Usage of double weapons

[Racebred]

i think i may have read a previous discussion about using 2 weapons simultaneously to get double +5cs for grand weaponmastery here some time back, so i went back to replay book 1-28 again using this trick.

(I cant remember what was the outcome of this discussion, but i went ahead and played the series with this rule. of course kimah and chaos master were much easier to kill this way)

but i have a qn. in Fall of Blood Mountain, you have the chance to come across 2 magical warhammers with +5cs each. Both were explained with "you can use this as an alternative to your Kai weapon".

But since I am using the 2-weapon system, i manage to plus 20cs to my combat skill with these weapons (1 kai weapon + one of the dwarven warhammers)

Later on, while trying to destroy the Claw of Naar with your Kai weapon, you dented it and have to permanently reduce 1 cs from the weapon, making effectively less powerful than the dwarven warhammers (unless you use the Kai weapon under their respective special conditions).

so now my kai weapon is relegated to being a white elephant. But in the text, sometimes, that preceeds combat, you're always described that you "draw your kai weapon in readiness to attack".

should i follow it and use kai weapon (for +19cs only) or ignore the text and carry both warhammers for a +20cs?

[Relenoir]

I think the 'you draw your Kai weapon' is mostly flavor text. If you were planning on entering combat without your Kai weapon and using something else instead, I don't see any reason why you'd have to use it just because the text tells you so. That really does suck when they damage your weapon in that section, doesn't it? I was so mad when I got to that. I imagine LW could fix it later, but not until you return to the monastery after book 28, which makes the whole point moot anyways!

[Zipp]

I think it depends on what just happened story wise. If you've reached this section specifically by having your kai weapon, than you must use it, I would say.

For instance, sometimes in LW the Sommerswerd allowed you to reach a section you wouldn't otherwise reach, generally creating different stats and description. It would be strange to reach this section, then put away the Sommerswerd and carry on with the combat.

However, if you're just at a section where the flavor text adds in the words "kai weapon," feel free to use what you want.

[The Tagazin Poodle]

I wouldn't worry too much about flavor text. In Book 7, the text refers to your scabbard, though it's possible you never had a sword in the first place.

www.projectaon.org/xhtml/lw/07cd/sect279.htm

[Sol]

Sun Sword really is assumed just about all the time, isn't it? On the other hand, I guess this could be a figure of speech, too.

Sol