268 Jewelry

So, of course, with all this time on my hands and the tools now at my disposal, I wanted to try my hand at crafting some basic jewelry, wanting to see what it would look like and what exactly I could do with each thing that I had purchased.

I wanted to try making something myself... but only after I made a few pieces of basic jewelry using the station, which might get me the skills needed to make better items or at least understand what I was doing a little bit more.

So, to start, I crafted a miniature workbench and set it to the side, turning it into a Jewelers Bench and converting it to give me better chances at crafting jewelry; the Arcane Workbench did the same thing whilst also expanding my crafting recipes.

With all my tools laid out and the materials secured in my inventory, I browsed through the crafting recipes I had and found the first, most basic one that I could craft.

A metal ring.

Using some steel, I could craft a set of eight rings from just a single bar, and this was where I realized how useful it'd be to learn how to do everything myself.

The bar was rather long and wide, able to craft more than just eight rings if I forged it out and punched out the rings, before melting and reforming another bar with the leftover scrap...

They wouldn't be masterpieces, but I'd have far more than eight basic rings, but that was where the pros and cons of this System of mine came in.

That would take a long time to do, but I would have a better yield, while using the System was quicker but more wasteful.

For steel, I wouldn't mind losing those materials, but if it was gold?

Platinum?

Or some other rare metal?

Yeah, I would feel physical pain at losing probably half of a bar of gold...

Solid, pure gold...

Gone.

Nuh-uh, not happening!

Do you have any idea how much money that would be?!

...

I have no idea, but an astronomical amount compared to what I made at the market, that's for sure!

Even just thinking about it made me feel slightly angry, so I just shook my head and refocused on crafting those eight rings...

Before realizing a problem; I had no idea what my ring size was, nor did I know the sizes of any of my family.

So...

Inspecting the recipe, I sighed in relief when I saw an option to change the size of the rings, which used a system of whole numbers and their halves to make up the size chart.

Thankfully my own size was logged in the system; I was a 7, which was roughly 54 millimeters in length of metal that would be wrapped around my left ring finger; additionally, each finger goes up / down a single whole measurement, so my left middle finger is an 8, whilst my pinky is a 6.

On top of that, my right hand - the dominant hand - was a half size larger, so my right ring finger is 7.5, or roughly 56 millimeters.

So, with that in mind I made a suite of rings ranging from size 6 to size 13, just to have a set to measure the ring sizes of my family.

Rhefia was already so much taller than me, and her build was larger, so I would wager a guess that her left ring finger was probably a 9, maybe a 9.5?

As for anyone smaller then me, the only one so far would be Heila or Ipoala, but considering the rest of us are around similar sizes, I went with this range just to get most of us done now...

I wanted to make a set of rings for just us, to show our bonds and loyalty to one another.

For now though, I waited for the suite of eight rings to craft, watching the bar slowly fill up until a bundle of eight pieces of metal clattered onto the workbench, their simple silvery surfaces glittering from the firelight.

Sorting them out, I lifted the one that was a size 6 and slipped it onto my left hand, staring at the glittering metal with a soft smile as I held my hand out, inspecting it.

It looked rather elegant for something so simple, and my smile widened as I slipped it off, turning towards my Survival System and utilizing the skill points from my level ups.

I went from 75 to 79 for the things I had crafted, and I placed three of those four points into [Jeweler II], whilst the remaining point went into [Craftsman]

[Jeweler II : Unlocks more jewelry recipes, reduces material costs for recipes by 20%, and gives a .5% chance to upgrade the metal used into something more valuable (Steel -> Bronze -> Silver and so on) unless designated not too.]

[Craftsman : All recipes require 10% less materials, and decreases time by 10%]

They were both excellent skills to have, and after getting and upgrading [Jeweler], I had a better idea on what I needed to do to make a ring myself, and what exactly I could do with each tool much more efficiently.

Paired with [Dexterity], which increased my ability to use my hands, I felt like I'd have a pretty good chance at making something nice!

But, like with everything, I needed to start with the basics, and more specifically preparing my materials.

So I took out the various stones that I had gotten and began to polish them, removing the rough edges and excess material before laying them on the workbench, arranging them by color.

The process of cleaning them off and getting them ready to be used was relaxing, and with some time still remaining until dinner I decided to spend my free time here, since night was no time to be working...

Night was meant for intimacy, and getting to know one another better as we sat around the fire.

With the new addition of Ipoala, we would be spending our nights looking after the babies before retiring for the night, indulging in sex before going to sleep in bliss...

My lips tugged into a smile as I idly made note of the semen that remained inside my womb, though my hands didn't flinch as I began to fantasize about getting topped up by my wives, the thought of going to sleep with a womb filled with sperm arousing me greatly...