Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170714130723/@comment-25936766-20170820023805

Sentry, you don't have to bump a thread practically every single day, you know. If anything, that eats up the thread pretty fast.

- Name: Thunder Slammer

- Wielder: Cole - Coolest Loser Ever.

- Maker/Smith: L1F3 = Minus Lemniscate.

- Classification: Collapsable Lightning Glowing Club.

- Weapon Derivation: Read the Notes.

- Form 1: Inactive Mode: A small steel glow-stick, about 5cm in length and 4cm in diameter. Has a flat top and bottom.

- Form 1 Aesthetics: Not it's entire surface is transparent; there's a 3cm-long horizontal black line, that forms a ring on the stick's surface.It starts at the 2cm and ends at the 4cm (vertically), in other words, it covers almost all the glow stick.

- Form 2: Active Mode: The glow stick uncollapses, extending from the bottom until it becomes a 0,7m long club. The "original form" instead becomes the thick top of the club, with the diameter narrowing in the side opposite of the top until reaching the handle. Overall, it's a Baseball Bat.

- Form 2 Aesthetics: For the most part, it's translucent like a glow-stick. The black line at the now-top of the bat remains, marking the Sweet Spot. The first 15cm, starting from the end opposite to the cap, are painted in a very dark grey, close-to but not-quite black colored.

- Dust Usage: Gravity Dust (infused on a part of the surface) and Lightning Dust (Powdered form).

1) Gravity: The area marked by the line at the top of the bat, is actually infused with Gravity Dust. It works as a Sweet Spot, since the Dust will amplify the force, and thus result in a more-powerful hit there.

2) Lightning: The real fun part of the weapon. Normally, it's inactive, making the weapon work like a normal club. But by agitating the Dust inside, either during swings or by outright shaking the weapon (most effective in it's Inactive form), it is activated in a gradual manner.

As it does, the Bat starts glowing with a Purple-ish color (due to the Electricity), and hits with it will shock. If it's charged too much, the electricity can manifest slightly on the external surface of the Bat, making it dangerous to touch any part of the Bat beyond the Handle. However, it will "calm down" over time if the weapon isn't agitated too much.

- Ammunition: Only noobs need guns.

- Usage: For the most part, it's used as a Club, just like Baseball Bats, with the Gravity Dust acting like a Sweet Spot, so the user would try to land as many hits with that area as possible.

However, there's also the Lightning Dust, which, as the weapon is agitated (pauses aside) during the fight, it will boost the weapon's damage potential with Lightning in a gradual, noticeable manner. Until it's at maximum, becoming a Lightning Club dangerous to foe and user alike.

It is best compared to a child who gets more and more fired up, before exploding with energy and running around like The Flash until they finally stop and they lose the overexcitement.

- Planned/Possible Upgrades: More light.

- Notes: So, I was remembering the beauty that was No More Heroes by listening to We Are Finally Cowboys. And I thought "Mmm.....could one make a RWBY version of Travis's Beam Katana?".

A "Beam Katana" of the literal kind was too....dull, however (and very energy-expensive). A Beam Katana of the same kind as Travis, meanwhile, would just be a Fluorescent Glow-Stick of Death that somehow cuts through things like wet paper.

I couldn't think of a reasonable way to make a RWBY-version of the latter that could also slice things like wet paper, however. So I decided to take the simple route: Make that thing a blunt weapon. Clubs are boring to me, but Baseball Bats are a bit cooler.

Also, before you say anything regarding the Powdered Dust, read this: Neon uses Nunchakus, loaded with Dust to the point they literally get a neon glow with it.

The Dust is activated and switched by cracking them. And her fighting style involves bashing people with them while moving at lightning-speed. Yet, they never exploded or even showed any issues, despite all the movement involved.

So there must be a way to load a weapon with much Dust and not make it explode with a simple sneeze afterwards.