ACUTE SILENCE POISON
Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements
A poison highly regarded for its amazing usage in traps. As far as age goes, hunter gatherer clans noticed how animals avoided these ingredients, noticing their poisonous potential. Using traps was incredibly rare at the time, but a few upstarts used them to great efficiency, and one particular healer took it upon themselves to poison these animals. Not quite understanding that poisons remain in the creature after death, they luckily evaded a poor choice as the quantity needed to kill a human is dozens of times more than a small rabbit. The result is the best mortal tier rat poisons in existence.
INGREDIENTS AND RECIPE
* Bright red thornberries, 10 berries – non magical poisonous fruit
* Maiden’s bleeding nettle, 3 stems – non magical poisoning plant
A simpler recipe this time round, with far less preparation. One note regarding the nettle, it’s original name was simply blackthorned nettle, but a spiteful alchemist forced a name change after his heart was broken by a lovely singer. Yes, even alchemists can be extremely petty.
Thornberries are often picked with their crown of thorns included. This crown forms a circle of sharp spikes like the petals of a flower and can easily be cut off with a good blade. If you don’t have a knife, then be imaginative, or read up on prehistoric survival. I can’t include everything here.
With the thorns cut off, try to avoid swallowing the thornberry’s juices. It won’t harm you, but best not to consume poisons willy-nilly. Crush the berries into a pulp and squeeze the juices out. Collect the red liquid in a container of your choice and do what you please with the berry, just make sure to cook them to remove the poison. Supposedly, they make a nice sour jam.
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The bleeding nettle stems have no preparation requirements, wear some protection and squeeze all the liquid out from the stems. The water will also contain some of the poison, which is directly poured into the container of thornberry juice. Mix the two properly with a vigorous shake and you’re ready to go.
Just don’t drink the poison, about 30 ml will give severe stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhoea. After 50 ml you enter the lethal range, although children and smaller/lighter people will encounter these ranges at lower values.
USAGES
You’d imagine this is great for assassinating people, given that it produces no scent or smell, while the colour can easily be hidden. However, it’s a lot easier said than done to make a person consume so much in a quick succession. If not taken in a single instance, then a person can drink over 200 ml in the course of a day and feel fine. It’s only during a high build-up that issues are encountered.
As said earlier, it’s great for hunting animals and dealing with rats. A small piece of fruit coated in the poison is enough to kill a smaller rat, while a few coated seeds can kill pigeons and the like. Rabbits are a bit harder due to weight, but even they can be dealt with given proper food.
It is generally advisable to let the poison dry on the food before giving it to an animal, such that the fluid is not rubbed off by accident. Understandable, this may not be a choice when hunting larger carnivorous animals as the bloody scent draws them in too quickly.
In the end, it’s a versatile fluid for human hunters. How it’s used will always depend on the situation at hand, and who knows, maybe you’ll get away with poisoning someone with it.