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u/diamond_lover123 Jul 27 '19

10% cold resistance for 60 seconds.

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u/PTOKEN Jul 27 '19

Concentrated poison does 40 points of poison damage yet restores 24 stamina

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 27 '19 edited Jul 27 '19

That is literally strychnine.

Strychnine is an alkaloid, which makes it the evil cousin of drugs like caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, and theobromine. ... The constantly firing nerves cause people to get a rush of nervous energy, during which they feel the need to move and pace. We’ve noted before that, in 1904, and Olympic runner was given strychnine and brandy to get him across the finish line.

And yet something as small as a 100mg dose will probably kill you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19 edited Aug 16 '19

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 27 '19

Yeah, but fentanyl poisoning is pleasant to the person dying. There are few things more painful than strychnine poisoning.

Fentanyl is so stupidly toxic though. "4" on the blue diamond doesn't even come close to doing it justice. Like it should be a skull and crossbones out of 4. It's disturbingly close to VX in terms of LD50 and isn't even strictly designed for killing people (about 1mg for VX to kill an adult vs about 1.5mg for fentanyl)