Giant's Crossbow!

From: Erik Sieurin <BV9521_at_bhs.utb.hb.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:06:09 +0100

The Harpoon X-bow:
> Another, more fun, possibility is that the blueprint was a treasure foun=
d on
> acradle, which was in fact a blueprint for a Giant Crossbow, which would=
 be
> like the other educational 'toys' found on the Cradle. (ie. as the baby =
grows
> into a little boy it can make it;s own crossbow out of giant mechano or
> something). The human plunderers of that cradle then commisioned the dwa=
rfs to
> make this crossbow from the blueprint. I can imagine a "Spinal Tap" mome=
nt
> when the dwarfs deliver their handiwork. "these are in inches, not feet!=
". The
> humans would claim it was their design, of course, instead of some dumb
> Giants.
>
> Keith Nellist.

This is so good is true IMG from now on! It rhymes well with the mystery of the Cradle Giants vs your ordinary Fi-fie-fo-fum-giants, and even better with the literal-minded attitude of dwarfs!

And speaking of my favorite little buggers:

Peter Metcalfe, on the avaliability of Iron:
> But I think the Kralori and the Teshnans have their own sources of
> Iron (the Teshnan army is decked out in iron) so there's no need to
> posit great big iron caravans rumbling across the wastes.
There is an Octamonist stronghold around here someway, and it is already stated that they threw out all their Diamonds, creatin a valley full of the stuff (but guarded by 'orrible stop-animation monsters, like in those Arabian Nights stories). This was because Octamonists despise Diamond (according to my theories, they see it as a flawed attempt to recreate the Adamant extant before the world wars - - no Clay being can reach that kind of perfection), but we know Octamonists dislike _Iron_ as well! Maybe they threw out all that stuff too, or at least abandoned some well-stocked mines (well. perhaps with some nasty traps in it) which the humans can access.

"The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat..."
>From "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear

Erik Sieurin
bv9521_at_bhs.utb.hb.se
Bodagatan 39, 2 tr
50742 Bor=E5s
Sweden
033/141731

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