Hedgespinning

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RoS p.139 - Specialties in Crafts.Hedgespinning or Occult/Survival/Investigate.Locating_Ingredients

Hedgespinning

Hedgespun items are tokens of a sort, but rather than being a mundane item infused over time with Wyrd magic and Faerie strangeness, hedgespun are consciously, deliberately made by Changelings themselves. True Fae cannot create them, and Changelings may very well have been Taken specifically to spin such wondrous items for their Keepers' whims.

Fate's Harvest uses the expanded rules found in Rites of Spring p.138, with the occasional House Rule.

Before you can create/purchase the item, it needs to be pre-approved by staff. Send in a +req/fae with a title including 'Hedgespun' somewhere in it with the dots/mechanics you have in mind. A list of available options is written at the end of this page.

Summary:

• Come up with an idea.
• Get staff permission for your idea.
• Get a ST to run scenes for you.
• Do your rolls to your +job.
• If you roll well, be happy! Staff will add your new item to your +sheet and spend your xp.

Hedgespinning Instructions

After you have decided what you will be making (Armor, Art, Automaton, Raiment, Weapon)...

STEP #1

Find a ST willing to run your story.       1-dot Hedgespun: 1 scene       2-dot Hedgespun: 1 scene       3-dot Hedgespun: 2 scenes       4-dot Hedgespun: 2 scenes       5-dot Hedgespun: 3 scenes If you have certain story elements in mind which would be important to your character (or, on the flip side, certain things which make you OOCly uncomfortable), let your ST know, but by and large, it is the ST's responsibility to come up with plot tailored to you and guide you through it.

Not Building Your Own?

Maybe you've decided you'd rather purchase one fully made from the Goblin Market. Hedgespun doesn't come cheap. The scene requirement is the same, but in this case, perhaps the hob in question requires you to serve its interests for a night and a day, and those interests happen to be fetching a slime-soaked pearl from a ravening beast's wet belly.

It is fate itself you use to weave your hedgespun baubles, and fate, the Wyrd, is what binds us together, the interconnections, the chance meetings which change lives. ...Or are they really chance? Were they designed?

Fancy words to say that any hedgespinning or acquisition of hedgespun will be wrapped up within a larger story. You're doing it in the Hedge, sure, with Hedge ingredients, but you're not spinning the Hedge. You're spinning the Wyrd.

Even if you have all of the ingredients in your pockets, or your spifftabular Hollow of Holding, maybe something interrupts you on your way there and steals one or more of them, or maybe you find that the ingredient is doing something strange, or maybe you run into something much, much more interesting to use as part of your item on the way...

There is ALWAYS a story.

STEP #2 (OPTIONAL)

Research!

Before you can start spinning that Direwolf-fur cloak or gremlin-leather armor, you have to have a plan. Which part goes where? Will the acid from Hedgebadger bile dissolve the giant spiderwebs before you can spin them together? This step is not mandatory, but including it will give you a +2 bonus when it comes time to roll for your fancy new item. This is where research comes in, or deep pockets. There are two ways to go about getting a pattern.       1. Make it yourself       2. Use one somebody else premade

Building From Scratch

So you want to work out a new design. If you have any specialties in Design, Hedgespinning or Hedge Lore, or even Hedgebeasts/Hedge flora, they could all apply here, depending on the materials you have in mind to use for your design.

Creating a pattern is one roll, and must be done to your hedgespinning +job. Acceptable Rolls:       Intelligence + Crafts      You're more familiar with mechanical design.       Intelligence + Occult      You're more familiar with myths or the Hedge.

Using a Pre-Existing Pattern

Creating things from scratch is all well and good, but there's always the risk that something will go weird. You want something tried and true! Maybe you're recreating a legendary sword, or maybe a friend wants a copy of that ring you made yourself, or, hey, maybe you're cribbing notes off of the Queen of Summer for a copy of that super hot armor.

You have a few options here. • If you ARE reusing an old pattern (i.e. you're making another of an item you've already made before) just let staff know the name of the previous item so they can verify you have it. • If a friend is being kind and giving you a pattern, CC them and have them add a note to your +job with permission and the name of the item THEY own, again so staff can verify that it exists. • You plan to use a library/archive and research that baby up the hard way.

Research Roll: Research is a single roll. You must have A) an Occult specialty in Hedgespinning or Research or B) access to a Library/Archive with specialties in Hedgespinning.       Roll:       Intelligence + Occult (including any specialties or bonuses/penalties) This assumes that you are going through the entire library. If you are successful, you found what you were looking for. If not, that particular recipe either wasn't there or you just couldn't find it.

Note: You do not need to research your recipe yourself. If your character is a research dunce, but knows a librarian friend and bribes her into doing the work for him, you can still claim the bonus on the roll. Just have your friend roll to your +job instead.

Should you choose to forgo the research (maybe you only have a day and a night to get this done before an enemy arrives), there are no penalties for improvising your creation on the fly; you just don't get the bonus.

The following is a direct quote from the 'Rites of Spring' sourcebook, page 140:

Creating Hedgespun
      The act and art of Hedgespinning is an intuitive thing for many, the pushing and pulling of elements together, weaving and warping items so that they come together in a new and unusual way.

Note that a character must be in the Hedge while creating a Hedgespun item. The items will stubbornly refuse to yield if manipulated outside the Thorns. However, once crafted successfully, the Hedgespun token can be taken and used outside the Hedge (though just as all tokens, Hedgespun’s genuine mien is concealed beneath the Mask).

Intangible reagents are made a part of a Hedgespun item by existing in the proximity to the crafting process. If the recipe demands a cry of pain, then that anguished cry must be within earshot of the changeling Hedgespinning the item while she crafts it. If she herself must give something to the item, such as a whispered promise or a lusty gust of breath, she can do so while her hands work to ease the materials together.

...Which brings us to our third step!

STEP #3
Creating your Hedgespun Item.
All rolls must be done to your +job.
Cost:	See below, under Action.
Dice Pool:	Wits (or Strength) + Crafts [+ Equipment modifiers][+ Additional modifiers]
Action:	Extended You need to roll 3x the number of dots to successfully create it. (A 2-dot Hedgespun item requires 2x3=6 successes.)
Roll Results:
Dramatic Failure:	Your attempts to work with your ingredients are unsuccessful: one of them is destroyed in the process.
Failure:	The items just don’t come together. They refuse to yield to your ministrations.
Success:	You make progress at your work. Once you reach the required number of successes, hurra! You have a hedgespun item. Cosmetic tweaks are just as possible as they would be on any other object. You can paint it, scuff it up a bit, and its magical abilities will be unchanged.
Exceptional Success:	For a sliver of an instant, you touch the magic of hedgespinning more deeply than before, and it briefly leaves its mark. Other fae/ensorcelled can see this as a faint dusting of glittering rust or a golden, almost liquid sheen. The character’s next Crafts roll is made at a +2 bonus, after which this clinging magic effect disappears.