Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20180223225208/@comment-29907776-20180717062121

Rion Dragonheart wrote: I changed a few concepts but I basically recycled a lot of details from my original post. My newer weapon design would be this:

- Name: Bakunawa

- Wielder: Blank for now

- Maker/Smith: Same as above

- Classification: Dragon Pattern Hover Chopper (DPHC)

- Weapon Derivation: Void Speeder from Starcraft/Heroes of the Storm, BFS (Big Friggin' Sword) from fiction and fantasy, Meltagun from Warhammer 40k

- Form 1 Design: Hoverboard that looks like this

- Form 1 Aesthetics: Predominantly black and replace the purple parts with red. Circuit-like grooves are etched onto the body. Faint red energy moves through these when the hoverboard is in motion. Has a single large thruster strapped at the bottom part and sprouts at the back end to boost mobility by firing. User's emblem is etched in red on both sides of the board.

- Form 2: Basically transforms into a double-edged BFS.

- Form 2 Aesthetics: Looks like a compact version of the hoverboard form but the back half parts transform into the hilt. The grip and pommel sprout from the edge. The thruster is visible on the outer side of the weapon; it can alternate between the top blade edge and the hilt. Can fire rounds to do rocket-thrusts (when open at the hilt) and exploding stabs (when open at the blade part).

- Form 3: Transforms into a large meltagun-like weapon.

- Form 3 Aesthetics: The blade part goes into the weapon and thruster part turns into the gun barrel. The hilt part transforms into the trigger. Grooves are still visible and lights up red faintly when weapon is fired. User's emblem is also visible on both sides. The weapon discharges bursts of burning energy similar to this. The damage is greater the closer the shooter is to the target. Mid-ranged.

- Dust Usage: Form 1 can leave trails of the element on the ground (fire, ice or earth spikes), jump high (gravity), fall down harder (gravity), boost speed further (air) or release steam from the thruster. Most dust types do not work in Forms 2 and 3. Form 2 can only utilize dust while the thruster part is facing the blade edge. The only usable dust in this form are fire (for flame slashes), ice (for freezing stabs) and earth (when plunged into the ground for earth spikes). For Form 3, the few ones that work are fire (discharges a steady stream of fire for a few seconds like a flame thrower), ice (shoots a freezing variation of the shots), earth (shoots out rocks that act like shotgun shrapnel) and steam (shoots a non-damaging smokescreen). Dust shots do not consume cell charges.

- Ammunition: Custom made combustion cells. Each cell has six charges. The user can only carry four at one time (one in the weapon and three more strapped to the belt), since they're the size of soda cans.

- Usage: Form 1 is mostly used as transportation but it can also be used to charge at the enemy or build momentum for overhead or aerial strikes. Form 2 is the user's preferred combat method. Form 3 has semi-automatic fire mode and is mainly used to attack groups of Grimm or enemy fighters at short to mid range.

- Planned/Possible Upgrades: Cell charge capacity for more shots.

- Notes: Bakunawa is the name of the dragon in ancient Philippine mythology that was said to cause eclipses. Ancient Filipinos believed that there were seven moons created by Bathala (God) and that Bakunawa was amazed by them. He was so big that he swallowed these moons whole. Made adjustments to forms 1 and 2 aesthetics and form 2 dust usage. I'd draw this thing if I had the time. What do you guys think?