The Bingo Bomb!

[Pattern-Weld]

Vandask Technologies in association with the Council of Venice and SPADE Industries brings you a brand new weapon for your arsenal against the filth, the Bingo Bomb! This new anti-filth grenade uses known techniques and the Filth's own habits against it, creating a sure fire distraction in any sticky situation. But that's not all! It is also an excellent device for gathering the filth into a single location, allowing you to save ammo and energy while culling the threat.

So far there are two models, the MK - 0 is a reusable capsule, just slip a bingo cola can into it, and pop the lid down on it until you are ready to use it. The case is made of special polymers to prevent the filth from recognizing the bingo is on your body until you are ready to use it, keeping you swarm free!

When you find yourself in a mess, slam the top of the capsule down forcefully, this will push a metal spike on the inside of the lid into the aluminum can, breaking the air seal inside. When you are ready to throw, turn the lid to the left until you feel resistance. This slides small plates on the sides of the capsule, revealing small holes for the gas to release. This gives you a good 7 to 10 seconds to toss the grenade before the contents are vaporized and released, causing the filth to swarm towards the location of the bomb in a predictable matter. This testing model was created with re-usability in mind!

This device comes free for anyone who participated in the testing period, and is still being sold, though it is a bit more expensive than the MK-I model that was mass produced.

The MK-I is a cheaper version of the bomb, combining Bingo with an incendiary grenade for a similar effect.

WARNING: MK-I model is less reliable than the testing MK-0 version. More likely to rupture during prolonged combat. More likely to be detected by the filth before time of use. Can be deadly to friendlies are within the blast radius unlike the MK-0.

WARNING: Be wary of using either product in particularly windy conditions. Gas can be blown back towards the user.

Be the first to try out Vandask Technologies first product! Please feel free to send any comments, improvements to the design, complaints or anything else we might need to to know to (Can send me a message on here). Vandask Technologies also does custom robotics/prosthetics as well as repairs. Custom prices are negotiable.

((Just a device my PC Nickoli Vandask made. Feel free to have your character using one! If these work or not is up to the GM, as there are a couple interpretations how Bingo works. Using it against non sentient enemies like filth golems tends to be a really safe bet, though I created it going off the idea that all filth reacts to Bingo in the same way as it does in All Seeing Kawaii. Therefore attracting human filth infected as well as the sitting filth that has not animated a body. Let me know if you have questions or would like to buy some of these from the creator himself! Would love to meet people this way. He's an inventor character, so I sort of thought it would be really fun to let others use his products as well instead of just him!))

 

[Kisikillillake]

(( In All Seeing Kawaii bingo does not in fact attract moving filth infected, it only seemed to affect the floor-tentacles, because in Kaidan where the broken bingo machine is where you get the cans for the tentacle, the filth enemies aren't scrabbling on the ground around the bingo, they're actually standing away from it and ignoring it uninterestedly - It's not due to game restraints or anything because elsewhere you can find them bent down eating people a lot and scrabblling in the dirt in other places, there is an animation for it, the mover types just weren't interested in the bingo

I'm pretty sure it was meant to be a fun one off than "This is now our super weapon against the Filth", from the way the faction handlers respond to it - If it was something that could be used this way
I'm sure they would have cared, because such a thing is making filth harmless for a while, completely diverting even large hordes away from humans using a liquid that is mass produced and easily obtainable, I don't think it's quite that simple

Kaidan would be clean within a week as even non-bees would have the threat negated - I'd say fill up fire engines with it and go to town, spray it everywhere while they're rendered harmless and cleared en masse, but from what we've seen in the game it does not work like that and the filth "creatures" are not interested in it, whilst it seems to make the floor-tentacles grow more, rapidly creating more filth (and bigger and thicker from what I saw!) to get to the bingo rather than making the original growth any less, it's pretty much the worst thing you can do at any time unless you are an agent of the filth and wanting to direct extra growth somewhere ))

 

[Pattern-Weld]

((That's why it's up to whoever is playing on how effective it is, like I said it would probably work better on golems and other things, when the filth is more or less outside of the body manipulating it directly. And I imagine it could have differing effects on differing filth hosts, not like any one strain is set in stone. Even then it has it's uses against the large walls of filth we often encounter. It's an idea I thought was fun, and am going to roll with it in case anyone else thinks its interesting.))

 

[Kisikillillake]

(( If one wanted to make a large wall of filth into a huge wall of filth it'd work really well ))

 

[Pattern-Weld]

((There's other ways it could still be useful. I'm not going to force it on anybody, just an idea to make my inventor character relevant. I can still think up quite a few situations it would be useful for, but it's up to the individual player to decide how to use it. If nobody is interested then that's fine too. Was just an idea I liked the sound of. Not trying to re write lore or anything.))

 

[Requine]

Stuff like this is very cool! I might talk to you about applying this to a couple of my games

 

[Pattern-Weld]

Fantastic! I will be keeping an ear out. Feel free to hit Nick up if any sort of engineering or building problem comes up either. Always looking for new projects for him to work on

 

[Kisikillillake]

I was about to say ok to your reply before that, but yeah when stuff like this happens it kind of sucks because if it's being made as a policy for stories it means we as players don't really get any choice (other than leave) :/

 

[Requine]

Nah, not making anything a policy, just think its a cool idea that might have some fun potential? Also, inventor characters are always fun.

 

[Kisikillillake]

"Inventor characters are fun" isn't what I'm talking about, it's not about the character at all, Nick has lots of other inventions I know

Policy was probably the wrong word, I mean if it's made a fact IC despite it going against what most people know then everyone has to go along with it and don't really get an option, that's what I hate about stuff like this

 

[Requine]

Oh yeah, I hear you. Different interpretations are important, for sure!

 

[Pattern-Weld]

Yep! I am not forcing anyone or anything to react in any sort of way to it. It has a guideline for how it SHOULD work, but that doesn't mean it will work. Plenty of people will find other creative uses for it I am sure. If a player character is somehow filthified, I am not going to tell them "Hey, you need to act like this." It's just an extra option for people to explore. Someone could have it completely backfire, or do nothing at all. Sometimes it could work though, and that's awesome too. That's why I made this the companies first invention. First tries fail more often than not, but when they work that is really satisfying too.

 

[Requine]

Yeah for sure, it's totally possible that it could blow up in someone's face. Who knows? >:3

 

[Sarah Willis]

See, I like this idea.

Because in the first mission where you use Bingo as a lure, it has a crowd of minions around the machine.

Then, later, the Bingo-and-pee stained pants of Harumi's brother are tossed out the window, and attract filthy creatures, not just tentacles. So there's definite established precedent for Bingo attracting both filthy creatures and filth outcrops in game.

 

[Credaxi/Terry]

I think that with any superweapon, there should be a counter to it and a in-dungeon-master count of how much the thing is used. If it's used the count could be low, like one or two times to possibly fight overusage. Also, I had plans to use the anti-bee gas/bomb/macguffin more, so the same kind of usage counter could be set up for it.

 

[Pattern-Weld]

Definitely Credaxi! I don't even really think it would be plausible for any group to be carrying around more than one or two of these anyways, considering they don't outright kill the filth. It makes a bit more sense for one to be carried around by a team member as an "oh shit button" just in case the group bites off more than they can chew. Creative game masters could think up all sorts of ways these things could backfire too, which is why I was sure to put a few possibilities in the description for ease of story telling purposes. Then of course there is the fact that its not necessarily a huge company, so they while they are making as many of the grenades as they can, they simply couldn't make them THAT fast, which is another good IC reason for a group to only have one or two at the most.

 

[Pattern-Weld]

See, I like this idea.

Because in the first mission where you use Bingo as a lure, it has a crowd of minions around the machine.

Then, later, the Bingo-and-pee stained pants of Harumi's brother are tossed out the window, and attract filthy creatures, not just tentacles. So there's definite established precedent for Bingo attracting both filthy creatures and filth outcrops in game.

Thank you for adding this! I had almost forgotten about that part of the quest. Hopefully this makes the idea a bit more lore friendly and believable to more parties, so there is less need to worry. Thanks again!

 

[Kisikillillake]

I hadn't forgotten, because that's not what it says...

pants situation, we threw them out the window. It was the humane thing to do. [..] I think that black stuff drinks Bingo cola. Because do you remember Yuichi's pants? They have been overrun. I was looking at them with my binoculars. Those tentacles were all over it. It was kinda disturbing.

Also

(( In All Seeing Kawaii bingo does not in fact attract moving filth infected, it only seemed to affect the floor-tentacles, because in Kaidan where the broken bingo machine is where you get the cans for the tentacle, the filth enemies aren't scrabbling on the ground around the bingo, they're actually standing away from it and ignoring it uninterestedly - It's not due to game restraints or anything because elsewhere you can find them bent down eating people a lot and scrabblling in the dirt in other places, there is an animation for it, the mover types just weren't interested in the bingo

(cans knocked all over the floor in front of it)

 

[Credaxi/Terry]

Then what does it say?

EDIT: Hmm, that is an interesting point about the quest.

 

[Credaxi/Terry]

Stop, both of you. Stop. The topic here is if the Filth bomb would seem like "a thing" not your own petty squabbles.