Koridiak Weapons Analysis

Kodiak aimed his plasma repeater at the attacker, squeezed the trigger, and fired. Everything seemed to move in slow-motion. The bolt of super-heated plasma discharged from the firearm and arced toward the assailant’s head, throwing sparks, and making the walls glow a brilliant purple-white. As the bolt neared the attacker’s face, heat induced blisters formed on his skin and then erupted fluids, which evaporated instantly. As the plasma closed in a foot from the attacker’s face, his skin, eyes, and underlying muscle tissue seared and vaporized, leaving a slack-jawed skull. The bone was burned to ash shortly after, and his cerebral fluids flash-boiled into a mist that hung in the air. The dead assailant slumped raggedly to the floor with nothing left above his neck except for flaps and tendrils of charred meat and blood. The air smelled strongly of ozone and cauterized flesh, and held a static charge that made one’s hair stand on end. …show more content…
A relic of a world that time had smothered in obscurity, and left few clues as to what it had been before. The weapon had organic features, and its surface was patina from advanced age. Yet, through vigorous restoration, Kodiak’s father had returned it to its full glory, save for a paint job. The repeater had only one marking, a machine-stamped passage on the left side of the stock: Man. in Kodiak, AL. Kodiak’s father had named him after wherever that place was. He had said it was somewhere far to the north; a place untouched by the Empty’s dullness. Kodiak stopped thinking about his father and approached the corpse he’d just created. Blood was oozing from it’s neck stump, and Kodiak marveled at it’s brilliant crimson tone. It contrasted so well against the washed-out colors of the building. What was left of the man’s body was outfitted in an armor comprised of scrap metal and road signs all covered in dull red handprints. The red handprints were a universally recognized sign in the