Seventeenth Assignment

[always_on_duty]

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[BZZZZT!]

Ow! Stupid computerphone!

...Oh, right. [Gadget reaches up, grabbing a lock of hair with two fingers. His spikes are less uniform than they once were, and a few inches lower, sitting around his shoulders rather than the back of his head and neck -- and is that a dusting of silver at his temples?]So how do you go about

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[sojournsparrow]

Well now, if you really like I might be able to give you a nice trim. All depends on your sense of style, and what you can offer me in return. Perhaps some information? Why did you yelp like a wounded dog just a little while ago, and what does it have to do with these communicators.

[sojournsparrow]

But is that the kind of thing you watch for?

[always_on_duty]

That, or those mean animals bothering people.

[sojournsparrow]

Ah you mean the monsters. I had no idea you were capable of dealing with them.

[always_on_duty]

Well, I've... got a weapon, but I don't like using it.

[sojournsparrow]

What kind of weapon?

it was a present from the scientists :|b

[always_on_duty]

[Here, have a video of Gadget holding up a revolver by the handle with three fingers, though his expression would be more fitting for something like a dirty diaper.]

Happy Birthday Gadget?

[sojournsparrow]

Hmm... I've never seen anything like it before.

|D not exactly, they give out stuff every so often, called an "item rain"

[always_on_duty]

...Really? You've never seen a gun?

Pffft, I think mistaken birthday, birthday present is funnier xD

[sojournsparrow]

No, I've traveled to many planes of existence but I don't think I've ever seen a gun... although that does vaguely remind me of something I once saw. But even still... I don't recognize it.

Worst birthday present ever :(

[always_on_duty]

What about cannons, do you know about those?

Seriously

[sojournsparrow]

Well that's actually only a relatively new invention in one of the planes I went to. Some gnome chemist or some such invented it, but it's not terribly effective. A ballista is still more accurate and deadly, or a wizard's fireball.

[always_on_duty]

A gun's like that, but smaller and faster and more accurate.

[sojournsparrow]

So a cannon is to a ballista, as a gun is to a crossbow...

[always_on_duty]

I guess so? What's a ballista?

[sojournsparrow]

It's like a giant crossbow that fires spears with great force.