Jigano grinned at the old smith's praises, managing a little half-bow of gratitude as the man filled in some of the missing pieces. He'd thought the forge far older, based on its location and state of near-complete destruction, but he certainly wasn't going to argue with the man whose skill he needed! He glanced up to watch Caiside explore, catching his friend's eye with a rueful wink for the other man's blatant curiosity - not that the bard could blame him.
"Another half dozen of the Loreseeker pins," he listed, ticking off his requests on his fingers. The pins were of a fairly simple design, at least, only two inches in diameter with a design that could be easily soldered together by a skilled hand. It was a task Caiside could likely do, given the training he'd mentioned at their previous meeting, if the old smith still had Jigano's design around to work from. "And another charm like the ones before - I have the coins for that in my sleeve here - of a small copper vampire gourd with a golden flame in its mouth. And I was hoping to have some of these ingots used for simple masks. Forged as thin and strong as you can make them, and about this big," he described the size with his hands for a face a little smaller than his own. "From the gold, a smiling face. From silver, a sad one - comedy and tragedy masks," he explained. "And the platinum should be a narrator's mask - a neutral expression." The thinner the masks the more of the ingots the smith would have left over for his own projects, and Jigano knew that the metals would need to be lightly alloyed to strengthen them, but he trusted the master to know his own trade, and to do the work honestly.
"Another half dozen of the Loreseeker pins," he listed, ticking off his requests on his fingers. The pins were of a fairly simple design, at least, only two inches in diameter with a design that could be easily soldered together by a skilled hand. It was a task Caiside could likely do, given the training he'd mentioned at their previous meeting, if the old smith still had Jigano's design around to work from. "And another charm like the ones before - I have the coins for that in my sleeve here - of a small copper vampire gourd with a golden flame in its mouth. And I was hoping to have some of these ingots used for simple masks. Forged as thin and strong as you can make them, and about this big," he described the size with his hands for a face a little smaller than his own. "From the gold, a smiling face. From silver, a sad one - comedy and tragedy masks," he explained. "And the platinum should be a narrator's mask - a neutral expression." The thinner the masks the more of the ingots the smith would have left over for his own projects, and Jigano knew that the metals would need to be lightly alloyed to strengthen them, but he trusted the master to know his own trade, and to do the work honestly.
