Hedgespun

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This is a custom Merit for the Changeling Venue, approved for play by CyledyrWyllt

The Hedgespun Merit is considered separate from the Token Merit and may be purchased multiple times. We use the Hedgespinning rules from Rites of Spring (p. 138), so in addition to gaining ST approval, a hedgespinner must possess the appropriate skills (Crafts Skill & Occult Skill) and merits(Hollow & Resources) to successfully create the particular custom hedgespun they desire. Please note that acquiring/crafting hedgespun always requires a scene and that changelings may never hedgespin anything with dots higher than their own Wyrd ratings. Even though it is possible to hedgespin four and five dot items, such wondrous craftsmanship is quite rare and exceedingly expensive.

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.

• Dice Pool: Wits or Strength + Crafts Skill + equipment
• Action: Extended: Extended (successes necessary are equal to three times the token dots desired; each roll is equal to one hour’s worth of crafting and each roll requires that one Glamour point be spent or the process must be temporarily halted until more Glamour can be put into the object).
• Suggested Modifiers: Crafter has Wyrd 6+ (+1), crafter possesses Contracts of Artifice or Forge Contracts (+1), crafter has Clarity 5 or below (+2) crafter is a Token Maker (+3)
• Possible Penalties: Intricate design (–3), distractions (–2), crafter has Clarity 8 to 10 (–1), ephemeral/intangible ingredient (–1)

Roll Results

• Dramatic Failure: One of the ingredients is destroyed.
• Failure: The items just don’t come together.
• Success: The desired Hedgespun item now sits in the character’s hands and may be used IC once the xp cost is paid.
• Exceptional Success: The character’s next Crafts Skill roll is made at a +2 bonus.

Sublime Designs

It is also possible to create 0-Dot Hedgespun, which possess identical mechanics to their mundane equivalents despite being crafted from ephemeral ingredients and fantastical materials. These trinkets may be acquired with ST approval both at CharGen and during play at no xp cost.

In addition to the mundane statistics possessed by all hedgespun equipment, each dot spent on the Hedgespun Merit adds one of the following benefits when it is activated with a Reflexive Action by either rolling Wyrd or spending one point of Glamour:

• +1 equipment bonus to a particular type of roll(similar to a skill specialty).
• +1 to a weapons Damage bonus.
• +1 to a weapons Defense bonus.
• +1 General or Ballistic Armor bonus. This change is reflected by the Mask.
• +2 Initiative
• +2 Speed
• +1 Durability
• Reduce Durability of target by -1
• Change base damage from Bashing to Lethal. This change is reflected by the Mask.

When hedgespun is activated, it is "all or nothing". Changelings may not "pick and choose" which bonuses to activate. Although hedgespun must be activated like a Token by either calling upon one's Wyrd or spending a point of Glamour, unlike a Token, hedgespun possess neither a Drawback nor a Catch. Owners of hedgespun have also noticed the curious property that they activate automatically every single time they are taken into the hedge and refuses to deactivate until being returned to the mundane world.