RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST FIVE: CANNONS! SUBMISSIONS WELCOME!]
02-11-2014, 03:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2014, 03:54 AM by Gnauga.)
Username: Gnu Gear
Name: Lacie and Browniefly
Species: Human and Landboat
Gender: Female and N/A, respectively
Color: Sedimentary orange
Description: Lacie's a young lass dressed in the typical fashion for a dust-sailor: a tightly-woven, loose poncho between red and brown, over a plain outfit, tucked meticulously to keep out the sand. She's a freelancer, sailing the sands, seeing the world, and making a living any way she can. She's the capricious sort, and lives by the rule of always doing the more interesting thing.
Browniefly's a landboat, about the size of a sport fishing vessel. Like all land-boats, it's powered by an geomancy engine. Landboats part the earth ahead of them, and propel forward into the gap. Landboats typically sail through the sands that cover most of the desert world. More solid earth is tougher to push through, although some military and specialty engines can cut through rock like fine sand. Geo-engines can't part or propel through anything but earth, and most landboats aren't buoyant either.
Weapons/Abilities: Lacie's proficient with small arms. She keeps a handful of guns aboard the Browniefly, including an elephant gun for the occasional murder-bull*. Besides that, she's a passable mechanic and an experienced trader. Not much good in hand-to-hand, but that's what the six-shooters are for.
*(A murder-bull is a towering four-legged beast that is slow when flat-footed, but reach simply unreasonable speeds in a charge. The general consensus is that murder-bulls have some form of natural rage-fueled time-dilation magic.)
Browniefly is loaded with whatever Lacie's hauling at the moment. She was in the middle of running paper from Oasis to Canyon, so they currently have a lot of that, in addition to all the crap one needs to keep a landboat running, like maintenance tools and shovels and stuff. Also rations.
Browniefly also touts a non-standard bit of equipment. A swivel-mounted cannon that fires cracks into the earth. Theoretically, it could split the earth in half. Practically, that would take too long to charge. As in, too many millenia. A typical shot would be about a ten-meter crack. The thing's not perfect and occasionally misfires, which backdrives the geo-engine and grounds the boat for a minute or two until the engine recovers. Like the landboat's propulsion, it only affects earth, so no cracking open people. Pretty sure that'd be crazy unethical. Metals take the hit roughly as if it were a cannonball, though.
Biography:
Lacie's a native of Canyon, which is a small city that's carved out of a, uh, canyon. The rock around Canyon is obscenely tough. It's virtually impossible for any landvessel to get too close to Canyon; within six or seven miles, Canyon must be approached on foot. Living quarters within Canyon are blasted out with high explosives, and as a result, Canyon's most well-known and prolific trade has become bombs, explosives, artillery, and so on. Along that vein, Canyon's also home to many tinkerers, chemists, and mages, with plenty of overlap. It's one of these tinkerer-engineer-wizards that developed Browniefly's cannon. The old coot offered to let Lacie keep it if she'd test it out on the sands, which Lacie naturally agreed to because hey, free cannon. Lacie typically uses it to bury pirate vessels a meter or two, forcing most boats to spend ten or fifteen minutes wiggling out. Other uses include: mining, buried treasure-hunting, and entertaining pets and small children.
Name: Lacie and Browniefly
Species: Human and Landboat
Gender: Female and N/A, respectively
Color: Sedimentary orange
Description: Lacie's a young lass dressed in the typical fashion for a dust-sailor: a tightly-woven, loose poncho between red and brown, over a plain outfit, tucked meticulously to keep out the sand. She's a freelancer, sailing the sands, seeing the world, and making a living any way she can. She's the capricious sort, and lives by the rule of always doing the more interesting thing.
Browniefly's a landboat, about the size of a sport fishing vessel. Like all land-boats, it's powered by an geomancy engine. Landboats part the earth ahead of them, and propel forward into the gap. Landboats typically sail through the sands that cover most of the desert world. More solid earth is tougher to push through, although some military and specialty engines can cut through rock like fine sand. Geo-engines can't part or propel through anything but earth, and most landboats aren't buoyant either.
Weapons/Abilities: Lacie's proficient with small arms. She keeps a handful of guns aboard the Browniefly, including an elephant gun for the occasional murder-bull*. Besides that, she's a passable mechanic and an experienced trader. Not much good in hand-to-hand, but that's what the six-shooters are for.
*(A murder-bull is a towering four-legged beast that is slow when flat-footed, but reach simply unreasonable speeds in a charge. The general consensus is that murder-bulls have some form of natural rage-fueled time-dilation magic.)
Browniefly is loaded with whatever Lacie's hauling at the moment. She was in the middle of running paper from Oasis to Canyon, so they currently have a lot of that, in addition to all the crap one needs to keep a landboat running, like maintenance tools and shovels and stuff. Also rations.
Browniefly also touts a non-standard bit of equipment. A swivel-mounted cannon that fires cracks into the earth. Theoretically, it could split the earth in half. Practically, that would take too long to charge. As in, too many millenia. A typical shot would be about a ten-meter crack. The thing's not perfect and occasionally misfires, which backdrives the geo-engine and grounds the boat for a minute or two until the engine recovers. Like the landboat's propulsion, it only affects earth, so no cracking open people. Pretty sure that'd be crazy unethical. Metals take the hit roughly as if it were a cannonball, though.
Biography:
Lacie's a native of Canyon, which is a small city that's carved out of a, uh, canyon. The rock around Canyon is obscenely tough. It's virtually impossible for any landvessel to get too close to Canyon; within six or seven miles, Canyon must be approached on foot. Living quarters within Canyon are blasted out with high explosives, and as a result, Canyon's most well-known and prolific trade has become bombs, explosives, artillery, and so on. Along that vein, Canyon's also home to many tinkerers, chemists, and mages, with plenty of overlap. It's one of these tinkerer-engineer-wizards that developed Browniefly's cannon. The old coot offered to let Lacie keep it if she'd test it out on the sands, which Lacie naturally agreed to because hey, free cannon. Lacie typically uses it to bury pirate vessels a meter or two, forcing most boats to spend ten or fifteen minutes wiggling out. Other uses include: mining, buried treasure-hunting, and entertaining pets and small children.
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