It's a bit difficult to explain. It's— drawings would be better. I could explain what I'm after for the materials, maybe, but it'd be more useful if you could see how it's meant to fit together.
Yes, good, drawings, notes, lists--whatever it is that you need, and however you manage to get your ideas down! We will complete this together so that we might be working practically more quickly.
Great, yeah. I'll get some notes together, just keep an eye on your book.
[ val about to discover how incredibly bad at drawing this engineer is when he can't use a computer program to cheat his way through it, rip ]
In the meantime, any research you've got on metals'd be helpful. Strength, flexibility, weight. Or anything else you've done with siege engines and springs, honestly. We'll be working with all the same principles.
Yes, yes-- [Cheerfully making notes on all of that--] There is a great deal on metal that I have researched and can provide readily. I apprenticed with a blacksmith for a time when I was younger--the work was not for me, of course, but to learn the process, its intricacies and the heating and shaping of metals--theoretical work is very fine, but I much prefer to work within the space physical. And springs. A fine thought.
Naturally I cannot take the time to transcribe these into the book for you, but I can provide folios and books for you to look through. I shall mark the necessary and pertinent passages and we can discuss once you have grasped their contents. Of course you will do very well.
The eleventh hour. That is breakfast. We will take it in one of the work rooms, of course, we cannot have such a discussion in the main hall. And be overheard? No. I will see that a champion's meal is laid for us so that we might work straight through.
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(They won't break anything in Thedas if they introduce them to digital clocks, will they?? But also, a little suspicious in not a bad way—) ]
Nothing. Why?
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Because we must make a start on this straightaway! You will tell me everything you know of making such weaponry smaller, and that will let us begin.
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[ val about to discover how incredibly bad at drawing this engineer is when he can't use a computer program to cheat his way through it, rip ]
In the meantime, any research you've got on metals'd be helpful. Strength, flexibility, weight. Or anything else you've done with siege engines and springs, honestly. We'll be working with all the same principles.
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Yes, yes-- [Cheerfully making notes on all of that--] There is a great deal on metal that I have researched and can provide readily. I apprenticed with a blacksmith for a time when I was younger--the work was not for me, of course, but to learn the process, its intricacies and the heating and shaping of metals--theoretical work is very fine, but I much prefer to work within the space physical. And springs. A fine thought.
Naturally I cannot take the time to transcribe these into the book for you, but I can provide folios and books for you to look through. I shall mark the necessary and pertinent passages and we can discuss once you have grasped their contents. Of course you will do very well.
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That's great, thanks. Should I come to you, or— tomorrow, I mean, after we've got everything together. Have you got anything on for breakfast?
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The eleventh hour. That is breakfast. We will take it in one of the work rooms, of course, we cannot have such a discussion in the main hall. And be overheard? No. I will see that a champion's meal is laid for us so that we might work straight through.
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but also, ]
Eleven AM? [ do they have AM?? ] In the morning.
[ that's brunch. ]
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Is there another?