I get the impression of small-bore rifle, which is a very different thing from a pistol that'll stop a human or atevi.
Thank you! I couldn't tell, from context, what might be involved -- popping rabbits with BB guns, or what? My knowledge of guns being limited to "point the tube part away from self". :D
Bren's "small, very small" game might be a further point in favour of Mospheira being mountainous? I do remember his first sight of mecheiti, and that he said Mospheira didn't have anything that size...
So Mospheirans still don't have much-if-anything by way of serious weaponry, not in the hands of the average citizen -- rather like it was in Bretano's time! (They do have island-wide type defences, though -- Bren's thought that "an old man in a rowboat" couldn't reach Mospheira unnoticed says as much.)
How might "taking the obvious course" count as betrayal? Is it fourteen words for betrayal (sigh), or is it betrayal+modifier01,
My personal headcanon? "Taking the obvious course" = "leaving an association that no longer benefits you" = "severing ties with an aiji whose association is counter to your interests" = "withdrawing man'chi from an aiji" = "betrayal".
I suspect there's probably a combination: three or four base words, say (betrayal-by-having-a-higher-man'chi, betrayal-by-self-interest, and betrayal-by-unexpected-development-with-no-prior-intent), and then modifiers for those depending on, oh, the difference in levels of man'chi involved (atevi are instinctive mathematicians), the severity of the damage done (from total destruction of the aiji's power to minor inconvenience), etc.
Aww, mecheiti screaming
It's silly, but like Bren I've become rather attached to Babs and Nokhada!
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Re: with my own mecheita icon...
Date: 2011-06-20 11:54 pm (UTC)Thank you! I couldn't tell, from context, what might be involved -- popping rabbits with BB guns, or what? My knowledge of guns being limited to "point the tube part away from self". :D
Bren's "small, very small" game might be a further point in favour of Mospheira being mountainous? I do remember his first sight of mecheiti, and that he said Mospheira didn't have anything that size...
So Mospheirans still don't have much-if-anything by way of serious weaponry, not in the hands of the average citizen -- rather like it was in Bretano's time! (They do have island-wide type defences, though -- Bren's thought that "an old man in a rowboat" couldn't reach Mospheira unnoticed says as much.)
How might "taking the obvious course" count as betrayal? Is it fourteen words for betrayal (sigh), or is it betrayal+modifier01,
My personal headcanon? "Taking the obvious course" = "leaving an association that no longer benefits you" = "severing ties with an aiji whose association is counter to your interests" = "withdrawing man'chi from an aiji" = "betrayal".
I suspect there's probably a combination: three or four base words, say (betrayal-by-having-a-higher-man'chi, betrayal-by-self-interest, and betrayal-by-unexpected-development-with-no-prior-intent), and then modifiers for those depending on, oh, the difference in levels of man'chi involved (atevi are instinctive mathematicians), the severity of the damage done (from total destruction of the aiji's power to minor inconvenience), etc.
Aww, mecheiti screaming
It's silly, but like Bren I've become rather attached to Babs and Nokhada!