sweartoyou | Ryslig

Hello, sir.

This is Rachel, yes. I only really know how to use them, so I'm grateful for any information you can give.

i'll tell ye what i can!

common pistol's made out of three big parts that house the little parts. ye've got the barrel, that's the tube the bullet travels down to give it its trajectory. ye've got the frame, that's the handle and the bit that's not the chamber mechs. the last part's the action, that's all the parts that fire it. cartridge, bullet housing, trigger.

ye with me so far?

Yeah. The action's the complicated part... Is it easy to customize?

eh, s'not that complicated in a simple revolver. ye got yer flint, yer powder cap, the little arm to make'em move...

hold on. i am not a man skilled in drawing, we don't really have paper where i come from, so i can barely write to tell ye true. read just fine, but the making of letters...

anyhow, this may help. or it may not.

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I guess the laptops are pretty useful then. You write better than my friend at least.

[Not that it was...hard...]

Do you only have revolvers in your time?

aye, it's easier just hitting a button of a letter. anyhow, the letters i learned are..they're not DIFFERENT, exactly, but they don't look quite the same.

we have rifles, too, and gattlers if ye're lucky to find one left over from older days. but revolvers are what i ken. started training with'em when i was 5.

Extra circles and dots and lines maybe?

Oh. How'd you deal with the recoil when you were that little? It's manageable, but shooting makes my arm hurt...

sommat like that. and there's only one way to write a letter, we haven't got big versions and little versions.
or standardized spelling among the masses. ye spell how a thing sounds.

we just kept shooting for hours, every day, till our arms didn't wobble anymore. and we'd been using bahs and bows a'fore our training irons. which weren't e'en iron, they were nickel. got my first proper guns when i was fifteen.

children destined to the gun, those of us born to gunslingers, start soon as we can toddle and hold a thing without dropping it.

Capitalization is useful for some things, but it isn't really necessary, huh? But a lot of words sound the same... I don't think I can defend not having standardized spelling.

Do people ever shoot others accidentally because they're too little?

Oh and that isn't wasteful of bullets? I guess if you can find them all and melt them down again... But what about powder?

but ye can tell a word by what its talking about. and the whole no paper thing...s'not like anyone's doing much reading or writing. i grew up with the biggest library in my world, and it only had mayhap 50 books.

no. we're in training, we're not shooting towards anything alive. or using proper bullets to train, we use pellets. and if ye deviate yer aim e'en a mite, the teacher'd wallop ye so hard ye won't do it again.

gunslinger children aren't like normal children, from the moment we're born, we're for the gun. and i got it double, as my da was our king's hand. which means i was to be the same to our king's son - my brother, the one i mentioned a'fore.

That's a really small library... Doesn't anyone think reading is fun?

It sounds a lot more useful that way to be honest. I found my calling by chance and I'm not concerned about my future, but not everyone is lucky to be able to train when they're young.

when i said we haven't got much paper, i mean it's rarer than gold or diamond or clean air. there isn't enough to MAKE books. or hardly any folks left who ken how to bind'em proper.

oh, aye, terribly useful to take toddlers and deny them a childhood and beat'em daily to make killing tools of an entire generation. can't imagine why mine's the only culture i've ever heard of that does it, it's so damned useful.

...and to be clear, i agree it's damned useful, there's no better soldiers or trackers or survivalists than gunslingers, but ye pay for the privilege dear. ye pay with yerself. ye pay with never having yer mother comfort ye or tuck ye in at night, ye pay with never knowing what it is to be a child, never knowing what it is to live without death and pain or the knowledge that ye are nothing but yer gun and how good ye are at killing.

But paper and clean air are both made of plants. You could write in stone or metal as well. It just wouldn't be a traditional library.

[Library of swords would be sick as hell, though.]

That sort of thing can happen just as easily without a productive outcome. At least you were seen as worthwhile to society.

...Though that's getting away from the original point of this lesson.

theoretically, aye. but most folks are spending every minute trying to survive. i don't come from what most would call a nice world.

arguably. when i checked out, a rebellion had overrun gilead. the people didn't want gunslingers anymore. said too few people held all the power, and that wasn't right. course this all started with an evil wizard and the king of demons, but...eh, there was a point in it, i wot.

ye're damned lucky it's ME that's the last gunslinger left about, i am devout in my ways, not the traditional ones. i don't hold it all quite as sacred as my forefathers or fellows.

Yeah. I'm thankful. It would have been an inconvenience for me if you minded teaching these things to random young strangers even if most worlds aren't as exclusive about their guns.

Were they trying to kill you before you were brought here?

technically and traditionally, i'm not e'en allowed to let anyone else fire my guns, or let a woman touch'em. dunno why, but roland inducted a lady gunslinger in another world, so i wot it's just stupid superstition. and i've been teaching sue with the guns of eld themselves, neither of us has exploded in a fire of blasphemy.

nah, they managed it rather well.

...I've known more women with guns than men, I think. That seems like a silly rule unless they were scared women would have a higher aptitude for it.

I see. It doesn't seem like killing the last of something is a good idea. Unless they managed to get the information they needed before that.

oh aye, i've met plenty of ladies here who can wield a gun damned well. my own lady's had training. but my culture's weird about women, s'all kinds of double standards. women aren't supposed to do much. fucking stupid, if ye ask me.

they just wanted to wipe us out. and roland lived on, least for a while. he was here, and some others of my fellows, but...they're all gone. s'just me now.

and sue, but i'm the only one'd call her a gunslinger and she doesn't call herself one.

Being told you're something when all you've known is otherwise is...different. It doesn't surprise me she wouldn't call herself a gunslinger. She hasn't lived the same life either.

The combustion that's required for firing a gun causes lots of heat, right? Would the metal be able to withstand a high degree of heat for an extended period?

[Yeah, she might not...be the best at sympathy. Or empathy. Or talking to people in general.]

there's other things, too. a history there.

course, else it wouldn't work. i dunno what they do to the metal but they're made to be fired. hell, e'en a small battle...ye're gonna be firing off dozens and dozens of rounds all in a rapid row.

In that situation, there isn't a constant, steady heat...but I suppose your point still stands. I wonder if there's a way to safely circulate air through the gun without changing the trajectory, though.

ye don't ken how gunslingers shoot.

there's no break in the heat.

That may be true, but I have to disagree. The time taken for reloading, aiming, and between firing may be short, but it's still time. The internal combustions are near-constant, not constant.

Are you familiar with lasers?

trust me, sai. i can demonstrate for ye. e'en the slowest 'slinger takes less than seconds to reload.

aye, sort of.

Have you seen one? It's the kind of steady heat I'm referring to. But I am still interested in a demonstration if you're so willing.

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