The Anatomy? of Climbing Gloves. - by addone
Solabusca on 9/4/2007 at 06:41
Quote Posted by SJamieson
If you follow pitch's idea of Gecko Skin with millions of little spike/hooks, then wood could be too porus to catch onto.
Of course Garretts world has plenty of strange creatures such as Burricks, perhaps there is some creature which is larger but can run on walls and ceilings with this type of skin.
Meh, I still like alchemically-cured sharkskin. They use it to enhance grip now.
.j.
Jeshibu on 9/4/2007 at 09:07
Quote Posted by SJamieson
If you follow pitch's idea of Gecko Skin with millions of little spike/hooks, then wood could be too porus to catch onto.
Of course Garretts world has plenty of strange creatures such as Burricks, perhaps there is some creature which is larger but can run on walls and ceilings with this type of skin.
Then again, they do have cats, so there are at least some creatures the same as ours.
(I didn't mention frogs, because the ones we know don't explode under normal circumstances)
Stony on 10/4/2007 at 03:49
They're MAAAAGIC... and a workaround. Poor developers, no time for rope arrows.
Stony
SirBlade on 10/4/2007 at 08:10
Quote Posted by Jeshibu
Yeah, how
did they get magic and steam-powered machinery in the middle ages? ;)
From wikipedia:
The first recorded steam device, the aeolipile, was invented by Hero of Alexandria (sometimes Heron) in the 1st century AD.[1] The device has been classified as a "toy" by many modern scholars, although Heron's writings give actually no hint as to its intended use.
Steam-power isn't that hard to do, when metalurgy has been developed sufficiently enough to produce the part needed it only takes 1 genius to make a steam-machine. And in Garrets world there is a major religion based around building and metalworking.
Besides the mechanist creation (robots walking on 2 legs, AI and Friend-or-Foe detection) which would be hard to replicate even today most of the technology in Thief isn't that unlikely. Take the "camera's" in Cragscleft. Take a simple periscope and mount is through the ceiling, connect it to a waterwheel to spin it around (or do it by hand), and have a (very bored) Hammer peer through the other end all day long. Maybe a camera obscura could be mounted on top so 1 Hammer can monitor both.
Once you got metalurgy, basic chemistry, mechanics and optics (for microscopes and telescopes) to a certain level, you can kickstart the industrial revolution. I think the City is experiencing the start of it's Industrial Revolution. The reason we think it's in the middle ages is because the guard don't carry guns. Why would anybody develop gunpowder and firearms when they've got fire-christals.
cradle_curdled on 10/4/2007 at 12:28
Quote Posted by SirBlade
Take the "camera's" in Cragscleft. Take a simple periscope and mount is through the ceiling, connect it to a waterwheel to spin it around (or do it by hand), and have a (very bored) Hammer peer through the other end all day long.
Y'know, I never assumed they were a technological device, working as you've described. Those cameras have always unsettled me a bit. Given the green "skin" on the lens and the sound they make on receiving an arrow, I always assumed that there was something organic there, and decidedly "woodsie". *shudder*
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Why would anybody develop gunpowder and firearms when they've got fire-christals.
Why, to get out of Cathedrals and into Armories, of course.
One of the great things about our beloved City is that its citizens have bypassed all the tedious personal-firearms debate, and gone straight for the big, exploding whoop-de-doos. :thumb:
yubetcha on 11/4/2007 at 19:06
Whatever the glove's materials are made of, it would have to be of a material that exploits Garrett's weakness like kryptonite affects Superman. They must cause him to become dumb. After all, when Garrett wears them, he can't find adjoining walls. Even when they are the same material.
