T3

Items / Gadgets / Marble Grenades

Concealment: Jacket, Slick

These tiny grenades, each the size of a marble, are made of an experimental substance which detonate into a miniature explosion when it impacts on a surface with sufficient force. The common method of use is either to scatter them from a higher position onto an enemy below, or to either drop them behind or set them up on a floor where a pursuing enemy will step on them.

A packet of marble grenades is about a hundred, will cover five one-meter squares and can be spread with an action. They need darkness or some concealment, such as grass, to work well.

Marble Grenades are a Traps, and uses the normal rules for discovering traps. An Intrusion or Perception roll against a difficulty of your FixIt or Intrusion will discover it. Specifically looking for traps gives a +3 bonus. Marble Grenades whose presence is known are less dangerous – the difficulty is only 5 in such cases. Running through a field of marble grenades is dangerous even if their presence is known – it disallows the use of Intrusion, forcing the runner to rely on Perception alone.

Stepping on any of the marbles will cause a chain reaction, making them all explode. Anyone anywhere in the area when they explode take damage 15, but those just a meter outside it are safe.