I'm working on a number of novellas that will be considered a series, but each of them able to stand-alone. The first one up is about a vigilante who utilizes a wrist launcher as one of his weapons. The way I picture it, it would utilize one of those small oxygen tanks like you'd get to hang on the back of one of those 'hover-round' chair things, and that would provide the necessary umph for the projectile. In this case, the projectiles are housed in a rotating chamber, a bit like a revolver's, but instead of bullets, its six-inch pieces of rebar sharpened at one end. The vigilante aims the device and presses a button, causing the device to shoot a single spike.
The vigilante, due to events in the first chapter, is on SSI while working part-time at a survey center. His monthly income is roughly 800 and lives in subsidized housing. The first chapter takes place roughly four years prior to the rest of the novel (as the character goes through a period of physical therapy and has to train himself, and I'd rather not go through those bits, telling them in flashbacks if I need to). Therefore, the parts for the wrist-launching device would probably not be very high-tech, but more cobbled together. I'm just hoping it sounds a bit plausible. My only issue is how the oxygen tank would deliver that necessary umph to fire the rebar spike.
The vigilante, due to events in the first chapter, is on SSI while working part-time at a survey center. His monthly income is roughly 800 and lives in subsidized housing. The first chapter takes place roughly four years prior to the rest of the novel (as the character goes through a period of physical therapy and has to train himself, and I'd rather not go through those bits, telling them in flashbacks if I need to). Therefore, the parts for the wrist-launching device would probably not be very high-tech, but more cobbled together. I'm just hoping it sounds a bit plausible. My only issue is how the oxygen tank would deliver that necessary umph to fire the rebar spike.