Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150311232923/@comment-25588729-20150313225058

VedranTheII wrote: So emergency spear. I like it, enough room to wield it with 2 hands in a non cumbersome fashion That's precisely what I was going for.

Well yeah…logic really rained on my parade when I realized a bow made out out of unbendable metal equals a string that’s likely to cut your fingers while you try to draw…still there is a work around with enough springs and articulations, such as the ones used to fold Ruby’s blade, or a protective gauntlet worn on the draw hand. Sounds good. I'll try working on some of the mechanisms to make such a design somewhat more practical.

Discussion about the lance... Well, the lance halves would be tapered so they each could independently function like handheld drills. The ammo limit was a bothersome detail that I had yet to resolve. As far as the homing system, it would be embedded on the shaft of the lance, enabling the entire thing to return in lance or rocket-launcher form. But if the lance halves are split, and both are out of reach, only the one that has the delivery system on its half could be retrieved remotely.

Also, I just had the following idea as I was typing this: Perhaps the kinetic energy generated by spinning the drills could be converted into low-impact dust bullets? However converting energy into matter is only just being accomplished in a microcosmic scale in reality, with denizens of Remant only possessing Dust that undergoes the reverse reaction, from matter into energy.

...or I could just do what you suggested in the following paragraph. It seems rather sensible: Alternatively, you can take out one of the sides and have it be JUST a jousting lance drill with a Nora styled rocket launcher and home delivery service, which sounds awesome, reminds me of one off my favorite designed weapons I’ve seen on the internet…exactly like the one I just mentioned but replace rocket launcher with a chain gun…

Thanks again for your feedback and insights.