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dee951
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Well shit, if we're giving long winded weapon suggestions...
Alright. So fancy bullets. Here's some things you want to do in order to get that price down.
ONE: Don't use bullets for your super rare ammo type. They're hard to make out of odd materials; there's a reason people use lead for bullets! If the method of making them is based on a substance, you don't want to do finicky specialized techniques to make that into a functional revolver bullet. As an example, people have tried to make silver bullets due to their place in folklore, and it is ludicrously difficult and finicky.
No, you just wanna load that shit into a shotgun shell and fire it out of your shotgun! MUCH easier to handle! And perfectly Western too. And presumably cheaper due to requiring less labor.
Alternately, if it does require the shape of the substance or etching or inlay or whatever, you want it to be in an inherently reusable form -- like a crossbow bolt, which CAN be made out of mostly metal, and can often be repaired if they're damaged. I'd suggest a breakbarrel style, magazine-fed pistol grip repeating crossbow in the style of the Mey Interceptor (perhaps with a bayonet attachment?), and just get a specially marked magazine full of the weird bolts to go with your normal magazines. These specialized bolts shouldn't need as much crazy precision machining as bullets would, and should thus be cheaper, and you can use normal bolts too. This would also be relatively quiet of a weapon. You could also use throwing weapons with whatever specialized undead killing materials are needed; tomahawks, javelins, kpinga, chakram, whatever, as long as it isn't some tiny dinky 'mall ninja' throwing star shit.
Another option is a good melee weapon. If you fight monsters, I'd suggest something like a hewing spear or a partisan or a boar spear. You know, a long, two handed polearm with an extended spear like end that is good at both slashing and stabbing, and has some pointy out bits going out the side of the sort that give you more options with hooking or binding or punching things with the points, and also useful for keeping horrible things away from you. The whole business end can ideally have made out of whatever weird material you need that can kill odd things. Very good at warding things away and finding an opening and killing things, great at one on one duels, good leverage, also good at fighting groups.
Also, here are some substances in several categories of things, which folklore and mythology says might harm undead or are used in various different religious protective rituals around the world: garlic, sage, thyme, black pepper, rosemary, dragon tree resin, rue, angelica root, salt, silver, jade, iron, obsidian, ebony wood, sandalwood, cedar wood, oak wood, ash wood, lacquer tree sap, shellac, beeswax, tung oil, and gesso. Get as many of those as you can reasonably get your hands on for cheap, put each in a few otherwise normal shotgun shells, and then you can do some SCIENCE! to whatever hard to harm undead specimen you've found and wish to kill for testing purposes, once it is appropriately tied up and at your mercy or whatever.
Speaking of tied up or bound up and the aforementioned throwing things, how good are you with bolas or lasso or other rope based weapons like the meteor hammer?
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