Poison

• Syntax: cast poison <victim>
• Casting message: You feel very sick.
• Expiration message: Unknown
• Failure message: Your magic fails to take hold.

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This spell reduces the strength of the victim by
two, as well as reducing the victim's regeneration
rate.

Being the target of poison is a nasty dilemma. Poisons
causes the sufferers body to be racked with pain and
fever, weakening them and causing hallucinations in
the further stages of affliction. 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.

Information

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