A steady, high-pressure stream of flaming napalm.
For the information and guidance of all concerned.
A machine of pain, fear, panic and abandonment, the flamethrower is the Stalin of all weapons. Most iconic is the M2, crafted and used by the Imperialists. But how did it work?
Defining
John liked to wear the M2 on his back with its three tanks. He knew two of them contained napalm, which he could only explain to himself as some kind of weird-sticky gel. He was told the gel was used for long distances, but his doubts only made him re-affirm how perverted the creators of this liquid shotgun really were.
Once, he decided to test the efficiency of the perverted gel on an unsuspecting dealer of basement trash. His belief was that all would be over in an instant, but apparently the sticky gel and fire took a bit longer than what he was comfortable with, so he had to resort to primeval instinct (hits the person with a rock).
Designed by the US military and used in the Korean, Vietnam and
Second World War, the M2 flamethrower is an improvement over the M1. Two pressured fuel tanks, containing napalm, attach to a gun with two triggers.
- Worn on the back
- 2 napalm tanks (denser than normal fuel)
- 1 nitrogen tank
This is where the third tank, holding highly pressurized nitrogen, comes in. It’s attached to the fuel tanks by a pressure regulator. As the fuel is fired out at Bill, the difference in pressure pushes the higher-pressure nitrogen into the fuel tanks, keeping the pressure equalized. Otherwise, the range of the M2 would decrease so much that Bill would be able to escape in the prolonged span.
Firing
The gun has two grips and a valve, and is attached to the fuel tanks by a pipe. The valve starts the pressure so the gun can fire at Bill. (the valve at the front triggers the ignition cylinder)
- Holds five incendiary charges
- Triggered by matches
Bill didn’t need to know all this before he had been sprayed from eyebrow to shoe with a jet of satanic liquid. In between his confused panic, the worst part came when he remembered he had forgotten to close his apartment’s window. Pigeons had already stolen his keys once, and this time he deeply knew it’d be no different.
But all he could now remember was the spark at the nostril, which had caused a flash of hell at his face.
The fire cannot go up into the gun because the fuel is being rapidly forced out of it. When the fuel trigger is released, the gun is capped at the end, rather than where the trigger itself is.
The fuel can also be released without triggering the incendiary, letting the user soak the target before igniting it with a second burst.
Bill didn’t have that luck today.
Its uses
Fed up from having his money frozen, John once went to his bank to demand what was his. What he couldn’t understand was why people were staring at him, and as to why he was called a robber. He was just there for a withdrawal.
He tried to talk to the bank’s employees, but something went wrong and the steel shutters fell. They were trapped! John wanted his money bad, so he went to the door with the gap. He knew there was a fire procedure, so he only needed to spurt a little inside to ensure their freedom…
Flaws
- Heavy to carry
- Limited fuel
- 7 seconds continuous burst
- 1 minute of short bursts
His trigger got stuck for more than he wanted, and after hearing the screams of agony from within, he decided to come back again at another day. They were obviously burned out by work. His shoulders hurt from the heaviness on his back, and he needed to refuel.
Other Notes
John found the use of the M2 handy in drenching forests or after a bath in the lake. Deserts would usually annoy him as they’d cause the range of his hugs to decrease, while winter only made it trickier to make Santa’s icicles to melt.
Once, he tried to fight with the wind as to find himself on top the chain of power, but apparently he didn’t have enough natural selection points in those regards (John is on fire).
Some people tried to blow John up as he was passing by the bazar for some cheap desk chairs, but they found that it wasn’t like in the movies where the fuel tanks would blow up. (either with guns or a knife)
In the case of emergency, like catching the bus, the shoulder straps can be removed by a release catch, allowing the agility for getting ticketless on the desired bus.
Conclusion
The fear of fire is instinctive in all people and animals. Most of the deaths caused by the M2 were from the fear of the fire itself, causing the opposition (bus people) to flee from their secure location and be picked one by one in the process (pigeon attacks).
The gel fuel can bounce of walls and through windows, leaving no one safe, even if they’re undercover (imperialist spies).
