01-30-2003, 04:30 PM
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Zartan 
Join Date: May 2, 2001
Location: Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum
Age: 44
Posts: 5,281
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern:
This reminds me of that Troll constable in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. His name escapes me at the moment unfortunately( Detritus?), but nevermind that, the reason I mentioned him is because he wields a crossbow. Not just any crossbow, but the crossbow, because you see, Troll ain't wimpy-sized in the Discworld. We are talking tree-trunk-sized bolts here. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] When the bolt is launched, it is propelled at super-sonic speeds, causing it to vapourise into a super-heated wood-chip cloud of doom. Targets aren't so much as impaled by the bolt, but incinerated and flayed alive. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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I believe Detritus used a complete ballista (!) to function as a crossbow... 
[ 01-30-2003, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]
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