Ghetto construction

[atomic1fire]

For an idea that might make the Janibow used a lot more, but be kinda OP, what if you could combine rods and syringes for syringe tipped arrows.

this would have a risk of failure, like most ghetto weapons.

Failure:
"You jam the syringe onto the rod, but the syringe breaks and you cut yourself." (this has a chance of exposing you to whatever chem you put into the syringe). Imagine trying to make ultra explodey arrows only to gib yourself.

Success:
"You jam the syringe into the rod, this looks safe.. right?"

Areas where this trade off wouldn't be so bad?

Mutagen laced arrows for fighting super nerds.

Arrows laced with antipsychotics for wrestle belt nerds on drugs.

etc.

The syringe tipped arrows should probably not work on armor at all, so mostly it would be for gang weaponry or just someone being an absolute nuisance with flame starting arrows until they get tazed.

other fun arrow options include boxing glove arrow (Boxing glove + arrow) which should have a chance of knocking someone down.

Maybe that's too much of a green arrow reference though.

If wearing any sort of exo-suit blocked the syringe that might not be too awful.

Seems like a good tradeoff.

You could go and grab a firefighter outfit or biosuit if someone was running around shooting people. It's still gonna hurt but at least you're not given death syringes.