On one hand, little happening here on the ground seems out of the ordinary to him aside from his own presence. On the other, the messages he's seen and received show that more is happening than can be seen on the ground if you don't know where to look, and that from that point of view, he may indeed be out of date.
It's important to learn these other ways, if he must be with these people for the time being, and anyway, weapons can be interesting for their own sake. So he listens intently to the description of the rifle, nodding where appropriate.]
I don't know meters, but a longbow can go as much as 400 yards if the archer is very good. Most archers aren't that good, and an arrow shot with an ordinary bow doesn't go as far, even if it's going where you want it to. But it sounds like your lead bullets go through a man in another way.
[He gives the leg a brief, slightly sympathetic glance. The description of the hook mechanism, though -- that reminds him of climbing the Wall.]
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On one hand, little happening here on the ground seems out of the ordinary to him aside from his own presence. On the other, the messages he's seen and received show that more is happening than can be seen on the ground if you don't know where to look, and that from that point of view, he may indeed be out of date.
It's important to learn these other ways, if he must be with these people for the time being, and anyway, weapons can be interesting for their own sake. So he listens intently to the description of the rifle, nodding where appropriate.]
I don't know meters, but a longbow can go as much as 400 yards if the archer is very good. Most archers aren't that good, and an arrow shot with an ordinary bow doesn't go as far, even if it's going where you want it to. But it sounds like your lead bullets go through a man in another way.
[He gives the leg a brief, slightly sympathetic glance. The description of the hook mechanism, though -- that reminds him of climbing the Wall.]
What were you fighting that you had to fly?