Ever create your own technology?

[Justin]

Have you ever created your own type of technology to accommodate the "weird western" theme? I'm talking anything from a one of a kind weird gun to a strange device that cowboys and people from the era only wish existed.

The reason I ask is because I've twice created devices in my stories and while they weren't any of my western stories I thought i'd ask it here since this genre would most likely see such innovative technology within it. I just wrote my first steampunk story and created something called a Aerocrometer. It's a device that measures the potency of air that can be turned into steam. See what I mean? Something like that.

Share your thoughts as I'd love to hear if and what people have created.

[Ashe]

For Grimluk, I made the Magi-Tell system. It's what happens if you cross telegrams and the palantir stones from Lord of the Rings with just a dash of radio. Because magic.

I also mentioned steam trains powered by elementals as a concept in A Demon in the Desert and I'll eventually introduce that proper and work it through.

[Justin]

Ashe wrote: "For Grimluk, I made the Magi-Tell system. It's what happens if you cross telegrams and the palantir stones from Lord of the Rings with just a dash of radio. Because magic.

I also mentioned steam t..."

That's pretty cool. I had a feeling you created something in your book or I think you may have mentioned it early on while you were getting it out there.

[Ashe]

Yeah, most everything else thus far has been blue-collar magic ala Supernatural. Augmented weapons and whatnot for demon-killing. I imagine I'll get something else at some point but nothing's really called for it yet.

[Justin]

I hear ya. I may start creating some unique things for my next weird western story.

[Ashe]

It can be pretty fun. Not tech but a while back i was lookg at architecture to come up with ideas for a later book. Picture elven antebellum. Dwarven gothic. And hell, the evolution of hobbit holes.