ah yeah i guess looking at it the symbol described probably is the boy scouts one not the cubscouts. ig back in the day i latched onto the “children” wording. however there’s no way it’s older scouts, during the briefing they’re describing the kids as being “two thirds the height of a standard warrior” but the adults are “Much taller” than the POV alien, there is not that great a gap in height between most teens and adults seems much more likely to be 10 or younger to me. supported by the author saying in a comment “Haha, three for one. I feel stabbed by a spear, hit by a slingshot and smacked in the face with a tiny vengeful fist.”
as for the guns… yeah that’s why i desribed it as them having muskets? i find it hard to believe they would have “blowdart” guns with cameras on them but are modern assault rifles really that much louder than muskets? that redditor seems to respond to people leaving comments though so if you’ve got a reddit account laying around u might be able to ask and get them to clarify lol
It’s amazing that this shit got 8k upvotes. What the fuck am I doing with my life when literally anyone can become so incredibly popular making something so worthless?
haha :yea: the fact this has twice the upvotes of chrysalsis is crazy (not to say chrysalsis is anywhere near perfect or even necessarily good but it’s the best story ive read on there and it’s only got 4k upvotes)
Agreed on your corrections, except that when I said dart gun I didn’t mean the blowdart kind, I meant the modern kind that look like actual guns with triggers (like how zoologists sedate wild animals sometimes). Still silly to put a camera on one? I guess, but if that’s what you have as a “gun” then it makes about as much sense as us putting them on our guns, maybe more because dart guns don’t have muzzle flashes and smoke.
are modern assault rifles really that much louder than muskets?
Modern assault rifles are somewhat louder (and I think higher pitch?) than muskets, so they are more prone to causing hearing damage than muskets were and I could definitely see that being a shock, but again look at how abstract his confusion is. If that dude was intimately familiar with muskets like we’d expect an interplanetary invader to be if their army used muskets, then he might find the compactness or any of several other features about the gun shocking, but they don’t even identify it as being a type of gun, which a musketeer would be able to do even if they could only fathom its operation as being a matter of magic, because it’s still sort of the same shape, with a barrel and trigger and so on, making a bang, and shooting a bullet.
ah yeah i guess looking at it the symbol described probably is the boy scouts one not the cubscouts. ig back in the day i latched onto the “children” wording. however there’s no way it’s older scouts, during the briefing they’re describing the kids as being “two thirds the height of a standard warrior” but the adults are “Much taller” than the POV alien, there is not that great a gap in height between most teens and adults seems much more likely to be 10 or younger to me. supported by the author saying in a comment “Haha, three for one. I feel stabbed by a spear, hit by a slingshot and smacked in the face with a tiny vengeful fist.”
as for the guns… yeah that’s why i desribed it as them having muskets? i find it hard to believe they would have “blowdart” guns with cameras on them but are modern assault rifles really that much louder than muskets? that redditor seems to respond to people leaving comments though so if you’ve got a reddit account laying around u might be able to ask and get them to clarify lol
haha :yea: the fact this has twice the upvotes of chrysalsis is crazy (not to say chrysalsis is anywhere near perfect or even necessarily good but it’s the best story ive read on there and it’s only got 4k upvotes)
Agreed on your corrections, except that when I said dart gun I didn’t mean the blowdart kind, I meant the modern kind that look like actual guns with triggers (like how zoologists sedate wild animals sometimes). Still silly to put a camera on one? I guess, but if that’s what you have as a “gun” then it makes about as much sense as us putting them on our guns, maybe more because dart guns don’t have muzzle flashes and smoke.
Modern assault rifles are somewhat louder (and I think higher pitch?) than muskets, so they are more prone to causing hearing damage than muskets were and I could definitely see that being a shock, but again look at how abstract his confusion is. If that dude was intimately familiar with muskets like we’d expect an interplanetary invader to be if their army used muskets, then he might find the compactness or any of several other features about the gun shocking, but they don’t even identify it as being a type of gun, which a musketeer would be able to do even if they could only fathom its operation as being a matter of magic, because it’s still sort of the same shape, with a barrel and trigger and so on, making a bang, and shooting a bullet.