Leaves and Twigs

I have been spending far too much time twittering and tumbling like some sort of circus chicken recently, and also far too much time engaged in Aethernet-Related Projects; thus it is my determination to concentrate myself on at least the semblance of performing Work On The Grid.

Let us begin with a forthcoming product, the Ordinal Pepperbox. This is, oddly enough, not actually a device for dispensing pepper, though one may be included in the package to pacify any disgruntled chefs; it is a firearm of a design some might consider antiquated, but let me reassure the prospective purchaser that modern engineering techniques ensure that it is only a little inaccurate and only misfires, say, once every ten shots, which I’m sure you will agree is an excellent safety record.

The Pepperbox is muzzle-loading and may be charged with ordinary ball ammunition, bullets with a core of Heinkel Phosphorus (a rare element which burns most fiercely and also causes an immense repulsion from the ground) and also my newest Ruby Bullets (patent pending) which, when hitting a ne’er-do-well upon a plot over which the firer has control, remind them most immediately and directly that there is No Place Like Home. Of course, all of these things are only to be used appropriately, as with all of my creations.

In addition to this one might expect the usual nonsense with custom animations, the drawing and hiding of the pistol, particle effects, revolving barrels, all that rubbish. Please note that it is not quite available yet, as I have been recently kept from my efforts by Circumstances beyond my Control, but may be tomorrow.

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Other devices which I have spent considerable lengths of time on and yet failed to actually release at all include the Ordinal Galvanic Swordstick, a concealed weapon brimming with Electrical Power which also includes a convenient lightbulb for occasions when one simply cannot manage to get the dratted key into the door, sundry Air Vehicles such as the as-yet-unnamed elephant-spider-kettle-thing appearing in my Aethernetical Album, and also a drawable and hosterable version of the venerable Webley .455 revolver.

(Addendum: another of my flying devices has appeared in an excellent series of pictures - mine is the bulbous thing with doors, rather than the elegant ornithopter.)

I must admit that it has been my failure to actually make a satisfactory holster for the Webley which has kept me from releasing the drawable version, as it has been ready apart from that for a while now, but being aware that I am vain and picky and altogether pathetic when it comes to these things, I have resolved to make it available simply with the pistol itself appearing at one’s belt, and then after that perhaps I can make one with Sculpted Clay and send it out.

Oh yes, and that reminds me; I have resolved to add a “Registration” function to these new devices, allowing one to opt into having one’s details recorded by myself and, through that, having all further versions of a product (whether created for reasons of Improvement or Repair) sent out automatically.

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And as a final note, I am also working on a small sign to be held up at opportune moments when the arrival of Otherworldly Voices comes about - let us not forget that this is only a week or so away.

I am sure as it happens that I also have a million other things that I should be finishing up and packaging off, but I see that I have finally been able to enter Caledon, and would thus bid you toodle-pip.

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(A further addendum: I failed to make it explicit that I have been adding entries to a “sub-journal”, Ordinal’s Cabinet Of Ephemera, wherein I am storing small things which have caught my eye and brief notes on that upon which I am working. I hope that this will reduce the need for lengthy posts such as these in future.)