NeedleWork

NeedleWork
Color	Blue/Yellow
Target	Single Enemy
User	Puffy, Scorpoid

NeedleWork (針飛ばし, , Hari tobashi^?) is an Enemy Tech used by Puffies and Scorpoids in Chrono Cross. This tech allows its user to shower a single target with a hail of needles, potentially inflicting the Frozen status effect (Scorpoid) or the Dizzy status effect (Puffy), alongside fairly heavy damage.

Description

Puffy

The Puffy in question will inflate itself by in-taking a huge gulp of water. This causes its body to appear to be bursting to its seams, whereupon the Puffy will begin shooting red-colored spikes rapidly at a selected target.

Scorpoid

Bending their tail/neck appendage toward the target, several ice-blue spikes shoot from its mouth, piercing through in a series of white puffs of energy.

Name Origin

NeedleWork is a pun on the fact that Scorpions, upon which Scorpoids are based, have stingers. The same can also be said for Puffies, which are most probably based on Tetraodontidae, which have spines on their bodies. Additionally, Needle work is synonymous with knitting or crocheting. Because these are relatively relaxing and innocuous tasks, the pun may reside in the fact that this tech is the opposite.