So, what is she doing? · 10:20pm Mar 20th, 2017
In a rather unexpected move, Vinyl went into the wreck. Tarnish followed, worried, with Rainbow Dash and Daring Do moving to catch up. There was a puddle of frozen blood on the floor, which belonged to Daring Do. She looked down at it as she stepped over it, and then lifted her head to stare at Tarnish.
Vinyl moved through the smashed wreckage, the rear end of the ship was in bad shape, and when she came to a barrier, she yanked it out of the way with her magic. It wasn’t long before the companions found themselves in the remains of the engine room, and Tarnish wondered what they were doing here.
Coming to a halt, Vinyl paused among the many brass pipes and began looking around. Tarnish, also looking around, began to wonder if the precious metal from these wrecks was being reclaimed by the automaton scrappers. He didn’t know why Vinyl was here, and she hadn’t bothered explaining herself, a common problem with the fickle, eccentric mare.
Then, Vinyl began pulling off bits of the piping system, causing Rainbow and Daring to exchange a glance with one another. Tarnish suspected that Vinyl was being brilliant, something she was prone to doing. He had a very general idea of some of the stuff she was grabbing, as he had learned a bit about engines since becoming an adventurer.
A pressure regulator, an overflow tank, a release valve, a pressure indicator gage, and several other gleaming brass bits were all pulled, leaving Tarnish quite puzzled. Was Vinyl rigging up a steam organ for some music? A calliope? Just what did Princess Celestia teach in her school for gifted unicorns, anyhow?
“Why do I get the feeling that something incredibly dangerous is about to happen?” Rainbow Dash asked in a hushed whisper, fearful of interrupting Vinyl’s concentration. “That’s a weather factory grade overflow tank rated for three thousand pounds per square inch pressures.”
“Maybe it’s the same reason I keep thinking that every unicorn that Princess Celestia graduates from her school is a living, breathing weapon of war?” Tarnish replied.
Rainbow, nodding, had this to say: “Hmm, that explains a lot about Twilight…”
Begin your speculation now!
Flammenwerfer. She wants to werf some flammen.
This is just me: Vinyl is probably an advanced student of Celestia's, and she's going to MacGuyver some superweapon with junk.
An air canon would be one possibility though not sure how they'd pressurize the tank. Something with teh potential to be just as dangerous a canon powered by black powder
Perhaps she knows a recipe that'll make the emergency rations palatable, but it requires a pressure cooker?
A steam engine for the sleigh, perhaps? For mobility?
It's obviously gonna be a Dwarven Organ Gun.
IT'S A HINT!
They gonna reprogram an automaton like a T101, and steampunk enhance it. (man these drugs are good...wheeee)
4464984 though for some reason as we've seen she hasn't had a lot of luck weaponizing music tough she;s tried a number of times. How many at this point who knows
4464983 interesting had to google it to make sure I understood you since German isn't a language I speak. Brass isn't the greatest metal for a barrel though. Could say the same about a air canon alot depends on how thick the brass is.
Not sure Tarnished is wrong but then again since he found his talent one could argue he is a walking weapon
4464999 That's Flammenwerfer the author. And he's changed his avatar again!
I for one, wouldn't mind a bass cannon.
4465018 Its also German for flame thrower
My idea is what two others have said, some kind of compressed air cannon of some sort or she may try making the sledge into a snowmobile to get them around quicker, making traveling easier than having Dash and Daring pull it around.
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She could probably rig a pressure valve somewhere to go "WUBWUBWUB" when she fires whatever we end up with.
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4465047 I know but that's who he got that idea from, Terrycloth comments on flams stories a fair bit too.
4465061 Ooh like the snowmobile idea, but she'll need some sort of small piston or rotary motor for that. That would be the hard part of that conversion. Not sure if something like that will be on an airship that will take sustained hard yakka.
4465091 Nah, it was from a meme. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-a-flammenwerfer-it-werfs-flammen
I think I first saw it on the MWO forums.
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4465100 No worries considering where we are and his inclusion in HiE's banners I thought you meant him.
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