Traveller's Armamentarium: Volume the First (Ten Seconds of War — Or, It Leaves an Impression) is a 98-page literary companion set in the terrestrial borderlands of Ablahshikar.
Written by Samekh Meryuiet, the volume abandons high-level cosmology for the ground-level friction of sappers, outriders, provisioners, and exhausted officers. Each chapter examines a piece of frontier hardware, shifting across field memoirs, Imperial Bureau of Affairs forms, court depositions, ballads, and banned barrack plays.
CONTAINING TEN ACCOUNTS OF VULGAR HARDWARE
- Prologue: Palm Crossbow — A mute, off-true relic from a night market stall.
- I. Tirrast-Bell (Item 1213-B) — A grain-delivery compressor rigged for tavern drinking games.
- II. Route Lock — Braided steel wire and stubborn number wheels.
- III. The Light Pair — Cheap survey boots with a stripped zipper.
- IV. Fork of Nikai (Item 0917-F) — Wheat biscuits baked in the shape of four-tined cutlery.
- V. Whitewell Tract — A wind-vane rewired to track a desert well.
- VI. Ceramic Aide-Memoire — Thirty-five silvers spent on a silica-calcium manual.
- VII. The Graven Pipe — Six latten-and-leather urinary siphons forged under kidnapping.
- VIII. Saccharine Buffer (Item 0328-DW) — Date-water sedation for palates destroyed by sumac marinade, accompanied by Tyrian Night Conciliation: a comedy in three removals concerning casks of missing masonry acid and a spiritual crane.
- IX. Vermilion Precipice Seat — An embroidered parlor armchair planted four hundred feet above the Cassandrine surf.
EDITION & TYPOGRAPHIC SPECIFICATIONS
- Pagination: 98 pages, illustrated with Imperial Bureau seals and red-ink marginalia.
- Delivery: High-resolution PDF deployed directly into your local installation directory upon download.
"And, ahem, they were actually written during my solo journeys across the borderlands, and although I'd hate to admit, all the characters had prototypes so I'd wish they'd never come across this picaresque... Or would they?"
—Samekh, Developer of Ablahshikar
