Thank, ita.
As selfish as it might sound, I prefer a half-deaf mom at home than a not-sure-need-more-testing mom at the hospital.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Dec 04, 2011 11:35:54 am PST #3753 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
askye - Dec 04, 2011 11:36:15 am PST #3754 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
smonster that sucks. I'm glad she's your ex roomie.
Strix - Dec 04, 2011 11:43:10 am PST #3755 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Seconded.
ita !, do you have any links to places where people can buy weapons on line? (Story idea, people! Sorry -- no IRL bloody rampage planned.)
Like a variety of weapons, some with a high grade of iron or steel? Real weapons, not for show.
Also, any links to awesome krav explanation videos or sites? I'm doing research. Just getting ideas for future scenes in my research files.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2011 11:54:45 am PST #3756 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What sort of weapons? Bladed? Swords? Knives?
Couldn't tell you about krav explanations. We were always parsimonious with what we gave up for free, and I haven't looked around much recently--what I was aware of wasn't, you know, us.
Ginger - Dec 04, 2011 11:57:50 am PST #3757 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's Atlanta Cutlery [link] Erin. I was friends with the owner and the guy who started its related business, Museum Replicas [link] but they're both gone now. The company is run by the Indian company that initially made most of their knives, a company founded to supply kukris to the the Gurka.
Strix - Dec 04, 2011 12:01:31 pm PST #3758 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Blades of all stripes, blunt weapons, asps. Brass knuckles. Crossbows. Anything.
I'm looking, but there just so much out there.
How does one find/make boots where blades come out?
With the krav -- even vids where I can just look at the fighting style and try to envision how a scene would look in my head. I'm not trying to self-teach; I'm just trying to develop a fight scene that would flow logically, and krav seems to be particularly effective and nasty.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2011 12:03:13 pm PST #3759 of 30001
brillig
Darksword Armory [link]
They're designed for type of SCAers who take live steel out on the field, so they're designed to take and give some hits.
Ours (SCA) aren't sharpened, but they could be without a whole lot of trouble.
Edit: lust lust lust [link]
Strix - Dec 04, 2011 12:12:41 pm PST #3760 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ah, cool. See, I've found a couple of sites, but I don't know deco weapons from real weapons, so I'm trying to find good sites.
All sites that sell ninja costumes, I'm kind of discounting...
My sister's BF's husband is a state trooper, and I'm going to see if he would take me to the range for a lesson, if I buy the ammo and the practice time, or what have you.
And I just ordered a compound crossbow catalog. I kinda hope it comes on the same day as a fashion magazine or something...
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2011 12:14:52 pm PST #3761 of 30001
brillig
Learning to shoot was a boon to writing, feeling the recoil, hearing that really loud bang, seeing the lick of flame out of the barrel, smelling the smoke.
Plus it's cool to hit the target where you're aiming.
Strix - Dec 04, 2011 12:17:08 pm PST #3762 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've shot a .22 before, but that was a loooooong time ago, and I was only 9 or so.
The medieval repro weapons, would one just use a whetstone to put an edge on them? Or would one take it to a armoror? I was thinking a SCA toolmaker anyway, for the sake of the story.