Elvin Cross
Dreamer
Hello,I just registered and just wanted to ask because I'm no survivalist.
Yes,I think there was that one other thread but it was more like how to survive trough the cliches of high fantasy.
I'm writing a story mainly set in the victorian era.Gunpowder was never a thing because they discovered high explosives first,so they typically set hidden minefields to counter enemy cavalry and the like and just fling them over walls to siege.Oh btw,there is that one OP race that just stays hidden from the affairs of the world,but that's another matter.
The level in magic in this world depends really on how much you understand the world(physics).But the principle is that your using a special language understood by the spirits and just tell them what to do.Runes and magic circles are like letters and pictures to a spirit,and do what is instructed.More complex magic needs more complex instructions for the spirit to understand,so you just can't say,"set off a nuclear explosion".You need full understanding of the laws of how it does that,or else it will be a waste of mana.
Enough with my crude magic theory
So there is set of characters are from another world and they're professionals of what they do.And story behind why they got into this fantasy world is that they were meant to explore this world in the first place.Basically where they came from is a world of sufficient technology to invent a stargate.They do have a prepared self sufficient base with robots and guns for research and protection. But,the connection of two worlds was cut off mysteriously somewhere after they arrived,and now they have to stay incognito and careful not to waste bullets as there are no more supplies coming from earth.
But this isn't sci-fi,yet.The main character is actually a young elf who bumped into them and got lucky she met their good side and got off with a decade worth of formal education and she applies that to magic.
Anyways,back to the pioneers,how would a railgun fair being matched against a flying lizard the size of a biplane.How do you stay incognito while they travel in very suspicious carbon based nano tube armor.Where do they look/buy materials that could be useful to them.How would they learn the foreign language(there is already an answer, just giving an example). Things that ask those kinds of questions.
Yes,I think there was that one other thread but it was more like how to survive trough the cliches of high fantasy.
I'm writing a story mainly set in the victorian era.Gunpowder was never a thing because they discovered high explosives first,so they typically set hidden minefields to counter enemy cavalry and the like and just fling them over walls to siege.Oh btw,there is that one OP race that just stays hidden from the affairs of the world,but that's another matter.
The level in magic in this world depends really on how much you understand the world(physics).But the principle is that your using a special language understood by the spirits and just tell them what to do.Runes and magic circles are like letters and pictures to a spirit,and do what is instructed.More complex magic needs more complex instructions for the spirit to understand,so you just can't say,"set off a nuclear explosion".You need full understanding of the laws of how it does that,or else it will be a waste of mana.
Enough with my crude magic theory
So there is set of characters are from another world and they're professionals of what they do.And story behind why they got into this fantasy world is that they were meant to explore this world in the first place.Basically where they came from is a world of sufficient technology to invent a stargate.They do have a prepared self sufficient base with robots and guns for research and protection. But,the connection of two worlds was cut off mysteriously somewhere after they arrived,and now they have to stay incognito and careful not to waste bullets as there are no more supplies coming from earth.
But this isn't sci-fi,yet.The main character is actually a young elf who bumped into them and got lucky she met their good side and got off with a decade worth of formal education and she applies that to magic.
Anyways,back to the pioneers,how would a railgun fair being matched against a flying lizard the size of a biplane.How do you stay incognito while they travel in very suspicious carbon based nano tube armor.Where do they look/buy materials that could be useful to them.How would they learn the foreign language(there is already an answer, just giving an example). Things that ask those kinds of questions.