Lotus
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Update an existing cheeky spy gadget for use by the SIA
- Image Source: Leandros Priego (edited by me)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Original Submission
- Manufacturer: Black Lotus
- Affiliation: The Galactic Alliance
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Limited Ion Portable Shock Taser Inherently Concealed Kit
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material: Wax, oil, pigment, metal, single-use battery, taser components, springs
- Functional, high-quality cosmetic product
- Available in a variety of rich, fashionable colors
- Have the confidence of indelible color won't smudge, wear, or kiss off
- Stealthy: Concealable weapon designed to avoid basic security scans and appear innocuous
- In Plain Sight: Visually indistinguishable from lipstick from the Black Lotus standard cosmetic line, other than color names and a 'Private Collection' marking
- Single-Use: Using the taser destroys the unit for both a weapon and cosmetic use.
Ladies, knock 'em dead with the newly reformulated Private Label collection. All your favorite stunning colors, plus shocking new shades that will stop him in his tracks.
Originally designed and constructed by Black Lotus for the First Order Security Bureau as a concealable weapon, designed to draw no suspicion, disguised as a commonplace item that wouldn't look out-of-place anywhere, but with a deadly secret. Having moved on from the First Order, Isobel Nakano set about reformulating the line to deploy with the Galactic Alliance's SIA. The GA-L.I.P.S.T.I.C.K. Mk II, like its predecessor, is a functional lipstick which, at a moment's notice, becomes a taser device. The mechanism works when the lid is removed and the applicator is turned counter-clockwise below the lowest application level. Continuing to turn it thus primes the charge and coils the spring inside the cylindrical tubing which, when a small lever is touched, launches the entire works from the tube. The pigmented part of the lipstick splits in two, making way for the two small taser barbs, connected to extremely fine conducting wires, to move out towards the target.
The charge in the device, if properly connected with the barbs and on an average-sized human or near-human, can inflict neuromuscular incapacitation. In other words, it interferes with muscles' ability to receive control signals from the brain, and thus the target can experience a loss of control of their muscles, not just in the immediate vicinity of the taser barbs where the sensation would be the strongest, but across the body. This can cause victims of the device to experience significant pain, involuntary falls, injuries, and cardiac arrest. The device is not meant to be lethal, however, under certain circumstances and depending on the health of the target, people have died after being shocked by similar devices.
The effective range is about average for a non-civilian taser, approximately 30 feet or 10 meters. Due to the nature of the device, the challenge is more accuracy than range, as it depends on the user to hold it reasonable steady and to aim it fairly accurately, while offering no apparatus to maintain a firm and steady grip (for instance, like a normal, pull trigger taser with a firearm-like grip and trigger). Also, it can be somewhat unwieldy to use without practice, as one must aim it while either performing the steps to prime and fire it, or have it primed and ready to fire before aiming. It is not a natural way to hold a lipstick applicator.
Improvements to this line include incorporating novel technology in fine wiring, enhancing the tensile strength of the taser wires, as well as battery improvements that result in a 13.82% increase in taser efficacy (read: more voltage coursing through the victim's body). This in addition to a reformulation of the lipstick material itself, making the lipstick easier to apply and even more indelible, so you can blot, drink, and kiss the night away with confidence.
The lipstick is available in a variety of shades. In addition to the old standard shades, including but not limited to Mouth Carnevale (a bold pink), That is Dalia (a mature dark red), Eldritch Blast (a vivid crimson), Like Spike (a brilliant fuscia), and Prudence (a shiny black), new colors introduced with the Mk II line include (but are not limited to): Points in Sexterity (a vivid pink); The Only Way (an acid green reminiscent of poison); Be Upstanding (an iridescent lavender); Pik-a-CHOW! (yellow); Normal Adult Woman (a subdued, subtle pink); Anything's Lethal If You Throw It Hard Enough, If You Believe In Yourself (dark fuscia); Railgun It In The Eyeball (electric blue); Never Say Die (a lovely iridescent peach).
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