u/ProfesserQ

In the post- apocalyptic world of endure there exist Chimera which is the blanket term for hypervolved anthropomorphic mutant animals. One of these is Drake sandhill who is a sandhill crane. He is 8'7 and a treasury agent for the gray flock caravan company. Treasury agent is the corporate approved politically correct term for high-end corporate enforcer. Treasury agents don't open carry weapons because they are expected to be exceptionally proficient in hand combat. Agent sandhill uses his size and physicality to just straight up. Throw people crush them, whip them around like a pencil. He also possesses a radiant mutation which creates a miasma around him that relentlessly seeks to infatuate members of the opposite sex.

Hello. I'm trying to see if I have a voice or style or anything even approaching some bit of uniqueness in my writing. I've shared a collection of introductions to several short stories I'm working on for a Sci-Fi anthology. Any and all feedback is welcome.

The tone and subject matter between each one varies a considerable bit, but the last office party and Thirty two are set within the same universe. Thirty two is definitely channeling a bit of wannabe Cormac McCarthy, and I personify almost everything except main character intentionally.

Once again all advice is appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AfrljpGtfg8dusS6OGPF7jU1N--0R5gcOQFF4SLF0ew/edit?usp=drivesdk

The only child of Cedric Michael Vontnach, head of the Vontnach shipping empire, Alessandra, or Alice for short had a bad habit of allowing her mind to wander. She imagined how great it would be to travel to far off places and meet interesting and unique people. Her wandering eyes eventually caught site of Elspeth McFarland, one of the many servants of her father's estate. They fell in love, but the wicked groundskeeper lusted for both women and attempted to blackmail Elspeth into his bed, she refused. The groundskeeper alerted Alice's father who struck Elspeth the trauma and stress triggered a stroke paralyzing part of her face. Alice's father sent her away to America, leaving Elspeth to think the woman she loved had ran away from her driving her mad as a hatter.

This was not so

Alice confessed her woes to a charming rake in America one Tom Sawyer. Together they conspired to feign a marriage, and secure a dowry from her father Alice faked Insanity and was admitted to an insane asylum, A ploy she would use to fake her death and find a way back to England.

Now on the run from the pinkertons Hired by her father , Alice And Tom find themselves heading south on the Mississippi in a riverboat captained by the legendary black Amazon Annie Christmas.

I have a lot more of this story, but I'm not the best at giving a concise description. Apologies.

I want to include different cool aesthetics in my worldbuilding, but I worry about them clashing. If you lean too hard into one specific style, introducing a completely different one can break cohesion and seem really out of place.

How do you find the line in your own designs and aesthetics, And when do you think it is appropriate to stray too far from the core look of a setting?

I'm seeking feedback on this design. It's a single action tube fed pistol inspired by the alofs magazine. Not all the elements that are going on the final design or present here but you get the general idea. Basically it's a craft manufactured pistol constructed with hand tools in a post-apocalyptic setting. My thinking was that something like this, despite being somewhat complicated in operation, would be significantly easier to produce for someone without access to machinery. These are quite ubiquitous within the setting and are used by multiple individuals and factions.

Operation: when the Hammer is pulled to half cock the breech block drops ejecting a cartridge and pushing the cartridge carrier into position over the breach. A cartridge which is being held under spring tension and the cartridge carrier is then pushed into the breach. Upon full cock, the breech block is locked into the closed position and the hammer is ready to strike the firing pin in the breech block.

These pistols usually only hold about five rounds, one in the chamber, one in the shell carrier and three in the magazine. Longer holster size pistols can hold six or possibly seven depending on the cartridge used.

The overall design of the pistol is supposed to invoke the shape of early muzzle loading pistols like a snaphaunce, or wheellock . They come in three primary sizes belt, saddle, and pocket. There are also rifles and carbines that utilize the same action. There is a lot of variety in shape, length caliber and materials composition.

Once again, any feedback is appreciated.

Perhaps the most common firearm on the belts of many a wasteland explorer settler and scav is the Venerable Scraplock pistol. A simple single action, tube fed pistol often produced via hand tools by tribal nomad gunsmiths, or war-wrasps, these come in near countless varieties of barrle length material compostiton and caliber. Upon cocking the hammer to half cock, the breech block lowers ejecting a cartridge and swinging the shellholder to the side, wich pushes a cartridge into the breech. At full cock the breech block is locked the shell carrier is set to the side and the pistol is ready to fire.

While the design is relativly complex, it is still far simpler than autoloading pistols and most patterns of revolvers. The most common caliber for belt sized pistols is 9x23mm Largo, saddle sized pistols are often chambered in .44 Largo, and pocket models use rimfire or .32 auto rounds.

I'm picking up these guns soon. And I need help finding an ejector rod and ejector rod housing for the single action revolver. It's an old armi San Marcos And I was wondering if there are any contemporary guns I can order spare parts from that might be able to fit. Also, if anyone knows a good way to source 10 rounds cz82 mags, I'd really appreciate it.

Any and all help welcome

Really love the idea of disposable firearms. They could use superimposed electronically primed ammunition. The guns could have no ads and no attachments. They break immediately after you empty the clip. And there's a 50/50 chance they can't be repaired or in this case reloaded.

The shotgun would have four shots and the machine pistol could have two barrels each with eight shots giving it a total of 16. Less than the homemade SMG.

I've only recently got into scanning my drawings and refining them on my laptop. All of these are weapons which appear in my post-apocalyptic alternate history Earth setting. A lot of them have design elements that are very clearly taken from real world firearms and I was just curious if I could get some general feedback here.