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| Alchemy Level: | 5 |
|---|---|
| Duration: | 10 Minutes or until expended |
| Range: | Touch |
| Flag Required: | Weapon |
| Herbalism Required to Use: | Yes |
Grip of Darkness
This blade poison causes a weapon's next legal hit to call 'poison terror'.
Detailed Information
Blade Poisons
A blade poison is a consumable item that is applied to weapons in order to make them more deadly. In order to use a blade poison you must role-play the action of opening the vial and applying the poison to your weapon, then tie a flag to the blade.
Once applied a blade poison will last for 10 minutes or until the weapon has successfully hit an opponent. Some blade poisons require that they can only be applied to goblin iron weapons. These poisons get no special increased duration benefit when applied to such a weapon. All other blade poisons when applied to a goblin iron weapon, last for 20 minutes or until the weapon has successfully made two hits. These poisons interact with blightsteel in the exact same fashion.
Elven steel and silver weapons may never have blade poisons put on them. If a blade poison is applied to one of these weapons it is rendered inert and useless immediately.
Blade poisons, ingested poisons, and thrown poisons all require the herbalist skill to use. If a character attempts to use any of these types of alchemy compounds they fail to use the item successfully and suffer the effects as if the item were used on them.
Poison Calls
When a player is successfully hit by an attack with the "poison" call they are now considered poisoned until the condition is cured.
Poison Attacks Are Not Spells
When the poison call is added to any attack even a spell effect such as pin that attack no longer counts as a spell. This means that immunities to spell or compulsion effects no longer apply. The attack is now a poison effect.
Terror Calls
A target struck by a terror call becomes helpless, cowering in fear moving as minimally as possible. They are also affected by disengage, silence, weaken, and pin. Each of these other effects last for the normal amount of time for each, starting at the moment the terror effect is delivered.
When first hit by this effect the target should stand as perfectly still as possible. The helpless effect lasts for 10 minutes or until the target is hit by a weapon or a tag bag, whichever comes first.
While the target is under the primary effect of terror they are helpless and may not move, speak, cast spells, draw weapons, etc., and must simply hold still as motionless as possible. The player is not allowed to speak in-game or make any other noise while under the primary effect . A terror victim should make appropriate game calls like "no effect" while helpless.
The terror call never inflicts damage.
Unless modified by another call (such as poison) terror is a compulsion spell effect. Compulsion spells do not count as compulsion spells if there is a type listed, such as dominate undead.
Changing Weapon Calls
When an effect allows you to call for something different with a weapon than you would normally call, you must choose which call to use when you make your attacks. If the something different only applies to the "next successful hit", and you choose not to use it when you make that hit, the effect is wasted.
For example if a character who deals 2 damage with each melee attack has a sword that deals "Nature" damage and they apply Scorpion's Kiss to that weapon so that it can deal "poison weaken" damage for the next successful hit. When they make that successful hit against an opponent they can choose to call "2 nature" or "poison weaken". They may not call "2 Nature poison weaken". Regardless of the effect they choose, the Scorpion's Kiss will be expended after that successful hit.
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