Circe didn't know how effective this would be for barter. Hedgespun weapons were a dime a dozen in, well, the Hedge. And mortal booze was a questionable item, though viable. Thus her current plan. Quantity could not be beat, so quality was the only option. Uniformity of form would help, as most hedgespun weapons tended to be unique. Matching sets were rare, so aping that could help with sales.


Circe would have to make some exceptional blades out of these, uh, blades. Right, she was making them a little smaller and giving them a proper metal handle with a hand guard. They wouldn't be a Excalibur or Masamune or something like that, but they'd chop stuff.


Plus the blades had been cheap enough to get used. Turns out to be a regular cheat for making swords on Etsy. Who knew?


It was certainly a lazy way to do it, bang an already blade shaped object into another blade shape. But Circe had a much better forge then some backyard scrap smelter, hardware store hammer, and Amazon shipped anvil. She had her whole setup in the Hollow. That should make this a lot easier. Probably. Maybe? Well, she'd see what she could get done in a days work. She still had other shit to do than just this.


30 minutes



The resulting lawn-mower blade sword was a single edge, flat backed and thick blade. It was more of an oversized machete than a sword-sword. It wasn't a bad blade, well made as she intended and certainly tough.


She knew how, now to use the rest.


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hour and a half

hour and a half



The Groundskeeper of Sacramento had planned for four hours to convert the size lawn mower parts into these blades. She made a set of 4 blades. Thick, identical, balanced and durable blades that she could replicate if more quantity was needed for a trade.


They'd have to do. She didn't have time to make more, so the other two would have to wait for later. Now it was just a matter of arranging with Seraphina and Sonja for going to the Spider Market.