(12-pt Invention)
The Chemical Acceleration, Orgone Separator Bomb, the masterwork of rogue Son of Ether Professor Vapor in tandem with fellow rogue Etherite Doctor Ferric, is a highly destructive superweapon. The ChAOS Bomb is a stationary device which disrupts natural orgone flows through living organisms, reducing them to their base components. The Bomb must be primed by charging the generator, which may be charged with a combination of mechanical, electrical, and bioetheric means. In layman's terms, this device sends out a black wave of energy which disintegrates all living matter in its path. This has the eerie effect of leaving behind small piles of dust surrounded by clothes and other personal effects of the deceased. After unleashing its destructive wave, the Invention remains behind to be reused again and again (although it must be primed once again).
In game terms, the ChAOS Bomb uses Entropy 4, Forces 1, Prime 3, and Time 4 to produce its effect. Entropy 4 and Prime 3 uses a variant of the Wither Life Effect to attack living organisms, dealing aggravated Pattern damage. Time 4 allows the user to set a timer to delay the Effect; otherwise, she'll be caught in her own explosion! Forces 1, if combined with Time 4, allows the user to set the device to blow if it receives a strong kinetic shock (such as being dropped from an airplane onto an unsuspecting city, let's say). Use the damage and duration chart to determine damage as normal, spending extra successes for the area to be affected. To completely vapourise a city the size of, let's say, New York City, the ChAOS Bomb would need to be primed with somewhere in the neighborhood of a whopping 35 successes at difficulty 9 on an Arete roll from the user, giving plenty of opportunity for enterprising do-gooders to intervene or for Paradox to engage in its natural state. Paradox, in this instance, usually strikes as direct damage as the device malfunctions or explodes (or even if it detonates prematurely). Unsurprisingly, the ChAOS Bomb is pretty vulgar, although it's just far enough within the realm of action movie science that a determined mage might be able to explain it away to a frightened populace and make it coincidental. ("And just so you know I am serious, permit me a demonstration of the awesome destructive potential of the ChAOS Bomb!")
By the way, for those of you playing at home, in The Imperial City, the Order of Portoblax hoped to goad Doctor Ferric into using this weapon so that they could use the sacrifice of New York City to power their Portoblax summoning ritual from The Book of Summonings. Fortunately, an alliance of Technocrats and Traditionalists stopped them from enacting that plan.
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