Enter New Scenario.
Equipment: Kung-fu Robes.
Enemy: Chuck Norris.
Enemy Equipment: Kung-fu Robes.
Location: The Forbidden Palace, China
The world fades and reforms into something completely different, a carefully arranged arena of marble tiles surrounded by high red walls. A man is standing across the way, a man in robes with a slight beard and a serious look on his face. He bows to you.
"Alright, thanks. Am I good to go now?"
If so, return to armory master to inquire about nonlethal weaponry (tranquilizer darts, stun batons, field manipulators that knock targets unconcious, etc)
Also ask what that incident earlier was.
Enter New Scenario.
Equipment: Kung-fu Robes.
Enemy: Chuck Norris.
Enemy Equipment: Kung-fu Robes.
Location: The Forbidden Palace, China
((VR is awesome. ))
"Oh yes. Go, go."
You shrug and head back to the armory, passing milno has he drags a very skinny woman back toward the infirmary.
"Do you have some non-lethal weaponry?"
She starts laughing at you and then stops and tilts her head in confusion.
"Oh, you were serious? Um. We don't really have much of a demand for weapons that don't kill their target. But we might have something for dealing with riots on the ship...any preference about type?"
((Could I magnetically attach the monofilament? If so Thomas does.))
Uh, well that depends, do you want it to be vibrating so it can cut?
See what's over at the cafeteria.
((TCM, you have set yourself up for failure. I don't think even the Armory Master could win that fight.))
The cafeteria is an automated food machine with a menu board that doubles as the selection board. The selections are labeled using descriptive terms like "Meat 1" and "Meat 2".
Hmmm.
Try increasing the amplitude of the bit up to a few inches, if decreasing the frequency. Also estimate the price of it in tokens.
((Why is the target being pushed back? I mean, is it that strength is not adequate to start piercing the target (hopefully, the contact area is rather small), or is it that the kinetic ampliefier is somehow increasing the contact area?))
Try attaching the third firing chamber back to the expanded laser pistol. Test how big and unwieldy it gets that way.
((@Nikitian: You could try the solution I was thinking for the Piledriver. Try a magnetization system to get the weapon glued to the enemy and make all of the system easy to unclamp. So you can punch the enemy, the hydraulic hammer will glue to it if there is any metal, allowing the tip to pound with no mercy, and if you find yourself stuck you can always unclamp all of the equipment and leave it smashing the enemy's armor open.
Edit: Also ask about the price of your hydraulic weapon, since I want to make a similar one, but as big as possible to be wielded on the forearm (and possibly arm) of someone in a MkIII.))
((Well, I'll try it if it doesn't work this way. Also, yes, I'm probably also going for as big/powerful as possible, but first I need to get it working as intended. I have a couple more ideas, and hopefully one of them might work.))
((With all of your talk of Kinetic Amp drills and such, I had a very, very horrible idea.
Take a gauss slug. Attach Kinetic Amp on the front of it. I think where you see this is going. It would be horridly expensive, but it might also be horribly effective.
I want to work on it first, mind you, it is MY idea.))
((No problem. Also, yes, pretty much possible (and yes, terribly expensive and, I'm afraid, inefficient), just make sure to use the biggest and the most powerful gauss gun (or some other projectile weapon); personally, I'd suggest overpowering the gauss cannon, you know, to about 20-22 Strength required to wield/fire (possibly more if you're okay with using weapon mounts).
Perhaps the LESHO rifle was born this way, out of the same consideration. :- ) ))
Increasing the length of the "swing" seems to increase the force of the blow a good deal; you have a feeling that even longer swings might increase the force more. It's a bit tricky to get your punch and the oscillation of the spike to line up though. Maybe some sort of automated system?
The price of such a weapon is relatively low, something like 4-5 token. It's not a very complex machine, after all.
The pistol with the third focusing chamber attached is a bit hard to wield well, seeming more like a very small rifle then a very big handgun.
((Pyro wins the big stick award. If it works.))
"Three tokens? That seems alright. Now, time to fix the my rifle."
Exit VR and dissasemble Laser Rifle.
You exit the vr machine and grab your bag of crap and the rifle, carrying it over to one of the tables in the mess hall. [handiwork:- Wait.
I'm looking at your character sheet closely for the first time and I don't see any skills here. Did you forget to spend your points?
To the fighty part of the VR! With two reloads of my new ammo and a gauss rifle, of course.
What would you like to fight?
Milno looks over what he had recently purchased. Not bad...Having a barrel replacement for the gauss rifle was certainly pleasant; two of the three shots he dished out with one had been headshots, and the laser rifle's fast-draining battery did not help him face it under a most favorable light. Oh...and talking about batteries...
Milno takes the laser battery from his rifle and enters the infirmary. If either Gigantor has already woken up or the doctor has arrived, then he'll leave. If none has happened, he'll gently (Milno gently) hit her head with the battery until she wakes up and is able to tell her heartrending story to the doctor.
Note: But he'll try to avoid permanent brain damage.
You have no idea how much I want to roll you a strength roll and have you just crush her head in because you're clubbing her while still in your exoskeleton. But she's still awake so...yeah.
You shouldn't give me opportunities like that. Nothing good will come of it. Something funny might come of it though.