Every super team needs someone with a "water blast"

[robkelk]

I'm a real guy I like real guy things
Like boats and guns and onion rings
But houshold chores need a power resolution
I went to the store and purchased the solution
I got a pressure washer I like it a lot
'Cause it makes cleaning destructive
Now I blow away the dirt and obliterate the muck
I pressure wash my fench and my couch and my truck
Nothing's dirty in the house though things are a little damp
My car's clean now even though it's bald
It's fur is in a corner of my neighbour's yard
I've got a new kid but diapers aren't a problem
I pressure washed his butt he'll never pee on me again
I got a pressure washer (He likes it a lot)
I got a pressure wahser (He cleaned up the tot)
Sure I may be squirting water but in my head
I'm a sergeant with a flamthrower spewing out death
I've got 2000 psi of awesome killing power
Look out commies, here comes Mike Rambo
With his 50 mm pressure washer look at him go
Jehovah's witnesses come and shake my hand
I pressure washed their literature and not they understand
I got a pressure washer
One day I was out pressure washing my lawn
My neighbour came home with a big smile on
He pulled out a brand new
Gas powered
Turbo charged
90 gauge
Super mega mega mega washer
With a DVD drive
Damn IT!!!
I need a bigger pressure washer (he needs a bigger pressure washer)
I need a bigger pressure washer (he needs a bigger pressure washer)
I need a bigger pressure washer
I need a bigger pressure washer
I need a bigger pressure washer
Or maybe a hummer

Pressure Washer, The Arrogant Worms, from their 2006 album Beige

Like the subject says, every super team needs someone with a "water blast" power. (The Sailor Senshi have Sailor Neptune, although her atack is more "ball of water" than "water jet".)
The water jet isn't likely to kill anyone outright, but it will do some damage. (In GURPS terms, I'd set it as a 5d Innate Attack (crushing), with Jet, Double Knockback, and No Wounding, for a total of 18 points.)
Jealousy of somebody with a bigger "water jet" attack would also fit this song...

(Edit: Stupid typos...)
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Necratoid]

Technically, I think it would summon a pure energy pressure washer of some power. Like those energy shotguns only its a pressure washer backpack (utility)... with mental control of output strength. Useful for getting those ooze creatures off your car, but not really antipersonel so much as useful around the base/house.

[classicdrogn]

Speaking as someone who has used a pressure washer of the infernal-combustion-engine-powered vareity, it may well be antipersonnel if it's shooting *hot* water (influenced by the lines about a flamethrower and thousnads of degrees of death) as just holding the nozzle with it hooked up to the hot water tap required heavy leather gloves to keep from being scalded. heat+pressure=very efficient transfer of heat to target... which is desireable when you're melting gum off the sidewalk, less so when you're the target, or if you just happen to get in the way of the steeam - and if it was actually at 2000psi the stream itself would take the flesh off your bones - the one I used was only around 180 or 200 and would still bruise (running cold water) if it hit bare flesh within about a foot of the nozzle.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Bob Schroeck]

I sooooo have to get this song.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[DHBirr]

100% agreement with CD.
For instance:
"Did you know that if you got a fine enough jet and sufficient pressure you could cut metal with steam?"
...
A jet of scalding steam, thin and sharp as a needle, hissed from the nozzle ... then hit Cotter full in the face.... He went forward onto his knees. The hose followed him down, searing and stripping....
"Good God.... What did she do that with?"
"She used a high-pressure steam hose," said Mr. Calder. "Cotter ... killed her dog and mutilated it. I know just how she felt. I've got a dog myself."
-- Michael Gilbert, Game Without Rules, "The Spoilers"
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Necratoid]

Well I missed the 2,000 psi... so for a bit of randomness decided to see what such a device is for. 1500 psi is used for removing paint from brick/concrete. I saw a random blurb for a discusion on a ballet sites that said 1700 psi breaks a human femur. A nile crocodile (the 20 foot version) a random report involving a jaw bone said they bit at 3000 psi.
At a close enough range you can mess people up that way... I'm not sure on what kind of range that you'd get as it depends on nozzle and if the thing is on at full power.
Also, I only saw dolly carried ones in adds... a hose runs 25 feet on average apparently. So it is kind of difficult to attack with... only really useful verses clay golems or mud creatures. That or washing something a few minutes each day.
(Edited for DHBirr who post while I was writing)
While you can it matters only if you have incredible pressure going... your steam cutter is in the tens of thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch. The steam itself is a matter of cheap ammo(www.hydrochem.com/sheet/s...tem.html). Ever heard of grape shot? it was loading a cannon with powder and whatever (metal preferablly) and shooting it at something... very nasty. good for removing sails and masts... rope people whatever.

[Bob Schroeck]

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"Did you know that if you got a fine enough jet and sufficient pressure you could cut metal with steam?"

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You don't even need steam. This is a lesson Doug will be teaching Sailor Mercury early on, the first time Ami even hints that she thinks her powerset is no good in combat.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[Duane Peters]

I've used industrial water jets cleaning the inside of boilers. The day I started on the job, they showed me the boot of the guy whose place I was taking.
He'd waved the jet across his foot...and cut it in half. Just behind the steel toe cap of the boot.
I lasted a week in that place before the mental image got to me and I quit. [shudder]

[Bob Schroeck]

(urk)
Thank you for sharing...

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[robkelk]

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I sooooo have to get this song.

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Just found out that the album release party is this Saturday, and local to me. Of course, I'm busy ... but my nephew has a ticket, so I'm going to give him enough money to buy a copy of the CD for me.
Look for the disc in stores next week, folks...
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Yee-ha.

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...