The World Of Twilight

Hi All,

Tinkerer that I am, a little waxy candle self-ignited in my mind on seeing the noxious mischievousness that is the Frugin pod.

Some sketching later, I have devised a new device to keep at bay nasty things, with the power of noxious nasal nausea inducing knowings, behold! (Whips off dusty rag from artboard)


(http://www.eastern-empire.com/forums/twilight/frugin_flinger.jpg)

How to proceed Flinging Frugin pods

Gathering the Frugin pods, I deftly roll them in a clay paste, fired briefly at high temperature to create a brittle but stable casing. Once gathered with suitable precautions, these are then placed into the spring loaded Flinger, a hide bound funnel of two halves, with recovered strider spring at it's base. Within the Flinger is the Shunter, a plate sized device for thrusting the encased pod upward and away.

Hopefully if aimed right and the spring is properly wound, the result should be the flinging of a Frugin pod to break at the feet or talons of your target after being flung!

My current success rate of flinging is about three in five, or one and a bit in two, wherein I am of course counting the pods which are flung upward, but land to close to me rather than the intended, or the wind changes direction. But as I am prepared for such nastiness! I thus count it as a success.

Those of a military bent or investigative nature like myself, can freely discuss or tinker further with this idea I am currently building in my abode outside of town, down wind.

- Taelan.

Sounds bonkers enough to be an engineers contraption :)

How does the priming/loading work?

So far a ratcheted pulley system to wind the coil downward, lowering the Frugin pod case into the funnel. Once set, a quick release catch lets the spring uncoil and do it's work, within reasonable predictability. At best this is a one shot deterrent from being eaten, when you spy the threat from afar and you don't rush the loading process. Oh and at some point either you or some friends have come across Delgon springs from a Strider assembly to assemble the Flinger from my sketchings.

Traded a few Enuk for my present coil, so the price is steep. Then again, less skittish animals about the testing field makes for quiet tinkering.

There might be something to the angle of the Funnel, the wind and possibly the spring tension, perhaps even the weight of the Frugin pod. But that's all rather boring, I prefer working the problem till it feels solved.

- Taelan.

Lovely idea and sketches! Any suggested rules?

HN

Doesn't baking the clay risk premature explosions? I would suggest a paste which, when dry, offers a similar, brittle, shell.

Love the drawing.

Thanks HN, so far no rules for the Flinger, as I haven't much gameplay experience to know what would be under powered or over-powered. Hoping some of the veterans here would concoct something if I sparked their interest.

Should have this ready by the time my Engineer miniature arrives from HF.

As for baking the clay, seemed a good idea at the time. I'll try sunning the pods and test that idea Gremlin. Drop by in a couple of days, if things went badly, the smell should have cleared by then. ;)

- Taelan.

Hah, it seems to have worked quite well so far. Maybe the heat makes chemical components of the seed pod more volatile, so is necesarry for the process :)

Great post  ;D - I've been meaning to send a witty response, but have thus far failed :-[

That little dude at the bottom arms raised in celebration is cracking me up.  :D

Maybe a hollowed tree trunk for the firing tube would hold up better than hide ?

The chap holding the ball looks either slightly monged or if struggling with the stench; eyes watering.

HN

Mutter mutter... Stored kinetic energy... Mutter mutter... Slow release ... Mutter mutter ... Non energetic release blah blah... Never work ... Yadda yadda

;)

 ;) ;D @ Brandlin

A hollowed out tree trunk tube?.. now there's an idea :)

I'm going to vote his eye's are watering from the stench. I was aiming for the raised cheeks of a hidden mischievous smile however.

Thanks for the great response all, can't wait to get my Twilight models to convert up for this idea.

- Taelan.

Fantastic. :D
And the picture makes me laugh! I want to see more!

Very fun!  I love how happy the little fellow looks that his contraption has worked  ;D