Cypress, in the meanwhile, had been trying to do her research on what classes could allow her to fight. And she found a few results that caught her attention.
One that caught her attention the most was the Ironsmith class.
Not only would it allow her to create armour for her Pokemon - which made her feel a bit safer about protecting her team - but she also could forge a weapon and armor for herself and use it to fight alongside her team - which also sounded quite nice.

She already had one of the requirements already too, as Paprika walked calmly beside her. Honestly, it was meant to be...sort of.
It was taking her a while to find this Under-Forge though - the Houndour looking up to the wolf hybrid with a exhausted expression. "How much further, madame?"

"We shouldn't be too far! Have faith!" She responded in her 'customer-service' voice, glancing at the map as she approached the door. They had been walking for about a few hours now, walking through almost the entirety of the Surge Steppes to find where they were supposed to go, so this could be the real deal. The hybrid would knock twice before opening the door, glancing around the area. This seemed to be the place - and there was the sleeping Wooloo in the server announcement.

"Hi, I'm here for the Ironsmith meet-up?" She'd greet the two people in the area, a bit of nervousness introducing itself as she waved politely - both girl and fire canine entering the Under-Forge proper.

Altair & Alicia Westfield

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR (MASTER) IRONSMITH

the road to becoming an ironsmith is long, are you willing to tread the path?

part 1: gathering resources

Once everyone has shown up, a brief notification flashes across everyone’s screens, showing a punny title that most probably everyone assembled would understand.

A few moments later, the breakdown appears; explaining how the Ironsmith character class can become beneficial and how weapons can be equipped by unlocking this class.

‘Any proper ironsmith worth their salt needs to do is to gather resources to get their forge going! A good forge needs heat, as well as metal in order to properly function. The source of heat would be ideally a fire stoked to high temperatures; once you have the flames hot enough, working with steel should be easy.

Keep in mind is that steel has impurities; so melting it down into a liquid form while heating it will remove these impurities once it’s malleable and ready to be forged.

The first thing that we need to do is to secure the source of heat, as well as the scraps of metal to practice your forging skills with.’

The text would fade away, and then be replaced with the following prompt:

• acquire a Fire-type Pokémon (0 / 1)
• acquire a Steel-type Pokémon (0 / 1)

For some of the gathered, these requirements would either be partially or already fully complete; should that be the case, additional information will appear on their interfaces:

‘Should you already have completed the first part of the requirements; there should be an empty, ready forge for you to start stoking the flames and melting down scraps to get the hang of how the forge works.

You can also help out your fellow ironsmith apprentices with securing the first requirements.’

additional prompts!

These additional prompt/s can be completed by anyone [tangent=can be done either during part 1 or any of the other two succeeding parts]within the course of the thread[/tangent]! While there is no strict posting order, the next ‘mod post’ will drop after seven days IC; which should be more than enough time for everyone to get the first set of ‘materials’ together.

• have something shatter
• be magnetized to something else
• [tangent=clearing this prompt partially unlocks the Bolter subclass!]get struck by lightning[/tangent]
• experience a gravitational surge
• use your fire and/or steel pokémon in a meaningful interaction (getting the flames started; practicing with metal scraps; to name a few)

Alicia Westfield Cypress Josh Devlin Altair