This is the Blaster script that I quickly made for my Stormtrooper 
costume for the 
Haloween Party.  It uses the new functions of 1.0b4 for painting and 
mouse position. 
I know many others have created similar effects and could easily improve 
this 
script.  But, hey, they haven't posted them so here goes . . . .

p.s. This would be in the OUTCHAT handler of the Cyborg.ipx script.
        
-------- Blast v0.b1

{
; I moved the pen to front so the beam would come out of my blaster and not
; appear behind me, and would cross over anyone else in the room.  The beam
; color is Red, the size is 2,  I set the beam starting point an (-5,-13) 
from
; my character's position (approx where the blaster is on the outfit) and the
; beams ending point at the mouse position (nice aiming feature).  I draw 
the line
; and then immediately erase it.  This maintains other painting on the 
screen and
; gives a nice flicker effect.
      PENFRONT
      255 0 0 PENCOLOR
      2 PENSIZE
      POSX 5 - POSY 13 -
      MOUSEPOS
      LINE
      PAINTUNDO
; I wanted to have the beam happen more than once with some different
; So this loop just shoots 10 times down the vertical axis of the MOUSEPOS
; This could probably be removed or modified - even I don't like it.   
   {
          i ++
      POSX 5 - POSY 13 - 
      MOUSEPOS 100 - i 20 * +
      LINE
      PAINTUNDO
    } { i 10 < } WHILE
; Next we need a sound effect and a visual effect.  The sound effect was
; Boom and the visual effect was a cloud burst called Fire which I got
; somewhere.  The effect is a bit off center from the beam as written
; it should really be placed at (-7,-5) or so from the mousepos to be
; centered.  The final line removes the word "blast" from the CHATSTR
; so it doesn't appear as a balloon.
      ")boom" SAY
      "Fire" MOUSEPOS ADDLOOSEPROP
      "" CHATSTR =
        } CHATSTR "blast" SUBSTR IF

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As you make improvements and/or enhancements - please add them to the 
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More later, Bruce