i find it helps to remember that 'limina' is latin for 'threshold.'

1) that's a corolla. not all cars are corollas.
2) they don't make 'em like they used to.
3) Lemme guess that this wasn't anywhere in the snow belt.

gahd, it would be so fucked to read everything *but* _the other wind_

yay! I would love a potent throwable to keep in my inventory and never, ever use!

It's more than that. Plate carriers have handles for signalling tactical movement and pulling back wounded squaddies. It's an essential part of 'deconfliction,' the practice of a team moving through contested space with hot weapons. They're not just scared, they're actively prepared to fire.

"mutiny by m.p.s over short-rationing" is a pretty rich inciting incident, tbh

ya know, it used bug me that my work is owned by a parent company that mostly does military contracting.

but now that we're wholly owned and operated by the joint chiefs' council for civil well-being and economic production, my bennies are real hard to argue with.

Sorry to be pedantic but a mortar is a tube from which a projectile is launched by containing gas pressure generated by burning propellant. There's no functional difference between the weapon and the firework except scale.

I get why you want to draw the distinction, but that's what they're called.

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