Squirt Gun Wars

[MISTAMAHATMA]

A while ago, I watched Spoony make a vlog about his experience with Shadowrun and how the players ended up using squirt guns loaded with addictive drugs and such that would penetrate most defenses. Kind of wonder if we would see something like this pretty soon.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

I doubt it - that sort of thing sounds like something the GM or one of the players made up for the game rather than something taken from one of the game's sourcebooks.

Besides; delivering drugs like that into someone's system works a lot better with a dart gun than using a squirt gun and hoping they accidentally swallow some or that getting some in their eyes is enough to get the job done.

[Phoenix7786]

It wasn't a squirt-gun, it was shooting DMSO at targets, which was a legit item waaaaaay back in the day; in fact, DMSO exists today we just don't have the technology perfected in the illicit manner Spoony and his crew were using.
Anyways, DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide) has the unusual side-effect of permeating right through the pores of the skin and delivering whatever it's been mixed with directly into the blood-stream. And since it's a liquid, the manual explicitly stated that most armour (barring some kind of haz-mat suit) was useless against it. One of their chars was using it pumped full of tranqs to insta-KO guards, and eventually switched to a concoction of several drugs to cause an immediate over-dose.

Not to be outdone, Spoony (the GM) decided to implement his own version against the runners out of sheer frustration, leading to a Rigger modiffying drones with water turrets loaded with DMSO, and then it just escalated to ridiculous proportions until they just called the campaign off.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

Well... that proves me wrong. :P

[Phoenix7786]

No worries I was more than happy to elborate on it since I initially called "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" when I heard Spoony's review. Then I asked one of my good buddies (who is an extreme tabletop buff) and he confirmed the DMSO being legit.