[Video, @witcher] Way backdated to idk Oct 6 I do what I want

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ Over time, Geralt picked up a few things about the network from watching Jaskier use it. That doesn't mean getting this to work is easy. But now that there haven't been any spirits or creatures distracting him for a week or so, he's starting to get the hang of it. A part of him is rather annoyed and bitter at feeling like he has to, but he has to admit that the idea of instantly contacting all of his fellow prisoners and hopefully finding answers without needing to hunt people down is very attractive.

So here he is, in his room in his cabin, staring down at the phone like it might tell him whether this is recording more clearly if he just looks scary enough. It doesn't.

He clears his throat. ]

Found something in the swamp that I don't recognise.

[ Hopefully it's working and he's not just talking to himself. Like it's not what he does most of the time. He talks to his horse, ok.

It takes a little bit of fumbling, but he manages to turn the video towards the shotgun leaning against the foot of the bed. ]

Anyone who can tell me what it is?

[ That's it. That's all he's going to say. Introduction? Nah. ]

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video; @bombshell

[bombshelled]

[ Lana's lounging in her apartment in town, having spent most of the day making it more habitable. There are curtains on the windows now. Sure, it's just raw, unhemmed fabric, but it works for now. ]

Looks like a shotgun.

[ By now she's well used to all the old timey people here so she'll just assume he has never seen a gun before. ]

You point the hollow end at something and pull the trigger and it fires a bullet. Wait, no... Shotguns fire buckshot, not bullets.

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ The trigger? He frowns a little, and crouches down next to the shotgun to give it a closer look. Well, if you hold it there ... The trigger has to be that small bit of metal sticking out, right? ]

So it's a weapon.

[ Makes sense. ]

[bombshelled]

Yeah. A pretty brutal one. Not as deadly as like a fucking assault rifle, but still bad to get shot at with.

[coolmotivestillevil]

'Assault rifle'.

[ Lana, you can't just throw words out. ]

video.

[skittering]

( give lalli a second to narrow his eyes at it, and - ) Gun. Kills what you point it at.

( a beat. )

Could show you how to shoot it?

video.

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ He thinks he could potentially work it out with Lana's simple but informative enough explanation, but it's always better to be safe than sorry with a weapon. So maybe it's worth meeting someone in person. Especially someone as no-nonsense as Lalli is. ]

Sure. Know where my cabin is?

[ He's pretty sure Lalli's been here, but it wasn't much of a chat, so. ]

[skittering]

Yep.

When?

[coolmotivestillevil]

Now?

[ He has time. ]

video; @joel.miller

[shivving]

It's goddamned useful, is what.

[ A beat, before he remembers himself and continues ]

And dangerous. Don't touch it or you're likely to blow someone's head off.

video;

[coolmotivestillevil]

Think that would require that I accidentally aim it at someone's head.

[ And, sure, Joel has no idea who he is or anything, but he's pretty sure that he can avoid that. ]

Re: video;

[shivving]

Just as easy to shoot off your own foot, if you don't know what you're doing.

[ You'd think so, but you'd be surprised. Better to be sure, especially if this guy has no idea what he's looking at. ]

You plannin' on learning to use that thing, or looking for someone to take it off your hands?

[coolmotivestillevil]

Learning.

[ It's obviously dangerous, like he'd thought, so he has no intention of letting anyone else have it. He'll have to figure out somewhere safe to hide it away. ]

video

[legbreakings]

[ Jiang Cheng squints at the tiny screen for a while, trying to make sense of what he sees but...

Nope. ]

I don't know what that is. Maybe it could be used for bludgeoning?

[shivving]

No.

[ you people are a DISASTER ]

[legbreakings]

[ How very dare! ]

Why not?! It's made of metal, isn't it?

[shivving]

So's a goddamn bomb.

[coolmotivestillevil]

If you don't know, why even answer?

[ Why even bother, why waste his time. ]

[legbreakings]

Because you asked!

[ Hrmpf! ]

And now I want to know what it is.

[coolmotivestillevil]

I specifically asked for someone who could tell me what it is.

[ Pay attention, Jiang Cheng.

He's so tempted to not say what it is out of spite, but he's also not here to get into stupid arguments over pointless horseshit, so. ]

It's a shotgun.

[ Apparently. ]

video, @pryan

[shittalk]

Hey! Hey! Oh shit! Gimme that!

[coolmotivestillevil]

No.

[shittalk]

What! Fuck you. [ no, that's not how you sweet talk someone into handing over a gun, let's try that again ] C'mon, give it, you don't even know what it is. I can use that shit, I'll appreciate it better.

video. (@cal.amari)

[kinkprofessor]

A shotgun. It uses gunpowder to fire small projectiles called bullets. A primitive sort of weapon, but very effective and especially at close-range.

[ He would know. ]

[coolmotivestillevil]

'Gunpowder'.

[ He squints at the shotgun.

If it's a weapon, and it's a powder, then ... ]

How exactly does it fire the projectiles?

[ Is it a bit like a grapeshot bomb, but using a barrel to direct the projectiles? ]

[kinkprofessor]

That long cylinder is called a barrel, and they have to allow for the loading and unloading of ammunition. The bullets! When you pull the trigger of the gun, a firing pin strikes an explosive charge on the back of a bullet. [ He's very passionate about this, apparently. He continues on in a manic, fascinated fashion- ] This causes a small explosion that changes the air pressure in the barrel, forcing whatever was in front of the explosion - your bullet - out the other side at an extremely fast speed.

Shotguns are unique in that instead of a singular bullet, it's a 'spread' of tiny metal bullets that only fall apart after being fired from the barrel.