Ahh!  You want to talk about the IX, huh?  Well, I invented it on accident 
really.  Now we use it to hunt elephants.  You sort of aim it at a herd, and 
then you pull the trigger.  The elephants on the fringe of the blast are 
usually still solid enough to eat.  We're not sure where the one's in the 
center of the blast go.

  The crossbow itself looks like a standard crossbow, but with three crosspieces
arranged to look like an X with and I through it, hence the name.

  I'm pretty sure that Paslen is the only Knight to actually carry an IX.  It's
great because you don't need bolts to fire it, but the blast radius is huge.

  Why don't you need bolts?  I'm not sure.  I think it sends out a pulse of super-concentrated air that vaporizes the targets, but I could be wrong.

Talk about something else.