>>6068709"Dibs on the tesla gun!" Malix yells, before you even get a chance to think it over.
You grimace slightly at the thought of spraying some unknown toxin all over the place, but... at least there's a protective suit, right?
"Here." David says, handing you a thick mat of off-green rubber.
"...What is this?" You ask.
"It's your sprayin' suit. Replace the filter on the mask after every tank of toxin."
You unfold the rubber mat and find that, it is in fact your "sprayin' suit".
It only vaguely looks humanoid, and it seems like it's going to be really hot and difficult to move in.
"Why is it so thick?" You complain.
"Well for one, you don't want the fog diffusing through the suit, and for another, that goes OVER your armor. So, y'know... don't get stabbed or slashed too much."
"The suit is made of a self-healing rubber and is capable of sealing itself to a degree, but large cuts will likely damage your suit's seal." SHODAN explains.
Oh.
So if you get slashed or stabbed too much, poison gas might pour into your suit and kill you.
That's good. No, that's real great.
You'd have to be an absolute maniac to use something like this willingly.
"Haha, oh wow!" Malix exclaims.
A moment later, you hear the loudest electrical buzzing you've ever heard in your life, and it's accompanied by brilliant white flashes...
He's holding something absolutely ridiculous looking, which is hooked up to a big backpack full of electronics.
And it's shooting gigantic blasts of lightning out at least fifteen to twenty feet in front of him.
"This is amazing!" Malix yells over the noise.
"Yeah, it's real fun!" David agrees. "But you might want to chill on that! You're gonna drain the battery holding it down like that!"
"Oh, right. Right... sorry." Malix apologizes.
"The energy drain of an unfocused blast like that is actually quite minimal, Captain. There is only significant current draw once the arc makes contact." SHODAN tells him.
"Yeah, but every little bit counts... wouldn't want to be in a shitty situation and wishing you had one more blast left in that thing." He counters.
"That is very true." She agrees.
While they're chatting about the tesla gun, you look over your new toy, which is marked with a skull and bones, along with several other mildly distressing warning labels.
It has a backpack, similar to the tesla gun, but instead of electronics it has several slots for different chemical containers...
"How the hell does this thing work?" You grumble.
SHODAN quickly walks over and begins explaining it all to you.
Unfortunately, almost all of it totally goes over your head.
Sodium silicate this, pressure guage that, proper mixing... you don't know.
Still, you memorize what tank goes where and what the settings are supposed to be at, so you can ensure they stay that way.
However, you're afraid to pull the trigger on this sprayer.
She said it would mix the poison with a chemical that forms little glass needles in the air.
