Hmbown Cross Gun
Punish the dodge by firing through the center line and its immediate diagonals.
What This Skill Does
Use Cross Gun when the target will not stay neatly in one lane and the best move is a compact cross-pattern shot that catches the center and the likeliest side-step routes. In this chip pack, Cross Gun is treated as a metaphorical battle-chip procedure with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Cross Gun. Hermes shelf: Direct Fire and Breach.
When To Use
- The main target is clear, but adjacent dodge lanes matter almost as much as the center line.
- You want to test the primary surface and the immediate off-axis escapes in one move.
- A straight burst is too narrow, but a full spread would be sloppy.
Prerequisites
- These procedures rely on the normal tools already present in the active Hermes runtime; this repo does not ship a separate integration layer.
Procedure
- Restate the target, success condition, and no-touch boundaries before you spend the chip.
- Name the center point and the side-step lanes worth catching.
- Fire one compact cross-pattern action across the center and its immediate diagonals.
- Read which lane reacted, then choose whether the follow-up should tighten or widen.
- Package the result with concrete evidence, what stayed untouched, and the next recommended chip only if follow-up is truly needed.
Deliverables
- One compact action that covers the primary target and its immediate side lanes.
- A short note on which lane actually moved or changed.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Keep the metaphor anchored to a real operator move instead of drifting into lore.
- Do not pretend diagonals matter when the problem is really just straight ahead.
- Do not use Cross Gun as an excuse for broad speculative splash.
- If one lane is enough, use Cannon or Shotgun instead.
- Keep the chip metaphor anchored to a real operating move; do not let flavor substitute for procedure.
Verification
- Check that the response includes every promised deliverable and leaves an inspectable audit trail.
- Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and proposed follow-up are visibly separated.
- Check that the metaphor still maps cleanly to a real operator mechanism.
Example Invocation
/cross-gun fire across the center and the immediate side-step lanes around it, then report which lane actually changed and what that says about the next move