>>6117780. . . Sometimes, odd winding paths leads you to an unexpected end. This man up here had the view all to himself as he died. Seems to have been agreeing with him. He might be dead but his old, dry corpse and skeletal features bear the hint of a smile. The weathers all but mummified him, dried out so completely he's crumbling away. All that remains is the threadbare, scraggy tatters of a military uniform.
And something he's resting with, across his lap. Wrapped in a small oilcloth. Curiousity beckons, Crushfist gently relieves the corpse of its burden and he flakes away on the wind as if he was but a dream of some other time and place. The small bundle turns out to hold a mask. Polished glass eyes, carefully tended filters, straps and buckles to hold it in place in all conditions. Clearly military design, though from no unit or region Crushfist knows. The glass tints the world strangely, as he holds the mask up to the light. Through it, everything is sharp and clear but somehow at a remove, off-colour enough to remind you that the world is out there and you are in here, behind the mask.
Maybe he took it off and sat down to enjoy the view and simply never stood again?
>>6118508One of the Quartermasters scoff. The Mordenkainens are for the Commander, and no mistake. Expensive kits, those. He'll do what he can about getting the Quiet Stainfingers some better class of musket but we can't go stealing tools the Commander hired at great expense for some particular project. He surely has some kind of plan in mind.
Edward gets one long loving look at the polishd walnut wood stock of the finest rifle joint Illiosi-Vanadian craft can make and -holy Icons- is that a Jurisno optical scope? Jurisno the Glassmaker retired seven years ago and no one's been able to make-- what the --
Then the logistics specialist snaps the case shut and offers to get Edward a pair of powder cartridges and a new flint of his type '73 Standard Capital Armories Long Fussil.
Sure. Sure. Yeah. Sure. That's . . . that's alright too, you guess : (
