Poison

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A poison is a substance made from certain ingredients that will cause a negative effect when it enters the body either when ingested, by touch, through wounds or by breathing it.

There are many sources of poison on the Disc with various effects.

The effects of a poison can either be instant, regularly distribution over time or increasing over time.

Effects

The negative effects can be:

Food, drink and other substances

Several poisons are delivered by eating, drinking or otherwise consuming poisonous items:

Witches can tempt people into eating fruits even if they are poisoned.

Poison creation

Players can make some poisons, smoke bombs and combining the two gas bombs.

Warning: Some people consider created poisons to be secret and similar to quests in that knowing everything about it can ruin one's fun of discovering it by yourself. It can be frowned upon to publicly ask or discuss the specifics of poison making or other aspects of created poisons. Finally, some guilds of assassins have rules against selling or giving poisons made in their poison labs.

Sensitive information about poisons are hidden until you highlight it or edit the page. The pages about poison making have been moved to the Poison namespace to hide them from default search parameters and direct links.

Please note that making poisons is dangerous and can lead to dying.

To get more information about creating poisons, follow this link (at your own peril).

Weapons

Some weapons have poison built into them:

Attacks

There are also other ways to get poisoned:

Traps

Some traps on doors or containers can poison you when trying to pick, open or go through them. You can use probe to try to see if there is a trap and a successful disarming of the trap can prevent it from hurting you.

Curing

Witches can brew antivenom tea that instantly cures many types of poison if enough is drunk. This often includes stat loss. If not, the restore ritual can remove stat loss.

The Soothing Rain ritual also cures poisoning.

Higher levels of constitution reduce the poisoning time from various sources.

Being in a safe zone prevents the effects of poisons from damaging you, allowing it to expire after a while.

See also