A few questions

[kyoutenshi]

I'm not sure if this is the right comm to post in, does Dreamwidth have any communities like little_details?

I need some help from people who know a little something about either guns, or sedatives. These are more research-y questions than plot brainstorming, but it'll help me a hell of a lot.

The Place: Romsdalen Valley, Norway
The Time: 1995

- What kind of rifles would a fairly well-off hunting enthusiast have?

- Is there a type of gun-rack/gun storage furniture where the guns themselves are plainly visible, but it locked so that only the owner can access them? Would any other paraphernalia be in there with them?

- What kind of sedatives would have been available which would be tasteless, and would knock out a fourteen year old girl for no more than six hours or so? To put it bluntly, I'm looking for something akin to a date rape drug, though my villain is using this as a way to get the main protagonist out of her hair while she commits some acts of dark sorcery.



The villain of my fanfic is a thirty-odd year old woman who kidnaps young children and takes them to her house in the Romsdalen Valley in order to use them for supernatural purposes. She's also an accomplished hunter. In one scene, my protagonist discovers the woman's 'trophy room' where she mounts the heads of her kills and keeps her gun-rack. In another scene, the woman drugs a character by pouring her a glass of spiked wine.



Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

Comments

[magycmyste]

Hi!

You're posting in the right place - this community was set up for people to answer any type of writing-related questions, including minor research questions.

Afraid I don't know much about guns, so I can't help much there, but I could imagine some sort of wooden display case with a padlocked glass door, or something. Actually, you might be able to find something more advanced than that, since it's 1995, but that was the first and the simplest solution I thought of.

As far as the drug, the first thing that sprang into mind was Rohypnol, which apparently is available in Norway by prescription. If you click through to the date rape drug link, you might get some more ideas for other drugs.Another option would be simply to dissolve sleeping pills/any medicine in a very flavored drink (right now, I'm remembering the movie Rat Race where Jon Lovitz's character drugs his family with something akin to Benadryl mixed into their milkshakes - knocked them out so he could continue with the race).

Since I'm not sure what fandom you're writing in, I'm not certain if that makes anything else available, but the above might be a good place to start. Good luck!

[feuervogel]

There's also chloral hydrate, which might be hard to get. Knock-out drops, work great mixed in alcohol (Mickey Finn.)

[sweet_sparrow]

I suppose theoretically, if all else fails, you could try valerian, but I've no idea how effective it would be or how big the dose would need to be.

And... this is partly guesswork, but one of the formative games in my childhood was The Colonel's Bequest which had a room where weapons were kept in plain sight (sort of; these are DOS graphics we're talking about) in display cabinets, yet inaccessible. Go to screenshot 10. As magycmyste said, in 1995 you can probably find something different, but hopefully it'll be a start anyhow.