Her pocket?

That doesn't make me feel better!

Don't tell me Astra left her dried mice at home. Oh, dear.

Maybe someone will share!

It's standard army provisions ... MRE ... Mice - Ready - to - Eat.

Caught and desiccated 'em myself.

They're good with a dab of wasabi and soy.

The clawfoots must have rations, and I don't think these critters live on oats and birdseed.

These absent details always drive me nuts in novels. Hero travels eleventy-hundred miles, never eats or feeds his mount or stops for gas if driving. Kidnap victim locked in room for days, never ever pees. Post-apoc. novels are the worst, especially the 'years of domestic conflict' kind, where they drive around the landscape shooting things continually and never seem to need fuel. Or it's ten years after and they are still finding gasoline, which hey, degrades pretty fast within a couple years unless treated with not easily obtained chemical additives. Or poof they are using grain alcohol fuel - do you have any idea how much grain is needed to make a gallon of alcohol fuel? A lot. I looked it up for my mindromp novels. It's easy to make, but first you have to have vast fields dedicated to fuel production when you're struggling to produce enough food to last your family over the winter.

me too!

me: teshi
i have an important question for you as an alaskan
google has failed me
you will probably need to ask someone who hunts lol
you know people like that, right?

teshi: lol I do, yes
what is the question?

me: say, half a dozen reindeer hides, treated but with the hair or fur or whatever left on
i need an approximate weight and volume, folded or rolled
volume's more important; could one person carry this in a pack without it being ridiculous?
i *think* the weight is fine, from my research
reindeer/caribou
also, the reason lillian chapters don't flow easily is all the THREE HOUR RESEARCH BREAKS

Hahaha! I know all about it. Especially for the first DASN novel I spent probably months of time researching the most mundane things because I couldn't stand just making shit up, which is ridiculous considering everything else required great thumping loads of suspension of disbelief on the part of any readers.

I had long PM discussions with various people about gasoline, weapons, various kinds of vehicles, and researched farm production rates, seed viability over years, orchard maturing time, horse gestation periods, breeds of sheep and cattle, horse travel time on trails and roads, sailing ship speeds and so on.

Second one was a bit easier because I had established so much already.

I knew how much caribou hides weigh, btw.  lol

Of course you did.

I love the visuals martin, chaos and teshi have set up in the game thread now.

Dyin'. I'm surprised Teshi didn't make the target a Halfling complete with furry bare feet and a bag of leaf.

I am, in fact, currently working on a Quota Fulfillment Report IRL  o.O

Gotta run to get the kiddos from school.  BRB.

Chaos who knew you were such a sultry little pink haired temptress. 

I asked for silk underwear from Teshi as part of my starting equipment.

[Moist is a horrible word, no matter the language it's thought it.  It's a horribler feeling for poor Pepper.]

It's a tinny word.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupg

Is the old guy at the outpost a corporal or a colonel?

Corporal.  Think it may have been a typo by teshi, her last post.

Twice. So I started to wonder which way autocorrect went wrong.

Martin any suggestions on the line of inquery with this private?

Fixed!

I've spent 8 hours in the car today.  I like driving but ....