A Walk in the Neighborhood

[Dracos]

"Forget machine gun...what about cannons?"

Dracos

[Bjorn]

Bjorn frowns.  "A little easier.  But you still have a numbers problem.  A single cannon isn't going to accomplish much, in this sort of situation.  It's hard to build one that can fire a load as large as, say, a trebuchet without blowing up -- even its range isn't as good, without good chemical refinement and smithing processes.  If we had a couple hundred, with trained teams that could keep them firing at full speed, it'd be one thing.  As it is...."

[Dracos]

"I'm more thinking something that could delivery a really painful attack to the general prior to us charging at him.  Not so much for the armies themselves.  Possibly even with magic enhanced firepower?"

Dracos

[Bjorn]

"Aiming a cannon?  Forget it.  Making those things accurate took a couple hundred years of engineering research.  And if you want to start chucking loremastery into the books, we needed to get here ten years earlier.  No way before tonight."

[Dracos]

"Then the question becomes what tricks does Radagast have up his sleeve that he's been having around for decades?"

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"I do have a few semiautomatic pistols, if that might help this discussion any.  And that actually reminds me . . ."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn looks over at Nathan inquisitively.

[Rezantis]

"Need to test something with the warbag."

Rez gets out of his chair and walks so as to put a bookcase between himself and the librarian, then checking that nobody is in sight summons the gauntlet and produces the warbag.

[Brian]

"We could always ask Radagast," Durant opines, flipping through his book.  "Dude!  I got jacked over by this Fletcher dickmuncher."

[Rezantis]

Unzipping the bag, Rez tests something quickly. He pulls out an arrow and snaps it in half, quickly counting the rest of them, and then drops one of the roots from his belt pouches into the  bag, before re-offhanding the bag and dispelling the gauntlet.

This done, he checks to see if the arrow vanished, and if the root reappeared.

After that, he summons the gauntlet again, produces the warbag once more, and checks the status of the arrows.

[Brian]

The arrow vanishes, but the root does not reappear.  Though, one of your arrows is now broken when you recheck the warbag.

And your root is sitting cozily on top of the arrow'n'handgun pile.

[Bjorn]

"Yes, you did," Bjorn says to Durant, as Nathan experiments.  "I might need your help catching him.  Don't suppose there's been anyone trying to strike up nudge-nudge wink-wink conversations with you?"

[Rezantis]

"Hm."

Unable to think of exactly what else to be trying, Rez drops his influence back into his other-self's skills, letting the gauntlet go, and walks back around to sit at the table.

"Well. I can get the gauntlet much like anyone else can get their powers, and it lets me produce the warbag.  Anything from our world that I pull out of the warbag vanishes as soon as I stop holding the gauntlet, and reappears in the warbag - in the same state it was when it vanished, be that whole or broken.  However, anything from this world I put into the warbag . . . stays in the warbag."

[Brian]

"Sweet--"  Durant catches himself and looks around, making sure the librarian is out of earshot and then lowering his voice anyway.  "Okay.  So, a buttload of people talk to me -- I'm a minor celebrity, which turns out to be way more annoying than you'd think it is.  I couldn't pick one out as weirder than another, but I sometimes hear stuff.  That's how I heard about Ashton, though, now the way I hear it I need to wonder if him getting himself caught was part of their plan."

[Dracos]

"hmmm?  Tip off a few inside, have them get caught.  If they fail, we think we got the man.  If they succeed, all the better?  But seems too simple."

Dracos