All city leaders and heads of guilds have access to specialist craftsmen who, for sufficient gold and sometimes expertise, will create artifacts - often necessary tools to augment the inate skillsets or purposes of the people of the land. It is widely known that divine globes are able to be employed to aid the task of the specialist craftsmen (see HELP GLOBES and HELP GLOBEACTIONS). NOTE: if you order the fashioning of an item but fail, for a full Avalon year, to pay anything to the craftsmen by way of gold or expertise then the item fashioning will be aborted and the artifact removed from the list.
Syntax: SPECIAL ITEMS.
Reviews those items available to you, to be fashioned by the city/guild specialist craftsmen. The list varies according to your profession and, less frequently, the city you call home.
Syntax: SPECIAL ORDERS.
Use this command to review all orders underway on behalf of your city (if you are one of its leaders) or your guild (if you are its head).
Syntax: SPECIAL COST <item type>.
This command allows you to review the cost in gold coins (and expertise lessons) and the length of time taken to complete specific item types from your SPECIAL ITEMS list.
Syntax: SPECIAL FASHION <item type> FOR <individual>/<guild>/<city>.
Order the fashioning of a specialist artifact for individual members of your city/guild, or on behalf of the designated guild or city. Details of the specific itemtypes are the province of the guildmaster or the Baron and their ilk and can often be listed via the SPECIAL ITEMS command.
Syntax: SPECIAL GOLD/EXPERTISE <item> <gold/expertise to give>.
To bestow gold or necessary expertise to aid in the completion of a specialist artifact use this command. Items take a certain number of Avalon months to be created and they will not commence their work until all gold and expertise owed has been paid off.
Syntax: SPECIAL DELIVER <item>.
When an item has been completed you will likely, if you were its instigator, receive a note - or a message - informing you of its readiness. You may then issue the SPECIAL DELIVER command to bring the item from the specialist workshops, to be lain at your feet or placed in your location Portable items can then be given to the individual, city or guild whose property it had been declared to become. Fixed, large items (like the alchemical vat) will need to be delivered in the location they are to occupy.
