A transcript of a conversation from the discord server for one of
@open_sketch's other works, specifically the Flying Circus RPG:
Deep One doohickeys for Gunsmith Katsumi to be unnerved, but also tempted, by
[3:46 PM]
Plushie: Scion playbook one of the options is a High tech sidearm, is that anything specific in the book or more nebulus?
[3:47 PM]
sith1144: its a nebulous handgun
[3:47 PM]
Plushie: like the wingsuit that is a definate stat thing
[3:47 PM]
MechaMaestro: It's a handgun with some fancy stuff
[3:47 PM]
MechaMaestro: If you want
[3:47 PM]
Plushie: ok what i kinda thought
[3:47 PM]
MechaMaestro: Hell glow in the dark sights would be high tech for Himmilgard
[3:48 PM]
Plushie: better be radioactive or i'll be mad
[3:49 PM]
MissBegot: Would you accept eldritch? It's probably made from Dark Sea ink.
[3:50 PM]
Plushie: long as its helpful but eventually dams you in one in the way or another after prolonged interaction, Yes.
[3:50 PM]
MissBegot: Ah. You might be more at home with radium then.
[3:51 PM]
Plushie: I may have a real life hobby of Radiological Antiquing.
[3:52 PM]
MissBegot: The Deep Ones don't really do damning (or damming) 😛
[3:52 PM]
Plushie: We found a Revigitor water cask once
A nautical compass that blew threw 3 floors of reinforced concrete, ect.
[3:53 PM]
Plushie: Hrm, thought i read something that suggested something cthulu-ish about them
[3:55 PM]
Jay ~(,,_`;;'>: they're really powerful and benevolent, but also don't necessarily have a great time with concepts like Time and An Appropriate Number of Limbs
[3:56 PM]
Jay ~(,,_`;;'>: so maybe instead of making sights that glow the sights make your eyes glow. that's normal, right?
[3:56 PM]
MissBegot: Oh, they're eldritch entities from the deep ocean (which is also the underworld), beings slightly outside time and space, with limited understanding of mortal matters, but that doesn't mean they're bad people. 💙
[3:57 PM]
Jay ~(,,_`;;'>: "People like teeth, right? More teeth is good"
[3:59 PM]
MissBegot: The luminous inks the fishers extract from Dark Sea creatures are only slightly unearthly.
[4:01 PM]
MissBegot: You might have to anoint it with blood to make it glow or something, because the ink is not dead which can eternal lie etc.
[4:07 PM]
$ grep -i glass ~/ideas/bad: i never liked that verse
[4:08 PM]
$ grep -i glass ~/ideas/bad: it's just "all definitions of life are inherently xenophobic, except i made it spooky"
[4:13 PM]
MissBegot: My guide to writing the Fishers and the Deep Ones is "If H. P. Lovecraft isn't spinning in his grave at how wholesome they are, you're not doing it right."
[4:14 PM]
Plushie: I appreciate this
[4:16 PM]
MissBegot: Check out the novel for more of this, btw. It's awesome!
Whispers from the Deep by open_sketchbook
[5:29 PM]
vebyast: Deep One doohickeys for Gunsmith Katsumi to be unnerved-but-tempted-by:
* A sight that puts a dot on the spot the bullet will hit. Even if the thing you're aiming at is moving or way way far away. Don't point it at precognitives, you might make space-time implode.
* A magazine that loads bullets into your gun. Doesn't matter what kind of gun it is or how it works, this magazine can feed it.
* A really nice, crisp trigger made out of weirdly stiff human hair.
* A scope that makes you run really faster or slower - generally faster - depending on how you've configured it.
* Bullets with names on them. When you shoot one it'll hit someone with that name. Be very, very sure you know who you're shooting at.
* An automated machine gun that takes orders. Particularly enjoys being carried on a sling. Takes any excuse to be field-stripped, especially in public.
[5:32 PM]
Tetragramm: The gun only fires for you, but the grip licks your hand when you pick it up.
[5:32 PM]
vebyast: Perfect, yes
[5:33 PM]
vebyast: It clears jams itself by barfing the offending casings or bullets out the back of the gun, remember to wear an apron so it doesn't ruin your good clothes
[5:39 PM]
vebyast: A spotting scope that whispers advice into your ear. It's pretty good at sniping and does a mean trout a la creme, but you probably shouldn't take its relationship advice.
[5:51 PM]
vebyast: A pistol grip that holds hands with you for security and comfort.
[6:05 PM]
Plushie: Gun makes no sound when firing the bullet, but only a curse in a unknowable language is heard
[6:33 PM]
Tetragramm: A six cylinder revolver, but it fires nine shots before reloading.
[6:34 PM]
Jay ~(,,_`;;'>: revolver but one random chamber always fires a shark
[6:35 PM]
Tetragramm: The barrel glows blue and emits an ominous hum when someone who wants to hurt you is nearby. Yes, even your ex.
[6:37 PM]
Tetragramm: The gun has striking carvings on the grip, but they're always different. Today you saw a plane go down, but you're pretty sure you remember that exact scene on the grip last month.
[6:37 PM]
Jay ~(,,_`;;'>: gun that steals bullets out of other people's guns when fired
[6:51 PM]
vebyast: Gun that you have to reload after you shoot the bullets
[6:52 PM]
MissBegot: (If it misfires, this is a very bad omen...)
[6:52 PM]
vebyast: Silencer that makes whatever you shoot silent
[6:53 PM]
vebyast: Suppressor that makes the gun produce a ton of noise and fireworks and being-under-fire sounds so your target is more likely to hit the deck when you're shooting at them to keep them suppressed
[7:02 PM]
vebyast: A gun that can't discharge accidentally in any way, even if your hand is jostled while your finger is on the trigger or something like that, but taking the safety off includes swearing an oath in an unfathomable eldritch language whose words pop into your head when you intend to fire.
[7:07 PM]
$ grep -i glass ~/ideas/bad: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this—unfolds hammer—
[7:07 PM]
$ grep -i glass ~/ideas/bad: And this gives life to thee...
[7:14 PM]
vebyast: The gun cleans and oils itself, but it occasionally hacks up hairballs in your shoes and knocks things off your countertops if you let it get bored.
[7:16 PM]
FrangibleCover: A gun which makes bullets hit things, but without them being loaded into the gun or fired from it
[7:17 PM]
FrangibleCover: Pull the trigger, the object you were pointing at has a bullet in it
[7:18 PM]
vebyast: A gun that shoots bullets chambered in a caliber from a ironic alternate history timeline custom-tailored for your next encounter.
[7:19 PM]
FrangibleCover: That is going to be very strange
[7:19 PM]
FrangibleCover: It's also going to completely fuck up police ballistics people
[7:20 PM]
MissBegot: A gun that only kills ideas. The gunsight is extremely strange.
[7:20 PM]
SupNerds: "he was murdered by someone with a... .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer?"
[7:21 PM]
Plushie: Gun, that has no blade but slices like the sharpest knife
[7:21 PM]
Jaenen: The talking gun ideas remind me of one of my favorite joke sniper rifles from Borderlands 2, that insulted you with every shot
[7:23 PM]
Tetragramm: If there are multiple enemies and you roll well enough to hit, the gun hits the enemy to the left of the person you were aiming at, no matter how unlikely.
[7:26 PM]
Tetragramm: The gun appears totally normal, but if someone verbally threatens you, it giggles. Nobody will/can believe it was the gun.
[7:29 PM]
vebyast: A concealed-carry pistol that nobody can comprehend is a weapon. Even the shooter. You can use it perfectly fine by intending to destroy whatever you're pointing it at, but past that it's just a weird thing that you know does important stuff.
[7:30 PM]
Tetragramm: A gun that is reloaded by feeding bullets to the barrel. It grows teeth to eat them from your hand.
[7:31 PM]
Jaenen: I may need to steal this for something
[7:40 PM]
Liora: A suspiciously mundane firearm.
[7:42 PM]
vebyast: A replacement cylinder for your revolver that spits out spent cases when you open the gun. Useful, but the "ptoo" noise it makes can give you away.
[7:44 PM]
Plushie: Just Yosemitie Sam's gun with the Mexican sterotype bullets
[7:48 PM]
vebyast: A trigger group that sets off the primer by chanting reality-twisting eldritch incantations at it. Long lock time and you have to wear gloves, but the chamber can be totally sealed and it never light-strikes. In fact, it might not even need primers at all.
[7:55 PM]
Tetragramm: Most guns don't work well if they've been submerged. This one only works if it's been submerged within the last week. It may also spray water in the eyes of anyone who surprises you up close.
[7:59 PM]
vebyast: The gun requires no oil and runs like a dream as long as you thoroughly scrub every part with saltwater.
[7:59 PM]
Tetragramm: The gun is constantly emitting a small stream of smoke, but occasionally fires a live, angry, Rumble Bee.
[8:01 PM]
Liora: A gun that fires heat-seeking bullets. Though why it's shaped like a pair of foxen....
[8:02 PM]
vebyast: A machine gun that you can cool instantly by holding the barrel up and blowing the smoke off it action-hero style
[8:02 PM]
Plushie: A gun that only reloads magically by saying the action hero quip lines
[8:03 PM]
Tetragramm: Better, a gun that says the action hero quip lines whenever you reload.
[8:06 PM]
vebyast: A magazine where you always know precisely how many bullets you have left. No matter how many bullets are in it, even if it's well over the limit for human subitizing. Even if it's in your pocket. Even if you're halfway through a full-auto burst.
[8:07 PM]
Plushie: that's a terrible idea to fire it on full auto in your pocket
[8:09 PM]
Tetragramm: You must give equal attention to both the gun and the cylinder, or they'll get jealous and refuse to have anything to do with each other.
[8:09 PM]
vebyast: A distressingly suggestive loaded-chamber indicator.
[8:10 PM]
vebyast: Bullets that work because they hate the chamber and will expel themselves faster than, well, okay, as fast as a speeding bullet, as long as you take care to keep them from making up
[8:11 PM]
Tetragramm: A rifle with a sling. Normal, except it keeps trying to set you up with cuties by tangling the two (or more) of you together.
[8:15 PM]
vebyast: A field gun that can only be operated by a polycule. The bigger the polycule the better it shoots.
[8:18 PM]
vebyast: A mortar that sets itself up if you tell it a lewd joke.
[8:19 PM]
vebyast: A bolt-action rifle that can be convinced to run the bolt for you if you feed it treats and pet it between engagements.
[8:21 PM]
Plushie: Missle that the farther away it gets the smaller it gets and thrust to weight ratio increases
[8:23 PM]
Liora: A missile that knows where it is because it knows where it isn't?
[8:24 PM]
vebyast: If at any point you tell it where it is or where its target is it completely loses the ability to missile
[8:24 PM]
Tetragramm: A gun that, while in a fire-fight, unconvincingly yells "Bang! Bang!" to make it sound like there are more of you.
[8:26 PM]
vebyast: A fire-and-forget A2A missile with extreme off-axis capabilities and two target-acquisition modes: "Twenty Questions" and "I Spy..."
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