Pain Weapon

Pain weapons appear as ebony-black, writhing, screaming variants of normal blunt weapons. They are wielded using Martial Arts or Arcanowave and do damage based on Magic instead of Strength, soaked by the target's Willpower. The damage add of a Pain Weapon is the same as that of a regular weapon of it's type, except for the Pain Whip. That is a tentacle-like coil of ARB that does +4 damage. Pain weapons can be used with Fu schticks that can be used in armed combat. They cannot use the Weapon Master schticks for their corresponding weapon type.

Characters who fail Death Tests caused by pain weapons usually don't die, instead loosing all will to resist. A failure only indicates that the victim is overcome with pain and unable to resist for fifteen minutes times the negative result points, as long as the negative result points did not exceed the target's Willpower, in which case death runs it's usual course, and is usually swift.

Tharkoldu use this weapon to capture slaves, and somebody knocked out using a Pain Weapon is then defenseless against any type of domination, mind control or enslavement.

Damage immunity to Arcanowave or Influence makes you immune to a Pain Weapon.