I love this: my favorite steampunk mistress has created a dueling system with pistols from the Burr-Hamilton era of dispute resolution, and scripted a kind of virtual second, to prevent cheating. As she states:
These pistols are designed in a manner such that their activities are easily documented. One can only load them with bullets by touching a specific ammunition box, and every bullet loaded causes the pistol to say on a public channel that it has been loaded, and with however many bullets. Thus, one can always be sure that one's opponent is keeping to the correct rules.
Walker Spaight gets the hat tip for offering his thoughts on the prospect of Ordinal Malaprop's system becoming a widely accepted form of score settling in-world-- and for the accompanying "I'm going to bust a cap in thine arse forthwith" pose.
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