As you say I had considered the use of a linstock. See here on the schematic, the flash pan. But there is an alternative. Here, let me draw it for you.
[She trades the plant of her hand on the margin notes for a shielding piece of scrap paper and, from some wholly illogical point in her pinned up hair, Wysteria draws a metal pen. Without first dipping it into anything, she begins to draw out a series of exceptionally rough shapes vaguely resembling a flintlock. Clearly she'd used a ruler for the schematic.]
It may be gilding the lily as it were, but there's something to be said for not having to run around with a burning stick or worry about the weather. You see, with this-- here, that would be a flint there in this little knobbly part-- you could attach a pull here, which would cause the flint to strike this bit here when the lever is released. Or, er-- I suppose if the cannon was small enough to be carried in the hand, you might simply attach a little toggle here to pull.
[Spirits, her father is feeling a pulse of mortification somewhere. A toggle, Wysteria? Really now.]
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[Well. Time to improvise.]
As you say I had considered the use of a linstock. See here on the schematic, the flash pan. But there is an alternative. Here, let me draw it for you.
[She trades the plant of her hand on the margin notes for a shielding piece of scrap paper and, from some wholly illogical point in her pinned up hair, Wysteria draws a metal pen. Without first dipping it into anything, she begins to draw out a series of exceptionally rough shapes vaguely resembling a flintlock. Clearly she'd used a ruler for the schematic.]
It may be gilding the lily as it were, but there's something to be said for not having to run around with a burning stick or worry about the weather. You see, with this-- here, that would be a flint there in this little knobbly part-- you could attach a pull here, which would cause the flint to strike this bit here when the lever is released. Or, er-- I suppose if the cannon was small enough to be carried in the hand, you might simply attach a little toggle here to pull.
[Spirits, her father is feeling a pulse of mortification somewhere. A toggle, Wysteria? Really now.]