Poison

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  ||:|                           |: This spell reduces the      |:||
  ||:|       -= Poison =-        |: strength of the victim by   |:||
  ||:|                           |: two, as well as reducing    |:||
  ||:|   Syntax:                 |: the victim's regeneration   |:||
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  ||:|   cast poison <victim>    |:                             |:||
  ||:|                           |: Being the target of poison  |:||
  ||:|                           |: is a nasty dilemma. Poisons |:||
  ||:|                           |: cause the sufferers body to |:||
  ||:|                           |: be racked with pain and     |:||
  ||:|                           |: fever, weakening them and   |:||
  ||:|                           |: causing hallucinations in   |:||
  ||:|                           |: the further stages of       |:||
  ||:|                           |: afflication. Many healers   |:||
  ||:|                           |: are said to be proficient   |:||
  ||:|                           |: in the tending of such      |:||
  ||:|                           |: conditions, though the      |:||
  ||:|                           |: recovery may still take     |:||
  ||:|                           |: some time on the part of    |:||
  ||:|                           |: the sufferer.               |:||
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Information

• Syntax: cast poison <victim>
• Duration: Unknown
• Mininum stance: Unknown

Spell Messages

• When you successfully cast on yourself: You feel very sick.
• When you fail to cast on yourself: Your magic fails to take hold.
• When you fail to cast on player A: Your magic fails to take hold.
• When player A successfully casts on you: You feel very sick.

Notes

Poison lowers the target's strength by two points and, if given sufficient time to do its work, completely ruins their mental state, dramatically reducing their ability to fight. You can keep track of how long someone has been poisoned by the descriptive echoes they give to the room. Full mental state deterioration is longer than the last of these, however, and is estimated to take 48 minutes of real time.

Stage	Room Echo
1	<name> shivers and suffers.
2	<name> looks kind of out of it.
3	<name> doesn't look too good.
4	<name> looks like he could use your help.
5	Someone should fetch a healer for <name>.
6	<name> doesn't appear to be aware of what's going on.
7	<name> starts ranting like a madman!
8	<name> is ranting on about the answer, the One, etc.
9	<name> is muttering and ranting in tongues.

See Also

• Puinsean (Equivalent spell for Druids) / Venomous touch (Equivalent spell for Nephandi)
• Wasp talon
• Cure poison / Ioc puinsean