{{ I would like to believe that drunken sign-language being popular is a strange side-effect of dystopian Europe }}Some loud Italian starts to sign downstairs
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{{ I would like to believe that drunken sign-language being popular is a strange side-effect of dystopian Europe }}Some loud Italian starts to sign downstairs
{{ I would like to believe that drunken sign-language being popular is a strange side-effect of dystopian Europe }}
{{Please use Brackets, like the ones I am using, when talking Out of Character.}}He is summoning the dark gods of the Xenoi. Run blues RUUUUUN
{{Sure, Nikephoros would be glad. Sorry for not responding earlier.Okay, should pick the second I guess... @ParrotGuy, your character makes most sense for RP, interested?
I would suspect Pylaeus, who has always hated me, and has political weight behind him.
{{Please use Brackets, like the ones I am using, when talking Out of Character.}}
{{Sure, Nikephoros would be glad. Sorry for not responding earlier.
Also, does anyone remember how Senators Muzaka (when I realized @Rascar Capac was good old Muazka I was really glad he returned ) and Colombo were practically in a constant war over the Red leadership in the first Senate Sessions?
I think this duel is an awesome conclusion to this old enmity between the predecessors.}}
{{Edit: if anyone is interested, I updated the House Salamis page with house words and sigils.}}
{{Hm, idk. I don't really remember... Would be embarrassing if I'm wrong }}{{ Wasn't it Mouzakas ? And that wasn't Rascar no ? }}
Senator Absalon Hvide:
*An old man wearing a grey cloak enters the tavern, he is accompanied by two younger men, both looking like they have seen a few battles. The old man walks silently through the tavern, ignoring the harlots and drunkards as he asends the stairs. As he reaches the room, he whispers into the ear of one of his companions before he enters, leaving his guards outside. He walks over to the table before removing his grey ragged cloak, revealing clothes far more appropriate to his station of a nobleman."
Greetings "He says as he seats himself at the table, beholding all the weapons placed there. After musing on the quite threatening display for a moment, he smiles and drops a pouch of powder on the table." Over the years i have become quite adept in the process of turning fluids into crystals my fellows, i was quite the happy man when i learned that gunpowder is created using wares that i can quite easily aquire. Merely a noblemans silly pasttime at this point, but i hope that i will be able to make a lot more than this when it is my time to stand before the Saints. And what is this about a horrible fate for our great speaker? Something interesting i hope and not merely some boring Xenoi or Pisan plot.
{{Brilliant... wait. What? I've no idea who that guy is.}}{{Sure, Nikephoros would be glad. Sorry for not responding earlier.
Also, does anyone remember how Senators Muzaka (when I realized @Rascar Capac was good old Muazka I was really glad he returned ) and Colombo were practically in a constant war over the Red leadership in the first Senate Sessions?
I think this duel is an awesome conclusion to this old enmity between the predecessors.}}
Senator Flavius Lucius MojmiridSenator Philaretos Mandromenos
Ah, Senator Hvide, it is good to see you. Your hospitality and generosity in transporting me and my men is greatly appreciated and I assure you that I will compensate you fairly and return the favor one day.
*He turns to the men looking over his pistol*
A fine Roman made firearm that is. See the smoldering cord here, it is called a match, giving this arm its name, the matchlock. As you can see having a piece of burning cord can be dangerous. I have heard of the possibility of replacing the cord with a piece of flint, already used to start fires at military camps with steel, creating what I would call a flintlock. In their spare time, my gunsmiths are attempting to build such a mechanism, but it seems to be decades away.
Another improvement that I would make is the blasting cap. See this powder here, if the gun were to be turned around, the powder would fall out and the gun wouldn't fire. I seek to build a blasting cap design the minimizes that risk, I already have a few designs ready, but it will be a few years before any are ready to be mass produced.
The last feature that I would add is a safety mechanism, to prevent the firearm from activating prematurely. Some fool pulling the trigger on accident could cause great harm. I would build a device to prevent the hammer from dropping until it is disabled. It should be ready to be mass produced soon.
But that gun you hold is the finest in the Imperium. Its quality is due to many things, fine materials, a great amount of effort, and the labor of specialized artisans. Most firearms are made by a blacksmith who also makes firearms. My firearms are made by dedicated gunsmiths. The reason that I am ahead of the Imperium as a whole in terms of craftsmanship is due to my family's connection to Aragon. The Xenoi let their secret methods of craftsmanship be taught to their oppressed Spanish underlings. When the Imperium freed them, the Spaniard gunsmiths were happy to accept new employment. My father gladly gave it to them, and due to that I have at my disposal craftsman dedicated to tools like the one you hold.
{{ Surprising how the Blue Meetings has become a NRA meeting while we Whites were discussing ECONOMICS }}
{{ Good point! }}{{ Just along these lines I want to point out that the "hoi" in "hoi polloi" means "the" so statements like "the/a hoi polloi" are wrong, like "ATM Machine" or "PIN Number". You cannot really be "a" hoi polloi, only one of them. }}
{{ Surprising how the Blue Meetings has become a NRA meeting while we Whites were discussing ECONOMICS }}
((I was going to write exactly this. We the reds use it for expelling our leader, whites for chart pies and blues for...what? Talking on weapons and foresee the future? ))
{{Brilliant... wait. What? I've no idea who that guy is.}}
{{ ...dis getting uncomfortable. I wrote oldest known Muzaka as retired one legged veteran. Better skim over some earlier sessions...}}cranky old one legged guy