Truth Serum

Truth Serum

Someone who consumes a truth serum, cannot knowingly lie. They are not compelled to speak, but if the imbiber does CHOOSE to speak, he or she cannot lie. It should be noted that truth is relative, subject to the imbiber's beliefs and knowledge, but the imbiber will tell the truth, as they see it, to the best of their ability.

Used with a charm spell this compound can be very powerful.

Detailed Information

Ingested Poisons

An ingested poison is a type of poison. Ingested poisons are consumables generally given to other characters through subterfuge and trickery (or just when they are helpless). It should be noted that ingested poisons only give the poisoned condition if they cause a poison call or otherwise specifically say they do. Even if they do not give the poisoned condition a character with an immunity to poison is still immune to ingested poisons.

To use an ingested poison it must be role-played being poured into a drink or onto food (assuming you can't somehow trick someone into drinking the poison straight out of the vial), then a green dot is applied to the container, typically on the bottom. This green dot gives characters with the herbalist skill a chance to identify that the food or drink is not safe before anyone ingests it. In the event that someone ingests the poison they should then be notified of exactly which poison they consumed.

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.

Status Five Skill

Characters with the status rank five role-playing skill are immune to truth serum and are not required to indicate this immunity with a no effect call, so don't overestimate information gained from this item.

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