Horsie Bits

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Alyssa asked about Raykinian water skins a few days, and finding I had trouble describing how the things worked, I figured I should draw one instead. Which then lead to drawing a whole horse. Which then lead to writing up The List.

You know how these things happen.



I raped this thing in Photoshop so hopefully you can all read it ^^;

So, as you can see, the water skins, which hold about three litres each, can basically hang from anywhere. They've got a metal hook just below the mouth piece so as long as there's something to hook it onto, it'll be hooked there. They leave Ni-Yana with 16 full skins each, hanging from buckles and bags and whatever else, but they're of course empty by the time they cross the desert to Ni-Mytaa, and only ever fill up one or two after that, since they've got the river with them the rest of the mission. The empty ones then get stuffed into the second saddlebag. I would've drawn the whole bloody lot of them on there, but the picci was getting complicated as it is, so you can just imagine the rest.

Wood, again, just for the crossing the desert journey. Once they reach Ni-Mytaa there are considerably more trees along the river, so they can just chop them down when needed rather than cart it around with them.
edit~ K8 says~ don't put stuff on the horsie's bum cos it's painful for them, so put that on top of the tent/cloak instead =3 ~end edit

Horse feed, same thing unless someone horse-inclined tells me otherwise. They can eat grass along the river instead. Dry, brown grass, admittedly, but hey, at least they get all the water they can drink on that leg. Once they reach Ni-Horia, the last town before the border, they fill the bags up with dry grass and spinifex to use as kindling in Kazin.

Journey bread would also be gone by the time they reach Ni-Mytaa. General foodage I haven't included cos that changes every journey depending on what they feel like cooking.

Yes, I labelled the horse. It's mentioned on The List, which is some cause for amusement among the bois, so I figured I'd mention it too X3

Weaponry, obviously they only bring what they need. Only Anganur and Inel bring the palu stuff, and only Kaen and Yoryl bring all six daggers. They do all have to bring at least the essentials of the sword and archery lists. The purple shirts probably bring more knives than that too, and poke them into an extra knife belt on their horsie. This list was made by a swordie X3

The cloak doubles as a blanket in Kazin, and the leather underblanket is oiled so most~ of the water keeps from seeping into the tent while they're sleeping.

The antidotes kit is prepared by the healers at the palace healing house, with one dose each for the most common and deadly of Raykinian snakes. They're not needed often, but when they are~ you'd be stuffed without them.

Also on the list would be 2 boots and a belt, but like hell I was going to draw a bloke on the horse just so I could label them =P Also~ they have communal things they only need one of, so those get split up amongst them:

Nimay: axe
Emon: saucepan
Haenel: axe
Kurae: grill
Melraan: saucepan
Rumal: wok
Ulkar: big pot
Garuk: spade
Gylepi: frypan
Murali: wok
Nolryn: frypan
Kaen: fire stand (metal stand that sits over the fire to put pots and whatever on for cooking)
Yoryl: fire plate (sits on top of the stand, mostly for frypans)
Anganur: chopping board
Inel: chopping board

If anyone can think of anything else they'd need, lemme know =3 No way are the stickmen going in empty handed =P There we go =D