Thread:Scalec/@comment-5782071-20170725060318/@comment-24588058-20170806144019

He started at around 14, if I recall correctly. Give or take.

I figured it might be interesting that his obsession with previous serial killers would tie in with his crime. I wanted to make the axe based on them, but used by him as well. While I agree that knives are overused, it's the only really substantial object tied to Buckler historically aside from a guillotine (and at least it'd be an older knife. Not that that makes a big difference). And while the effects have been done, I would like to point out something that just occurred to me. While I agree that we want to minimize the actual mimicking of effects between artifacts, we know that dozens of artifacts can have similar effects. How many times have we seen Artie in front of a board listing a dozen artifacts which are linked to a specific type of effect (electrical, for example)? Crossovers can occur fairly easily among artifacts. Even while each artifact is unique, that doesn't necessarily mean that the effects will be. I point to Jack Kirby's Belt and Angelo Siciliano's Workout Trunks, which appear to have the same main effects (density manipulation) and were mixed up in the episode. Granted, we don't know what the downsides to his belt are, and they are likely different than the Trunks. But the same main effects still stand (speaking of, wouldn't it be nice to have a search system which identifies specific effects for artifacts instead of just searching the word, which may or may not be part of the effects?).

I really just wrote all of that on a whim. It was actually something I was thinking about before, but never thought of it while on here. With all that being said, of course, I'm sure we, as a group, can come up with different effects, and maybe an object, as well.