.
Titus takes another sip of juice before looking at Poppy again.
"Yea...say Poppy. Do you want to go out and grab some lunch..."
Titus notices Poppy holding up her own hammer and ignoring every word he said. For such a heavy hammer, she can lift it quite easily. Titus notices Poppy just gazing at the hammer as if she's lost in it...
"Poppy? Poppy. Poppy! Can you hear me?" Titus yells out.
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