I now realise I inadvertently called the gun with the weaponised vaccine the SWAG gun
"Up jumped the SWAGman, sprang into the billabong"...*runs like hell*
Don't feel too bad, I was considering having them issue Rourke a modified "Greener Gun." (an actual almost-period harpoon gun, no, I didn't make up the name, its actually called that...

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http://www.whalecraft.net/Swivel%20Guns.htmlIt's about 1/4 of the way down the page, apparently dates from the 1850s...
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About killing Handthorpe: Go ahead and try, but don't be surprised if he just keeps coming back. He's a nemesis NPC, I'm thinking eventually similar to (but not really the same as) Brian O'Landry from the Steam London RP. He's not undead or a vampire ...yet. I haven't decided what his relation to Miss Harker is; I'm thinking that the Harker affair was the first time that Rourke faced Handthorpe, or perhaps he just heard of him in that context.
Also: while I haven't made it a hard-and-fast rule, I'd prefer that a character can only be decided to be killed off by that character's creator.
Thoughts? ideas? complaints?
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I hope I haven't overstepped with Miss Starling's Auntie.