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In Translation
Nearly anyone who picks up a blaster, no matter how inexperienced, can really ruin someone else's day. But you're in a different class from "nearly anyone." You've made a study of blasters. It's possible that in your line of work, blaster practice is mandatory because to do otherwise would be to perish under the weapon fire of your many foes. On the other hand, you might just be a particularly violent hobbyist.
You wear clothing designed to avoid the notice of officials, though you don't hide your gun belt where you carry your blaster. Beneath your clothing, you also wear a slicksuit in case you need to slip away suddenly if things don't go your way.
The focus attracts many vectors, but spinners who want to back up their words with the business end of a blaster are also drawn to this focus.
Clothing appropriate to your recursion (in Ruk, a bodysuit and an umbilical), slicksuit, light armor, a blaster of your choice (light, medium, or heavy), and an account with 50 bits.
You are practiced with using blasters and suffer no penalty when using one. If you're already practiced with using blasters, you instead deal 1 additional point of damage with them.
You move up to a short distance and attack with your blaster without suffering any penalties.
You are trained in all tasks related to repairing and recharging your personal blaster (and blasters that use a similar technology).
If you're not already trained in using blasters, you are now trained in using them. If you're already trained, you instead gain +1 to your Speed Edge.
When you apply Effort to inflict more damage with a blaster, you inflict 4 additional points of damage (instead of 3).
If you're not already specialized in using blasters, you are now specialized in using them. If you're already specialized, you instead gain +1 to your Speed Edge.
You can take advantage of the fact that the weapon you use is charged with deadly energy or other exotic material. You fiddle with your blaster in just the right way to convert it into a grenadelike device that you throw at a target within short range. The blaster explosion inflicts 8 points of damage to all targets within immediate range. If you use Effort to increase the damage, each level applied inflicts 2 additional points (instead of 3), but creatures in the area take 1 point of damage even if missed by the attack. You can use this ability only once per blaster because the weapon is destroyed in the detonation.
When you hit a target with your blaster attack, you can choose to reduce the damage by 1 point but hit the target in a precise spot for a special effect. Possible effects include (but are not limited to):
GM Intrusions: The blaster grows so hot that you must drop it for a few rounds or take damage. The blaster runs out of charge (or other exotic ammunition). Blaster fire ricochets in an unexpected direction.