Commissioning Spell Foci:
Spell foci can be commissioned like any other piece of equipment.  Their costs
are how many QPs (quest points -- 'dark steel spheres') they cost, each.
(Each commissioned focus is automatically set to be unstealable for free.)

Exception:
All raise spell foci ('raise dead', 'miracle', 'spark of life', 'dark miracle')
cost a flat 2 QPs total.  All other spell focus prices are explained below.
(Resurrection spells are generally fairly altruistic in their use, and we want
to encourage such things in game play -- cooperation makes Fox more fun.)

Spell Level (NOTE: these are doubled for healing and blasting spells):
    1 QP  for spells of levels  0-12 (e.g. or 2 for 'cure light wounds'
                                             or for 'flame gout')
    2 QPs for spells of levels 13-21 (e.g. or 4 for 'aetheral vortex'
                                             or for 'cure dire wounds')
    3 QPs for spells of levels 22-33 (e.g. or 6 for 'heal' or 'sunfire')
    4 QPs for spells of levels 34-43 (e.g. or 8 for 'mass heal'
                                             or for 'arctic blast')

Specific spell (flat) surcharges:
  +10 QPs for 'restoration'
  + 9 QPs for 'merciful touch', 'balm', 'lifedrain', 'soul chill'
  + 8 QPs for 'fiery doom', 'smite', 'wither', 'natures wrath','thunderstrike'
  + 5 QPs for 'acid blast', 'firelance'

Cost Multipliers to be applied to total cost:
    x 1/2   Lesser Focus  (same as 50% of greater focus)
    x 3/4   Average Focus (same as 75% of greater focus)
    x 1     Greater Focus (thus 'full' price, 100%)
(Rounded down for lesser and average foci in case of fractions, minimum of 1.)

Examples:
  A greater restoration focus
     would cost 6 (level 34 spell x 2 for healing) + 10 (surcharge) = 16.
  A lesser focus would cost 8 (50%) and an average focus 12 (75%).

  A greater fiery doom focus
     would cost 8 (level 40 spell x 2 for blasting) + 8 (surcharge) = 16
     (same as restore in the end).

  A greater soul chill focus
    would cost 8 (level 43 spell x 2 for blasting + 9 (surcharge) = 17.
  A lesser focus would cost 8 (50%) and an average focus 12 (75%).

  A greater focus of lightning strike
    would cost 6 (level 25 spell x 2 for blasting).
  A lesser focus would cost 3 and an average focus 4.

Trade Ins:
Foci may be traded back in for 50% of cost in QPs, which can be paid in gold
and/or silver bars for fractions, rounded down to the silver bar.

Appearance of foci:

The first person to commission a focus of a specific tier/spell (e.g. greater
dire critter, or lesser dart arcane) gets to design the appearance of their
focus if one does not already exist, subject to administration oversight.  Any
subsequent purchasers may get that design as a base (if the original
commissioning player agrees and if the administration agrees), but a restring
can be used to redesign it.  Buyers of foci subject to flat surcharges have the
right to a free restring on that focus.

Any foci objs that are made via restrings will be made available to future
buyers as a free alternative, subject to the initial consent of the first owner
of that restring (i.e. when the restring is used, the buyer may ask that it NOT
be made publicly available).  Administrative oversight may similarly restrict
the proliferation of some restrings.

See Also: commissioned equipment
          foci
          QPs
          restrings