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[✗] Stars in the Skin: Skinforging


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     Skinforging is essentially, the combination of two recipes from Alteration Alchemy and Warforging. A mixture of rare recipes not often shared amongst alchemists, now to put together into one to create an all new effect. This concoction of recipes allows for the effects of warforging, which usually only apply to metal, to permanently apply to the flesh using the alteration recipe for the skin. The effects are permanent, though.. Never to be reversed again, except temporarily with a skin potion.

 

     Skinforging was discovered by the alchemist named Leniandir Lorenthus, in the 2nd age, Year 23. While searching for a way to incorporate more fantastical effects for inks and make-ups, she was presented with the alteration recipes that spurred on several weeks worth of research. By the end of these weeks of research, holed up in her underground home, she'd emerged safely with sparkling and twinkling stars now embedded in her skin, vials in hand triumphantly.

 

- Skinforging is Rare alchemy, meaning only those who have been taught it may learn it.

- In order to learn this recipe, the character must already know Warforging, and Alteration Alchemy

- Those who only know specific warforged variations can still learn this recipe if they also know alteration alchemy, but can only use the warforged variants they know.

- All glowing effects of any potions from Skinforging are just barely lit enough to be seen in Dim -> Dark lighting, but do not light anything around them. The effects can be noticeable in Bright lighting as a gentle glow, but essentially, they cannot ever be used as a lightsource that could provide any advantage in the dark.

- All recipes under Skinforging are Tier 3 alchemy.

 

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Recipe and Creation: Full Body


Alteration Alchemy Skin Potion
+
Warforged Potion [Variant of choice]
     With an added:
     2x Endurance

     1x Connection

     1x Rigidity

     + metal dust, as fine as possible

 

     For mixing the recipe which will become the bath used to treat one's entire body, a specific set of steps need to be followed. Firstly, the alchemist will need to prepare the Skin Potion, using a cutting or sample of skin from the person who is going to be treated. When it is fully prepared, go ahead and dump it into the container that the person will bathe in.

     Secondly, while the skin potion is resting in the container, the alchemist will begin to prepare the variant of Warforging recipe they intend to apply to the person. It will be prepared separately, and 2 extra counts of Endurance will be added [all variants] to the potion while it is being heated. Then, the alchemist will take a metal dust, any mundane metal and as fine as possible, and disperse it into the potion, so the effects will have something to activate with. Now, while the warforging potion is still boiling hot, and as quickly as possible after having added the metal dust, add 1 count of connection, and then combine the boiling warforged potion with the Skin potion in the container. Then as they are mixed together, add 1 count of Rigidity. 

 

     This process will be the same, regardless of the variant of warforged potion the alchemist chooses to use. However, the effects that each variant cause are different. The resulting sensation caused by each transformation of the skin is also quite different between each variant.

 

The Variants, Their Effects, and How it Feels: Full Body

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Starforged:

     When applied, this extremely complex and volatile potion will add at random, throughout the entirety of the flesh or what flesh was exposed to the bath, twinkling specs of starry light. They vary in size and brightness, and even shape, but they do not move across the flesh. These little stars in the skin are static, although they twinkle as stars do, occasionally going out for periods of time and brightening once more, there are no shooting stars or endless galaxies, like there is when you apply the starforging to metal. 

The twinkling specs are always randomly distributed, though a pattern may be visible if you looked for one, this is only through pure circumstance, the person is unable to affect in any way where the stars will be aside from selectively applying the potion over certain areas of their body.

 

Application Process:
     For starforged, it feels as though hundreds of thousands of impossibly thin needles are pricking the skin, as the fine particles of metal embed themselves. Over time, perhaps ten to fifteen minutes, this slowly progresses into the feeling of your skin being cut and pricked all over, and just a minute or two into that it was soon clear it felt more like large fire ants swarming and biting into the skin. This remains relatively the same for the remainder of the full 30 minutes, the burning of thousands of ant bites. It is recommended to a helper on standby to pull the person out of the tub if they bathe their entire body, as it is possible to lose consciousness.

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Lavaforged:

     When applied to the flesh, the lavaforged variant of warforging the body will produce at random, red scar-like “cracks” in the skin which will reveal small sections of flesh [No larger than a quarter] that glow as if they were red hot metal. These ‘cracks’ in the skin are only aesthetic, though, and if one were to run their fingers over them they would feel just like smooth skin. 

 

Application Process:
     When applying the lavaforged variant, any flesh exposed to the alchemical concoction will gradually throughout the 30 min period of treatment increase from a mild warmness to feeling as though your skin were being seared away from your body. It can be very difficult to withstand, however, it is possible. It is recommended to have someone on standby to help you out of the bath if applying it to the entire body, as you might go unconscious. This feeling of burning flesh is not actually the flesh being burned, though, it is the effect of the concoction and there is no real injury after the effects have been applied to the skin.

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Stormforged:

     When applied to the flesh, the stormforged variant of warforging the body will produce a dynamic display, similar to what can be seen with lightning travels through the clouds without exiting. As though underneath the skin, small jolts of electricity will sporadically travel within, around the area where the blood veins are. The jolts do not exit the skin, but stay just underneath. If the skin is cut, or there is an open wound deep enough to bleed from, little static-like jolts of electricity will jump about at random on the bleeding area until the bleeding is stopped. This effect is visual only, and will not affect anything around it.

 

Application Process:

     When applying the Stormforged variant, any flesh exposed to the alchemical concoction will gradually throughout the 30min period of treatment increase from a static-y feeling and tingling of the skin, to what feels similar to full body shocking. Like you’ve grabbed onto a bolt of lightning and can’t let go, all the muscles in the body will tense and person being treated will be unable to move. At the end of the 30 min treatment period, someone else will need to be able to help the person out, if they’ve bathed their entire body in it. Otherwise, they will eventually go unconscious and drown in it.

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Iceforged

     When applied to the flesh, the iceforged variant of warforging the body will produce what appears to be an almost crystallized icy layer over the skin. Like frosted patterns covering the skin, it may catch light easily and just gently shimmer in direct light or around nearby light sources. This is only visual, and does not change the hardness of the skin at all, running your hand over it would reveal a perfectly normal texture. This crystallization or frozen looking visual might concentrate more on pointed areas, suchs as cheekbones, noses, shoulders, collarbones, elbows and knees, etc. It is entirely random and different for every person.

 

Application Process:

     Like the others, the process of warforging the Iceforged variant onto the body is painful, and volatile. In this variant, any flesh exposed to the potion will experience at first, a mild chill. However over the 30 minute period, this mild chill will progress into what feels like full onset hypothermia, by the end of the period rendering the person almost completely unable to move. They will require someone on the outside to help them out, should they bathe their entire body. Otherwise, they will eventually go unconscious and drown.

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Lightforged:

     When applied to the body in a bath, the lightforging variant of this concoction will produce areas of dim glow, either in a color that was specified or white on its own, which seem to collect in the hands and feet. The glow travels up the arms and legs until close to the torso, where wisps of light will occasionally reach and move about under the skin before fading.

 

Application Process:

     When bathing the body in this variant, at first it will feel as though the sun’s light is beating down upon your skin. However, throughout the 30 minute process, it will progress from a subtle warmth, to extreme sun poisoning by the end. The body feels wracked with cold chills, and even the smallest of movements send a wave of searing pain. Every part of the skin is left extremely sensitive to touch and movement. It is recommended to have someone nearby, as it is likely the person will be unable to move for a short period afterwards.

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Full Body potion Redlines:

- Any and all variations of the full body application are 100% permanent. They can never be reversed. If the skin is cut, scarred, burned, etc. then the area will scar over with a dulled or darkened version of the potion's effects, not with normal skin.

- Alteration Alchemy skin potions can temporarily work on the effects of skinforging, but this reversal is not permanent and follows all the redlines of the Skin Potion.

- Skinforging cannot be used to permanently change the tone of one's skin, the person that the potion is being applied to must be the one the skin sample was taken from. All of the effects of skinforging variants are not so 'thick' or full covering that it would completely cover the skin, it is more like a decoration of it.

- Full Body skinforging will not affect the eyes as long as they remained closed, if the person opens their eyes in the skinforged bath, they will go permanently blind as this version of the potion is too volatile for the iris and pupil, and will irrevocably damage the inner parts by penetrating the cornea and entering through the pupil.

 

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Recipe and Creation: Tattoo Ink

Recipe:
Alteration Alchemy Skin Potion
+
Warforged Potion [Variant of choice]
     With an added:
     2x Endurance

     1x Connection

     1x Rigidity

     + Metal dust, as fine as possible

 

     For mixing the recipe which will become a single use vial of tattoo ink, a specific set of steps need to be followed. Firstly, the alchemist will need to prepare the Skin Potion, using a cutting or sample of skin from any descendant. When the sample of skin is added, mix in two counts of Impediment afterwards, this will cancel out the part of the potion which is meant to change the coloration of the skin but will leave the transformative properties alive. Set this mixture to the side.

     Secondly, while the skin potion is set aside, the alchemist will begin to prepare the variant of Warforging recipe they intend to apply to the person. It will be prepared separately, and 2 extra counts of Endurance will be added [all variants] to the potion while it is being heated. Now, while the warforging potion is still boiling hot, add 1 count of connection, and then combine the boiling warforged potion with the Skin potion you had set to the side. Then as they are mixed together, add 1 count of Rigidity, and put this concoction over high heat with no cover. Allow this to boil down somewhat, until it is the consistency of ink.

     Once it has reached this consistency, allow it to cool, and store it in a glass container. The potion is too volatile to be stored in anything such as stone, clay or wood, and will react with any metal containers, so glass is required.

 

     When the alchemist, or tattoo artist, is ready to use the vial of ink they will need to add in a metal dust [as fine as possible] to the ink in order to activate it. There should be enough dust to cause the majority of the vial to activate, but not so much that its viscosity rises. When it is activated, the artist will have roughly 30 narrative minutes to apply the ink to someone's skin, after which its activation period will have ended and any remaining ink will be useless. What is applied to skin in those 30 minutes will take on the effects of the potion.

 

     This process will be the same, regardless of the variant of warforged potion the alchemist chooses to use. However, the effects that each variant cause are different. The resulting sensation caused by each transformation of the skin is also quite different between each variant.

 

The Variants, Their Effects, and How it Feels: Tattoo Ink

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Starforged:

     When applied, this extremely complex and volatile potion will add at random, throughout the entirety of the skin tattoed, twinkling specs of starry light. They vary in size and brightness, and even shape, but they do not move across the flesh. These little stars in the tattoo are static, although they twinkle as stars do, occasionally going out for periods of time and brightening once more, there are no shooting stars or endless galaxies, like there is when you apply the starforging to metal. 

     The tattoo, in comparison to full body skinforging, is more concentrated. Due to this, there will be a thicker concentration of the twinkling stars in the tattoo, and it would appear more like a filled, vibrant area of the sky with stars glittering throughout. The placement of the stars is completely random, and any patterns that may occur are purely coincidental.

 

Application Process:
     For starforged, it feels as though hundreds of thousands of impossibly thin needles are pricking the skin, as the fine particles of metal embed themselves. Over time, perhaps ten to fifteen minutes, this slowly progresses into the feeling of your skin being cut and pricked at high speed where the tattoo was applied, and just a minute or two into that it was soon clear it felt more like large fire ants swarming and biting into the skin. This remains relatively the same for the remainder of the full 30 minutes, the burning of thousands of ant bites.

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Lavaforged:

     When applied to the flesh, the lavaforged variant of the tattoo ink will produce what appears to be red hot metal under the skin. At random, 'cracks' will run from the edges around the tattoo and it will appear as though the tattoo is coming from what the cracks have uncovered. Of course, this effect is only visual and if one ran their hand over it, they would feel only smooth skin.

 

Application Process:
     When applying the lavaforged variant, any flesh exposed to the ink will gradually throughout the 30 min period of treatment increase from a mild warmness to feeling as though your skin were being seared away from your body. It can be very difficult to withstand, however, it is possible. This feeling of burning flesh is not actually the flesh being burned, though, it is the effect of the alchemicals and there is no real injury after the effects have been applied to the skin.

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Stormforged:

     When applied to the flesh, the stormforged ink will produce a dynamic display, similar to what can be seen when lightning travels through the clouds without exiting. As though underneath the skin, small jolts of electricity will sporadically travel within the area of where the tattoo was applied. The jolts do not exit the skin, but stay just underneath. The tattoo ink version of this variant is more concentrated, and so the jolts of static 'lightning' will have higher activity and will always be visible. If the skin is cut, or there is an open wound deep enough to bleed from, little static-like jolts of electricity will jump about at random on the bleeding area until the bleeding is stopped. This effect is visual only, and will not affect anything around it.

 

Application Process:

     When applying the Stormforged variant, any flesh exposed to the ink will gradually throughout the 30min period of treatment increase from a static-y feeling and tingling of the skin, to what feels similar to extreme shocking. Like you’ve grabbed onto a bolt of lightning and can’t let go, the muscles under where the tattoo is applied will tense and the person being tattoo'd will be unable to move that body part. At the end of the 30 min treatment period, that body part will likely feel quite numb.

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Iceforged

     When applied to the flesh, the iceforged variant of the ink will produce what appears to be an almost crystallized icy layer over the skin. Like frosted patterns covering the area of the tattoo, it may catch light easily and just gently shimmer in direct light or around nearby light sources. As the tattoo ink is more concentrated than the full body version, any area tattoo'd will showcase this icy layer and may even have facets of 'ice' in random geometric shapes. This is only visual, and does not change the hardness of the skin at all, running your hand over it would reveal a perfectly normal texture. 

 

Application Process:

     Like the others, the process of warforging the Iceforged ink onto the body is painful, and volatile. In this variant, any flesh tattoo'd will experience at first, a mild chill. However over the 30 minute period, this mild chill will progress into what feels like full onset frostbite, by the end of the period rendering the person almost completely unable to move that part of the body. This will fade over a short period of time, but can feel extremely painful.

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Lightforged:

     When applied to the body in a bath, the lightforging variant of the ink will produce a dim dynamic glow, either in a color that was specified or white on its own. The glow will pulse and shift in a wisp-like fashion, not in any way related to things such as body heat, heart rate or otherwise, but in completely random and non-patterned ways. Inks of multiple colors can be used in the same tattoo, to produce colorful fades or gentle designs.

 

Application Process:

     When applying this variant, at first it will feel as though the sun’s light is beating down upon the area tattoo'd. However, throughout the 30 minute process, it will progress from a subtle warmth, to extreme sunburn by the end. The skin will feel extremely chilled, and even the smallest of movements will send a wave of searing pain. The tattoo is left extremely sensitive to touch and movement. This will fade over a short period of time, but it is extremely painful.

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Tattoo Ink Redlines:
- The vial of tattoo ink will remain deactivated, without metal dust, until it is used and will be a 1 use per item potion.

- When activated, the artist will have 30 narrative minutes to apply it as a tattoo before any remaining ink is useless and will be thrown away.

- Tattoo Ink can only be applied to the sclera of the eyes, the artist will need to be extremely careful and only apply 1-2 drops of the activated ink to the far edge of the open eye, away from the Iris. The ink will color the sclera, but if it gets into the iris the ink can penetrate the cornea and destroy the inner workings of that eye, rendering it blind.

- The tattoo ink can still be applied to skin that has already been skinforged, as long as the variants are different. I.E., someone who skinforged their entire body with the Starforged variant, could get a tattoo with Lightforged Ink.

- The tattoos are just as permanent as the full body transformation, if damaged, scarred or otherwise injured the skin can scar over just like normal, with a dulled or darkened version of the effects of the variant used.

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credits to keefy, timber & ohdeerlord for helping

 

 Nozoa wrote Alteration Alchemy

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No.

 

I'm all for aesthetic in weapons and what-not, but this is taking it a bit far. The last thing I want to see on this server is a bunch of people twinkling around with stars or with lava on them like some $15 Fortnite skins. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about the application of Alteration Alchemy for this either.

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20 hours ago, Wizard of NOZ said:

No.

 

I'm all for aesthetic in weapons and what-not, but this is taking it a bit far. The last thing I want to see on this server is a bunch of people twinkling around with stars or with lava on them like a bunch of $15 Fortnite skins. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about the application of Alteration Alchemy for this either.

 

Agreed.

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I believe the tattoos are nice, and I like the idea of small marks on peoples' skin, it can be used in a variety of ways and is harmless. However, as stated above, the whole-body aesthetic is janky IRP, and seems hard to skin properly mechanically.

 

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On 5/11/2021 at 2:00 PM, GodEatingCommie said:

I believe the tattoos are nice, and I like the idea of small marks on peoples' skin, it can be used in a variety of ways and is harmless. However, as stated above, the whole-body aesthetic is janky IRP, and seems hard to skin properly mechanically.

 

 

Big agree with this yeah. I'm all for magic tattoos though, and have seen a few cool ones on the server :)

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Syb, I love your writing and you normally write well thought out lore - but this just ain't it. This will just open up as someone put aboe 'fortnight skin's. You can argue it's rare, yes, but so is Infernal alch and plenty of people have items for it. This won't be extremely hard to get for your char and overall it just seems really over the top of kooky for lotc.

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