Sep. 29th, 2008

gurdymonkey: (high five)
In a skully, batty, spiderwebby kinda way.
gurdymonkey: (pretties)
OK, this makes up for the brain suckers, who, I admit, are just asking for help when I'm trying to take over the Known World in less than a week.

So here I am, writing up documentation for my "Ballistics" entry. I keep stumbling across internet sites which parrot each other over and over and over again, plus dead links to sites on this weapon that I remember as being really good.

The not-so-good sites contain the same two medieval drawings. One is supposedly Byzantine. The other is 13th century. Victory is achieved when I trace the 13th century drawing to the chronicler who drew it and the battle it depicts.

The parroting sites refer to a 4th century Roman military text which supposedly mentions my ballistic weapon. Lo and behold, I find a digital translation of the text in several sections - including long winded, eye-bleeder dedications to the Emperor. "Aha!" I think, "I shall CTRL+F!" I find not one but two references, including a description of the weapon being deployed against elephants!!!!!!!!!

How cool is that? 

Still dithering over whether to do a throwaway instrumental on hurdy gurdy - because I can and it'll even be 14th century even though they dropped THAT requirement, or make brains go splodey with taiko....


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