The Firm Grasp

The Firm Grasp is an axe that is pieced together from many different tools. There is a saw blade, some wrenches, a very old, but still effective, brake handle, and some old Kraeth hoverboard boosters that have been dialed up to max. It was made by a Drin Skrau named Adzoa Rozek, who is the exiled niece of a certain Drin royal figure; consequently, she just goes by Adzoa. Too many questions when people find out her last name, and she wants to disappear among the Skrau, leaving her past behind her.
The Skrau are a people made of exiles, runaways, deserters, and any others that find their way to them. They largely don't have rules or hierarchies for the most part: If you find your way into a Skrau clan you have to prove yourself useful, or you get dropped at the next space station or planet. Adzoa is very useful. She can make weapons from trash, and she's not too bad in a fight.
When Adzoa gets a kill with The Firm Grasp, being a fan of puns, she laughs and says, "They never saw that coming!" Every time. Her somewhat off-kilter humor is also the reason for the name of the axe being so... different. The names are all inside jokes, but only with herself. No one else gets them.
The Firm Grasp has boosters in the back for super-extra propulsion when swung. It can also propel the user forward roughly ten feet if the full boost is activated. You reeeeally need to hang on though, or there goes your weapon! It takes some training to the get the hang of, considering it can move a lot fast and hit a lot harder than a typical axe of its size. Adzoa supposes it could also be thrown and the boosters could help in that regard, but she's never understood why you would want to throw a weapon away from you. "Not only are you left without a weapon, but you have to run across the battlefield and fetch it. Like an idiot."


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Item type

Weapon, Melee