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Technically more of an Iron Nut Morning Star, this concept came to me from playing with this goofy-ass toy of R²'s... she picked it up someplace a few years ago, it's a sort of spiked ball made of jelly plastic with a blinking core in the center and a tether made of the same flexible jelly shit with a loop... kinda like a yo-yo. It's plenty of fun to sling around wildly, letting the tether extend to about 4 feet, and it's pretty resilient.

So I got the idea that the nut of the Ironwood tree (pulling this outta my ass here) are these spikey jobbers with a very dense, solid core that's suspended in a liquid sap. You drill a little brass ring crowned with a sawtooth bit into the spot where the stem breaks from the tree, leaving a soft area in the hard exterior. The nut is soft enough to carve with a very sharp knife when it's fresh, but hardens to an almost metallic density after only a few days (why it does this I have no idea just now... but I'm certain there's a perfectly natural, sensible reason for it that is essential somehow to its role as a seed). The ring is drawn out, extending a long, rubbery booger to the nut that will tighten and solidify as the nut dries, becoming a tough, rubbery tether that can stretch to several feet in length, but snaps back to it's dried length with great force. The nut might easily weigh up to 5 pounds and measures about 1.5-2" across.

The Iron Nut Mace is swung expertly by certain well-trained practitioners in dazzling displays of lighting-fast whipping extensions and spins, incorporating flips and kicks into a violent whirlwind ballet. It takes much skill and time to learn how to use one of these weapons, and only the best will leave the nut with it's needle-sharp spikes intact, making it a very dangerous weapon to anyone within reach.

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Not too shabby, hm? Could work for any number of races or classes in game terms. There's a guy who works the Ren Fairs down here, I see him every year, who goes by the name of "Manolete", and his whole act is this stage show with heavy steel balls on about a 3-foot cord that he spins and swings around in a series of dance-like patterns, knocking feathers out of people's mouths and striking the boards beneath his feet with a loud crack. It's pretty easy to see how those balls could crack more than wood. More inspiration for something like this can be found in Filipino weapons that evolved into modern-day Yo-Yos, and martial arts forms involving the chain.

I think I might submit it to Kenzer.

Description
Technically more of an Iron Nut Morning Star, this concept came to me from playing with this goofy-ass toy of R²'s... she picked it up someplace a few years ago, it's a sort of spiked ball made of jelly plastic with a blinking core in the center and a tether made of the same flexible jelly shit with a loop... kinda like a yo-yo. It's plenty of fun to sling around wildly, letting the tether extend to about 4 feet, and it's pretty resilient.

So I got the idea that the nut of the Ironwood tree (pulling this outta my ass here) are these spikey jobbers with a very dense, solid core that's suspended in a liquid sap. You drill a little brass ring crowned with a sawtooth bit into the spot where the stem breaks from the tree, leaving a soft area in the hard exterior. The nut is soft enough to carve with a very sharp knife when it's fresh, but hardens to an almost metallic density after only a few days (why it does this I have no idea just now... but I'm certain there's a perfectly natural, sensible reason for it that is essential somehow to its role as a seed). The ring is drawn out, extending a long, rubbery booger to the nut that will tighten and solidify as the nut dries, becoming a tough, rubbery tether that can stretch to several feet in length, but snaps back to it's dried length with great force. The nut might easily weigh up to 5 pounds and measures about 1.5-2" across.

The Iron Nut Mace is swung expertly by certain well-trained practitioners in dazzling displays of lighting-fast whipping extensions and spins, incorporating flips and kicks into a violent whirlwind ballet. It takes much skill and time to learn how to use one of these weapons, and only the best will leave the nut with it's needle-sharp spikes intact, making it a very dangerous weapon to anyone within reach.

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Not too shabby, hm? Could work for any number of races or classes in game terms. There's a guy who works the Ren Fairs down here, I see him every year, who goes by the name of "Manolete", and his whole act is this stage show with heavy steel balls on about a 3-foot cord that he spins and swings around in a series of dance-like patterns, knocking feathers out of people's mouths and striking the boards beneath his feet with a loud crack. It's pretty easy to see how those balls could crack more than wood. More inspiration for something like this can be found in Filipino weapons that evolved into modern-day Yo-Yos, and martial arts forms involving the chain.

I think I might submit it to Kenzer.