Yes, I have heard about the skeletons. To be honest, it sounds very intriguing! I usually have to resort to underhanded means to get my hands on bodies to study, and the ability to just raise a few skeletons whenever you need to sketch a particular rodent has some appeal. [Is he joking? The world may never know.]

And it's fascinating, how some of our inventions overlap. Perhaps people who use crossbows are fond of the idea of making it fire faster? I can imagine how reloading would get very tiresome very quickly, were I carrying a very heavy weapon on my shoulder.