It’s NOT just a stick. It’s a nice stick, which means its uses are many.

• sword
• wizard staff
• samurai katana
• javelin
• light saber
• cane
• stick (because that’s a use case on its own)

I’ll let Randall Munroe decide that himself, considering the fact that he provides URLs for hotlinking below the comics

I raise you this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp_cycles.png

So much this. Chainshot was highly effective at taking down masts and sails, effectively immobilizing the target. If you fired a chainshot towards the mast, chances were really high that each ball would hit 9n each side of the mast, with the chain tearing off the mast itself. And even if you missed and hit only sail, the chain would rip out a huge chunk of sail and any rigging it hit as well.

Source: I used to play Cutthroats a lot back in the day.

I assume the revolver cylinder matches the amount of barrels, and they spin in unison during fire.

The forest can’t be harmed
when its inhabitants are armed.

I’ve always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.