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- Name : Peretei (tahitian word for crickets, which are said to repell ghosts and spirits with their chirping noises).

- Wielder : Vanille Bourbon

- Maker/Smith : Vanille Bourbon

- Classification :  Blunt Shot Gun Guitar - BSGG

- Weapon Derivation : Pete Townshend / Jimi Hendrix and other rockstars smashing guitars on stage, and one of my tabletop rpg characters using an enchanted electric axe guitar to cast spells brought the concept. Aesthetics are based on Steve Rothery’s edition guitar made by Jack Dent.

- Form 1 Design : The guitar is built around a single piece extruded aluminium frame, with thicker walls on main points of impact, plus a couple crossmembers glued and riveted for stiffening and allow for potential upgrades. The neck part of the frame has been drilled longitudinally to receive a steel barrel, while the trigger mechanism is fitted in the body’s main strut. The neck’s head has a layer of steel riveted around the frame as a counterweight to improve balance when the guitar is used as a blunt weapon. The fretboard, body front and back covers are made of carbon fiber to keep non-structural parts as light as possible. The back cover has some cutouts allowing access to a recessed handle built in the frame’s main strut. The tuning keys are hollow with the purpose of being filled with dust.

- Form 1 Aesthetics :  The visible parts of the frame on the body sides are painted in a vanilla ice cream white color, whereas the front and back covers have a sunburst finish, going from an opaque dark amber contour fading into a light orange clearcoat which allows the V-shaped carbon fiber pattern underneath to be visible, with a with vanilla flower aerographed on the front and vanilla beans shaped cutouts around it (forming Vanille’s enblem). The neck’s carbon fiber remains unpainted. Smaller parts are polished aluminium strap buttons and output jack, golden bridge and tone controls, white and gold humbucker, black single coil pickups. The tuning keys are anodized in different colors to account for the primary types of dust.

- Form 2 : When the recessed handle on the back is pulled, part of the main strut comes out, forming a nearly forearm-lenght guard with a trigger at the front. The user is meant to rest this part over the forearm and hold the guitar’s neck with the off hand. The handle also pulls the hammer in front of the barrel and allows ammo to load in. Additionnally, the tuning keys can be pushed inwards like buttons to allow some dust to be injected into the barrel when a round is fired.

- Dust Usage : All primary dust types can be used in powder form, stored into the tuning keys. A key has to be pushed in to select a dust type that will enhance the rounds shot. 2 keys can be selected silmutaneously to get secondary dust type effects, although some combinations may not be reliable and make the rounds ineffective before they can reach a target.

- Ammunition : 12 gauge   rounds or pneumatic / air rounds (for raw dust powder propulsion) [still not sure if should use mechanical percussion or gravity dust mechanism or something, actual type of ammo would depend on that]. 3 rounds capacity, manual individual loading.

- Usage : The shotgun mode is mostly used to engage combat, then a well exectued flick on the neck will turn it around and allow blunt force bashing at close range. It is strongly advised to push the guard back into the body when not in shotgun mode.

- Planned/Possible Upgrades :
 * Recoil suppression system using a pendulum mass damper with a coil spring at the end of the guide.

- Trivia : This is also a fully functionnal music instrument. Since it’s a semi hollow body, it will make easily audible resonating string sounds when bashed on ennemies or firing rounds. Vanille’s OCD is checking the keys after every fight and see if the guitar held the tune.



Cut view of the frame on the right, no mechanisms shown. Lighter grays are aluminium, darker grays are heavy duty steel.