<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=307047.msg14947361#msg14947361">Quote from: clonkertink on 01-07-2019, 17:09:39</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If flintlock pistols don't exist, we're gonna have to invent them. Because now I can't <em>unimagine</em> Danae with a dueling pistol.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I had in mind the duel scene from the Horatio Hornblower series, though that was admittedly set during the Napoleonic Wars.  Danae is loosely modeled on the kind of country squire who would have been a junior officer in Cromwell's New Model Army during the English Civil War, so I think the late-Renaissance tech level more or less fits.  Mordent is an odd amalgam: it has shades of MR James and the English gothic ghost stories, but also suggests Puritan witch-hunts, since those are the main 'classic' horror tropes one associates with English rural settings.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=307047.msg14947786#msg14947786">Quote from: TheLaughingOne on 01-07-2019, 21:36:51</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">forgot i had these saved.. felt just a little to good to pass up...<br/><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/8mfyj4q.jpg)<br/>(http://i.imgur.com/x0aqHLp.jpg)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It always amazed me how much more tolerant and relaxed France was - socially, not politically - relative to Great Britain. A good recent French film, Les Adieux à la reine, explored Marie Antoinette's tumultuous last days and the relative permissiveness of life at Versailles. The better known English-language film the Favourite was based on flimsier historic ground.  Queen Anne likely did not have sexual liaisons with anyone - man or woman - later in her reign, whereas Marie Antoinette probably did have affairs with both.<br/><br/>