ooc: I agree. You wouldn't be able to build a long tom. You wouldn't even understand rifling. Let alone basic gun making. It would more than likely blow up in your face like anything Wily coyote makes.

A hand landed on Vace's shoulder.

"What did you just say about dumb moments?" Ark was standing behind him. Granted with his arm in a sling, he was limping, and was decidedly pale, but he was coherent and moving.

He plopped down and said, "I got about two hours until they want me back. I've almost cut an artery, broken five ribs, my collarbone, barely missed a tendon and hit a nerve center, and wedged about 50 chain-mail rungs into various parts of my tors. Mages need a break before they try to straighten me out."

He leaned back and grinned. "So, what did I miss?"

"Hey, good to see someone is back up and among the living. Have a seat and eat something, they have some good food here. All you missed is Tama and I regaling the princess with the stearling feats of daring you commited... right before battle, and then you charged that line of pikemen and looked like you were about to be made into a large pincushion last I saw you at the battle. Actually, we are discussing strategy away from Lynx and Gin who are making a racket so loud, if you listen closely, you can almsot hear them from here."

(OOC: They did talk with the officials, but they need input from the ones who stayed behind, so everyone can talk together about it.)

Cesia took the roll from Tamakatari and took a bite, but she didn't have much of an appetite. She noticed that lately, she hasn't been able to sleep or eat. It was probably just worrying about everything that caused it.

Just about that time, she saw Ark arrive, "Ark! It's good to see that you're upright. You should have been more careful, you're lucky that you're still alive. You should get some food too. They have anything you could want here." Then she proceeded to tell him and the others what has been going on in Aviona.

"Dawn, Lynx, and I have been busy rounding up Avionan soldiers to help fight. We should pose a formitable threat to Cid and his army, but I'm not sure if we can beat him... We have to choose carefully about how we confront him." She paused for a second, "We haven't chosen exactly how we are going to attack him the next time, but we have decided that we want to be on the offensive this time. We'll need the upperhand in this next battle to win this war."

"we need to surprise him."

Lynx had followed everyone, and was getting some food. He had only recently gotten human taste buds, and he was enjoying them very much.

Ark snatched up another roll, and devoured it.

"Careful? Hey, I was just buying you guys time. If you had done a bit more running, and a bit less massacering..." He snickered.

"Guess I can't be too hard on myself. Well, I can. I led 250 of them out, and 230 of them went to their deaths." Ark's face dropped somewhat.

"I think I know what the upperhand is. For all it's size, Cid's army has one giant weakness I found. It can't reshape and reshuffle troops fast enough, so hitting with lightning attacks confuse them, and take a chunk out. Worked great with horses, but if we could do it with Wyverns..."

(OOC: And who said it had to be a gun. They did have catapults back then, remember? He could make a big catapult. There's lots of stuff he could do.)

Tamakatari put some of his steak and eggs on his toast and made a sandwich.

"Well, whatever we do, I want to be in the fray. I have the strong urge to kill some people, seeing as how I had a large lack of it in the last fight. All I did was blow up their camp."

ooc: Explaining the physics of why that wouldn't work would take to long. All I'll say is this. Notice how people stopped using catapults and trebuchets after the invention of the cannon. There is a reason for that. The reason being a cannon could out range a traditional seige weapon by quite alot, and do more damage.

(OOC: Then it doesn't have to be a catapult. I don't think you guys are completely understanding this. My guy can make ANY weapon. Hence, he can make weapons that haven't even been invented yet. I'm not saying he WILL make an ultimate weapon, just that he has the capabilities to do so.)