Cleric's Steam Speargun of Venom

Cleric's Steam Speargun of Venom rests on a scarred oak table, its brass barrel catching the lamplight like a small sun, a glass tube sighing with a green glow as if harboring a living fuse. Its stock is bound in cracked leather, stitched with copper thread that catches on every knuckle when you pick it up. A ring of rivets encircles the midsection, and a carved sigil—the faint outline of a coiled serpent—threads through darkened steel. When you cradle it, the weight sits just forward of your hand, a precise balance that seems to promise you’ll need every inch of it before a single shot is spent. The surface texture tells a story in microcosm: the brass bears the fingerprints of a dozen hands, each mark a little constellation of intent, while the glass reservoir, tinted a venomous emerald, hums with a micro-eddied hiss. The trigger feels almost musical, a smooth click that suggests a clock’s heartbeat rather than a weapon’s purpose. When the steam is primed, a faint fog wafts from the muzzle, and you can imagine the air thinning at the edge of a corridor as a harpoon, tipped in venom, streaks toward an unseen target. It is a weapon born of two crafts—the disciplined mercy of clerics and the relentless practicality of engineers—and it wears both identities with a quiet pride. Lore says it was forged in the canticles of a secluded order, a covenant that learned to bind venom with steam, to turn a healer’s vow into a weapon that could chastise abominations without extinguishing the light in their victims. The Venom here is not merely poison; it’s a story told in microseconds—how pressure and time converge to strip away the bravest façades and leave truth exposed in the open. Some scribes insist the sigil on the stock guards a memory of those who once stood in the gap between plague and purity, reminding the bearer that every shot writes part of a larger chapter in the world’s ongoing chronicle. In actual use, the Cleric’s Steam Speargun of Venom feels less like a gadget and more like a negotiation with a stubborn fate. When you fire, the venom-coated bolt lances out with a spray of coppered steam, applying steady Poison that gnaws at enemies as they stumble through the haze. Its range invites careful repositioning, a chance to thread through enemy lines and leave behind a trail of debuffs that compels allies to seize the moment. The weapon’s true strength, though, lies in its timing: a well-placed volley can split a frontline, soften a pinched flank, and turn a skirmish into a procession of controlled retreats and focused counterstrikes. It becomes part of a larger story about guardians who ride between devastation and mercy, about choices that echo through a caravan’s route, a ruined temple’s last candle, and the markets where such relics gain a second life. Speaking of markets, I watched a trader tighten the straps of a saddlebag and haul the item toward Saddlebag Exchange, where the chatter about price rose and fell like a tide. The cleric’s speargun floated into the conversation as a coveted rarity, with offers hovering in the high-gold range and barters traded for rare stones and alchemical vials. The exchange isn’t just commerce; it’s a chorus that relays the weapon’s journeys—from the vetting hands of engineers to the cautious optimism of would-be guardians, all weaving their way into the wider fabric of the world these relics inhabit. Carry this, and you carry a vow, a mechanism, and a story that refuses to stay quiet.