Does anyone know if Ka Hmmd is still around? I checked the inactive authors page but he isn't listed but his last blog post was a couple years back and no recent stories. I just re-read all 200+ of his stories for the third or fourth time and enjoyed them just as much as I did the first time through. I really like his writing and hope he is doing well. I searched forum posts using his name as the key words but nothing came up there either.
Ka-Hmnd appears to be still around and just posted a new story.
Shadow
Very cool!
Not a new story per se, but new to this site. With a nice cover!
Ka-Hmnd appears to be still around and just posted a new story.
Shadow
Shadow - Chapter 1 by Ka Hmnd
Posted: 2012-05-25 21:10:35
(on another site, no longer there)
Most of his stories posted here on SOL in the last 8 years are reposted old stories Which were originally posted only to this other site and were removed from it nearly a decade ago.
There are still about 270 stories not yet reposted here, some of them violating SOL's age restrictions.
Because none of these old stories were changed and still contain the original errors and typos, there is no hope those violating the age restrictions will be reworked and posted here.
HM.
Yeah, when I first found his stories, I privately sent him several typos and such that I had noticed. He never acknowledged them and never corrected them.
I wish he had SOME feedback mechanism. In that new story, he has his MC being slow due to the two treasure chests he is carrying, being 200 stone
A stone is 14 pounds. 209 times 14 is 2800 pounds.
wish he had SOME feedback mechanism. In that new story, he has his MC being slow due to the two treasure chests he is carrying, being 200 stone
A stone is 14 pounds. 209 times 14 is 2800 pounds.
For two chests full of gold that's not that unrealistic for the weight of the chests. That the MC is able to carry them is another matter.
Here's a replica pirate treasure chest on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Nautical-Cove-Treasure-Antique-Skeleton/dp/B07RV71WS3/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1/145-2629763-8699251?pd_rd_w=BZkGw&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=GHKYNQ774M090HCMNYB7&pd_rd_wg=MQar7&pd_rd_r=b6798c1a-59cd-42dc-a521-52ab43141a40&pd_rd_i=B07RV71WS3&th=1
The largest size has a volume of 2,115 cubic inches. The density of gold is 0.698 pounds/cubic inch.
So one chest of that size filled with gold could weigh up to 1,476 pounds depending on how efficiently it's filled.
Yeah, too many authors don't stop to think about how much gold weighs in quantity.
Your example is an author who thought through the weight of that much gold, but didn't think through the consequences for the MC.
In that new story, he has his MC being slow due to the two treasure chests he is carrying, being 200 stone
A stone is 14 pounds. 200 times 14 is 2800 pounds.
Those 14 pounds is modern time UK/Imperial weight.
During the ages, the weight of a stone was widely different, depending on location, commodity and time. Even in England a stone of 5 pounds was used for glass, an 8 lb stone for beeswax, pepper, meat,... a 12 lb stone for lead and a 14 lb stone for live animals, and wool was weighted with stones of 14, 15 and 24 lb.
In East-Prussia (now Poland and Russia) they differentiated between a large stone of 33 local pounds = 15.444 kg and a small stone of 22 local pounds = 10.296 kg.
Because Shadow is a fantasy story and a stone there may have any weight, not related to historical or modern Earth weights, I assumed the 200 stones were a typo and should read 20 stones. Assuming the British 5 lb stone for glass or the 8 lb stone for spices and meat then gives a total weight for the chests of 100 or 160 pounds.
An indication that the stones in the story are not the UK weight unit, is the use of the plural stones, plural for the British unit is stone (no plural 's'!).
HM.
Seems like we've got three choices. Read it and enjoy it, read it and whine about it, or don't read it.