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Rifled weaponry, as esoteric items, existed well before their introduction as specialised infantry firearms. For example, Prince Rupert (English Civil War) sported a pair of rifled pistols and used to show off by shooting weathervanes. Of course that degree of accuracy could have been due to his being a warlock, as evidenced by his familiar, the poodle called 'Boy' which accompanied him in battle.
 
Very interesting tidbits on guns. Thanks guys.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasyGunControl
Found this guy when trying to figure out if knights ever fought alongside guns. I didn't crosscheck all the information given, but I can at least hold my head up at the fact I wasn't too far off the mark with my idea. Not much reworking to do in order to make this completely believeable.
 
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Not the ones I've been in Hex, but they have been smaller. Anyone any experience with hanging around in larger cemeteries at night?
 
I've walked through one which had a couple of (dim) streetlights on the main path.

Plus of course there was the eerie green glow hanging over one of the graves ...
 
See, I'm not sure how attractive someone would look lit by an eerie green glow (I'm still searching for unusual sites of romantic possibility).

Dim streetlighting then, and nothing in the interesting ivy-shadowed bits. Blast. It's enough to make me turn all my characters into vampires (or make them carry torches, but that just seems a bit... boy scouty).

How small does a cemetery have to be, TTG, before you'll hang around in it at night?
 
* Wonders if the quality of the light is crucial to the... er... plot. *
 
Really, it's so they can see where to put their feet/ some of the details of the graves -- yes, orangey uplighting is better. Thanks, springs.
 
The one's I've seen and walked through only had the street corner lighting, lots of trees. So the interior was dark and secluded. Romantic if the person your with isnt superstitious.
I watched a vlog where they went to a movie in a graveyard (like a drive in with the big screen and all). There was lighting along the driveways, but i wouldn't imaging more then that.
 
Thanks :)

I think I might need to have a convenient lamp-post outside the graveyard that just happens to shine light over the wall in the right place. I was aiming for chilling-but-somehow-still-sexy but I suspect I may have hit american-high-school-vampire-romance instead.
 
Under bridges or over passes at night is dark and secluded. With the right person could be very romantic.

Most parks and cemeteries post that they are closed at dusk and tell you not to enter them. So I think their allure is the forbidden aspect, because if a cop happens by your going to get kicked out at the least and issued a trespassing citation (which can get pretty spendy) at most. So in that regard they are a low risk rule braking, with high pay off for the superstitious who can brag about their bravery in disporting on hallowed ground.
 
Have actually been at a site where they dug up some bones, in a churchyard doing some rennovations and discovered it was an old graveyard or unmarked burial site. Sorry, that's not at night nor forbidden, it was all legit, just came to mind as we were thinking about fearfulness and ssuperstition and how such a person might react to that!

As for at night, I found them good places to think and reflect (on life and death of course.) Meanwhile there was the "pirate's graveyard" I visited way over the beach when I was a kid out exploring. Very old graves, not really pirates of course, but worn old stones with skull and crossbones on them sure do fire the young imagination!
 
Question: Is 'candlelight' one word or two? I've got it as one, but spell check says no.

Same with 'tabletop,' although when I change this to 'table top' it green squiggly lines it and tells me to make it one word.
 
Which program do you use? My spell checker (MS Word 2003) thinks both candlelight and tabletop are OK (and so does my dictionary).
 
The free one. Is it OpenOffice?! I think that's it. The tabletop one is weird, cos it doesn't like it, but when I change it, it asks me to change it back! Then doesn't like it again.
 
My 1981 Concise OED has candle-light. (Most illuminating. ;)) Oh, and table-top.


(Word 2007 allows both candlelight and tabletop.)
 
I've gone for candlelight and tabletop. Weirdly the spell check here (I guess it's actually Firefox's spell check?) doesn't mind either of those words. Though it doesn't like Firefox. Ha.
 
Quick Fire question away!

I have run into a rather interesting issue with my novel. My main character, the one I decided long before I began the tale, has slowly become just another member of the group.

The plot kind of revolves around him in a sense, as the characters involved never would have come together if not for him. However, his involvement with most of what's been happening has fallen away.

Is this a common occurrence where you realize your main protagonist is no longer the focus any longer? Should this be remedied sooner than later?
 
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