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The abbreviations list to date (big thank you to all the contributors): WIP = Work In Progress NIP = Novel In Progress MC = Main Character POV = Point Of View FMC = Female Main Character GOT = Game of Thrones ASOIAF = A Song of Ice and Fire GRRM = George R.R. Martin LOTR = Lord of the...

Good evening Ireth, good to 'see' you online again, I hope the computer issues are well and truly sorted by now? Anyway, thank you for the addition, nice to see you remembered the thread :-). Have a good Christmas and New year, Tevaras

Good evening Sanctified, the same city name can also change for political reasons: like Saint Petersburg, err oops, Petrograd, err oops, Leningrad, err oops, Saint Petersburg? This city's name change engendered the joke: Which city were you born in?, Which city were you schooled in?, Which...

Well done Guru Coyote ! ! ! Congratulations on your new qualifications. I hope you can claim a pay rise now ;-). As for the pronounciation, it is manageable, on the second or third try :-). All the best.

Good evening Caged Maiden, interesting about the bone marrow, I was not aware it kept that long. You are right about the water being the biggest problem. An active human in a hot climate can require eight litres or so per day. That's eight kilos of weight per day. Most explorers when they...

Spot the obvious typo - oops :o, correction: Np = [ D x ((Nh x Fh) + (Nm x Fm)) - (Nm x Lm) + E ] / [ Lp - (D x Fp) ] Where: - Fh, Fm, and Fp is food and water per 'creature' per day that cannot be foraged/grazed. - E is the equipment taken, including weight of food and water storage.

Good morning Lunaairis, good idea, forethought and planning can go a long way. Stealing from 'some poor saps' would depend on the M.C.'s morals, or maybe one of their companions had different morals and stole without the M.C.'s knowledge. Could make for an interesting scene when the...

Good morning Jess A, reminds me of the good old Bag of Holding (from AD&D). Such a useful item that! Have a good week,

Too many pack animals for stealthy escape. Good morning CupofJoe, Oops, maybe I should not have provided the formula? - ignorance is bliss? ;) A number of things for you to think about trying: - relax some of the restrictive assumptions, like being able to graze/forage more food. If you...

Good morning Jess A, <sigh> I need to improve my proof reading: And if you really enjoy an evening of mathematics - go for it ;-)

Formula for number of mounts - rearrangement of general formula Clarification: Fp, Fm, and Fh are the food requirements per day per animal/human that is needed after any grazing/foraging has been deducted (if they can find it on the way the party does not need to carry it). And for those that...

Good evening Jess A, somewhat remiss of me, I have not actually answered your question as to how many humans per pack animal. Instead I just gave you a pile of data, and left you to do all the calculations to arrive at a final number. So, rather belatedly, here is the actual answer you...

Oops - got that the inventor was guillotined wrong: according to Wikipaedia:

Good evening A.E. Lowan, I think I got it now - but for obvious reasons will not post the 'translation' on this forum ;-). Where would society be without euphemisms? lol. Have a good evening.

There were two types of hanging: 'long drop' and 'short drop'. The long drop was designed to cause death be cervical dislocation (snapping the spinal chord at the neck) and relatively quick (though from the onlookers perspective there can be some reflexive twitching). As Butterfly has pointed...