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Published: 2019-07-22 18:25:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 671; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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This was an idea for a scenario I would consider in official Dan Clan canon.
One day, for reasons of his own, Danbuster decides to have a go on an archery range at the local Sports Centre.
As the March Hare was looking at the target to see his half-decent efforts, he is surprised when an unseen archer strikes a perfect bulls-eye. He is even more surprised to see the one who fired it.
Apparently, Arline Bunn the baker's daughter practices archery as a hobby. Possibly she sometimes volunteers at a local youth group or something - I haven't really settled on that yet...
Danbuster and Arline are my own characters.
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I don't blame Danbuster for looking so in awe here. 
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Yup... he meets a nice girl who just happens to be multi-talented and pretty... as well as single...
Just for once, he's lost for words!
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An English troublemaker you guys are so proud of.
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Danbuster: Reckon any British user of the longbow attempts to replicate the hero of Sherwood...
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I really like the history of weapons, and the longbow was a war winner as the French found out. Battle winner, anyway. John Keegan's description of Agincourt caught my attention and they have been fascinating weapons to read about since. Being of Welsh extraction gives me a greater interest in the bow, I like to pretend that I know what I am talking about.
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Yeah, longbows are certainly super-effective...
Whenever I play Age of Empires II, I tend to create a massed army of them... at least, on Random Map mode. Unfortunately, campaign mode reduces Britons to enemy AIs...
Give me free reign in AoE2, and it's "More Dakka" - with a handful of knights to mop up anything that survives the longbows, and trebuchets to smash the enemy towers and castles!
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My brother loves Age of Empires, I don't play computer games or anything else. Lately I am wondering why someone did not raise a platoon of punt guns, as formation 'disrupters' those things would have been worth the trouble. There must be a reason. I am reading 'The Modern Traveler' by Hilaire Belloc, I have heard that Maxim gun couplet my entire life but I did not know that it was part of such a great work.
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Can't say I'm familiar with those books myself.
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'Whatever happens, we have got,
The Maxim gun, and they have not'.
1898, the key to success at Omdurman. Modern Traveler is a verse satire of colonialism.
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And that is why you never bring a sword to a gunfight...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzcOC…
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When I saw that in the theater people started cheering!
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Thanks very much, Kel!
Btw, did you get to see my second Redwall chapter yet?
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You're welcome, and yes I did see it. I've just been so exhausted lately so that I can't get myself to sit and read/review stuff right now, sorry. I'll get to it asap, sorry to keep you waiting!
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Ah, I see... 'cos after all, you seem to be the only Redwall fan I have regular contact with these days...
Hope all is going well though?
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Yeah, I understand. 
I'm tired just thinking about it. 
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Ah yeah, sure sounds quite a process...
As far as chores around the house goes, I tend to be assigned to filling/emptying the dishwasher each day, sometimes washing up and vacuuming around the house on Saturday.
I did handle steam hoses before though, during a brief stint when I was doing voluntary work at a local charity shop before I found a work placement. Basically, I was in the back room steaming clothes to make sure they looked halfway-decent for sale. The contraption they had looked a bit like one of those Henry hoovers... and it had rather a nasty habit of sounding a loud startling buzzer to warn when its water was running low.
I can certainly relate to feeling warn out at the end of the day. Mondays in particular, I end up feeling like I get nothing done at home because it's always the usual busy catch-up day... and my evening Bible Study group meets that day too.
After walking back to the car and driving home, I'm usually just in time for dinner and a little undecided how to spend an evening... particularly if I have several projects to choose between (including the Redwall fic) and especially when wilting under this summer heatwave...
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It is. I don't think I've ever sweat so much on any other job. Ah, so you know what the work is like, huh? Yeah, our machine shuts down in cases like that too. Heh, but when it comes to household chores around *my* house, nobody really has assigned chores. Usually the mess piles up until one of us gets sick of it and cleans it all up.
Wow, you've got a lot going on on Mondays. But yeah, I know that feeling. And I hate it when I end up feeling so tired that I *have* to take an afternoon nap, and I hate taking those, because it means I won't be getting much, if any, sleep that night, which results in me being groggy the next day. And if its summer, I wake up in a pool of sweat. Ugh.
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Indeed, steaming could sure be warm work.
Yeah, chores sure don't pile up around here... Mum wouldn't allow it! 
I have this full-time work from Mon-Fri now, but even so I always seem to get this period of lethargy straight after my lunch break, even if I got a decent sleep the night before... especially if there's nothing to interesting to work on, due to being a quiet week with no transplants or waiting list additions. I need activity to stay awake!
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I believe, just like this picture, it's chock-full of potential for a really intricate storyline on a chance encounter would lead to Danbuster someday finding love here.
I think Arline here is starting to be a great addition to your growing cast =3
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Thanks very much, Alex!
Indeed, it could turn out Arline is just the steadying influence Danbuster will need when Frederick is too busy. I imagine she's a shy and easygoing jill, but with her own hidden resilience.
A further chance meeting could even involve her getting mugged by Kat & Kaboodle. Danbuster hears her startled scream, but by the time he reaches the scene, he finds she's already laid them low with some self-defensive manoeuvres that her protective father Corwin taught to her.
(I guess this would fulfil the Hidden Badass half of the trope, but on the other paw she's far from a Crouching Moron, being quite a bright and progressive lady)
And of course, the idea still stands that, as the daughter of a baker, she can impress Dan even more by improving his own personal carrot cheesecake recipe...
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Danbuster: Well, he might be proud of this lady's shooting, but I still need some practice...
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Trust in your partner, she'll guide you.
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Danbuster: Given time, I'm sure we'll get along together. I'll have to get to know Arline better in official canon. If it works out, we might even get married...
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