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warning: cuteness overload!
left: monkey hugs a kitten, book of hours, Brussels ca. 1475 (NY, Morgan, MS M.485, fol. 117v)
right: monkey hugs a kitten, Nagaon, India 2011 (telegraph.co.uk)
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welcome to the store we got blades and sprayable deer piss
spray the deer piss on the blade before attacking to add 1d6 necrotic damage
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Please enjoy this picture of itty bitty babby Caitlin (I was 12 at the time) with my anole Aztec.
A small vehicle graveyard in Norfolk, UK
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- me in 1346 on a medieval battlefield, being shot by an early use of firearms in europe: damn this is really gonna change the meta
- the halberd-wielding peasant standing next to me: what the fuck are you talking about
sirijanu asked: Know anything about naval combat in ~the viking age~? Like, did boats fight other boats, would an assault from the sea be from a Big Boat (technical term) at range, would folks go ashore in smaller boats? Is it obvious yet how much I don't know about vikings and boats?
Naval warfare wasn’t really a thing for the vikings, they were more about raiding small villages and churches for valubles, especially early in the Viking age. There weren’t many ships going through the same areas, and there was no real point in trying to raid another party’s boat, since there was going to be more to raid on land.
As far as how they would raid, viking ships were designed to float quite high in the water (I would add a link but I’m on mobile and lazy), which allowed them to sail up rivers and into bays. So there was no need for smaller boats to take them to land, there was just a short distance to run through the shallow water.
Thanks for the ask! I love both vikings and boats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Naval_battles_involving_the_Vikings
A bunch of naval battles were fought by viking-era Scandanavians against each other, though.Also, although I can’t find a good text on the web right now, the King’s Mirror (1250, so admittedly post-Viking age) has a bunch on how to fight from ship-to-ship.
