Poison: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.
See the poison texts page for more or less mild spoilers about poison ingredients.
Instructions
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Tools
There are poison labs in the different Assassin Guilds with several tools used to make poisons.
Method | Action | Used with | AM | OC | Hashishim | Ninja | Mano Rossa |
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Pulverise | Crush into powder. | Minerals | small hammer | ||||
Grind | Crush into tiny (ground) bits. | Mostly herbs | large mortar and pestle | large mortar and pestle | large mortar and pestle | grinder | large mortar and pestle |
Heat | Macerate in high temperature to facilitate a chemical reaction. | Liquids | firebox | firebox | dome | iron pot | firebox |
Distill | Evaporate and then condense only some parts of the original liquid. | Liquid | still | still | hookah | retort | still |
Steep | Soak to transfer the essence. | Ground solid and liquid solvent (acid) | large red flask, large blue flask | old saucepan, rusty bucket | large scarlet flask, large sapphire flask | vase | large purple flask and a large crimson flask |
Press | Squish to extract a liquid. | Poison sac or gland | press | press | press | statue | press |
Stir | Mix liquids. | Liquids | wooden spoons | ||||
Cool | Cool liquids so they can solidify into a solid substance. | Liquids | mould |
To mix solid ingredients they can be put in the same liquid container (those can be referred to as vessels), unless steeping or heating is required.
To mix liquids you need to transfer the first liquid from its vessel to the vessel that is holding the second liquid.
- Pipettes are useful to transfer small exact quantities. There is a covert.items.poisons skill check to prevent poisoning yourself.
The following useful items can be purchased or found in or near poison labs:
- <teat/tiny/small/medium/large> pipette
- small <colour> glass vial
- large <colour> bottle
At each step of making the poison be sure to only keep the exact substance expected before proceeding to the next step.
Get
excess solids (that didn't react) from vessels after mixing for example herbs and water.- Remove liquids that are not the result with pipettes (this can happen when the mix is not 100% correct)
suck <liquid in vessel> into <pipette>
- If you get really small amounts of the result, try changing the proportion of the ingredients.
Location of poison labs:
Region | City | Location | Guild |
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Sto Plains | Ankh-Morpork | Filigree Street | Ankh-Morpork Guild of Assassins |
Sto Plains | Ohulan Cutash | Assassin Alley | Ankh-Morpork Guild of Assassins |
Counterweight Continent | Bes Pelargic | Silk Lane | Ninja |
Klatch | Djelibeybi | Cliffs west of the city | Hashishim |
Vieux River | Genua | Dauphin Street | Mano Rossa |
Skill
To recognize the herbs used for poison and gather them uses crafts.husbandry.plant.herbal and crafts.hunting.foraging. The skill adventuring.perception is also used for some components.
The skill covert.items.poisons is used during the making process to determine the potency of the produced poisons. The effectiveness and the duration of the poison is based on this skill at the time of making the poison.
Delivery
Assassin poisons are used in some inhume methods.
Created poisons can be delivered through ingestion (which is often fatal) or delivered by putting drops of poison in a poisoned dart, crossbow arrow, tlinga or throwing spike and hitting the victim with it.
Some weapons that can hold created poisons:
- Thrown weapons
- Crossbow arrow, most useful loaded in a crossbow
- Dart, most useful loaded in blowpipe or flute
- Throwing tlinga
- Steel tlinga
- Throwing spike
- Fired weapons
- Bamboo flute, loaded with a dart
- Black bamboo blowpipe, loaded with a dart
- Blowpipe (custom), loaded with a dart
- Bone blowpipe, loaded with a dart
- Crossbow (Mk 3), loaded with a crossbow arrow
- Ivory blowpipe, loaded with a dart
- Silver blowpipe, loaded with a dart
- Wooden blowpipe, loaded with a dart
You can also add poison mixture into a Smoke bomb to turn it into a gas bomb
Art and culture can also be poisonous.
Known poisons and bombs
The following table provides information on the various poisons and bombs.
Poison | Nicknames | Effect | Substance appearance | Ingredients | Fits in gas bomb? |
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Bloat poison |
Blowfish poison |
Damage and body swells in size |
oily brown liquid |
blowfish poison sac |
? |
Command removal poison |
Commandforget poison |
Temporarily forget some commands |
vivid chartreuse liquid |
? |
? |
Con poison |
Hemlock-Snake poison |
Reduces constitution |
oily colourless liquid |
hemlock ... snake poison sac ... water |
? |
Gp poison |
Gp-loss poison / Gp-draining poison |
Gp loss over time |
shimmering orange liquid |
belladonna ... hemlock ... water |
yes |
Hallucination poison |
Visions poison |
Hallucinations |
brilliant blue liquid |
toad skin ... Angel's trumpet ... water |
yes |
Hp poison |
Achorion purple poison |
Large damage and possible death |
sparkling purple syrup |
achorion mould ... vodka |
? |
Misdirection poison |
Confusion poison |
Moves in the wrong directions |
beige liquid |
skullcap ... ? |
? |
Rage poison |
Anger poison |
Anger, self damage |
pink creamy liquid |
Tyler Weed ... wolf heart ... lion duct ... water ... orange tablet |
? |
Spell removal poison |
Spellforget poison |
Temporarily forget some spells. |
shimmering blue liquid |
borage ... nightshade ... blue lotus |
? |
Venom poison |
Spider poison / Stat poison |
Reduces constitution by 5 and dexterity by 2 and deals small amounts of damage over time |
dark red liquid |
poison gland from a giant spider or a poison sac from a scorpion |
yes |
Weedkiller poison |
Weed killer poison |
weakens vines |
deep lime green liquid |
?geranium? ... ?solvent? |
? |
Smoke bomb |
smokebomb |
Minor damage, reduced visibility |
smoke bomb |
clay ... guano ... Black Benedict's Batsup ... loose sugar ... sulphur powder ... candle wick |
no |
Gas bomb |
gasbomb |
Minor damage, reduced visibility, poison effect |
gas bomb |
clay ... bat guano ... Black Benedict's Batsup ... loose sugar ... sulphur powder ... candle wick ... poison |
no |
Poison | Nicknames | Effect | Substance appearance | Ingredients | Fits in gas bomb? |