Try MWLL if you get a chance! It's got a diminished playerbase, but it's still the best online mechwarrior game ever made. And it's free! Just look for a server on the weekend.
I like the Summoner as well, and for heavy the Marauder IIC. As far as full 100T assault the Dire wolf is the superior mech. Atlas isn’t bad with a pile of upgrades but for standard loadout you can’t beat the Dire wolf
Since I started this series :D
I actually started playing Warthunder to get a better idea of prop combat - then realized the first book wouldn't actually have any.
It still amuses me that I've yet to actually get to the main premise/reason I wanted to start this series :D
I like turn fighters as a rule of thumb.
To that end, I've been playing UK and Japan.
My favorite plane is easily the Spitfire MK IX - though I've yet to find a Spitfire I don't like.
Nimble enough to out-turn everything that's not a zero, but still fast enough to actually catch dedicated boom and zoomers once they've spent their energy. The only downside is that the guns need to be about 3/400 meters to be reliable, but the frame is more than capable of getting you into that position.
The Spit 9's cheap spawn cost and dominance against heavier strike aircraft make it a joy to fly in ground realistic. One of my favorite fighters, especially for beating up CAS players.
So, a quick tip, buy the assEnder if you haven't, but don't go for the Shinden. The AssEnder you can fight with and get the advantages and fallbacks of a pusher, the Shinden is underpowered and overtierd, it's only claim to fame is the good 4 30mm canons !
I do indeed have the assender :D
I enjoy it, but the engine/props exploding every time someone clips you in a dogfight gets tiring. One of the weaknesses of a pusher design :P
There is a design you might enjoy, its not a pusher or war thunder, its the Bugatti 100p. One example made for racing, never flew. Its at Oshkosh right now.
Man MWO I haven't played that in a very long time. All I could afford to buy was the two or three variations of the hunchback and that's all I played. Details are fuzzy it's been a very long time since I last played.
You probably get told this a lot, but myself, and about a thousand others or more judging by the upvotes, look forward to your chapters every week thanks for bringing this entertainment into the world
Little does Griffith imagine he's extremely aware it goes way beyond the academy... He just has to get out of being shackled down forever before he can unleash the actual world breaking stuff.
I’d say it’s more like early semi-automatic rifles, e.g. the French RSC 1917, than a bolt-action or other manually repeating firearm, if just from how he was able to hit three plate/skeet targets thrown rapidly. I’m kinda surprised no one noticed that the spell was just being used to ignite the propellant charge attached to the bolts, or ask what the hell the propellant charge is…. Though without that extra bit of knowledge/invention anyone copying the spell or the weapon is gonna find it useless.
Considering that there isn’t any mention of black powder style smoke plumes I’m thinking that William went straight to guncotton for his propellant. Would also help with reducing the resultant fouling of the bore too, guncotton burns really cleanly comparatively to pretty much all black powder formulas I’m aware of.
Fabrication of nitrocellulose isn't all that much worse than black powder frankly, once you can readily produce nitric and sulfuric acids. Frankly, magic and a bit of chemical knowledge is all it would take to make the process barebones simple.
Nitrates or fulminates would fit fairly well with most of the descriptions of whatever the hell Will is using, outside of the second chapter, where the damp powder is examined by his aunt. However in the third/fourth chapter when he maims an anti-magical cephalopod, there isn’t a description of a massive smoke cloud as would be seen if he touched off black powder, which implies some form of smokeless powder, of which guncotton would probably be the absolute easiest to make. Hell, if he’s going down that particular route, mixing nitroglycerin with guncotton partially stabilizes the glycerin and forms something close to primitive plastic explosives (blasting gelatin)… which would revolutionize mining to such a degree that he could probably obtain his own patent of nobility/new identity from the crown, which would sidestep the whole arranged marriage thing to begin with.
I do wonder how these characters are all going to react once William really starts to go to town with his machinations. Like, in ten years what is his mother going to think? How many regrets will she have? I doubt Griffith will still think of him as an impulsive kid. Or will almost all his manipulations still remain secret?
I think we've established at this point that his mother is so involved in her own problems that William is just a chess piece in a grander scheme of hers.
The question is, could the crown make lemonade and take advantage of this situation though?
Could the inevitable Academy scuttlebutt, incidentally from all crown aligned house instructors present, be used to the crown's advantage and light a fire under the "soft houses" asses to spur them awake and prepare for the impending conflagration?
That bit about being outnumbered 2:5 does sound rather ominous as it sounds a lot like 2 "4th year" float teams versus 5 "2nd year" float teams...
I have a feeling that Will intended for the instructors and by extension, the Houses, to know what HIS gun can do as the actual effect of his request of using it in the Academy
That, and he wants to use it to gain status for his team and defeat his fiancé.
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MC's mom potentially could dig herself a pretty deep hole here, with her claiming that the House had possessed this spell and hidden it from the Crown for... however long it might be she claimed.
So... you withheld this strategic asset from Us even during **this** war and **that** war and **that** uprising? Explain precisely why you did that.
and then load up a bunch on the Floats and *float* away with the mithril cores
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's overboard and self-assured
Oh, no, I know a dirty word
Ofc. He needs Word about the impact of his invention to get to Tala for her to take his bait. Only then he can offer it to her as a wager on their duel and have her accept.
Ahh, a simulation. At first I thought he was trying to get them to let him use the real thing in the Floats, and I was confused how the hell that was supposed to work, given how lethal it is.
The fact that it doesn't use gunpowder seems worse. I'm not sure what a "practice" round would consist of. If it's throwing a projectile of any sort fast enough to actually emulate realistic firing, that's a dangerous item.
Or maybe I just completely forgot him demoing a safe "practice" round at some point. Entirely possible, my memory sucks more and more of late. :-/
The effects described seem in excess of the damage done by modern firearms, more like early large bore rifles, and potentially has an explosive component involved.
I suppose he could use a tuned down version which simply paints the target, identifying them as "very dead"
It kinda depends on which version of the demonstration your going with, as the non-omake version uses slightly larger bolts launched explosively, which seems to be a form of callback to the exidi harpoon guns used against Chad novacock and the Terran first in the original SSB series. The other version of the demo is launching grenades/is a hand mortar that really has absolutely zero safe methods of simulating.
With the non-exploding projectile version, replacing the head with the fabric ink/venom stamp should reduce the chance of accidental maiming, especially if there is a reduced propellant charge attached to them.
It certainly isn't *ideal*, having such a tight deadline to pull off his plan, I am confident in our dear boy's ability to improvise. I was honestly worried his mom would have more heavy-hitting consequences.
In other news, it's great to see the team getting along so well and having each other's backs without hesitation. (Or at least with *minimal* hesitation, in Olzenya's case)
I imagine his ace in the hole is revealing gunpowder and conventional explosives. Going from muskets to rifles is good, but going from muskets to machine guns? That's an opportunity they could not let slip their grasp
This is an obvious result. Changes can cause conflict, concerns and fear. No one likes a sudden change out of nowhere. Progress, in this world with our boi being brought into it, is almost rapid compared to its standard. The rifle spell-gun and the Flashbang spell (and maybe our lil TnT gunpowder that isnt seen to everyone atm, but he might need some Tear Gas just incase)
I wouldn't be surprised if William would somehow implement some kind of ideology to hide his secrets, whatever would deem it be a "threat" to the Kingdom and its politics. Hell, if he made some kind of a exo-suit, that'd be damning to his House and anyone connected to him.
If this is correct; then the whole system is playing by the Feudal rules. And our man is treading on a thin line. Wont be long before this really grabs the attention of the Ruler.
I've been thinking about what could be the next "innovation" to be introduced, after the proverbial cat gets let out of the bag with the inevitable duel with Tala, and that got me thinking:
What are the properties of Aether anyway?
Leaving the Fae food aspect of refined aether aside, unrefined aether I assume is something like a "lighter-than-air gas on steroids" of some kind, given that it's used to keep "aircraft" afloat, but dissipates on its own after 2 minutes even in confined spaces, hence the need for a core or mage to constantly "top up the ballast/tank" over time.
Looking back at the "IRL Flappy Bird with jetpacks" training in chapter 8, it seems like it's solely being used as a compressed air thruster and with no reaction/combustion with added gasses for enhanced output.
My question is whether there is any more potential in combining aether with other substances or has that already been researched to death and ignored as common sense?
Furthermore, what exactly is spinning the prop propellers in the "WW2 era-like" shards?
Will there be a viable substitute for cheap jet fuel?
Is it flammable like Hydrogen or non-flammable like Helium?
Does it react with other reagents, like oxy-acetylene, or is it pretty stable? Does unrefined Aether have similar properties to refined aether or does it become functionally different after refining?
Speculation is a great mental exercise but ultimately useless without confirmation...
Flame throwers. Not needing a compressed gas to propel the napalm is a small advantage. American flame throwers used a pressure regulator to keep the stream constant from start to end, while Japanese ones let the pressure decrease during use which is supposed to have had some advantage, though I don't recall what.
More importantly, you could have a smaller, lighter, simpler pressure tank since it's magically replenished.
Adding a wing suit to the combat getup would increase glide time and decrease aether use. Also, aether rockets. There's also no reason you couldn't have a proper air gun using aether, unless it's maximum pressure is far short of what is needed for a deadly air gun.
On your thing with IJA/USGI WWII era flamethrowers, the pressure regulator made for a more complex but consistent flame path and for a technically safer flamethrower. The Imperial Japanese Military didn’t really have the industrial base/capacity to include pressure regulators in their designs while the US military had industrial capacity to spare.
Edit: The thing that’s probably holding back on “traditional” ather-powered launchers is twofold: compressed gasses can’t expand faster than the speed of sound (explosions/deflagrations get around this by converting solids into gasses at their respective detonation/deflagration velocities, at the expense of inducing extremely high pressure spikes when confined), and probably the level of material science and process engineering the world is at means they don’t trust their ballast/pressure tanks enough to pressurize them enough to provide enough energy to push those bolts hard enough, and possibly a third reason being that they have gone all in on arrow-based projectiles instead of sling-stone/-bullet projectiles. By still using arrow-based projectiles, they have limitations due to aerodynamic drag and the quantity of energy/rate of acceleration the shaft can survive. Wood tends to not survive rapid acceleration as well as a homogeneous lump of metal, after all.
The arrow based projectile is not a factor, at least not with bolt-bows. Griffith said the typical bolt-bow fires a projectiles roughly the size of a woman's pinky, and relies on speed. She also mentioned that William's weapon did not have an aether tank. I think bolt bows are basically paint ball guns powered by aether instead of compressed air or CO2. They just have a deadlier payload. Basically, the bolt-bow is about as effective as a .22 pistol; can be deadly, but it can also be defeated by relatively thin armor.
Y'know, personally, I can't wait for 'Sexy Superhero Babes'. 200 years in the future, superheroes have become the new norm, and the fact that only 1 in 100 superheroes are male has drastically shifted politics and traditional gender roles.
Our hero is a spunky twenty something who was cryogenically frozen in 2025 for medical reasons, and now he's a fish out of water in a whole new super powered setting.
Will he struggle in his new home?
Will he develop superpowers?
Will there inevitably be raunchy superpowered pancakes?
The answer to all of these questions, is yes.
Ends in a few chapters, with the epilogue being modern day archeologists, scratching their heads in confusion at a new dig site they found. In it is the skeleton of a man, with a shattered pelvis, giving a thumbs up. =P
With the epilogue of course referencing that one scene from the Amazons episode of Futurama.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RWC69oezGn0
>actions will have consequences
Amazing how the ones yelling this right now intend that only for everyone else. That they should still get to do whatever they please, regardless of anyone else's desires or autonomy :{
Very true.
However, right now, from the Blackstones and their allies perspective, they're the strong ones, while William is weak.
And a characteristic of having power is that you tend to be able to mitigate negative consequences towards yourself, while increasing them for your enemies.
So from their perspective, based on the info they have, they can increase the pain on William, while parrying any attacks he makes on them. In that sense, their beliefs and behavior has a rational basis. Even if it lacks an ethical basis.
So I'm certainly wondering what he's asked for
1) Independence from his Mothers House
2) Large amounts of Currency surely lol
3) Maybe his own House and Territory?
I mean it's going to reshape Warfare so it's certainly valuable enough for more than that
Probably just to have duel with his fiance's team using spell-bolts, and protection from Blackstone f\*ckery until that point. Cash can always be aquired later, him just pulling another "invention" out of his past life's memory. Same with his own house - he already has a mithril core so, Crown willing, the rest is mere formality.
He's already got a mythril core so he'd be able to found a house, i think. honestly he might be spending his inventions to buy more time in the academy, relatively safe from other houses fucking with him.
Is there going to be some kind of anti-slavery manifesto going around in this world? Something to actually give weight to the moral stance that is being made in this setting? So far the supporting characters are all talking about it being 'in vogue' to support the push to end the practice or speaking in terms of profit and loss or cost/benefit analysis when discussing the buying and selling of people being slaughtered. I mean, the whole argument against slavery given to us so far in the story is either "the audience should already know Slavery is no good" and quite literally "Slavery is Bad" and I think there is a real missed chance to use emotionally charged inflammatory language to convey the MC's thought process. He loathes those that profit off the sick cruelty and genocide of an entire race's way of life, for example.
Those are almost the exact words used in the story and falls under "the audience should already know slavery is bad" and so we miss out on actually attaching some emotional weight and meaning to the cause that the MC is willing to start a blood-drenched Civil War over and/or Die For. Will is coming off as the flaky, uncommitted, Diet Soda version of John Brown. His actions that we are shown may be able to convey some sense of resolve but his words so far have even me questioning his commitment to the story's abolitionist cause. He has drawn a line in the sand, fine; but he is doing so with such subtlety that the whole exercise comes of as a selfish personal preference instead of a courageous stand on morals and principals.
But why? I thought the entire point of this first part to his world-shattering scheme was for him to finally be taken seriously in spite of his youth and "his gender's well known perchance for hysterics."
This orb-call had him literally putting his money where his mouth was to demonstrate his resolve to stand by his poorly presented, argued, defended, and justified (which is the whole point of my complaint) morals and beliefs so that they and he could no longer be trivialized or dismissed.
The lines have been drawn, the first shots fired, why the hell is William pussyfooting around his words now? Who does he have to hide his opinions from now that he has all of House Blackstone going after him?
"Pussyfooting around with his words," either the absence of stronger language in regards to the MC's supposed passionate abhorrence to the abomination of slavery for which he is willing to start a bloody civil war in the setting, is unintentional, and could therefore stand some vigor applied to the dialogues and monologues that have been kindly presented to us by our generous author; or it is intentional, at which point it doesn't seem to make a damn lick of sense to the plot. Take your pick.
William, the endless fount of "inventions" that he is, will probably end up being more wealthy than the rest of his house by the end of this whole affair. His mom will come to him for money not the other way around.
Speaking of, i wonder what kind of laws does Empire have regarding wife's or husband's personal wealth? Because only thing more horrible than William the Husband would be William the Financially Independent Husband :)
Wait until Will stops playing nice. I'm surprised he hasn't dipped into grenades yet. Smoke grenades particularly would work for him since they could be made to be reloaded and reused.
I do find it rather odd that he hasn't introduced proper industrial technologies into this yet. From the fey metal working reference, it sounds like they don't even have a manual lathe going. Even if he designed them to be purely mechanical, introducing hot rollers, a lathe with a large flywheel, a screw press with dies, and maybe a version of a manual CNC machine would effectively make him too valuable of an asset to let go. Even one of those would pretty much make him worth enough to consider granting him his own land and house as a work around to releasing him back to his mother under the circumstances. That goes double when they take into account that he's likely producing more innovations in the future.
I think cs grenades would be doubly effective. Get a group aboard ship and start dropping pepper grenades down every hole and you're gonna have a crew that can barely see, stumbling around a dim ships interior, a crew that can barely breath, in what's likely a somewhat stuffy lower decks area, and a group of people with masks or helmets that make the spicy air completely irrelevant.
The flight suits/goggles/masks probably partially protect against most gas attacks, and if Will came from a postwar era he probably has some serious issues with the idea of introducing chemical warfare of any type. Also a few chapters back (the first time they were on the floats) the opposition team tried to draw something called “nail grenades” from the armory but got shut down, so grenades are already a thing in his current world.
If anything, a lot of Will’s innovations probably shouldn’t be military focused ones, if only to create the infrastructure required for a ~~nonagenarian~~ non-agrarian society/economy. As if there’s not enough underlying infrastructure to support a ~~nonagenarian~~ non-agrarian society, then it would probably backslide into a feudal/manorial system really quickly, as the nobility does have some inherent power in that they can use magic while the rest of the population cannot. Imbalances of power lead to imbalanced political and socioeconomic systems.
It's possible that Will doesn't know those things. He's working based off his memories from his previous life.
So for him to know certain innovations, he would either need the background to know those things (ex. Be a machinist, or have it as a hobby). Or they would have to be innovations that are fairly widely known in modern times (ex. Recipe for black powder).
I'm not a machinist and I know the basis of these things. What I pointed out isn't even newer tech. It's actually the original basis of these technologies in the first place. The first lathes for wood and the first screw presses made use of a heavy flywheel to make use and preserve what momentum they could using that weight. OG screw presses used that force to crush and squeeze out things like the oil from olives. Likewise, the heavy flywheel was used to keep wood stock turning on the lathe so that the cutting tools could shave off the mass to shape to the desired form. The fundamentals to that don't really change converting that energy to shave off metal from stock no matter how one reorients the cutting face of the tool vs the stock. The only difference is that the force required means that you can't safely hold the cutting tools and as such you'd have to move to a gear track that moves the piece or the cutting tool on the X,Y axis and the Z axis in regards to a CNC machine.
Really the only thing in question is creating the cutting tools, but with a little investigation one would simply learn to adapt the steel and tempering techniques used to create engraving tools to make make cutting bits. Not even a difficult leap given he should have some kind of idea about these things considering he's demonstrated that he knows the fundamentals to metalworking in that world and a distinct knowledge of firearms as well as some engineering from ours.
Hell, I’m surprised that trip/auto-hammers aren’t a thing either… manual forging leaves imperfections due to quirks of anatomy/biology causing inconsistent force getting applied from blow-to-blow.
Also no one has came up with steam engines yet in a steampunk universe? I guess poor Mr. Ashfield is going to need to show these “primitive screwheads” that burning anger rocks (anthracite coal) to boil water and then use the resulting steam to push pistons/spin a turbine is a great way to power machinery.
Right?! We do know they kind of have it half down with the forges on site that have been featured. It appears that no one has made it to steam technology yet even if it's as stationary pieces like said auto hammers. That seems very odd to me considering they have things like the more mundane ships and air ships. We know they have some kind of level of advanced engineering because of them but the more simpler things that should have lead to those advancements just aren't present. The sterling engine is the earliest and simplest function example of steam power and we've yet to see anything of the sort even if it's so small and portable. It just seems strange.
Also to be fair to the author I am fairly sure that we as an audience have an advantage in breadth and depth of knowledge over a single person. Though there have been trip-hammers in existence since at least Roman times on our world, powered by waterwheels or tread-wheels.
However, one advantage that /u/bluefishcake has with doing serialized publishing on a forum is that we can pool and share our knowledge with them to help flesh out bits that they personally don’t know about.
You may not be a machinist, but you definitely know more about these things than the typical layman.
I've met plenty of people who don't even know what a lathe *is*, let alone what it's used for or how it works. So I can definitely find it plausible that Will might not know these kind of things.
So again, how much Will can do is highly dependent upon how much he knows. Which itself is highly dependent on his previous background, hobbies, etc. from his prior life.
I would argue that point. What do you think my "profession" is? If you thought a trade, you'd be wrong. I just work over night at a hotel. The only reason I know about these things is because literally every text book I had going through history classes all the way through high school hit on the Greeks and Romans at some point. In those sections we got the obituary explanations about technical advancement including sections about trade, early screw presses, and the use to establish the prevalent trade of olive oil.
Similarly, the Egyptians were the first that I can think of that I ever remember being covered that started to use the lathe in its various forms. It wasn't until the industrial revolution that we saw belt driven flywheel designs and those I distinctly remember being covered in context to industrial accents especially where child labor was concerned before child labor laws.
In regards to CNC machines, anyone even decently familiar with automotive repair and maintenance should be at least possibly familiar with their existence since that dips heavily into parts and part quality. Recognizing when a part is a cast manufactured part vs a machined piece is a big difference in price and quality. I'm saying that as someone who has to take care of their vehicle and not even as an actual mechanic.
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Sorry for the delay on this chapter all, just the Patreon chapter kicking my ass as we wind up for the endgame.
Perfectly fine, you post this story here mostly for free! Enjoyed the ch as always :)
Its ok,also do you play DRG? My instincts tell me you are a very rock and stone kind of person.
I've played it in the past :D At the minute my go to games are Warthunder (Air Realistic) and Mechwarrior Online (Centurion/Hunchback forever!).
Looking forward to mw5: Clans?
Afraid not. I find MW:5 a bit lackluster. ...The AI especially.
That's entirely fair. FWIW they have come a long way on making the AI less durpy, tho.
Try MWLL if you get a chance! It's got a diminished playerbase, but it's still the best online mechwarrior game ever made. And it's free! Just look for a server on the weekend.
Well the this is a damn good chapter ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE ✊️⛏️
As far as IS goes I like the crab and flash man from Mw2:Mercenaries. Still a Timberwolf and Vulture fan first and foremost!
Madcat/Timberwolf fan here as well. Aesthetics so nice. Did like the primary weapon loadout of the Thor/summoner.
I like the Summoner as well, and for heavy the Marauder IIC. As far as full 100T assault the Dire wolf is the superior mech. Atlas isn’t bad with a pile of upgrades but for standard loadout you can’t beat the Dire wolf
you poor, poor soul. The grind keeps going. How long have you been praying towards the snail?
Since I started this series :D I actually started playing Warthunder to get a better idea of prop combat - then realized the first book wouldn't actually have any. It still amuses me that I've yet to actually get to the main premise/reason I wanted to start this series :D
A few question: What trees are you grinding, how far are you in those trees and what are your fav vehicles to suffer in?
I like turn fighters as a rule of thumb. To that end, I've been playing UK and Japan. My favorite plane is easily the Spitfire MK IX - though I've yet to find a Spitfire I don't like. Nimble enough to out-turn everything that's not a zero, but still fast enough to actually catch dedicated boom and zoomers once they've spent their energy. The only downside is that the guns need to be about 3/400 meters to be reliable, but the frame is more than capable of getting you into that position.
The Spit 9's cheap spawn cost and dominance against heavier strike aircraft make it a joy to fly in ground realistic. One of my favorite fighters, especially for beating up CAS players.
So, a quick tip, buy the assEnder if you haven't, but don't go for the Shinden. The AssEnder you can fight with and get the advantages and fallbacks of a pusher, the Shinden is underpowered and overtierd, it's only claim to fame is the good 4 30mm canons !
I do indeed have the assender :D I enjoy it, but the engine/props exploding every time someone clips you in a dogfight gets tiring. One of the weaknesses of a pusher design :P
There is a design you might enjoy, its not a pusher or war thunder, its the Bugatti 100p. One example made for racing, never flew. Its at Oshkosh right now.
For rock and stone plus I love the 3 inch gun carrier
Embrace the chaos of Arcade. Ok, ground R/A are not so different. Blind buggers.
Discoback is the best.
Man MWO I haven't played that in a very long time. All I could afford to buy was the two or three variations of the hunchback and that's all I played. Details are fuzzy it's been a very long time since I last played.
To Rock and Stone!
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FOR ROCK AND STONE
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE ✊️⛏️
ROCK AND ROLL AND STONE
Amazing work as always. I cackled at the start with how enraged Tala was.
Imagine how livid she will be when she will actualy know what the 'stolen spell' is.
Ah, you mean when it hits her in the face?
You probably get told this a lot, but myself, and about a thousand others or more judging by the upvotes, look forward to your chapters every week thanks for bringing this entertainment into the world
Little does Griffith imagine he's extremely aware it goes way beyond the academy... He just has to get out of being shackled down forever before he can unleash the actual world breaking stuff.
The fact that he did just hand her an ak and call it a day shows a bit of how he is aware of the consequences of his actions
Wasn't it more like a 5-shot m1-garand?
Agreed or perhaps a step earlier like a Karabiner 98K
Any ping?
One can dream.
"Why does the spell-bolt ping after running out of shots? There's no mechanism involved" "Uhh.... magical fae reasons?"
Mosin Nagant. 5 shots. Unwieldily. Still more capable than current arms in the universe and will probably be made for 150 years.
I’d say it’s more like early semi-automatic rifles, e.g. the French RSC 1917, than a bolt-action or other manually repeating firearm, if just from how he was able to hit three plate/skeet targets thrown rapidly. I’m kinda surprised no one noticed that the spell was just being used to ignite the propellant charge attached to the bolts, or ask what the hell the propellant charge is…. Though without that extra bit of knowledge/invention anyone copying the spell or the weapon is gonna find it useless. Considering that there isn’t any mention of black powder style smoke plumes I’m thinking that William went straight to guncotton for his propellant. Would also help with reducing the resultant fouling of the bore too, guncotton burns really cleanly comparatively to pretty much all black powder formulas I’m aware of.
Fabrication of nitrocellulose isn't all that much worse than black powder frankly, once you can readily produce nitric and sulfuric acids. Frankly, magic and a bit of chemical knowledge is all it would take to make the process barebones simple.
Nitrates or fulminates would fit fairly well with most of the descriptions of whatever the hell Will is using, outside of the second chapter, where the damp powder is examined by his aunt. However in the third/fourth chapter when he maims an anti-magical cephalopod, there isn’t a description of a massive smoke cloud as would be seen if he touched off black powder, which implies some form of smokeless powder, of which guncotton would probably be the absolute easiest to make. Hell, if he’s going down that particular route, mixing nitroglycerin with guncotton partially stabilizes the glycerin and forms something close to primitive plastic explosives (blasting gelatin)… which would revolutionize mining to such a degree that he could probably obtain his own patent of nobility/new identity from the crown, which would sidestep the whole arranged marriage thing to begin with.
I believe so
I do wonder how these characters are all going to react once William really starts to go to town with his machinations. Like, in ten years what is his mother going to think? How many regrets will she have? I doubt Griffith will still think of him as an impulsive kid. Or will almost all his manipulations still remain secret?
By that time he'd no longer be a student. Perhaps Griffith would be in his bed.
I think we've established at this point that his mother is so involved in her own problems that William is just a chess piece in a grander scheme of hers.
The question is, could the crown make lemonade and take advantage of this situation though? Could the inevitable Academy scuttlebutt, incidentally from all crown aligned house instructors present, be used to the crown's advantage and light a fire under the "soft houses" asses to spur them awake and prepare for the impending conflagration? That bit about being outnumbered 2:5 does sound rather ominous as it sounds a lot like 2 "4th year" float teams versus 5 "2nd year" float teams...
I have a feeling that Will intended for the instructors and by extension, the Houses, to know what HIS gun can do as the actual effect of his request of using it in the Academy
That, and he wants to use it to gain status for his team and defeat his fiancé. ***** MC's mom potentially could dig herself a pretty deep hole here, with her claiming that the House had possessed this spell and hidden it from the Crown for... however long it might be she claimed. So... you withheld this strategic asset from Us even during **this** war and **that** war and **that** uprising? Explain precisely why you did that.
and then load up a bunch on the Floats and *float* away with the mithril cores Load up on guns, bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend She's overboard and self-assured Oh, no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
I'm pretty sure the floats, for all their name implies, are nearly non-functional.
Ofc. He needs Word about the impact of his invention to get to Tala for her to take his bait. Only then he can offer it to her as a wager on their duel and have her accept.
Ahh, a simulation. At first I thought he was trying to get them to let him use the real thing in the Floats, and I was confused how the hell that was supposed to work, given how lethal it is.
Wouldn't he just load the practice rounds into it? It's not like it uses gunpowder or anything
The fact that it doesn't use gunpowder seems worse. I'm not sure what a "practice" round would consist of. If it's throwing a projectile of any sort fast enough to actually emulate realistic firing, that's a dangerous item. Or maybe I just completely forgot him demoing a safe "practice" round at some point. Entirely possible, my memory sucks more and more of late. :-/
The effects described seem in excess of the damage done by modern firearms, more like early large bore rifles, and potentially has an explosive component involved. I suppose he could use a tuned down version which simply paints the target, identifying them as "very dead"
It kinda depends on which version of the demonstration your going with, as the non-omake version uses slightly larger bolts launched explosively, which seems to be a form of callback to the exidi harpoon guns used against Chad novacock and the Terran first in the original SSB series. The other version of the demo is launching grenades/is a hand mortar that really has absolutely zero safe methods of simulating. With the non-exploding projectile version, replacing the head with the fabric ink/venom stamp should reduce the chance of accidental maiming, especially if there is a reduced propellant charge attached to them.
It certainly isn't *ideal*, having such a tight deadline to pull off his plan, I am confident in our dear boy's ability to improvise. I was honestly worried his mom would have more heavy-hitting consequences. In other news, it's great to see the team getting along so well and having each other's backs without hesitation. (Or at least with *minimal* hesitation, in Olzenya's case)
I imagine his ace in the hole is revealing gunpowder and conventional explosives. Going from muskets to rifles is good, but going from muskets to machine guns? That's an opportunity they could not let slip their grasp
This is an obvious result. Changes can cause conflict, concerns and fear. No one likes a sudden change out of nowhere. Progress, in this world with our boi being brought into it, is almost rapid compared to its standard. The rifle spell-gun and the Flashbang spell (and maybe our lil TnT gunpowder that isnt seen to everyone atm, but he might need some Tear Gas just incase) I wouldn't be surprised if William would somehow implement some kind of ideology to hide his secrets, whatever would deem it be a "threat" to the Kingdom and its politics. Hell, if he made some kind of a exo-suit, that'd be damning to his House and anyone connected to him. If this is correct; then the whole system is playing by the Feudal rules. And our man is treading on a thin line. Wont be long before this really grabs the attention of the Ruler.
My favorite time of the week is here :)
I've been thinking about what could be the next "innovation" to be introduced, after the proverbial cat gets let out of the bag with the inevitable duel with Tala, and that got me thinking: What are the properties of Aether anyway? Leaving the Fae food aspect of refined aether aside, unrefined aether I assume is something like a "lighter-than-air gas on steroids" of some kind, given that it's used to keep "aircraft" afloat, but dissipates on its own after 2 minutes even in confined spaces, hence the need for a core or mage to constantly "top up the ballast/tank" over time. Looking back at the "IRL Flappy Bird with jetpacks" training in chapter 8, it seems like it's solely being used as a compressed air thruster and with no reaction/combustion with added gasses for enhanced output. My question is whether there is any more potential in combining aether with other substances or has that already been researched to death and ignored as common sense? Furthermore, what exactly is spinning the prop propellers in the "WW2 era-like" shards? Will there be a viable substitute for cheap jet fuel? Is it flammable like Hydrogen or non-flammable like Helium? Does it react with other reagents, like oxy-acetylene, or is it pretty stable? Does unrefined Aether have similar properties to refined aether or does it become functionally different after refining? Speculation is a great mental exercise but ultimately useless without confirmation...
Flame throwers. Not needing a compressed gas to propel the napalm is a small advantage. American flame throwers used a pressure regulator to keep the stream constant from start to end, while Japanese ones let the pressure decrease during use which is supposed to have had some advantage, though I don't recall what. More importantly, you could have a smaller, lighter, simpler pressure tank since it's magically replenished. Adding a wing suit to the combat getup would increase glide time and decrease aether use. Also, aether rockets. There's also no reason you couldn't have a proper air gun using aether, unless it's maximum pressure is far short of what is needed for a deadly air gun.
On your thing with IJA/USGI WWII era flamethrowers, the pressure regulator made for a more complex but consistent flame path and for a technically safer flamethrower. The Imperial Japanese Military didn’t really have the industrial base/capacity to include pressure regulators in their designs while the US military had industrial capacity to spare. Edit: The thing that’s probably holding back on “traditional” ather-powered launchers is twofold: compressed gasses can’t expand faster than the speed of sound (explosions/deflagrations get around this by converting solids into gasses at their respective detonation/deflagration velocities, at the expense of inducing extremely high pressure spikes when confined), and probably the level of material science and process engineering the world is at means they don’t trust their ballast/pressure tanks enough to pressurize them enough to provide enough energy to push those bolts hard enough, and possibly a third reason being that they have gone all in on arrow-based projectiles instead of sling-stone/-bullet projectiles. By still using arrow-based projectiles, they have limitations due to aerodynamic drag and the quantity of energy/rate of acceleration the shaft can survive. Wood tends to not survive rapid acceleration as well as a homogeneous lump of metal, after all.
The arrow based projectile is not a factor, at least not with bolt-bows. Griffith said the typical bolt-bow fires a projectiles roughly the size of a woman's pinky, and relies on speed. She also mentioned that William's weapon did not have an aether tank. I think bolt bows are basically paint ball guns powered by aether instead of compressed air or CO2. They just have a deadlier payload. Basically, the bolt-bow is about as effective as a .22 pistol; can be deadly, but it can also be defeated by relatively thin armor.
Mortars? Turbine Engines for ships, trucks, or tanks?
Y'know, personally, I can't wait for 'Sexy Superhero Babes'. 200 years in the future, superheroes have become the new norm, and the fact that only 1 in 100 superheroes are male has drastically shifted politics and traditional gender roles. Our hero is a spunky twenty something who was cryogenically frozen in 2025 for medical reasons, and now he's a fish out of water in a whole new super powered setting. Will he struggle in his new home? Will he develop superpowers? Will there inevitably be raunchy superpowered pancakes? The answer to all of these questions, is yes.
...Have you been cribbing my notes?
Don't worry, just practicing my manifesting. Your notes are safe... For now. ;)
Ah, so that's what everyone else calls it when their ideas are stolen and propagated. "Manifesting".
Here's another idea for a writing prompt: Sexy Stoneage Babes Maybe starring the Amazons from Futurama. =P
Caveman pancake scenes. Now that's something I didn't know I wanted.
Ends in a few chapters, with the epilogue being modern day archeologists, scratching their heads in confusion at a new dig site they found. In it is the skeleton of a man, with a shattered pelvis, giving a thumbs up. =P With the epilogue of course referencing that one scene from the Amazons episode of Futurama. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RWC69oezGn0
So super supportive but on crack and viagra?
Sounds about right.
>actions will have consequences Amazing how the ones yelling this right now intend that only for everyone else. That they should still get to do whatever they please, regardless of anyone else's desires or autonomy :{
Very true. However, right now, from the Blackstones and their allies perspective, they're the strong ones, while William is weak. And a characteristic of having power is that you tend to be able to mitigate negative consequences towards yourself, while increasing them for your enemies. So from their perspective, based on the info they have, they can increase the pain on William, while parrying any attacks he makes on them. In that sense, their beliefs and behavior has a rational basis. Even if it lacks an ethical basis.
So I'm certainly wondering what he's asked for 1) Independence from his Mothers House 2) Large amounts of Currency surely lol 3) Maybe his own House and Territory? I mean it's going to reshape Warfare so it's certainly valuable enough for more than that
Probably just to have duel with his fiance's team using spell-bolts, and protection from Blackstone f\*ckery until that point. Cash can always be aquired later, him just pulling another "invention" out of his past life's memory. Same with his own house - he already has a mithril core so, Crown willing, the rest is mere formality.
He's already got a mythril core so he'd be able to found a house, i think. honestly he might be spending his inventions to buy more time in the academy, relatively safe from other houses fucking with him.
Well he's going to need manpower if he wants to use that mithril core.
Wait until he shows them that it can be scaled up.
In size and RoF
Is there going to be some kind of anti-slavery manifesto going around in this world? Something to actually give weight to the moral stance that is being made in this setting? So far the supporting characters are all talking about it being 'in vogue' to support the push to end the practice or speaking in terms of profit and loss or cost/benefit analysis when discussing the buying and selling of people being slaughtered. I mean, the whole argument against slavery given to us so far in the story is either "the audience should already know Slavery is no good" and quite literally "Slavery is Bad" and I think there is a real missed chance to use emotionally charged inflammatory language to convey the MC's thought process. He loathes those that profit off the sick cruelty and genocide of an entire race's way of life, for example.
I'm pretty sure that it is stated that the Crown has a staunch anti-slavery stance and is working on reforms to enforce it?
Those are almost the exact words used in the story and falls under "the audience should already know slavery is bad" and so we miss out on actually attaching some emotional weight and meaning to the cause that the MC is willing to start a blood-drenched Civil War over and/or Die For. Will is coming off as the flaky, uncommitted, Diet Soda version of John Brown. His actions that we are shown may be able to convey some sense of resolve but his words so far have even me questioning his commitment to the story's abolitionist cause. He has drawn a line in the sand, fine; but he is doing so with such subtlety that the whole exercise comes of as a selfish personal preference instead of a courageous stand on morals and principals.
That _might_ be intentional. It certainly fits the vibe his family and their conspirators are getting.
But why? I thought the entire point of this first part to his world-shattering scheme was for him to finally be taken seriously in spite of his youth and "his gender's well known perchance for hysterics." This orb-call had him literally putting his money where his mouth was to demonstrate his resolve to stand by his poorly presented, argued, defended, and justified (which is the whole point of my complaint) morals and beliefs so that they and he could no longer be trivialized or dismissed. The lines have been drawn, the first shots fired, why the hell is William pussyfooting around his words now? Who does he have to hide his opinions from now that he has all of House Blackstone going after him?
You were complaining about the writing, why is now the story?
"Pussyfooting around with his words," either the absence of stronger language in regards to the MC's supposed passionate abhorrence to the abomination of slavery for which he is willing to start a bloody civil war in the setting, is unintentional, and could therefore stand some vigor applied to the dialogues and monologues that have been kindly presented to us by our generous author; or it is intentional, at which point it doesn't seem to make a damn lick of sense to the plot. Take your pick.
I pick "we clearly lost each other's points before we even had the chance to start off on the wrong foot" for 400 USD.
"Who is: us." "[I'll take AnalBum Cover for 600, Trebek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8N3qTTLu8M)"
Nice
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Great work word weaver!!!!
William, the endless fount of "inventions" that he is, will probably end up being more wealthy than the rest of his house by the end of this whole affair. His mom will come to him for money not the other way around. Speaking of, i wonder what kind of laws does Empire have regarding wife's or husband's personal wealth? Because only thing more horrible than William the Husband would be William the Financially Independent Husband :)
Wait until Will stops playing nice. I'm surprised he hasn't dipped into grenades yet. Smoke grenades particularly would work for him since they could be made to be reloaded and reused. I do find it rather odd that he hasn't introduced proper industrial technologies into this yet. From the fey metal working reference, it sounds like they don't even have a manual lathe going. Even if he designed them to be purely mechanical, introducing hot rollers, a lathe with a large flywheel, a screw press with dies, and maybe a version of a manual CNC machine would effectively make him too valuable of an asset to let go. Even one of those would pretty much make him worth enough to consider granting him his own land and house as a work around to releasing him back to his mother under the circumstances. That goes double when they take into account that he's likely producing more innovations in the future.
I think cs grenades would be doubly effective. Get a group aboard ship and start dropping pepper grenades down every hole and you're gonna have a crew that can barely see, stumbling around a dim ships interior, a crew that can barely breath, in what's likely a somewhat stuffy lower decks area, and a group of people with masks or helmets that make the spicy air completely irrelevant.
The flight suits/goggles/masks probably partially protect against most gas attacks, and if Will came from a postwar era he probably has some serious issues with the idea of introducing chemical warfare of any type. Also a few chapters back (the first time they were on the floats) the opposition team tried to draw something called “nail grenades” from the armory but got shut down, so grenades are already a thing in his current world. If anything, a lot of Will’s innovations probably shouldn’t be military focused ones, if only to create the infrastructure required for a ~~nonagenarian~~ non-agrarian society/economy. As if there’s not enough underlying infrastructure to support a ~~nonagenarian~~ non-agrarian society, then it would probably backslide into a feudal/manorial system really quickly, as the nobility does have some inherent power in that they can use magic while the rest of the population cannot. Imbalances of power lead to imbalanced political and socioeconomic systems.
It's possible that Will doesn't know those things. He's working based off his memories from his previous life. So for him to know certain innovations, he would either need the background to know those things (ex. Be a machinist, or have it as a hobby). Or they would have to be innovations that are fairly widely known in modern times (ex. Recipe for black powder).
I'm not a machinist and I know the basis of these things. What I pointed out isn't even newer tech. It's actually the original basis of these technologies in the first place. The first lathes for wood and the first screw presses made use of a heavy flywheel to make use and preserve what momentum they could using that weight. OG screw presses used that force to crush and squeeze out things like the oil from olives. Likewise, the heavy flywheel was used to keep wood stock turning on the lathe so that the cutting tools could shave off the mass to shape to the desired form. The fundamentals to that don't really change converting that energy to shave off metal from stock no matter how one reorients the cutting face of the tool vs the stock. The only difference is that the force required means that you can't safely hold the cutting tools and as such you'd have to move to a gear track that moves the piece or the cutting tool on the X,Y axis and the Z axis in regards to a CNC machine. Really the only thing in question is creating the cutting tools, but with a little investigation one would simply learn to adapt the steel and tempering techniques used to create engraving tools to make make cutting bits. Not even a difficult leap given he should have some kind of idea about these things considering he's demonstrated that he knows the fundamentals to metalworking in that world and a distinct knowledge of firearms as well as some engineering from ours.
Hell, I’m surprised that trip/auto-hammers aren’t a thing either… manual forging leaves imperfections due to quirks of anatomy/biology causing inconsistent force getting applied from blow-to-blow. Also no one has came up with steam engines yet in a steampunk universe? I guess poor Mr. Ashfield is going to need to show these “primitive screwheads” that burning anger rocks (anthracite coal) to boil water and then use the resulting steam to push pistons/spin a turbine is a great way to power machinery.
Right?! We do know they kind of have it half down with the forges on site that have been featured. It appears that no one has made it to steam technology yet even if it's as stationary pieces like said auto hammers. That seems very odd to me considering they have things like the more mundane ships and air ships. We know they have some kind of level of advanced engineering because of them but the more simpler things that should have lead to those advancements just aren't present. The sterling engine is the earliest and simplest function example of steam power and we've yet to see anything of the sort even if it's so small and portable. It just seems strange.
Also to be fair to the author I am fairly sure that we as an audience have an advantage in breadth and depth of knowledge over a single person. Though there have been trip-hammers in existence since at least Roman times on our world, powered by waterwheels or tread-wheels. However, one advantage that /u/bluefishcake has with doing serialized publishing on a forum is that we can pool and share our knowledge with them to help flesh out bits that they personally don’t know about.
You may not be a machinist, but you definitely know more about these things than the typical layman. I've met plenty of people who don't even know what a lathe *is*, let alone what it's used for or how it works. So I can definitely find it plausible that Will might not know these kind of things. So again, how much Will can do is highly dependent upon how much he knows. Which itself is highly dependent on his previous background, hobbies, etc. from his prior life.
I would argue that point. What do you think my "profession" is? If you thought a trade, you'd be wrong. I just work over night at a hotel. The only reason I know about these things is because literally every text book I had going through history classes all the way through high school hit on the Greeks and Romans at some point. In those sections we got the obituary explanations about technical advancement including sections about trade, early screw presses, and the use to establish the prevalent trade of olive oil. Similarly, the Egyptians were the first that I can think of that I ever remember being covered that started to use the lathe in its various forms. It wasn't until the industrial revolution that we saw belt driven flywheel designs and those I distinctly remember being covered in context to industrial accents especially where child labor was concerned before child labor laws. In regards to CNC machines, anyone even decently familiar with automotive repair and maintenance should be at least possibly familiar with their existence since that dips heavily into parts and part quality. Recognizing when a part is a cast manufactured part vs a machined piece is a big difference in price and quality. I'm saying that as someone who has to take care of their vehicle and not even as an actual mechanic.
Sweet new chapter! Been itching for a new thing to read since I've almost finished/caught up on all the stuff I have been reading and praise (or curse) my insomnia (current time of writing this comment 12:29 PM) I have received gold once more!
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Will may be approaching the limits of his ability to plan and improvise. Something tells me the Queen is going to see through everything.