Fuser rifle

>    *Snow looked sour.* “I hate when these things hang fire,” *he grumbled.* “Can’t be sure if the ball will just dribble out, or if the whole breech is going to explode in my face.”
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The Fuser Rifle was a black powder gun used by the Rebels and favored by their fuser corps, both human and dwarven. The Fuser Rifle was a long gun - a big, brutal-looking weapon, thick in the barrel, with a halberd blade added on below the muzzle. Some of the human fighters called it ungainly, saying that it hits back as a boar sow in labor, but Snow achieved an enviable accuracy with it - largely due to his broad shoulders.

## How to use

To use it you pop up the breech block, drop a ball into place, then slap the metal container down. A flick of a thumb levers up the plate over the charging bore, while the shooter pours in the contents of a much larger black powder cartridge. When firing, the flintlock striker comes down, but there is a perceptible, hissing interval before flame, smoke, and ball goutes from the muzzle. Despite that, the fuser rifle could hit a target at a hundred paces! Still, aiming at such a distance was hard - if you'd go for the heart then instead you'd hit the target's belly. If you wanted consistency for every shot, you’d have to use the new brass cartridges developed by Sigwold. Premeasured charges, correctly packed. Explosive wax to start the bang - the end of touch-holes, priming, flints and fizzle-shots.

## Notable

### The Lady's Hand-cannon

> “This is the weapon of the future,” *Sigwold insisted, taking the rifle and cleaning it.* “With the next generation of rifle, you’d be able to stand on one side of Throne Complex and hit Karrudan all the way on the other.”
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The Hand-cannon was Sarah Ythlim's personal fuser rifle - you could see the flintlock striker and priming pan, but there was no breech opening that he could discover. All the metalwork was intricately carved. The striker arm was actually in the shape of an armored arm about to deliver a blow. The priming pan was the wide-stretched mouth of some Mage Spawn or other. The long, ornate trigger guard was a dragon in mid- flight, breathing fire.

To load ammunition in it, you'd had to grab the dragon’s tail and twist it. One revolution, and the trigger guard was now an inch and a half below the bottom of the gun, attached by a large screw perhaps three-quarters of an inch wide. And a three-quarter-inch opening had appeared in the top of the rifle. Holding the weapon muzzle-down, you'd need to drop a bullet into the aperture, following it with the contents of a black powder cartridge, saving a little bit for the priming pan. Another twist, and the trigger guard was back in place. The shooter would need to brush a few crumbs of black powder off the top of the screw, then aim the rifle at the target. The rifle fired with a sharper crack. It could hit a target in three-hundred paces!

### Jarl Rifle

The Dwarven Jarls are master marksmen, carrying into battle a Dwarven­-crafted **fuser** of special design. Long-barreled, with special sights, the weapon has greater reach and accuracy than most. It is also of stronger construction, priming with heavy loads of black powder for incredible power.

### Enchanted Fuser Rifle

The Enchanted Fuser Rifle is a relic item. Bullets fired from this Draconum-enchanted weapon dance around obstacles like a dancing swallow in flight.

### Spiritbane

Spiritbane is a relic fuser rifle which can target the elusive spirits. The Black Powder Rebellion believed it had been the first to discover the secret of gunpowder - until Spiritbane was recovered from the sunken ruins of an ancient city.

***Black Powder Rebels***
 Major characters

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rebel Thunder (Bill McCay), Chapter 3
2. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-Lore-Expansion-Rebellion.pdf
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-2.0-Card-Set-Relics.pdf