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Scoundrel
What’s a Scoundrel?
Good? Bad? I’m the one with the PIECE.
Scoundrels are quick on their feet, but the bombs they fling are even quicker. Whether slinking through shadows or out manipulating the masses, a Scoundrel operates with range thanks to a powerful combination of underbelly schemes and quick wits. Widely known for their usefulness in a gunfight, they’re masters of the Prion Industries Electroswitching Compact Eradicator (PIECE) style weaponry, explosives, and trickery with a knack for making use of their surroundings to maximum effect.
Anyone looking for a fair fight better look elsewhere because the deck is stacked as soon as one of these gunslingers enters the room. If you’re ready to take on the brand of a Scoundrel, you know that life’s a gamble, and you’re going to do whatever it takes to win.
What can a Scoundrel do?
Armed with the bare necessities and a scheme, Scoundrels are known for firing a quick succession of attacks to turn the tide of battle. Customized ammo tips allow the fastest shots to stick afflictions, then follow up with a powerful haymaker or an IED applied directly to the back of the throat.
Scoundrels have access to the following skills:
Gunslinging
Show ‘em what happens to those that get in your sights. Fire off your PIECE for near-impossible shots and reload combos with a wide variety of ammo types, building up to that perfect, until the final moment – A swift execution at point blank range.
** While Prion Industries invented the PIECE, they’ve been out of business for decades. The name, however, has stuck.
| Ability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Pistolcraft | |
| Crackshot | Fire off your PIECE. |
| Detonate | Fire at an IED, triggering it. |
| Pointblank | A concussive, point-blank shot. |
| Rapidfire | Why fire once, when you can fire twice? |
| Execute | BOOM! HEADSHOT! |
| Ironsights | Aim down your iron sights. |
| Outgunned | Take them all down. |
| Smart Ammo | |
| Regular | Armour-piercing ammunition. |
| Ammoselect | Rapidly switch ammunition effects. |
| Impairing | Mentally-impairing bullet tips. |
| Arcing | Bullets fitted with mini EMP cores. |
| Disrupting | Bullet tips that damage the senses. |
| Combusting | Incendiary ammunition cores. |
| Weakening | Ammunition tips that weakens the body. |
| Infusing | Ammo tips with slow-release effects. |
| Amplifying | Damage-increasing ammo tips. |
| Reloading | |
| Quickload | Reload your pistol in the heat of battle. |
| Backflip | Shoot your last bullet and escape with style. |
| Spin | Reload quickly and prepare for your next shot. |
| Shellspill | Roll your spent shells on the floor. |
| Eject | Throw away an unspent magazine. |
| Trick shots | |
| Gauge | Shoot while moving between cover. |
| Cavein | Bring down the roof. |
| Ambush | Shoot first, always. |
| Unload | Fire off all of your ammo in rapid succession. |
| Stances | |
| Vigilant | Fire upon enemies who draw near. |
| Bulletguard | Take out incoming projectiles. |
| Overwatch | Return fire on your foes. |
Guile
No one said you had to play fair. Blind your opponent, smash their head into a table, trip and tie them up, or lob your favorite flaming cocktail right in their face to earn the upper hand and show them just how resourceful you can be. For the proactive sort, plant bugs across the sector to monitor and manipulate your opponents. Information is power, after all.
| Ability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Reloading | |
| Pocketsand | Toss sand into their eyes. |
| Suckerpunch | Drive your fist into their gut. |
| Gritblast | Blast them with grit while reloading. |
| Brawling | |
| Haymaker | A powerful swing with your titanium knuckles. |
| Stim | Heal yourself with stims. |
| Trip | Send them reeling. |
| Bind | Hog-tie your helpless target. |
| Pummel | Beat them into a pulp. |
| Incite | Incite a riot! |
| Facesmash | Their face was already ugly to look at. |
| Underbelly tricks | |
| Illegalmods | Safety is overrated. |
| Bar | Prevent traversal. |
| Improvisedcover | Take cover where you can. |
| Jetwash | Disturb the air around them. |
| Shoulderroll | Roll from one cover to another. |
| Rouse | Rally the troops. |
| Conceal | Hide in plain sight. |
| Dash | Sprint in a chosen direction. |
| Airstrike | Call in an airstrike. |
| Firebomb | Flaming liquor death. |
| Surveillance | |
| Bugs | Plant a bug. |
| Scan | Assess the situation. |
| Track | Who passed through here? |
| Multibug | Tune into multiple bugs at once. |
| Wipetracks | Disturb your tracks so nobody can follow you. |
| Visualbug | Detect movement through your bugs. |
Improvisation
Make them eat fire, you scoundrel. You love seeing things go BOOM and you’ve become a master of makeshift explosives. Through ingenuity and quick thinking, string up a network of tripwires, lob devastating poppers across the arena, or fling a rain of bombs at your foe, then walk away real slow as the explosion alights behind you.
| Ability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Manipulation | |
| Bandoliers | IED storage, with style. |
| Trigger | Trigger your IED in the crowd. |
| Sweep | Sweep for explosives. |
| Hide | Carefully conceal an explosive device. |
| Slip | Slip them an IED from on-high. |
| Tripwire | They better watch their step. |
| Forcefeed | Open wide! |
| Lob | Send your IEDs flyin’. |
| Disarm | No more bomb. |
| Multibomb | Bigger boom, bigger smiles. |
| Reloading | |
| Fling | Throw an IED while you reload. |
| Stickybomb | Reload and place an adapted IED in one motion. |
| Construction | |
| Construction | Construct improvised explosives. |
| Wiring | Wire it up for a 1-2-3 punch. |
| Timer | Add a timer for delayed blasts. |
| Shrapnel | Load your explosives with a painful punch. |
| IEDs | |
| Ripper | Tear through flesh like butter. |
| Popper | Send blasts high into the air. |
| Blinder | Dull their senses with a powerful flash. |
| Piercer | Fill the air with toxic darts. |
| Pusher | Blast them away with a powerful wave. |
| Zapper | Throw technology into disarray. |
| Shrieker | Drive them to distraction. |
| Melter | Spray corrosive acid around. |
| Sleeper | Night night, princess. |
| Choker | Unleash noxious gasses. |
| Distorter | Impact their sense of time and space. |