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we have our moments where we don't post for a week, but aside from our lives been crazy like everyone else's I think we do pretty well. ;)

I think I am just so impatient or I have no real life.

magitek firearms have already been estabilshed, ren. back on the island, ralse's men were using them. i don't see a problem with wildfire having a few guns with 3 or 4 rounds. arc described them as 14th century tech. they're no deadlier than a crossbow and actually far less accurate... even within 20 yards.

It isn't so much their abilities being too powerful, it is in the context of the world, as I stated in the other thread. I don't mind if she has them, as far as they would be useful to her within reason.

I thought he said they played a role as in the 13th century; that period being siege primarily, rather than infantry (price, usefulness compared to magitek proper or magic, etc.) or personal use.

Though he said, also, flintlock, making the technology comparable to mid-17th century, but the uses for 13th (primarily; included but not limited to 13th).

To be fair to WF, it would need to be more than a single-shot gun, if it is her main offense/defense. I like the indiana jones feel of her character, and personally would like to see the guns stay. I just want a reasonable compromise for usefulness-to-timeperiod ratio.

The method of ignition could be magitek in nature, rather than a percussion cap, it could have a small raw magicite piece that ignites gunpowder, even. Up to her, really, but she hasn't spent a lot of time in the thread to know what level of tech there is. She seems like a steampunkish character, and would like to help WF fulfill her character's inspiration.

I haven't been posting, but I haven't forgotten about this place, and I've been reading along.

Originally, I thought that by the time you guys got off the island, I'd be ready to post my character sheet. I've considered a lot of ideas, including an elf rogue who was left behind when the world of Fae faded away because she was nursed on virgin's milk, a mercenary captain who came for the Dominian-Kellen war and got stuck here after it ended, and an Orthodoxite priest trying to recover relics lost in a shipwreck long ago. None of them really strike me as interesting to write, though. I won't commit to a thread without a solid character concept, and I don't want to be really, really lazy and ressurect Vinkiri for another tour of duty, either. So as much as I'd like to post, for now, I'll still be in read-only mode.

The other reason I haven't made a peep for the past few months is that I've been busy making the biggest decision of my life... no, silly, I'm not getting married! I've convinced my family to support me while I go back to university and get a degree in Engineering. It will be a long, hard road, but I've finally mustered the courage to get rid of all the clutter in my life and actually focus on the things that really matter - my family, my studies and my writing (and, by extension, URP).

AP, you wouldn't mind adding me to that Google Wave thing, would you? I'm ysariel@gmail.com

Invited, Saoirse. Glad to see you making the -potential- journey with us! Congrats on your (re?)foray into academia.

Ren - I think the nomenclature came from an early post from Geco or Vagrant (can't remember which), and the technology represented in the story was slowly adapted back to the medieval era. We can endlessly debate the intricacies and physical rules of integrating such technology into our world, or try and create a simplified answer to the problem at hand. Thus far the firearms used seem to look akin to 16th century flintlocks, but as reliable as 13th century hand cannoneers. If one wishes to use firearms, perhaps they are just that - single shot, powerful, relatively inaccurate at moderate range.

A magitek discussion is something entirely different, but I think you've about summed it up - larger weapons can be found around the world, smaller more complex pieces are generally carefully guarded products of Dominia. The magicite is generally just an energy source for propulsion of ballistae or bolt, though some machines are capable as acting as conduits for the magic itself.

While I feel the best way to preserve the community that we've all come to share would be to create our own forum and continue on as usual, I don't think that would be the best course of action. Let's face it, there really aren't a lot of us left. We'd be the same small group in yet another tiny forum secluded deep in the colossal landscape of the internet. The same writers writing the same sorts of characters in the same sorts of threads. I think down that road lies becoming stagnant as a community.

I'd much prefer that we found a new home that was already active - none of us are likely to forget our time spent on these boards but as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Moving to a new forum - as a group - means we get to keep the best parts of our community (the friendships we've formed and the respect we have for each others writing) while simultaneously putting ourselves into a situation full of new minds, new ideas and new possibilities.

Call me crazy, but I find that fairly exciting.

Fine, you're crazy. ;)

judging from the number of people added to the Wave, Vagrant, I'd say we have plenty of people for a viable and interesting community. You really much understand that our level of writing is above many other forums in both quality and depth. Sure, there are forums with hundreds of posters on dozens of threads, but unless you really like "A Tavern in the Woods" and one-liners I think you'll end up disappointed by all but a very limited number of threads on those forums. Those limited numbers being roughly the same size as our community of people. If we had another forum, or joined the existed one Rensha proposed in the Wave (go vote on your choice, by the way. ther are only 3 votes so far) we have the ability to bring people to us rather than try and integrate with other people.

I still love the pistols, I dont know if i am ready to take on the creative challenge. I was thinking maybe just one and another weapon.

Wildfire, you're good. And the pistols are fine. As I mentioned in Wave, Gabe also has one. Some things to keep in mind. Firearms are like magic, extremely rare. Due to being magitek weapons they are more accurate than standard historical flintlocks. I'd same somewhere around the Napoleonic era. You're also welcome to start wherever you wish, just suggested the ship as an easy starting point.

You seem to have created an anti-librarian librarian. I'm interested to see how you RP this out :)

think Rachel Weisz as Evy in the Mummy and Noah Wyle as the Librarian. she will be a librarian who who dreams of discovering the world, but is stuck at home or school. However, she finally gets her chance and gets into serious trouble. I think she will go with the pistols. It will be fun.

I'm actually in the process of creating a pistol for your character. I'm making it a tri-barreled weapon, where you have to reload after three shots.

It is powered by magicite in this way - the magicite IS the percussion-cap and acts much in the same way a firing pin would today. A small fire-element magicite piece (much like what we got on the island, think cigarette lighter in a car) would be activated (ie - safety), then the hammer/bolt would be pulled (cocked), and (assuming a pre-loaded weapon) would ignite the gunpowder on contact, propelling the bullet. Now... This can work with either a paper cartridge (bullet and gunpowder wrapped tightly behind it), or with hand-packed method. But I have switched to a muzzle-loaded system because of antiquity.

I don't mind doing this, if just to give me something to do. I'm going stir crazy in NZ for lack of things to do on a daily basis... bleh.

The hardest things to figure out is A) cranking the barrels (think i have it figured out) b) whether that would cock the magicite element into place, and c) if i should use a spring or magical component to cause contact or ignition with the gunpowder.

Although, one that struck me while reading the posts... have we established that gunpowder exists? If not... i suppose I could invent a magicite propellant method based on a flint-lock appearing mechanism. Two opposing element magicites being smashed together and causing an "explosion" of sorts, which would propel a pellet or ball. For that I suppose I would have a small (very small) magicite chip packed with a bullet (sort of like a cartridge), or even embedded on one side like a dimple, where the hammer (another magicite chip, but bigger, like an anvil of sorts for the other chip to smash against) would slam into it and cause an explosive effect, propelling the bullet/pellet through the barrel.

probably getting too technical, but like i said, gives me a pet project. ^_- Even if you dont' accept the design. Or you could just say she has a tri-barrel pistol where each barrel fires once, you load from the front and it's hammer operated like a flintlock. ^_^ lol Oh, and that you can spin the barrels (which lock into position) to aim accurately. Or rather, more accurately than otherwise.

I love the idea of being able to fire more than once, but remember she's got two of them. They can have different machanics though. I have also decided to give her another weapon, but she won't be skill at it.

LOL Ren I love you man, but sometimes, you really just go way overboard ^_^ I feel like you're bored, so you have a conversation with yourself haha

Wild & Ren, as Evy like as she may be, she is a librarian, I'm assuming, primarily. It's hard to be a specialist in two very different things. How she has and knows such advanced weaponry would raise a lot of questions. I'm fine with pistols, we don't need to make a big deal about it or make them fancy, and I'm sort of envisioning that she wouldn't be super great with them anyways, but competent and more there for self defense.

At the end of the day I don't think we need a technical explanation for how the guns work. Magic propelled, magicite gunpowder, the rules of it's operation are more important than the how. I'm smiling as I write because Ren you were telling me how you were feeling like the magic system was being turned into a science, and voila, you are rationalizing how a magicite gun could operate. It warms my heart ^_^

As for rules governing firearms - no big guns/rifles unless first cleared with me, all standard guns are single shot, much more rare and advanced are multi shot guns (say 6 max for convenience). And they are propelled using a magicite powder type substance, so basic gunpowder rules apply (i.e. it can't fire if wet). If I'm missing rules you think are important, let me know. Also, if you'd like to suggest something else, please feel free.