<div class="floatleft">(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/Autocad-E/d4baef5245f6fdb864909aaa170fab2a_zpsrnn51to8.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ishtar</span></span><br/>Slyph Wizard (Wind Listener) / Fighter (Lore Warden), 14 HP, AC 16, Character Sheet (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1618236).<br/><em>Curious to a fault. Can never resist the opportunity to uncover a secret or mystery.</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Her attention shifted, however, as one of the others caught her attention. She turned as Ishtar approached her, offering a polite smile and a nod of her head. Suffice it to say, she was rather interested in the presence of a sylph of all things, and a rather attractive one at that. "Aye, that's me," she replied, "It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Ishtar. You don't see too many sylph adventurers, you know? Granted, I guess you probably don't see too many with my lineage either, huh?" She reached up as she said that, running her fingers through her pale hair, the most obvious sign of her drow blood.<br/><br/>As her hand fell, she grinned a little and added, "I'll admit, I'm pretty curious to see what you're capable of."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Well technically, minority races like us tend to be over-represented in adventuring circles proportionate to the general population distribution. My hypothesis is that our minority status trends us towards the fringes of the social system with a corresponding bias towards dangerous occupations... sorry about going off on a tangent, I hope that didn't scare you away." Ishtar smiled awkwardly.<br/><br/>Thankfully Mouser interrupted with his promotion of Damira to party leader before things could get too awkward. "It would appear that you are already on your way to great things. I shall have to catch up," the slyph commented, her voice sincere.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"So, spears. It's not too hard to fashion a crude spear out of wood and stone, if you know what you are doing." Ishtar's voice became a tad more authoritative, almost as if she was a lecturer in front of a class at the university. She walked between the trees, searching for long straight branches. "First you need the shaft. When there's no time to cut down a tree and carve a shaft from the trunk, you want a long straight branch instead. It needs to be supple so as not to break upon the first thrust, but not so floppy that it can't stay erect." She found what she wanted and snapped off a suitable branch from a tree. "Next is the head. You want to find a piece of flint or obsidian or similar stone, and knap it until you have a spearhead. Be careful - it's sharp, that's the point." She struck a stone against a piece of flint, gradually forming a triangle with sharpened edges. "Finally notch a groove in the shaft, slot the spearhead in, and wrap them in twine to keep them in place. And there we go, one stone age spear that your ancestor might have used. Who wants the first one?" She tossed it to the first person who volunteered.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Crafting mechanics</span><br/>DC 12 for simple melee weapon<br/>Craft check: Take 10 + 0 ranks + 6 int modifier - 2 improvised tools = 14<br/>Progress = 14 check result * 12 DC / 7 days in a week = 24 sp of progress in one day<br/>Stone (cost 1/4 normal, weight 3/4 normal, half hardness, fragile) longspear cost = 12.5 sp<br/>Crafting complete!<br/>0.42 gp worth of raw materials spent<br/><br/><strong>tl;dr: One stone longspear crafted!</strong>