OC Penpals!
So I got this idea from reading puella_nerdii's advice column thread, and thinking to myself, "Writing to one of Puel's characters as one of my characters? That sounds like fun! --But they don't know each other very well yet! What are they supposed to talk about?"
And then I thought to myself, "PENPAL THREAD," and that brings us up to now.
( Thanks for the recap. So what is it? )
And then I thought to myself, "PENPAL THREAD," and that brings us up to now.
( Thanks for the recap. So what is it? )
I suppose that Jareth's assumption that you were, I meant this in the politest way, inebriated while writing this were correct. You have indeed paid for it already and I am glad that you are still interested, I would have sent the money back if you hadn't of course.
I can make a cannon small enough to be supported on the arm while fired, the force of one of those is enough to puncture wood and thin metal that is less than four inches thick. It is also possible for me to make grapeshot. The disadvantage of that cannon is the limited force and the fact that I am the only one who makes the size of cannonballs for it as I am its inventor. If that size is not acceptable than please just name a size you would prefer as well as whether you would want a metal or wood carriage and whether you would want to have it able to be taken part for ease of transport.
Cannons are for blowing building and people up primarily. I apologize if you meant this as a rhetorical question.
I need nothing but your specifics. Your payment was enough to cover everything as well as two to three dozen cannonballs depending on size. I am not in the cannon-making business, I am in the business of inventing and then creating explosive weapons. It was the business that I found myself most adapt at when I had to find a job to support myself. It wasn't too much a transition except for the technology leap and suddenly having to account for magic. Yes there is a lot of gunpowder, but it is not so unsafe as long as I am careful.
May the winds blow favorably for you,
Master of Explosives at Tolly's
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P.S- I apologize for the blood stains, please be assured that they are just from a lamb, I was writing at the table and Jareth was a little messy.
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What's grapeshot? Also, yeah, my questions are never rhetorical. I don't know anything about guns and explosives and artillery and Selwyn is saying "chemical combustibles," and I'm guessing he doesn't just mean, like, kerosene. It's never come up before now! Also, it's a bad idea for magicians to use weapons like that, where I'm from. Everything goes wrong for us more often and more spectacularly than it does for ordinary people. You don't meet a lot of magicians who are also gun enthusiasts, at least not ones who still have both their hands.
But man, a cannon. I can't say no.
If I was drunk I'm really sorry, I try not to let that happen too often. I'm not a big drinker usually, but that's a lot because I can't hold my liquor, so I can kind of see myself drinking something I didn't know was as, you know, alcoholic as it was, and then somehow the night ended with me placing an order for a cannon. I mean, that seems like a logical progression. And you're saying you can make ones that fit on your arm? That's so great! Can I have one of those, then? The carriage would be the thing the cannon is braced on, right? Wood would probably be better, it doesn't sound as heavy.
Do you do this kind of thing by individual contract a lot? It seems like an explosives expert would be working for the government or some military operation. What kind of school did you have to go to to learn all these things? I'm guessing you studied chemistry and metallurgy and, I don't know, blacksmithing? Is that something they teach in schools? Like I said, sorry for my ignorance, this has never come up for me before.
I am pretty sure that somebody telling you that you can have a cannon when you're fifteen years old is a sign that we live in a just universe. I'm going to bring this up with Selwyn the next time he decides to teach me philosophy.
- Kent.
PS: Oh, and don't worry about the blood stains, I figured whatever it was, that was your business.
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Grapeshot is when a canister of smaller lead balls are put into the canon instead of one larger one. These shatter when fired and while weaker are quite effective while facing a group. Your lack of knowledge is perfectly acceptable, please do no hesitate to ask any questions you may have.
As you being drunk is what caused us to be able to have this conversation, please excuse me if I am being presumtuoues to call it that as I feel it has become a little more than a business transaction, I am glad you did. I will start crafting it immediately.
I will never work for the goverment, ever. The goverment on this island seems decent but still I do not trust any goverment. I am half self taught and the rest I picked up by books and expirence so I don't know what classes I should have taken, and one day might take out of curiousity. Curiousity is, while not being a trait I have outside the realm of inventing, a very good trait to have. Also I'm used to a million more questions from Jareth when he stops by the shop.
I believe that people of every age have the right to fight for their own dreams and if a cannon can help then it is my greatest joy to provide one.
May the winds blow favorably for you,
Master of Explosives at Tolly's
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P.S- I would have rewritten it but I was writting on the last of last month's paper, it was a good month for inventing.
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