That gets sampled in the song All Paladins Are Bastards

I got a Potion of Resist Arrest!

Walking stick glock.

True enough! A stick with a Y in it just under the trigger guard would be the ticket. Also just laughing at the idea that you smack the end of the staff on the ground to shoot.

LOL, a new take on the phrase ‘boom stick’.

Yeah this here’s my America enchanted staff… she’s a slam-fire.

That’s Ralph Bakshi

Ooh, even better. Ash is always the answer, good one, friend.

Avada Kedavra = AK 47

There’s an animated movie from the 70s I think called “Wizard”. This post reminded me of the end of the movie,

There is a game called “trigger witch” that is based entirely on this concept

I cast “bust a cap”.

Glocking stick?

Harry Dresden would like you to return his staff.

Ahem it is a Blasting Rod

One of the most inherently violent of the wizard’s tools, the blasting rod is used to quickly and efficiently focus one’s will… if carried into a delicate situation, is as subtle as a magnum handgun.

See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”

“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”

“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”

“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”

“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.

–F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Oh good. I thought the plunger was on the finger side. I was thinking I would blow my own ring finger off with this thing.

Alakablam

i love how the battle scenes in the books are really short compared to the scenes where the hobbits are smoking, eating and enjoying life. i think tolkien romanticized more the simple life, peace and quiet and good tilled earth.

iirc, pistols are pretty resistant to firing when they are dropped/receive a shock of some sort. So if slamming the staff to the ground, it might not go off. You’d rather strap a shotgun to it