Lord Sithe

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 6961

As Tisbitt the ghost watches silently....from his invisible perch....

Later.....

Balok personal servant smiled a condescending smile as the lord of the orcs stepped into the tunnel down into the home of the dwarves.

"I trust your little test run went well," the young dwarf smiled. "And how did the new armor do?"

BLAM!

The young dwarf dazedly looks up from the ground, spitting out a few teeth where the angered Sithe had pistol whipped him across the mouth.


Balok openly gaped at the set of armor before him. He then snapped his mouth closed, composed himself, and faced the livid orc.

"I said: 'Can ya explain dat?" the orc leader said in a quiet, rumbling voice as he poked a ham handed, warty finger at the large holes in the armor that denoted a small entry wound (and a rather large exit wound).

"The humans seemed have developed something....new," Balok says evenly. "But fear not....we dwarves have been developing new thing, also."

While that was true enough, it didn't denote the series of disasters, finger pointing, and screaming sessions he had with his head artisans.

It didn't denote the eldest artisan found hanging from a noose, with a suicide note bemoaning the shame that he couldn't....reproduce brass cartridges like the humans made in quantity.

It didn't denote the dwarves who'd blown their fingers off, trying various chemical compounds in their quest to make the "primer" for a bullet.

It didn't even come close to the anger searing fact that the head artisan could not, as of yet, reproduce the type of "gun powder" that the orcs had brought them within that human "revolver." Whatever it was, it wasn't black powder, and it didn't leave the gun smoking at ALL!

What the dwarves had been able to give the eagerly awaiting orcs was a series of....compromises. Instead of the brass cartridges that the human guns had, the dwarves had used a similar packaging that a human of the 20th century would have recognized as similar to that of a shotgun shell, but the cartridge was made of a thick, stiff paper instead of plastic (mostly because the dwarves had no concept of such a substance....nor did anyone else besides a few adventurers....and the Military in general). Inside was a solid slug of lead which flew forth when the gunpowder (black powder instead of the nitroglycerin based smokelss gunpowder. The inside of the gun chamber directed the force of the explosion that caused the bullet to fly, as opposed to the cartridge of the bullet as in human guns. At least the orcs had been happy with the pieces of junk. Their dwarven creators weren't....happy at all about what they'd managed to create.

Of better news had been the improvements that had come out since then. The dwarves could not only now produce their revolvers in something appreciable, but had been able to basically "scale up" the design of the revolver and made it into a "rifle" as his artisans had put it. Basically, the dwarves had made something similar to a Colt Revolving rifle (which was just a six shooter built along the lines of a rifle). The jaming problem had been fixed by making the trigger/hammer/barrel assembly VERY stiff. However, the average dwarf....or orc, could easily fire it without a problem (considering how strong they generally were...compared to a scrawny human). Also, the new bullets for these rifles were of a more powerful variety than mere pistol bullets....

The scowl upon Lord Sithe's face had lessened considerably, but was still present.

"So...dat's nice, but.....can id punch through dis?" the orc said, slamming down the chain mail that he'd been wearing while testing his newest toys on what he'd thought would be an easy target.

Not an auspicious trail run with the....prototypes as the dwarves insisted on calling his newest weapons!

"Try it out on that target," Balok smiled, pointing at a bound, armored, and gagged feral human that a dwarven patrol had captured....for just such an occasion as this. "And be assured, that there are other....toys....we want to show you."

  1. As Slithe smiled as he took aim, Sir Tilbert wished that he rules against him volunteering information to the living wasn't a reality for a ghost......

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