Bongor's Guide to Discordian Skins  

 

Bongor’s Guide to Discordian Skins
By Bongor

Hi! I just spent a lot of time working with the skins of animals from this Discord place and I wanted to share what I’ve found!

I found three types that are useful for making armor. There are those slimy things called Murkgliders, those things with the tentacles called Feran and the giant beasts called Bazu. I’m more of an expert on lighter materials, but I think I can talk about all three of these things.

Generally I grade these things in one of four ways. The really bad ones I’ve been calling ruined. If they have fewer holes and are less likely to fall apart, I call them damaged. Relatively undamaged skins I just call by their names, like Feran skin or whatever. If I get lucky and find one that’s really nice, I’ll call that pristine.

Making armor from the Murglider and Feran skins is pretty straightforward. You need to match the pattern to the skin (you don’t want to waste a pristine skin on a belt when a ruined one will do), then add an appropriate amount of the creature’s blood (this helps the material remain supple). You’ll need more blood for the better skins.

Now for the Bazu skin, well, that stuff is hard! You’ll have to get a smith to work on that stuff in his forge. Your sewing needle isn’t going to pass through it. The same principles apply, though. You’ll still need enough blood from the Bazu to keep the skin from burning in the forge.

I know, it sounds gruesome, but the results are worth it.

There’s one other thing that I just have to tell you! If you can find the right ingredient, you can infuse these armors with power!

Find the flame from a Pyrilen and put it into the forge with your finished Bazu armor and you’ll find that it gains a lot of strength. You may need more flames for the better pieces.

The same is true if you add the right amount of ice from a Gelidran to your Feran armor pieces (and this you can do in your sewing kit). You’ll get great results. And if you want to strengthen the Murkglider armor, you’ll need to use this stuff that you can find inside Discordlings. I’m not sure how to describe it.

Anyway, I hope this helps!

Oh! I just heard something interesting. It seems that those Dragon guys also use the skins of some of these beasts to make things. You might be able to make your armor from that as well!

One more thing! I’ve heard that someone is making these cute little charms that go with our armor! Isn’t that nice! I hear they make them using some of the same items that go into the armor and that there is some sort of resonance that happens when you have a lot of armor on. I don’t understand it all, but it’s nice of them to make such a nice accessory!