‘Steamtech’: Herr Jakob Rosenberg's Chloroform Gun.

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Herr Jakob Rosenberg's

Chloroform Gun.

Herr Rosenberg's Pacifistic mind was Greatly Troubled by the Suffering caused by the Machinery of Modern Warfare. Despite his peaceful ideals, the worldly-wise inventor doubted that mankind would easily give up combat as a means of resolving its differences. This led him to work on developing an alternate form of weaponry that might Reduce the Suffering of the Common Soldiery.

The Chloroform Gun was designed to render your opponent unconscious allowing you to disarm him & take him prisoner rather than kill or maim him. Its short range and slow loading actually makes this gun useless in Military Combat. It is, however, suitable for other uses. The Homburg Police force are known to be trialling the weapon as a means of apprehending Violent Criminals.

Cost:  144 Florins (12c)

Size: Small [ 5 wounds].

Description: A hand held brass cylinder with a nozzle

Operation Time: A few minutes

Controlled by: A small lever

Host’s information.

The Chloroform Gun has an effective range of 30 feet and a maximum range of 50 feet. It has a ten shot gas cylinder. This takes 30 seconds to replace with a new one when empty.

If fired into a strong wind the range is halved and the level of difficulty to hit is increased by one. If fired in a strong crosswind the difficulty to hit is increased by two. 

The user must wear a protective mask or suffer the effects of the gas on a fumble.

If a target is hit, draw a card & consult the table below:

Highest of Physique or Courage	Unaffected if card drawn is:	Groggy for 5 minutes (treat as wounded)	Unconscious for this time if failed
PR	Ace	King, Queen	20 minutes
AV	Ace,King	Queen, Jack	18 minutes
GD	Ace, King, Queen	Jack, Ten	16 minutes
GR	Ace or Face card	Ten, Nine	12 minutes
EXC	Ace, Face card or ten	Nine, Eight	10 minutes
EXT	Ace, Face card, ten or nine	Eight, Seven	8 minutes

NOTE: if a Joker is drawn the character has been MORTALLY WOUNDED - draw another card & if it is a Spade the character has PERISHED! (Chloroform is Poisonous in large doses)

‘Steamtech’ : The ‘Fuel-less’ Steam Locomotive.

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The ‘Fuel-less’ Steam Locomotive.

Designed by the Dwarf Engineer, Ulfgard Kettle-Master, this Revolutionary Device allows Steam Engines to operate without carrying their own firebox or coal supply.  Kettle-Master was working on improving the system of Underground Trains at the Dwarfhold of Wassenburg. One of the complaints from the passengers was that the smoke and steam from the locomotive engine created an Unpleasant Miasma of Gases within the confines of the underground tunnel.

Ulfgard looked at the problem and came up with an Advanced Solution.  He had been experimenting high-pressure steam boilers to increase the power of locomotives. It occurred to him that an insulated high-pressure boiler could be used to hold Steam Alone. A ‘Reservoir Sphere’ full of pre-heated steam can be ‘plugged in’ to an engine and provide a steady supply of power for several hours of continuous operation. This means that the new, underground trains built for the Dwarfhold carry passengers in comfort through Smoke-free Tubes.  Furthermore, stationary steam engines can be used to prepare pre-filled spheres which can be swapped for the empty one on board a train in a few minutes. The empty sphere can then be refilled for its next use.

  

Steam Reservoir Spheres

Already, the Authorities of both Paris and London have expressed Great Interest in this Unique Invention. Currently, this technology is very expensive but over the next few years, we expect that its price will drop and the size of ‘Reservoir Spheres’ will reduce.  In the near future it may well be possible to run a steam-powered device, which is the size of a traveller’s trunk, for a few hours using a sphere the size of a cricket- or base-ball!