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Name: Cacoethes

Classification: Hand Cranked Gurdy Gun (HCGG)

Weapon Derivation: Hurdy Gurdy instrument, Pepper Grinder from American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns

Form 1 Design: An 18 string hurdy gurdy. 3 drone strings, 4 melody strings, 3 trumpet strings, and 8 sympathetic strings evenly shared on either side of the instrument. A button on the side for switching between music and gun mode.

Form 1 Aesthetics: Rosewood colour body with white keys and black tangent case. Curved black handle with a white grip, painted with swirling red designs.

Form 2: Wheelbow disengages from the strings, retreating into the body while a slot opens at the end of the neck to reveal 7 9mm barrels in a circle, behind the tuning pegs. Wheelbow engages the Dust dispenser contained in the back of the body, forming small balls of Dust in each barrel as the handle is turned, and firing like a gatling gun.

Dust Usage: Ice mainly, sometimes Rock. Powdered Dust, small amounts at a time but large quantities based on how fast the wheelbow is turned.

Usage: As a musical instrument first and foremost, with the gun function used for self defense and retreat.

Notes: Cacoethes is a noun meaning “an irresistible urge; mania”. The important parts of a Hurdy Gurdy How a Hurdy Gurdy makes its music Alice’s Pepper Grinder