No, it's doing great - better than in a long time, really, you did a fine job with it.
[He sets down his massive hammerspace backpack and starts taking out a number of books, placing them on the nearest flat surface (which is probably the anvil, sorry Darin).]
I got myself knighted the other week! So now I need to improve my gear and everything. Muramasha's a good sword, but I think I should upscale to a two-hander! I mean, this is England, right? Kind of. In any case it's Europe, or a Europe. I represent the king now, so I want to do this properly!
[Never mind that the geography (presumably) doesn't mean anything to Darin! Hijikata opens a book on a page with an illustration of an armoured knight holding a large zweihänder sword, then a notebook with countless little colourful sticky notes sticking out of it, flipping through the pages a little until he finds what he's looking for in that one too.]
Okay, so can you make it like in this book illustration, but with fixtures for mayonnaise bottles at the rainguard? The bottles will make up the crossguard! Like so.
[He taps the honestly rather poorly drawn picture in the notebook showing a close-up of the construction he cooked up in his head. With the fixtures keeping the mayonnaise bottles in place horizontally it looks neat, if cartoonish on paper, but anyone with a single brain cell should be able to imagine the mess that would result on first impact...]
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[He sets down his massive hammerspace backpack and starts taking out a number of books, placing them on the nearest flat surface (which is probably the anvil, sorry Darin).]
I got myself knighted the other week! So now I need to improve my gear and everything. Muramasha's a good sword, but I think I should upscale to a two-hander! I mean, this is England, right? Kind of. In any case it's Europe, or a Europe. I represent the king now, so I want to do this properly!
[Never mind that the geography (presumably) doesn't mean anything to Darin! Hijikata opens a book on a page with an illustration of an armoured knight holding a large zweihänder sword, then a notebook with countless little colourful sticky notes sticking out of it, flipping through the pages a little until he finds what he's looking for in that one too.]
Okay, so can you make it like in this book illustration, but with fixtures for mayonnaise bottles at the rainguard? The bottles will make up the crossguard! Like so.
[He taps the honestly rather poorly drawn picture in the notebook showing a close-up of the construction he cooked up in his head. With the fixtures keeping the mayonnaise bottles in place horizontally it looks neat, if cartoonish on paper, but anyone with a single brain cell should be able to imagine the mess that would result on first impact...]