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[TricMagic]

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Ink Blotter - Bloatar Configuration (0)
Big Air Ink Bomb (3) SamSpeeds, testmen, TricMagic
Night Ops: Zephyr Squad (2) TricMagic, Taricus

..Big Air, Big Ink, Big Boom. Mod of the Ink Blotter's mechanics and air into a single arced shot.

[Happerry]

Revision : Big Air Ink Bomb (Average Difficulty)
4+2 = 6: Above average

The Big Air Ink Bomb is fairly simple at the core, once the designers manage to puzzle out the incoherent and badly formatted instructions. It basically just concentrated Ink into a big ball, and then fires it up into the sky to come down somewhere else. And the designers manage that. Users of the Big Air Ink Bomb can indeed focus their ink into a big ball of glowing ink and then fire it into the air. It's pretty guaranteed to splat anyone it directly lands on, has a decent splash radius, leaves everything it touches glowing brightly for the next minute or two (and immediately gets co-opted to serve as signal flares), and is fired in an arc. The designers even managed to use a bit about what they know about aerosolized ink to have its explosion leave a short lasting (IE, five seconds) cloud of glowing ink behind the explosion site.

It's not even that expensive in Super Sea Snails to construct the needed focuses to allow Inklings to use the special in question.

Still, users do complain that it'd be a lot easier to target if they had some sort of targeting gear like guns have, and tactical officers note that while it is a relatively fast charging special it is still a special, and as such isn't actually continual bombardment fire.

On the other hand, nine out of ten Inklings agrees it's more useful then the Vortex Armor.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Bamboozler Quickcharge Cartridges : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a socket for a pre-filled and pressurized cartridge of ink. A simple lever allows the user to switch between normal firing mode and using the cartridge to fire an instant and fully charged shot, if one at only around 85% the range and power of a normal charged shot. Takes a little bit to unscrew the old cartridge and then screw another one in, limiting their ability to be used more then once in an exchange.
• Inkerial Blotter : An ink shell launching gun powered by super sea snail homeopathy and applied anti-logic. It fires blobs of ink that burst upon contact with a target, splattering a small area around said target with ink. It is hampered by its relatively short range, but uses a triple firing chamber array to permit an acceptable rate of fire. It's ink shells are also fired in an arc, instead of having a straight trajectory like other inkarms, permitting a limited amount of indirect fire. The recent addition of a proper pressurization chamber has both increased the AOE of the shells to a more average radius, and also has somewhat increased the range of fire to 'below average'. Also has snazzy new stone triggers.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.
• ⑨-Scope : A powerful charger that uses eight Quickcharge Cartridges arranged around the primary compression chamber to achieve the forces needed for long ranged fire. The necessity to replace all the Cartridges between shots as well as re-compress the ink in the primary chamber ensure the ⑨-Scope has an absurdly low firing speed as well as a ferocious amount of recoil when fired. On the other hand, with a normal compression chamber and eight cartridges powering the shot, at least it hits hard. Also, the designers ran out of time and never got around to designing a scope for the gun, hindering its accuracy at its maximum range.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails, Complex.
• 3D-Scope : A powerful charger that uses three secondary compression chambers around the primary chamber to power its shots. Using all three of the secondary chambers requires more charging time then using fewer of them for a weaker shot, but only when all chambers are used does the 3D-Scope gain its true power and range. Comes with a simple scope for accurate fire out into the long range bracket, but uses up lots and lots of ink when being fired out to its full range and power. Unlike the ⑨-Scope, using it will no longer cover your entire shoulder and or arms in bruises from the recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Rapid Shooter : A short ranged triple chambered gun, the Rapid Shooter is the first proper Shooter to be put into production in the Great Turf War. It's short ranged and has minor accuracy issues at the edge of its range, but it is also light, handy, and can recharge its compression chamber on the go. As such, as long as one doesn't literally hold the trigger down until the compression chamber is empty, it can maintain a continual stream of fire no other gun in the turf war can yet match.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Inkdisc-A Bomb/Mine : A disk shaped plastic casing for ink filled balloons that can be used as a thrown projectile detonated upon impact with a needle of hardened ink, or with the flip of a lever the needle may remain unused to allow for the deployment of the Inkdisc as a sort of non-stealthy mine. While limited in range, despite and because of its frisbee like shape, by the muscle power and throwing ability of its user one good direct hit within its range can splat the average target. Takes a few seconds to inflate though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb : A shell shaped throwing weapon that emits aerosolized ink from three separate ports, providing concealment, soothing friendly Inkantry, and serving as a low level ablative defense verses enemy shots. Enemies moving through a cloud will feel like they're moving through a cloud of itching powder, and the cloud is pretty effective at blocking line of sight. Of course, like other smoke weapons, that includes friendly line of sight...
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail
• Big Air Ink Bomb : A special that allows the user to fire a glowing artillery shot of ink up into the sky, to then fall back down and land on an unfortunate Octoling's head. Has some minor issues aiming, but has decent range, enough damage to splat basically anyone directly hit, good splash radius, and leaves a five second cloud of aerosolized ink floating around the impact site. Was immediately co-opted by tactical officers for use as a signal flare. It's simplicity allows it to be charged faster then normal for a special.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.
• Markslings: Inklings whom have powered through the frequent and blatant distractions and misuse of the Firink Field to maximize their accuracy, snapshot skills, and ability to assess cover to as high as the Firink Field could take them. While few are dedicated enough to become known as a Marksling, those whom are are rightfully known for their skills.
  Uncommon Specialist.
• Inkrunners: Inklings trained in Camp Booyah for speed, agility, and the arcane are of the Dodge Roll. Not actually better in direct combat then a normal Inkantry, but harder to hit and able to get to the fight, or any other location of interest, faster then a normal Inkantry. They need to use a light and easy to use weapon to be able to properly employ their skills however, preventing them from using most of the current armory.

Cultural Artifacts

• The Inkspire : A vast and continual open air market and cultural festival without end that has grown around Inkopolis Tower, better known as the Inkspire in those times. While of little direct military use, it's presence as a sign of what all Inklings fought for had noticeable effects on their overall morale. And besides, I found the cutest pair of booties there last time I went! Must visit again soon. And this time, I'll avoid drinking that homemade fire-water.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.
• Firink Range : An expanded weapons testing and training field with automatic targets that do things such as move and shoot back, as well as a multitude of different firing positions to practice from. For some reason the Inkantry have taken to using the place as a tournament ground, hindering attempts to train within it. Still, for those whom persist and fail to be distracted by the team verses team playfights, a noticeable level of skill can emerge. Markslings may not be common, but they have learned the lessons of the Firink Range well and full-heartedly.
• Camp Booyah : An alternate training area, Camp Booyah is an obstacle course that specializes in training Inkrunners instead of long ranged combatants. Unlike earlier obstacle courses it is far less likely to traumatize and splat it's victim-, er, trainees. On the other tentacle, it also produces far less lawsuits.
• Spike Covered Crevasses : It turns out that these are illegal to drop Inklings into, and do not in fact make good obstacle courses.

Superweapons
So far, no Superweapons have been developed.

Heroes

• Commander Cauldo : A former instructor of the Inkantry Brevetted to Commander and deployed to battle. Armed with a refined Inkerial Blotter using lighter materials and a five-firing chamber arrangement for greater firing speed and usability, as well as experimental ink energy batteries that are no longer mildly explosive when things go wrong. Commander Cauldo is known for his tactical skill and ability at small scale unit command, skills which seem to come from his days as an instructor, and unlike most heroes works closely with an attached squad of Inkantry. His presence is inspiring to said squad and any other Inklings around, and he can use his reputation to get other squads to listen to him, increasing local coordination.
• Aoi the Painter: A former security guard and self employed manga artist, Aoi has been recruited into the ranks of the special Inkling Agents as Agent 2. She's armed with a self designed giant paintbrush weapon able to really paint some turf as long as the enemy is at point blank range, and uses compressed air to let her throw the ink off the brush farther when she swings it around. Even if the compressed air capsule has to be replaces every few minutes as it runs out of air, it still gives her a bit of extra range. Aoi is pretty fast on her feet and nimble, if not unreasonably so. Lastly, her glowing facepaint makes her look extra fresh.

The Deployment Phase of Summer, Year 2 has begun.

[TricMagic]

Aoi The Painter deployed to Calamari Country, with Our Inklings also making the push.
Commander Cauldo Secretly Deploys to focus on bringing down the Octo Valley Radio Network.

The rest of our Inklings can deal with Moray Towers Defense, since both inside and outside combat reduces the effectiveness of their greater range common weapons.

Plan A (1) TricMagic

[testmen]

Plan "We would like that back, please"

Aoi The Painter sneaks in to Octo Valley to steal the fax machine back.
Cauldo Commands the forces at Moray Towers counter-offensive.
Push into Octo Valley


If a giant octoling can sneak around and steal our stuff, a normal sized squid probably could too.  Pushing in Octo Valley to puts pressure on them to defend their home base, we should not let up because we might lose ground on side routes.

Plan A (1) TricMagic
Plan "We would like that back, please" (1) testmen

[TricMagic]

We have been pushed back before in the Canyon, so sending troops on their own isn't going to help much.

Ruining their Social Artifact though will give us the advantage again, as they will have to rebuild. And we still have control of the Mount with our gear.

Next turn is going to be when we get that Zephyr Squad designed, and they can do so for us.

[Emral282]

I'm for getting the Fax Machine back myself

Plan A (1) TricMagic
Plan "We would like that back, please" (2) testmen, Emral282

[TricMagic]

And taking down one of their Social items?

[Happerry]

The Great Turf War of Summer, Year 2, has now Finished.

The Design Phase of Fall, Year 2 has begun.

[TricMagic]

Main Weapon Upgrade: Bamboozler 2.0

Following the need to deal with the opposition's New Air Support, we focused on increasing the range and accuracy, as well as power, by increasing the pressure of our gear, and refining the nozzle/barrel section so ink is fired straight. The Ink does drop down over a distance, but it's more than enough to hit our opponents. More importantly, this drop is regular, and easy to compensate for.

Includes the standard Quick-charger Setup.


Sub-Weapon: Ink-Missile
Using the latest in Inkling Ink Energy Theology, this sub-weapon fires a self-propelled Ink Shot, tracking enemy ink signatures to blast them. It's basically a propelled ink shot mixed with Super Sea Snail, and it explodes once it hits/is near a target.

The Super Sea Snail is acclimated to an Ink Signature, and tracks down any Signature that does not match it, before exploding with extreme prejudice. Based upon the fact that all Lings give off a certain wavelength type, and Systems/items that use/have a lot of it have more than inked turf.

This effect is slightly limited, in that the shots have to be aimed at a nearby target, but it can go from short to long range, depending on if there are any Lings in the way. Due to it's makeup, it will always go after the closest applicable target, distance wise, in a 90*degree cone ahead of the way the shot faces.

[testmen]

Dyejutsu Squinjas - Personnel

We were just about to write the letters to families of soldiers who took part in the ill-fated game of Hide-and-Seek, when in the dead of night they returned to HQ to report what has happened to them.  They described how in their efforts to find the best hiding spots, they traveled deep into the woods, where they found a inexplicable Dojo that was home to a alleged master of Dyejutsu known as Master Spaghetti.  The old man lured them into his home, where the squad end up being tricked by the old man into cleaning his dojo in exchange for ninja training!  This gurgling trade has taught them the arts of sneaking really good and not getting caught, along with martial arts training that makes them formidable close quarters combatants. The current squad of Squinjas themselves do not have enough mastery to train students of their own, but on the backs of one of the squad, a post-it note was found he would be willing to train more Squinjas in exchange for them bringing there own cleaning supplies and being willing to help clean. Squads of Squinjas could be a very dangerous force to be reckoned with, but how many Inklings are brave enough to face the horrors of cleaning the house?

[Emral282]

I'm assuming that people are voting for their own designs

Main Weapon Upgrade: Bamboozler 2.0 (1): TricMagic
Sub-Weapon: Ink-Missile (2): TricMagic, Emral282
Dyejutsu Squinjas - Personnel (1): testman

Voting for the Ink Missile to break the tie and because I think it's the best design proposed to counter the new vehicles. The Squinjas are interesting but not what we need right now.
The 2.0 is interesting but I just feel like the Missiles will do more to help our current situation.

[SamSpeeds]

Missile looks p good.

Main Weapon Upgrade: Bamboozler 2.0 (1): TricMagic
Sub-Weapon: Ink-Missile (3): TricMagic, Emral282, SamSpeeds
Dyejutsu Squinjas - Personnel (1): testman

[The_Two_Eternities]

Main Weapon Upgrade: Bamboozler 2.0 (1): TricMagic
Sub-Weapon: Ink-Missile (4): TricMagic, Emral282, SamSpeeds, TTE
Dyejutsu Squinjas - Personnel (1): testman

[Happerry]

Design : Ink-Missile (Hard Difficulty)
2+3-1 = 4: Below Average

Basing the design off of the Big Air Ink Bomb, engineers get to work attempting to convert the high flying special into a design simple, reliable, and cheap enough that it can be used as a sub-weapon while also adding homing capabilities and a sensor able to trigger the explosion when it gets close enough to an enemy instead of just when it runs into something. While those capabilities can be added, generally adding them renders the result overly expensive and hard to manufacture. Eventually success is found by re-using the casing of the Inkdisc and giving up on self-propulsion. Instead a Super Sea Snail based ultra low friction coating is applied to the base of the disk, allowing users to send it sliding across battlefields at velocities as fast as they can sling one. As well, an Ink Signature detecting sensor is successfully prototyped and added to the weapon, causing it to explode whenever it comes 'near enough' to a target that resonates with an enemy signature. This does, however, cause it to suffer false positives when slung into sufficently coated with enemy ink ground. Lastly, an additional sensor is added that will detect when the Ink-Missile stays still for more then three seconds after it is armed, and causes it to explode at that point to prevent it from sitting around long enough for the ink to dissolve if it misses all targets.

Also the part where it was based on the Big Air Ink Bomb means it shares the glowing ink 'feature' with that special, as no one ever got around to changing that during development. This has the minor side effect of causing the weapon itself to glow.

Costs 3 Plastic and 1 Super Sea Snails, making it Expensive.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Bamboozler Quickcharge Cartridges : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a socket for a pre-filled and pressurized cartridge of ink. A simple lever allows the user to switch between normal firing mode and using the cartridge to fire an instant and fully charged shot, if one at only around 85% the range and power of a normal charged shot. Takes a little bit to unscrew the old cartridge and then screw another one in, limiting their ability to be used more then once in an exchange.
• Inkerial Blotter : An ink shell launching gun powered by super sea snail homeopathy and applied anti-logic. It fires blobs of ink that burst upon contact with a target, splattering a small area around said target with ink. It is hampered by its relatively short range, but uses a triple firing chamber array to permit an acceptable rate of fire. It's ink shells are also fired in an arc, instead of having a straight trajectory like other inkarms, permitting a limited amount of indirect fire. The recent addition of a proper pressurization chamber has both increased the AOE of the shells to a more average radius, and also has somewhat increased the range of fire to 'below average'. Also has snazzy new stone triggers.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.
• ⑨-Scope : A powerful charger that uses eight Quickcharge Cartridges arranged around the primary compression chamber to achieve the forces needed for long ranged fire. The necessity to replace all the Cartridges between shots as well as re-compress the ink in the primary chamber ensure the ⑨-Scope has an absurdly low firing speed as well as a ferocious amount of recoil when fired. On the other hand, with a normal compression chamber and eight cartridges powering the shot, at least it hits hard. Also, the designers ran out of time and never got around to designing a scope for the gun, hindering its accuracy at its maximum range.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails, Complex.
• 3D-Scope : A powerful charger that uses three secondary compression chambers around the primary chamber to power its shots. Using all three of the secondary chambers requires more charging time then using fewer of them for a weaker shot, but only when all chambers are used does the 3D-Scope gain its true power and range. Comes with a simple scope for accurate fire out into the long range bracket, but uses up lots and lots of ink when being fired out to its full range and power. Unlike the ⑨-Scope, using it will no longer cover your entire shoulder and or arms in bruises from the recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Rapid Shooter : A short ranged triple chambered gun, the Rapid Shooter is the first proper Shooter to be put into production in the Great Turf War. It's short ranged and has minor accuracy issues at the edge of its range, but it is also light, handy, and can recharge its compression chamber on the go. As such, as long as one doesn't literally hold the trigger down until the compression chamber is empty, it can maintain a continual stream of fire no other gun in the turf war can yet match.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Inkdisc-A Bomb/Mine : A disk shaped plastic casing for ink filled balloons that can be used as a thrown projectile detonated upon impact with a needle of hardened ink, or with the flip of a lever the needle may remain unused to allow for the deployment of the Inkdisc as a sort of non-stealthy mine. While limited in range, despite and because of its frisbee like shape, by the muscle power and throwing ability of its user one good direct hit within its range can splat the average target. Takes a few seconds to inflate though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb : A shell shaped throwing weapon that emits aerosolized ink from three separate ports, providing concealment, soothing friendly Inkantry, and serving as a low level ablative defense verses enemy shots. Enemies moving through a cloud will feel like they're moving through a cloud of itching powder, and the cloud is pretty effective at blocking line of sight. Of course, like other smoke weapons, that includes friendly line of sight...
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.
• Ink-Missile : A weapon based equally off the Inkdisc and the Big Air Ink Bomb, the Ink-Missile is a plastic disk with an almost frictionless bottom, allowing it to be sent skating into enemy lines where an ink signature detecting sensor causes it to explode as soon as it gets close enough to an enemy. Or sufficiently inked enemy turf, for that matter. It also has a motion sensor to cause it to explode when it finally comes to a halt if it manages to find no targets at all during its long skid. Has a somewhat smaller explosion radius then the Inkdisc due to the space taken up by the sensors and special bottom.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail
• Big Air Ink Bomb : A special that allows the user to fire a glowing artillery shot of ink up into the sky, to then fall back down and land on an unfortunate Octoling's head. Has some minor issues aiming, but has decent range, enough damage to splat basically anyone directly hit, good splash radius, and leaves a five second cloud of aerosolized ink floating around the impact site. Was immediately co-opted by tactical officers for use as a signal flare. It's simplicity allows it to be charged faster then normal for a special.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.
• Markslings: Inklings whom have powered through the frequent and blatant distractions and misuse of the Firink Field to maximize their accuracy, snapshot skills, and ability to assess cover to as high as the Firink Field could take them. While few are dedicated enough to become known as a Marksling, those whom are are rightfully known for their skills.
  Uncommon Specialist.
• Inkrunners: Inklings trained in Camp Booyah for speed, agility, and the arcane are of the Dodge Roll. Not actually better in direct combat then a normal Inkantry, but harder to hit and able to get to the fight, or any other location of interest, faster then a normal Inkantry. They need to use a light and easy to use weapon to be able to properly employ their skills however, preventing them from using most of the current armory.

Cultural Artifacts

• The Inkspire : A vast and continual open air market and cultural festival without end that has grown around Inkopolis Tower, better known as the Inkspire in those times. While of little direct military use, it's presence as a sign of what all Inklings fought for had noticeable effects on their overall morale. And besides, I found the cutest pair of booties there last time I went! Must visit again soon. And this time, I'll avoid drinking that homemade fire-water.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.
• Firink Range : An expanded weapons testing and training field with automatic targets that do things such as move and shoot back, as well as a multitude of different firing positions to practice from. For some reason the Inkantry have taken to using the place as a tournament ground, hindering attempts to train within it. Still, for those whom persist and fail to be distracted by the team verses team playfights, a noticeable level of skill can emerge. Markslings may not be common, but they have learned the lessons of the Firink Range well and full-heartedly.
• Camp Booyah : An alternate training area, Camp Booyah is an obstacle course that specializes in training Inkrunners instead of long ranged combatants. Unlike earlier obstacle courses it is far less likely to traumatize and splat it's victim-, er, trainees. On the other tentacle, it also produces far less lawsuits.
• Spike Covered Crevasses : It turns out that these are illegal to drop Inklings into, and do not in fact make good obstacle courses.

Superweapons
So far, no Superweapons have been developed.

Heroes

• Commander Cauldo : A former instructor of the Inkantry Brevetted to Commander and deployed to battle. Armed with a refined Inkerial Blotter using lighter materials and a five-firing chamber arrangement for greater firing speed and usability, as well as experimental ink energy batteries that are no longer mildly explosive when things go wrong. Commander Cauldo is known for his tactical skill and ability at small scale unit command, skills which seem to come from his days as an instructor, and unlike most heroes works closely with an attached squad of Inkantry. His presence is inspiring to said squad and any other Inklings around, and he can use his reputation to get other squads to listen to him, increasing local coordination.
• Aoi the Painter: A former security guard and self employed manga artist, Aoi has been recruited into the ranks of the special Inkling Agents as Agent 2. She's armed with a self designed giant paintbrush weapon able to really paint some turf as long as the enemy is at point blank range, and uses compressed air to let her throw the ink off the brush farther when she swings it around. Even if the compressed air capsule has to be replaces every few minutes as it runs out of air, it still gives her a bit of extra range. Aoi is pretty fast on her feet and nimble, if not unreasonably so. Lastly, her glowing facepaint makes her look extra fresh.

The Revision Phase of Fall, Year 2 has begun.

[TricMagic]

Main Weapon: Splash Cannon

Based slightly upon the Ink Blotter and 3D-Scope, this weapon has long range, and a shot which explodes, raining ink upon an area.

Super Sea Snail Shell built into the weapon is used to generate a cylindrical shell for each shot rather quickly, and a natural instability in the ink itself. Upon firing, the shot is blasted out of the cannon through pressurized air. Once 3 seconds have passed, the shot blows up, raining ink on the area around and below it. Naturally, if the shot hits something, it will also blow up, though that's more due to the instability of the shot itself.

The weapon comes with 4 chambers, where the shot is produced, that the Inkling carries around. 1 is kept in the Main Weapon assembly, and once fired, can either be kept while it is recharged, or detached to load in another chamber that is ready.

As per most, we can change the range of the weapon by altering how much air is used to fire it. Primary analysis leads most to conclude this weapon will be Complex. (3 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail, Complex=Expensive) OR (2 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails{For Protein Filters}, Complex?=Expensive)

Side Notes: Ink is funneled into each chamber through an attached hose, and the Super Sea Snail Shell built in creates the shell once the chamber is full. This is also when the timer is set up, which will trigger once it's fired. As each chamber is part of the main weapon's chamber, the side with the hose in the bottom can be detached to place the shell in the weapon, while the other side has a connection port built into it for locking the shell in, and passing the compressed air through.

Base Design Idea



Vortex Armor Revision: Vortex Sphere

Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.

Funnily enough, this description is near identical to the revision.

A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user.

Rather than focus it around the user, the revision focuses on spreading the Ink Energy into a Vortex around the user in a large Sphere. Any enemy lings in that sphere will take damage extremely fast, often leading to splats. Moreover, the incresee in radius of the special lets it easily block enemy shots, as the barrier is a combination of Shining Ink and Ink Energy, more in line with the failed attempts to solidify Ink into Light.(In that it allows us to not only see through it, but also blocks shots no matter their power. Even a Zapfish Weapon would only destabilize it into breaking apart{By spreading the impact through the Special itself}, not hurt those inside it/behind.)

Once deployed, this Special will create an area in a sphere that completely blocks enemy shots and damages enemies inside. It only lasts 15 seconds, but during that time, we are protected. As this Special deploys on the spot it's is activated, it does not move with the user like the old Vortex Armor, but it's effect also extends through walls in a perfect Vortex Sphere of Ink Energy.

Side Note: It lasting 15 Seconds is more due to it being able to last 30 seconds, we just concentrate the time into a super stable defense. The Special also covering Turf in ink is a side effect rather than a focus, since the spread is not complete, only partial with it's curving lines. Enough to deny movement through it afterward, but not to the point we can swim through the area either.

Final Note: Those who enter it and can survive for more than a few seconds can get close enough to hurt those in it. Mostly the Kakenblade users at this point, though Dofley is likely able to survive multiple. Deploying them with him in the center is likely to work well enough though, that we can take him down through attrition.