Ki Bullets (Su): By performing a 1 hour ritual, carving a unique rune into her bullets, the blackpowder assassin may infuse her supernatural focus into her ammunition. She may combine a firearm bullet and a dose of black powder into a ki bullet. A ki bullet is treated as a suitable alchemical or metal cartridge for her firearm. A ki bullet lasts for 24 hours, or until it hits a target, before it crumbles into dust. As part of the ritual she may also expend a number of focus points equal to the number of ki bullets created, these bullets automatically apply the focus shot deed to any attacks made with them. This ritual may create a number of ki bullets up to 3 + her Charisma modifier and may be performed once per day. This trick only costs focus if the blackpowder assassin decides to imbue the ki bullets with the focus shot deed. This trick requires the focus shot deed to learn.

Silence (Su): As a swift action, the blackpowder assassin can silence herself and her equipment for 1 round per level. This ability functions as the silence spell, except that it only targets the blackpowder assassin and any equipment she has. Using this ability uses up 1 focus point.

Focus Shot (Su): At 1st level, when the blackpowder assassin hits a target with a one-handed firearm that is not making a scatter shot, she can spend 1 focus point to deal her sneak attack damage as extra damage on a hit. If she misses with the attack, she grazes the target, dealing half the extra damage anyway. She must choose to spend the focus point before she makes the attack roll. This is precision damage and is not multiplied if the attack is a critical hit. This precision damage increases as her sneak attack damage increases. This deed replaces the deadeye deed.

Deadeye (Ex): At 11st level, the blackpowder assassin can resolve an attack against touch AC instead of normal AC when firing beyond her firearm’s first range increment. Performing this deed costs 1 grit point per range increment beyond the first. The gunslinger still takes the –2 penalty on attack rolls for each range increment beyond the first when she performs this deed. This deed replaces the startling shot deed.

Show Stopper (Ex): At 19th level, the blackpowder assassin can spend a move action and 1 focus point to study a target within 30 ft. The next attack she makes against the target of this deed with a one-handed firearm cannot misfire, and is unaffected by concealment (but not total concealment). This deed must be used within 1 round of spending the focus point. A normal hit with this deed against the target is considered to be a critical hit and deals extra damage equal to the blackpowder assassin’s level (max 20, this bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit). A natural critical hit deals the same extra damage, but that damage is multiplied due to the critical. If the target succeeds on a reflex save, with a DC of 10 + 1/2 the blackpowder assassin’s level + her Charisma modifier, all extra damage is halved. Once a creature has been targeted with this deed, regardless if it succeeded on the saving throw, it cannot be targeted for 24 hours. This deed replaces the menacing shot deed.

Ki Bullet Mastery (Su): This trick functions as the ki bullets trick (see above), however the focus cost is now half a focus point per ki bullet (rounding up). This trick requires the ki bullets trick.

Smoke Shot (Ex): When a blackpowder assassin creates a smoke bomb, while wielding a firearm, she can make it into the form of an alchemical cartridge suitable for the firearm she is currently wielding. This cartridge can be loaded into the firearm and fired as normal. On a successful attack, the effect of the smoke bomb is centred on the target and the attack deals damage to the target as if using a firearm of one size smaller. The blackpowder assassin must have the smoke bomb ninja trick before selecting this trick.