08-11-2006 It's an ELF! or My grandma what big ears you have

Anthony Lion · Post by **Anthony Lion** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:19 pm

Steltek wrote:Well, Quentyn knows them insofar as they're the people who made his pistol.

No...
It's called an Elfshot pistol, but that doesn't have to mean anything.

Elephants doesn't make Elephant-rifles, either...

Wanderwolf · Post by **Wanderwolf** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:36 pm

Anthony Lion wrote:
Steltek wrote:Well, Quentyn knows them insofar as they're the people who made his pistol.
No...
It's called an Elfshot pistol, but that doesn't have to mean anything.

Elephants doesn't make Elephant-rifles, either...

<ponder>

Given that, in the Questorverse, elves are short-lived creatures with short memories...

... perhaps that is why a device which fires temporary arrows is called an "elfshot" pistol?

</ponder>

Yours truly,

The thoughtful,

Wanderer

Steltek · Post by **Steltek** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:47 pm

Anthony Lion wrote: Elephants doesn't make Elephant-rifles, either...

True, but at the same time I'm sure anyone who has an Elephant rifle is aware of the creature whose hide it is designed to pierce.

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:28 pm

That, or they appreciate a gun that can break your arm by simply firing it incorrectly...

LOTS of uses for that kind of gun that don't involve killing Elephants... Wink.

JakeWasHere · Post by **JakeWasHere** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:02 pm

Steltek wrote:
Anthony Lion wrote: Elephants doesn't make Elephant-rifles, either...
True, but at the same time I'm sure anyone who has an Elephant rifle is aware of the creature whose hide it is designed to pierce.

Just had an unpleasant thought about where this conversation is heading. I wonder if they call it an "elfshot" pistol for the same reason we call a certain shell "buckshot".