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jumpthegun) wrote2016-04-04 09:15 pm
jumpthegun) wrote2016-04-04 09:15 pm
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You've reached Dr. John Watson. Please leave a message.
You've reached Dr. John Watson. Please leave a message.
[Around the middle of this conversation, Ecks pauses what she's doing to shoot Dr. Watson a message.]
What is a gun and how does it work?
[He'll know, after all; he's from the same world as this Sherlock person.]
What is a gun and how does it work?
[He'll know, after all; he's from the same world as this Sherlock person.]
[He's trying to read through all of Sherlock's replies when Ecks' message comes through. He hasn't gotten to that particular conversation, yet.]
It's a ranged weapon. Do you have cannons where you're from? Explosive powder?
It's a ranged weapon. Do you have cannons where you're from? Explosive powder?
[He stays silent, only vaguely aware that no, he won't be reporting in tomorrow. He knows he won't remember this. He knows it's already slipping away.]
I don't know what an alchemy bomb is. Let me draw you a picture.
[It's a few minutes later that she'll receive a rough sketch of a pistol. It has labels for the barrel, trigger, handle, and firing mechanism.]
That's a basic semi-automatic pistol. There are a lot of different types of guns, but that's one that can fit easily into one hand. You have bullets in a magazine that's loaded into the bottom of the handle. The bullets look like this.
[There's another picture, this one of a basic pistol shell. He also sketches a magazine with multiple bullets in it.]
Once the bullets are in the gun, they get loaded one by one into the barrel. Each time you pull the trigger, it causes the firing mechanism to strike the back of the bullet, which is loaded with gunpowder. All of this happens inside the barrel, a small, confined place. The blast propels the bullet out of the barrel and toward your target at very high velocity.
Does all of that make sense?
[It's a few minutes later that she'll receive a rough sketch of a pistol. It has labels for the barrel, trigger, handle, and firing mechanism.]
That's a basic semi-automatic pistol. There are a lot of different types of guns, but that's one that can fit easily into one hand. You have bullets in a magazine that's loaded into the bottom of the handle. The bullets look like this.
[There's another picture, this one of a basic pistol shell. He also sketches a magazine with multiple bullets in it.]
Once the bullets are in the gun, they get loaded one by one into the barrel. Each time you pull the trigger, it causes the firing mechanism to strike the back of the bullet, which is loaded with gunpowder. All of this happens inside the barrel, a small, confined place. The blast propels the bullet out of the barrel and toward your target at very high velocity.
Does all of that make sense?
Good night, Dr. Stein. I'll talk to you tomorrow and we can discuss what the Admin's response is, too.
[That is a lot of new vocabulary, and a very strange sort of mechanism that doesn't look like a mechanism at all from the way he has drawn it. She spends a minute puzzling over the drawing, trying to figure out where the projectiles go, before coming back to the description to find that all her guesses were very wrong. It is not like a sling or a crossbow at all.]
The gunpowder explodes?
[She rereads a few more times.]
I do not think I understand correctly. it looks like you are saying that the person using the pistol puts a bomb inside it and holds the bomb while it explodes.
The gunpowder explodes?
[She rereads a few more times.]
I do not think I understand correctly. it looks like you are saying that the person using the pistol puts a bomb inside it and holds the bomb while it explodes.
It's a very small explosion, and it's contained within a small area with an exit point for the force to travel through. Modern gun barrels are made of reinforced metals that prevent anything from shattering in the explosion. I won't say it's safe, but it's relatively so if you know what you're doing.
[John cringes slightly.]
I'll keep that in mind.
[And shut up now because he can hear the irritation in Bucky's voice and he doesn't want to distract the man or make him work harder to talk and carry him at the same time.]
I'll keep that in mind.
[And shut up now because he can hear the irritation in Bucky's voice and he doesn't want to distract the man or make him work harder to talk and carry him at the same time.]
No. You usually stand a long ways away. It's not the explosion you're using to injure someone, it's the bullet. Think of it like a bow and arrow. The bullet is the arrow. The gun and explosion it causes are just sophisticated and very powerful replacements for a drawn bow.
hey
watson
watson
john watson
dr john trainwreck watson
dr john i dont wear the deerstalker he says overlooking a totally rad drawing of him in one like an ingrate watson
dr john i take care of everyone but myself watson
hey
stop being dead
watson
watson
john watson
dr john trainwreck watson
dr john i dont wear the deerstalker he says overlooking a totally rad drawing of him in one like an ingrate watson
dr john i take care of everyone but myself watson
hey
stop being dead
[It's a long while for the reply as John's busy having a panic attack, getting to shelter, and contacting other people. He doesn't really want to deal with Davesprite right now, but it's something that needs to be done. John turns on voice to text.]
I've stopped being dead just for you, mate.
I've stopped being dead just for you, mate.
[Oh thank god.]
good job
clint told me what went down and from the sound of it he and jay both feel pretty shitty over it
but what about you
what did you lose and how are you feeling
good job
clint told me what went down and from the sound of it he and jay both feel pretty shitty over it
but what about you
what did you lose and how are you feeling
I'm as well as can be expected. Probably better off than them. I've been fully healed from my injuries.
[He's going to gloss over what he's lost.]
[He's going to gloss over what he's lost.]
[He's under the impression that a loss can be something more sensitive than just losing voice or vision for a while, so lucky for Watson, he doesn't press him on this.]
yeah i saw clint and hes a big sad lump in a church frock
i had to shove him off a couch because he wouldnt stop his pity party
so then he was just a sad lump on the floor
i would have bugged jay about it more but hes him
btw we kinda made up the other day so dont worry about that
glad your injuries are gone though
can you walk normal again and everything
yeah i saw clint and hes a big sad lump in a church frock
i had to shove him off a couch because he wouldnt stop his pity party
so then he was just a sad lump on the floor
i would have bugged jay about it more but hes him
btw we kinda made up the other day so dont worry about that
glad your injuries are gone though
can you walk normal again and everything
Like it never happened. [Which is intensely discomforting, in and of itself. While John appreciates not being crippled like that anymore, just having something like that completely wiped away makes it seem almost unreal, like Bucky was never there to do anything to him.
He tries not to dwell.]
I'm glad you made up. Both of them could use more friends just at the moment.
He tries not to dwell.]
I'm glad you made up. Both of them could use more friends just at the moment.
good to know
im gonna try to avoid getting gravely injured and dying again in general
but if it ever happens its kind of reassuring that if i come back itll be back to normal you know
take care of yourself and stay safe out there
[He knows the thing with Bucky wasn't Watson's fault, and he knows too that the anomaly happened so fast no one could do much. But it feels right just the same to tell him that. He wants him to be safe. Watson could serve to take better care of himself in general, after all.]
im not sure friends is the word
jay and i have an understanding
hes better than i gave him credit for
meanwhile clint lives his life like a stray wandering dad who doesnt know how to look after himself
and im the little orphan bird he keeps trying to adopt unsuccessfully while i tell him to stop being dumb about his feelings
sherlock was a dick to him about you too which didnt help
im gonna try to avoid getting gravely injured and dying again in general
but if it ever happens its kind of reassuring that if i come back itll be back to normal you know
take care of yourself and stay safe out there
[He knows the thing with Bucky wasn't Watson's fault, and he knows too that the anomaly happened so fast no one could do much. But it feels right just the same to tell him that. He wants him to be safe. Watson could serve to take better care of himself in general, after all.]
im not sure friends is the word
jay and i have an understanding
hes better than i gave him credit for
meanwhile clint lives his life like a stray wandering dad who doesnt know how to look after himself
and im the little orphan bird he keeps trying to adopt unsuccessfully while i tell him to stop being dumb about his feelings
sherlock was a dick to him about you too which didnt help
Edited 2016-10-20 20:06 (UTC)
['Take care of yourself.' There would be a bitter laugh from John if he weren't uncertain whether or not the voice-to-text would pick it up.]
It's good to have understandings, then. I did hear that Sherlock lashed out at Clint. I'm going to apologize properly when I get the chance. He tends to cut when he's upset, and he's very good at finding the right place to stab.
I'm sorry you had to hear about that, Davesprite. I hope you've been all right the past few days? I wasn't gone very long, but it's never pleasant to wake up missing time.
It's good to have understandings, then. I did hear that Sherlock lashed out at Clint. I'm going to apologize properly when I get the chance. He tends to cut when he's upset, and he's very good at finding the right place to stab.
I'm sorry you had to hear about that, Davesprite. I hope you've been all right the past few days? I wasn't gone very long, but it's never pleasant to wake up missing time.
hey
no
nuh uh no
no you dont
dont you apologize for sherlock being a dick
thats on him like i told you last time
you dont get to apologize for me hearing about it either
i was supposed to hear about it because guess what i give a crap about you and i dont want you to be dead
give clint a hug and tell him youre alright and make him stop blaming himself for you dying
but sherlock is a grown man who can deal with his own fuckups
anyway im fine
clint is back with jay and natasha and im with my group
nothing else has blown up while you were gone
no
nuh uh no
no you dont
dont you apologize for sherlock being a dick
thats on him like i told you last time
you dont get to apologize for me hearing about it either
i was supposed to hear about it because guess what i give a crap about you and i dont want you to be dead
give clint a hug and tell him youre alright and make him stop blaming himself for you dying
but sherlock is a grown man who can deal with his own fuckups
anyway im fine
clint is back with jay and natasha and im with my group
nothing else has blown up while you were gone
Edited (bluh bluh dumb bucky and his name fuss) 2016-10-20 20:18 (UTC)
I was a major development in warfare in my world, yeah. It started out with things called cannons, though. Those are basically giant guns with that fire giant balls of metal through the air. So, they're like a ballista, if you know what that is. But instead of hurling, again it's using gunpowder and fire to create a contained explosion to propel your chunks of metal at an oncoming enemy.
[Well, you're asking the impossible there, Davesprite.]
I plan on making it up to Clint. However he'd like me to. Let me just put it that way, all right?
As for Sherlock, I think we've gone round enough on that.
Glad to hear nothing else has gone mad, though. The last thing I saw before the anomaly was that video the Admin uploaded.
I plan on making it up to Clint. However he'd like me to. Let me just put it that way, all right?
As for Sherlock, I think we've gone round enough on that.
Glad to hear nothing else has gone mad, though. The last thing I saw before the anomaly was that video the Admin uploaded.
yeah alright
you mean the one with the missiles
were they nukes
it would explain the radiation
didnt know the town had its own scifi force field
who decides bumfuck alaska is enough of a target to attack like that
who decides bumfuck alaska is the place for any of this
why couldnt they have done this someplace warmer so we arent constantly freezing our asses off
you mean the one with the missiles
were they nukes
it would explain the radiation
didnt know the town had its own scifi force field
who decides bumfuck alaska is enough of a target to attack like that
who decides bumfuck alaska is the place for any of this
why couldnt they have done this someplace warmer so we arent constantly freezing our asses off
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