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#1  Edited By ThisIsGonnaHurt  Online

"Come in, come in. I have such marvelous things to show you..."

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He is known by many names.

The War Monger.

The Unspoken Tyrant.

The Iron Hand.

But he answers mostly to the identity Daedalus, and he is a proficient manufacturer of extraterrestrial weapons and armor unique to his special knowledge of their inner workings. It is his Armory Without Limit.

His wares are able to be sold to anyone if they are willing to pay his fees.

Impossible to replicate, they are each his precious creations.

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"You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like the machine. I would reply, that only the smallest mind strives to comprehend its limits."

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(Heavy work in progress, just had this idea actually.)

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@jason_ford:

A variety of hoses and wires extend out of the mouth of his dark hood, with a series of glowing glass spheres that are presumably his eyes staring at the newcomer.

"...Yes? How can I help you..."

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I want.

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#7  Edited By Alduin

Interesting stuff.

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The glass eyes of the weapons manufacturer glisten and whir.

"I believe we have a deal, then...what is it you desire? Or, would you trust my distinction of your tastes?"

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"Heheh...that is going to be difficult - but possible."

(Ready whenever you are then.)

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"You can get me something that can fire underwater and on land, and is highly effective."

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Daedalus' eyes click and magnify, adjust quickly, and settle back within the confines of his shrouded head.

"Mmmm...yes. Amphibious and deadly, a weapon for all environments. I have many things to show you,"

His seemingly disheveled form moved surprisingly quickly, though the scuttling of several metal-tipped legs hinted at his mode of transportation also being modified.

He extended his body towards a rifle mounted on the wall, locked in stasis by a field he deactivated with a casual wave of his hand. Taking it into his gnarled fingers, he returned towards his customer and offered him to hold the empty firearm. It still radiated raw power, however.

"This is an artifact I made many years ago, yet it is perhaps one of my most consistent works. The classic solid-ammunition type, but vastly improved by the addition of a technology called Vulkanite. It is similar to the static discharge of stars, but no inherently toxic to human DNA - at least not in its current state. Bolts leave the chamber coated in a thick lead-lined casing, detonating on impact with the target. That is when the fun begins,"

A short laugh.

"Once the bullet hit its target, the Vulkanite within becomes unstable much like a miniature bomb and explodes outward, releasing the crawling energies within. Organic targets are stripped of their flesh, even if they are wearing armor. These corrosive powers do not wait for a target of opportunity - they make one."

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#13  Edited By Curve

This is an awesome idea. Reminds me of the collector, or something like that.

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@curve:

You should really buy something.

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Oh... I finally comprehension the whole buying weapons talk.

NICEU, NICEU! BERRY NICEU, WARSY-CHAN!

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Red Mask examined it, could be very useful. Quite a dangerous weapon, and he wouldn't have to spend the time trying to make another version. Even if he had the skill or resources for that.

He nodded, "Maybe, definitely a good concept. A few questions though. What's the price? How effective is it against machines and or magic, if you have an estimate. And would you be able to make four of them?"

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"Magic?" the curious shoppe owner inquired with a strange, almost curious, inflection in his metallic voice.

"I have different ways of defeating magic. Pulse technology is the most reliable, as it comes through ethereal shielding and immaterial things as if they were not there. It is also effective against light to medium class armor, but that is merely a tidbit of trivia for one such as yourself,"

He returned the Vulkanite rifle to its stasis pod and waved his hand over another such artifact of his own design. From deep within, grinding cogs and vicious sounds of industrial progress roared and he offered but a slightly amused grunt as his machines performed exactly as they were made to.

"Here is such technology," Daedalus answered at length, presenting to the hooded avenger one such article of pulse tech: a pistol, no more assuming than a normal firearm, but with a foreign and altogether unsettling aesthetic.

"I will explain its features shortly, but to answer your questions: pulse technology is very difficult to produce. Once I have created it however, it is a lifetime guarantee as well as for the lifetimes of your grandchildrens' grandchildren - and so on. A decent estimate for five such weapons,"

He gestured with the pulse pistol and slid it across a nearby workshop table towards Red Mask.

"Is 600k, American. We offer payment plans that can better accommodate your ability to reach that sum however."

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"Oh hobgoblins..." He mumbled angrily, he was quite resourceful, but 600 k was not an easy sum to reach. It would require a huge heist or scam of some sort, and he did not want to bring that much attention to himself.

"Can't pay that much." He examined the pistol, it was very versatile though. But he also knew there were many ways to cancel out such weapons, he himself used such ways. Still, anti magic could be useful.

"Do you have, or could you make, a gauntlet version like this? Waterproofed as well. I'd need two, and I'd like a good estimate on the price." Red Mask said, he had a plan in action to enter the water and be harder to get to. He already had a suit of sorts in motion, these in gauntlet version would be a huge add on.

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@_drake said:

Oh... I finally comprehension the whole buying weapons talk.

NICEU, NICEU! BERRY NICEU, WARSY-CHAN!

Goddamn racist. >.>

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#20  Edited By Miles_Galeth

"D'you have anything at all like... a bow? Mine... made friends with a land mine."

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@miles_galeth: @jason_ford:

"No, no gauntlets...yet,"

He tapped his metal-tipped fingers on the table counter, sliding the pistol back into stasis.

"But it is possible my friend."

His head turned as another customer entered and asked of his goods.

"Welcome friend! You ask me for a bow? Rather...archaic, but possible. Tell me, what did you have in mind? Or would you trust my judgment of your tastes?"

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@thisisgonnahurt:

"Well, maybe something less fragile and wooden than the usual kind you can buy. Though actually, from what I've heard of your little place here... can you do arrows, too?"

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"Heh," a short laugh responded from his vocal projectors.

"Come, I have such marvelous things to show you."

Daedalus proceeded to tell his latest customer of the many types of ammunition he could easily adapt into various arrowheads, as well as his sudden and genius plan for the archer's proposed bow.

"Lightly structured specialist alloy, compound of course to allow for over 100 times your normal muscular output. You'll be firing a arrows like artillery shells, heheh."

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A grin cracked on the weathered face of the aging archer. "I think I'm in love. You want the cash upfront, or should I come back when it's finished? It's no problem either way."

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"I cannot accept money for something that does not exist yet. Come back tomorrow, and it will be ready."

Without pause, Daedalus bowed his hooded face in departure and disappeared behind a thick metal door - the gateway to his workshop.

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(Replies either later or tomorrow morning.)

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#31  Edited By Jason_ford

@thisisgonnahurt:

Red Mask called back to the strange...thing.

"If you can. I'd like an estimate of time finished, and price range." He said simply.

(Sorry for short and late reply. Just reallly busy.

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@jason_ford:

"It is experimental, so I will lend it to you for testing free of charge. If you like it I can give it to you for life as thanks. Come by again tomorrow, it will be finished."

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@strigidae_57:

The array of glass eyes rolling around curiously met the latest patron to their owner's shoppe. Daedalus himself brought his body to a casual stance, mechanical whirring accenting his bizarre motions.

"Welcome, welcome. What is it you said? A grapnel? Yes, yes, very simple, but we can do one better. Now - do you have specific plans or do you trust my judgment of your tastes?"

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Red Mask nodded, "It's been great dealing with you." He actually meant it in this case, it seemed his man...thing. Had some rather impressive skill with this sort of thing. And seemed quite willing to strike bargains.

He exited to attend to his other details.

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"I can make you something better, something stronger and purer,"

Daedalus extends a malformed arm augmented with cybernetic components.

"Mecha Harambe!"

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Give me cool chainsaw.

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"A chainsaw?"

The humanoid mass lingered for a moment and started a short ritual of bemused laughter.

"Why of course, but what kind do you prefer? I have swords, axes, pole arms, twenty different types of pocket knives and scalpels, handheld finger blades, gauntlets with armor-piercing chain blades attached to them, guns that shoot small chainsaws, chainsaws with small guns for teeth, and so many more marvelous things I have yet to tell you about."

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As promised, the specially-ordered materials hung in stasis in a reserved corner of the shoppe as Daedalus himself prepared for a new day of customers. He was particularly excited about seeing those whom had requested the items that had captured his interest and famous Iron Hand for the previous few hours. Forging them had been quite the experience after all.

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#40  Edited By Strigidae_57

@thisisgonnahurt: Traces his fingers just above the intricately designed item. Before unrolling two sets of blue-prints on a nearby table.

"Memorize these, then burn them. I'll be back tomorrow"

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Daedalus looked upon the schematics unfurled before him, and did as his customer requested. He did not see it as a grade of his performance on behalf of the grapnel still sitting in stasis, but rather as payment for it - payment in the form of a challenge as well as information.

"Good, good. The grappling device you requested is ready for pickup. Four collapsible hooks designed with a breaking weight of 160k kilograms, each fitted with microscopic blades for maximum gripping strength,"

He removed it from stasis and rolled it around in midair with his thin metallic fingertips.

"It features over three-hundred feet of solid specialist carbon-fiber wire, designed to withstand any weight and coil back into the base of the handle along a spool extending the entire length of its most basic form: which is roughly the size of a baton or flashlight."

He folds it into such a state and surrenders it to his customer, free of charge for having procured his intrigue with another project and another test of his skills.

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Miles entered the next day smiling, a duffel bag filled with money at his side. He heaved it onto a table and turned towards the gear, and it's maker. "I wasn't sure how much to bring, should that be enough?" He was already eyeing the bow and quiver appraisingly.

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The technological taskmaster siphons through the cash, finding the sum reasonable for the quality he had poured into the bow and its subsequent "sample" arrowheads. He nodded quickly, offering a short laugh as he did so. His excitement in showing such a thing off could not be contained.

First off, he reached into the stasis field and folded it along its spine, gesturing outwards in order to snap it back into place with authority.

"As you can see, it is fully mobile and undetectable once completely manipulated into an entirely unassuming shape. This does not damage its internal mechanisms in the slightest. As promised, it is a compound bow, with enough mechanical advantage coursing through its design to offer you the power to launch arrows like a Howitzer cannon. The specially-crafted carbon-fiber bowstring is also specifically manufactured to never break down given the proper maintenance. On every surface, throughout every contour, this is a weapon that can offer you anything you might need in combat. Even in such an event that you should have to retrieve arrows in the midst of melee, it will function a sturdy quarterstaff. But, onto the sample arrowheads I have prepared for you,"

A quiver of fifteen, or rather, a canister made to strap onto the aging archer's back, and the extent of Daedalus' attention to detail could easily be seen.

"Given your preference for such a weapon, I have taken the liberty of adding my own version of its standardized ammunition. Each arrowhead requires activation before its selected cartridge-payload can be used. Going clockwise, there is Impact, Lance, Graviton, Pulse, Vulkanite, Vibro, Proton, Cutter, Wrecker, Distortion, Grinder, Melter, Scorcher, Quark, and Conversion ammunition types. Don't worry, I've included a list of what each one does inside."

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The Scarlet Hood walked in, a stash of money hidden in his jacket in the case it was required for the payment. He grinned beneath the mask as he saw the gauntlets, "You are a fast worker." He commented looking them over, "Any particular place I may try these out? I need to see their effeciency and effects." He questioned. He expected it to work considering how intelligent and knowledgable this thing was on weapons. But he still wanted to know for sure.

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Daedalus tapped his fingers on the countertop as he reached over to the field containing the gauntlets and moved his hand over them, deactivating their stasis and moving them into position in front of the encarmine-masked man.

"Pulse technology works by ignoring shields and armor completely, bypassing them on a submolecular level rather than trying to muscle through it particle for particle. The energy itself creates enough tears in the barrier to allow for physical elements to puncture through. From what I understand, magic users require concentration to actually accomplish much of what their goals deem necessary. Although I cannot replicate their skills, I can allow you to test what a pulse gauntlet such as that is capable of against something armed with one of my most powerful graviton shields,"

Extending an arm to a thick door behind the counter, he ran his thin metallic fingertips on a keypad so blazingly fast as to indicate he had even more digits than humanly normal. The door clicked and enormous hydraulic locks wheeled out of the way for it to actually open.

"There," he gestured towards the testing range, and to one target inparticular.

"Ballistics gelatin and other materials made to simulate skin, tissue, and bone. Even some fake blood for entertainment value. I've sold more weapons based on these tests than I initially realized, but this puts its point across,"

He once more adjusted something under his thick robes, assumedly a control panel of sorts hidden amongst his secretive form, and a graviton shield hummed over the specified dummy.

"Graviton shields are the closest to what I can imagine something like a psychic field could be, due to its malleability and sheer density. Go on, activate the gauntlet. Once you give it enough pressure in your fist it will start to glow. Once that happens - strike the shield with about as much effort as a normal punch for you."

Daedalus' glass eyes whirred inside his robed face, observing for posterity what would happen. He already knew, however, and expected the Scarlet Hood to be pleasantly surprised. What would become of the dummy would be little more than a red stain on the opposite wall.

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Red Mask set one of the gauntlets on his left hand and walked up to the shield, his arm moved with all the trained and experienced accuracy and strength of a master combatant, but obviously that wasn't what did the damage. The pulse gauntlets were devestating as the ripped through the shield and the target throwing the torn and utterly destroyed fake body across into a wall.

Red Mask just stood for a moment, pure enjoyment of the result clear even though his face was covered by a mask.

"I am very pleased with your work sir." He complimented, not a common thing for him actually.

"What payment will you require, you have impressed me." He stated quite willing to pay what he could, "I'll also hope to be making deals with you in the future, I'd need to get things in order. But me or an associate will be returning."

This would be one of the few cases that Jason would actually pay an outside source for weapons, it was a very rare thing someone could impress him with technology in weapons.

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Taking the proffered weapon, Miles weighed it experimentally, marveling at it's lightness, and tossed it into his other hand, flicking his wrist to snap it open. He pulled the string back, nodded, and smiled.

He then turned to the arrows, raising an eyebrow at some of the exotic-soundign names, before simply smiling. "Yeah, this looks good. This looks... great. I might be stopping by here again, actually. See ya around." And he raised the bow in a salute, before slinging it over his back and strapping the arrows to his thigh.

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Daedalus bade the customer goodbye, making a mental note to make more arrowheads considering the substantial sum already allotted to him.

@jason_ford:

"No monetary payment necessary. I am most intrigued by this...magic, and wish to study it more. Tell me of your findings when using it, and that will be enough."

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Red Mask nodded placing the guantlets in a case, they were to be used for an associate of his and not him alone. Black Stingray in fact, who would more likely encounter magic.

"A pleasure doing buisness with you." Red Mask said departing.

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#50  Edited By ThisIsGonnaHurt  Online

With the successful transactions of his latest products, Daedalus finally manages to relax in his workshop with a series of smaller projects he has been neglecting for a while. Various computer monitors reflect flickers of light off his glass optical sensors.

Yet, even in this curious stage of experimentation and discovery, the Technological Taskmaster cannot shake a certain feeling from his hunched shoulders.

He needed more customers.