Needler

About the Needler

A projectile weapon that fires clusters of tiny, needle-thin slivers, the needler shreds soft targets with a spray of piercing shards rather than a single bolt. The slivers themselves are often the delivery system for something worse, hollowed or coated to carry toxins, sedatives, or corrosives deep into a wound, making the needler a favored tool of assassins and specialists who want more than a clean hole. It makes little noise and no muzzle flash, and its ammunition is compact enough to carry in quantity. Light and easily wielded, it rewards a shooter who understands that the weapon's real threat is not the impact but what the impact leaves behind. Against unarmored or lightly protected foes it is savage; against heavy plate its slivers struggle to bite. In the hands of a poisoner or a quiet professional, the needler is a whispered promise of a slow, ugly end.