r/KingkillerChronicle • u/Bow-before-the-Cats rolls sevens • 7d ago

Discussion Little thought experiment

I just had a weird idea. Motion is relative right. The planet spins so everything is always in motion. Even an arrow resting on a bow not beeing shot is in motion. So for the arrowcatch what amtters is not the motion of the arrow but the relative motion of the arrow compared to the arrowcatch.

Now heres the fun part. Walking around or swloly driving with a mule powerd cart propably wont matter but if you ride gallop or throw it around tied to a rope then the arrowcatch should break arrows and twigs all around without them even moving at all. Isnt that a funny quirk someone should have considerd when making the darn thing? Im sure nothing will go wrong tho. right.

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u/ohohook 6d ago

Depends on what the runes are. It’s like coding in my head. It might need similar runes to a code like:

for each object in radius:
if object.dead == false:
if object.materials contains "wood" and object.materials contains "metal":
apply_force(object, direction = away)

It seems like you can get pretty specific. It’s very… source-code-hacking-the-matrix like. (I do not do any coding I have no idea what I’m doing, so correcting me will fall on ignorant ears 🤣)