Lock Mastery

Lockmastery is one of six Rogue Guild guild skills that allows a rogue to pick boxes faster, add locks and clasps to certain items, measure a lock size, and a number of other things.

Clasping containers

The rogue can add a clasp to certain containers that do not open and close, making them closeable. If the item is scripted, the item will not be able to be clasped via lockmastery.

The following nouns can possibly take a clasp:
backpack, bag, bankbook, book, cape, case, casket, cloak, coat, greatcloak, handbag, haversack, hip-satchel, jacket, kit, knapsack, longcloak, longcoat, manifest, mantle, pack, pouch, prayerbook, purse, quiver, register, reliquary, reticule, robe, robes, rucksack, sack, satchel, shroud, songbook, sporran, tome, toolkit, tube, and vestment.

To see if an item can take a clasp, the LMASTER CLASP CHECK verb can be used.

• A purple mantle can have a clasp attached to it, but not a lock.
• A purple mantle already has a clasp, and cannot have a lock added.
• That already has a clasp, but it can have a lock added.
• That is not an appropriate type of container to add a clasp or lock to.
• That's not a container.

The first time that LMASTER CLASP is used on an item, it will punch a hole in the item, readying it for a clasp. This results in 20-30 seconds of roundtime.

• Picking up a punch from the workbench, you carefully put a hole in the mantle where you intend to attach a clasp.

The second time that LMASTER CLASP is used on an item, you must have a clasp ready in your other hand. Clasps are available in the guild shops. Also, items with the noun "clasp" found in the treasure system can be used to clasp containers. Merchants have sold items without the clasp noun at multiple festivals.

• Selecting a pair of grips from the workbench, you carefully put a fine brass clasp through the hole in your purple mantle and secure it in place.

The description of the clasped item can have three variations:

• To add to the show description, the verb is LMASTER CLASP SHOWDESC

• To add to the long description, the verb is LMASTER CLASP LONGDESC

a rose pink thrak hide cloak clasped with an oversized stiffly splayed starched linen bow

• To keep the clasp hidden and keep the item's description the same, the verb is LMASTER CLASP NODESC, or simply LMASTER CLASP

Making and Adding Locks to containers

The following items can have a lock added to them:
backpack, bankbook, book, case, casket, handbag, haversack, hip-satchel, kit, knapsack, manifest, pack, prayerbook, purse, register, reliquary, reticule, rucksack, satchel, songbook, sporran, tome, toolkit, and tube.

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Tsoran's site has an excellent table showing the skills, benefits and tasks required to progress in lock mastery. In addition to the benefits listed the smith will see reductions in RT for caliper use and for trap detection and disarming as they reached the advanced ranks of lockmastery.

The lock duplication skill can only be used to create genuine duplicates of the smith's own locks.

Resources

http://www.tsoran.com