Typhon Munitions Monoquill Jacket
Written by: Ripshot
Anybody who's tussled with cops in riot-gear or manhandled the wrong bodyguard has probably had a bad experience with shock weave, those little strips of pain that make you regret your actions with 50,000 volts. Well, our favourite bougie weapons corp Typhon Munitions decided that the whole 'non-lethal' part of shock weave was getting in the way of protecting VIPs, and put a few million NuYen into R&D to make a new fashion-accessory that'll leave a more permanent mark on grapplers. The end result's the Monoquill jacket, and frag me running, I already hate it. At a glance, the Monoquill looks like your typical upscale armored jacket with big, puffy strips of synthetic fur lining parts of the exterior. Inside each strip of fur though, you've got these networked latices of tiny spools, each one holding a few inches of monowire and a small electromagnet array. At the flick of a switch or a wireless impulse, the spools push out their monowires and the electromagnets push the wires straight up and into a rigid position, giving you a nice coat of monofilament spines like some kind of porcupine from hell. They can't cut very deep, but they will cut you up. Everywhere.There's a few trids on some gore sites of a crazy stalker-fan trying to tackle Miss Abyss, that goblincore rapper from Denver, who was wearing one of the jacket's first production models in her hotel room. The quills made the fan look like she ate out a woodchipper, took months of surgery and therapy to unfuck her, but Abyss got one of her eyes sliced open from the very same quills in all the commotion. Typhon put a lot of cash in burying the clusterfuck, and newer models had a revision in quill locations and some wireless actuators on the magnets to stop them from slicing up their wearers.As of right now, the monoquill trims are proprietary to Typhon Munitions and strictly regulated both in and out the corp on who gets to use 'em, with the majority of the stuff kept 'rental only'. That said the shadows find their way, and along with a few crates of the stuff making their way to the black market, a couple of underground techies have reverse-engineered some schematics from paydata into making their own, slightly bulkier Monoquills for sticking on whatever you want. Caveat Emptor on that last one though, chummer...
Activating or deactivating the Monoquills is a simple action. When active, anyone entering a grapple or cinch with the wearer must resist 8P damage, but the wearer's physical limit is reduced by -1 as they try to avoid self-injury from the quills.
Wireless Bonus: Activating/Deactivating the Monoquills is a free action instead of a simple action, and the wearer no longer suffers a penalty to their physical limit
Monoquills can be purchased seperately as a modification for other pieces of armor. The modification costs 3,000¥, has an availability of 15R and takes up 4 capacity.
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