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[Once more a series of Nostraman runes, which.. are handily translated by the Library, hooray!]

In light of the request to learn hand to hand combat - which I will not teach - and someone else's very sensible suggestion of get. a. gun, I am willing to instruct a small number of people on which end of the pistol points towards the enemy, how to prevent it from killing YOU, and why a force multiplier is a very sensible thing to have on hand. Especially given so many of you are so small and comparatively frail.

Remember, my fellow Editors, no amount of learning how to throw a punch is going to help you when your enemy has a lasgun and a bad attitude.

Or is a Primarch. A high enough caliber boltgun, however, has a reasonable chance of slowing us down long enough for you to find a safer refuge than line of sight. And we are not the most terrible thing that may be faced in these Stories. Weapons were invented to curb these selfsame advantages!

My generosity has limits. I will not instruct other forms of weapons, but I'm sure others can. If you have such an ability and willingness to teach, leave a note attached to this one so others may find you.

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I can teach most small arms, shooting and maintenance. Both firearms and older weapons. Will warn I'm only passable with a sling but that's not much use anyway without a battery of trained slingers.

Personally interested in learning more about bolters.

[He does bother to sign this one with his feather-and-eye symbol so he's at least identifiable.

... And then amends below it:]

Realizing there might be different scales of technology involved here. Suspect we have Editors who don't know what firearms are. Might be good to calibrate.

For other readers:

A gun is a hand-held long ranged projectile weapon that ordinarily does not rely on significant strength, such as a bow, to use. Think of it as a glorified sling, as the entire purpose is to get a small projectile a long distance. The bigger the 'stone' the bigger the target you may cripple or kill with it!

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Bolters are a form of gun, save their ammunition explodes on contact.

Interesting. That present any particular challenges with it cooking off in the field while you're carrying it?

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I know how to use a gun, I just don't have mine with me. Or the aetherotransformer that makes it work.

In any case, my main weaponry is sword and shield, rapier, or scythe. Other types of swords or bladed weapons I am a fair hand at and can definitely teach a beginner, save for chakrams. Spears and polearms I have experience with though I am rusty.

I don't know if I can teach others how to manipulate aether here, but if I can I can also help with things like learning how to channel fire and frost.

I am not good with healing or a bow - I imagine there are others who can help with that.

- Nara'a

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[There is no actual word response to this, just a series of arrows in bright red marker pointing to it, possibly in the hopes someone else will actually take up this offer of other forms of weapons]

I remember guns from Montica, a bit. Feels like me trying anything would be funny at best, but I have a few other things I could do if I really had to.

Your particular anatomy and using firearms simply requires a bit of inventiveness, if you really were interested in having one.

I am no engineer, not on par with some of my brothers, but perhaps we could come up with something.

[Is she interested? Not. really. Hisako more wants to feel included.]

Don't they [pause. she can picture it but doesn't know the words!] kick back when they activate?

Stormwings can shoot bolts of fire from our claws. I'm not all that familiar with them but we do have weapons to concentrate it and they look a little like guns. They're long tubes anyway.

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I know the basics with a small pistol, but I'll never say no to learning more.

Lovely! I think you'd enjoy a laspistol in turn. They can be very flashy.

Generally speaking, I have found that most deeply unpleasant people assume that a mage will only defend themselves with magic.

I believe in a varied strategy that includes several options. Running away is high on the list, but it's not always the right choice.

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Do we have a place to safely store all the black powder involved? I would not wish for the library to blow up and take all of us with it.

[Not those kinds of guns, Siobhan. You'd think you came from a planet with mostly Renaissance tech levels in people's daily lives OH WAIT.]

Two thoughts on that;

Modern weapons as I know them do not need black powder and are easily and safely stored.

The library's inherent safety systems would render any such explosion, if one did happen, as harmless.

In that case, so long as you teach gun safety, I suppose this is not a bad idea. I will not be attending, but that is because I am quite practiced with my longbow already, as SecUnit, Hikaru, and Laina can attest.

If anyone wishes to learn archery, I would teach.

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Waiting waiting waiting till no one was around the message board. The handwriting is technical lettering precise with precisely ZERO ornamentation. ]

Krak grenades would be more effective for most baselines here. The emotions they feel disrupt the blink and breathing rate for accurate fire.

[More handwriting he doesn't recognize!]

I wouldn't trust most of these people with a frag grenade loaded with confetti instead of shrapnel. They will do less harm with an ordinary lasgun, there's a reason we give them to the Auxilia.

They are that unskilled, then? [How do you say YIKES in High Gothic?]

I have not seen an armory here. [Where are these hypothetical lasguns lascoming from?

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I'm not sure what half those words you're saying are, so who the fuck even knows if my guns and your guns work the same at all. Worth seeing, I guess.

Let me simplify. If you aim it at someone, pull the trigger, and some kind of bullet kills the other guy it's pretty much the same.

Duh. Thanks, asshole, I never woulda guessed that.

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used to be, i could hit game birds at 100m with a bow. Guns, however, were not allowed civilians back home.

been a while since I did any marksmanship, but my eye should be the same.

Bows have their place in warfare and hunting but tend to not be as easily concealed. Do you consider yourself still governed by the laws of 'back home'?

ufufu, no.

it'd just be awkward if I'm checked back in by the librarian and I gotta explain to the cops why I have a pistol in my satchel.

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What is a gun?

What's the most complicated weapon you're familiar with? It's difficult to explain without being sure of what you already know.

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