Chaos weapon

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Chaos weapons are made of urnon, a highly volatile substance. They were first released at the 2011 Draughtman's Challenge, reintroduced at the Great Auction of 2016, and also at the August, 2019 Duskruin Arena in the form of urnon ores, which could be purchased from the High End Script Shop and then built into a weapon of the desired base.

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 updates before each strike and the color corresponds to the flare/weighting change (though the ability is not guaranteed to change, nor activate with each strike):

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

Verbs

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.

In action


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

You get a sense of rare and ancient hostory.  For a moment there is a vision of a great battle and of a large void opening up next to you.  It is pulling you into it!  You prepare to meet the fate that your masters have brought you to in this strange world.R
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.
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...

From the pitch of the vibration you determine that the purpose of the whip is as some type of weapon.
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...

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.
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...

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