Roaring Moxie

"I triple dog dare ya to stand up right now!"

- Azulius Cardoso, on the merits of suppressive fire

Roaring Moxie is a SubMachine Glaive-Guisarme and the chosen weapon of Azulius Cardamom.

Registration
Melee:

[X] Slashing

[X] Piercing

[X ] Bludgeoning (Technically, anything can be a bludgeon)

[X ] Other (Guisarme hook for pulling and grabbing)

Ranged:

[X] Dust

[X] Bullets

[ ] Other (Describe) [X] Gunpowder
 * Delivery Method

[ ] Tension (Bow, Slighshot, etc.)

[ ] Thrown [X] Red - Fire
 * Dust Type

[X] Blue - Water

[X] Cyan - Ice

[X] Orange - ???

[X] Yellow - Electricity

[X] Green - ???

[X] Purple - Gravity

[X] White - ??? [ ] Cut
 * Dust Status

[ ] Uncut

[X] Powder (made into specialty bullets)

Gun Form
As a Tommy gun, RM is a sturdy firearm built mainly around shooting lots of bullets very fast at the enemy. While it's fairly accurate with single shots and "short, controlled bursts", Azzie really likes just using it as a bullet hose. And with a.45 ACPround being fired every 1/10 second, Az can unload impressive amounts of damage on unarmored targets. This is actually one of his preferred tactics in a team fight: Unload towards the enemy, and everyone in the way will either be chopped finely or pinned behind whatever cover they can find. Let his more melee-oriented friends close the distance, then stop shooting and let them work their choppy, stabby, or bludgeony magic.

Ammunition
Also increasing the versatility of Roaring Moxie is the ability to use different types of ammunition. Besides the "classic" bullets he stores in drum magazines, Azzie also owns limited magazines of elemental Dust ammunition. Since these specialty rounds aren't cheap, he mainly uses them by the smaller box magazines associated with the Thompson.

Azulius has experimented with flying using RM, but the idea is still far too dangerous to use in the field unless the situation is really dire. Just imagine a balloon flying around without being tied off. A balloon that sprays bullets.

Glaive(-Guisarme) Form
While Azulius really prefers ranged combat, low Strength and all, there are times where it's unavoidable. For those times, Roaring Moxie's stock opens into a blade, ammo is ejected, the twin grips rotate flush with the body, and the entire action of the gun extends into a serviceable handle. As a glaive, RM's blade is best described as a large knife on a stick, though Azzie added a sharp point to the end of the blade for added effectiveness against heavy armor. The handle can also change length to a certain extent, letting Roaring Moxie serve as anything from a short spear to a pike. For even more versatility, the head of the weapon also includes a hook-like protrusion (the guisarme part) to block, pull or throw targets. In style, Az uses the glaive-guisarme to maintain distance, with lots of thrusts, spinning attacks, handle strikes, and feints. The one nuisance with this mode is that the magazine must eject for the transformation to work, so Azulius must either try to retrieve the magazine or lose whatever bullets are inside.

History
Around Azulius's 16th birthday, one of the more reputable weapon shops in Vacuo, Thompson and Sons, was at risk of being unable to make their monthly protection payment to the Cardamom family. Since Don Ochre was a reasonable man, Thompson pleaded to let him make a weapon or two for the family in exchange for leniency in that month's payment. Ochre agreed to forgive the payment in exchange for letting his grandson Azulius use the shop's high-end tools and materials to make a weapon of his own. The deal was sealed, and Azulius's birthday present from his grandfather was to build his own weapon. After a few weeks of work, Roaring Moxie was born. Azulius was so overjoyed with his creation, Ochre forgave two months protection for Thompson and Sons, who now receive plenty of repeat business from the Cardamom family.

Trivia

 * The name for Roaring Moxie comes from two different terms: Roaring from"The Roaring Twenties", considered by many to be the golden age of the gangster, and Moxie, an old-fashioned term for energy and courage.