Ow.

[helborn]

[Casper sounds... irritated, which is somewhat unusual for him.]

Okay. Ugh. I give up. I'm tired of this. Is there a way to shoot a bow and arrow and not hit yourself in the face? There's gotta be, I see it on TV all the time.

... Maybe I'm just dumb, I don't know.

Comments

[helborn]

I could make an ice helmet, yeah.

Also I'm not shooting it backwards, the force that I need to use to pull the string gets released and the thing smacks back into a less curved shape, and so I keep flinching and moving it by accident so when it snaps back it ends up near my face.

... Realistically it shouldn't bend or be able to be used as a bow at all, but it's magic so who the hell knows.

[breakaleginhalf]

Are you using like, an ice bow too?

...wait is it your fucking baseball bat?

[helborn]

It's an ice bow, yes. And no, it's not my bat, though I still have to channel my frost abilities through the bat to make the bow.

... I can make some other stuff too, but I figured that I should actually... you know. Have some sort of long range option for attacking.

[breakaleginhalf]

I figure you should probably make a proper bow and learn how that works before you go fucking around with magic ones. Just IMO.

[dw casper he thinks this is great]

[helborn]

I mean probably but I was just thinking of a bow and messing around with ice and suddenly I had an ice bow. Like I didn't even shape it, it kind of shaped itself. ... Which doesn't mean that the ice is sentient, it's just... hard to explain.

Anyway I thought of getting an actual bow but I don't know what the... I've never held an actual bow so I didn't know how much give you needed to make a bow... bow? The non-string part. And also I was afraid I'd break it. Which I mean yeah, just get a new one, but...

[tl;dr he overthought it. Must be a day ending in y.]

[breakaleginhalf]

Dude? Chill. [yes he actually said it]

There's probably a shitload of them in the workshop, right? Doesn't it have a little archery range or some shit? Grab one of those and get a feel for it. Or make a copy or something.

[helborn]

... I haven't actually been in any parts of the workshop other than the library in a long time.

[breakaleginhalf]

Well, there's step one.

[helborn]

[But books.]

Is step two 'continue to be hit by the bowstring' because that's also probably going to happen.

[breakaleginhalf]

We'll work on what step two's supposed to be.