[Video] - We're talking about THIS thing that happened and NOTHING ELSE

[jonesiseverywhere]

Dudes! Check it out! I got sent home for a while and got a totally freakin' metal new mask! Literally!

[He flips down his new steel mask and models it.] Made it myself! Whaddya think? I think it's the coolest skull mask around myself.

[PRIVATE TO JUNKRAT, a little while after the first post.]

Hey, uh, listen dude. I wanted to say...I'm sorry for what happened when we first met. Guess I got a little trigger happy, huh?

Comments

[jonesiseverywhere]

Training hard in banging on metal?

[wherenoonegoes]

Several years of learning how to make properly balanced weapons that can hold an edge and won't shatter on impact. Try to make a sword without all that training, and all you're going to get is a sword-shaped piece of scrap metal that won't last two seconds against a properly forged sword.

[legionnpcs]

Unless you use a plasma cutter and a sheet of good metal. Sharpen the edges, add a grip, and there you have it.

[wherenoonegoes]

Like I said, it needs to be something that will hold up against a properly made sword. That won't, unless you're incredibly good or incredibly lucky. Even then, odds are you'd still get a limb cut off.

[legionnpcs]

Are you comparing that to the historical blades used by the Vikings of your era? Because, and I don't mean any offense, but metallurgy has improved a thousandfold since your heyday.

Give me a sheet of promethium, a laser cutter for the edges, maybe a liquid diamond coating, and most antique forged swords would peel back like butter.

[wherenoonegoes]

I mean a well made sword would do better in a fight than a piece of sharpened piece of sheet metal bolted to a stick made of the same material.

And thank you so much for assuming I don't know anything about modern metallurgy despite how many months I've been here and the fact that knowledge of it is directly relevant to my power.

[legionnpcs]

And I'm saying that, depending on the materials, even the sharpened sheet metal will do a better job.

You've been here for a little over six months. You come from a time before humanity invented machined metals and materials. While you may have learned a few bits of trivia, it's very reasonable to assume that you haven't caught up to the two thousand years of progress.

[jonesiseverywhere]

Dudes, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Sword-making contest!

[legionnpcs]

Wouldn't be fair to him. He's only had about twenty or thirty years of experience, even with today's knowledge at his fingertips. I'm much younger, but I also have the engineering and metallurgy knowledge of entire cultures in my databanks.

To put it into scale for you, it would be like putting someone who's spent a few weeks at culinary school against Gordon Ramsay.

Even if I only poured a sheet of metal, cut it out, and sharpened it, the mixes and tricks I know would be far beyond what he's learned about so far. If I went serious, well. I'd hate to embarrass a senior Legionnaire.