Chaos weapon

Chaos weapons are made of urnon, a highly volatile substance. They were first seen in 1999, with later versions introducing a new style.

Old Style:

* 1999 Grand Auction
* Duskruin Arena High End Scrip Shop, August 2019
* Draughtman's Challenge

New Style:

* Great Auction of 2016

Properties

Chaos weapons possess the ability to randomly change enchant bonus, flare, and weighting amount, and can be made into many weapon bases. The enchant bonus varies with each swing. Modification of the weapon ability shifts after each successful strike that employs it for Old style, while New Style weapons change before every swing regardless of hit, miss, or EBP result. The color for both versions corresponds to the ability:

Red: fire flares
Blue: lightning flares
Brown: impact flares
Green: acid flares
White: cold flares
Black: crit weighting
Grey: damage weighting

New Style weapons also have available flares (not available to old style):

Golden: disintegration
Silver: vacuum
Silvery: steam
Crimson: disruption
Silvery-blue: plasma

A flare is not guaranteed to activate with each strike, but it is quite common to see flares on sequential swings. As usual, a fatal hit will not cause a flare no matter the color, and creatures immune to a specific type of damage (e.g. cold) will ignore it as they normally do.

Additionally, the New Style weapons appear to be Permablessed.

Further Investigation

Having an unlocked Loresong allows direct examination of flare for any given color, as well as the (current) Enchant, game-assessed value (fluctuates wildly based on Enchant and flare), and the project difficulty. Since the spoiler for the Great Auction (New Style) weapons indicated that they could be Ensorcelled, stopping on a lower difficulty should simplify adding layers of improvement.

Color	Enchant	flare	silver value	project difficulty
Crimson	penalty -7	a disrupting substance	1900	complicated/310
Crimson	bonus +16	a disrupting substance	150000	complicated/331
Crimson	penalty -3	a disrupting substance	1900	complicated/310
White	bonus +4	an ice elemental	14000	complicated/310
White	bonus +2	an ice elemental	8250	complicated/310
White	bonus +19	an ice elemental	200000	complicated/342
White	pentaly -10	an ice elemental	1700	complicated/310
Silvery	penalty -10	a steaming substance	1700	complicated/310
Silvery	bonus +11	a steaming substance	76000	complicated/319
Brown	penalty -3	an earth elemental	1700	complicated/310
Brown	no bonus	an earth elemental	1700	complicated/310
Silvery-blue	bonus +19	a flaming substance	250000	complicated/342
Black	bonus +1	weighted critical	150000	tricky/406
Red	bonus +6	a fire elemental	25000	complicated/311
Red	bonus +17	a fire elemental	150000	complicated/335
Blue	bonus +4	a lightning bolt	19000	complicated/310

Verbs

Old Style

LOOK:

The chaos whip seems to be continuiously changing, as if your eyes can't seem to focus on it.

RUB:

As you rub the chaos whip it pulses beneath your fingers. It feels like it is altering its properties even now.

New Style

PUSH:

You push your glaes bastard sword away from you, turning the urnon pommel outward. The urnon pulses, sending black tendrils writhing across the sword's hilt before dissipating.

PULL:

You draw your hand over the hilt of your glaes bastard sword, your fingers lingering on the urnon pommel. At your touch, the metal melts and ripples before reforming.

CLUTCH (attempts to hold the weapon to the current properties):

You wrap your hands around the hilt of your glaes bastard sword and gird your will against the presence emanating from the urnon pommel. A darkness creeps into your vision, and you cede before you black out.

In action

Old Style:

Your whip turns blue!
You swing a blue chaos whip at an Ithzir seer!
  AS: +596 vs DS: +366 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +38 = +292
   ... and hit for 49 points of damage!
   Left leg mangled horribly.

 ** Your chaos whip emits a searing bolt of lightning! **

   ... 20 points of damage!
   Heavy shock to right eye bursts a few blood vessels.  Sick.

Your whip turns white!
You swing a white chaos whip at an Ithzir seer!
  AS: +591 vs DS: +354 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +80 = +341
   ... and hit for 51 points of damage!
   Blow to chest causes the Ithzir seer's heart to skip a beat.

 ** Your chaos whip glows intensely with a cold blue light! **

   ... 5 points of damage!
   Chilly blast to the chest causes heart to skip a beat.

Your whip turns green!
You swing a green chaos whip at an Ithzir seer!
  AS: +556 vs DS: +366 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +18 = +232
   ... and hit for 30 points of damage!
   Right elbow smashed into a thousand pieces.

 ** Your chaos whip releases a spray of acid! **

   ... 5 points of damage!
   Splash of acid hits shoulder and runs down the back in a painful trail.

Your whip turns brown!
You swing a brown chaos whip at an Ithzir adept!
  AS: +525 vs DS: +354 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +25 = +220
   ... and hit for 26 points of damage!
   Large gash to the right arm, several muscles torn.
   The adept's crystal-tipped staff falls to the ground.

 ** Your chaos whip releases a blast of vibrating energy! **

   ... 20 points of damage!
   Good blow to the abdomen!

Your whip turns black!
The glowing specks of energy surrounding an Ithzir adept intensify!
You swing a black chaos whip at an Ithzir adept!
  AS: +556 vs DS: +356 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +42 = +266
   ... and hit for 45 points of damage!
   Whoosh!  Several ribs driven into lungs.
The Ithzir adept vainly struggles to rise, then goes still.
The Ithzir adept no longer bristles with energy.

Loresong

This weapon is permeated with magic, but what kind of magic is difficult to discern because its properties keep changing.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the chaos whip in your hand, and you learn something about it...

The first thing that strikes you about the whip is the weight, which is about 4 pounds.  In your best estimation, it's worth about 50,000 silvers.  You can also tell that the chaos whip is predominantly crafted of urnon.
_____
Your heart no longer beats like the Giantman heart that you have known all your life.  And the world seems to be surrounded by the chaos of war.  Strange lightings flicker across the sky.  Flaming death flies on leathery wings above you.  Deadly magics of master and foe burn the air you breathe and the ground beneath you.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the chaos whip in your hand, and you learn something about it...

You sense a faint aura of magic surrounding the whip.  From the pitch of the vibration you determine that the purpose of the whip is as some type of weapon.
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This weapon is permeated with magic, but what kind of magic is difficult to discern because its properties keep changing.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the chaos whip in your hand...

The way it vibrates in tune with your voice tells you that it requires skill in blunt weapons to use effectively.  It also has some type of special ability, but you can't tell what yet.
_____
There is something odd about this weapon.  For a moment you somehow become a part of the whip.  And it somehow becomes a part of you.  Your black blood intermingles with the darkening red blood of your victims.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the chaos whip in your hand...

You feel that you have reached the end of the whip's song.