Motocycle credibility

LeLelle - Sanctuary
LeLelle - Sanctuary Posts: 189 Arc User
edited June 2011 in General Discussion
So the two-stroke gasoline engine (and associated metalurgy) predates gunpowder?

If some fantasy author tried to sell this idea, would he not get hung out to dry in the book review on Amazon?

I want my silver bullet shooting cleric only machine gun now.
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  • Sarrafeline - Sanctuary
    Sarrafeline - Sanctuary Posts: 4,661 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Oof. This topic is gonna GO PLACES.

    And no, it's a time traveling bike. Basically, they're sent from the future, back to the past, to collect money, then fly back to PWE's pockets, deposit the money, and go back to the past again. Thus, we all get the living HELL annoyed out of us while idling anywhere in any major city. >_____>
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  • Fenrina - Heavens Tear
    Fenrina - Heavens Tear Posts: 119 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    If memory serves, there was a message on the key that said it was brought to pwi from the future or something like that. I might be remembering wrong though.

    Besides, they do have gunpowder. That's a major component of fireworks.
  • Infernia - Harshlands
    Infernia - Harshlands Posts: 662 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    LeLelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    So the two-stroke gasoline engine (and associated metalurgy) predates gunpowder?

    If some fantasy author tried to sell this idea, would he not get hung out to dry in the book review on Amazon?

    I want my silver bullet shooting cleric only machine gun now.

    Do ya know what steampunk is? Cos thats pretty much the roof it would reside under.

    Also its a time tralled bike that runs on water. Its all a-OK!

    -Except the **** IDLEING SOUND THAT OTHERS CAN HEAR. I ****ING HATE THAT BIKE.
  • B_K - Sanctuary
    B_K - Sanctuary Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/31096


    Brought through time via the temporal displacement of
    Phoenix Valley, this futuristic motorcycle can compact
    into a key. It's powered by the hydrogen in water


    stop being lazy ppl look up ****
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  • Mekkhala - Lost City
    Mekkhala - Lost City Posts: 303 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Next is the pogo stick mount.

    "Stun your friends with this visually impressive way to hop around PWI in style! Includes the animation of **** jiggling while hopping!"

    Just wait. Its coming.
  • Sarrafeline - Sanctuary
    Sarrafeline - Sanctuary Posts: 4,661 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Mekkhala - Lost City wrote: »
    Next is the pogo stick mount.

    "Stun your friends with this visually impressive way to hop around PWI in style! Includes the animation of **** jiggling while hopping!"

    Just wait. Its coming.

    Includes boinging sound, 'Tee hee hee!' sounds for female characters, and other... Sounds.
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  • Arenaceous - Lost City
    Arenaceous - Lost City Posts: 632 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    "It's powered by the hydrogen in water"

    You. fail. chemistry... forever.. pwi >___>
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  • Escorian - Dreamweaver
    Escorian - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    if the bike can time travel im going to the future and getting me some light sabers and a death star + a satalite lazer beam. b:chuckle
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  • Bluemane - Heavens Tear
    Bluemane - Heavens Tear Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Sorry no such thing as time travelling..if there was someone would have come back and told us by now b:chuckle.....on a saner note i like the "Steam Punk" idea of a motorcycle..that would fit in to Dwarfs and fantasy.

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  • _Nuriko_ - Lost City
    _Nuriko_ - Lost City Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    if the bike can time travel im going to the future and getting me some light sabers and a death star + a satalite lazer beam. b:chuckle



    >_> Did you never watch the beginning?


    Long time ago in a universe far far away D: Starwars is way in the past...
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  • Escorian - Dreamweaver
    Escorian - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    _Nuriko_ - Lost City wrote: »
    >_> Did you never watch the beginning?


    Long time ago in a universe far far away D: Starwars is way in the past...

    who actually watches that part? b:chuckle but fine then i will travel into the future get a ship that can travel huge distances in short time go to the past travel to where the jedi are get 2 lightsabers and come back to the present happy? b:chuckle
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  • Wunderkind - Dreamweaver
    Wunderkind - Dreamweaver Posts: 315 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    I demand a segway!
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  • Sarrafeline - Sanctuary
    Sarrafeline - Sanctuary Posts: 4,661 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Wunderkind - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    I demand a segway!

    GET THIS MAN A SEGWAY!

    Would be SOOOOOOOOOO much less annoying than the horrible **** sounds the motorcycles make. b:angry
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  • Xarathox - Dreamweaver
    Xarathox - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,657 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    What I find funny about the bikes: They're from the future. Meaning time travel was implemented into story of PWI (lol), and yet China outlawed the use of time travel in fictional media to basically keep their own people from "perverting" their own history and culture.

    So...The devs literally broke their own governments laws. <.<
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  • Boartracker - Raging Tide
    Boartracker - Raging Tide Posts: 614 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    So, we have time travel in PWI. That means cell phones, jam boxes (boom boxes), guns and what I want, an airplane with rockets, miniguns and all. Make that a Cobra or Apache gunship (heliocopter.) Now that would be useful in BH runs et al. How many APS is a mini gun?

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  • Sherufaniru - Raging Tide
    Sherufaniru - Raging Tide Posts: 47 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Time travel was alway in PWI anyone remember the OHT quest?

    So it not far fetched since you can travel backwards in time via a key. but I still agree the bikes are lame in a setting like perfect world. Could have least bought something else from the future. >_>
  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Let's all go watch that episode of Southpark.
  • Elenacostel - Heavens Tear
    Elenacostel - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,822 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Xarathox - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    What I find funny about the bikes: They're from the future. Meaning time travel was implemented into story of PWI (lol), and yet China outlawed the use of time travel in fictional media to basically keep their own people from "perverting" their own history and culture.

    So...The devs literally broke their own governments laws. <.<

    I heard about that...

    Send a ticket! To the Chinese Goverment!
  • Ryegard - Heavens Tear
    Ryegard - Heavens Tear Posts: 51 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    I want a unicycle and new clown fashion
  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    I want a helicopter aero.
  • Bunny_slayer - Harshlands
    Bunny_slayer - Harshlands Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Mekkhala - Lost City wrote: »
    Next is the pogo stick mount.

    "Stun your friends with this visually impressive way to hop around PWI in style! Includes the animation of **** jiggling while hopping!"

    Just wait. Its coming.

    I may actually consider trading FirePaws for this just for the lulz b:chuckle (Yes, I named my blazing tempest FirePaws)
  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited May 2011
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    PW took my temporal displacement ring & used it to steal a friend's bike.
    ._.'
    Well, not really a ring, mayhaps a loop?
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  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    MagicHamsta - Lost City wrote: »
    Q_Q
    PW took my temporal displacement ring & used it to steal a friend's bike.
    ._.'
    Well, not really a ring, mayhaps a loop?
    (>.<)'

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  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    LeLelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    So the two-stroke gasoline engine (and associated metalurgy) predates gunpowder?

    Except that would be a four-stroke engine, not a two-stroke. b:bye
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  • cewoo1
    cewoo1 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    who actually watches that part? b:chuckle but fine then i will travel into the future get a ship that can travel huge distances in short time go to the past travel to where the jedi are get 2 lightsabers and come back to the present happy? b:chuckle

    The main prob with that idea is that the motorbikes you see around PWI are reproductions, based off of the original, but without time travel ability.

    And the main prob with the reproduction idea is how a medieval blacksmith is able to mass produce future technology that requires precision machined parts.
  • Olbaze - Sanctuary
    Olbaze - Sanctuary Posts: 4,242 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Um, the whole storyline in OHT already includes traveling in time, what with going to the past.

    So what exactly is implausible about guys from the future sending a bike to the past?
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  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Olbaze - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Um, the whole storyline in OHT already includes traveling in time, what with going to the past.

    So what exactly is implausible about guys from the future sending a bike to the past?

    Because that guy is an ***hole.
  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Olbaze - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Um, the whole storyline in OHT already includes traveling in time, what with going to the past.

    So what exactly is implausible about guys from the future sending a bike to the past?

    The guys didn't send us guns and nukes to go with the bikes. b:angry
  • cewoo1
    cewoo1 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Olbaze - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Um, the whole storyline in OHT already includes traveling in time, what with going to the past.

    So what exactly is implausible about guys from the future sending a bike to the past?

    It's not the sending a bike to the past that's implausible, it's the idea that a medieval blacksmith could mass produce parts that require machining. The technology to precisely machine metal parts just does not exist in a blacksmiths workshop.
    Okeano - Harshlands wrote: »
    Because that guy is an ***hole.

    Which guy?
  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    cewoo1 wrote: »

    Which guy?

    Whoever sent the bike to the past. Now PW is filled with **** on harley.

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