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Thug Zapper

These nasty, inventive little relics come straight from the nasty, inventive mind of Jaymiel, newcomer Archangel of Mending. Jaymiel dislikes demons in general, of course, but she particularly despises Calabim: cleaning up after them can be incredibly frustrating. She's decided to thin the herd a bit.

A Thug Zapper is a one-time celestial artifact that is always disguised as something else. Jaymiel makes bunches of them and leaves them lying around in areas with heavy celestial traffic: most Tethers have a few. Zappers do absolutely nothing at all … until a Calabite wanders within 10 yards of one. Then, the relic arms itself. The very next time a Calabite uses his resonance within 10 yards, he gets blasted with the stored-up energy in the relic. This can be very painful and very, very loud (Jaymiel couldn't care less about disturbance: it's actually usually beneficial, one way or another).

Jaymiel makes two kinds of Zappers: the first type utilizes the Celestial Song of Light, while the second draws on the Celestial Song of Lightning (the Archangel of Mending is a former Servitor of Jean's, which is why she has access to his more obscure Songs). While less powerful, Light Zappers are useful in areas where demons are known to go about in celestial form: five or six of them can turn a Calabite into a shadow of his former self. Lightning Zappers require a reliable source of electricity, and can't do celestial damage … but they can fry a vessel quite handily.

Right now only Jaymiel, Jean, and a few Servitors of each know how to make Zappers of either type, although it's rumored that Vapula is trying to reverse-engineer the trick (it's also rumored that the Demon Prince of Technology had very little difficulties "capturing" samples). Frankly, they serve more as terror weapons than as anything else, which suits Jaymiel just fine: they make Calabim nervous and less efficient, and are utterly harmless to anyone else to boot.

 

Thug Zapper - Light

Relic/6 (Celestial Song of Light) 18

Self Powered 0

User Restriction: only works on Calabim, upon their

successful use of a resonance within 10 yards

(This is judged to be a +4 Enhancement) 4

Disturbance: 12 points -6

Hard to detect: -6 on Perception Rolls 3

Charges: one use /4

Total Cost: 5 points

 

Thug Zapper - Lightning

Relic/6 (variant of Celestial Song of Lightning) 18

Self Powered 0

User Restriction: only works on Calabim, upon their

successful use of a resonance within 10 yards

(This is judged to be a +4 Enhancement) 4

Use Restriction: Must be plugged into a source of

electrical power (a gas generator will do) -1

Disturbance: 12 points -6

Extra Essence Capacity: 4 +8

Hard to detect: -6 on Perception Rolls +3

Charges: one use /4

Total Cost: 7 points

 

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