If the mummy guy represents Brian’s fear of death? What does Daxxorel represents: fear of Vore?
I’m assuming that the antagonist is also the creation of the DM… but I’m open to someone claiming exactly the opposite, i.e. that the DM and maybe even Brian himself are creations of Daxxorel, who knows!
Anyway now it does feel like the story is finally coming to a conclusion (or two or three parallel conclusions) but we’re clearly almost there.
Kinda looks like the trigger has already been pulled back, shouldn’t there be a little more gap between the trigger and the handle?
Not talking about the hammer being cocked
Wormius is from Texas: he should know about weapons. It’s probably one of those things that middle aged ladies carry in their bags or under the car’s seat. In Europe that would be pepper spray but this is Kansas, Dorothy.
From a previous comic, we know this is a .357 and the barrel seems to be around 3 inches (apologies for using such measurement, but it’s easier to measure against his thumb, which is what an inch originally was, than trying to guess REAL units. I promise I won’t be measuring their height in toises). A 3-inch .356 is more powerful than an old lady’s bag gun. FAR more powerful.
I see you’re from Texas too, or at least from Kansas, or maybe Oklahoma, Montana or Alabama… one of those gun-toting countries from the Middle West.
Inches are fine: they’re international standard for bolts, nuts and pipes (and a barrel probably counts as a pipe of sorts: it has power, not like Capitalism, which is only a paper tiger allegedly). Not that I know what an inch really is (3.something in cm?) but it’s more familiar than cups, stones and ounces. Every time I buy a coffee machine they say: it has X cups and I’m like: how many mugs?, can you translate that to mililiters, I want one c. 250 ml, which is roughly what fits in my coffee mug, which is orange and old enough to have many cracks but holds together mysteriously.
Can you really cause much damage with something with such a short barrel? Looks like almost a toy to me but I reckon I know almost nothing about revolvers and I’ll guess that the barrel may be more important for accuracy at long distances and that it doesn’t really matter at point blank, right?
Anyway, Erana, feel free to commit sudoku (sic), especially if you are into math puzzles. ;p
If that revolver is like 99% of modern ones, cooked hammer means he’s ready to fire the first shoot single-action, faster and more accurately that the follow-up shots that will be double-action.
The two are intricately linked: the position of the hammer explains the position of the trigger. With the hammer forward, the trigger will be much farther forward too. Pulling back the trigger first pulls back the hammer and then releases it forward again when the trigger is all the way back. This is the double action to which erana referred, and it requires a significant amount of squeezing force and trigger movement to execute. All that movement takes longer and makes it more likely for the aim to shift slightly off target.
Alternatively, the hammer can be pulled back and latched in the fully cocked and ready to fire position. Pulling back the hammer also pulls the trigger most of the way back, just like we see in the comic. Only a slight additional squeeze on the trigger is needed to pull it the rest of the way back, releasing the hammer. This is the single action to which erana referred, and the smaller movement to execute means the first shot can be fired more quickly and with more accurate aim.
Daxxorel?
If the mummy guy represents Brian’s fear of death? What does Daxxorel represents: fear of Vore?
I’m assuming that the antagonist is also the creation of the DM… but I’m open to someone claiming exactly the opposite, i.e. that the DM and maybe even Brian himself are creations of Daxxorel, who knows!
Anyway now it does feel like the story is finally coming to a conclusion (or two or three parallel conclusions) but we’re clearly almost there.
He at least knows not to teacup
Two…
Hrm. That bodes… something.
Kinda looks like the trigger has already been pulled back, shouldn’t there be a little more gap between the trigger and the handle?
Not talking about the hammer being cocked
Wormius is from Texas: he should know about weapons. It’s probably one of those things that middle aged ladies carry in their bags or under the car’s seat. In Europe that would be pepper spray but this is Kansas, Dorothy.
From a previous comic, we know this is a .357 and the barrel seems to be around 3 inches (apologies for using such measurement, but it’s easier to measure against his thumb, which is what an inch originally was, than trying to guess REAL units. I promise I won’t be measuring their height in toises). A 3-inch .356 is more powerful than an old lady’s bag gun. FAR more powerful.
sorry, 3-inch .357. Commiting sudoku in pennance.
I see you’re from Texas too, or at least from Kansas, or maybe Oklahoma, Montana or Alabama… one of those gun-toting countries from the Middle West.
Inches are fine: they’re international standard for bolts, nuts and pipes (and a barrel probably counts as a pipe of sorts: it has power, not like Capitalism, which is only a paper tiger allegedly). Not that I know what an inch really is (3.something in cm?) but it’s more familiar than cups, stones and ounces. Every time I buy a coffee machine they say: it has X cups and I’m like: how many mugs?, can you translate that to mililiters, I want one c. 250 ml, which is roughly what fits in my coffee mug, which is orange and old enough to have many cracks but holds together mysteriously.
Can you really cause much damage with something with such a short barrel? Looks like almost a toy to me but I reckon I know almost nothing about revolvers and I’ll guess that the barrel may be more important for accuracy at long distances and that it doesn’t really matter at point blank, right?
Anyway, Erana, feel free to commit sudoku (sic), especially if you are into math puzzles. ;p
If that revolver is like 99% of modern ones, cooked hammer means he’s ready to fire the first shoot single-action, faster and more accurately that the follow-up shots that will be double-action.
Was referring to the trigger, not the hammer
The two are intricately linked: the position of the hammer explains the position of the trigger. With the hammer forward, the trigger will be much farther forward too. Pulling back the trigger first pulls back the hammer and then releases it forward again when the trigger is all the way back. This is the double action to which erana referred, and it requires a significant amount of squeezing force and trigger movement to execute. All that movement takes longer and makes it more likely for the aim to shift slightly off target.
Alternatively, the hammer can be pulled back and latched in the fully cocked and ready to fire position. Pulling back the hammer also pulls the trigger most of the way back, just like we see in the comic. Only a slight additional squeeze on the trigger is needed to pull it the rest of the way back, releasing the hammer. This is the single action to which erana referred, and the smaller movement to execute means the first shot can be fired more quickly and with more accurate aim.