Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-111.68.32.71-20131007122233/@comment-24260323-20140418052818

Instead of a weapon, here's a mechanism for one:

Imagine a rectangular frame the size of a box magazine turned on it's side.The magazine contains a few Dust crystals which are lined up evenly apart from each other. The magazine will hold different Dust Crystals for different effects, each held in it's own chamber. The user can slide the magazine left and right, through the weapon, so the crystal that is parallel to the gun barrel is fired.

Since a weapon that uses this type of mechanism doesn't use conventional bullets, each crystal can fire multiple shots until depleted like an energy cell for a laser.