{"pistol": {"page": "58k_pistol.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "pistol.last-round", "name": "LAST ROUND", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One bullet left: he lets the empty magazine fall, tosses the pistol into the air, catches it upside down and fires; the round goes through the raised hand and the eye and corkscrews out of the skull; the man stands one long beat with a hole you can see the nig", "order": 0}, {"key": "pistol.toe-tag", "name": "TOE TAG", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The killing round cracks the night open into a cold room full of sheeted dead on steel slabs, each with a toe tag. She hides under a sheet among them, playing a corpse. Faris walks the row and bends to listen at every sheet. In the cold only the living breathe", "order": 1}, {"key": "pistol.split-decision", "name": "SPLIT DECISION", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He throws a knife at Faris; Faris shoots its edge; the bullet splits in two and the halves take both eyes; the knife, knocked back, spins home and pins his own hand to the castle wall; a rewind shows it all again from the blade.", "order": 2}, {"key": "pistol.the-gap", "name": "THE GAP", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz grabs Nitha as a shield, an arm round her throat and his pistol on her head. Faris settles both hands on the gun while a measuring overlay finds the one gap between her crown and his gun arm: 11 mm. The world goes muffled; he breathes out and fires. The ", "order": 3}, {"key": "pistol.hung-on-the-wall", "name": "HUNG ON THE WALL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "The crack drops Mikku into a candlelit gallery: oil portraits of everyone Faris has killed, their painted eyes following him as he runs. A painted hand reaches out of a frame and grabs him; he tears free. At the end of the hall hangs an empty gilt frame. Faris", "order": 4}, {"key": "pistol.shark-bait", "name": "SHARK BAIT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Under the wreck, by the black gap beneath the great rock, Fida swims at Faris firing. Faris puts one pistol round through her thigh and a red cloud blooms into the water. Then he simply backs off, lowers the gun and points past her into the dark. She looks: no", "order": 5}, {"key": "pistol.bubble-gum", "name": "THE LONG SECOND", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 19.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris and Amjad stand nose to nose in silence, each with a pistol pressed into the other\u2019s forehead. Amjad inks a gold knife low where Faris can\u2019t see it. A drop of sweat runs down from his cap and falls; when it hits the floor, he lunges with the knife and fi", "order": 6}, {"key": "pistol.overflow", "name": "DEAD RUN", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.35, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Chotu opens up with his SMG; Faris dives into a roll under the stream and comes up still coming, and Chotu breaks and runs, raking a scatter of gold caltrops onto the floor behind him. Faris hurdles them and, from the top of the jump, puts a round into the flo", "order": 7}, {"key": "pistol.going-down", "name": "BOOKENDS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku has a pistol on Faris and Fayiz is behind him with a knife. Her first round goes past Faris at her own partner. Faris strips her pistol with a real disarm and has two guns; he blocks Fayiz\u2019s stab on the stolen gun\u2019s slide and holds them both off, one gun", "order": 8}, {"key": "pistol.down-the-barrel", "name": "STILL COMING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Nitha comes at Faris with a knife. He shoots the knife arm off at the shoulder and she catches the knife out of the air with her other hand without breaking stride. A round through the thigh puts her on one knee; she gets up and comes on with a limp, dragging ", "order": 9}, {"key": "pistol.the-pendulum", "name": "NO MORE TRICKS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Fida tries every trick she has and Faris takes each one apart as it inks: a gold wall, a gold shield, a blade of ink thrown at him and shot out of the air. She runs and he walks after her. Cornered, she cages herself in gold bars and he shoots them out one by ", "order": 10}, {"key": "pistol.red-light", "name": "RED LIGHT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far", "pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris inks a traffic light onto the lawn and plays red light, green light with a pistol. His back turned and his hand over his eyes, he sings GREEN LIGHT and Fida sprints; on RED LIGHT he whips round and she freezes mid-stride, but her raised foot comes down a", "order": 11}, {"key": "pistol.gun-kata", "name": "GUN KATA", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "A gun form. Chotu draws on Faris; the first parry knocks his pistol spinning high into the air and puts a round through his wrist. While his gun turns over their heads, every block of the form ends with the muzzle on a joint: elbow, knee, collarbone, each mark", "order": 12}, {"key": "pistol.photo-finish", "name": "PHOTO FINISH", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris sweeps a finish tape across the rain-slick roof and they race for it, neck and neck, a race HUD swapping 1ST and 2ND. Both dive at the line. The photo finish decides it: the tip of Faris\u2019s crown crossed first. Mikku stops past the line, hands on his knee", "order": 13}, {"key": "pistol.interrogation", "name": "INTERROGATION", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris beckons a chair and a bare bulb into being and Hiba is tied to the chair. He asks who sent her; she lies and the bulb stutters: one kneecap. She lies again, the bulb stutters again: the other kneecap. Sobbing, she tells the truth and the bulb burns stead", "order": 14}, {"key": "pistol.apple-of-my-eye", "name": "APPLE OF MY EYE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris pulls an apple from his coat, sets it on Amjad\u2019s head and paces back down the saloon. Amjad shakes; Faris shoots the apple to pulp. Amjad laughs with relief, juice running down his face. Faris takes out a second apple, bites it, and lobs it; it drops rig", "order": 15}, {"key": "pistol.firing-squad", "name": "FIRING SQUAD OF ONE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris stands Nitha against the tower and knots a blindfold on her. He paces back ten steps to a drum roll and calls READY. On AIM he strides down the firing line, leaving a frozen copy of himself aiming at every rifleman\u2019s post: a squad of five Farises. FIRE: ", "order": 16}, {"key": "pistol.stained-glass", "name": "STAINED GLASS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The killing hit throws Fida back against the right tower. Faris points at him, slowly, and a tall gothic window of gold lead tracery draws itself round him. The moonlight comes through him in colour and he turns to stained glass where he stands, locked in the ", "order": 17}, {"key": "pistol.last-bubble", "name": "LAST BUBBLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Deep over the wreck Hiba holds her breath, cheeks puffed, and fires a round that crawls through the water on its bubble wake; Faris leans out of its way and taps his watch. Then one pistol round across her chest goes through both lungs, and her whole breath le", "order": 18}, {"key": "pistol.bullet-cam", "name": "BULLET CAM", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Hurt from the K.O. blow, Nitha staggers back a step, gets her guard up and comes again. Faris squares up, both hands on the gun, the front sight settles on her and he fires. The camera rides the round down the floor and into her.", "order": 19}, {"key": "pistol.crowd-control", "name": "CROWD CONTROL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One man charges, the other runs; Faris holds still until they line up and spends one round on both: an x-ray tracking shot follows the slug through the first man\u2019s ribs into the fleeing man\u2019s spine; they fold into each other like dominoes; the casing lands wit", "order": 20}, {"key": "pistol.the-jam", "name": "THE JAM", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "pointBlank"], "sum": "Chotu charges. Faris fires and gets a CLICK: the pistol jams, a round stuck in the port. Chotu grins and comes on. Faris taps and racks; the jammed live round spins out of the gun and bonks Chotu square on the forehead, then falls back into Faris\u2019s open hand. ", "order": 21}, {"key": "pistol.campfire", "name": "CAMPFIRE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris squeezes a campfire into being in the night yard and tells Hiba a ghost story across it; the smoke draws it: a house, a door creaking open, a crowned figure with a gun. She leans in, terrified. At the climax he leans over the flames, \u201c\u2026and he went\u2014\u201d, and", "order": 22}, {"key": "pistol.voodoo-poster", "name": "VOODOO POSTER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris snaps his fingers and a WANTED poster of Mikku inks onto the saloon wall. Mikku laughs at the bad likeness. Faris never aims at him: he shoots the poster. A hole in the drawing\u2019s knee and Mikku\u2019s knee bursts; the drawing\u2019s gun hand and his hand bursts; t", "order": 23}, {"key": "pistol.call-dropped", "name": "CALL DROPPED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fida crouches in the rain behind a roof vent, the phone\u2019s glow on her face, whispering for help: he\u2019s here, he\u2019s right here. Faris walks up into the edge of the glow. She turns. He shoots the phone against her ear and the round goes through it into her skull. ", "order": 24}, {"key": "pistol.checkmate", "name": "CHECKMATE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris slams his palm on the stones and a chessboard inks across the courtyard, a chess clock ticking in the corner. Amjad\u2019s every step is a move and Faris answers each with a shot that is a move too, written on the score sheet: a step forward, CHECK through th", "order": 25}, {"key": "pistol.six-feet", "name": "SIX FEET", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "He steps in and jams the muzzle up under her jaw; from a worm\u2019s-eye view the shot blows the top of her head open in a fountain; a single tooth spins up into the sky, comes down and lands on the barrel; he blows the smoke off it.", "order": 26}, {"key": "pistol.call-it", "name": "CALL IT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris flips a coin: \u201cCall it.\u201d Hiba calls heads. The coin turns over and over in slow motion and lands heads on the back of his hand; she breathes out, almost laughing. Faris turns the coin over to show her the other side: heads again. \u201cHeads.\u201d He flicks the c", "order": 27}], "skins": [{"key": "pistol.skin-classic", "name": "WHITE DOVES", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad fires first. Faris throws himself backwards out of the round and hangs flat in the air in slow motion, firing between his own boots, while a flock of white doves bursts up off the lawn between them. The rounds thread the flock: hand (the gun spins away),", "order": 0}, {"key": "pistol.skin-gold", "name": "KINTSUGI", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.25, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One gold round and Fayiz turns to porcelain where he stands, white glaze and blue painted rings; cracks race over him. Faris does not let him break yet: round after golden round seals every crack with molten gold, kintsugi, until he is a mended piece. Faris tr", "order": 1}, {"key": "pistol.skin-neon", "name": "TARGET LOCK", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris\u2019s vision goes neon: a targeting HUD sweeps a grid over Nitha and readouts tick. Six reticles lock onto her joints with six beeps: knees, elbows, heart, head. EXECUTE. Six rounds in half a second, every reticle turning red as it is hit. A wireframe damage", "order": 2}, {"key": "pistol.skin-camo", "name": "BEAR TRAP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris rakes his hand through the air and three gold claw marks run into the grass: a rusty bear trap inks in under the leaves. Mikku charges and steps right into it: SNAP, the shin breaks in the jaws. He thrashes and pulls at the chain. Faris crouches beside h", "order": 3}, {"key": "pistol.skin-cartoon", "name": "GOOD BOY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR|PLATFORM|BIG_PROP"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "Faris fires the cartoon pistol and out comes a round with eyes and a grin, slow as a toy. Hiba ducks; it misses, stops in mid-air, looks round and sniffs. Then it chases her round the castle like a dog after a cat: along the walk, up over the plank, round behi", "order": 4}, {"key": "pistol.skin-ice", "name": "COLD SHOULDER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 14.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha opens fire; Faris slams a gold slab up and slides in behind it. His one ice round takes her gun arm: frost climbs it to the shoulder and freezes the pistol in her fist. She draws a knife left-handed and comes on, swinging the frozen arm as a club and a s", "order": 5}, {"key": "pistol.skin-taped", "name": "TAPED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 14.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris opens fire and Amjad slams up a gold slab and crouches behind it, ripping duct tape off a roll and binding his knife to his right fist. He comes out fast; Faris meets the slash with the pistol frame, grabs the wrist and can\u2019t strip the knife, elbows him,", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "pistol.mid-mozambique", "name": "MOZAMBIQUE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Two to the chest, one to the head, and we never see it. The camera stays on Faris: three flashes light his face, two quick, one after a breath. Then it follows the brass down: three casings ring onto the boards one after another and roll. When the third one st", "order": 0}, {"key": "pistol.mid-tether", "name": "TETHER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Point blank, Fayiz slaps the pistol out of Faris\u2019s hand, and it doesn\u2019t fall: it snaps taut on a coiled red lanyard from Faris\u2019s wrist. Faris whirls it like a bola; its first pass cracks Fayiz\u2019s visor off his face, and it wraps twice round his neck and swings ", "order": 1}, {"key": "pistol.mid-black-round", "name": "UNDERNEATH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Amjad runs at Faris and leaps into a flying kick. Faris drops flat on his back under it, gun arm straight up, and fires as the body passes over him: the head bursts above him and the blood rains down on him. The headless body flies on, crashes and skids behind", "order": 2}, {"key": "pistol.mid-scared-stiff", "name": "SCARED STIFF", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris raises the pistol slowly at Nitha\u2019s face, and before he squeezes the trigger her fear does it for him: she turns to stone from the feet up, the grey creeping over her knees, her chest, into the scream on her face. The round only tips the statue over, and", "order": 3}, {"key": "pistol.mid-x-ring", "name": "PASSING SHOT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu sprints at Faris with a knife up and Faris sprints straight back at him. They pass shoulder to shoulder: the slash goes over Faris\u2019s ducking head, and Faris pivots on his planted foot as they cross and comes round to face Chotu\u2019s back with the pistol alr", "order": 4}, {"key": "pistol.mid-in-amber", "name": "LOW ROAD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba fires twice. Faris dives into a forward roll under the rounds (the second passes just over his curled back), comes up on one knee inside her aim, takes her gun hand off at the wrist, and puts the second round centre mass: she comes apart, the limbs flying", "order": 5}, {"key": "pistol.mid-live-wire", "name": "SLIDE LOCK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris\u2019s sixth round goes and the slide locks back empty. Fida hears it and comes for him: two strides and a flying tackle at his throat. With her in the air he reloads: the empty mag drops, a fresh one off his belt, seated, slapped home, the slide racked. The ", "order": 6}, {"key": "pistol.mid-hollow-point", "name": "HOLLOW POINT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One hollow-point round makes a small neat hole in Mikku\u2019s chest. He looks down at it, puts a finger to it, and the hole answers: everything in him pours out through it, and he dries round it to a bark-brown husk, thin limbs and sunken eyes, until the empty she", "order": 7}, {"key": "pistol.mid-achilles", "name": "ACHILLES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz runs. One round through the back of his heel, and he keeps running, one stride, two; on the next plant the tendon lets go and snaps up the back of his calf like a cut cable, and the leg folds under him. He goes down face-first and slides toward the edge,", "order": 8}, {"key": "pistol.mid-curiosity", "name": "CURIOSITY", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku kicks a card table over and drops behind it. Faris\u2019s first round punches one neat hole through the top. Then he strolls up and sets his muzzle against the hole, and the pinhole of light goes out. Curious, Mikku puts his eye to the dark hole and looks str", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "revolver": {"page": "58k_revolver.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "revolver.high-noon", "name": "HIGH NOON", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 11.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The killing round cracks the saloon open into a dead western town at noon: a black sun, bleached false fronts, the hanged on a gallows, the dead watching from the windows. Faris and Mikku stand thirty paces apart on the main street while the church bell tolls.", "order": 0}, {"key": "revolver.dead-mans-train", "name": "DEAD MAN\u2019S TRAIN", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The killing round cracks the rooftops open and they pull away like a station from a departing train: Faris and Amjad stand on the roof of an endless black freight train crossing a red hell at sunset, the damned reaching out through the cattle-car slats. Faris ", "order": 1}, {"key": "revolver.last-waltz", "name": "LAST WALTZ", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Faris traces a music box onto the boards beside them; its little dancer turns and a waltz plays. He bows and offers his hand; Hiba takes it. One-two-three, a real box step across the floor. Then on every downbeat he sends her spinning out to arm\u2019s length and t", "order": 2}, {"key": "revolver.sixth-chamber", "name": "THE THIRD CHAMBER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris swings the cylinder out and tips two live rounds onto the stone, tink, tink, keeping one: the revolver holds three. He spins it; we dive into the turning cylinder. The muzzle on Chotu\u2019s forehead: click. He spins it again: click. Again: click; Chotu laugh", "order": 3}, {"key": "revolver.moonshine", "name": "MOONSHINE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz takes a long pull from a jug of honey moonshine and sprays a mouthful at Faris in a fine mist, laughing. Faris fires one round through the mist: the muzzle flash lights it, and the fireball rolls straight back into Fayiz\u2019s open mouth. The honey liquor in", "order": 4}, {"key": "revolver.dead-mans-hand", "name": "DEAD MAN\u2019S HAND", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris deals a card table into being with a flick of his hand and they sit down to play. Chotu cheats: an ace up his sleeve. 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The blood never falls: it lifts", "order": 6}, {"key": "revolver.the-bends", "name": "THE BENDS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under the bow of the wreck Mikku walks the seabed heavy in a diver\u2019s belt of lead, firing up at Faris. Faris\u2019s first heavy round clangs off a lead block: the knockback that throws men across saloons only rocks him a step, and he grins and slaps the lead. The s", "order": 7}, {"key": "revolver.six-shooter", "name": "SIX-SHOOTER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 4.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hurt from the K.O. blow, Nitha squares up to come again. Faris keeps the revolver low at his hip and fans the hammer with his off hand: six rounds, each one taking a piece of her - an arm, the other arm, a leg, the other as she goes down, the head - and one mo", "order": 8}, {"key": "revolver.rattler", "name": "RATTLER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One heavy round through the lung drops Fida onto his back, and every breath comes out of him as a wet rattle. A dry rattle answers from a crack between the temple stones, then another, and rattlesnakes pour out and sidewind toward the sound. 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In the dark a revolver is reloaded, one round at a time. He holds his pole's flame up high,", "order": 11}, {"key": "revolver.swashbuckler", "name": "SWASHBUCKLER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz runs at Faris, leaps, catches the rope that hangs from the balcony and swings down at him firing one-handed, a pirate boarding a ship. At the bottom of the swing Faris's one heavy round goes through his chest. He dies on the rope, but his hand won't let ", "order": 12}, {"key": "revolver.chambers", "name": "CHAMBERS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A revolver has three chambers and a heart has four. 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Faris\u2019s heavy round punches clean through his sternum, and down here the sea pushes in through the hole: it pours into him in a hard stream, his ", "order": 14}, {"key": "revolver.optogram", "name": "THE LATCH", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 13.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Two revolvers at arm's length: Faris and Mikku bat each other's muzzles aside. Mikku fires; Faris slips it and puts his thumb on Mikku's cylinder latch: the cylinder swings out and the rounds spill across the floor, and Faris strips the empty gun. Mikku comes ", "order": 15}, {"key": "revolver.bandana", "name": "TAILED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 11.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris fires all three at Amjad, who is fast: he ducks the first, hops the second and leans back under the third. CLICK. Amjad draws a machete over his shoulder and Faris runs. The chase is the reload: running flat out, Faris swings the cylinder out and sprays ", "order": 16}, {"key": "revolver.blind-mans-draw", "name": "BLIND MAN'S DRAW", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "In the noon glare Chotu throws the sun into Faris's eyes with a pocket mirror, and the screen goes black: we only see what Faris hears. Chotu circles behind him, his spurs ringing; he takes them off. His breath rings; he clamps a hand over his mouth. Then his ", "order": 17}, {"key": "revolver.silk-vest", "name": "SILK VEST", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku opens his coat on a silk vest and taps it: bulletproof. And it is: the heavy round does not tear the silk, it carries it straight into his chest like a finger into a glove. He laughs at the silk pocket inside him. Faris walks up, pinches the silk and pul", "order": 18}, {"key": "revolver.old-iron", "name": "OLD IRON", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One heavy round, and a puff of orange grit blows out of Fayiz's shoulder instead of blood. From the wound a front of rust creeps along his bones, pitting and flaking, and his joints seize: he brings his gun up in creaking jerks and locks there, his jaw open, h", "order": 19}, {"key": "revolver.phrenology", "name": "PHRENOLOGY", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba the phrenologist has the faculties inked on her own shaved scalp. She holds up a porcelain bust beside her head, sights Faris over a pair of calipers and reads him: remarkable, no CAUTION at all. Whereas she\u2014 Faris's one heavy round goes in at her brow, o", "order": 20}, {"key": "revolver.drip", "name": "DRIP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Amjad circles with a fighting knife, feints low and slashes at Faris's throat; Faris sways back an inch from the blade, checks the backhand with his free hand and puts round one into the knife hand from thirty centimetres. The hand and the knife spin away. Amj", "order": 21}, {"key": "revolver.shot-in-the-foot", "name": "SHOT IN THE FOOT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha and Faris face off, hands hovering. She draws so fast to beat him that her revolver goes off in the holster and puts a hole through her own boot. She hops on the other foot, OW OW OW, squirting with every hop, closer and closer to Faris, who has not move", "order": 22}, {"key": "revolver.showboat", "name": "SHOWBOAT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fida plays to the crowd round the cage with a bullwhip: a crack over his head, a crack at Faris's boots, a crack past Faris's ear, a figure-eight in the air. He flings the lash high for the finale and bows low, arms wide. Faris yawns and puts one heavy round d", "order": 23}, {"key": "revolver.rocking-chair", "name": "ROCKING CHAIR", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The old gunfighter rocks in his chair with a rifle across his knees: you took your time, son. He reaches for the rifle and Faris's one heavy round goes through his chest and the back of the chair. He slumps, but the chair keeps rocking, and every forward rock ", "order": 24}, {"key": "revolver.spittoon", "name": "SPITTOON", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz works a chaw and spits past Faris's boot: the gob rings the brass spittoon, DING, and he grins. Faris looks at his boot, then at him. One heavy round through his chest, and he folds forward onto his knees, face first into the spittoon, DING, and stays th", "order": 25}], "skins": [{"key": "revolver.skin-classic", "name": "BLOW THE SMOKE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A noon draw in the fort's courtyard: Mikku clears leather first and his round rings off Faris's crown. Faris's one heavy round goes through his chest. Mikku looks down at the smoking hole, grins, spins his gun and blows on the hole like on a barrel; the smoke ", "order": 0}, {"key": "revolver.skin-gold", "name": "THE GOLD COUNTRY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The killing round sends Fayiz into the gold country: an endless desert of gold dust under a sun that never sets, where the prospectors sit dead at their claims, rich and dried. Gut-shot, he begs Faris for water. Faris uncorks a canteen, lets him hear it slosh,", "order": 1}, {"key": "revolver.skin-neon", "name": "STROBE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The lights die and the frame goes black; only the neon revolver glows in Faris's hand. Fida closes on the glow with a blade, and we only see her in the muzzle-flash frames, one per round: across the room; closer, the blade up, and that round takes the arm at t", "order": 2}, {"key": "revolver.skin-camo", "name": "LOW CRAWL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris stands with his back turned. Behind him Nitha low-crawls, flat on her belly, knife in hand, closer and closer. She springs and stabs. Faris pivots on it, the blade goes past his hip, he slaps the arm down and her own lunge puts her on her face; he stamps", "order": 3}, {"key": "revolver.skin-cartoon", "name": "PULL STRING", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu draws, and Faris's cartoon round turns him into a pull-string rag-doll ringmaster. The ring zips out of his back and his voice box plays \"Step right up!\" He tries to draw, but doll arms don't bend. Faris walks round him and pulls the string: \"Ladies and ", "order": 4}, {"key": "revolver.skin-ice", "name": "COLD-BLOODED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One ice round in the gut makes Hiba cold-blooded: frost scales spread over his skin, he drops onto his belly like a lizard and crawls, tongue flicking, to the one patch of sun on the atrium floor. In the sun he does lizard push-ups, the frost steams off and he", "order": 5}, {"key": "revolver.skin-taped", "name": "DUST CAP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A sandstorm blows across the temple steps. Faris stands with his back to it, tears a square of grip tape off his worn grip and presses it over the muzzle to keep the sand out. Amjad points at the taped-shut gun and roars with laughter, mouth wide open into the", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "revolver.mid-speed-loader", "name": "SPEED LOADER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Nitha catches Faris mid-reload: her pistol pressed into his chest, his cylinder hanging open, his hands up with a speed loader in one of them. \u201cDrop it.\u201d He lowers the loader slowly, as if to hand it over, and instead thumbs it home, and the flick of the wrist", "order": 0}, {"key": "revolver.mid-hoodoo", "name": "HOODOO", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha stands in the canyon wind, coat flapping, hand over her holster. The heavy round rocks her but she stays upright, and from the wound red sandstone creeps along her bones in layered stripes like canyon rock, her face carved in surprise. The wind starts ca", "order": 1}, {"key": "revolver.mid-film-burn", "name": "SLIP", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu charges in and throws a huge haymaker. Faris slips under it and plants the muzzle in the armpit of the swinging arm: one round. The arm comes off at the shoulder and keeps travelling with the punch, spinning away over Faris's head; Chotu spins round afte", "order": 2}, {"key": "revolver.mid-combat-roll", "name": "COMBAT ROLL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu dives into a combat roll to close on Faris under the gun. Faris doesn\u2019t follow him: he lays the muzzle on an empty patch of roof a body\u2019s length ahead of the roll and waits. Chotu comes up out of the roll exactly into it. The heavy round\u2019s knockback roll", "order": 3}, {"key": "revolver.mid-picked-clean", "name": "PICKED CLEAN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz raises his gun; one heavy round knocks him flat on his back in a fan of dust, and the first vulture lands on his chest before it settles. Two more drop in. Then all three are on him at once in a storm of beating wings, feathers and dust, a feeding frenzy", "order": 4}, {"key": "revolver.mid-quicksilver", "name": "BORDER SHIFT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fida lunges and clamps both hands on Faris's gun wrist, twisting it up and away. Faris simply lets go: the revolver flips up over his shoulder and drops behind his back into his left hand, and with her hands still locked on his empty wrist he brings it round u", "order": 5}, {"key": "revolver.mid-cylinder-grip", "name": "CYLINDER GRIP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Amjad grabs Faris\u2019s revolver and clamps his hand round the cylinder, grinning: a revolver can\u2019t fire if the cylinder can\u2019t turn. But the gun has been firing all round and the cylinder is scorching. Faris just keeps squeezing. In close-up it grinds round under ", "order": 6}, {"key": "revolver.mid-holster-to-holster", "name": "HOLSTER TO HOLSTER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz rushes Faris, fists up. Faris just holsters his revolver, turns his hip and fires through the bottom of his own holster. The round hits Fayiz\u2019s holstered gun and sets it off: his own round goes straight down through his boot. He hops away on one leg, how", "order": 7}, {"key": "revolver.mid-spurred", "name": "SPURRED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Chotu stomps his boot down hard to plant himself for the draw, and the spur\u2019s rowel bites into a crack in the boards. He grins, hand to his holster. Faris is first: the heavy round throws him backward, but the spur holds, and his leg stretches out long behind ", "order": 8}, {"key": "revolver.mid-toothpick", "name": "TOOTHPICK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris is chewing a toothpick while Mikku shouts at him. He rolls it across his lips and spits it: it lands right in Mikku\u2019s open mouth, stuck between his teeth. One heavy round in the chest: Mikku gasps, and the toothpick goes straight down his throat. He claw", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "handcannon": {"page": "58k_handcannon.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "handcannon.newtons-cradle", "name": "NEWTON'S CRADLE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Three men rush Faris in a tight file, the back two hiding behind the front one. Faris plants the muzzle on the front man's breastbone and fires once. The front man stops dead where he stands with the slug in him; a band of light runs through the middle man, wh", "order": 0}, {"key": "handcannon.totality", "name": "TOTALITY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 11.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A total eclipse over the saloon. A black bite eats into the great sun behind the roof; colour drains; shadow bands ripple over the boards; the lanterns light themselves; two vultures drop onto the sign to roost; the air cools until breath shows. Totality: the ", "order": 1}, {"key": "handcannon.trophy-room", "name": "THE TROPHY ROOM", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 12.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The elephant gun's trophy room. One round throws Fayiz into the tower wall, and the wall cracks: brass-edged seams race out from the impact like cracks over ice, a dark lodge showing through them, until the panels swing open over the arena like cabinet doors a", "order": 2}, {"key": "handcannon.proving-ground", "name": "THE PROVING GROUND", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 15.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The heaviest round in the game ends where rounds are tested. One round into Hiba's chest on the base, and the world wobbles like struck gel and sets clear round her: she hangs suspended in a block of ballistic gelatin in a concrete test bunker under one swingi", "order": 3}, {"key": "handcannon.hot-lead", "name": "HOT LEAD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One round into Mikku's collarbone, and it stays in. He laughs that it didn't even come out. Then a white-hot point glows through his shirt and starts to sink: through a lung (steam from his mouth), past the heart (it flutters, lit from below), through the gut ", "order": 4}, {"key": "handcannon.avalanche", "name": "AVALANCHE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 11.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A quiet snowfall in the canyon. Nitha is down in the fresh snow with a round in her thigh; she crawls, and laughs at Faris's next aim. Then she sees the gun go up. Round two, straight up: the boom rolls out across the peaks in a ring of shaken snow. A long sil", "order": 5}, {"key": "handcannon.soft-landing", "name": "SOFT LANDING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM", "ledge"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "High on the clock tower's top ledge, one round knocks Chotu off the edge. Faris steps off after him. Two men falling side by side, and then one of them stops: Faris aims straight down and fires, and the hand cannon's kick brakes him like a parachute while the ", "order": 6}, {"key": "handcannon.figurehead", "name": "FIGUREHEAD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 11.9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under the sea, by the sunken galleon. One round at mid range: the slug crawls through the water on its bubble trail at the real seven metres a second, and Amjad sees it coming and can't swim out of the way. It tears through his chest; a red cloud blooms and a ", "order": 7}, {"key": "handcannon.10000-fps", "name": "10,000 FPS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One round into Amjad's chest, close. In real time it looks like nothing: he staggers, frowns, pats himself down, still standing. Then the replay at ten thousand frames a second shows what really happened: the slug arrives on its heat wake and his whole body ri", "order": 8}, {"key": "handcannon.bedside-manner", "name": "BEDSIDE MANNER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The doctor, in a white coat with a head mirror and a stethoscope, takes Faris's pulse and gives his verdict: \"You'll live. Not long.\" One round into his chest, close, and the knockback sits him down hard on the floor. Professional to the end, he puts the steth", "order": 9}, {"key": "handcannon.next-week", "name": "NEXT WEEK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "\"I'll knock you into next week.\" He is. One round throws Mikku up and back over the canyon in a long arc, and at the top of it time lets go: the light races from sunrise to noon to dusk to night seven times, the moon turns through its phases, a shower passes, ", "order": 10}, {"key": "handcannon.crime-scene", "name": "CRIME SCENE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 8.3, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The kill is over in a second: one round, mid range, throws Amjad back into the temple wall, where he slides down. Then the crime scene processes itself. Yellow evidence tents pop up one by one: 1 the scorch of the red brake on the floor at Faris's feet, 2 the ", "order": 11}, {"key": "handcannon.slasher", "name": "SLASHER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 10.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The masked killer walks, never runs: a pale mask, a boiler suit, a machete; a heartbeat and a thin high string. Round one throws him flat, and he sits up straight from the waist, the mask turning to Faris. Round two: flat, and he sits up. Round three: flat, an", "order": 12}, {"key": "handcannon.left-behind", "name": "TOP BREAK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris's hand cannon clicks dry, and he breaks it open: three hot empties spin out. Nitha comes in at a sprint with a knife while the gun is open. He fights her one-handed with the open gun: her backhand rings off the frame; he sucks back from the low slash and", "order": 13}, {"key": "handcannon.burial-at-sea", "name": "AIR MAIL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku sprints at Faris and launches a flying kick at his head. Round one meets him at the top of the leap: the knockback sends him back up the way he came, folded round the hit, in slow motion. Faris tracks him up with the recoil still in his arm, and round tw", "order": 14}, {"key": "handcannon.inertia", "name": "INERTIA", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 6.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz charges full tilt, screaming, in shades and a gold chain. One round stops him dead and throws him back the way he came. But a body in motion stays in motion: his visor, his shades, his chain, his wallet, his coins, his false teeth and his gum keep coming", "order": 15}, {"key": "handcannon.hole-in-one", "name": "HOLE IN ONE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The old HOLE IN ONE finisher, told as golf. Fida the golfer, in a plaid flat cap, tees up on the lawn and drives at Faris's head: a long high slice that Faris leans an inch from, sailing up into the sky. One round: a perfect round hole punched clean through hi", "order": 16}, {"key": "handcannon.limbo", "name": "LIMBO", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 9.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "How low can you go? Fayiz the limbo dancer, in a flowered shirt and a lei, shimmies at Faris to steel drums from nowhere. Round one at chest height: he bends back under it and the slug's heat-wake hangs in the air as the bar, scorching a line across his shirt.", "order": 17}, {"key": "handcannon.small-cover", "name": "SMALL COVER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "BREAKABLE_LIGHT"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under fire, Fida dives behind the nearest cover there is: a single small crate on the ship's deck. She peeks over it, ducks, peeks again, then holds very still, holding her breath. One round goes through the crate and her: the crate bursts into boards and spli", "order": 18}, {"key": "handcannon.made-to-measure", "name": "RECOIL SPIN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu comes in low and ducks the first round; it goes over his head. The cannon's recoil whips Faris a full turn, and he rides the spin into a spinning back kick that meets Chotu as he comes up. Faris lands square and the second round goes in point-blank: the ", "order": 19}, {"key": "handcannon.bullet-catch", "name": "PIECEMEAL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.45, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida throws a knife at Faris. He shoots it out of the air, and the round carries on into her throwing arm and takes it at the shoulder. The hit spins her round and she runs; round two takes her leg at the thigh mid-stride and she pitches onto her face. She dra", "order": 20}, {"key": "handcannon.getaway", "name": "GETAWAY", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha turns and sprints away. One round into her back, mid range, and the knockback throws her further and faster than she could ever run: flat out across the temple, her legs still running in the air in a churning blur. She lands on her face at the far end an", "order": 21}, {"key": "handcannon.on-the-house", "name": "ON THE HOUSE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 7.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The waiter glides up in a waistcoat and bow tie, a cloth over his arm, a tray of three tall drinks held high on one hand, and offers one with a smirk. One round, close: the knockback throws him flat across the floor. The tray floats a beat in the air, turning,", "order": 22}, {"key": "handcannon.earmuffs", "name": "EARMUFFS", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 6.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad sees the size of the gun and clamps a pair of big orange ear defenders over his ears, and grins. One round, mid range, to the chest: we hear it from inside the cups, muffled, then clear. The knockback throws him flat. The ear defenders sit perfectly in p", "order": 23}, {"key": "handcannon.no-clip", "name": "NO-CLIP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One round, close, and the knockback is faster than the world can handle: Hiba goes into the ship's timber wall behind her instead of hitting it, half in and half out, like a bug in a game. The wall keeps trying to push her out, so she jitters between two posit", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "handcannon.skin-classic", "name": "BLOWN AWAY", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The old hi-fi advert, played by a hand cannon. Amjad waves an armchair, a floor lamp and a side table with a little record player into being, drops into the chair with his feet up and his drink on the arm: \"Go on, then.\" One round, close, and the blast hits hi", "order": 0}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-gold", "name": "SILENCE IS GOLDEN", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 13.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The loudest gun in the game makes the quietest death. One round, mid range, into Chotu, and the BOOM is cut dead mid-word: the comic sound-word and its shock rings stop in the air and turn to solid gold, the colour and the sound drain away, and the gold rings ", "order": 1}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-neon", "name": "THE LIST", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris sweeps a neon club front into being: a door, a velvet rope on brass posts, VOLTAGE in pink tube over the door, bass thumping behind it. Nitha the bouncer, black tee, earpiece, arms folded, blocks the rope: \"You're not on the list.\" One round, close. The ", "order": 2}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-camo", "name": "NIGHT VISION", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The commando owns the dark. The base's lights die bank by bank, and in his night-vision goggles Fida can see Faris and Faris can't see her: green grain, a reticle, Faris turning blind while she stalks closer with a knife. Faris fires once at the sound of a foo", "order": 3}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-cartoon", "name": "AROUND THE WORLD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris raises the cartoon hand cannon the wrong way round, muzzle at his own face. Mikku points and laughs. Faris fires anyway: the slug leaves backwards past his ear and away, leaving him with a sooty face, and goes the long way, all the way round the world: a", "order": 4}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-ice", "name": "CURLING STONE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha runs Faris down and leaps in with her knife raised. The ice hand cannon meets her in the air: in super slow motion the frost races out of the wound over her whole body and she freezes solid mid-leap, her last breath hanging as frost in front of her mouth", "order": 5}, {"key": "handcannon.skin-taped", "name": "STRAPPED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris's worn taped hand cannon is taped along the back of his fist and forearm, so the kick can't tear it away. Fayiz throws his charged kick, the game's real disarm: CLANG, and the gun stays put. Faris shows him the back of his fist, wound tight in tape. Jab:", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "handcannon.mid-safetys-on", "name": "SAFETY'S ON", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Backed off, Fayiz grins and points at Faris's gun: \"Safety's on, genius.\" Faris looks down at the gun. He nods his thanks. His thumb flicks the safety off, click, and he fires.", "order": 0}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-staring-contest", "name": "STARING CONTEST", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A staring contest, nose to nose. Extreme close-ups of the four eyes: sweat, a twitch. Nitha's eye waters and the lid trembles. She blinks, and the instant the lid comes down Faris fires up under her jaw. Faris never blinked.", "order": 1}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-swallowed", "name": "SHOULDER THROW", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha closes on Faris with a boxer's footwork, her knife in a forward grip. Her combination comes in fast (a punch-cut, a live-hand cross, a punch-thrust); he slips each one by inches from the hips, the last past his ear. On the thrust his free hand traps her ", "order": 2}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-brake", "name": "BRAKE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris fires; Mikku slips the round by a hair, then leans in grinning to laugh right beside the gun, where the red muzzle brake vents its blast sideways. Faris fires again, up and past him at nothing, and the side ports blast fire into his face. His face sets i", "order": 3}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-challenge-accepted", "name": "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba slaps Faris across the face with a white glove: SLAP. A duel. She turns her back and lifts her foot to walk her first pace, and Faris fires once into her back. The knockback flips her over once in the air and lays her on her back, and the white glove flut", "order": 4}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-flinch", "name": "FLINCH", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris raises the hand cannon and Amjad cringes, eyes squeezed shut, hands up. Faris lowers it and waits. One eye opens. Raised again: flinch. Lowered: the eye opens. Faris fires while it is open.", "order": 5}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-vanity", "name": "VANITY", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mid-fight, his back to Faris, Fayiz pulls out a pocket mirror and a comb and fixes his quiff. In the mirror, Faris's hand cannon appears over his shoulder. The round goes through him and the mirror, and the blast sweeps his hair into the perfect quiff he was t", "order": 6}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-take-a-seat", "name": "TAKE A SEAT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CONTAINER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One round, and the knockback flips Fida one perfect backward somersault through the air and lands her sitting on the barrel behind her, legs crossed, hands folded on her knee, as if she were waiting for a bus. Her bowler hat comes down a moment later and lands", "order": 7}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-plaster", "name": "PLASTER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The hand cannon's first round leaves a hole the size of a fist in Chotu's belly. He looks down, peels a tiny plaster out of his pocket, smooths it over the hole (it covers about a quarter of it) and gives Faris a thumbs up. The second round goes dead centre th", "order": 8}, {"key": "handcannon.mid-burp", "name": "BURP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A burping contest. Mikku lets out a huge rude burp at Faris, with a comic word to match: BUUURP. Faris raises an eyebrow and answers with the loudest thing he owns. The BOOM word is far bigger and knocks the BUUURP word over, and the knockback throws Mikku the", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "smg": {"page": "58k_smg.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "smg.below", "name": "BELOW", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 13, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "The roof turns to black water and Amjad sinks like it's tar; Faris walks down after him. On the river of the dead the ferryman's pole pushes him back under, Faris empties the SMG from the boat burst by burst while pale hands pull the pieces down, then pays the", "order": 0}, {"key": "smg.the-autograph", "name": "THREE MAGS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 14, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris has three magazines and Nitha knows it. Two steel knives ink into her open palms; she twirls them and goes. She sprints at the first burst, rolls under the second and goes over the third in an aerial, and lands inside his reach as the gun clicks empty. 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He steps in and presses the muzzle to her forehead; the last strip comes off the muzzle as it fir", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "golden.mid-the-bill", "name": "THE BILL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fida slides the bill across the little table and taps it: PAY UP. Faris looks at the bill, then at the hand still resting on it, and slowly raises the golden pistol over it. One round nails the hand through the bill to the table. He screams and yanks and canno", "order": 0}, {"key": "golden.mid-gold-fever", "name": "GOLD FEVER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad charges Faris for the golden gun, hands out, his eyes never leaving the gold. Faris does not move. 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As his lips touch the ring, the round goes down through the crown of his head and out", "order": 4}, {"key": "golden.mid-the-looter", "name": "ALONG THE ARM", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu steps in with a jab. Faris parries it on the barrel of the golden pistol, and the barrel ends up lying along the arm: he fires, and the round runs up the arm from the wrist and takes it off at the shoulder. Chotu throws the other fist anyway; Faris slips", "order": 5}, {"key": "golden.mid-the-plea", "name": "THE PLEA", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz drops to his knees and holds up all his gold in cupped hands: his rings, his watch, his chain. TAKE IT. ALL OF IT. 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Then the haymaker comes up from his boots, and the gun goes off four times inside the swing ", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "ar": {"page": "58k_ar.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "ar.last-stand", "name": "LAST STAND", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 3, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Four of them at once and thirty rounds: one held trigger turns the saloon in a circle, every death slams into a manga panel on a page that fills, and the magazine clicks dry a foot from the last face, so she gets the stock.", "order": 0}, {"key": "ar.magazine", "name": "THE MAGAZINE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "The killing hit loads him into the rifle: he wakes on top of a magazine where the dead are the cartridges, sealed in brass to the neck; the bolt strips them one by one; then the brass climbs him, and he is the next round Faris fires.", "order": 1}, {"key": "ar.rewind", "name": "DRY FIRE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Rifle against rifle at close range: both men move behind their sights, trading bursts, until both bolts lock back dry at the same moment. The reload race: both mags drop; Faris's pouch is empty; Fayiz's fresh mag clips his magwell and pops into the air, and Fa", "order": 2}, {"key": "ar.dance", "name": "BLIND SIDE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 17.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz kneels with his hands behind his head and his pistol on the floor; behind his head he is inking a gold kusarigama. When Faris kicks the pistol away the sickle comes for his throat. A chain fight, a gold pavise, a drag Faris stops dead with a gold peg; th", "order": 3}, {"key": "ar.bullet-time", "name": "BULLET TIME", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["face"], "range": [], "sum": "He empties a backup pistol at Faris in bullet time; Faris bends back under every round (one clips the crown off) and answers from the lean with one arc of fire; when time snaps back, every second the man spent in slow time comes due at once, and he is drained ", "order": 4}, {"key": "ar.human-shield", "name": "HUMAN SHIELD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "His friend makes a good shield: the partner on the platform shoots a hole clean through him trying to hit Faris, and Faris pushes his rifle through the hole and fires back through his chest.", "order": 5}, {"key": "ar.clash", "name": "CLASH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat", "face"], "range": [], "sum": "Rifle against rifle: both hold their triggers and the rounds meet nose to nose in mid-air; the clash point is a tug of war across the castle, and when his magazine runs dry it races into him.", "order": 6}, {"key": "ar.zipline", "name": "SNAPBACK", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He arrives by wire: Faris rips a cable into being between the towers and rides it one-handed, firing straight down through the plank she hides under; then he shoots the cable loose and it whips down across her.", "order": 7}, {"key": "ar.no-mans-land", "name": "NO MAN\u2019S LAND", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "Under a red flare the castle becomes a trench hell where the dead go over the top forever; he is dragged over with them and dies crucified on the wire.", "order": 8}, {"key": "ar.bathysphere", "name": "BATHYSPHERE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Out of air, he casts himself a bathysphere and laughs at Faris from behind its quartz; twelve rounds on one point of the quartz, and the sea comes in as a needle.", "order": 9}, {"key": "ar.thermal", "name": "THERMAL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the smoke he\u2019s the only warm thing in the room: Faris pops smoke, goes thermal, and watches him burn white, bleed bright, and cool to blue.", "order": 10}, {"key": "ar.own-pit", "name": "HIS OWN PIT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He rakes a spike pit open behind himself as a trap for Faris; every three-round burst knocks him one step back toward it, and the rounds and the steps run out together.", "order": 11}, {"key": "ar.white-flag", "name": "WHITE FLAG", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Peekaboo behind the battlements: Faris holds the stream on the gaps, and every time he peeks out he leaves a piece behind; then a white flag goes up.", "order": 12}, {"key": "ar.barrel-roll", "name": "BARREL ROLL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Her cover is an oil drum: the rounds hole it and roll it back at her, leaking a fuse of fuel; one tracer lights the fuse; she runs burning, and the mercy burst breaks her like charcoal.", "order": 13}, {"key": "ar.bottomless", "name": "BOTTOMLESS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Slugs stall in the water and drop at his boots, so he laughs; Faris cuts a ring in the sand round his feet and the seabed turns out to be a crust over nothing.", "order": 14}, {"key": "ar.searchlight", "name": "SKIP FIRE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.1, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba casts gold slabs on short feet and moves from cover to cover, low and crouched; she fires blind over the top and throws a gold knife, and Faris slips it. He reads the gap under her slab, casts a gold wedge plate onto the floor, drops to a knee and skip-fi", "order": 15}, {"key": "ar.lighter", "name": "LIGHTER THAN AIR", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 11.55, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He floats up out of reach on a bunch of gold balloons he cast himself; Faris taps them one by one until he sinks back down on tiptoe, begging through the reload; then the stream takes pieces off him, and every piece that falls lets him rise, until the last bal", "order": 16}, {"key": "ar.walk-it-in", "name": "WALK IT IN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["gap", "height"], "range": [], "sum": "At range you walk your rounds in: the first burst short, the second long, the target laughs at both; the third is bracketed dead on.", "order": 17}, {"key": "ar.grenade-belt", "name": "GRENADE BELT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "He brought his own grenades: one round clips a pin out of his bandolier. They both look down. Then the yard goes red.", "order": 18}, {"key": "ar.ladder", "name": "LADDER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He casts himself a gold escape ladder to the balcony; Faris shoots the rungs out from under him, then the hands off the top rung.", "order": 19}, {"key": "ar.bayonet", "name": "BAYONET", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "The rifle becomes a spear: a bayonet out and locked on, the charge, run through and lifted, the magazine emptied through him, the spine comes out on the blade.", "order": 20}, {"key": "ar.tac-reload", "name": "TAC RELOAD", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["face"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "His mag runs dry and she thinks that\u2019s her chance: the empty mag whipped into her teeth, a fresh one slapped in, a burst up through the jaw.", "order": 21}, {"key": "ar.underbarrel", "name": "TOO CLOSE TO ARM", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "A launcher under the barrel, a 40 mm from too close to arm: it sticks in his chest. Faris counts three steps back, then gives it one burst.", "order": 22}, {"key": "ar.timber", "name": "TIMBER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": [], "sum": "He charges like a bull and gets felled like a tree: the shins stay standing where he was cut, the rest goes over stiff and skids to Faris\u2019s knee.", "order": 23}, {"key": "ar.runner", "name": "LAST REACH", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": [], "sum": "She runs for her dropped pistol and every reach for it costs her more: the knee, the fingers of one hand, then the other; in the end she bites the grip and tries to swing the muzzle round at him with her teeth. Faris pins it with his boot, looks at her, and st", "order": 24}, {"key": "ar.playing-dead", "name": "PLAYING DEAD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "He plays dead; Faris checks. The \u201ccorpse\u201d lunges with a hidden knife; a boot on the wrist, the muzzle in the face, one burst.", "order": 25}, {"key": "ar.muzzle-climb", "name": "HIGH GROUND", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He climbs for the high ground, platform to platform, and the AR\u2019s recoil climbs right after him, one step behind, until there is no higher to go.", "order": 26}], "skins": [{"key": "ar.skin-classic", "name": "TUTORIAL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "The classic skin is the starter gun, so the kill plays as the game\u2019s own tutorial: prompt cards coach Faris step by step (shoot the legs, reload when safe, aim down sights, headshots deal critical damage) and he follows every step to the letter. TUTORIAL COMPL", "order": 0}, {"key": "ar.skin-gold", "name": "IDOL", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "In his vanity he raises a three-times-life golden statue of himself and kneels to kiss its feet; Faris never aims at him, only at the idol\u2019s face, until the gold runs, and the molten gold pours down the statue onto the man clinging to its feet.", "order": 1}, {"key": "ar.skin-neon", "name": "STROBE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["wall"], "range": [], "sum": "Faris snaps his fingers and the saloon is a neon club with a strobe: she only exists in the flashes, every flash she is somewhere else and something is gone, and as the strobe slows each flash finds her closer to him.", "order": 2}, {"key": "ar.skin-camo", "name": "COPYCAT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A split screen: Faris on his ledge, the copycat on her balcony mirroring every move a beat late. He speeds up until she can\u2019t keep up; they aim at each other across the seam; her pistol clicks empty; his burst tears the seam and the panels fall away as the rou", "order": 3}, {"key": "ar.skin-cartoon", "name": "SMEAR FRAME", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A real tonfa fight in cartoon timing. Fida casts twin gold tonfa and closes in with real footwork; her flurry comes in fast, every strike a smear, and every block on Faris's handguard squashes his rifle and springs it back. Then the big one: a held crouch, a s", "order": 4}, {"key": "ar.skin-ice", "name": "BRAIN FREEZE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": [], "sum": "One ice round to the forehead gives him the worst brain freeze in history: he clutches his temples, his eyes ice over, his frozen brain rattles when he shakes his head, and one tap of the muzzle cracks the skull so the frozen brain drops out and shatters.", "order": 5}, {"key": "ar.skin-taped", "name": "HELD TOGETHER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["face"], "range": [], "sum": "The taped rifle jams as he charges; Faris tears tape with his teeth and winds it round; it fires point blank shedding screws and springs, the last shot fires the barrel itself through his head, and the rifle falls apart in Faris\u2019s hands.", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "ar.mid-stand-off", "name": "STAND-OFF", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A stand-off where nobody fires: the days wheel past in seconds, the dust settles, a cobweb strings from Faris\u2019s muzzle to his crown, and the sun fades the man aiming back at him like an old photograph. Then one burst tears him in two.", "order": 0}, {"key": "ar.mid-cell", "name": "CELL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris shoots the glowing power cell of her energy rifle, not her: it ruptures over her hands and chest, and her own battery acid eats her to the bone.", "order": 1}, {"key": "ar.mid-lead-poisoning", "name": "LEAD POISONING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Not one of the twelve rounds comes out: every hole blooms dull grey, every step lands heavier, his knees crack the floor, and the lead in his arms drags them out of their sockets onto the boards.", "order": 2}, {"key": "ar.mid-sprinkler", "name": "SPRINKLER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL?"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Shot through the chest with his finger locked on his own trigger: his recoil and his fall turn him like a lawn sprinkler, ringing him with his own holes while his aorta jets the other way.", "order": 3}, {"key": "ar.mid-chin-strap", "name": "CHIN STRAP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Every round glances off his steel helmet and kicks it a quarter turn round on his head, and the chin strap twists tighter with every turn until it strangles him.", "order": 4}, {"key": "ar.mid-t-pose", "name": "T-POSE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hit, her death animation fails to load: she snaps into a T-pose under a missing-texture checkerboard and slides on frozen feet; the second burst and her skin texture fails to load too: the anatomy underneath, still T-posing, turning like a model on a turntable", "order": 5}, {"key": "ar.mid-say-again", "name": "SAY AGAIN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Down on one knee he radios for help; Faris walks in and puts one burst through his lungs, and his last breath goes out over the air. The radio keeps asking him to say again.", "order": 6}, {"key": "ar.mid-overdose", "name": "OVERDOSE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hurt, he jabs a stim into his thigh; one round hits the plunger and drives the whole dose in at once: green veins, a roar, the health bar overflowing off the screen, and a head that swells too heavy for his neck.", "order": 7}, {"key": "ar.mid-newspaper", "name": "NEWSPAPER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Disarmed, he hides behind a newspaper like a man on a train. Faris shrugs and empties the magazine through it; the holes bloom red from behind, and the last sheet drifts down over his face.", "order": 8}, {"key": "ar.mid-extinguisher", "name": "EXTINGUISHER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He charges swinging a fire extinguisher; four rounds hole it and it spins him round blasting him white; frozen mid-swing, the last eight rounds snap him apart.", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "burst": {"page": "58k_burst.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "burst.three-on-a-match", "name": "THREE ON A MATCH", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.6, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Never three on a match: the first light gives you away, the second gives the range, the third is the shot. Here one burst does all three.", "order": 0}, {"key": "burst.the-iron-lungs", "name": "THE IRON LUNGS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 11.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One burst through his lungs, and he wakes in a ward where machines breathe for the dying, and his machine is failing.", "order": 1}, {"key": "burst.the-plague-cart", "name": "THE PLAGUE CART", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 14.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One burst takes his legs, and the blood calls the rats; they carry him into a plague city where the dead are carted to the pit alive, and limed.", "order": 2}, {"key": "burst.see-no-evil", "name": "SEE NO EVIL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The three wise monkeys, taken literally: he covers his eyes, his ears, his mouth, and every burst goes through his hands into what they cover.", "order": 3}, {"key": "burst.spall", "name": "SPALL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Steel stops a round; the burst puts nine on the same spot, and the steel comes through as shrapnel.", "order": 4}, {"key": "burst.fortune", "name": "FORTUNE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "She sees her death in the crystal ball, all three rounds of it, a beat ahead, and goes exactly where it shows.", "order": 5}, {"key": "burst.last-resort", "name": "LAST RESORT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He will not give up the fight: one arm a burst, the other the next, and then he charges Faris with no hands at all.", "order": 6}, {"key": "burst.snells-window", "name": "SNELL\u2019S WINDOW", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under water you only see the sky through a circle straight above you; he swims for it, and the burst crawls up after him.", "order": 7}, {"key": "burst.silt-out", "name": "SILT-OUT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He stamps up a cloud of silt to hide in; every round leaves a string of bubbles rising out of it, and the strings part round him.", "order": 8}, {"key": "burst.panorama", "name": "PANORAMA", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A panorama sweep catches anything that moves more than once; Faris walks ahead of the sweep and ends up on the tourist\u2019s phone three times.", "order": 9}, {"key": "burst.the-triangle", "name": "THE TRIANGLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Three rounds round him in the glass make three cracks, and three cracks that meet make a door.", "order": 10}, {"key": "burst.three-legged-race", "name": "THREE-LEGGED RACE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.8, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Two men tied at the ankle run as one, and one of them stops; the other is tied to him.", "order": 11}, {"key": "burst.punch-and-judy", "name": "PUNCH AND JUDY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pinball", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He hides in a puppet booth and puts on a show; Faris reads the shape in the canvas, and the show goes on after he stops.", "order": 12}, {"key": "burst.knock-on-wood", "name": "KNOCK ON WOOD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He swears Faris will never hit him and knocks on wood; the wood knocks back.", "order": 13}, {"key": "burst.tourniquet", "name": "TOURNIQUET", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He does everything right: a belt on one femoral, his bootlace on the other; and it is still not enough.", "order": 14}, {"key": "burst.three-in-a-row", "name": "THREE IN A ROW", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "She chalks a noughts-and-crosses grid round her own head and dares him; one burst is three in a row.", "order": 15}, {"key": "burst.polly", "name": "POLLY", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A pirate jeers that Faris missed him, and his parrot repeats it; the parrot keeps saying it after he stops.", "order": 16}, {"key": "burst.tiffin", "name": "TIFFIN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A stacked lunch tin is three tins and a burst is three rounds: one round a tin, and the charge tin drops back at his feet.", "order": 17}, {"key": "burst.glass-eye", "name": "GLASS EYE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A scarred brawler taps his glass eye at Faris: he\u2019s not scared of losing an eye. One burst: the glass eye first, then the socket twice.", "order": 18}, {"key": "burst.party-popper", "name": "PARTY POPPER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "retro", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He thinks Faris is finished and pulls a party popper; the burst comes through the confetti in three clean tunnels.", "order": 19}, {"key": "burst.awning", "name": "AWNING", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He jumps for the shop awning below; the burst cuts the canvas the instant before he lands.", "order": 20}, {"key": "burst.trip", "name": "TRIP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The magazine runs dry as he charges with a knife; Faris throws the empty gun low, it takes his shins, and he lands on his own knife.", "order": 21}, {"key": "burst.sleeves", "name": "SLEEVES", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He wants a fistfight and shrugs his jacket off, and it traps his arms behind him in the sleeves.", "order": 22}, {"key": "burst.guard-up", "name": "GUARD UP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He crosses his forearms over his face; the first burst breaks them, and he raises them again anyway.", "order": 23}, {"key": "burst.side-on", "name": "SIDE-ON", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The rounds of a burst fly 65 ms apart and he is sure he can slip between them; he very nearly does.", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "burst.skin-gold", "name": "HEADS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu, a gunslinger with a pistol hanging at his side, shows Faris a big gold coin and flicks it into the air: when it lands, they draw. His gun hand starts up before the coin tops out. At the top of its climb Faris fires one gold burst: the first round clips ", "order": 0}, {"key": "burst.skin-ice", "name": "FROST LINE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Three-round bursts, and every burst raises a tide line of ice up Hiba's body. The first takes her shins and her feet freeze to the floor in mid-step. The second takes her to the waist: she twists and claws, and only her upper body can move. The third takes her", "order": 1}], "mids": [], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:15"}, "sniper": {"page": "58k_sniper.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "sniper.echo-valley", "name": "ECHO VALLEY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "One round across Crate Canyon takes Hiba through the shoulder blade as he runs. The crack rolls off the walls and its echoes come back slower and slower, each one setting him deeper, until he is kneeling on a riverbed a mile down a gorge whose cliffs are carve", "order": 0}, {"key": "sniper.the-bag", "name": "THE BAG", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 14.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Faris kneels on the base's watchtower like a hunter in a high seat. Mikku breaks cover from the sandbags and the round takes him through both lungs, the hunter's boiler-room shot. He runs, because lung-shot game always runs, and a line of beaters' torches swee", "order": 1}, {"key": "sniper.the-long-way-in", "name": "THE BOLT", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku gets inside the rifle's length with a knife, where a sniper is supposed to be helpless. Every bolt cycle becomes a beat of the fight: Faris blocks the blade with the stock, palms the bolt open so the hot brass spits into Mikku's face, drives the butt int", "order": 2}, {"key": "sniper.the-bait", "name": "THE BAIT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 10.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR|CONTAINER|BIG_PROP"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Night monsoon on the Military Base. One round takes Mikku's knee in the open. He screams for Fayiz. Faris works the bolt and waits, the crosshair resting on the sandbags. Fayiz breaks, sprints out, drags him toward cover, and the shattered leg wedges in a drai", "order": 3}, {"key": "sniper.playing-statue", "name": "PLAYING STATUE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Caught in the open on Temple Steps with Faris's red line looking for him, Nitha casts himself a plinth, hops onto it and strikes a heroic pose. The scope sweeps the steps: the shrine, a torch, the statue, back. He holds. An ant column marches over his foot and", "order": 4}, {"key": "sniper.the-guide-line", "name": "THE GUIDE LINE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 10.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER", "FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On The Deep's seabed ledge one round through Chotu's thigh goes on into the silt and throws up a brown-out: nothing, his own hand gone at arm's length, his blood mixing brown-red. Then a red rod of light passes through the murk beside him, solid in the silt. A", "order": 5}, {"key": "sniper.the-gutter", "name": "THE GUTTER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "The kill cam folds the cage into a comic page. Top left, Faris prone; bottom left, Fayiz, safe in his own panel, laughing at the white gutter between them: the red line comes out of Faris's panel and stops dead at the gutter's edge. Faris fires. The round tear", "order": 6}, {"key": "sniper.the-watched", "name": "THE WATCHED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the saloon street Fida finds Faris's red dot on his chest and slaps at it; a second dot; a third; dozens. He looks up and the sky is full of glints. The red dots double and double over him and the street until it is speckled red, and he is on a black moor u", "order": 7}, {"key": "sniper.bone-flowers", "name": "BONE FLOWERS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER", "FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under water a sniper's reach is short, so Faris swims in close. Amjad hides inside a wreck's broken hull, between its exposed ribs. Faris threads one round between two ribs: the bubble line goes through the gap and into him, and he sinks to the sand inside the", "order": 8}, {"key": "sniper.the-last-look", "name": "THE LAST LOOK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "At the Clock Tower, Amjad body-checks Faris over the gallery rail and leans out to watch him fall, grinning. In the fall Faris rolls, brings the rifle up past his own boots and finds the face leaning over the rail above. One round, up under the chin. Faris lan", "order": 9}, {"key": "sniper.eight-bells", "name": "EIGHT BELLS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 9.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Every evening at eight bells the captain steps onto his stern gallery and sweeps the sea with his brass spyglass. Tonight a black case is open on the foredeck: Faris builds the rifle click by click while the captain winds his watch, smooths his coat and racks ", "order": 10}, {"key": "sniper.the-long-shadow", "name": "THE LONG SHADOW", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Crate Canyon at sunset. Faris stands on the far ledge with the sun right behind him, and his shadow stretches the length of the canyon, rifle and all, and lays itself over Mikku: a dark shape of a man aiming, over his own body. He runs; the shadow follows, and", "order": 11}, {"key": "sniper.between-beats", "name": "BETWEEN BEATS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Temple Steps. The film's metronome is two hearts: Faris's, slowing (thud ... thud ...), and Fida's, racing. The close-ups cut on the beats: the pulse in Faris's neck, the crosshair bobbing with it; the carotid pounding in Fida's neck, the sweat. Faris breathes", "order": 12}, {"key": "sniper.mascot", "name": "THE GLINT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "Two snipers on one floor, each behind a gold sandbag wall he casts. Nitha's scope flares in the light and gives him away; Faris's snap shot only chews his wall. So Faris makes a glint of his own: a spent casing picked off the floor, polished on his sleeve and ", "order": 13}, {"key": "sniper.hold-your-breath", "name": "THREE BREATHS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "A big man charges Faris across the open floor. Faris drops to one knee and does not hurry: he breathes. In, out, and at the bottom of the exhale, the round. The first takes the leg; the man falls, gets up and keeps coming on one leg. The second breath takes th", "order": 14}, {"key": "sniper.bullet-cam", "name": "BULLET CAM", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Hurt from the K.O. blow, Nitha staggers back a step, gets her guard up and comes again. Faris does not wait: down on one knee, the stock into the shoulder, the cheek on the stock, the scope glints, he breathes out and fires. The camera rides the round down the", "order": 15}, {"key": "sniper.the-cloud", "name": "THE CLOUD", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Desert Forts at night. Two snipers lie on their perches at either end of the map, and a big cloud has swallowed the moon: in its shadow nothing glints. Faris has read the cloud's speed and lies on the side it leaves last. Its edge crosses the far perch first; ", "order": 16}, {"key": "sniper.soap-bubble", "name": "SOAP BUBBLE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "In Spike Castle's courtyard Hiba pulls out a toy bubble wand and blows a bubble big enough to stand in. He steps inside and taps the film, grinning: a shield. Faris's red line touches the bubble; the film ripples rainbow and Hiba laughs. The round goes clean t", "order": 17}, {"key": "sniper.sling", "name": "SLING", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["HANGING_HEAVY", "FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "At Spike Castle the spike ball swings across the courtyard on its chain, and Amjad leans on the far tower's inner wall, arms folded, well out of its arc. Faris doesn't aim at him. He rides the chain with the scope, once, twice, and at the bottom of the swing o", "order": 18}, {"key": "sniper.drain", "name": "DRAIN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["CONTAINER", "FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Water stops bullets, so Fayiz hides behind the Sunken Lab's specimen tank: Faris's first round slows in a cone of bubbles and hangs dead in the green a foot from his face, and he grins. Over his shoulder, high in the murk, a pickled man hangs in the formalin. ", "order": 19}, {"key": "sniper.the-brass", "name": "THE BRASS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Faris fires from the top of the Clock Tower at the man at its foot. The casing kicks out of the rifle and falls past every floor: a clock numeral, the clock's face, a ledge. Below, the man is hit, staggers, goes down on his knees, crawls, and dies, and the cas", "order": 20}, {"key": "sniper.rehearsal", "name": "HOLDOVER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "At the far end of the floor Fida sprints for cover, slams a low gold wall down with her free hand and drops behind it. Nothing of her shows. Faris, prone behind the scope, does not wait for her to look up: he lifts the barrel until the crosshair sits far above", "order": 21}], "skins": [{"key": "sniper.skin-gold", "name": "THE SAME HOLE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "Amjad walks at Faris behind a round shield with a gold boss, crouched low behind it. Faris's first round rings off the boss and leaves a dent; the shove puts Amjad back a step, then he sets the shield and comes on. Faris works the bolt, breathes out, and puts ", "order": 0}, {"key": "sniper.skin-ice", "name": "HELD BREATH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "The cold makes a sniper's breath visible. Kneeling behind the ice rifle, every breath Faris lets out fogs across his own sight line. Far across the floor Amjad fires at him; the rounds kick frost off the boards beside his knee. Faris breathes out, breathes in,", "order": 1}], "mids": [], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "pump": {"page": "58k_pump.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "pump.shooting-gallery", "name": "SHOOTING GALLERY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.15, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close", "mid", "far"], "sum": "The killing blast drops a velvet curtain on a dead carnival: he is the newest tin target in a gallery of everyone Faris has killed, and Faris has three shots.", "order": 0}, {"key": "pump.dollhouse", "name": "DOLLHOUSE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close", "mid", "far"], "sum": "The killing blast shrinks him into a dollhouse where every rag doll wears his face; Faris follows him up to the nursery, and he tears open like a rag doll.", "order": 1}, {"key": "pump.grand-slam", "name": "GRAND SLAM", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He pitches a grenade; Faris calls his shot, swings the pump by the barrel like a bat and puts the grenade back in the open mouth that threw it.", "order": 2}, {"key": "pump.dodge", "name": "DODGE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.55, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["PILLAR|WALL"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He dodges three blasts and taunts; every miss bit into the tower behind him, and the column of stone comes down on him like a felled tree.", "order": 3}, {"key": "pump.tripwire", "name": "TRIPWIRE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close", "mid", "far"], "sum": "Faris rigs his own pump to two strings and sits down unarmed; the man steps over the first string with a grin and takes the second.", "order": 4}, {"key": "pump.cuffed", "name": "CUFFED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "He handcuffs himself to Faris so the pump can't be swung on him; Faris shoots the cuffed arm off at the elbow and walks away wearing it.", "order": 5}, {"key": "pump.lantern", "name": "LANTERN", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A dragon's-breath shell in the dark: burning pellets stay lit inside him and he walks the roof as a lantern until the last light, over his heart, goes out.", "order": 6}, {"key": "pump.his-heart", "name": "FLOOR LEVEL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Mikku walks in on Faris with two pistols, firing them in turn; the rounds snap past him and he flinches a beat late each time. He goes down to the floor in one real motion (the knees, the hips, the chest, the pump kept up) and her shots go over him, where he w", "order": 7}, {"key": "pump.knock-knock", "name": "KNOCK KNOCK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He hides behind a door he cast; Faris knocks politely; through the peephole he sees Faris smile, then nobody, then the barrel.", "order": 8}, {"key": "pump.specimen", "name": "SPECIMEN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Flechettes pin him to the castle wall like a butterfly; Faris labels him, pushes a pin through his heart and puts him under glass.", "order": 9}, {"key": "pump.fish-in-a-barrel", "name": "FISH IN A BARREL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He calls up a barrel of water and dives in; Faris shoots the fish in the barrel and the flood washes him out flopping.", "order": 10}, {"key": "pump.shell-shock", "name": "SHELL SHOCK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.68, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "A blast beside his ear deafens him; in the grey ringing silence he never hears the rack an inch behind his head.", "order": 11}, {"key": "pump.clean-spot", "name": "CLEAN SPOT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He vaults over Faris and bursts overhead; a ring of red rain comes down all round him and not one drop lands on Faris.", "order": 12}, {"key": "pump.countdown", "name": "COUNTDOWN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["PLATFORM"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He counts the pump's three shells on his fingers and jumps down shouting YOU'RE EMPTY; one shell goes in in a third of a second.", "order": 13}, {"key": "pump.six-pellets", "name": "SIX PELLETS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Time stops on the pump's six pellets and the camera tours each one's job; five land together, and the sixth comes back and knocks a jewel off Faris's crown.", "order": 14}, {"key": "pump.walled-in", "name": "WALLED IN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Blasted into the tower, he sticks in the stone, and the castle mends itself round him brick by brick until one hand is left.", "order": 15}, {"key": "pump.banana-peel", "name": "BANANA PEEL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP|GAP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One shell left: the slug goes down the rifle's barrel, the barrel peels like a banana and takes his hands, and he slips on it off the roof.", "order": 16}, {"key": "pump.slam-fire", "name": "SLAM FIRE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.45, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Trigger held, the whole tube in a second: each blast takes a piece and walks him back across the courtyard; the three hulls land standing in a line.", "order": 17}, {"key": "pump.colander", "name": "COLANDER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Birdshot at range: forty tiny holes, and the rain runs straight through him and out of every one in thin red arcs until he is a fountain.", "order": 18}, {"key": "pump.glass-jaw", "name": "CLEAR THE AIR", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Nitha pulls a smoke grenade off her belt with her free hand and lobs it between them; the cloud blooms and hides her. Faris fires into it three times; each blast tears a ragged gap along the shot that drifts closed, and each gap shows her somewhere new and clo", "order": 19}, {"key": "pump.pull", "name": "OFF THE LINE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba comes at Faris with a machete in a boxer's footwork. Her combination comes in fast (a cut, a live-hand jab, a second cut); the first two fall short as he gives her nothing, and on the last one he ducks under the blade and lunges in under her arm. The spee", "order": 20}, {"key": "pump.cornered", "name": "CORNERED", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Backed into the corner of the tower: three racks, three steps, one blast, red wings on the stone.", "order": 21}, {"key": "pump.late-news", "name": "LATE NEWS", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.52, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "A hole clean through his chest and he is still standing, still clicking an empty gun, until he pokes a finger through himself.", "order": 22}, {"key": "pump.last-smoke", "name": "LAST SMOKE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "He asks for a last cigarette; Faris lights it, steps back, racks; the head lands upright with the cigarette still burning.", "order": 23}, {"key": "pump.skid", "name": "SKID", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Point blank: he slides on his back the whole floor writing a long red skid that curls where he stops; his pistol skates down it after him.", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "pump.skin-classic", "name": "THE SOUND", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One slow rack, and the sound alone breaks him: the pistol drops, a puddle spreads, he runs, and the blast takes him in the back. The corpse flinches at the next rack.", "order": 0}, {"key": "pump.skin-gold", "name": "CORONATION", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.75, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris inks a throne room in gold, knights the kneeling man with the gold barrel, says ARISE, and crowns him with a ring of gold buckshot.", "order": 1}, {"key": "pump.skin-neon", "name": "MOTH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Concussed, he only sees the neon pump glowing; he drifts to it like a moth with his arms out and presses his cheek to the barrel, and Faris fires.", "order": 2}, {"key": "pump.skin-camo", "name": "DECOY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris leaves a camo cardboard cut-out of himself in his footprints; the man empties his pistol into it, laughing, and turns round into the real one.", "order": 3}, {"key": "pump.skin-cartoon", "name": "PLUGGED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "He plugs the pump with his finger; Faris shrugs and fires anyway, and the shot travels up his arm as a bulge and pops the top of his head off like a cork.", "order": 4}, {"key": "pump.skin-ice", "name": "SNOW GLOBE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.62, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The ice blast seals him in a dome of ice like a snow globe; one blast through the wall freezes his blood into red snow, and Faris shakes it.", "order": 5}, {"key": "pump.skin-taped", "name": "FLICKER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The flashlight taped under the barrel keeps cutting out, and every time Faris slaps it back on the man with the knife is closer, until his grin is at the muzzle.", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "pump.mid-stuck-the-landing", "name": "STUCK THE LANDING", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The blast flips him one full backflip and he lands it like a gymnast, and stays that way: marble climbs him while Faris holds up a 10; at EXTREME it stops at his neck under his dead face.", "order": 0}, {"key": "pump.mid-potato", "name": "POTATO", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Every rack clicks a GRAPHICS slider down a notch and he redraws blockier, until the shot at POTATO blows him apart in pixels; the slider snaps back to ULTRA and shows what the pixels were hiding.", "order": 1}, {"key": "pump.mid-out-of-his-boots", "name": "OUT OF HIS BOOTS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.55, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The blast throws him out of his own planted boots: the tendons stretch from the boot tops to his ankles and snap one by one; at EXTREME the boots keep the skin of his feet.", "order": 2}, {"key": "pump.mid-curtain-call", "name": "CURTAIN CALL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.65, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The gut blast folds him into a deep stage bow, and he holds it so long he rots in it, while Faris bows back; when Faris straightens, the bow falls in.", "order": 3}, {"key": "pump.mid-less-lethal", "name": "LESS LETHAL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Faris fires a beanbag; the man laughs and shows the bruise; Faris holds up a slug, racks it, and puts it through the middle of the bruise: at EXTREME it punches the bruise out of him like a plug and pins it to the wall.", "order": 4}, {"key": "pump.mid-umbrella", "name": "UMBRELLA", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "She snaps an umbrella open as a shield; the blast sieves the canopy and her together; at EXTREME, on her back under it, her own blood rains back down through the pellet holes into her open eyes.", "order": 5}, {"key": "pump.mid-tumbleweed", "name": "TUMBLEWEED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The gut blast curls him into a ball and the wind takes him: he rolls away like a tumbleweed, a red stripe looping on the floor behind him, and a real tumbleweed rolls past.", "order": 6}, {"key": "pump.mid-slow-clap", "name": "SLOW CLAP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "She slow-claps Faris sarcastically; the blast is timed to the clap and flings her arms wide; on her knees her hands (at EXTREME the stumps) come back together for one last clap and stay pressed.", "order": 7}, {"key": "pump.mid-napkin", "name": "NAPKIN", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.62, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Point blank, the back-spatter paints Faris's face; he plucks the white handkerchief from the falling man's pocket, wipes his face and tucks it back red (at EXTREME into the hole where the pocket was).", "order": 8}, {"key": "pump.mid-four-eyes", "name": "FOUR EYES", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.85, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The hit knocks her glasses off; Faris polishes them and sets them back on her nose so she can see what is coming; the blast leaves two holes in her brow above her own eyes, weeping into the lenses: four eyes.", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "sawedoff": {"page": "58k_sawedoff.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "sawedoff.gibbet-road", "name": "THE GIBBET ROAD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close", "mid"], "sum": "He wakes at a crossroads on a black moor where a line of gibbets runs into the fog; Faris tars him, the empty cage takes him up, and both barrels go up through its grating.", "order": 0}, {"key": "sawedoff.the-pass", "name": "THE PASS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close", "mid"], "sum": "A wagon train snowbound in a night blizzard; the starving travellers round a dead fire have been waiting for food to come up the trail, and Faris brought him.", "order": 1}, {"key": "sawedoff.occupied", "name": "THE COUNT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 22, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha knows a sawed-off holds two shells and counts them out loud. Barrel one: she slides under it and opens his cheek; she hooks the gun, he butt-strokes her; her aerial bites his gold door-shield. He breaks the gun as bait, jams her forearm into the open bre", "order": 2}, {"key": "sawedoff.the-barber", "name": "THE BARBER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "A mob boss in the barber's chair under a hot towel: Faris strops a razor, lays it down, and slides the sawed-off under the towel instead; the towel blooms, and when he lifts it, it keeps the shape of the face in blood, like a death mask.", "order": 3}, {"key": "sawedoff.twins", "name": "TWINS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR", "foe2"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Two identical men move as one, speak as one, and close in on Faris in mirrored steps; the gun goes sideways, barrel one into the twin in front, and its kick spins Faris onto the other for barrel two. The second twin stands with a hole through his chest and see", "order": 4}, {"key": "sawedoff.shotgun-wedding", "name": "SHOTGUN WEDDING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The idiom, literally: Faris marches him up the aisle to an altar at the point of the shotgun; \"Do you take\u2026\" \"I don't.\" Both barrels; rice and petals rain with the blood, and his heart lands in the bouquet on the altar.", "order": 5}, {"key": "sawedoff.silver", "name": "SILVER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "sky"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A full moon, and he turns into a wolf mid-fight; Faris thumbs in two silver shells and holds them up to the moon; both barrels, and silver crawls out of the wounds while the wolf cracks and folds back into a man as he dies, the spine snapping back last.", "order": 6}, {"key": "sawedoff.rocket-jump", "name": "ROCKET JUMP", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["PLATFORM"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He camps on a high platform shooting down; Faris aims at his own feet and fires one barrel into the floor, and the real kick of a sawed-off launches him straight up; he lands boots-first on the man's chest, the lungs come out of his mouth in one HUFF, and the ", "order": 7}, {"key": "sawedoff.acid-rain", "name": "ACID RAIN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris fires a green acid shell straight up; it bursts into a drizzle, and every drop eats a hole through him, skin, muscle, bone, until he kneels in the hissing puddle.", "order": 8}, {"key": "sawedoff.possessed", "name": "POSSESSED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "She is possessed: she folds back into a spider-walk with her head turned round; Faris scratches a cross into each shell, and both barrels drive the thing out of every hole as black smoke, and black crystal sets in what it leaves.", "order": 9}, {"key": "sawedoff.narrow-escape", "name": "NARROW ESCAPE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He hides behind a narrow post, and the sawed-off's spread is wider than the post: the first barrel strips the arms he hugs it with, and the second splits the post down the middle.", "order": 10}, {"key": "sawedoff.dark-below", "name": "THE DARK BELOW", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "far"], "sum": "He dives down out of the light into the black water below to hide; Faris fires both barrels down into the dark and waits. For a long time nothing. Then the dark gives him back, rising slowly into the light, turning, dead.", "order": 11}, {"key": "sawedoff.bubble-net", "name": "BUBBLE NET", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "How humpbacks hunt, without the whale: one barrel fired in a slow arc round him leaves a spiral curtain of rising bubbles that pens him in a column; Faris comes up from below through the middle and fires the second barrel straight up.", "order": 12}, {"key": "sawedoff.point-blank", "name": "POINT BLANK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "An elbow to the face; Faris twists a fist in her hair, pulls her head back and rests both barrels under her chin; her eyes roll down to them, she whispers, the hammers come back one, two; everything above the jaw goes up the wall behind her, and the body stand", "order": 13}, {"key": "sawedoff.last-chord", "name": "LAST CHORD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He hides behind the saloon piano and taunts Faris with \"shave and a haircut\" on the keys. Faris answers the \"two bits\" with both barrels through the case: splinters and snapped strings go into him, his face lands on the keys in a cluster chord, and Faris plays", "order": 14}, {"key": "sawedoff.the-mask", "name": "THE MASK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Barrel one breaks his porcelain mask: under it, a stranger's grey latex face. Barrel two tears that: under it, Faris's own face in latex, grinning his grin. Faris reloads, walks up and peels the copy off by the chin: under it the man's real face, sweating. The", "order": 15}, {"key": "sawedoff.hanging-on", "name": "HANGING ON", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 5.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP|GAP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The cliffhanger: he goes over the edge and catches the lip by his fingertips; Faris crouches eye to eye and fires both barrels down past the lip, and he drops away; his fingers stay on the edge, still gripping.", "order": 16}, {"key": "sawedoff.sawn-off", "name": "SAWN OFF", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Why it is called a sawed-off: he keeps diving out of the cone, so Faris clamps the gun under his boot and saws six inches off the barrels, and the wider spread catches him mid-dive from scalp to boots.", "order": 17}, {"key": "sawedoff.amateur", "name": "AMATEUR", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "He wrestles the sawed-off off Faris, and Faris lets him have it, even flicks him two shells: the real kick of a sawed-off fired one-handed and unbraced drives the gun into his own face.", "order": 18}, {"key": "sawedoff.out-of-range", "name": "OUT OF RANGE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Just past the sawed-off's reach he scuffs a line in the sawdust and laughs as the pellets roll to a stop at it; when he steps over it, the full spread takes him apart like a jigsaw.", "order": 19}, {"key": "sawedoff.pillar-of-salt", "name": "PILLAR OF SALT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A white rock-salt shell peppers him white, and the white spreads from every grain until he sets as a man of salt; then the rain, or Faris's canteen, dissolves him into brine.", "order": 20}, {"key": "sawedoff.the-nudge", "name": "THE NUDGE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP|GAP"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Prodded backwards to the edge of the roof with the barrels, he gets his balance back and laughs; then both barrels send him across the gap.", "order": 21}, {"key": "sawedoff.kickback", "name": "KICKBACK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris reloads in front of him as a dare; he taps the barrels with his pistol: \"you wouldn't.\" Faris plants his back heel. Both barrels at arm's length: the kick ploughs Faris back in two furrows while the man goes the other way leaving a red one, two tracks ou", "order": 22}, {"key": "sawedoff.hot-hulls", "name": "HOT HULLS", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Barrel one takes his shoulder; the gun breaks open and he charges with a knife, because a broken-open sawed-off can't shoot. Faris tips the breech and the two hot hulls stick to his face; the half second he spends tearing them off is the reload. His hands come", "order": 23}, {"key": "sawedoff.floorboard", "name": "FLOORBOARD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Barrel one takes the backs of his thighs; he crawls for his pistol and Faris kicks it down a gap. Boot on his back, both barrels down through him into the boards: under the floor twenty holes of lamplight stab into the dark, and he drops into the hole he made,", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "sawedoff.skin-classic", "name": "GET OFF MY LAWN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris leans on his porch post with a lemonade. A row of empty boots stands upside down on his picket fence. The man reads KEEP OFF THE GRASS, grins and steps on: the lawn squelches red. \"Get off my lawn.\" He backs off with his hands up; both barrels throw him ", "order": 0}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-gold", "name": "GOLD DUST", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The gold sawed-off is loaded with gold dust. The first barrel bursts him in a cloud of glitter and he laughs, brushing it off: gold! Then he bleeds, and the dust sticks where he is wet: every hole, every run, every drip turns to glittering gold. The second bar", "order": 1}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-neon", "name": "LAST SONG", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He feeds a coin into a neon bubble-tube jukebox for one last song. A slow ballad starts. He grins and sways at Faris: last request. Faris lets the whole intro play, staring, not moving, and the man realises. Both barrels throw him back into the jukebox; the gl", "order": 2}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-camo", "name": "TWO REEDS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris waits in a reed blind at the edge of the marsh, the camo sawed-off's barrels standing up among the reeds like two more reeds. The frogs stop. The man finds the blind and circles it, snapping reeds: \"I know you're in there.\" He reaches for the last two. T", "order": 3}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-cartoon", "name": "BANG!", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Barrel one shoots out a flag on a stick that says BANG! He laughs, leans his elbow on the stick and flicks the flag: bang, bang. Faris thumbs the second hammer. Barrel two drives the stick through his eye and out of the back of his skull, and the BANG! flag ha", "order": 4}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-ice", "name": "ROOTED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fayiz charges. Faris puts the first barrel into the floor in front of him: the ice shell blooms a sheet of frost across the boards and Fayiz plants both feet in it. They freeze to the floor. His momentum pitches him forward over his own frozen ankles, arms flu", "order": 5}, {"key": "sawedoff.skin-taped", "name": "HANGFIRE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The worn taped gun at his face goes click. Click. He laughs, and leans in to look down the barrels while Faris taps the stock and counts under his breath. A hiss at the tape. The hangfire goes off in his eye: his face lifts off his skull in one flap and hangs ", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "sawedoff.mid-scattered", "name": "SCATTERED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The spread at point blank leaves him in pieces like a dropped jigsaw; the pieces fan out in the shape of the pattern and try to slide back together, and the face stops a hand short.", "order": 0}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-smokescreen", "name": "SMOKESCREEN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.65, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He creeps in through the sawed-off's own cloud of smoke with a knife; Faris fires into the cloud and it blooms red from the inside.", "order": 1}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-twirl", "name": "TWIRL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris twirls the sawed-off round his finger while the man goes for his pistol, and it fires on the turn the barrels pass him: the turning gun lays the spread in a line from his hip bone up his flank to the collarbone, and the line unzips him.", "order": 2}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-empty-shell", "name": "EMPTY SHELL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Both barrels at contact empty him like the shells they came out of: everything inside goes out of his back and he stands a hollow husk until the hulls kick out and the husk cracks open, empty.", "order": 3}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-harmonica", "name": "HARMONICA", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "He plays Faris a sneering riff and keeps the harmonica at his lips when both barrels take his lungs: his last breaths go out through it in three dying chords, blood out of the reed holes.", "order": 4}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-false-start", "name": "FALSE START", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.85, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He drops into a sprinter's crouch to run for it; Faris raises the sawed-off like a starter's pistol, finger in his ear, \"set...\", and he bolts BEFORE the bang. Faris tuts and fires barrel one skyward anyway. Barrel two disqualifies him: DQ.", "order": 5}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-both-down", "name": "BOTH DOWN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.75, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The first barrel's kick sits Faris down on his backside; the wounded man comes at him on his knees with a knife, and Faris fires the second barrel up between his own boots.", "order": 6}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-lasso", "name": "LASSO", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He ropes Faris and hauls him in; Faris walks with the pull and arrives with both barrels in his belly, then reels the other way, and what comes in on the rope is the man's arm.", "order": 7}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-trust-fall", "name": "TRUST FALL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris spins him round, folds his arms across his chest and says FALL; he falls back stiff and Faris catches him on both barrels, and the catch blows his chest out in front of him.", "order": 8}, {"key": "sawedoff.mid-headlock", "name": "HEADLOCK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.85, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Caught in a headlock from behind, Faris looks back at him cheek to cheek, tips the sawed-off back under his own arm and fires; the man slides down his back.", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "flamer": {"page": "58k_flamer.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "flamer.wicker-giant", "name": "THE WICKER GIANT", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 10.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the temple Faris's stream throws Nitha's burning shadow up the wall behind him, and it grows wrong: too tall, woven, a giant. The death crack, and the camera passes into the shadow: a black hill under a low red sky, a colossal wicker man full of caged stran", "order": 0}, {"key": "flamer.rollover", "name": "ROLLOVER", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CEILING", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The fire rule is stay low. Faris sweeps the flooded lab floor with fire and the floating fuel burns in islands. Fida runs from it the only way she can: up, onto the high deck. Faris doesn't follow; he swaps the canister and crouches. The black smoke pools unde", "order": 1}, {"key": "flamer.brazen-bull", "name": "PULLED", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida comes through the fire and won't go down: the first burst lights her, the second takes her arm, and she keeps coming. She gets her one arm round Faris in a burning bear hug. His free hand finds her own grenade on her belt and pulls the pin; he shoves her ", "order": 2}, {"key": "flamer.the-pugilist", "name": "THE PUGILIST", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "In the fight-night cage Chotu throws his pistol away and shows Faris his open palms: I DON'T FIGHT. The crowd boos. Faris shrugs and empties a whole tank into him point-blank. Still burning, he sinks to his knees, then tips onto his back, dead. Faris turns to ", "order": 3}, {"key": "flamer.air-pocket", "name": "AIR POCKET", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER", "CEILING"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Out of breath in the sunken galleon, Hiba swims up into the hold and finds air: a silver bowl of it trapped under the deck planks. She gulps it and clings to a beam, her legs dangling below its mirror of a surface. Faris swims under the pocket and holds the no", "order": 4}, {"key": "flamer.viking-funeral", "name": "VIKING FUNERAL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 12, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "LIQUID"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A short burst and a kick put Amjad down on the deck by the rail, out cold. Faris casts a longboat out of gold ink from his hand, with a dragon prow, shields and a furled striped sail, rolls him into it, crosses his arms on his chest and kicks it off the deck's", "order": 5}, {"key": "flamer.molten-rain", "name": "SPARE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris's opening sweep sputters dry. Hiba ducks under it, rips the spare canister off his belt and sprints away holding it high. The chase. She stops, turns and throws it at his head to mock him; he catches it one-handed, slaps it into the gun in one motion, an", "order": 6}, {"key": "flamer.poached", "name": "SAFETY ON", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku, a boxer, slips in under the nozzle and wrestles the whole flamer off Faris. As it leaves his hands Faris flips the gun's valve lever off. Mikku aims and squeezes: the pilot is dark and the jet only hisses. Faris steps inside, takes the barrel and turns ", "order": 7}, {"key": "flamer.jerky", "name": "JERKY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Out of range, Fayiz laughs (CAN'T REACH ME) and toasts Faris with his canteen. Faris doesn't step in. He plants his feet and holds the tip of the flame one inch from Fayiz's boots, where the fire stops and only the heat goes on. The canteen boils in his hand. ", "order": 8}, {"key": "flamer.which-way-is-up", "name": "WHICH WAY IS UP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 10.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Under the sea the flamer only makes steam. Faris fires it into the seabed and the silt boils up into a brown-out. 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Then the", "order": 12}, {"key": "flamer.terracotta", "name": "TERRACOTTA", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Set alight, Hiba does the right thing: she runs to the oasis, throws herself down in the mud and rolls until the fire hisses out. She comes up on her knees caked in mud, grinning. Faris plays the stream over her: the mud steams, dries, cracks and locks her kne", "order": 13}, {"key": "flamer.toasted", "name": "TOASTED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Tiny in the giant kitchen, Nitha jumps onto the toaster and hides in a slot, peeking out over the rim with a grin. Faris climbs up after her, kicks the lever down and pours the flame down the other slot. The toaster glows from inside, the elements print their ", "order": 14}, {"key": "flamer.backdraft", "name": "BACKDRAFT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida runs into the lift car, hauls the shutter down and knocks on it from inside, grinning: safe. Faris doesn't break in. He kneels, lays the nozzle on the floor and feeds a whole tank in under the door. The fire floods the car, rolls over the ceiling, then ea", "order": 15}, {"key": "flamer.the-urn", "name": "THE URN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 11.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Cornered on the parapet, Mikku taunts. Faris doesn't rush: four short licks at his feet herd him back a pace at a time, lighting his trouser hems again every time he pats them out. Faris traces a little gold urn into being beside him and taps its lid: tink. Th", "order": 16}, {"key": "flamer.afterburner", "name": "AFTERBURNER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Mikku buckles on a jetpack and lifts off out of reach, laughing down at Faris. Faris doesn't chase: one lick across the pack's fuel tank. The needle creeps into the red, the thrust rises by itself, the buckle is too hot to touch, and the afterburner slams him ", "order": 17}, {"key": "flamer.grassfire", "name": "GRASSFIRE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba sprints across the long grass and Faris drops one lick into it behind her. The front outruns her, the roar rising, until there is nowhere left to run. She turns and faces it: it is only knee high. She runs through it in three strides and bursts out onto t", "order": 18}, {"key": "flamer.no-capes", "name": "THE KEEP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 21.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku, an SMG soldier, builds a fortress of gold ink a layer at a time and Faris takes each layer apart: a stream lobbed over the wall, an unlit fuel trail run under it and lit, and a sealed dome cooked white-hot until it sags. Mikku jams his SMG out of the sl", "order": 19}, {"key": "flamer.flash-in-the-pan", "name": "PILOT LIGHT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A western standoff. Chotu stands with his revolver low; Faris with the flamer at his hip, the nozzle at the dirt between them. A gust kills the pilot light and Chotu raises and fires; in slow motion his round glances off the steel nozzle and the spark relights", "order": 20}, {"key": "flamer.wet-shot", "name": "WET SHOT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris fires and nothing lights: an unlit stream of fuel soaks Nitha head to foot, and she laughs at the dud, until she smells it. He lowers the gun and takes out one match. It fails twice on his canister; the third strike flares. She runs, dripping, leaving we", "order": 21}, {"key": "flamer.torched", "name": "TORCHED", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Remake of the old finisher. Alight, Fida runs screaming in circles, and every lap Faris lays one lick ahead of her: she has to turn back inward each time, and the licks stay burning, rings closing on her into a spiral. Dizzy, she collapses at its centre. Faris", "order": 22}, {"key": "flamer.burning-bridges", "name": "BURNING BRIDGES", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 11.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Halfway across a plank over the drop between roofs, Chotu smells smoke: Faris has lit the near end, and the fire walks along the plank after him, slow. He hurries; the plank bows; he runs, and it sags and cracks under his feet while the far end's nails pop one", "order": 23}, {"key": "flamer.napalm", "name": "NAPALM", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris snaps in a red canister stencilled GEL and fires one short burst: not a stream but a glob of burning jelly that splats on Fayiz's chest and stays there, burning. He slaps at it and it sticks to his palm; he wipes the palm on his leg and the leg is burnin", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "flamer.skin-classic", "name": "FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha brings a flamer of her own. They walk in, raise and fire at the same instant: the streams meet in a churning fireball that pushes toward the weaker one. Faris plants and leans into it and gains ground step by step; she is forced back. Her tank gives out ", "order": 0}, {"key": "flamer.skin-gold", "name": "GOLD ASH", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.1, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba walks in on Faris with a pistol raised and fires once; the round sparks off the boards by his boot. Faris opens up with the gold flamethrower. The stream wraps her and she burns in gold fire, the pistol falling, driven back two steps. She stands burning, ", "order": 1}, {"key": "flamer.skin-ice", "name": "FLASH POINT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The ice flamer's fuel runs supercooled. Mikku comes in with his fists up and Faris opens the valve without the pilot: a white roaring jet of frozen propellant, like an extinguisher, and the frost climbs him while his steps slow, slow, and stop. A statue. Then ", "order": 2}], "mids": [], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "rpg": {"page": "58k_rpg.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "rpg.the-vacuum", "name": "THE VACUUM", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The rocket bursts over his head with a soft cough, and instead of fire a glittering mist settles round him like snow. 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H", "order": 1}, {"key": "rpg.the-smoke", "name": "THE SMOKE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "The rocket clips his shoulder and bursts a step ahead of him, and he spins down under its long smoke trail, which hangs over him like a lit fuse. Then the trail comes alive: it coils round him like a python from his boots to his throat and lifts him up into it", "order": 2}, {"key": "rpg.ground-zero", "name": "GROUND ZERO", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "She charges him and he puts the rocket into the stone at her feet, and the world stops mid-ripple: the fireball hangs half-born round the rocket\u2019s tail, chips of stone hang in the air, the temple floor stands up in a frozen wave. Only the shock front moves, co", "order": 3}, {"key": "rpg.the-bunker", "name": "THE BUNKER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Kicked back, he slams both palms forward and a gold zigzag line raises a poured-concrete pillbox round him: a riveted steel door and one hand-wide firing slit. He shoots out of the slit, grinning through it, rounds sparking round Faris. Faris turns his back on", "order": 4}, {"key": "rpg.say-cheese", "name": "SAY CHEESE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 8.8, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "He is down on the tiles and they think it\u2019s over: the three of them walk off cheering, throw their arms round each other\u2019s shoulders, and Nitha holds her phone up for the victory selfie with his body in the background. Behind them he gets up on one knee and sh", "order": 5}, {"key": "rpg.the-wrong-end", "name": "THE WRONG END", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris strolls the length of the cage. Behind him she drops from the walkway without a sound, draws her knife and creeps after him on her toes, closing step by step. He stops. She freezes mid-step. He kneels and shoulders the tube, and its open back end swings ", "order": 6}, {"key": "rpg.half-mast", "name": "THE QUIVER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fida is inside his blast radius with a knife. Faris fires anyway; she ducks under the slow launch and the rocket passes over her back. Her three cuts come in fast: he slips the slash and the cross and takes the thrust on the tube. Her free hand hooks the strap", "order": 7}, {"key": "rpg.in-the-works", "name": "UP AND OVER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha has Faris pinned behind a steel ammo crate; her SMG stream chews its top edge. He jams the launcher's muzzle into the dirt behind his heels and fires as he springs: the blast throws him up and over the crate and over her stream, his crown blown off, his ", "order": 8}, {"key": "rpg.the-safest-place", "name": "THE SAFEST PLACE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "LIQUID"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The first rocket on the deck throws Nitha and a loose crate over the rail into the sea. Under water she laughs up at Faris: rockets go out in water, everyone knows it. His next one proves it: it hits the surface, hisses, and sinks dead past her to the sea bed,", "order": 9}, {"key": "rpg.the-line", "name": "THE LINE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris writes the law on the lobby floor: with his back hand he traces a gold spiral that lands at a spot and blooms into a circle round it, exactly 1.875 m, the number lettered on the line. Fayiz reads it, steps out over the line, and then leans his head and s", "order": 10}, {"key": "rpg.rodeo", "name": "RODEO", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He jumps at Faris across the canyon and the rocket meets him at the top of the jump, nose first under his belly, and instead of bursting it carries him off. He gets a hand on a fin, then both, and the rocket answers: it banks, and his scream turns into a whoop", "order": 11}, {"key": "rpg.mushroom", "name": "MUSHROOM", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris puts the rocket at her feet. The fireball rolls up into a perfect mushroom, a stem and a rolling torus for a cap, a skirt of dust round its foot, and the updraft takes her with it: up the stem, slowly, turning, like a balloon. And like a balloon she swel", "order": 12}, {"key": "rpg.torpedo", "name": "TORPEDO", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Deep under the wreck, Chotu treads water at the mouth of the black tunnel beneath the great rock, firing up at Faris. Faris shoulders the launcher. Chotu fills his cheeks and swims for it, and the torpedo comes after him down the tunnel on a straight white lin", "order": 13}, {"key": "rpg.glow", "name": "GLOW", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.241239263688298, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Down in the abyss every fighter carries a light, so the players can see each other in the dark, and Mikku cannot turn his off. He hides among the tube worms beside the vent and cups it to his chest; it shines red through his fingers. Far off in the black, anot", "order": 14}, {"key": "rpg.the-tail", "name": "ONE ARM", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad puts a round through Faris's front shoulder. The arm drops dead at his side and the launcher, held by the grip alone, is too heavy: the muzzle sags into the dirt. He heaves it up one-handed and it sinks again while rounds spark off the tube; he staggers,", "order": 15}, {"key": "rpg.tilt", "name": "TILT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pinball", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["BOUNCY"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the Pinball Arcade\u2019s centre rail Hiba trades shots with Faris, and his rocket lands at her feet: a small cold shove that throws her up into the red pop bumper. Pop: the bumper lights and the backbox score drops from 206 to 191. The cyan bumper: 170. The yel", "order": 16}, {"key": "rpg.headlights", "name": "HEADLIGHTS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Desert Forts at night. From the dune\u2019s crest at the east end Fida taunts Faris, 36 metres away on the west fort\u2019s roof. He fires, and in the dark the rocket\u2019s flame is the only light: she watches it come for almost two whole seconds, its glow growing on her fa", "order": 17}, {"key": "rpg.too-close", "name": "TOO CLOSE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "In the Dusty Saloon Fayiz charges in under the launcher, clamps both hands round its mouth and holds it to his own chest, grinning: go on. He is sure Faris won\u2019t fire that close. Faris holds his eye far too long. An insert: the finger whitening on the trigger.", "order": 18}, {"key": "rpg.armor-plate", "name": "ARMOR PLATE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In Spike Castle Nitha steps onto the game\u2019s own Armor Plate pickup, the plate snaps onto his chest, he thumps it and grins at Faris. Faris\u2019s rocket hits the plate dead centre, and the plate works: it doesn\u2019t break. It bends. It folds round him like a taco. He ", "order": 19}, {"key": "rpg.dead-mans-trigger", "name": "DEAD MAN'S TRIGGER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Across the backyard lawn Amjad sprays his SMG at Faris, and Faris puts a rocket in at his gun side. It tears the arm off at the shoulder with the gun still in its hand, the dead fingers clenched on the trigger. The arm lands in the grass and the recoil spins i", "order": 20}, {"key": "rpg.brace-position", "name": "BRACE POSITION", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the Temple Steps\u2019 summit Mikku sees the tube come up and does exactly what the manuals say: flat on the stone, feet to the blast, hands over his ears, mouth open, eyes shut, the textbook\u2019s diagram drawn round him. The rocket lands at his feet; the blast lif", "order": 21}, {"key": "rpg.hailstone", "name": "HAILSTONE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On the backyard lawn under a black sky Hiba closes in on Faris, and he puts the rocket into the grass at her feet. The blast throws her straight up, out of the top of the frame, into the cloud. Then nothing: Faris looking up in the wind, one snowflake coming d", "order": 22}, {"key": "rpg.star", "name": "STAR", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the Atrium the first rocket lands at Nitha\u2019s feet and leaves him dazed on his back in the middle of a fresh black scorch star, the game\u2019s own five points, his ears ringing. He lifts his head and sees Faris reload, the real one and three-quarter seconds, and", "order": 23}, {"key": "rpg.last-floor", "name": "LAST FLOOR", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the Monsoon Rooftops in the rain Fayiz trades shots with Faris near the roof\u2019s edge, and the rocket throws him off it. The camera goes over the lip with him and falls face to face with him, down the alley past the lit windows, his hands grabbing at nothing.", "order": 24}], "skins": [{"key": "rpg.skin-classic", "name": "THE FIRST ROCKET", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the Temple Steps Mikku holds the summit and Faris, a step below, points the old launcher up at him. 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They glint.", "order": 4}, {"key": "rpg.skin-ice", "name": "THAW", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the Spike Castle courtyard Faris fires his ice launcher at Nitha, and the cryo shell bursts short: the cold seals the rocket in ice and it stops dead in mid-air an arm\u2019s length from his chest, its flame frozen in its tail, while the cold runs over the stone", "order": 5}, {"key": "rpg.skin-taped", "name": "LOOSE FIN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "In Crate Canyon Fida dances on the far floor, and Faris fires his worn, taped launcher at her. At the muzzle the tape holding one fin peels off and flutters away, and the rocket stops flying straight. It corkscrews across the canyon, a spiralling flame, and wh", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "rpg.mid-outrun", "name": "OUTRUN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "Amjad turns and sprints down the atrium, and for one second he really is faster than Faris\u2019s rocket on its slow start. He skips round, laughing and pointing at it falling behind, turns and runs on still laughing, and it comes up to speed and catches him in the", "order": 0}, {"key": "rpg.mid-from-above", "name": "FROM ABOVE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM", "WALL"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On a floor of the Tower Chotu searches the room for Faris with his gun up. A scrape overhead. 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", "order": 5}, {"key": "rpg.mid-lead", "name": "LEAD", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the castle courtyard Fida sees the tube come round on him and dodge-rolls out of the line, and Faris was never aiming at him: the tube swings ahead and fires at the floor where the roll will take him. He rolls straight into the fireball and out the far side", "order": 6}, {"key": "rpg.mid-skipping-stone", "name": "SKIPPING STONE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "LIQUID"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu wades into the oasis in the Desert Forts, out of reach in the shallows, and laughs at Faris on the bank. Faris fires low, at the water. 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It leaves the tube with its four tail fins folded flat, and as it reaches him he leans his head back a hand\u2019s width, and in that hand\u2019s width the fins sp", "order": 8}, {"key": "rpg.mid-shot-down", "name": "SHOT DOWN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "far"], "sum": "In the cage Hiba stands his ground as the rocket comes down at him and empties his pistol at it, shot after shot, and the last one hits it. It bursts three metres out. For a tenth of a second he is a hero and grins. Then the burst\u2019s cone of fragments comes on ", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "cluster": {"page": "58k_cluster.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "cluster.the-minefield", "name": "THE MINEFIELD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 4.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Five go off round Chotu and he backs away from them, straight onto the sixth. CLICK under his boot, and nothing happens. Rusted MINES signs are hammered up out of the floor round him, one after another out to the horizon, wire unspooling between them, until he", "order": 0}, {"key": "cluster.the-blink", "name": "THE BLINK", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 4.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Five go off round Fida; the sixth sits at her toes, blinking, and blinks slower instead of faster. Each flash is redder, and in each one there is a stranger standing in the temple who was not there before, nearer. After the fifth the temple never comes back: b", "order": 1}, {"key": "cluster.one-in-a-thousand", "name": "ONE IN A THOUSAND", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One lob; six pops all round Fida and the smoke swallows her. She walks out of it without a scratch, arms out, laughing, standing in the one clean ring of floor among six scorch marks. Then she sees it: one tiny red dot on her shirt, over her heart. The film ru", "order": 2}, {"key": "cluster.last-broadside", "name": "LAST BROADSIDE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 5.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the wreck's flooded gun deck Faris lobs one shell. The six sink slowly round the old cannon and one settles on top of the barrel, right on the touch-hole, blinking. Mikku treads water right behind the gun, watching. The bubble shocks jolt the old iron; the ", "order": 3}, {"key": "cluster.the-hamster-wheel", "name": "THE HAMSTER WHEEL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the giant kitchen counter Mikku casts a hamster's running wheel and runs in it to get away, waving at Faris on top of the toaster. Faris lobs. The six drop through the spokes and roll down to the bottom of the wheel, which is always where his feet are. He r", "order": 4}, {"key": "cluster.duck-and-cover", "name": "DUCK AND COVER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The kill turns into a scratched black-and-white 1950s civil-defence film. DUCK AND COVER, says the title card. Nitha casts a school desk and sits up straight. WHEN YOU SEE THE FLASH... Faris lobs; the split is a white flare. DUCK! AND COVER! She drops under th", "order": 5}, {"key": "cluster.fizz", "name": "FIZZ", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "LIQUID"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha stands on the rim of the shallow pool looking at the water. Faris lobs. The first bomblet pops on the rim behind her heels and shoves her in, face first. The other five drop into the water round her and fizzle, as explosives do in water, and she kneels u", "order": 6}, {"key": "cluster.liquefaction", "name": "LIQUEFACTION", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku stands on the lawn. Faris lobs and the six land round him in the grass. Six shocks: between them the turf shivers like jelly, water wells up through it and little sand volcanoes boil. The ground under him has turned to liquid. He sinks to the shins, the ", "order": 7}, {"key": "cluster.divided", "name": "DIVIDED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One lob splits over Hiba and Fayiz. A bomblet rolls to a stop right between their feet; they both look down at it. It pops and flings them apart, and they snatch at each other's wrists. Five more pop between them, one after another, and every one drags them fu", "order": 8}, {"key": "cluster.lap-of-honour", "name": "LAP OF HONOUR", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 5.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Amjad plucks the killing shell out of the air one-handed and holds it up, grinning. It splits in his hand: the six tumble down his sleeve, into his collar and his trouser legs. He pats himself down in a panic. Then they go, one after another, inside his clothe", "order": 9}, {"key": "cluster.canopy", "name": "CANOPY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Cornered at the edge, Fayiz jumps, and the parachute he casts blossoms over him; he floats, relieved, and waves. Faris's shell drops into the canopy and splits there: six bomblets roll round inside the silk like marbles in a sheet, beeping, and he looks up at ", "order": 10}, {"key": "cluster.fools-gold", "name": "FOOL'S GOLD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 5, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Down in the wreck's hold Hiba kneels in the treasure, stuffing double handfuls of gold down her shirt. Faris lobs one shell down through the hatch from the gun deck above. The six sink slowly into the pile round her and blink just like the gold. One lands righ", "order": 11}, {"key": "cluster.bouncy-castle", "name": "BOUNCY CASTLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the desert sand Chotu casts a red-and-yellow bouncy castle with a humming blower and bounces in it, waving at Faris. Faris lobs over the wall. The six bounce on the sprung floor with him, higher than he does, in time with him; he swats one away and it comes", "order": 12}, {"key": "cluster.the-shelter", "name": "THE SHELTER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "An air raid: the siren, searchlights sweeping the night over the backyard. Amjad casts an Anderson shelter, corrugated steel under a heap of earth with cabbages growing on it, dives in and pulls the door. Faris lobs. The six land on the earth and roll down the", "order": 13}, {"key": "cluster.empty-bin", "name": "EMPTY BIN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "retro", "len": 7.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba runs the taskbar away from Faris; Faris lobs. The six land at her heels and every pop blows her back a hop, the cluster tumbling after her, until she is backed up against the Recycle Bin icon. The desktop arrow cursor swoops down, selects her, drags her u", "order": 14}, {"key": "cluster.hero-of-the-day", "name": "HERO OF THE DAY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 7.2, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz and Amjad stand back to back on the arch top. Faris lobs and the six land round their feet. Amjad shoves his buddy down on top of them and backs off with his hands up: sorry, sorry. Five muffled thumps under Fayiz; he bucks off the stone with each one. T", "order": 15}, {"key": "cluster.staircase", "name": "STAIRCASE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["STAIRS|SLOPE"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Nitha runs up a flight of stairs away from Faris. The lob splits over the steps above him and the six land there, then come down the flight at him, bouncing step by step in a falling scale of clacks and beeps. He runs up into them; the first pops at his feet a", "order": 16}, {"key": "cluster.the-heavy-bag", "name": "THE HEAVY BAG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "HANGING_HEAVY"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad warms up on the gym's heavy bag, jab, jab, grinning at Faris across the stairwell. Faris lobs a flat shell under the ceiling. The six skitter round the foot of the bag, and every pop behind it swings the bag into his face like a combination: jab, jab, a ", "order": 17}, {"key": "cluster.joyride", "name": "JOYRIDE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz vaults into the base's jeep to get away, turns the key, and grins back at Faris. Faris lobs. The six rattle into the back of the jeep, one into the footwell. A pop bucks the jeep and snaps the handbrake off; the footwell pop slams his boot onto the throt", "order": 18}, {"key": "cluster.bunting", "name": "BUNTING", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP|GAP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu jumps up and grabs the party bunting strung over the canyon gully and goes hand over hand out along it, legs swinging, grinning back at Faris. Faris lobs. The six land on the line on both sides of him and slide down its sag to his hands like beads on a s", "order": 19}, {"key": "cluster.sixies", "name": "SIXIES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the ship's deck Fida sits cross-legged playing jacks with a little red ball, not even looking at Faris. Faris lobs. The six clatter down among her jacks. On a jacks player's reflex she throws the ball up, sweeps all six into her fist in one go and catches t", "order": 20}, {"key": "cluster.cannonball", "name": "CANNONBALL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the castle's left tower Fayiz casts a striped circus cannon aimed across the courtyard at a catch-net he casts on the far tower, climbs into the muzzle helmet first and gives Faris a thumbs up. Faris lobs. The six drop onto the muzzle and slip down the bore", "order": 21}, {"key": "cluster.hexagon", "name": "HEXAGON", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One lob from mid range. Its split hangs right over Amjad, and the film freezes with the six bomblets hung round his head in a hexagon. They land round his feet, none touching him, and pop one after another, left, right, left; none close enough to wound, but ev", "order": 22}, {"key": "cluster.foxhole", "name": "FOXHOLE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One lob splits over Chotu, a soldier in a tin helmet. The first bomblet digs a crater beside him and, trained, he dives in head first and covers his helmet. The other five pop round the rim in the same breath, and every one throws its earth into his hole; it c", "order": 23}, {"key": "cluster.clean-sheet", "name": "CLEAN SHEET", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku drops into a goalkeeper's crouch and slaps his gloves together. Faris lobs once; the shell splits in front of him and six bomblets come at his goal. He saves the lot: a tip over the bar, a diving block, a kick save, a punch, a chest save, a header, each ", "order": 24}, {"key": "cluster.brolly", "name": "BROLLY", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Rain on the rooftops. Mikku snaps a black umbrella open over his head, dry and smug. Faris lobs. The six land on the canopy, bounce on the taut fabric and roll off its rim like raindrops, dripping round his feet. The pops under it fill the canopy like a sail: ", "order": 25}], "skins": [{"key": "cluster.skin-classic", "name": "SIT ON IT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris lobs one shell into the backyard. Amjad whips a tin bucket out from behind his back and hopscotches between the pops, laughing, untouched. 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Each pop catches her in ", "order": 5}, {"key": "cluster.skin-taped", "name": "SPRUNG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "On the mesa top in the canyon Faris fires, and the worn tape round the lobber's drum snaps: the drum spins like a revolver cylinder and fires all three shells at once. Eighteen bomblets fan out over Nitha, and she stares up at a night full of blinking dots. Th", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "cluster.mid-too-slow", "name": "TOO SLOW", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz dances out of all six at full speed. 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The six land round him and he dances out of every one by pure luck: a moonwalk away from the first, a spin, a shuffle, each pop going off just where he isn't. For the big finish he", "order": 3}, {"key": "cluster.mid-marbles", "name": "MARBLES", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "retro", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The six land in front of Chotu and roll in under his boots like marbles. One step and his feet go straight out from under him; he comes down flat on his back on top of all six. They go off under him one after another and bounce him off the floor six times like", "order": 4}, {"key": "cluster.mid-hot-foot", "name": "HOT FOOT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One bomblet comes rolling at Chotu's front foot and he stamps on it like a lit fuse. When he lifts the boot it is wedged in the tread, blinking. The other five go off round his feet like bullets at a cowboy's boots and he jigs: shaking the foot, stamping it, s", "order": 5}, {"key": "cluster.mid-tail-chase", "name": "TAIL CHASE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One bomblet bonks off Nitha's shoulder and drops into the back of his belt, where it sits like a tail, blinking where he can't see it. He hears it beeping, checks his pockets, checks his feet, glimpses the light over his shoulder and turns after it, and it tur", "order": 6}, {"key": "cluster.mid-ping-pong", "name": "PING PONG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida stands in front of a wall. Faris lobs once and the six land in two rows either side of her. They go off alternately, left, right, left, right, and each one knocks her across into the other row like a ball between paddles, harder every time, tearing her op", "order": 7}, {"key": "cluster.mid-overboard", "name": "OVERBOARD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad stands on the deck with his back to the sea. Faris lobs once and the six come down in a line between them, pointing at him like a fuse. They go off in order, far to near, like footsteps marching up the deck, and he backs away from each one, step by step,", "order": 8}, {"key": "cluster.mid-binned", "name": "BINNED", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["CONTAINER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba stands in front of a crate on the deck. Faris lobs once; the one that lands at her toes pops first and posts her backwards over the rim, head first through the lid like a letter into a slot. Her legs stick up out of the crate, kicking wildly, while the ot", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "fists": {"page": "58k_fists.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "fists.one-punch", "name": "ONE PUNCH", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Twelve real strikes (jab, cross, hook, uppercut, elbow, roundhouse, a flurry, a haymaker) do nothing; a yawn; one jab turns him into red mist and tears the sky; the replay can barely see the fist move.", "order": 0}, {"key": "fists.the-mirror", "name": "THE MIRROR", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "A palm push drops him through a rain puddle into a hall of mirrors where his reflection takes every blow a beat early and Faris has no reflection at all; hook, low kick, elbow land exactly as foretold; the last mirror shows him dead, and it opens its eyes; the", "order": 1}, {"key": "fists.ninth-circle", "name": "THE NINTH CIRCLE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A side kick freezes his feet to the castle stones; the frost climbs him and he is standing to the neck in the frozen lake of the ninth circle, over the faces of everyone Faris has killed, whose eyes follow Faris across the ice; Faris wipes the frost to show hi", "order": 2}, {"key": "fists.hook-hall", "name": "HOOK HALL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Off the top of the uppercut a meat hook out of the night sky bites into his back and hauls him up onto hell\u2019s slaughter line, where every carcass on the slaughter line is him; the line keeps moving; Faris works it beside him, one real strike per station: the l", "order": 3}, {"key": "fists.the-plan", "name": "THE PLAN", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris plans the fight before it happens: block the jab, low kick the knee, he will go for the knife in his boot, elbow the arm, haymaker the temple, 3.20 seconds; the tape rewinds, and it happens exactly like that, full speed and full colour, the knife include", "order": 4}, {"key": "fists.stop-hitting-yourself", "name": "STOP HITTING YOURSELF", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris catches his punch (the real grab), turns the elbow the wrong way, plants a foot in his chest and tears the arm off at the shoulder; then he beats him with it, his own dead fist throwing the real punches into his face, hook, cross, uppercut, hook, while F", "order": 5}, {"key": "fists.re-entry", "name": "AIR JUGGLE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Nitha rushes Faris with her pistol: one shot at his head, which Faris slips, then a pistol-whip, which he ducks. 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Three exchanges: his jab is slipped, the second jab parried, the cross rolled under, and Faris comes up inside with a hook to his ribs; his hook lands flush on Faris\u2019s jaw and Faris shakes it ", "order": 7}, {"key": "fists.heartstrings", "name": "HEARTSTRINGS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The cross goes through his sternum and comes back with his heart, but the big arteries hold: Faris walks backwards with the beating heart in his fist and the dead man follows on his own heartstrings; every tug jerks his arms up, walks him closer, kneels him, b", "order": 8}, {"key": "fists.spineless", "name": "SPINELESS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Swept onto his knees, he begs, hands together; Faris walks round behind him, takes his head in both hands, sets a foot in his back and pulls: the head comes away with the whole spine hanging from it, disc by disc, and the body drops in a boneless heap; the hea", "order": 9}, {"key": "fists.one-inch", "name": "ONE INCH", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "He laughs at a fist held one inch from his chest, spreads his arms and sticks his chest out; the one-inch punch (a real jab with no wind-up) lands and he never moves, but his back blows out and the shock carries on through the barrels, the bottles and the wall", "order": 10}, {"key": "fists.freight-train", "name": "FREIGHT TRAIN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The FREIGHT TRAIN string ends in the Superman Punch, and this time it doesn\u2019t stop. In the frozen moment Faris sweeps one hand down the line and inks in a glass pane, a picket fence and an iron door. Then he runs with his fist buried in Nitha\u2019s gut and carries", "order": 11}, {"key": "fists.jackpot", "name": "JACKPOT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris grabs Fida by the wrist and hauls her arm down like the lever of a one-armed bandit. Her eyes and mouth start spinning like three reels. A jab stops her left eye on a cherry, a cross stops the right on a lemon, a hook stops her mouth on BAR, and nothing ", "order": 12}, {"key": "fists.monument", "name": "MONUMENT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris\u2019s jab, jab and uppercut lift Hiba off her feet with her head snapped back and her arms flung out, and a spray of blood, spit and sweat arcs off her mouth down to the grass behind her. At the top of the lift the moment simply never ends: marble runs from ", "order": 13}, {"key": "fists.knock-the-stuffing-out", "name": "RUNDOWN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 22, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Mikku\u2019s sucker punch snaps Faris\u2019s head back and doesn\u2019t drop him, and Mikku runs. He casts a gold fence behind him; Faris speed-vaults it. He slides under Faris\u2019s hook and slams a gold gate-bar up behind him; Faris slides under it. On the straight Faris catch", "order": 14}, {"key": "fists.kidney-stones", "name": "KIDNEY STONES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fayiz\u2019s haymaker misses and carries him half round with his back open, and Faris digs a gut punch into his right kidney and a hook into his left. He arches, both hands pressed to the small of his back. Under his shirt an amber glow crawls out from where the pu", "order": 15}, {"key": "fists.hit-me", "name": "HIT ME", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 4.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Chotu the strongman lands a cheap shot, takes Faris\u2019s jab and cross in the belly with a grin, hoists his circus barbell one-handed over his head (1000 LB), slaps his belly twice and beckons: HIT ME. Faris rolls his shoulders and holds the Delayed Haymaker\u2019s wi", "order": 16}, {"key": "fists.the-brink", "name": "THE BRINK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha grabs Faris by the collar and bulls him backwards across the roof, his heels skidding, until his heels stop on the very lip and the drop races away behind them. She grins and leans in for the last shove, and Faris sinks his hips and suplexes her over his", "order": 17}, {"key": "fists.coconuts", "name": "COCONUTS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 4.6, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fida and Nitha come at Faris from both sides at once. He takes a head in each hand, lifts them, draws them wide apart like a man about to clap, and claps them together over his head: a hollow wooden clop, then again, clip-clop, like two coconut halves. The sec", "order": 18}, {"key": "fists.keelhauled", "name": "KEELHAULED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "In the dark under the sunken galleon, Faris\u2019s leg sweep tumbles Amjad and his grab catches the ankle. Faris swims up under the keel and drags him along its whole barnacled length, bow to stern, his back to the barnacles. His bubbles stream out of him, then thi", "order": 19}, {"key": "fists.slam-dunk", "name": "POWERBOMB", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fida shoots a low double-leg at Faris\u2019s legs. Faris sprawls, hips back, both hands on her shoulders, and stops her dead. He locks both arms round her waist from above and deadlifts her over, upside down and up onto his shoulders, taking a step back to keep his", "order": 20}, {"key": "fists.up-top", "name": "UP TOP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 4.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Amjad lands a lucky jab, whoops, and holds his palm up to Faris: UP TOP! Faris looks at the palm and answers down low with a kick to the knee, then a hook that takes Amjad\u2019s lower jaw clean off. It spins up, trailing teeth and a ribbon of blood, and comes down", "order": 21}, {"key": "fists.acid-reflux", "name": "ACID REFLUX", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris\u2019s gut punch doubles Mikku over, his cheeks bulge, and he retches once, a hissing yellow-green string. Then his stomach glows through his shirt and the acid comes up from inside: he drops to his knees with his head thrown back and it erupts out of his mou", "order": 22}, {"key": "fists.death-mask", "name": "DEATH MASK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris takes Hiba by the back of the head and slams her face into the stones. Once: a smear on the floor. Twice: a wet stamp of her in her own blood. The third time her head bursts on the stone, and he lets go of what is left.", "order": 23}, {"key": "fists.hitchhiker", "name": "HITCHHIKER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER", "LIQUID"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Mikku grabs The Deep\u2019s giant turtle as it cruises past and lies flat on its shell, sailing away and thumbing back at Faris. Faris swims after it and climbs aboard. 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Faris ducks under it and spins all the way round, and the back of his fist comes round at full speed into the side of Chotu\u2019s head. For a slow-motion beat the neck bends further than a neck can; then the head comes clean off and spins", "order": 4}, {"key": "fists.mid-wrung-out", "name": "WRUNG OUT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The Tornado Kick, the last of Faris\u2019s HURRICANE string, catches Chotu with the heel and turns his shoulders. 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The foot shoots out like on a banana skin, he goes fully horizontal in mid-air, hangs there for one held beat, and comes down on the back of his neck. 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Inside it is dark, but a knot hole facing Faris throws the whole yard onto the back wall upside down, and there is Faris, walking across it. Chotu grins: he can watch without being seen", "order": 2}, {"key": "beam.heist", "name": "HEIST", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris sweeps his hand and a humming security grid of thin red lines springs up across the courtyard between them. Fayiz the thief takes it as a challenge: he drops his sack, cracks his knuckles and threads it like a gymnast, the splits, a back-bend, a roll, a ", "order": 3}, {"key": "beam.sheets", "name": "SHEETS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Night in the desert, a hard wind. Hiba flings her hand and inks a washing line of white bedsheets between two gold posts and hides among them. They billow like ghosts, and Faris walks in among them with the cannon while every sheet that lifts is nobody. Then t", "order": 4}, {"key": "beam.geode", "name": "GEODE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "Amjad beats his chest and flexes at Faris: he is rock hard, he says. The beam goes through the middle of the flex, and the heat fuses him: pink-violet crystal pierces out of him and he sets into a statue of himself flexing. Faris walks up and taps the chest wi", "order": 5}, {"key": "beam.vacuum-packed", "name": "VACUUM PACKED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["roof"], "range": [], "sum": "Rain on the roofs, and Fida in a clear plastic rain poncho with the hood up. He sees the half second of charge coming and ducks it: a perfect dodge, the line passes a hand over his hood. He stands up laughing. But the line passed close enough to cook the plast", "order": 6}, {"key": "beam.milky-sea", "name": "MILKY SEA", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under the wreck Fayiz hides in black water, holding his breath, while Faris's charge glow sweeps the dark in short taps. A little fish bumps his hand, he flinches, and the plankton spark blue-green round his fingers. The glow stops on the spark, charges, and o", "order": 7}, {"key": "beam.portal", "name": "HOT SWAP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 10.8, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Three of them come at the beam's gap: one line, then 1.7 s with no line while the core is swapped. Hiba with two knives from behind, Mikku with a pistol and then a gold knife from the front, Fida with an SMG from range. Faris fights the swap itself as a three-", "order": 8}, {"key": "beam.morse", "name": "SPLITTER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 11, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One unbroken camera move. Chotu has no weapon: he drags heavy things up out of the floor in gold and throws them, harder and closer each time. A crate: the line splits it in the air, the top half sails over Faris, the bottom skids past his boots. A barrel bowl", "order": 9}, {"key": "beam.grab", "name": "GRAB", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "Inside the half second of charge Fida lunges and grabs the barrel with both hands to shove it away. They wrestle for it. When it fires, his arms are lined up with it: the beam goes in at his palms and runs up both arms and through his chest.", "order": 10}, {"key": "beam.meltdown", "name": "MELTDOWN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["roof"], "range": [], "sum": "Faris puts the beam low across Mikku's shins. The heat does not stop there: he starts to melt from the feet up, and he keeps talking at Faris the whole way down, reaching for him, until there is nothing above the puddle to talk with.", "order": 11}, {"key": "beam.votive", "name": "VOTIVE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "Nitha drops to her knees, presses her hands together in front of her face and prays. Faris lets her pray the whole half second. The beam goes through her praying hands, and the heat sets her into wax where she kneels: her fingertips catch like a wick and she b", "order": 12}, {"key": "beam.chest-bump", "name": "CHEST BUMP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat"], "range": [], "sum": "Fayiz and Amjad put Faris on his back and decide he is finished. They throw their guns away and leap into a chest bump over him. Faris sits up off the boards with the cannon on his knees and fires from the floor. The beam goes through both chests at the exact ", "order": 13}, {"key": "beam.dead-sea", "name": "DEAD SEA", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu flees down into the abyss under the wreck and finds a lake at the bottom of the sea: a brine pool with its own surface, a shore of black mussels, dead crabs on the rim. It is a mirror: a second Chotu looks up at him. He walks out on it laughing, then ben", "order": 14}, {"key": "beam.shadow", "name": "SHADOW", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["flat", "wall"], "range": [], "sum": "Hiba sees the half second of charge coming and throws her arms up over her face. The beam's flash takes her so completely that all it leaves is her shadow, burned into the saloon wall in that pose, and her shoes.", "order": 15}, {"key": "beam.overhead", "name": "OVERHEAD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["plat", "under"], "range": [], "sum": "Chotu hides under the balcony, sure the planks are cover. Faris walks along the balcony until he is standing right over him and points the cannon at his own feet. The beam comes down through the floor and straight down through Chotu.", "order": 16}], "skins": [{"key": "beam.skin-classic", "name": "THE TELL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 13.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The beam has two honest facts: the half-second pink glow before every line, and the core swap between lines. Chotu, a knife fighter, builds his fight on them: he reads the glow and dives under the first line, casts a gold slab for cover, and when the core kick", "order": 0}, {"key": "beam.skin-gold", "name": "THE MOTHER LODE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 11.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris fires the gold line down at the floor at Nitha\u2019s feet. It bores a molten-edged shaft and the floor gives under her. She falls past dirt, roots and old bones into rock seamed with gold, and lands in a collapsed gold mine: timber props, rails, a dead cart,", "order": 1}, {"key": "beam.skin-neon", "name": "THE SIGN YARD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 17.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz is a real gunfighter: he fights Faris's neon cannon with a pistol from behind a gold crate, and gains ground with a vault over it. The line takes his gun arm at the elbow. He runs, and the next line does not end: it hangs in the air, turns to glass, coil", "order": 2}, {"key": "beam.skin-camo", "name": "VENT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Every core swap vents the camo cannon's coolant as steam round Faris, and Mikku has learned it: he strikes first from inside Faris's own cloud. A knife out of the white opens Faris's forearm and the fresh core spins away into the steam; a kick puts him on one ", "order": 3}, {"key": "beam.skin-cartoon", "name": "BACKSWING", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A duel against a gold great-axe. Hiba drags it up out of the floor and is the better fighter for most of it: she makes the first line miss, bites a notch in the cannon, hooks the barrel down, nearly takes Faris's chin with the rising swing, gets inside the bar", "order": 4}, {"key": "beam.skin-ice", "name": "DEATH SPIRAL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The ice line goes through Hiba\u2019s shoulder and chest and freezes her through, one hand up to stop it; frost runs out from her feet into a glassy rink round them both. She topples stiff onto the ice. Faris glides in on it, graceful, and takes her frozen hand, an", "order": 5}, {"key": "beam.skin-taped", "name": "NO TELL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Under the fight-night lights Amjad has the beam timed: its only tell is the pink glow that comes up in the half second, and he reads it and dives clear of the first line, then taps his eye at Faris. While the worn, taped cannon does its CORE SWAP, Faris tears ", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "beam.mid-afterimage", "name": "FIRST BLOOD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 2.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A standoff at four metres. Faris holds the cannon at low ready; Amjad's hand hovers over his holstered revolver; the hot spent core at Faris's boot ticks as it cools. Amjad draws the fastest draw there is and fires first: the round takes Faris in the shoulder ", "order": 0}, {"key": "beam.mid-tinfoil", "name": "TINFOIL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku wears a tinfoil hat to block the beam, and taps it at Faris, smug. The charge-light glints off the foil. The line goes through his chest under the hat; the foil sizzles, crinkles, and slumps down over his face as he falls.", "order": 1}, {"key": "beam.mid-kettle", "name": "KETTLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The line goes through Hiba\u2019s chest and she stays standing, puzzled. A wisp of steam leaves her ear. Then the line has boiled the water in her: steam jets from her ears, nose and mouth, she shakes, her face reddens, and the whistle climbs and climbs like a kett", "order": 2}, {"key": "beam.mid-tan-lines", "name": "SAME LINE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 1.75, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris has her and the charge is already building; she whips her pistol up one-handed and fires first. Bullet time: her round crawls toward him on its heat shimmer. The line arrives, meets the round a third of the way and turns it to a puff of molten droplets, ", "order": 3}, {"key": "beam.mid-sing-along", "name": "SING-ALONG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Through the half second of charge Fida sings along with the cannon\u2019s rising whine, note for note, chin up, mocking, higher and higher. At the top the line goes through him and his note stops in the air. He folds with his mouth still open on it, in total silenc", "order": 4}, {"key": "beam.mid-bleached", "name": "SKID", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 2.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris runs her down with the cannon held across his chest. She fires back over her shoulder and cuts hard back past him; he plants and skids, and the heavy cannon's weight swings his whole body round on the floor through half a turn. He fires at the end of the", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:17"}, "gravflip": {"page": "58k_gravflip.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "gravflip.hourglass", "name": "THE HOURGLASS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The zap flips Fida and the world turns over with her like an hourglass, floor to sky, and pours away through a waist. 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At the top of the rise, as he slows, Faris zaps him again, and again at the top of the next: three rises, the castle shrinking under him, until he hangs weightless over the towers. Faris lowers the gun and tap", "order": 2}, {"key": "gravflip.synchronised", "name": "SYNCHRONISED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 3, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Three of them charge Faris from both sides. Each zap catches a man mid-run, and his own run carries him up and over, out of the top of the frame. Faris re-zaps the early ones, watching their three shadows slide together across the floor toward his boots. He st", "order": 3}, {"key": "gravflip.wrong-way-up", "name": "WRONG WAY UP", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Deep in the trench Fayiz fights from under a rock overhang. The flip: he falls up and lands on his back against the underside of the rock, pressed to it. Below him the bright gap out from under the ledge is right there, and every stroke he makes for it takes h", "order": 4}, {"key": "gravflip.red-ceiling", "name": "THE RED CEILING", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CEILING"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Two pistol-whips have opened Nitha's brow and her forearm. The zap drops her UP onto the ceiling, and her blood follows her: it runs up out of the cuts and pools round her on the ceiling, drips up off her chin as she gets to her knees. Faris walks beneath her ", "order": 5}, {"key": "gravflip.up-the-chimney", "name": "UP THE CHIMNEY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Amjad ducks into the big stone fireplace. Faris crouches and zaps him in there, and he falls up the flue, scraping, soot pouring down, and pops out of the chimney pot like a cork into the night. While he is up there Faris takes a match from the mantel and ligh", "order": 6}, {"key": "gravflip.skylight", "name": "SKYLIGHT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CEILING"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Under a glass skylight the flip takes Hiba up through it in a burst of glass. The shards keep the real gravity: they fall back down first and land standing point-up in a bed under the hole, glinting in the moonlight. Up in the night she rises, looks down throu", "order": 7}, {"key": "gravflip.ceiling-fan", "name": "THE CEILING FAN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The saloon's big ceiling fan turns slowly over Amjad. The flip: he falls up into its iron-shod blades and his coat catches on one. The fan carries him round under the ceiling, faster, the motor whining under his weight, the blades clubbing him on every pass. F", "order": 8}, {"key": "gravflip.capsize", "name": "CAPSIZE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida takes cover under the overhang of an old hull section balanced on a rock ridge. The flip: she falls up against its barnacled underside, and the impact rocks it on the ridge, a groan of iron and timber. Faris zaps again: the restart holds her against it as", "order": 9}, {"key": "gravflip.last-air", "name": "THE LAST AIR", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The lab is flooding. The zap flips Fida and she falls up onto the ceiling, dry above the water, and laughs: up here she can breathe. Faris, waist deep, zaps her again, and again, every restart keeping her up there while the water climbs to her. It reaches her ", "order": 10}, {"key": "gravflip.rung-by-rung", "name": "RUNG BY RUNG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CLIMBABLE"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz is up the ladder, out of reach, and turns to sneer down at Faris. The zap flips him and he falls UP the ladder, his face, his chest and his shins taking every rung, ratatat, and shoots out of the top into the air, turning over. The flip runs out over the", "order": 11}, {"key": "gravflip.over-the-top", "name": "OVER THE TOP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu swings higher and higher on a garden swing to taunt Faris. At the top of the back swing the zap flips him and he goes over the top bar, and keeps going, round and round, the chains winding onto the bar shorter every turn and every turn slamming him into ", "order": 12}, {"key": "gravflip.fall-guy", "name": "FALL GUY", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The stuntman taunts Faris from the top of his own scaffold, his airbag puffed up below, and steps off backwards like a pro, arms out. 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The flip: he falls up head first into the big grey paper nest hanging there. It bursts round his head and stays on it like a helmet; inside, the swarm. When the flip ends he falls with the nest still on his head and ", "order": 15}, {"key": "gravflip.red-rain", "name": "RED RAIN", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The remake of the game's FALL INTO THE SKY. Faris sweeps Nitha's legs, flips her point-blank as she lands, and waves goodbye as she falls up past him into the storm cloud hanging over the castle. 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His body closes the circuit: every convulsion lights the surviving tubes in time with him, pink, then blue", "order": 2}, {"key": "gravflip.skin-camo", "name": "COVERED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "DROP|GAP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris flicks a rolled camo tarp out over the drop at the edge of the lawn; it settles flat and reads as more lawn. Fayiz jumps down off the plank, firing. The zap takes him up into the sky, and at the top of it he looks down, picks the patch of lawn farthest f", "order": 3}, {"key": "gravflip.skin-cartoon", "name": "HIT THE ROOF", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "CEILING"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu is furious: red in the face, steam out of his ears, stamping, firing everything at Faris. 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Faris zaps her in the water and she falls up out of it, streaming, and keeps on rising. At the top she flails and tips over, and from that height she comes down flat on her belly on the water, which is as goo", "order": 4}, {"key": "gravflip.mid-upside-down", "name": "UPSIDE DOWN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The zap flips Amjad and he falls up and lands on his feet on the ceiling. Upside down, he laughs and aims his pistol down at Faris. Faris holds up one finger and waits. 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Spring: she thaws soft, wobbling, c", "order": 1}, {"key": "ice.glacial", "name": "GLACIAL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The hits pile up until the ice slows Mikku's time and nothing else: he is still charging, at a fourteenth of the speed, while the rain falls normally round him. Faris strolls up, takes the pistol out of his slowly closing hand, drops the mag, flicks his cap of", "order": 2}, {"key": "ice.whiteout", "name": "WHITEOUT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 10.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The cold of the kill cam brings a blizzard down on the backyard. Fida spins in the white, firing at nothing. 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His own fuel goes up round him and the ice can't ", "order": 6}, {"key": "ice.gut-check", "name": "GUT CHECK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Three shards in a tight group open Fida's belly, and in the cold his guts freeze as they spill: a stiff coil of red glass sticking out of him. He tries to push it back in and it snaps; he backs into a barrel and it snaps again; Faris shoots the loops off one b", "order": 7}, {"key": "ice.the-first-step", "name": "THE FIRST STEP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard freezes Mikku mid-charge, and Faris lowers the gun and folds his arms. The game's thaw cracks the ice off him and he roars and takes his first step: his frozen-through knee snaps and the shin stays standing. He throws out a hand to catch himse", "order": 8}, {"key": "ice.safe-passage", "name": "SAFE PASSAGE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["ledge"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Cornered at the edge of the roof, Hiba looks down into the gap. Faris sweeps five shards across it and the rain freezes in mid-air into a glass bridge sloping down to the far roof, then waves her on: after you. She runs onto it; when she is over the drop he sh", "order": 9}, {"key": "ice.anchor-ice", "name": "ANCHOR ICE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Down on the seabed Faris puts three shards into the sand round Nitha's feet, and white anchor ice blooms up her legs. Slowed by every hit she cannot kick free; it grows into a fat block round her legs, a rock, a starfish and an urchin, and as it grows it squee", "order": 10}, {"key": "ice.triple-dog-dare", "name": "TRIPLE DOG DARE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Disarmed in the rain, Fayiz laughs at the frosting muzzle and licks it on the dare. It sticks. 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The statue noses over and comes down head first like a lawn dart: the frozen skull bursts on the stones and the body stays planted upside down in the c", "order": 16}], "skins": [{"key": "ice.skin-classic", "name": "JACK FROST", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard freezes Mikku in the falling snow, and Faris blows into his cupped hands and whistles the tune: Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Unseen frost jaws take a bite out of the frozen man: the tip of his nose. Then the edge of his head, his fingertip", "order": 0}, {"key": "ice.skin-gold", "name": "ON THE ROCKS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris stands with a gold goblet at his chest and the gold ice gun in his other hand. Fida walks in on him, and every shard slows his stride as the frost climbs him, until the eighth freezes him solid mid-step. Faris walks up to the statue and taps it with the ", "order": 1}, {"key": "ice.skin-neon", "name": "LIT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Frozen in the dark kill cam, Fida gets decorated: Faris pulls a string of coloured bulbs from his coat, winds it round the frozen man from his boots to his chin, sets a battery down and plugs it in. He glows like a shop window. The bulbs warm the ice; meltwate", "order": 2}, {"key": "ice.skin-camo", "name": "BIRD STRIKE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 5.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Frozen for the game's 1.4 seconds, Amjad can only watch Faris fire past him: each shard stops dead in mid-air and freezes the rain into a pane of perfectly clear ice across the roof. Nothing is there to see. When the ice lets him go he turns and sprints for th", "order": 3}, {"key": "ice.skin-cartoon", "name": "SNOWBALL EFFECT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Frozen, Chotu gets Faris's boot and tips over and rolls. Every turn packs on snow, and because he is frozen, every turn snaps a piece off him and packs it into the snow: a finger, an ear, his nose, then a whole hand still waving, a boot with the foot in it, wh", "order": 4}, {"key": "ice.skin-ice", "name": "SEED CRYSTAL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Supercooled water stays liquid below freezing until something gives it a seed. Seven ice shards hit Fayiz and he does not freeze: he supercools. He goes blue, cold steam lifting off him, slower with every step, still coming, reaching for Faris. Faris does not ", "order": 5}, {"key": "ice.skin-taped", "name": "COOLANT LEAK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Thawed and knee-shot, Fayiz crawls for the door. Faris rips the tape off the cracked coolant tank on his gun and the cold pours out as a heavy white fog that rolls along the boards faster than a man can crawl. It reaches him; he pushes himself up to keep his f", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "ice.mid-hoarfrost", "name": "HOARFROST", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard, and feathery frost bristles out of every pore in Hiba in one second: a white pelt, a man made of feathers. The frost grew from the inside out, and he is stuffed with it: Faris's next shard tears his chest open along a seam like a pillow, a cl", "order": 0}, {"key": "ice.mid-absolute-zero", "name": "ABSOLUTE ZERO", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard freezes Chotu, and Faris keeps firing: the last three of the magazine, each a step colder, each popping a dent into him with a tinny TONK. His frozen breath turns round and pours back into his mouth as the cold drinks the air out of him, littl", "order": 1}, {"key": "ice.mid-freezer-burn", "name": "FREEZER BURN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Amjad is frozen solid, and Faris only waits for the game's own thaw: after 1.4 s the coat shatters off him, as it always does. This time his skin froze into it. Every plate that falls away is lined with him, and for one second he stands raw in a ring of skin-l", "order": 2}, {"key": "ice.mid-burst-pipes", "name": "BURST PIPES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Frozen on the roof in the rain, Fida splits like a frozen pipe: BANG, a seam bursts open down the inside of his forearm with red ice bulging out of it; BANG, the front of his thigh, hip to knee; BANG, the side of his neck. At the game's thaw the ice in all thr", "order": 3}, {"key": "ice.mid-snowflake", "name": "SNOWFLAKE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.85, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard stops dead in Fayiz's sternum and the freeze grows out of it as one six-armed snowflake, not on him but THROUGH him: the arms push in under his skin and break out at his shoulders, his flanks and his hips. His blood runs out into it along ever", "order": 4}, {"key": "ice.mid-trigger-finger", "name": "TRIGGER FINGER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The eighth shard freezes Chotu mid-aim with his finger on the trigger. He squeezes anyway, and the frozen finger snaps off inside the guard with a dry click; the gun never fires. When the game's thaw lets him go he snatches his hand back, the gun drops with th", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:17"}, "glue": {"page": "58k_glue.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "glue.the-glue-factory", "name": "THE GLUE FACTORY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 12.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "They used to send old horses to the glue factory. 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Faris puts an orange portal in the boards at his own feet and a blue one in front of Fayiz, who halts at its edge and leans over to look down into it. Faris lifts a solid gold bar and slams it down into the orange", "order": 0}, {"key": "portalgun.skin-ice", "name": "WIND CHILL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The ice portal gun's bolt frosts Amjad solid where he stands. Then two floor portals: orange under his feet, blue by Faris. The statue drops through the orange and shoots up out of the blue upside down, falls back in, comes up out of the orange, falls again: a", "order": 1}], "mids": [], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "speedsabre": {"page": "58k_sabre.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "speedsabre.ten-thousand-cuts", "name": "TEN THOUSAND CUTS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 19.014, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris dash-slashes thirty times in the rain, through her and around her; ten of them cut. He lands, pulls a scabbard and sheathes; at the click the rain stops in mid-air; the ten cuts show as red hairlines across her chest and arms; a breath; she comes apart a", "order": 0}, {"key": "speedsabre.heaven-splitter", "name": "HEAVEN SPLITTER", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 13.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["PLATFORM"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One rising air dash-slash through the foe on the plank; its bright line never stops: the plank breaks, and everything standing or hanging further along the line (a tower top, a spiked ball, a pillar, a lamp, a crate) splits and falls; then the replay.", "order": 1}, {"key": "speedsabre.quiet-draw", "name": "QUIET DRAW", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He sheathes and waits; the foe charges; one dash-slash and Faris is past them; the slow sheath, the click; two more steps, then their chest slides off along the cut.", "order": 2}, {"key": "speedsabre.the-old-cuts", "name": "THE OLD CUTS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "oldcuts", "len": 13.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["stage"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A dash-slash\u2019s line tears open into a slit and drags him into a field where everyone this blade ever cut still stands with their old hairline; a wave of old cuts rolls across the field opening every one of them again, and he cannot outrun it.", "order": 3}, {"key": "speedsabre.pinball", "name": "PINBALL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["plat", "ledge", "height"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Every late cut of the sabre knocks a body up; Faris chains four dash-slashes from the floor, the plank and the battlement, juggling the foe higher each time so they never touch the ground again, until the last pass at the top cuts them into pieces that rain do", "order": 4}, {"key": "speedsabre.maelstrom", "name": "MAELSTROM", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "In open water over the wreck Faris dash-slashes through him six times, each time from a new side, curling round him between the dashes; the wakes join into a ring and the sea starts to turn. Faris sheathes; at the click all six late cuts land at once, and his ", "order": 5}, {"key": "speedsabre.totem", "name": "TOTEM", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Two dash-slashes, one at the chest and one low across the thighs; Faris flicks the blood off; the middle slab slides out like a pulled block and the head-and-shoulders drop onto the knees: a man a body shorter, wobbling, until he topples.", "order": 6}, {"key": "speedsabre.wall-split", "name": "WALL SPLIT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["wall"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The foe begs with their back to the tower; one dash-slash goes straight through them and slams Faris into the stone, the blade biting a white-hot gouge; he yanks it free, turns, taps their back with the pommel, and their top half slides off.", "order": 7}, {"key": "speedsabre.the-bright-line", "name": "THE BRIGHT LINE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["gap"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He ducks the dash-slash; its bright line stays hanging in the rain where his neck was; he stands up laughing, straight into it; his head rests on the line a moment, then rolls off the end.", "order": 8}, {"key": "speedsabre.underfoot", "name": "UNDERFOOT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The foe charges and launches a flying tackle; Faris meets the dive head-on with an air dash-slash straight down the length of the flying body; they land in two halves, and Faris dashes back to stand between them.", "order": 9}, {"key": "speedsabre.torn-sail", "name": "TORN SAIL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "She hides behind the wreck's torn mainsail and fires through it; Faris reads the holes and makes one rising dash across the canvas. He sheathes above the yard. Then the canvas above the line slides off on the current, and behind it she hangs halved along the s", "order": 10}, {"key": "speedsabre.skull-cap", "name": "SKULL CAP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A leaping air dash skims the top of the foe\u2019s skull; the late cut lifts it off like an egg top, beanie and all; they reach up and touch their own brain, then fall face-first.", "order": 11}, {"key": "speedsabre.hold-this", "name": "HOLD THIS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.2, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["foe2", "run"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "His partner\u2019s head flies into his hands and he catches it, stares at it, says his name; only then does his own late cut land, and his top half slides off his hips with the head still in his arms.", "order": 12}, {"key": "speedsabre.last-word", "name": "LAST WORD", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The foe yells COWARD! at Faris; one dash-slash at neck height goes through him and through the speech bubble; the late cut takes his head and the top half of his word, and both drop to the stones together.", "order": 13}, {"key": "speedsabre.split-hairs", "name": "SPLIT HAIRS", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A dash-slash so fine that nothing happens; the foe laughs and pats his neck; dust in the sunbeam tickles his nose; he sneezes, and his head flies off along the hairline and rolls to Faris\u2019s boots.", "order": 14}, {"key": "speedsabre.waist-line", "name": "WAIST LINE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "One level dash-slash cuts them at the belt; Faris rests the blade on his shoulder; their top half tips forward off the hips, and the legs walk on, trip over it and kneel on their own chest.", "order": 15}, {"key": "speedsabre.kneeler", "name": "KNEELER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A low dash-slash takes both shins and drops the foe onto their stumps; they beg with their hands clasped; one hop-dash back takes the head, and the hands stay clasped in prayer.", "order": 16}], "skins": [{"key": "speedsabre.skin-classic", "name": "HATS OFF", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "One rising dash-slash flicks his cap off and takes his head on the way through; the head drops behind him, and the cap comes back down and lands on the neck stump, a perfect fit.", "order": 0}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-gold", "name": "GILT EDGE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Nitha comes at Faris fast with a war axe across her body. He sinks into a crouch and is gone: one bright line through her, three after-images, and he is standing behind her with his back to her. Her momentum carries her on two strides; she plants and starts to", "order": 1}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-neon", "name": "FULL COMBO", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The saloon goes dark and turns into a club at 120 BPM; four dash-slashes land on four beats, and every piece they cut off hangs in the air pulsing to the bass; one silent bar; then the drop, and everything falls at once.", "order": 2}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-camo", "name": "TRIMMED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He casts himself a bush and hides in it; Faris strolls past whistling, then one dash-slash back through the hedge at head height trims the top off it, with his head inside like an egg in a nest.", "order": 3}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-cartoon", "name": "DEALT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Four dash-slashes at four heights; nothing happens; then he fans open like a hand of cards, springs shut with a BOING, and a tap on the head sends the slices dealt out across the lawn one by one, the head last, blowing a party horn.", "order": 4}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-ice", "name": "LAST BREATH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida squares up. Faris is low in his stance, the ice sabre held back along his leg, and then he goes: one dash straight through him, the cut leaving a white line hanging in the air, and he lands in the follow-through with his back to him. Time all but stops. T", "order": 5}, {"key": "speedsabre.skin-taped", "name": "RIPPED OFF", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The grip tape unspools off the taped sabre\u2019s hilt on the first pass and three passes wind him in it like a mummy; the cuts land under the tape and it holds him together, until Faris rips it off like a bandage.", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "speedsabre.mid-loose-thread", "name": "LOOSE THREAD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A loose thread trails from the knitted cuff round Nitha\u2019s ankle, and she stamps at it. Faris\u2019s dash at floor level hooks it on the tip and stops the whole 272 units away with the thread pulled taut between them. One turn of his wrist and the pull spins her lik", "order": 0}, {"key": "speedsabre.mid-chink", "name": "CHINK IN THE ARMOUR", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu stands in full plate. The first pass rings off his breastplate in sparks, TINK; the second off his pauldron, TINK. He laughs inside the helm and heaves his sword up over his head for the big swing, and the third pass goes in through the one gap, the armp", "order": 1}, {"key": "speedsabre.mid-just-a-scratch", "name": "JUST A SCRATCH", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris pulls a little green vial from his coat and tips it along the edge of the sabre; it hisses and drips. Fida scoffs. One pass only grazes her cheek: a thin line, one bead. She touches it, looks at her fingertip and laughs, a scratch? Then the black races o", "order": 2}, {"key": "speedsabre.mid-like-butter", "name": "LIKE BUTTER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz flexes at Faris: HARD AS NAILS. One pass straight through his chest, and Faris stops past him with the blade glowing orange to white and smoking, the steel heated by its own speed. The line across Fayiz\u2019s chest glows like a hot wire. He looks down; his f", "order": 3}, {"key": "speedsabre.mid-deckchair", "name": "DECKCHAIR", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Amjad leans back on his heels with his arms folded, lounging: is that it? One low pass goes straight through the backs of his knees. The cut lands behind the knees and across the hips, and everything that held him up lets go at once: clack, clack, clack, shins", "order": 4}, {"key": "speedsabre.mid-tickled", "name": "TICKLED", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku braces for the cut, arms over his head, eyes screwed shut. The first pass skims his ribs so lightly it only tickles: a giggle. The second, back on the cooldown: he snorts and doubles up. The third and he is gone, on his back kicking his legs and slapping", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "knife": {"page": "58k_knife.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "knife.the-interval", "name": "THE INTERVAL", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "interval", "len": 11.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["stage"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris takes his wrist and blinks them both; they stop in the gap between the two frames, a violet nothing full of hanging film frames and frozen copies of him from every moment of the fight; Faris blinks out alone, and only half of him makes it back.", "order": 0}, {"key": "knife.broken", "name": "BROKEN", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 13, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The knife has fifteen uses and Faris spends every one of them on him, through him and in at him, each blink taking something new, until the fifteenth snaps the blade off inside him.", "order": 1}, {"key": "knife.waterline", "name": "WATERLINE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He breaks the surface for air; Faris blinks up out of the sea beside him and then level along the top of it, through him exactly at the waterline. Above, his head and shoulders bob on the swell like a buoy; below, the rest of him sinks into the blue.", "order": 2}, {"key": "knife.telefrag", "name": "SUPLEX", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Chotu is a wrestler and only wants his hands on Faris. Two blinks cut him, shoulder and thigh, and he walks through both; when Faris lands from the second with his back to him, he shoots in and locks a rear waistlock. Faris elbows twice, then stops fighting an", "order": 3}, {"key": "knife.flayed", "name": "BREAKOUT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku sprays the ice gun. Faris\u2019s two blinks cut her, arm and hip, but the shards keep landing: frost spreads over him and he slows, and the eighth shard freezes him solid mid-step. She lowers the gun, strolls up and spins into a back kick to shatter him; at t", "order": 4}, {"key": "knife.pickpocket", "name": "THE PRICE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha is the faster knife: she opens his forearm and his shoulder in three exchanges, ducks his first blink and hops over the second. When she lunges for his ribs Faris lets the knife in, clamps her arm under his and grips her wrist. She pulls; it won\u2019t come. ", "order": 5}, {"key": "knife.vanishing-act", "name": "THE VANISHING ACT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "stage"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A magic act: Faris throws a cape over him, blinks through the cloth three times to a drum roll and whisks it away, TA-DA: he hangs in the air in four floating sections, still alive, until the magic stops.", "order": 6}, {"key": "knife.chandelier", "name": "CHANDELIER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris casts an iron chandelier hanging over the foe and blinks up through its chain; it comes down around him like a hoop, the spikes go in at the shoulders, the candles spill, and its weight drives him into the floor.", "order": 7}, {"key": "knife.compass", "name": "COMPASS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Three of them close in, left, above (on a plank, or leaping down at him) and right; Faris answers with three blinks in three directions, 0.5 s apart (left, steeply up through the one above, down at an angle), and each one dies a different way.", "order": 8}, {"key": "knife.gills", "name": "GILLS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Under the wreck's stern he holds his breath and swims at Faris; three blinks only kiss the side of his head and leave three neat slits behind the jaw. When his air runs out he gasps the sea in, and the slits open like gills.", "order": 9}, {"key": "knife.splice", "name": "STACKED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.6, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Two on one at close quarters: Chotu, a brawler, keeps coming with a boxer's footwork (a jab, a cross, a long straight), and Fida waits a step behind him with a spear. Faris gives ground one planted step at a time and each punch misses by inches. As Chotu bobs ", "order": 10}, {"key": "knife.air-guitar", "name": "AIR GUITAR", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Headphones on, eyes shut, he plays air guitar on the roof; blink by blink Faris takes the strumming hand, then the fretting hand, and he plays on with the stumps; the solo on his knees is where the third blink takes his head.", "order": 11}, {"key": "knife.which-one", "name": "WHICH ONE?", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A blink leaves its two after-images hanging in the slowed kill cam; he swings at the nearest, his fist goes through it and it blows away like purple smoke; he lunges at the other, smoke again; the real Faris was behind him the whole time.", "order": 12}, {"key": "knife.crossed-out", "name": "UNDER THE GUN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris blinks past Hiba; she spins and fires at the landing, and the spread clips his shoulder and drops him to one knee. She racks, walks up and jams the muzzle under his chin. A held breath. On the trigger Faris blinks up and out from his knee on a line throu", "order": 13}, {"key": "knife.bear-hug", "name": "SPLIT SECOND", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida fires the first rocket at Faris and he drops flat under it; it bursts far off behind him. He gets up and walks in, unhurried, through her whole reload. The rocket clicks home and she fires point-blank; in the frame it clears the muzzle Faris blinks, and t", "order": 14}, {"key": "knife.behind-you", "name": "BEHIND YOU", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The oldest trick: a tap on the shoulder from behind, the foe spins, nobody; again; the third time he won\u2019t turn, and that is when Faris is in front of him.", "order": 15}, {"key": "knife.blink", "name": "BLINK.", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He blinks; in the dark of his own eyelids Faris blinks through him at eye level; he opens his eyes onto nothing: one dangles on its nerve, the other has burst. Blind, he swings at the air until the second blink opens his belly.", "order": 16}], "skins": [{"key": "knife.skin-classic", "name": "DOUBLE TAKE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris blinks past him and back: he whips round to look, and back again, a classic double take; Faris taps his own neck; he turns his head once more and it keeps going, all the way round and off.", "order": 0}, {"key": "knife.skin-gold", "name": "LINES OF GOLD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Every blink of the gold knife leaves its line hanging in the air as a solid gold rod. Fayiz shoots; Faris blinks up a shallow line to him and back along another, and his next rounds spark off the first rod, a gold cover between them. Out of rounds, Fayiz draws", "order": 1}, {"key": "knife.skin-neon", "name": "BLACKLIGHT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The saloon goes black and the whole kill happens in the dark, seen only as violet blink lines and heard as cuts; then a blacklight tube flickers on and the room glows with it: every spray, every drip, the path of every blink written in fluorescent blood.", "order": 2}, {"key": "knife.skin-camo", "name": "CHAMELEON", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Between blinks the camo knife\u2019s wielder takes on whatever is behind him and is gone; the foe spins round an empty lawn while cut after cut lands on him out of nowhere, until Faris fades in an inch from his face.", "order": 3}, {"key": "knife.skin-cartoon", "name": "FOLLOW-THROUGH", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku pulls a giant cartoon mallet from behind her back. Two smashes, a stretch, a hold and a smear down, flatten only the dust outlines Faris leaves behind as he blinks through her. The third is a flat swing in one long smear, and Faris blinks through the swi", "order": 4}, {"key": "knife.skin-ice", "name": "RED ICE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The ice knife\u2019s three blinks open three wounds, and the blood freezes as it leaves him: red icicles grow out of the shoulder, the belly and the neck until he stands a porcupine of his own frozen blood; one tap on a spike and he topples and snaps.", "order": 5}, {"key": "knife.skin-taped", "name": "FIELD DRESSING", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba is quick with a sabre. Faris\u2019s blinks nick her shoulder and her thigh, but she reads the third and ducks under it, and her backhand has already opened his knife forearm: blood runs into the grip and the knife turns in his hand. While she walks him down, F", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "knife.mid-origami", "name": "ORIGAMI", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba stands in her guard. Faris blinks across her four times in a star, 0.5 s apart, and every blink leaves a white crease across her. At the first she goes flat as a sheet of paper, and on each crease she folds with a paper crack, top over bottom, a corner, t", "order": 0}, {"key": "knife.mid-right-through", "name": "OUT AND IN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha lunges, deep and fast, knife first. Faris blinks straight back out of reach, and her lunge stabs the air where he stood; overextended, she stumbles a step on. Two quick steps and he blinks straight back in through her.", "order": 1}, {"key": "knife.mid-whetstone", "name": "WHETSTONE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu braces, fists up. Faris blinks back and forth through his chest, three strokes 0.5 s apart, like drawing a blade across a stone: SHING, SHING, SHING. Sparks spray off his chest on every stroke and grey, grainy stone spreads out of the stroke marks over h", "order": 2}, {"key": "knife.mid-butterflies", "name": "BUTTERFLIES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha backs away sweating, a hand on her churning stomach, the belly fluttering under the shirt. Faris blinks in a step closer, and again; she gulps. The third blink goes through her belly, and a cloud of butterflies bursts out of the cut and spirals up round ", "order": 3}, {"key": "knife.mid-pockets", "name": "LAUNCHED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Chotu boxes: jab, jab, both parried on Faris\u2019s forearm; the uppercut lands on his guard and throws him up and back. At the top Faris blinks down a diagonal through the boxer to the floor behind him; the fists are still up.", "order": 4}, {"key": "knife.mid-shucked", "name": "SHUCKED", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Two blinks pass over Amjad and he curls up tight on the floor to wait them out, knees to chest, arms over his head, rocking. Faris crouches behind him like a man with an oyster knife and blinks once low across the hinge of the curl. It springs open, arms and l", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "hammer": {"page": "58k_hammer.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "hammer.tectonic", "name": "TECTONIC", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 11.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "floor"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "One slam wakes a fault under the castle floor. The crack races out from the hammer head and stops dead a step short of Mikku\u2019s boots, and he laughs. Then the second wave throws him on his face across the line, and the far slab starts to slip DOWN past the near", "order": 0}, {"key": "hammer.the-foundation", "name": "THE FOUNDATION", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "foundation", "len": 12, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The killing slam cracks the stones and wet concrete pours over the lens: he wakes standing in a pile hole in the pour-pit under an endless building, the dead set in grey to the chest around him. Two of them clamp his shoulders. Above him the pile driver hoists", "order": 1}, {"key": "hammer.the-backswing", "name": "THE BACKSWING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.8, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "foe2"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One creeps up behind Faris with a knife while the other faces him; Faris raises the sledgehammer, and the raise behind his shoulder caves in the face of the one behind; he holds it at the top without looking, then brings it down on the one in front. Two in one", "order": 2}, {"key": "hammer.dismasted", "name": "DISMASTED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He snipes from the wreck's crow's nest; Faris stands on the yard and slams the mast there three times until the topmast goes over, slowly, the way things under water come down. A parting shroud whips round his leg as he kicks away, and the crow's nest comes do", "order": 3}, {"key": "hammer.mole-hill", "name": "LOW BLOW", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 12.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Nitha pins Faris with bursts as he closes; a round goes through his thigh and drops him, and the hammer skids out of reach. She walks him down, rounds kicking up the floor round him, as he crawls for it. She stands over him and changes magazines; his fingers f", "order": 4}, {"key": "hammer.cpr", "name": "TOO HEAVY", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu raises his telekinesis glove and its violet grip takes the hammer head and pulls. Faris holds on and is dragged a stride, his boots scraping; Chotu adds his second hand and pulls harder, and Faris digs in and leans back like a tug-of-war, both of them sh", "order": 5}, {"key": "hammer.floorboards", "name": "FLOORBOARDS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "boards"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The slam\u2019s quake runs along the saloon floor and lifts the boards one after another like piano keys; the one under him snaps up on end and goes through him crotch to collarbone, and he slides back down it slowly.", "order": 6}, {"key": "hammer.resonance", "name": "RESONANCE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "One clean slam on the crown and he rings like a tuning fork: he hums, the note climbs, his outline blurs, blood beads out of his skin, and at the top of the note the hum sets into a lattice: crystal prisms burst out of him and he stands there, a ringing crysta", "order": 7}, {"key": "hammer.patch-job", "name": "PATCH JOB", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He dives head first into a breach in the wreck's deck planking to get away and sticks at the hips. Faris slams him in like a cork, then takes four ship's spikes from a bucket and hammers them through the planks into his hands and his knees, and a fifth through", "order": 8}, {"key": "hammer.high-striker", "name": "SCRAP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 11.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida fires as Faris walks in. One swing takes the pistol out of her hand and an overhead flattens it on the floor. She pulls a knife and cuts twice; he rides both cuts on the haft and a short chop snaps the blade off at the hilt. She casts a gold sword; they t", "order": 9}, {"key": "hammer.hanger-on", "name": "THE NAIL", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 11.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Amjad keeps Faris at spear length and jabs; Faris parries two off the haft and on the third hooks the hammer head over the shaft and wrenches the spear out of his hands. Amjad dives for it; Faris hooks his ankle and drags him back across the floor, but he gets", "order": 10}, {"key": "hammer.stuck", "name": "STUCK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The slam goes into his skull and the hammer will not come out; Faris tugs and drags him about by it, puts a boot on his chest and heaves, and the neck gives one strand at a time until the head comes away on the hammer; he knocks it off on the lawn like mud off", "order": 11}, {"key": "hammer.the-weight", "name": "THE WEIGHT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He blocks the slam on crossed forearms and holds it, for a moment; then the weight comes through: both forearms snap back, his own fists are driven into his face, and the head of the hammer comes on down and breaks both collarbones.", "order": 12}, {"key": "hammer.the-hold", "name": "STILL STANDING", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 19.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Fayiz will not stay down. He empties his pistol into a man walking through it behind a sledgehammer head, ducks the first swing and pistol-whips him, casts a gold buckler, and the overhead crushes his hand flat through it. He reloads with the ruined hand; Fari", "order": 13}, {"key": "hammer.skipping", "name": "DEAD WEIGHT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 11.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba is too quick for a sledgehammer: she steps out of the first overhead and cuts his forearm, ducks the flat swing and stabs into the haft, and when the third overhead bites the floor she stamps on the hammer head, pins it, and goes for his throat. Faris let", "order": 14}, {"key": "hammer.tent-peg", "name": "IRON AND GOLD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 21.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Speed against weight. Amjad casts a gold quarterstaff and is the better athlete: he lands first, cracks Faris's knee, and pole-vaults over the big swing to heel him in the back of the skull. Faris stops trying to hit him and reads him: he shows his back as bai", "order": 15}], "skins": [{"key": "hammer.skin-gold", "name": "THE IMPERIAL EGG", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "A jewelled gold egg closes round the cowering man band by band, each sealing with a jeweller\u2019s click. Faris turns it on its stand like a collector, taps it once (cracks race over the enamel), twice (an eye peers out of the hole), then brings the sledgehammer d", "order": 0}, {"key": "hammer.skin-neon", "name": "NIGHT LIGHT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Each slam\u2019s quake shakes a lamp out until the only light is the hot-pink head of Faris\u2019s neon hammer, and Fida can\u2019t take his eyes off it. Faris hides it behind his back: total dark. It comes back directly above him, at the top of the raise. Black. When the li", "order": 1}, {"key": "hammer.skin-camo", "name": "ROADWORKS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nobody looks at the road crew. The fleeing man runs straight past a workman in a hi-vis vest (crown and all) and stops right where he\u2019s digging, glaring as each slam jolts him. The workman steps over his barrier and slams at his feet: the burst water main hold", "order": 2}, {"key": "hammer.skin-ice", "name": "SHEET ICE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku sprints at Faris. Faris brings the ice sledgehammer down into the floor in front of him and a sheet of black ice races out from the hammer head across the boards. Mikku's foot plants on it and shoots out from under him; in super slow motion he hangs flat", "order": 3}], "mids": [{"key": "hammer.mid-shockwave", "name": "SHOCKWAVE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Nitha plants her feet wide to ride the quake out, knees locked, fists clenched: bring it. Faris slams. The ring reaches her boots and, finding nothing loose, climbs her like a wave through water, breaking everything locked as it passes: the ankles snap sideway", "order": 0}, {"key": "hammer.mid-wedge", "name": "WEDGE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Amjad sways on his feet, dazed. Faris pulls a steel splitting wedge from his belt and taps it into the crown of his head like setting it in a log: tink, tink. A step back, the raise, the hold, one slam on the wedge, and Amjad splits to the waist like a log on ", "order": 1}, {"key": "hammer.mid-echo", "name": "ECHO", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris slams the floor short of Fida. The quake runs at her and she hops it: missed! The wave runs on, hits the wall behind her and comes back, and she lands just as it returns. Where the ripples meet under her boots the floor goes liquid like earthquake soil, ", "order": 2}, {"key": "hammer.mid-plaster-cast", "name": "PLASTER CAST", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fayiz squares up. One slam on the crown, a white poof, and he stands in a plaster cast from head to toe, eye holes and a mouth hole, one leg stuck out stiff and the arms out stiff, groaning. He tries to hop and can\u2019t. Faris pulls a marker from his coat and sig", "order": 3}, {"key": "hammer.mid-stake", "name": "STAKE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Chotu is a vampire. He flashes his fangs at Faris in a taunt, flings his cape wide, hisses and lunges. Faris pulls a sharpened wooden stake from behind his back and sets the point on his chest as he comes. The raise, the hold, the slam on the stake: the vampir", "order": 4}, {"key": "hammer.mid-ketchup", "name": "RAM", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku charges with his knife up. Faris doesn't raise the hammer: he sets both hands along the haft, the head forward like a breaching ram, and as Mikku arrives drives it straight out with his whole weight behind it.", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "spear": {"page": "58k_spear.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "spear.forest-of-stakes", "name": "THE FOREST OF STAKES", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 12.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The old IMPALED, remade as the spear\u2019s oldest horror: run through and lifted high, he is planted, and the shaft grows into a stake that carries him into an endless dusk where thousands of strangers sink, for days, on stakes of their own. Back on the lawn he is", "order": 0}, {"key": "spear.pinned", "name": "PINNED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["WALL", "FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Swept, run through and carried back into the tower stone: PINNED. Then he does the thing a pinned man shouldn\u2019t: he drags himself up the shaft toward Faris, hand over hand, the spear sliding through him, for one last grip on Faris\u2019s collar, and dies there at a", "order": 1}, {"key": "spear.fire-drill", "name": "FIRE DRILL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The first fire ever made was a stick spun between the palms on a hearth board. Faris puts him on his back, sets the spear\u2019s point in his belly and spins the shaft between his palms until the hole smokes, then kneels and blows on the ember like a fire-maker nur", "order": 2}, {"key": "spear.the-narrow-way", "name": "THE NARROW WAY", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 9.4, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["GAP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On a plank one man wide only the front man can fight, and the spear outreaches all of them: thrust, thrust, sweep, three men, three ways off the bridge. Then Faris plants the butt and breaks the bridge under the last one.", "order": 3}, {"key": "spear.maypole", "name": "MAYPOLE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The second thrust opens his belly and the point snags a loop of his gut; Faris plants the spear upright in the lawn and steps back. When he runs he unwinds; when he runs round, he winds, a May Day dance round the pole until he is bound to it by his own coils.", "order": 4}, {"key": "spear.top-of-the-pole", "name": "TOP OF THE POLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["GAP", "DROP"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "She steals Faris\u2019s spear to pole-vault the gap between the roofs, but a spear doesn\u2019t bend: it stands her up on top of itself at the lip and sways there like an upside-down pendulum. Faris walks up, holds up one finger, and blows.", "order": 5}, {"key": "spear.the-door", "name": "THE DOOR", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "She slams a door and puts her back to it. The spear comes through the wood all round her, every hole throwing a beam of light into the dark, until a panel breaks on Faris\u2019s calm face, and the last thrust comes through the door behind her and pins her to it.", "order": 6}, {"key": "spear.the-cue", "name": "THE CUE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 8.2, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "One man on his knees, the other at the edge of the table. Faris chalks the butt, turns the spear round and lines up the shot: the back of the first man\u2019s head sends him across the floor like a cue ball, into the second, who drops into the pocket. The first sto", "order": 7}, {"key": "spear.the-bindle", "name": "THE BINDLE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["CONTAINER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The butt of the spear sits him backside first in a barrel, stuck fast, boots and arms waving out of the top. One thrust goes through the staves and through him, and Faris hoists the lot over his shoulder like a tramp\u2019s bundle on a stick and strolls off whistli", "order": 8}, {"key": "spear.flounder", "name": "FLOUNDER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He buries himself in the seabed like a flounder to ambush Faris, only his eyes above the sand. 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Her blood runs down the shaft and drips off the butt, and Faris sets a tin sap bucket under it, sits on a crate and waits.", "order": 11}, {"key": "spear.led-by-the-nose", "name": "LED BY THE NOSE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He wears a ring through his nose like a prize bull, so Faris handles him like one: hooks the ring with the binding below the spearhead, walks him round the ring at the spear\u2019s length, pins a rosette on him, stands him square, and fells him with the butt betwee", "order": 12}, {"key": "spear.three-to-one", "name": "THREE TO ONE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The old masters said a sword needs three times the skill to beat a spear. She draws a long sword and comes in like a master, and never gets inside the line Faris scuffed on the stone at the spear\u2019s length: every try costs her a cut, until she kneels dead on it", "order": 13}, {"key": "spear.fended-off", "name": "FENDED OFF", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["LIQUID", "CLIMBABLE"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Swept off the stern into the sea, he swims for the ladder. Faris is already at the bottom of it, and every time the man reaches it the butt of the spear pushes him gently back out, like a boat off a quay, until he hasn\u2019t the strength to come back.", "order": 14}, {"key": "spear.swept-under-the-rug", "name": "SWEPT UNDER THE RUG", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The chain\u2019s third blow is a sweep, so Faris sweeps him up like dust: brisk short strokes push him along the boards with his gun and two teeth, under the rug, and then Faris stamps the lump flat like a carpet layer chasing a bubble.", "order": 15}, {"key": "spear.spokes", "name": "SPOKES", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He casts himself a bicycle, flips Faris a rude sign and pedals off. The toss flies true into his front spokes: the wheel locks, the bike stands on its nose, he goes over the bars, and the bike comes down on top of him with the spear still through the wheel.", "order": 16}], "skins": [{"key": "spear.skin-classic", "name": "THE SENTRY", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris stands sentry with the plain spear. The man pulls faces an inch from his nose, blows smoke at him, dances, takes a selfie with him, and knocks his crown crooked. Then the drill, crisp as a parade: ORDER ARMS on his toes, SLOPE ARMS through his jaw, PRESE", "order": 0}, {"key": "spear.skin-gold", "name": "THE STANDARD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba walks in on Faris with a sabre and cuts at him from the shoulder. He takes the cut on the shaft of the gold spear, the gold ringing, and answers with a full lunge. The point goes in. He heaves her up on the spear, drives its butt into the boards and lets ", "order": 1}, {"key": "spear.skin-neon", "name": "SINGIN\u2019 IN THE RAIN", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris plants the neon spear upright in the rain and it is a street lamp. The happiest man in the world swings round it, singing, while the puddle at its foot creeps toward him with pink current at its edge. Faris pulls the lamp post out mid-swing, the man land", "order": 2}, {"key": "spear.skin-camo", "name": "DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He throws himself flat on the open lawn in a camo suit and face paint, sure he\u2019s invisible, and Faris plays along: steps on his hand, stands on his back, plants the point an inch from his eye. Then he sits down on the man\u2019s head to eat, while the screams go in", "order": 3}, {"key": "spear.skin-cartoon", "name": "THE RAKE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris skims the spear into the long grass and walks at the man empty-handed; the man backs away, never looking down, until his heel finds the head end and the shaft comes up out of the grass flat into his face.", "order": 4}, {"key": "spear.skin-ice", "name": "MELTWATER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 10, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The ice point snaps off inside him and he laughs at the broken stick. Then it glows through his skin, and he claws at the wound while it shrinks on every tick of the tower clock and the cold creeps out of him. He begs; Faris looks at his watch. The bell strike", "order": 5}, {"key": "spear.skin-taped", "name": "THROWN BACK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["LIQUID"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The taped spear\u2019s head is loose, so Faris tapes a fistful of rusty fishhooks round it. The hooks catch, and he plays the man like a fish at the length of the shaft, lands him flapping, weighs him on a spring scale, tuts at the needle and throws him back over t", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "spear.mid-snapped", "name": "SNAPPED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fida snaps the spear over her knee and laughs, and throws the halves at Faris\u2019s feet. Faris picks up both: the chain comes from both hands, the point under her ribs and the splintered end beside it, and he scissors them apart in her.", "order": 0}, {"key": "spear.mid-pointer", "name": "POINTER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He opens fire point blank and the spear\u2019s tip steers his gun: his own foot, his own knee. Then the tip pushes his muzzle into the stone and holds it there, and he can\u2019t stop squeezing until the barrel bursts in his hands.", "order": 1}, {"key": "spear.mid-the-tap", "name": "THE TAP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He squares up and thumps his chest: hit me. Faris watches the little heart in the corner, not him, waits half a beat and taps the butt on his breastbone, gently, exactly as the beat begins. The heart quivers and stops; he drops where he stands.", "order": 2}, {"key": "spear.mid-yours-i-think", "name": "YOURS, I THINK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "He pulls the pin and lobs his grenade. The thrust skewers it out of the air, and Faris walks it back to him at the spear\u2019s length: he backs away, trips, claws at the shaft, and it stays an inch from his face until it goes off.", "order": 3}, {"key": "spear.mid-clothesline", "name": "CLOTHESLINE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "He roars and sprints at Faris. Faris turns the spear crossways at neck height and plants his feet: throat on wood, his legs fly up past his head, and he lands on his back clawing at a windpipe that is no longer there.", "order": 4}, {"key": "spear.mid-trapdoor", "name": "TRAPDOOR", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Up on a scaffold Faris cast, out of reach, she taunts him. The point comes up through the boards at her toes and she laughs; it drops back and taps the bolt of the hatch she stands on. She hangs by one hand until the point taps her fingers off.", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "thammer": {"page": "58k_thammer.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "thammer.galvanised", "name": "GALVANISED", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The killing bolt cracks the saloon open with arcs crawling out of the body, and behind them is an anatomy theatre full of the long-dead in wigs and tricorns. 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Faris, the lecturer, throws the hammer into it three ti", "order": 0}, {"key": "thammer.struck-grove", "name": "THE STRUCK GROVE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["any"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The killing bolt's scorch grows black branches up over the whole frame until it is a thicket, and the thicket splits open like a struck trunk onto a grove: black lightning-split trees under a violet storm, and fused into every split trunk a charred person, mou", "order": 1}, {"key": "thammer.ride-the-lightning", "name": "RIDE THE LIGHTNING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "The smash knocks Fayiz backwards and Faris points: an execution chair draws itself in under him, straps snap over his wrists and ankles, a steel cap drops onto his head. Midnight; ANY LAST WORDS?; the red light. Faris throws the hammer into the cap and the sky", "order": 2}, {"key": "thammer.lichtenberg", "name": "LICHTENBERG", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The bolt lands and Nitha lives, but a red fern starts to bloom from the strike at his crown, the scar lightning leaves. It branches down his face, over his chest and along his arms and legs while he tries to rub it off; it wraps his racing heart; when it reach", "order": 3}, {"key": "thammer.fulgurite", "name": "FULGURITE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The bolt goes through Amjad into the ground and turns the earth under him to glass: branching glass roots spread through the soil, his feet fused to them. Stone climbs him from the soles up while he tries to tear his feet free, sandstone carved in the shape of", "order": 4}, {"key": "thammer.obliterated", "name": "OBLITERATED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "sky"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris leaps, and at the top of the jump the bolt comes down into the raised hammer while the clouds wheel round it. He brings the whole bolt down into one point on Nitha's chest: everything of him folds into a white pinpoint and is gone, the floor bowls into a", "order": 5}, {"key": "thammer.tag", "name": "TAG", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "foe2"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The bolt doesn't kill Hiba, it charges him. In a panic he grabs his hurt teammate Amjad by the chest, Amjad grabs back to shove him off, and the charge locks them both in the grip, shaking, until the discharge throws them apart: two bodies across the street, e", "order": 6}, {"key": "thammer.bloom", "name": "BLOOM", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Deep under the sea the throw and its bolt find Chotu, and he lives, dazed, while the charge spreads out through the water as a ring of light. In the dark every jellyfish of the bloom lights up blue at the same moment and turns toward him. He swims for it, and ", "order": 7}, {"key": "thammer.ball-lightning", "name": "BALL LIGHTNING", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida survives the bolt and laughs, and a humming orb of lightning drifts up out of his own scorch after him. Bullets pass through it; he casts himself an iron strongbox and slams the lid. The orb pours in through the keyhole, the box glows and boils, and the l", "order": 8}, {"key": "thammer.forge", "name": "FORGE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The bolt does not kill him: it heats him white-hot like iron. Faris inks in an anvil and a quench barrel, smashes him over the anvil and works him with three blows in fans of sparks until he is bent into a horseshoe, then flips him into the barrel: KSSSH. Fish", "order": 9}, {"key": "thammer.storm-chaser", "name": "STORM CHASER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba films Faris on a camcorder in the rain. The kill cam is her viewfinder: she zooms in on the spinning hammer as it comes, the sky darkening in the shot, and the hit knocks the camera out of her hand still recording. Lying on its side on the roof it films h", "order": 10}, {"key": "thammer.drained", "name": "DRAINED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The bolt soaks into Mikku instead of killing him: light runs in his veins, his eyes go white, arcs crackle off his fingers, and he laughs. He swings a lightning fist at Faris, who just holds the hammer head out: it drinks every spark back out of him through hi", "order": 11}, {"key": "thammer.cavitation", "name": "CAVITATION", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Deep under the sea the throw crawls through the water on a silver trail and the bolt grows down the water column onto Nitha. The sea round him flashes to steam: a shimmering sphere of air three bodies wide. He drops onto its curved floor, gasps, coughs, pats h", "order": 12}, {"key": "thammer.never-twice", "name": "NEVER TWICE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The first throw lands: THUNDER!, and he lives. He plants himself back on its scorch on purpose, stamps on it and points down at it: NEVER TWICE. The second throw brings the sky down on exactly the same spot. His flesh burns away in the flash; his skeleton stan", "order": 13}, {"key": "thammer.forecast", "name": "FORECAST", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The kill cam turns into a TV weather report: a storm icon slides off Faris's hammer and parks over Nitha and the chance of thunder starts to climb. She steps left, steps right, jumps the gap to the low roof; the icon follows and the chance hits 100%. NOW: the ", "order": 14}, {"key": "thammer.world-record", "name": "WORLD RECORD", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "run"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The first throw turns back a hand short of Chotu's nose, so he chalks a SAFE line at the hammer's range and yawns behind it. 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Her cooked arms give way at the shou", "order": 16}, {"key": "thammer.curveball", "name": "CURVEBALL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He hides behind the stone wall he cast; the throw sails clean over it and he laughs at the empty hand. The hammer turns and comes home through the back of his head: the sky bolt follows it down, puzzle seams run out of the dent and he comes apart piece by piec", "order": 17}, {"key": "thammer.clang", "name": "CLANG", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He blocks the throw: CLANG, the hammer drops at his feet and he stands on it. Faris walks up empty-handed, slips the jab, crouches and yanks it out from under the boot, and the boot comes with it: the leg comes out of the hip on its tendons, strand by strand. ", "order": 18}], "skins": [{"key": "thammer.skin-classic", "name": "HEADS DOWN", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["pointBlank", "close"], "sum": "Faris leaps and brings the hammer straight down on Amjad's crown with both hands: KRUNCH, the head is driven down into his chest. He is still alive in there, eyes peering over his collarbones, looking left, right, up at the hammer. One polite tap on the flat t", "order": 0}, {"key": "thammer.skin-gold", "name": "BLING", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Chotu shows off his gold: two fat chains, a ring on every finger, a gold grill, a gold coin he bites at Faris. The gold hammer comes in and its gold bolt finds every piece of gold on him at once: the chains glow and sink into his neck, the rings weld his fists", "order": 1}, {"key": "thammer.skin-neon", "name": "ST. ELMO'S FIRE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The neon hammer is in the air and the sky goes dark, and in the dark Fida starts to glow: violet tufts of St. Elmo's fire crawl out of his fingertips, his cat ears, his gun barrel, until he is outlined like a neon tube and the only light on the roofs. He shake", "order": 2}, {"key": "thammer.skin-camo", "name": "DANGER CLOSE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Up on the battlement Faris lies flat with binoculars: through them Fida searches the courtyard for him, a red laser dot steady on her chest. The radio: FIRE MISSION, ONE TARGET, DANGER CLOSE, THUNDER THUNDER THUNDER. He stands and throws the camo hammer down i", "order": 3}, {"key": "thammer.skin-cartoon", "name": "CRISPY", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "A tiny raincloud follows Chotu and rains on him alone. The hammer bonks him and a bump grows three storeys high, stars circling. His little cloud turns black and zaps him: ZZZZT, his skeleton strobing through him, hair on end. He stands there charred black, bl", "order": 4}, {"key": "thammer.skin-ice", "name": "STILL LIGHTNING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The ice hammer's bolt freezes the instant it lands: a jagged crystal of lightning from the clouds to Nitha's crown, and the same white line frozen inside him while the cold travels down him from where the bolt went in, the rain turning to snow. Faris walks up ", "order": 5}, {"key": "thammer.skin-taped", "name": "YO-YO", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The taped hammer's head comes off the handle on a stretch of tape, and the throw that goes out and comes back becomes a yo-yo. Out and back into her chest. Walk the dog: it rolls along the boards and snaps both her knees. Around the world: a big loop over Fari", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "thammer.mid-slag", "name": "SLAG", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He blocks the throw with his rifle across both hands: CLANG, and the hammer drops away. But the sky darkens a beat before every landing, and it had already started: the bolt comes down anyway, into the block. The current runs hand to hand through the steel and", "order": 0}, {"key": "thammer.mid-wrong-hands", "name": "WRONG HANDS", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "He catches the throw and the game's CATCH! pops over the wrong man. The sky darkens over the holder, the bolt comes down the hammer into his hands, and lightning magnetises iron: every loose bit of metal in reach flies at him and clamps on until he is on his k", "order": 1}, {"key": "thammer.mid-updraft", "name": "UPDRAFT", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.95, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "sky"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The hammer lands with its bolt and it does not knock Hiba down: the heat swells him, skin shiny and tight, veins standing out, and he gets lighter than the air. His boots leave the boards; he kicks and grabs at nothing and rises slowly, a swollen shape driftin", "order": 2}, {"key": "thammer.mid-downburst", "name": "DOWNBURST", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat", "sky"], "range": ["close", "mid", "far"], "sum": "The throw darkens the sky and the sky drops a downburst on him: a column of falling wind and rain that slams down like a piston and presses him flat into the grass in one beat. The hammer arrives, bounces off the flat shape and flies home. The gust that follow", "order": 3}, {"key": "thammer.mid-flashover", "name": "FLASHOVER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The swing smash connects and the current runs over the outside of him in a white sheet instead of through him: he is fine, and he laughs. Then every drop of rain on his skin flashes to steam in one bang. The steam keeps his shape and lifts off him like a shed ", "order": 4}, {"key": "thammer.mid-stride", "name": "STRIDE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["flat"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Fayiz squares up in a wide guard. The swing smash misses him on purpose and hits the ground between his boots; he flinches, untouched, and grins. The current comes up one leg and down the other, lighting both legs from inside as one arch, and they kick out sid", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "scythe": {"page": "58k_scythe.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "scythe.ossuary", "name": "THE OSSUARY", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 11.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "The tip of the reap hooks Hiba under the collarbone. Faris lifts the crescent and the floor comes up with it like a hatch; he walks her down the steps by the bone into an archive: every bone of the dead sorted by type onto shelves, femurs racked like firewood,", "order": 0}, {"key": "scythe.threshing-floor", "name": "CROSSGUARD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Fida squares up with a two-handed longsword. She feints twice and Faris gives half a step each time, the scythe across his body. Her combination comes in fast, two cuts and a thrust, and he takes each on the snath between his hands, giving ground. On the thrus", "order": 1}, {"key": "scythe.knell", "name": "THE KNELL", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap misses Mikku high and catches on the dark itself. Faris hauls down on the snath like a bell rope, and out of the night drops a great bronze funeral bell, green with verdigris, over Mikku with a clang. Muffled pounding from inside. Faris brings the sla", "order": 2}, {"key": "scythe.pale-rider", "name": "PALE RIDER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The slam bites the floor in front of Fida and its soul fire does not fade: it pours off the blade into the stones, and a gaunt ghost-green horse rears up out of the floor, mane and tail burning. Faris swings up onto it with the scythe. Fida runs. The pale hors", "order": 3}, {"key": "scythe.trade", "name": "THE TRADE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap touches Mikku and the heal begins, and it is a trade. On Faris every wound of the fight glows green and closes: the bullet graze on his shoulder and the graze on his cheek from a moment ago, the burn on his arm, the split lip, the black eye. As each o", "order": 4}, {"key": "scythe.swathe", "name": "SWATHE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.9, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Three gunmen in a line laugh at a farm tool. Faris takes one step and one sweep, low through all three at the knees. The same frozen instant from three cameras: each face as he understands. Then one by one they drop straight down onto their knee stumps, their ", "order": 5}, {"key": "scythe.reaped", "name": "REAPED", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap's low end sweeps Fayiz's legs and he drops to his knees, and the crescent comes round his neck as he falls. Faris does not cut: he yanks. Fayiz's screaming soul is dragged out through his open mouth and stretched like taffy between his face and the bl", "order": 6}, {"key": "scythe.puffer", "name": "PUFFER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Deep under the sea Mikku treads water and fires while Faris strokes in. The reap comes round slow and heavy through the water and its tip goes through Mikku's collar. Faris sets the hook like an angler. Mikku thrashes on the line, gulps the sea in panic, and d", "order": 7}, {"key": "scythe.bag-of-bones", "name": "BAG OF BONES", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap goes clean through Fayiz and leaves no mark. He laughs and pats himself down. Then the bones start to move under his skin: the knuckles roll down his raised arm like marbles in a sleeve, a rib pushes out a lump in his side, his spine slithers up his b", "order": 8}, {"key": "scythe.uprooted", "name": "UPROOTED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The slam bites the floor at Fida's feet and launches her straight up. At the top of the arc her body keeps falling but her soul does not: a pale green copy of her, in the same pose, stays hanging in the air. It watches its body hit the floor below. It looks at", "order": 9}, {"key": "scythe.autumn", "name": "AUTUMN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap only grazes Nitha's chest. From the cut his colour turns, green to gold to orange to red, a front spreading over him, and his edges become leaves. A breeze rises and they peel off him one by one, then in flurries. He clutches at himself and his hands ", "order": 10}, {"key": "scythe.rock-a-bye", "name": "ROCK-A-BYE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap hooks Chotu under the arms and lifts him curled up in the crescent like a baby under a pram hood. Faris tosses the scythe up to the tree top, a high ledge, a beam, or a dead tree he casts at the edge, where it catches by its butt and hangs. The wind r", "order": 11}, {"key": "scythe.reef", "name": "THE REEF", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On the seabed of the Deep, Amjad fires while Faris walks in with the slow bouncing walk of the deep. The slam comes over heavy and bites the sand at Amjad's feet in a billow of silt; the sea drags the launch, so he only lifts and settles. The soul fire does no", "order": 12}, {"key": "scythe.furrow", "name": "THE FURROW", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The slam bites the floor and throws Fayiz on his back. Faris leans into the snath and walks it backward like a plough, and the floor peels off the share in one long ribbon that whips round Fayiz's ankles twice and snaps taut. He is yanked onto his face and dra", "order": 13}, {"key": "scythe.bale", "name": "THE BALE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap's crescent snags Mikku by the collar of his coat, and Faris doesn't pull it back: he points the snath at him and twists it like a fork in spaghetti. The blade spins, the coat bunches round it, and Mikku goes round with it, arms and legs flung out and ", "order": 14}, {"key": "scythe.look-back", "name": "LOOK BACK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap's tip nicks Chotu across the back as he turns to run. Three clean strides away, and then he looks back over his shoulder at the reaper. A jade plaque closes over his eye, then the other, and they tile outward across his face, down his neck, along his ", "order": 15}, {"key": "scythe.poppies", "name": "POPPIES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap comes round low and only nicks Amjad's thigh. He laughs and tears a strip off his shirt for a bandage, and the first drops that hit the floor open into red poppies. Every bloom pulls the cut wider: the femoral starts to spurt, and every spurt lands as", "order": 16}, {"key": "scythe.carousel", "name": "THE CAROUSEL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap catches Hiba by the wrist of the arm she threw up, in the hook of the crescent, and Faris never stops the sweep: he turns on his heel and keeps turning. Hiba flies out flat behind the blade like a swing-ride rider, heels dragging, then lifting, faster", "order": 17}, {"key": "scythe.shroud", "name": "SHROUD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba ducks the reap and it goes clean over her head, but the night it cut out of the air stays there, and drops over her like a dust sheet over furniture. She fights it, her face pressing out through the cloth, screaming. Faris walks a slow circle round the sh", "order": 18}], "skins": [{"key": "scythe.skin-classic", "name": "BY A THREAD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The reap passes clean over Amjad's ducking head and he laughs. Then a fine gold thread nobody had seen drifts down past his face, cut: the Fates' thread, spun down out of the dark from a turning spindle into the crown of his head, snipped by the pass. Far abov", "order": 0}, {"key": "scythe.skin-gold", "name": "SHORN", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The gold scythe hooks Fayiz behind the knees and he goes down on all fours like a sheep. Faris sets a boot on his back and holds the gold crescent like shears. In long smooth strokes, the classic shearer's rhythm, he shears him, and with every stroke the skin ", "order": 1}, {"key": "scythe.skin-neon", "name": "TUBE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["any"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The neon scythe's blade is a glass tube full of glowing gas. The reap slams it into Mikku's collarbone and the glass shatters in the wound. The gas pours into his blood and his veins light up under the skin, pink, then cyan, from the shoulder out to the finger", "order": 2}, {"key": "scythe.skin-camo", "name": "IN PLAIN SIGHT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL|PILLAR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris hangs his camouflage-painted scythe on the wall, where its dapple disappears into the stone, and turns round with empty hands. Hiba laughs at the unarmed man and comes on, firing. 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Faris, under the balcony, throws straight up: the point comes up through the boards between his boots and Faris re-presses", "order": 1}, {"key": "tpdagger.janus", "name": "JANUS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku and Fayiz stand back to back, and as the throw comes each thrusts up a shield. The dagger takes Mikku over his: behind him is Fayiz, in front his shield, so the game puts Faris ABOVE them. He drops onto their shoulders and stabs down into Mikku\u2019s collarb", "order": 2}, {"key": "tpdagger.squeeze", "name": "THE SQUEEZE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the seabed by the wreck a salvage diver in a canvas suit and a brass helmet fires at Faris swimming down at her. His throw cuts her air hose a hand\u2019s width above the helmet and bites the seabed beyond her, and he is standing there. The stub roars air, and t", "order": 3}, {"key": "tpdagger.green-blood", "name": "GREEN BLOOD", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "In the dark water off the wreck Faris\u2019s backstab goes through Hiba\u2019s chest, and what pours out of her is green-black: deep down the red light is gone. She won\u2019t believe it\u2019s hers. Faris takes her by the collar and swims her up, unhurried, while she drains in h", "order": 4}, {"key": "tpdagger.guess-who", "name": "GUESS WHO", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The throw takes Nitha in the chest and Faris arrives behind her, but the stab doesn\u2019t come: two palms close over her eyes from behind, the dagger lying flat along her cheek. \"Guess who?\" She stammers: Fida? Chotu? MUM?! Then, very quietly, \"...Faris?\" The dagg", "order": 5}, {"key": "tpdagger.the-miss", "name": "THE MISS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["WALL"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fight night. Faris throws, and the dagger sails past Fida\u2019s ear and away across the cage. She touches her ear, grins at his empty hand and charges, and he is gone: he re-presses and arrives at the dagger far behind her, still sliding at 30% of its speed. She d", "order": 6}, {"key": "tpdagger.swatter", "name": "SWATTER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 9.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The cook bats every throw back with her frying pan: DEFLECT!, and the dagger blinks home. On the second, Faris re-presses on the batted dagger and is swatted again. On the third he re-presses the instant it is batted and arrives nose to nose while the pan is s", "order": 7}, {"key": "tpdagger.wait-him-out", "name": "WAIT HIM OUT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chased across the backyard, Chotu thrusts up a concrete culvert pipe and crawls into it. Faris throws in three times, and every time the game finds no safe spot in the pipe: the blink is refused and the dagger fizzles home. So Faris lays the dagger in the gras", "order": 8}, {"key": "tpdagger.look-out", "name": "THE LOOK-OUT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["DROP"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Chotu stands at the roof edge in the rain with binoculars, watching the street for Faris. The dagger bites the roof beside his heel and Faris is standing there, shading his eyes, looking down at the same street. They watch together for a long beat. Chotu lower", "order": 9}, {"key": "tpdagger.no-hang", "name": "NO HANG", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Faris throws straight up over Fayiz and blinks to the dagger at the top of its flight, set for the ninja drop, and falls straight down into a heap at Fayiz\u2019s feet: the game won\u2019t let him hang there. Fayiz laughs and puts a boot on his back. From under the boot", "order": 10}, {"key": "tpdagger.death-grip", "name": "DEATH GRIP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku drags Hiba backwards into the lift, an arm round her neck and a gun at her temple, and the freight gate starts to drop. Faris goes low and throws under it into his thigh, the one part of him she doesn\u2019t cover. The backstab puts Faris inside the cage behi", "order": 11}, {"key": "tpdagger.seesaw", "name": "SEESAW", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 6.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["CREATURE", "LIQUID"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Hiba fires down from the poop deck, standing on the low end of a plank laid across a crate. Faris runs in under the deck and throws straight up: the dagger zips up between the boards, he re-presses over the plank, tops out and drops onto the raised end. The pl", "order": 12}, {"key": "tpdagger.the-cord", "name": "THE CORD", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku fires; Faris jumps and throws. The dagger parts his hair and bites the stones far behind him, and Faris is standing there. Mikku turns to the sound and the second throw takes him in the chest: Faris is behind him again before he can fire, and one point g", "order": 13}, {"key": "tpdagger.back-to-the-wall", "name": "BACK TO THE WALL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida backs flat against the castle wall, nothing behind her but stone. The throw hits her, and the game looks for the spot behind her: a teal flash flickers out against the wall. So Faris arrives on the other side, nose to nose, and the stab goes in under the ", "order": 14}], "skins": [{"key": "tpdagger.skin-classic", "name": "ET TU", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku and Faris drink together on the saloon boards like old partners. Mikku tips his head back for a long pull; Faris steps back two paces and throws into his back with his free hand, and the backstab puts him at Mikku's shoulder for the stab. Mikku turns his", "order": 0}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-gold", "name": "THE GOLDEN RULE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris kneels in the temple, his back to the room, polishing the gold dagger until it shines like a mirror. Fida creeps up behind her with a knife raised. In the blade Faris sees her coming, and without turning he flips the dagger back over his shoulder. The ba", "order": 1}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-neon", "name": "EXIT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The power fails in the tower. In the black the only light is a green EXIT sign over the stair door, and Hiba runs for it. Faris throws past her into the door frame, and the blink stands him in the doorway, lit green, when Hiba gets there. The point-blank throw", "order": 2}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-camo", "name": "THE TRAIL GOES COLD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 6.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A tracker follows Faris's footprints across the sand to the foot of a stone wall, where they end: he must be behind it. He crouches over the last print and peers round the wall. Faris is crouched on top of it: he blinked up there, and a blink leaves no prints.", "order": 3}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-cartoon", "name": "UNZIPPED", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "pinball", "len": 6.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "The backstab puts Faris behind Fida with the dagger up, and there at the nape of his neck is a zip pull. Faris lowers the dagger, takes the pull and runs it all the way down his spine. The stuffing bursts out of the zip, only out of the zip; the suit sags and ", "order": 4}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-ice", "name": "ICEBREAKER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A standoff in the snow: Mikku's rifle up, Faris's ice dagger up, and nobody says a word. The silence freezes: frost creeps from the ice dagger across the snow, over Mikku's boots and up him, rimes his eyebrows, hangs icicles off his cap and freezes his finger ", "order": 5}, {"key": "tpdagger.skin-taped", "name": "GRIP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "On the rooftops in the monsoon the backstab puts Faris behind Hiba, who spins round into the stab and catches the blade in both hands. They strain chest to chest in the rain. Rain and blood run down the blade onto Faris's worn taped grip, which stays dry and s", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "tpdagger.mid-talk-to-the-hand", "name": "TALK TO THE HAND", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "sunken", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba turns her back on Faris and holds a palm up at him without looking. The throw nicks the palm; she snatches the stung hand down onto her chest, and the backstab puts Faris at her back: the stab goes in between her shoulder blades and out through the hand o", "order": 0}, {"key": "tpdagger.mid-midair", "name": "MID-AIR", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha leaps a hole in the floor. Faris's throw hits her at the top of the leap, and the backstab puts him behind her in mid-air for the stab. Her momentum carries her on and she lands dead across the far lip. Faris drops into the hole, throws at the far floor ", "order": 1}, {"key": "tpdagger.mid-expecting-you", "name": "I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz sits with his back to the room in a high-backed swivel chair, fingers steepled: \"I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU\", and begins his slow grand turn. Faris throws into the chair's back; the backstab stands Faris right behind him, and as the chair comes round he tur", "order": 2}, {"key": "tpdagger.mid-hands-up", "name": "HANDS UP", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Mikku has Faris at gunpoint: \"HANDS UP\". Faris raises his hands slowly, and the raised hand's flick is the throw, up and over the gunman's head; the blink drops Faris in behind him while he still aims at the empty spot. The point-blank throw, the backstab, and", "order": 3}, {"key": "tpdagger.mid-crossed-blades", "name": "CROSSED BLADES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 2.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris and Mikku throw at the same instant. The two blades cross in mid-air; Faris's hits, and 0.07 s later Faris is behind him. Mikku's knife flies on across the empty spot and sticks in the wall exactly where Faris's head was, humming, while the stab goes in.", "order": 4}, {"key": "tpdagger.mid-shoulder-to-shoulder", "name": "SHOULDER TO SHOULDER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "adapts", "needs": ["WALL"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku is flat against a wall in cover. Faris throws short into the wall a hand's width from his ear; he flinches and grins at the miss, and 0.07 s later the wall stick has Faris standing shoulder to shoulder with him. A slow side-eye. Faris pulls the dagger ou", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}, "minigun": {"page": "58k_minigun.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "minigun.all-at-once", "name": "ALL AT ONCE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.4, "victims": 3, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "\u201cHe can\u2019t get all of us.\u201d Three of them pop smoke and rush Faris from three sides at once. The base drowns in white; Faris stands in the middle with the barrels whining, turning his head to every sound. The first burst carves a lane through the smoke and finds", "order": 0}, {"key": "minigun.the-mill", "name": "THE MILL", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris\u2019s stream takes Chotu in the hip. The death crack, and the barrels\u2019 blur swells into a turning bobbin: the castle unravels onto it, and behind it is a night cotton mill of the dead with one machine lit by the moon, the carding engine. On his knees, Chotu ", "order": 1}, {"key": "minigun.the-circle", "name": "THE CIRCLE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 11.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris fires a long burst straight up into the night; one red round comes back down at Amjad\u2019s feet, and the camera rides the stream up into the cloud and back down a red rope of fire into a jungle valley. Something circles unseen above the cloud, walking its f", "order": 2}, {"key": "minigun.spin-up", "name": "SPIN-UP", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 3.75, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A second minigun lies in the dust between them. Chotu gets to it first, hefts it and squeezes: his barrels start to turn, but Faris\u2019s are already a blur. The 0.35 s stretches: side by side his barrels wind up degree by degree, the whine climbing, his face real", "order": 3}, {"key": "minigun.the-lure", "name": "THE LURE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "is", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Down in the dark under the wreck, Faris fires short bursts at Mikku, and the red tracers are the only light. Each burst shows a little more of what is behind him: something pale; needle teeth; a head, and a lure hanging over his shoulder. The gun stops. In the", "order": 4}, {"key": "minigun.cine-a", "name": "SAMPLE A \u00b7 CLOSE QUARTERS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 11.1, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "A knife fighter closes on Faris through the crates. She rolls under the first burst, sprints the row as the stream chews the crates a step behind her, vaults the last one firing, and lands inside the gun\u2019s reach. The spinning barrels rip her kukri away; the gu", "order": 5}, {"key": "minigun.cine-b", "name": "SAMPLE B \u00b7 TAKE A NUMBER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 12.95, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A riot-shield trooper advances on Faris behind his shield until the stream chews it through; he hurls it, runs, throws smoke and comes out of it at Faris\u2019s flank with a knife. The gun body slams him away, and the whip that follows him lands somewhere else: an ", "order": 6}, {"key": "minigun.cine-c", "name": "SAMPLE C \u00b7 SUPPRESSION", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 16.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Open ground. Chotu, a trained soldier, closes on a minigun. He throws up a gold barrier and the stream chews it apart in front of him; he breaks out and slides under the next burst; he fires on the move; he blinds Faris with a smoke grenade and comes out of it", "order": 7}, {"key": "minigun.cine-d", "name": "SAMPLE D \u00b7 CLINCH", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 17.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Amjad, a cage fighter with taped fists, feints, charges and knee-slides under the first stream, gets inside the barrels and forces them up while the stream rips over his face, then inks knuckle-blades for the headbutt, the jab and the hook. Faris grinds the sp", "order": 8}, {"key": "minigun.red-hot", "name": "RED HOT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 18.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad sprints in firing, drags a gold line on the floor and a slab rises out of it. Faris pours one long burst into it until the slab is half eaten and the barrels go white; the gun locks out with a clunk and a hiss. Amjad hears the clicks, stands, reloads in ", "order": 9}, {"key": "minigun.brrrt", "name": "HOMECOMING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 14.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha kneels with a rocket launcher across the floor. Every rocket she fires, Faris shreds in mid-air, and every fireball is closer: the second blast shoves him back a step; she skims one along the floor and he drops to a knee to take it, then lobs one high an", "order": 10}, {"key": "minigun.window-dressing", "name": "SIX", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 14.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba comes in with two pistols and outmoves the heavy gun: she slides under the stream firing up, flips over the low sweep, ducks the barrels swung at her head like a club and backflips away onto a knee, and her four shots cut the gun's power cable. The cluste", "order": 11}, {"key": "minigun.reload", "name": "RELOAD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "Fayiz drops under Faris\u2019s stream and shoots his ammo belt in two. The gun runs dry mid-burst. He throws down his pistol, draws a machete and charges across the sand while Faris reloads: crack the cover, drag the belt from the box, slap it in, close the cover. ", "order": 12}, {"key": "minigun.reeled-in", "name": "REELED IN", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fida grabs the belt hanging from Faris\u2019s gun to rip it out, backs off with it and wraps it round his fist for grip. Faris fires into the roof at his feet, and the feed hauls belt and man toward the barrels at twenty links a second. The links bite into his hand", "order": 13}, {"key": "minigun.iai", "name": "IAI", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu bows on the temple steps and draws. The whine rises; he is calm. The first rounds come and he cuts them: sparks, half-bullets whining past either side and ringing on the stones. Faris lets the rate climb. The blade can\u2019t keep up: notches, chips, the edge", "order": 14}, {"key": "minigun.the-shield", "name": "THE SHIELD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad advances behind a clear riot shield, and the minigun turns it white. Every round leaves a white star; the stars spread until the shield is milk and he advances blind, a smudge behind it. Twenty impacts a second heat the polycarbonate; it sags and thins a", "order": 15}, {"key": "minigun.sinker", "name": "CLOUD COVER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Wounded under water, Nitha hides inside her own blood cloud like a squid in its ink. Faris fires into the red: slow rounds vanish into it in silver bubble trails. Every time the current draws the cloud aside there is less of her: a leg gone, then an arm, the b", "order": 16}, {"key": "minigun.quiet", "name": "BETWEEN ROUNDS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku charges a minigun with nothing in his hands and the stream cannot touch him. In bullet time the stream is a line of single rounds and he threads it: he bends back under one, tucks over the next, ducks a third and twists between two in the air, a step clo", "order": 17}, {"key": "minigun.the-press", "name": "THE LEAD", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 12.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida, a runner, is in the blocks when the spin-up clicks, and her go is a slap: the start line springs up out of the floor as a gold low wall just as the stream arrives. Then she circles Faris over the top. In a gap between bursts she hurdles out of cover and ", "order": 18}, {"key": "minigun.wont-start", "name": "WON'T START", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 6.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha conjures a getaway car on the wet roof and dives in. The key. The engine coughs, and coughs. In the mirror Faris walks up through the rain, the barrels winding up. Another cough; the whine louder. It catches, and he floors it; the car lurches off, and th", "order": 19}, {"key": "minigun.together", "name": "TOGETHER", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 6.4, "victims": 2, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fida and Hiba back into the corner of the cage, and there is nowhere left to go. They hold each other; one buries her face in the other\u2019s shoulder. Faris walks toward them in a slow arc, and the barrels wind up. One long burst goes through both of them at once", "order": 20}, {"key": "minigun.the-trick", "name": "THE TRICK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pinball", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "On the stage bar under the scoreboard Faris casts a magician\u2019s box round Mikku: his head out of one end, his feet out of the other, the lid snapped shut on his struggling. A drum roll. Faris bows to an empty arcade. He lays the barrels on the lid, over the pai", "order": 21}, {"key": "minigun.static", "name": "STATIC", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba is the night guard, alone in a security booth with eight monitors. Camera by camera the screens go to static as something comes closer: the gate, the yard, the motor pool, the hangar. The whine comes over the monitors\u2019 speakers, then into the booth\u2019s own ", "order": 22}, {"key": "minigun.locked", "name": "CARAPACE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu, a brawler, claps his forearms together and gold plates ink over his forearms, upper arms and shins. He walks into the minigun the way a boxer walks into a storm: he weaves under the stream as it climbs for his head, comes up inside it with his guard hig", "order": 23}, {"key": "minigun.the-gap", "name": "NOT DOWN YET", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 10.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha draws and fires; a round rings off the minigun. His burst rakes the floor and takes her lead foot at the ankle in mid-step. She goes down, slaps a low gold wall up out of the floor and fires over it from her knees while the stream chews it down to a stub", "order": 24}, {"key": "minigun.the-hose", "name": "THE HOSE", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["SHARP", "FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Fayiz comes at Faris across the kitchen counter, and the stream stops him dead: twenty rounds a second push like a fire hose. He leans into it, boots squealing on the tiles, and it drives him back anyway, inch by inch, toward the giant knife block behind him. ", "order": 25}, {"key": "minigun.hold-still", "name": "HOLD STILL", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris stands Nitha against the saloon wall like a knife-thrower\u2019s board. \u201cHold still.\u201d The stream traces his outline into the planks an inch from his skin: round his fingers, over his head, between his legs. He holds still, crying. The trace closes, and the ma", "order": 26}, {"key": "minigun.the-cone", "name": "THE LAWN", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["far", "mid"], "sum": "Faris mows the lawn with it. Amjad dives into the long grass and lies flat where he can\u2019t be seen. The stream sweeps the lawn at ankle height in stripes, row by row, each pass a row closer, the grass cut to stubble, his cap, the garden gnome and the tulips goi", "order": 27}, {"key": "minigun.tatters", "name": "DEAD RINGER", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "clock", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "On the clock tower\u2019s gallery in a gale, Fida hides inside the tower\u2019s great bell. Faris rings it: every round goes in under the rim and rings round the inside, twenty a second, the bell swinging harder and its note rising into one roar. Then silence. The bell ", "order": 28}], "skins": [{"key": "minigun.skin-classic", "name": "ZIGZAG", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 7.5, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Mikku remembers the war-film advice and runs in a zigzag along the fort wall. The stream copies his path a beat behind him, stroke for stroke, until the whole Z is written in the mud brick. At the last pillar he stops to breathe, laughing at the misses. Faris ", "order": 0}, {"key": "minigun.skin-gold", "name": "THE CHOIR", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The gold minigun\u2019s last burst chews the temple wall over Fayiz as he cowers. Faris lets go of the trigger and the barrels coast down, but the whine does not drop: it holds its top note, and voices join it one by one. The temple shakes in a standing wave and dr", "order": 1}, {"key": "minigun.skin-neon", "name": "THE GRID", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "retro", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris spins up the neon barrels and a single cold line runs out along the floor from under his boots; the world above it drains to black and the line fans into the Grid: a black plain ruled in cyan to a dead red sun stopped half under the horizon, and far off ", "order": 2}, {"key": "minigun.skin-camo", "name": "SPOKES", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz, a soldier, fires controlled pairs at the camo minigun's motor while it spins up from cold, and every round pings off it. Dry, he seats his bayonet with a palm strike and charges, and just before the cluster reaches speed he drives the blade in between t", "order": 3}, {"key": "minigun.skin-cartoon", "name": "THE DRINK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "retro", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The oldest cartoon gag: riddled with clean cartoon holes, Fayiz grins at us and takes a drink, and it fountains out of every hole. Then it turns red and doesn\u2019t stop. He pumps out through the holes in arcs, one per heartbeat, and as he empties the cartoon drai", "order": 4}, {"key": "minigun.skin-ice", "name": "COLD START", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR", "WALL"], "range": ["mid", "close"], "sum": "One belt, three temperatures. Cold, the ice rounds fuse into a lance that carries Hiba down the battlement and nails her to the tower by the shoulder. Warming, the stream turns to slush that hoses her where she hangs, and in the night cold she freezes solid mi", "order": 5}, {"key": "minigun.skin-taped", "name": "CRACKED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["pointBlank"], "sum": "Faris hoses the empty watchtower. One barrel of his taped cluster is cracked and held with tape, and it is smoking. Behind him Chotu creeps up his blind flank with a knife, where a heavy gun cannot turn, and raises it over Faris\u2019s shoulder. The tape burns thro", "order": 6}], "mids": [{"key": "minigun.mid-open-wide", "name": "OPEN WIDE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Amjad charges in shouting, mouth wide, and Faris shoves the six barrels into it. The spin-up grinds, then the burst goes out through the back of his head. Faris draws the barrels back out; the body stands one beat, folds to its knees and falls on its face.", "order": 0}, {"key": "minigun.mid-wind-down", "name": "THE LAST FIVE", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "A short burst drops Fida to her knees on the saloon boards. Faris lets go of the trigger, but the barrels still have five rounds of spin left, slower and slower, and each one lands a little higher up her: the belly, the sternum, the throat, the jaw, and after ", "order": 1}, {"key": "minigun.mid-the-hand", "name": "THE HAND", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "\u201cSTOP!\u201d Mikku throws up his palm like a traffic cop, and the stream eats the raised arm down to the shoulder like a candle burning down, while he holds it up in shock.", "order": 2}, {"key": "minigun.mid-treadmill", "name": "TREADMILL", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz charges, and the kick slides Faris back across the floor at exactly his running speed, the stream chewing the tiles a stride in front of him and never reaching him. Faris\u2019s back hits the pillar, and the gap closes all at once.", "order": 3}, {"key": "minigun.mid-matchwood", "name": "ROLL BACK", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Chotu leaps into a mine cart and kicks off down the canyon rail. It rattles past Faris, and the stream rakes it broadside. The cart rolls on up the slope and out of sight. Silence; the rail ticks. Then it comes rolling back, slow and creaking, and stops in fro", "order": 4}, {"key": "minigun.mid-heads-up", "name": "HEADS UP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "She is down behind a sandbag wall. Faris lays the stream flat along the top of the bags and holds it there. She pops up to fire over them, and everything above the bag line is taken in one flat plane.", "order": 5}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "shrink": {"page": "58k_shrink.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "shrink.the-dust", "name": "THE DUST", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 11.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris keeps shooting. Every zap halves Fida again, until the floor\u2019s dust is a dune world and she falls into it: grey dunes, fibres lying across them like fallen trees, crumbs like boulders, the light from impossibly far above. In the fibres hang the dead who ", "order": 0}, {"key": "shrink.smoothie", "name": "SMOOTHIE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Shrunk on the giant kitchen counter, Mikku runs for the gap behind the blender. Faris punts him: at that size the knockback is huge, and he sails up the side of the blender and drops into the open jug among the strawberries and the ice. He comes up out of the ", "order": 1}, {"key": "shrink.the-parlour", "name": "THE PARLOUR", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["WALL", "FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "\u201cWill you walk into my parlour?\u201d Shrunk, Amjad sprints for the darkest corner of the courtyard, at the foot of the tower, and runs straight into a sheet of silk: stuck by an arm and a leg, the threads humming. The thread he is tangled in trembles. Eight eyes l", "order": 2}, {"key": "shrink.the-cat", "name": "THE CAT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Shrunk, Nitha runs into the long grass. A purr behind her: the backyard cat, huge, its green eyes on her. It bats her: she flies and rolls; it lets her run, pounces, lets her run again. She hides in a flower pot and a paw comes in, feeling for her. It carries ", "order": 3}, {"key": "shrink.safe-landing", "name": "SAFE LANDING", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 9.4, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["PLATFORM", "BIG_PROP"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "On the hangar walkway Faris shrinks Mikku, picks him up between finger and thumb, and throws him off. He falls screaming, then slows: at his size the air holds him, and he drifts down like a seed, tumbling, unhurt (the small survive any fall). He lands on the ", "order": 4}, {"key": "shrink.food-chain", "name": "THE FOOD CHAIN", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Two zaps under the wreck and Mikku is no bigger than the plankton drifting round him. A shrimp\u2019s claws close on him: through its glassy body we see him kicking inside. A small fish takes the shrimp; a bigger fish takes that fish; a gulper eel unhinges its huge", "order": 5}, {"key": "shrink.growing-pains", "name": "GROWING PAINS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Shrunk twice, Amjad sprints under Faris\u2019s boots, dives into an empty whisky jug lying on the boardwalk, pulls the cork in after him and thumbs his nose through the glass. Faris doesn\u2019t shoot. He crouches beside the jug and taps a slow countdown on the glass wi", "order": 6}, {"key": "shrink.the-drip", "name": "THE DRIP", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 9.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "LIQUID"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The zap knocks Fayiz off the draining board into the steel sink. He tries the walls: too steep. Faris drops the plug into the plughole and gives the tap a quarter turn. DRIP. Every drop is the size of him and slaps down like a boulder; the water creeps up to h", "order": 7}, {"key": "shrink.paper-boat", "name": "PAPER BOAT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "rooftops", "len": 9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the monsoon rain the second zap knocks the shrunk Chotu off the roof into the flooded gutter. Faris tears a page out, folds a paper boat, sets it in the gutter and lifts him into it, gently. The boat sails off down the gutter, spinning in the current, Chotu", "order": 8}, {"key": "shrink.the-nest", "name": "THE NEST", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "pirate", "len": 8.8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR", "PLATFORM"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Shrunk on the deck in the storm, Hiba runs for the hatch. A gull\u2019s shadow, a swoop, talons, and she is going up the mast in its feet, the deck falling away under her, the rigging and the sails rushing past. At the top, in the crow\u2019s nest, the gull has built it", "order": 9}, {"key": "shrink.army-ants", "name": "ARMY ANTS", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Shrunk at the foot of the temple steps, Fida lands beside a marching column of army ants, every one as big as her hand. The ants stop; their antennae turn to her. She backs away; one bites her heel; she kicks it off; three more. She runs, and a black river pou", "order": 10}, {"key": "shrink.booted", "name": "BOOTED", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "canyon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris sits on the sand and pulls off a boot to shake out a pebble, and the shrunk Chotu darts across and dives into it. He settles in the dark toe, giggling, while Faris looks round for him, puzzled. Faris pulls the boot back on. He stands. One step: a muffled", "order": 11}, {"key": "shrink.noon", "name": "NOON", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Shrunk in the noon sun, Hiba is an ant to Faris, and Faris takes out a magnifying glass. A white dot of sun burns at her feet. She runs; the dot follows, smoking the sand behind her. She zigzags, hides in a boot print; the dot finds her and her clothes smoke. ", "order": 12}, {"key": "shrink.anemone", "name": "ANEMONE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "own", "needs": ["UNDERWATER"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Shrunk by the wreck, Amjad sees a clownfish dart into a sea anemone\u2019s waving arms and follows it in, the way the little orange fish do. Safe among the soft arms, he peeks out at Faris. Then the arms stick to him and the stingers fire, tiny white threads; he tw", "order": 13}, {"key": "shrink.snap", "name": "SNAP", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 7.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Shrunk, Nitha runs for the dark under the sofa, and Faris sets a mousetrap across the gap with a cube of cheese and cocks it with a click. She stops at the trap: the bar, the spring, the plate between her and the dark. She can\u2019t jump it, she can\u2019t get round it", "order": 14}], "skins": [{"key": "shrink.skin-classic", "name": "THE GIANT\u2019S FOOTSTEPS", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The oldest shrink gag there is. Shrunk, Fida dives into a rain-filled pothole in the courtyard and hides under a floating leaf. A ring in the water; another; THOOM, THOOM, closer. Then silence. She peeks out from under the leaf. Nothing. She climbs onto a ston", "order": 0}, {"key": "shrink.skin-gold", "name": "THE LOCKET", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 5.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close", "mid"], "sum": "Chotu walks in on Faris with his fists up. One gold zap shrinks him; a second makes him a toy man, and he comes on anyway, walking at Faris's boots. Faris crouches and brings an open gold locket down over him like a cup over a spider. Snap. He stands with the ", "order": 1}, {"key": "shrink.skin-neon", "name": "THE ZAPPER", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "neon", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Shrunk on the back porch at night, Fida is under the violet glow of a bug zapper: UV tubes behind a wire cage, a tray of dead insects under it, a hum. Moths as big as dogs to her beat in out of the dark and burst on the grid in blue cracks, raining burnt bodie", "order": 2}, {"key": "shrink.skin-camo", "name": "THE KNOT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The camo ray takes Chotu down and tints him the grey-brown of weathered wood. He presses flat against a backyard fence post and is gone; Faris walks right past him, looking. He holds his breath, pleased with himself. Beside his face the knot in the wood slowly", "order": 3}, {"key": "shrink.skin-cartoon", "name": "IRIS OUT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "cartoon", "ready": true, "arena": "cage", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "BOING, BOING: the cartoon ray takes Fayiz down small in the cage ring, and the old cartoon ending begins: the black iris starts to close. He laughs, then he touches its edge, and the black is solid: his fingertips blacken and smoke. He runs round inside the sh", "order": 4}, {"key": "shrink.skin-ice", "name": "SQUARE CUBE", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.2, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The square-cube law: a small body loses its heat fast. Hiba sprints at Faris and the ice shrink ray takes her mid-stride: she shrinks as she runs, to a quarter of her height, and keeps coming, little legs going. But at that size the cold gets into her in secon", "order": 5}, {"key": "shrink.skin-taped", "name": "HALF MEASURES", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "skin", "skin": "taped", "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 7.8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": null, "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "The taped, half-dead shrink ray coughs and shrinks Amjad wrong: his body goes doll-sized and his head stays full size. The pencil neck creaks under it. 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the reflex kicks and his own foot punts it into his face; it comes down on the knee again, faster, until the knee snaps up into his own face.", "order": 9}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "gl": {"page": "58k_gl.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "gl.the-orchard", "name": "THE ORCHARD", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 13.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Dusk in the backyard. 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From the next roof, across the alley, Faris lobs one round: it drops onto the grill among ", "order": 11}, {"key": "gl.fetch", "name": "FETCH", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "base", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In the hangar Mikku trades shots with Faris from behind a low wall of sandbags; a stray dog sleeps by a crate. Faris\u2019s lob lands short, out in the open. The dog wakes, trots over, sniffs it and picks it up in its mouth, tail going: a game. It trots toward Mikk", "order": 12}, {"key": "gl.teeter", "name": "TEETER", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "deep", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "only", "needs": ["UNDERWATER", "LIQUID"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "In The Deep Chotu, out of breath, lies hidden on the seabed under a wreck plank laid across two rocks. 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Fida is hiding in a pup tent, lit from inside by a lantern, her shadow big on the canvas; she unzips the door, fires twice at Faris and zips it shut again. Faris lobs one round low across the lawn. It bounces, rolls up the grass and stop", "order": 15}, {"key": "gl.bonk", "name": "BONK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Fayiz plinks at Faris from under his steel helmet. One flat THOOMP: the round hits him square on the helmet and does not go off (grenades only bonk off bodies): CLONK. The helmet spins off his head and lands upside down on the flagstones, rocking like a bowl, ", "order": 16}, {"key": "gl.the-long-way", "name": "THE LONG WAY", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": true, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["far"], "sum": "Faris stands up on the temple step and puts one round up at the launcher\u2019s full range. Down the courtyard Mikku watches it come the whole way, shading his eyes: it is slow, and he has time. He judges it, picks his spot and runs, glancing up over his shoulder a", "order": 17}], "skins": [{"key": "gl.skin-gold", "name": "FINDERS KEEPERS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris lobs one round high. It comes down short at Amjad's feet, bounces twice and rolls to his boots: a grenade in polished gold. He looks at Faris, then at the gold. He cannot leave it there: he bends, picks it up in both hands and straightens with it at his ", "order": 0}, {"key": "gl.skin-ice", "name": "ICE BLOOM", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3.3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Faris lobs one ice grenade. It skips off the boards and rolls to Fida's feet; she looks down and lifts her foot to kick it away, and it goes off. In super slow motion the fireball blooms, and freezes as it blooms, into a flower of ice spikes with her caught in", "order": 1}], "mids": [], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:16"}, "pan": {"page": "58k_pan.html", "lib": {"list": [{"key": "pan.shield-of-perseus", "name": "THE SHIELD OF PERSEUS", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 6.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Hiba is the gorgon: her hair is snakes and her look turns flesh to stone; a crow meets her eye and drops as a stone crow. She turns the look on Faris, and he lifts the pan like Perseus\u2019s polished shield. She sees herself. The grey starts in her own eyes; her s", "order": 0}, {"key": "pan.panic", "name": "PANIC", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 11.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "The killing BONG rings on into the note of reed pipes, and Fida wakes in the god Pan\u2019s meadow at the dead of noon: no wind, no shadow, the reeds parting toward her, goat-hoof prints all round. She runs and the meadow never ends. Then the god\u2019s shout, the pan-i", "order": 1}, {"key": "pan.match-point", "name": "MATCH POINT", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "atrium", "len": 10.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha empties an SMG at Faris across the atrium, and he returns every round like a tennis player while an empty umpire\u2019s chair keeps score: past her ear, FIFTEEN-LOVE; her little finger, THIRTY-LOVE; her knee, FORTY-LOVE. She screams OUT; the replay says IN. M", "order": 2}, {"key": "pan.senseless", "name": "SENSELESS", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "tower", "len": 9.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Each bong knocks one sense out of Nitha, and the film loses it with her: sight (black), hearing (silence), all but the taste of blood (the dark pulsing red), touch. When the camera comes back out she is kneeling with white eyes and bleeding ears, groping the a", "order": 3}, {"key": "pan.cold-sweat", "name": "COLD SWEAT", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "temple", "len": 7.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris lifts the pan to the top of the backswing and holds it there. Amjad flinches; Faris shifts it to the backhand without swinging, and he flinches the other way. The wait is worse than the blow: red beads come out on his brow, his palms, his neck, and he sw", "order": 4}, {"key": "pan.tin-can", "name": "TIN CAN", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 8.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku pulls a steel pot from behind his back and jams it on his head as a helmet against the pan. BONG: he laughs inside it. Every bong after dents it inward, and the dents find his features, the brow, the nose, the cheekbone, until the last one crimps the rim", "order": 5}, {"key": "pan.grease-fire", "name": "GREASE FIRE", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "forts", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris fries chips in the pan on a camp stove at the Forts. Chotu charges with a canteen; the forehand throws the burning oil across the crate, and in a panic he throws his water on it. Never throw water on a grease fire: it erupts in a pillar of flame over him", "order": 6}, {"key": "pan.backhand", "name": "BACKHAND", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "new", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 6.4, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Mikku ducks the forehand and comes up laughing and pointing: missed. The backhand comes back the other way. It lifts him off his feet, spins him once round in the air like a top, and he lands on his face with the pan\u2019s round welt rising on his cheek and the la", "order": 7}], "skins": [{"key": "pan.skin-classic", "name": "LATE HOME", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "skin", "skin": "classic", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 5.6, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Three in the morning. Mikku creeps up the path with his shoes in his hands and eases the front door open. The hinge creaks; nothing; he grins and steps in. Out of the dark hall comes the oldest frying pan in the world. BONG. The porch light flicks on.", "order": 0}, {"key": "pan.skin-gold", "name": "CRUCIBLE", "rarity": "MYTHIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "gold", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 4.7, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris stands holding the gold frying pan level like a skillet, a pool of molten gold bubbling in it. Fayiz walks in on him with his guard up. Faris flings the gold off the pan in one snap; it splashes across Fayiz's chest and arms and sets on him with a hiss, ", "order": 1}, {"key": "pan.skin-camo", "name": "THE ROCK", "rarity": "EPIC", "kind": "skin", "skin": "camo", "ready": true, "arena": "backyard", "len": 8, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Faris lies in the long grass under the camo pan like a mossy stone. Hiba hunts him across the lawn, then sits down on the rock to reload. The rock shifts under her. Then it stands up.", "order": 2}, {"key": "pan.skin-ice", "name": "COLD IRON", "rarity": "LEGENDARY", "kind": "skin", "skin": "ice", "ready": true, "arena": "castle", "len": 3, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Like a tongue on a frozen pole. Fayiz throws his big right hand and Faris takes it on the face of the ice frying pan: CLANG, and the fist does not come back. It has frozen to the metal. The frost climbs his knuckles and his forearm while he wrenches at it; Far", "order": 3}], "mids": [{"key": "pan.mid-same-spot", "name": "SAME SPOT", "rarity": "RARE", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "saloon", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["mid"], "sum": "Nitha takes careful aim at the middle of Faris\u2019s forehead and fires. The deflect sends the round straight back into exactly the same spot on her. She stands a beat, then drops. Faris taps his own brow.", "order": 0}, {"key": "pan.mid-flapjack", "name": "FLAPJACK", "rarity": "COMMON", "kind": "mid", "skin": null, "ready": true, "arena": "kitchen", "len": 2.9, "victims": 1, "air": false, "deep": "skip", "needs": ["FLOOR"], "range": ["close"], "sum": "Hiba comes in low under the pan. The backhand\u2019s upswing catches her under the chin and flips her one full turn like a pancake, and she lands flat on her face. Faris: done.", "order": 1}], "zones": [{"id": "veil", "name": "THE VEIL", "line": "a dome of churning ink smoke over a turning violet sigil"}, {"id": "shell", "name": "THE OBSIDIAN SHELL", "line": "a shell of black glass, red runes burning in its veins"}, {"id": "grove", "name": "THE GROVE", "line": "roots burst from the floor and weave a dome of living bark, a watching face in the trunk"}, {"id": "mandala", "name": "THE MANDALA", "line": "rings of orange-gold runes assemble into a sphere of light round them"}, {"id": "hide", "name": "THE HIDE", "line": "a dome of stitched pale skin that breathes, eyes opening along its seams"}]}, "at": "10 Nov 14:18"}}