Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-130.245.192.22-20170629055623/@comment-4010415-20170630011005

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

2-OH MY GOD. It has a hammer, an exhaust port, and a trigger. 'We obviously know every little thing about it, don't we? :D'

............Okay, now tell me how does the Blade channel the Dust to do stuff. How does it do it, what allows it to work, etc. Because I don't see the answer to the question in your linked image.

Imagine you have a gun. I'm not asking you how to shoot the bullets. I'm asking you the mechanism that makes the gun fire the bullet once you pull the trigger. Or in this case, what channels the Dust into the Blade, or how.

@Chish: Ah, so the plates are visible.....heh, they really were hard to notice.

..........Wait, does Weiss have one too? Did I fail a(nother) spot check? I believe the Dust flows from the vial, out of the exhaust port, and onto the blade, like we saw in the White Trailer. Then, it's just a matter of either swinging the blade to disturb the Dust (since powdered Dust is a lot more volatile than crystal) or using her Aura or glyphs to activate the Dust. What happened with the fire Dust in volume 1 was that Weiss swung Myrtenaster away from Ruby so she wouldn't stab her, and the Dust activated from the way she swung the sword, thus resulting in a forest fire.

Not that I know of, so maybe she tucks the sword into her sash... which doesn't sound like a great idea, since it's fabric, which is easier to wear away at from constantly having a blade pass across it than, say, leather or metal.