Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20151125184514/@comment-24891101-20151203011552

So, Phantom. The weapon I'm developing is for my aforementioned Dust mage Specialist. He operated in a team as such, and so I was crossing Dust use and a support role on the team. So I didn't just want a gun, and so decided to go with a weapon like the XM25 CDTE, delivering Dust downrange and allowing him to manipulate it. I was initially crossing this with a pollaxe (which I still want to do), to give him melee capability, but also wanted him to have a staff, being a mage, and thus needing Dust close to hand rather than just in grenade form.

My concerns pertain to the viability this combination, yielding more or less a 2.5 form weapon, since the form factor of the staff is not too different from the pollaxe, especially insofar as Dust reserves. In order for the staff element to be efficacious, it would require reserves of powdered Dust in a cylinder, like Myrtenaster. However, the grenades for the XM25 portion are themselves monolithic, and would be preprepared. So I'm dealing with two fairly bulky ammo types which are incompatible. I could separate out the staff from the rest, but then I'd have two weapons and no real ideas to combine it with yet.

Obviously RWBY cheats with ammo, but I, being an engineer, have lower tolerance SoD-wise for that cheating, and so have concerns about ammo and Dust reserves. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I'd like advice. I think I can fit the axe blade in the stock (which would make this a larger weapon than the M25, but if) with the Dust reserves sort of sitting in the upper stock and overflowing a bit (making a bit of a bulky chin rest, but eh). The weapon would be rather wider than a normal gun, obviously. It would transform by telescoping a shaft out the front, with appropriate rearranging that you could probably picture.