Dikote Question, I disagree with my GM Options

[shadd4d]

I'm against it, but I remember a friend of mine in someone else's game had one. The description in FoF, which stated it was like dikote but without the cost, more or less stated for me that it can't be done, much like the monosword or monofilament.

Don

[Cray74]

[Stumps]

[Zolhex]

Well If this will help then your welcome if not oh well.

In SRM at character creation a Dikoted katana costs 6000 :nuyen: 1000 :nuyen: for the sword and 5000 :nuyen: for the Dikoteing. So there for in game it would cost you 12000 :nuyen: + street index. That is as far as I am going to go if you have questions ask Bitrunner cause my info is based on what I have been told nothing more.

[Arethusa]

I should point out that while Dikoting as described in the book requires a plasma furnace and would simply destroy a katana by means of irrevocably ruining its temper, real life already has Dikoting that doesn't require superheating. Of course, it doesn't do the absurdly psychotic shit Dikoting in the game does, which brings it down to this:
If you like Dikoting and want to keep it canon, do so, and know that per canon, it also magically doesn't ruin temper.
If you like reality and dislike Crazy Stupid Shit®, Dikoting is only useful for increasing the durability of surfaces and does not require any of that silly plasma furnace stuff.
But there's no need to argue over it.

As for only coating the blade, I believe it's been clarly shown that the whole thing needs to be coated. Of course, it naturally follows that the diamond coating is quite flexible, magically active, and very angry. The anger accounts for the additional damage level and power rating.

As for specifics, the surface area of a katana blade, including the nakago (tang), would include the following in very rough figures:

ha, shinogi, kissaki (blade, rear blade, and tip): 28.5" length * 1.5" width * 2 sides = 85.5 in^2
mune (blade spine): 28.5" length * 0.3" thickness = 8.55 in^2
nakago (tang): 6" length * 0.3" width * 2 sides = 3.6 in^2
nakago (tang): 0.3" width * 1" length = 0.3 in^2
nakago (tang): 6" length * 1.25" (average) width * 2 sides = 15 in^2

Total surface area: 112.95 in^2
Metric conversion: 728.70822 cm^2
Final cost: 7,287.08¥

But let's just say 7,500¥ to keep costs realistically clean; I sure wouldn't mind padding an extra 212.92¥ on the top. With street index, 14,000¥. 10,000¥ at your GM's recommendation is quite a deal, and given that the effectiveness of this stuff is worth five times this quite easily, I suggest you quit your damn bitching and fork over the nuyen.

[Zazen]