Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
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Intent: A tool. The Jen'itsukut butcher knife is for slaughtering and butchering Force-sensitive flora and fauna in such a way that the resulting foodstuffs retain a minor and temporary portion of the lifeform's nature in the Force.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Velok
Model: Jen'itsukut butcher knife
Affiliation: The Sith Order
Modularity: No
Production: Semi-unique
Material: Alchemized steel
Classification: Large knife
Size: One-handed
Length: 35cm
Weight: 1kg
Special Features:
He found inspiration in artifacts and relics which maintained portions of their owners' identities, as well as the powers of psychometry and even the unique qualities of various Force vergences. If something as complex as a memory or a personality could remain in a possession, a bone, or a location by default, he reasoned, some degree of qualitative permanence could be isolated. A visit to a certain cave on Dagobah impressed him: over and above its undifferentiated power, the location retained both malevolence and insight, though it had no sentience that he could detect. Though he tried and failed to use a prototypical Jen'itsukut on the Force vergence within the cave, he found some solace in butchering the nearby nudj lizards that helped keep the nexus contained. When their flesh not only corroded the blade but temporarily reduced his strength in the Dark Side, he knew he was on to something.
In short order, Velok became obsessed with trying the Jen'itsukut on every Force-sensitive lifeform he could find. He determined that Sithspawn produced the most interesting results, but other Force-sensitive beings could also yield qualitative effects. For example, he found that the meat of a jakobeast -- a massive herbivore capable of generating telekinetic shockwaves -- could temporarily enhance his ability to throw a basic Force push. He found that the Jen'itsukut worked just fine on Force-attuned plants. Murakami orchids, for example, tended to enhance telepathic abilities in a small degree, while fear moss gave him a more precise sense of others' apprehension and terror.
The Jen'itsukut, he learned, worked best on non-sentient and semi-sentient creatures. Butchering most Jedi and Sith was a gigantic waste of time, unless the Force-sensitive in question had a really dominant specialization. Results varied. Butchering and eating pyrokinetics and lightning specialists left him with nothing more than a singed mouth. Force Shield specialists proved undigestible in the worst way. Only a few specialties provided useful meat: instinctive astrogators, for example, or Jedi healers. Irritated, he returned to experimenting on semi- and non-sentient lifeforms.
The Jen'itsukut, in short, is a crude analytical tool for understanding the nature of Force-sensitive lifeforms. It is not an especially functional weapon. It provides temporary and minor benefits derived from the natural powers of the lifeforms it butchers. It has little special power of its own: instead, it prolongs a portion of the lifeform's natural abilities for a short duration.
Primary Source:[SIZE=12.2222px] [/SIZE][SIZE=12.2222px]Not influenced by any Chaos submissions. You could consider it a very minor version of the Vergence Lensforge, but dialed way down, creating a temporary effect, and designed for use on Force-sensitive creatures rather than a Force nexus/vergence.[/SIZE]
Intent: A tool. The Jen'itsukut butcher knife is for slaughtering and butchering Force-sensitive flora and fauna in such a way that the resulting foodstuffs retain a minor and temporary portion of the lifeform's nature in the Force.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Velok
Model: Jen'itsukut butcher knife
Affiliation: The Sith Order
Modularity: No
Production: Semi-unique
Material: Alchemized steel
Classification: Large knife
Size: One-handed
Length: 35cm
Weight: 1kg
Special Features:
- Can be used to slaughter and butcher Force-sensitive flora and fauna in such a way that the resulting foodstuffs retain a portion of the lifeform's nature in the Force.
- Imagine you happen to kill a Nighthunter, a Sithspawn which can make itself invisible with the Force. You butcher it with a Jen'itsukut, and eat some of the fresh meat. For a time, your enemies find it difficult to focus on you, especially when you're in shadow. Or maybe what you butcher and eat is a Piscator. For a time, you grow stronger from the fears of those around you. A Jen'itsukut makes just about any Sithspawn or Force-sensitive lifeform into a source of edible mild power, instilling you with a lesser version of the Sithspawn's unique nature.
- The effect is mild to moderate, generally much reduced from the lifeform's full nature.
- The effect does not last. Eating a respectable quantity of fresh meat will empower you for roughly an hour.
- The meat must be fresh (as in slaughtered within the context of the thread, in most cases). Walking around with a pocket full of terentatek jerky just won't cut it. Regardless of whether the meat is cured or not, it loses its special qualities within hours, a day at most.
- Unlike most alchemical blades, the Jen'itsukut is not lightsabre-resistant. A few blaster shots will wreck it. A damaged Jen'itsukut, however, can still be used to full effect: its power is not affected by, say, breaking in half. Even so, a few seconds of lightsabre contact will melt most of it to useless slag.
- Not everything you could butcher has a healthy effect for a Darksider. See the nudj example below.
- Results are widely variable and largely worthless when the Jen'itsukut used on sentients. See below.
- Note that food prepared with a Jen'itsukut does not make the eater any stronger in the Force.
He found inspiration in artifacts and relics which maintained portions of their owners' identities, as well as the powers of psychometry and even the unique qualities of various Force vergences. If something as complex as a memory or a personality could remain in a possession, a bone, or a location by default, he reasoned, some degree of qualitative permanence could be isolated. A visit to a certain cave on Dagobah impressed him: over and above its undifferentiated power, the location retained both malevolence and insight, though it had no sentience that he could detect. Though he tried and failed to use a prototypical Jen'itsukut on the Force vergence within the cave, he found some solace in butchering the nearby nudj lizards that helped keep the nexus contained. When their flesh not only corroded the blade but temporarily reduced his strength in the Dark Side, he knew he was on to something.
In short order, Velok became obsessed with trying the Jen'itsukut on every Force-sensitive lifeform he could find. He determined that Sithspawn produced the most interesting results, but other Force-sensitive beings could also yield qualitative effects. For example, he found that the meat of a jakobeast -- a massive herbivore capable of generating telekinetic shockwaves -- could temporarily enhance his ability to throw a basic Force push. He found that the Jen'itsukut worked just fine on Force-attuned plants. Murakami orchids, for example, tended to enhance telepathic abilities in a small degree, while fear moss gave him a more precise sense of others' apprehension and terror.
The Jen'itsukut, he learned, worked best on non-sentient and semi-sentient creatures. Butchering most Jedi and Sith was a gigantic waste of time, unless the Force-sensitive in question had a really dominant specialization. Results varied. Butchering and eating pyrokinetics and lightning specialists left him with nothing more than a singed mouth. Force Shield specialists proved undigestible in the worst way. Only a few specialties provided useful meat: instinctive astrogators, for example, or Jedi healers. Irritated, he returned to experimenting on semi- and non-sentient lifeforms.
The Jen'itsukut, in short, is a crude analytical tool for understanding the nature of Force-sensitive lifeforms. It is not an especially functional weapon. It provides temporary and minor benefits derived from the natural powers of the lifeforms it butchers. It has little special power of its own: instead, it prolongs a portion of the lifeform's natural abilities for a short duration.
Primary Source:[SIZE=12.2222px] [/SIZE][SIZE=12.2222px]Not influenced by any Chaos submissions. You could consider it a very minor version of the Vergence Lensforge, but dialed way down, creating a temporary effect, and designed for use on Force-sensitive creatures rather than a Force nexus/vergence.[/SIZE]
