Re: [HOE] Relic help

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>OK, so I got an idea for a particularly evil relic, inspired by the Matt
>Ruff novel, Sewer, Gas and Electric.  It's a .30-06 hunting rifle, and it
>was the murder weapon in a very high-profile assassination (though not
>the same assassination as the rifle in the book).  Such an infamous
>weapon is sure to grab the Reckoners' attention, so it becomes the
>ultimate assassination tool; when a round hits, the firer can adjust the
>hit location up or down a number equal to the target's Reknown edge. 
>This move can't be used to make the hit less lethal, though; if it's at
>all possible to hit the head or gizzards, it does.
>
>Now, a relic like this should have a particularly nasty Taint.  Not just
>that it makes the owner really violent; anyone using this thing is
>probably going to be Bloodthirsty already.  I'm thinking it should have
>some link to the conspiracy theories surrounding political
>assassinations, but I cna't put my finger right on it.  Any ideas?

Might make the user really paranoid--thinks that everyone is secretly plotting
against him, and he has to get them before they get him. Or, to borrow from
another relic assassin's rifle in Waste Warriors, it might do the opposite--make
everyone in a settlement blame the character for everything that goes wrong,
particularly random deaths, even (especially!) if he didn't do it. Or both.

--Robert Holland