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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:58 pm
Vahn Kyonuske Chairman Josh, wake up already damnish. -pokes with gavel- *Rolls over and drools on the table.* ...'st a few more minutes to clear my head... Zzzz...
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:26 pm
*Silver's head explodes due to Jello's constant outfit changes*
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:31 am
still alive, just busy, busy...
@Kraun (shuriken): other way around actually, Shuriken are small throwing darts, or blades used primarily as a ranged incapactiating weapon instead of a directly lethal weapon. Hira Shuriken or more correctly Shaken is the correct name for thorwing stars in Japanese terminology. Lo Han Ts'in is the Chinese term for 'throwing coins' as its called which did orignally consist of useing large brass coins and most likely inspired the Hishi-gane which is one of the precursers to Japanese throwing stars.
@Kraun & Vahn (Katar): A katar is a punch dagger, and has nothing to do with claws, as that falls under a completely different weapon. Katar Punch daggers have a broad double edged blade that is held by two bars set perpendicular to the blade, with suppoerting 'tangs' running on either side of the forearm. Though it could be used for slashing (rarely) its primary purpose was to defeat the high quality chainmail being produced by local crucible forgeing practices in india (the practice that was later to gain fame as true damascus or Wootz steel) The katar listed in vahns write up is known as a scisors katar and was designed as a parrying weapon. A bifid bladed verson of a traditional Katar was another such parrying variation that was almost useless as an offensive weapon but carried a psychological effect. It was also known that some times Katars had three blades (primary plus two fixed side blades that could be up to a foot long 0_0) as well as three bladed scissors katars, which would have been a frightening weapon indeed...
and thats all I noticed in my sleepy state...
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:41 am
Oh oh oh. I did researches on katars a long time ago for a D&D thang.
Aaaaand Jay's got it right on the most part. The weapon would be pretty useless used as a slashing thing anyway. You'd end up spraining your wrist against a tougher armor anyway.
Though I did notice that katars were very rarely used as a weapon. Most of them were only decorative, especially the scissor ones.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:46 am
fastforward Oh oh oh. I did researches on katars a long time ago for a D&D thang.
Aaaaand Jay's got it right on the most part. The weapon would be pretty useless used as a slashing thing anyway. You'd end up spraining your wrist against a tougher armor anyway.
Though I did notice that katars were very rarely used as a weapon. Most of them were only decorative, especially the scissor ones. Thats what they used to say about pata's (a form of highly decorative guantlet swords) but thats applying western logic to an indian subcontinent culture.. decorative =/= less martial purpose in that culture.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:05 am
Jason A. Delacroix Thats what they used to say about pata's (a form of highly decorative guantlet swords) but thats applying western logic to an indian subcontinent culture.. decorative =/= less martial purpose in that culture.
But you might be right. In any case, it's not because it was used as decoration or not that it's not practical, non?
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:29 pm
It can still cut your balls off, so watch out.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:25 pm
Assuming you have them anyways...
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:27 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:31 pm
Can someone vouge for you?
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:33 pm
Silver Moonblade Can someone vouge for you? Vouch I believe is the word your looking for, and the hell does this have to do with the convo...?
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:36 pm
It's better than talkign about the nuclear guitar that just took out the stadium and killed all of us apparently.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:40 pm
I'll take care of that, if Jay will back me up on munitions...
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:48 pm
Vahn Kyonuske It's better than talkign about the nuclear guitar that just took out the stadium and killed all of us apparently. Yeah. That is kinda retarded. I'd like to try my hand at stopping it if you don't delete it...
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:00 pm
Can people please stop making those one on one fight threads? Its just kinda annoying...
Main stadium thread is not used that often anyways, so its not that hard to find your pots in. And the tree of Life is for all fights that occur out of the current storyline.
How hard is it to go by those concepts? Seriously...
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