Re: [HOE] Stupid Junker device...

[Soothsprayer <hercubadger@yahoo.com>]

There are other ways to deal a learning experience to
the player as well as a warning for future behaviour.
Let him have the device for the moment but make sure
you quickly orchestrate a situation where he's sure to
use it.

From your description it would appear the guy is going
to shoulder it arse forwards and go unto glory with a
shoulder mounted flame-thrower of immense agony. Have
some wasters go running up going "hooga booga" or some
such while they have very sharp and rusty looking
instruments at the character with more than a coffee
date on their minds. When the weapon is fired your fun
begins.

The weapon seems to at be all that large. So you can
begin by having some of the back blast lap around the
edges of the tube and strike the character full in the
face. Maybe a D8 or three of damage for that. There
there's blindness as a very large flash just happened
right in front of his eyes. Does he wear goggles? If
he does, feel free to scorch the skin around them as a
lesson. 

The character has to remember that while he's pointing
the nasty hot end forwards, a missile is flying out
the other end. Have the unaimed missile strike an
innocent person. Perhaps a well known and respected
person in the town they happen to be in. The locals
are sure not to like that and may even demonstrate
their concern for the well-being of innocent
bystanders to the character right there and then. With
knives. You could always have the missile strike
another member of the Posse. It's a D4 so it shouldn't
kill them as such. I imagine they'll be more than a
tad upset however. "You shot me! You shot me you son
of a ..... " There's always the water tank for the
town, fuel tanks, and all other vital targets that
generally get away better not being hit by warheads of
any size. 

Then you can always explain to the Posse how the
weapon works. If the weapon is to be used again
they're going to make sure the character is right
there at the front of all the excitement so none of
them can get hit by the backblast. How does this
junker feel about be all exposed in front of the bad
guys while he shoulders this weapon. Might as well
paint a bull's eye on his shirt and be done with it.

As a side note, how do the tech-spirits feel about all
their hard work being used in an entirely wrong way.
In comparison, imagine how proud parents feel when
they've bought their children the most expensive toy
comprehensible and then see the kids throwing the toy
away and just playing with the cardboard box it came
in. That's what the junker is doing. Playing with the
backblast and completely ignoring the missile part
which, to the spirits, was the entire point of the
matter. As someone else has already mentioned, let's
see this junker work with spirits again until they
calm down. 

Just a few thoughts.

Cheers,
Mr. B

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