It's like me and my work gear - I keep leaving my steel hammer (for steel builds, obviously) at home, but I carry: Helmet, carabinered to pack chest pouch, with gloves, c-wrench, and multitool (plus what ever stage plots I accidentally left in there from the last pre-game party build) hi-vis vest Kneepads Coffee a couple of the cheap MREs (because when you get an hour off for lunch, and you're dead broke...) A couple books And I'm wearing a jacket, steel-toe boots, climbing pouch, 4+ extra carabiners (one of which is over a pound on its own), and the usual you would expect (tobacco, lighters, wallet, keys, flashlight, knife). Really, I would expect the average Traveller to be carrying a multi, lighters, keychain tools, a flashlight, their wallet, and a knife. On 2/5/18, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 21:15, Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com> wrote: > >> That's another thing - real people carry around stuff for personal >> recreation, be it laptops for gaming or whatever, books for reading and >> so >> on. At TL8 at least you can transition from books to something >> kindle-like, >> and at TL14 (?) or so you can transition from that to just directly >> having >> the memory of having read the book implanted, saving you the time of >> having >> to read it, and perhaps including the publisher-subsidized memory of >> having >> enjoyed it. >> >> > And at TL16 can I have the smell of books even with an ebook or implant, > back please?! > > >> The nature of what they carry will change based on technology and >> culture, >> but people are going to carry personal use items with them generally, >> even >> at the expense of extra ammunition or communications gear. >> >> > Yeah, you should see what I carry on the bus every day in my briefcase or > pockets for 90 mins+ of commuting each day. Lunch, book, tablet, phone, > noise-cancelling headphones (i.e. not in-ear things), pain-killer, pen and > some paperwork (e.g. crosswords photocopied from newspapers, work reading > or some Traveller writing) and not infrequently a 500ml water or cherry > coke bottle. Plus at the moment with winter and trying out bullet > journalling I'm carrying a nice notebook, woolly hat and gloves... If I > have to run for the bus you can call me encumbered I guess. :-) > > The prospect of lugging around a weapon and ammo additionally is, ummm, > interesting. Fortunately as a mild mannered librarian (by day!), it's not > necessary. Although in some of my lectures with students who won't shut > up... > > tc > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please go to > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=DZZu00eGt8rDmt14P7liTVEolKKLZVUJ
