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Drunken Durfin
05-24-2009, 04:00 PM
Okay, so here is the conversation that sparked this post:


Khapens whispers, "What does that knife do...an essence blade?"

Khapens whispers, "Has a very very very old script on it....not sure at all what it does."

You quietly whisper to Khapens, "I have had it for longer than I can remember, what is the script?"

Khapens whispers, "Not sure at all.....thats how old it is! Never seen nor heard it I dont think."

Khapens whispers, "Can't tell what it does for the life of me...just something about an essence blade."


>tap knife
You tap a veniom-etched fluted skinning knife, which is in your right hand.

You sense a faint aura of magic around the fluted skinning knife. From the pitch of the vibration you determine that the purpose of the knife is as some type of weapon. Also, it seems to have some sort of enhancive properties.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the fluted skinning knife in your hand...

The knife resonates with your voice, indicating that it enhances its owner in the following ways:
The item doesn't seem to do anything!
The knife looks to have a huge number of charges remaining.

You sense that the fluted skinning knife will persist after its last enhancive charge has been expended.


I have had this thing for years and years, no idea what it does. I remember buying it as a "congratulations you just made 40th" present to myself way back in the day. Any information would be appreciated.

Dhuul
05-24-2009, 04:07 PM
Just a thought, but the knife's bonus may be to skinning (it helps you when you skin, but doesn't add to First Aid/Survival)...and yet there is no default description for this in its loresong. Weird, because an item like that shouldn't use the charge system. Then again I never understood those skinning knives.

Drunken Durfin
05-24-2009, 04:09 PM
It is not a skin enhancing knife, I have had those and this is not one of them.

Mainly I am curious about the "essence blade" part that the GM noted.

Dhuul
05-24-2009, 04:24 PM
Essence Blade (410) Creates a magical blade, plus of caster's level.

elemental blade before it was moved up a slot, it seems. the guy is confusing it with an elemental blade/elemental wave item?
that's my guess. were it some ancient "essence blade" (essence being the general ICE term for the elemental sphere) I doubt it would be made partly of veniom, since that is not an ICE age metal. Unless of course it was converted. Also, how could it be ICE if is enhancive? added later? I don't know...

Drunken Durfin
05-24-2009, 05:34 PM
Actually, that would make sense. I have never used this for anything other than skinning. So, if someone had e-bladed it prior to my purchase back then it would still have the old "essence blade" spell active on it.

The odd loresong could be the result of Khapens starting the process and then going "hey, what's this?" and then the knife swap out.

Thanks for the help.

grenthor
05-24-2009, 06:28 PM
How does the system handle eblades? Since they work on swings that bit about the number of charges remaining could be the way the system is interpreting how many swings are left.