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boathouse2112

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Piercing, super-safe weapon
« on: April 06, 2012, 09:33:30 pm »

I'm experimenting with syndromes in weapons and i'm wondering if there's a way to make a weapon that pierces 100% but does no damage at all.

Any ideas?
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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 10:59:57 pm »

...that doesn't make any sense!

so no

EDIT: You could make them minimally deadly, though. Say, having them tear skin and not much else. Give them the smallest penetration value (second number in EDGE attack) possible.

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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 11:09:50 pm »

Extremely small contact area, and extremely small penetration value.  Be like stabbing someone with a surgical needle.

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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 11:19:54 pm »

It makes perfect sense if i'm infecting them with a polymorph syndrome...
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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 11:54:44 pm »

No, I mean physically, it doesn't make much sense for something to pierce all the way through with no damage.

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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 04:38:56 am »

Blowdart ?

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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 06:18:40 am »

(...)i'm wondering if there's a way to make a weapon that pierces 100% but does no damage at all.(...)

I'm guessing that you mean a weapon that gets stuck in the target 100% of the time. This does seem pretty damn interesting, though, and it would be very useful for a number of things. Especially if used with a material that has a syndrome that requires contact and melts slightly below body temperature, or something that ignites which would be a bit more dangerous. I'm not entire sure how to make 'stuck ins' happen more often, but if this works it would open the way for easier work-arounds for poisonous weapons.
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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2012, 08:22:50 am »

i was wondering if taking the candy entry, c&ping it and making bolts out of it with wtvr syndrome and seeing if that'd work
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Re: Piercing, super-safe weapon
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2012, 08:38:43 am »

I'm guessing that you mean a weapon that gets stuck in the target 100% of the time.

exactly!
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