Now that we've had plenty of time to battle the various ocean crawlers, I thought one of their abilities could make for a nifty throwable (well two, but the second would just be a venomball version of the firebomb and kinda redundant 😛).
So far we have Fire Bombs which spread damage over time, and Blunder Bombs which cause high knockback from point of impact, so I thought it would be neat to have Lightning in a Bottle (or Bottled Lightning, Storm Ball, Eel Bomb, etc. – depends on how character limits and UX tie to item naming) which would function like a throwable version of the Eel-ectric shield stun.
On impact (either thrown or cannoned) it would chain from the impact area (based on target proximities) and cause a momentary ‘lockdown’ stun. It could provide the action-cancel effect of blunderbombs, but pin targets instead of knocking them away so could be used to combo antipersonnel effects. It would be similarly effective against ocean crawlers to blunderbombs (i.e. shield break or stun), but extra effective against gold skeletons (due to obvious conductivity), and provide a way to hit a line of them compared to trying to cluster them for fire or blunder bombing. I would also expect the chain distance and damage to be increased towards pirates with swords out, since we all know how much lightning likes swords! Bottled Lightning should probably also be a bit rarer compared to Fire/Blunder Bombs for balancing (though would still be included with them in the inventory limit of 5 throwables).
