Re: Kylie (Courage Wolf)
Kylie chuckled as Oren was quite honest both about his ability, and her requests, and even already pondering things out that he'd need, not quite realizing just how much Kylie was willing to spend on personal armament. She could buy an estate with 1 diamond, she could build over 10 of her houses! Which was still being built back in Feynrial, and that included her own personal additions. To sink the point home, Kylie reached behind her to fish out one of the diamonds, palming it to keep it hidden, before setting it on the counter for Oren to see.
That's what you think it is Friend, that's an Astral. And it's worth just as much as it's rumored in flat gold, or anything else. I came looking to buy so I could kit myself out with some of the gear I always found myself wanting, or used to have, but lost. As for my current weapons... Kylie said, pulling off her gauntlets for him to inspect, before carefully sliding her bow off her back and setting it on the counter.
The bow is already made of mithril, and has an ash core. it's my favourite weapon for most things. But for all my skill, I'm lacking in shorter range options. It's a serious weakness of mine. If you say you need metal, I'll bring you the metal, or let you find it. If you say you need time, that's not an option either. Now, as for fixing the garrote, and the dart launcher into these gauntlets, that I'd like very much, we could probably set a carousel of darts into it, and make several more for easy reloading like in a repeating crossbow. As for the sword, I poison my blades, especially my long ones, so lighter, would be better, I don't need to hack my opponents to pieces, just cut them. Anything I can hide, like the blades in these gauntlets, is a great boon to me, and the more silent and immediately effective the weapon, the better. Poisoned darts laced with a paralytic, or with a sleeping toxin like in your capsules, are particularly great if I don't want to hurt someone, so I'm all in for modifying both. But you mentioned this Adamantine... I take it that it's heavy, can be made very sharp, and is very hard. We could probably replace the mithril blades, with that. Kylie said, grinning madly from ear to ear, finding something of a kindred spirit in Oren to match and even fabricate her weapon designs.
As for the bow... Kylie continued, looking up in her thinking for a long moment. We'd probably need to have you working with a master bowyer to get it done properly, the blacksmith who made this knew his craft very well, it's a beautiful weapon, but to improve on it is tricky with it's wood core, which doesn't sacrifice strength, and adds flexibility. If we were to move to something more compound... it'd probably have to be made entirely of metal, making it heavy, but more effective. And the arrow designs well... You can leave the actual designs on those to me, I can have them drawn up in excruciating detail in a couple days, and you can tell me what you think. All you need to do is give me a price tag. Honestly Oren? I'm wandering around Tear Cove looking to buy out business and give them a research budget, a heavy one, to work together in these designs, and bring a new and very lucrative business into the arms market for people like myself, those of us who operate behind the scenes to get things done. Maybe beat these insane gunsmiths at their own game. I'm glad to see I've interested you in all this, and I'm very excited to see the results.