[The other Bandit]

You sir are devious!

I like it!

[Inconnu]

Monofilament whip "grenade":One little rocket jet to make it spin,(off centered) pull the pin and throw and in a few seconds a bunch of monofilament whips spool out, the rocket turning it into a little whirling death machine for a round or two.

[Reaver]

There was the filament grenade in War!

Basically a grenade that exploded for no damage... but sent out hundreds of monofilament strings in every direction.

Great for making Ganger soup!

[Vidnaut]

There was the filament grenade in War!

Basically a grenade that exploded for no damage... but sent out hundreds of monofilament strings in every direction.

Great for making Ganger soup!

It's funny that it has "hundreds of meters of monofilament wound around the exploding core" but only goes for 150 nuyen each.  I wonder what size increments all that monowire comes in.  If it was all in one piece then that could be incredibly profitable to disassemble with the right skills and tools/equipment on hand.  Even if you couldn't sell it yourself, I'm pretty sure your fixer would be ecstatic to find a wealth of a very big-ticket item suddenly arriving on the market.  Of course, one probably shouldn't do this too much and keep their mouth shut otherwise to avoid glutting the market and significantly raising the chance that part of this glut of monowire doesn't suddenly find its way inside of one of their teammates (or them).

Of course, that'd be too damn easy to make money off of, the GM would have a field day with punishing the players for being "smart" even if they did it with only one grenade.

[Reaver]

"I'm gonna take this filament grenade apart and sell the wire!!!"


"..... do you have demo skills? Do you have ceramic gloves?"



"No..... why?"


"No demo skills, no gloves.... and soon no fingers, table or floor..."

"Wait...what?"

[CanRay]

"I'm gonna take this filament grenade apart and sell the wire!!!"


"..... do you have demo skills? Do you have ceramic gloves?"



"No..... why?"


"No demo skills, no gloves.... and soon no fingers, table or floor..."

"Wait...what?"

I bet he loves his new cyberhands anyhow. 

[Reaver]

We call him "stumpy".

And when runs are scarce, set him up out side with a coffee pot and cymbals tied to his stumps.....


Then he just hacks into passing commlinks.

(No one suspects the cripple! .... right CanRay?)

[CanRay]

(No one suspects the cripple! .... right CanRay?)

No, everyone still suspects and blames me.   

[Inconnu]

Say…. Would it be possible to make something which fires two slugs with a monofilamen wire suspended between them? Maybe in the range of a sniper rifle?

….

"I want to call a shot on his neck."

i think we can all agree that decapitation is a instakill.

[Reaver]

So... like ol'skool   bar and chain shot from the 16 to 18 century?



I guess you could come up with something. ... if you had a cannon.

[Namikaze]

Didn't the War! book have something about monofilament bolas?

[Novocrane]

i think we can all agree that decapitation is a instakill.

That's assuming it doesn't snag on itself or otherwise not cleanly land either side of the target's neck ... so in any game I've heard of, you'll still be rolling damage.

Which reminds me why I didn't like the monofilament grenade. Whether it's a tightly coiled length or multiple cast off lengths, all the wire needs to be weighted on both ends to cut, and getting them tangled in an explosion seems highly likely.

[Anarkitty]

i think we can all agree that decapitation is a instakill.

That's assuming it doesn't snag on itself or otherwise not cleanly land either side of the target's neck ... so in any game I've heard of, you'll still be rolling damage.

Which reminds me why I didn't like the monofilament grenade. Whether it's a tightly coiled length or multiple cast off lengths, all the wire needs to be weighted on both ends to cut, and getting them tangled in an explosion seems highly likely.

Yeah, the wire is so light that without weighted ends it shouldn't cause anything more than superficial damage.  Basically a papercut bomb.

[MadBear]

Energy is Mass times Velocity. Such a weapon would have very little Mass, but could have very high Velocity, and combined with its very small surface area, could still potentially do a great deal of damage.

[PeterSmith]

Mass x Velocity gives Force, not Energy. Energy (Potential) is Mass x Height, Energy (Kinetic) is 0.5 x Mass x Velocity ^ 2.