# Vispectra & Cheffie's Traitor Items Concept!

So I’ve decided to try to add two new traitor items with the help of a coder on my side while I do the spriting. I’m making this document for your input. Any and all kinds of feedback would be appreciated.

Item #1 : Visicar (Arm Blade)

Cost : Eight Traitor Currency

Availability : All

## Item Summary:
Noticing the effectiveness of derelict mining drones left in the debris field, a team of Syndicate Engineers have taken it upon themselves to deconstruct and assemble a weapon from one of the decommissioned mining units. Disassembling it into a mountable melee weapon with enough power to cut through asteroids with ease! Preliminary testing has gone through without much issue, and the project has been green lit for phase three testing : onto more ‘live’ specimens.

The Item would be an arm mounted blade that is retractable similar to bladed gloves in essence only far larger. It would take up a hand slot requiring a short action bar to both mount and dismount the item. Upon being mounted the Visicar would have two modes.

### Offensive mode:
The Plasma blade extends out and it is used to stab (like the captain’s sword special) or click on the victim. Upon contact the blade would deal moderate burn damage (numbers can be adjusted of course) 30 burn damage and apply the burning debuff for 10 seconds. Each subsequent attack would increase the burn time and burn tick to the point where the victim would be fully engulfed in flames. Added bonus of being able to chew through asteroids or any rock formation as is the theme of the weapon.

### Defensive Mode:
Deploy an experimental asteroid shield from the arm blade, by activating it again. The shield would be visible on the character wielding it. While in defensive mode you gain 0.8 protection from ranged attacks and reduces disorients to 60% their original duration. While in defensive mode you are slightly slower (.4 speed reduction) than before.

## Pros:

⇗ The weapon cannot be disarmed while mounted.
⇗ Interesting counterplay having to use fire resist or fire extinguishers to help deal with the flames.
⇗ Defensive mode should help when dealing with other traitors or security in pursuit.
⇗ It can mine!

## Cons:

⇘ You have one less arm to use, and removing the item and mounting it takes a small duration.
⇘ Vulnerable to EMP blasts dealing damage and locking up the device until repaired.
⇘ A full firesuit might reduce the damage substantially.
⇘ Expensive cost.
⇘ Very Obvious.