Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27425734-20170826213348/@comment-25396609-20171204230937

It's a somewhat limited weapon due to its shape, but there's always options. You could have folding blades to turn it into a spear, include dust functions to act like a mage's staff, split into sections to form a 3 parts pole or a chain whip.

Ranged choices are more restricted, but technically speaking you could fit a shotgun in it with some tweaking.

If you forgo the normal cylindrical shape, you have part of the staff fold onto itself to form a stock.

Towards the middle of the staff where you would grip it, you can put a pistol grip and trigger that fold up inside when not in use with the gap created by them sliding together which also reduces it to a more manageable length.

The pump and barrel can be on one end of the staff, possibly even have it function in semi-auto while in staff mode by letting the trigger function as a push-button while it's not in gun mode which allows you to attack from point-blank without transforming, saving the full transformation for when you need more control and accuracy.