Stefan Droste – Blades in the Dark G+ Archives

Are self-lighting candles a think in BitD? If not – they should be! A useful invention from our 18th century:

(my apologies if this doesn’t fit the theme of the game, I just came across this item and thought it might be a cool gadget for some groups)

“His bougies, hermetically sealed in close-fitting glass tubes, were reed-thin wax tapers, four to five inches long, whose wicks were infused with a mixture of phosphorus and sulfur. The glass tubes were scored in the middle where they were to be snapped open. The user would warm the wick end of the tube, break off the opposite end, and quickly extract the candle from its casing. If the atmosphere was dry and the air not too damp, the candle would ignite spontaneously and burn long enough to light several other candles or a lamp in the dark”

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-38-02-0132

Maybe some artful words, too?

I stumbled upon a protest pamphlet of disgruntled English shipwrights from 1775. I’ll quote a bit from it, maybe it proves to be inspirational:

THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BOOK OF OPPRESSIONS

And it came to pass in the Reign of Georgius, that there arose great Murmurings among the Men of the King’s Yards, yea among the Men who did build great Ships, even Ships of War, for they were sore oppressed.

[…]

Then the Men of Portsmouth and the Men of Plymouth were divided into Companies, and they chose two Elders out of the Men of each Company that they might commune together, and the Men said one to another what soever seemeth good in the fight of the Elders that will we do.

And the Elders communed together, and said, the Burthens which the Task-masters have laid upon our Brethren are too heavy for us to bear.

Wherefore let us lay down our Axes, and our Augers, and our Hammers, and turn our backs upon the Task-masters, for we will serve them no longer, unless they will remove those Burthens, from our shoulders, yea those Burthens which they have laid so heavy upon us.

[…]

And it came to pass that early in Morning on the next Day, the Men of Plymouth and the Elders did gather themselves together in the Valley that lyeth between Mount Billinho, and the Mount of Widom, over against is the Mount of the Lord, on the banks of the river Tamer.

And the Elders and the People communed with another, and the spake comfortable to one another, and the Spirit of Liberty entered into every one of them, for as Iron sharpneth Iron, so doth the Heart of a Man his Friend.

Source:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14062615