The Good Doctor
After The Merchant handed the Truesilver Extract over to us, Muu spent much time mulling over how to use it; that is, until a cane rapped on the Town Hall door. The Mayor opened the door to see a Wasteland Doctor huddling under the awning. Ushered in, the doctor hangs up their heavy coat, and puts their doctor's mask aside. The older woman and her partner were working late one night when some thing appeared out of the shadows. Her partner stabbed it with a silvered scalpel and distracted it so she could escape. Shaken by the experience, she had spent the past few months engrossed in bestiaries searching for what attacked her. She managed to narrow it down to a vampiric thrall, but she couldn't piece together a why or how. That is, until a nice man in a completely nonsuspect robe came and had a chat with her. Finishing her story, The Good Doctor pledged her service to Muu and offered to apply the alchemical knowledge, that working around the wastes requires, on working with the Truesilver Extract.
... 1 part ground kolakea leaves, solution turned dark purple. 1 part yiha fish spinal fluid, solution turned gray. 1 drop Truesilver Extract, solution turned silver with a reddish tinge. Left to steep in bottled sunlight for 5 minutes. The only thing left to do was inject the volunteer. First the subject's wrinkles faded (encouraging sign). Then their graying hair turned bone white (not as encouraging). Their skin turned equally stark white (uhhhh). By the time their irises turned red we realized we may have made an error. So here's the good: their strength, agility and speed have been pushed past human limits. Their endurance and durability have also been improved to a lesser extent, though the truesilver in their veins is activated by "seeping animating force," most commonly another's blood. Furthermore, their eye mutation seems to have given them the ability to track evil, their eyes taking on a shadowy glow whenever they use this ability. More neutral aspects include their blood turning a silvery color that glows a pale blue when exposed to air. The inside of their mouth also glows faintly. Now uh, onto the bad. Their memory has been heavily fragmented, and they seem to have lost all of their medical knowledge, save their skill with the scalpel, though she retains a burning hatred of vampires (without quite knowing why) and knowledge of everything that goes bump in the wastes. Her personality has also become much more... mercurial on the whole, though her quietness on the hunt means it's not as noticeable there. Overall, she simply needs armaments to be sent into the field.
Fortunately, we happen to have turned a master swordsmith to our side. Unfortunately, after some incident his conscience is too troubled to allow him to smith. By sending some of our excess wealth to a specific orphanage, we've eased his conscience enough to forge one last blade. He inquires what sort of blade the doctor wants and she requests for a sabre. The swordsmith begins by working the remaining truesilver into the steel. While shaping the blade itself he expertly includes micro-serrations. Their use becomes apparent when he adds the enchantments, the first pulls the "animating force" out of whoever gets struck, and the second is a simple sharpness enchantment, combined this means, for example, that an unfortunate demonic cultist struck by it would become a blood fountain as they are cut down. Against a more mutated opponent, such as a ratman, the effect is much more dramatic, if unnecessary to kill such a frail creature. Finishing up, he decides a "hand-and-a-half" handle provides the versatility needed in a monster-slaying blade. A couple cultists come to check on him after a few days of silence. They stumble on his corpse clutching the sheathed blade. Strong enchantments require power to make, and the swordsmith had burned away his soul for it. The cutler who had to follow that up decided to ape some of the milder qualities, though his knife had to make do with traditional silvering, and his serrations were much larger, making the blade something of a swordbreaker, and his enchantments, done by an acolyte, were noticeably weaker, it's still a good blade.
The two cultists hand over the blades to The Good Doctor. She pulls the sword from its sheath, and it shines a pale blue in the light. With the swordsmith gone, she names it "Moonlight" in his stead.
The knife does not get a name.
Deciding to stick around and watch her practice forms, they see while she may not be a master sabrist, she is certainly an expert. Looks like all that time (and money) she had to spend with the "high meisters of the noble science of defence" paid off, not that she remembers either. The cultists do note that she seems to think the swordsmith talks to her through the blade, but Muu believes this may be true, and the stable influence he seems to provide means we won't touch it.
Oh right, armor. We didn't make her any. She wears her old wasteland doctor outfit, though we have given her a bandolier of bottled sunlight, likely to prove useful on the battlefield and triage tent.
this was actually the design I had in mind when I first saw the Truesilver Extract.
Yeah...
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Topic: Angel Team - Chiaroscuro 2 | Design Phase T6 (Read 20253 times)