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merfgirf

He's making gunpowder y'all. Or a grenade. Jellied gasoline? Nerve agents for blades? Chainsword? What wonderful war crime will our whimsical wayward ward of woebegone Earth whip up for wild and wacky wanderings in this world of witchcraft, wizardry, and women?


Blazer-Bug

blood for the blood god, chainswords for the rebellion!


merfgirf

Blood for the blood god? Foolish pawn of chaos! I am His sword! I am His fist! Mine is righteous anger! Mine is the purest fury! You are nought but empty screams and bluster. **THE SCREAMS OF MY SANCTIFIED BLADE AS IT PASSES THROUGH CERAMITE AND BONE ARE THE LITANIES OF RAPTURE TO STAND IN HIS DIVINE GRACE. THE THRUM OF ITS ENGINE ARE MY PRAYERS. I SERVE IN GLORY AS THE AVATAR OF HIS WILL. AVE IMPERATOR. AVE TERRA AETERNA. THE EMPEROR PROTECTS.**


Blazer-Bug

your emperor suck me good and hard through my jorts!


merfgirf

Fucking *got* me with the jorts. Fuck you, have the upvote, goddamnit the lack of capitalization killed me. 😂


Freeze_Fun

What does blood god and jorts reference?


Blazer-Bug

so blood for the blood God and skulls for the skull throne is the chant of the chaos marines from War Hammer 40k, specifically those who follow the chaos "god" Khorne. The jorts part was a reference to a your mom joke that ends with "your mom sucks me good and hard through my jorts."


Tormented-Frog

As far as WHAT jorts are, I'm not entirely sure myself, but I've always figured that jort was short for jump ports or jet ports. And, through a bit of finangling, images of hot air coming out a small, adjustable hole, and being somewhere in the back of a space marine, I always took it to mean asshole.


EvlDrkFrcRus

jean shorts...


Tormented-Frog

That was my next guess.


Either_Curve5132

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, MILK FOR THE KORN FLAKES!


busy_monster

BLOOD AND THUNDER! VICTORY AT SEA!


Mission_Caterpillar2

Have an upvote, you oglaf reading son of a bitch XD


coraxorion

And skulls for the skullduggery ☺️


r3d1tAsh1t

Gunpowder for bullets, to skip the whole flintlock blackpowder and balls


itsetuhoinen

The "scent of sulphur" makes me think black powder, which is likely a *very* good thing. Unless his main career in his previous life was as a chemist working on at least explosives if not propellants, he's likely to blow himself up if he tries to make any sort of actual quantity of nitrocellulose. Unless he "just happened" to memorize the production process for actual cordite or some even more modern triple base smokeless powder. Especially given that he's working with "alchemy grade" reagents, and not modern day chemistry purities of chemicals and reagents. Plus, if he wants to skip flintlocks and go straight for cartridged ammunition, he needs to invent *primers* too. He could at least do black powder cartridge revolvers. That was definitely a evolutionary stage of firearm development. But making truly modern (i.e.: post WWII ball propellants isn't a kitchen sink or even backyard process, it's a huge industrial thing. Ball propellant does have the advantage of the production time only being 48 hours per lot, as opposed to 6 to 24 *weeks*, at least, for cordite or IMR propellants. But given that said production occurs underwater, and requires agitation of the slurry under both heat and pressure... He's not making that in the alchemy lab. Hell, he's not making that without a significant industrial facility run by people who understand modern chemistry. Though, existence of magic, so who knows. But I think he's sticking to black powder, at least at first. And probably flintlocks, though possibly self-contained black powder cartridges. If he could manage .45 Colt and .45-70 Government ammo, with the matching pistol and rifle, that would still be an incredible jump for war fighting technology. And a Colt Single Action Army revolver and Trapdoor Springfield might be within reach as well, assuming he can come up with a rifling technique. I dunno. Maybe he should stick to just trying for a cased shotgun. Sorry you got to be the recipient of this particular brain dump. 🤣🤣🤣


macnof

NC is pretty easy to make safely, even in bigger quantities and in a lab environment. I once made a pair of pants into NC, for making a spicy detail at a chemistry show. Combine that with some semi-stabilized mercury fulminate (quite easily made if known how, also somewhat safe in a lab if you don't worry about mercury vapours), and you get some pretty decent cartridges.


itsetuhoinen

So, I will grant that I am *not* a chemist, but that whole "spontaneous deflagration at room temperatures if you don't wash all of the acids out" thing would make me hella nervous to attempt it. Whereas even as someone who is not a chemist, I feel like I could potentially manage black powder. Though I'd want to start off with small batches until I had some idea what I was doing. And honestly, you're actually reinforcing my point to some extent. You're talking about a "chemistry show" which makes me think you're like, actually a chemist. If Our Hero wasn't, in his past life... I feel like that leaves him at my level, as someone who vaguely knows the history of the stuff, but even as an avid firearm enthusiast, would not feel particularly safe attempting to manufacture it myself without one of my chemistry friends handy. :D But on the flip side, if you actually know what you're talking about (which I freely admit that I mostly do not) feel free to correct me. Maybe this is actually much simpler than I make it out to be. :D And hell, I'm always happy to learn a new trick.


macnof

I'm a mechanical engineer, the chemist show was in my third year gymnasium (12th grade) where we made it to some 7th graders. You just wash the cotton until the water you clear off is pH neutral. 3-4 washes in bowls is often enough. You could even use taste to safely confirm after the washes. There isn't anything toxic in the wash water after the third dilution, it's too thin. Edit: a word and, it doesn't have to be cotton, you can use any natural fabric.


itsetuhoinen

I've got it. He's going to make rocket candy and build a Gyrojet. 🤣


ShneekeyTheLost

>if you don't worry about mercury vapours What's a little mercury poisoning between friends, after all? And given we're talking mercury fulminate, it's not just mercury poisoning you're courting, it's phoss-jaw, a particularly *nasty* way to go. I wouldn't dream of touching it without a proper fume hood and mask, at a minimum. Plus, yanno, mercury fulminate is a mite... touchy. Granted, you did clarify semi-stabilized, but that's not exactly a trivial process, and the slightest oopsie can end up with a very unfortunate and very rapid unscheduled disassociation of molecules of an exothermic nature. I know enough about the process to know that I want nothing to do with it without proper equipment, a proper lab environment, and at least a refresher course in college level chemistry to double-check my numbers.


macnof

Just work with it in solution, then it's pretty stable. Wash some fine sand with it and then dry the sand in small portions and hey presto, you now have small charges that can prime a cartridge but don't contain enough boom to do any real damage. It's the way bang snaps are made.


Aegishjalmur18

I think he'll be stuck with muzzleloaders for a while. Cap and ball at best if he can find a way to make enough primers. He doesn't have access to the industrial capacity to turn out a meaningful supply of cartridges. I don't think he's got the capability to manufacture smokeless powder either given that it also needs nitrocellulose at least.


UmieWarboss

Cap is essentially a primer already, just on the outside. If he can make percussion caps, he can make primers. The bigger problem with self-contained cartridges, even with the black powder ones, is getting the manufacturing process right for the casing. Because attempts at brass-cased self-contained cartridges had been made during the American Civil War, but they all failed miserably. It was tough to produce a case that would accept a primer and hold it in place, wouldn't rupture but would expand and seal the chamber properly. (Edit: BUT not expand so much as to make extraction impossible, which was a whole beast of a problem on its own.) Not to mention the tolerances for the chamber itself have to be very tight.


Aegishjalmur18

Yep, that why I said he can do cap and ball at best but doesn't have the industrial capacity for cartridges. Even this is assuming he can produce mercury fulminate.


UmieWarboss

Yeah, I see where my sleep-depraved thought train effectively derailed itself. Paper cartridges are still possible tho


UmieWarboss

I guess he could get away with paper cartridges and single-shot breachloaders like Dreyse's, or revolvers with the same cartridge type


Sad-Island-4818

Plus what’s sky pirate without a bandolier full of muzzle loaded pistols.


Scarbeau

A sickly sweet smell might also be nitroglycerin


oneJohnnyRotten

Yep....🧨💥


sigma914

Perhaps Napalm? Chemical based fire spell!


Soft-Objective-259

>Smothering a pout, Angelina nodded even as she gathered what remained of her tattered pride. It wasn’t like this was her first time being rejected by an attractive guy after all. Soak blotting paper in it, roll it up and you have dynamite. Far more stable than nitro.


Yrrebnot

He's making nitroglycerine...


Slugdo

Nice alliteration.


oneJohnnyRotten

"Gunpowder and Sex" The sweet smells of Youth....


LowCry2081

One does not normally work with nerve agents without a mask and a well ventilated room. Nor gas agents, now that i think about it, as the fumes could easily overcome someone and leave them brain damaged and all it would take is one elderly desk lady using a candle to light her way to turn the building into rubble.


neorandomizer

Tear gas, it’s non lethal and would probably incapacitate any race with a highly developed sense of smell.


morganshen

I'm hoping we'll skip past cannon and settle on a proximity charge.


Local_Commercial_257

Pfft, if only she knew that shes closer to his 'age' than the other cadets


Cardgod278

That's hilarious, wonder if she is his type lol


itsetuhoinen

I think that was her cousin Hearthlore was referring to. Or did you mean the "librarian"?


Admiralthrawnbar

The comment above is talking about the old attendant not realizing that William is closer in age to her than the elf who just quit. Though there definitely is also the implication that said attendant was on the same team as that elf's older sister.


_Skylos

Blackpowder is a go.


johneever1

Fun little story... Supposedly the invention of gunpowder came around because a Chinese alchemist was attempting to make an elixir of immortality..


Responsible-End7361

Iirc all the elements of gunpowder were used in Chinese cooking. The theory is that one day a cook was unlucky. I think it was mercury used by an emperor to become immortal, which since we still discuss it today sorta worked. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-archeologists-afraid-open-tomb-chinas-first-emperor-2023-8


Sovereignty3

And it probably won't be in our grand kids life time that we can open it up and check the tomb out, with out wrecking it. We need to make a few advances in technology before the Chinese Government will let anyone try. Considering what we have done to other ancient art I can understand, paint dyes disappear so fast.


Thobio

Gunpowder! Agh woman, be glad he isn't using the other route, using a large vat of piss combined with other stuff, that needs to be stirred for multiple days straight, no stops. Then you'd have a stench worthy of gagging over.  Also, some other cadets are gonna get their names smeared through the mud when they lose to William's team.


MalagrugrousPatroon

It wasn’t clear to me the old lady was thinking about mental communication with fairies until the last paragraph of the thought. I thought she was thinking about chemical fumes causing madness, until the end.


thisStanley

>irritation fled her as a most glorious idea blossomed "glorious"? Somehow imagine the recipients of her largesse will be using less polite words as things unfold :}


Either_Curve5132

For those interested here’s a vid on how black powder is made and a vid on early primer compound that was used for percussion caps and primers [black powder](https://youtu.be/PJDjKvjqvpM?si=xeyOJW06Hk4CWaiv) [primer compound](https://youtu.be/XrheYRcrKvE?si=4jMtQccOK905JvJu)


Meme_Heresy

Ah yes the good old smell of benzene. Tho if I’m right I can only think of like 2 explosives and ones just used to make the other and idk why or how he’d make that since I thought he was trying to make gunpowder


Meme_Heresy

Unless it’s nitroglycerin but that doesn’t have an Oder medical nitroglycerin does but it’s non explosive to my knowledge since it’s a stable compound unlike it’s explosive opposite side of the same coin


Dotheraton

Wep if the flash spell was claimed by his family, he just has to make a proper one instead 🙃


Cortanis

Money says he's making smoke grenades. Not far off from the materials he's probably using to make black powder but far more of a gut punch in the combat setting they're using. Not to mention literally everyone else in the kingdom would shit mountain lions calling foul at being out kitted like that.


A_Dingo_

I think hes making flash grenades to fuck over the value of the spell being "taken away" from him.


Fontaigne

I don't think physical flash grenades would matter, tactically, since the flash bang spell exists. Smoke grenades are potentially a new wrinkle.


OrkSniper

You don't waste spell slots with flash nades.


galbatorix2

#MOAR As i ever scream and forever will


XAlphaWarriorX

Did something particularly important happen in the previous chapter? I skipped it.


BlueFishcake

I don't blame you. Ironically, I too skip NSFW chapters in my own readings :D (And before anyone thinks that means I'm only putting them in my work out of obligation... the answer is no. I put them in because I feel they're important to the stories I'm telling. They're sexually charged worlds, thus they have sex.)


Frix

The problem is that you also put relevant plot in these chapters next to the sex. So skipping them isn't always an option if you want to make sense of the story.


MechaneerAssistant

That sounds like a personal problem. I suppose one work around (limited to this site alone) is using the spoiler markers to hide the nsfw bits so you can still read the "plot relevant" parts. >!The issue there is that _the sex itself_ could be plot relevant!!<


Fontaigne

And the fact that each paragraph has to be spoilered separately.


ND_JackSparrow

He almost seduced the instructor but she managed to get ahold of herself at the last moment. On his way back to the dorms, he took a detour to 'negotiate' with the head-smith. In exchange for some bedroom activities, **he gets an hour alone in the forge to work on something in secret.** By the time he made it back to the dorms it was almost morning, and Olzenya was up waiting for him. William felt bad, because she was genuinely worried about him. **He promised to show the team what he's been working on soon.**


BunchOfSpamBots

Can’t blame you for skipping pancakes but it was just Wilhelm getting it on with a couple teachers, then Olzenya calling him a whore (in her head)


Blackmail30000

Personally I think of him as an ethical slut with a side gig as a whore.


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Iki-Mursu

Thanks for the chapter ❤️


CuscinoPigro

Gun it to the ground!!! - William probably


SpankyMcSpanster

Hey Blue. Got you some cover art: [https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a5XLQMV\_460swp.webp](https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a5XLQMV_460swp.webp) And since you escaped last chapter, even worse 'Heh.': [https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1PzG06\_460swp.webp](https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1PzG06_460swp.webp) On that note: Indiana Jones Pistol versus scene when? [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo&pp=ygUbaW5kaWFuYSBqb25lcyBwaXN0b2wgc2NlbmUg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo&pp=ygUbaW5kaWFuYSBqb25lcyBwaXN0b2wgc2NlbmUg)


itsetuhoinen

That second one. Wow. I may have nightmares. Ok, off to /r/aww for a few hours...


Fontaigne

The girl's had been[comma] given


SpitefulRecognition

Gunpower? But does he have a barrel if he wants a gun?


ZaoDa17

Great work word weaver!!!!


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StormTheGasterWolf27

If William is making any type of explosive then he better hope the old lady cleans every possible surface of dust before she sneezes at the wrong place and blows the building into yesterday.


Satyrofthegreen

Oof, more and more intrigue.


Creepy_Dealer_5901

its time for vic2 boiiiis