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-------------------------------------------------------------------- Skill : Apply Class : Herbalist Cost : 20 / 10 Skill Type : Active / Automatic Casting time : 2 rounds / Instant Stats Base : Dexterity, Intelligence Difficulty : Level 2 / Level 0 Syntax : do apply <herbal poison> on <weapon> : do apply <herbal poison> on <target>'s <weapon> Examples : do apply concish on sword : do apply podomma on zartan's dagger By extracting oil from an herbal toxin, an Herbalist may poison a weapon. Only flesh-piercing weapons may be coated. When the weapon connects in combat or otherwise, the poisonous oil extract will drip from the weapon into the victim's bloodstream. If the wielder of the weapon waits too long to attack a target, the oil will dry up. This function costs 20 spell points and takes 2 rounds to complete. An Herbalist may also poison any ally's flesh-piercing weaponry by using "do apply <poison> on <target>'s <weapon>". ****************************************************** Darts are automatically applied with poison via the "shoot <poison type> at <target>" operation of the Herbalist's blowgun and are thus not directly poisoned via the apply skill (the apply skill's total level is still used to calculate the effectiveness, however). This costs 10 spell points in addition to the 5 required to fire the dart, totaling 15 spell points to fire a poison dart. ****************************************************** Poisonous herbal oil extracts have the following effects upon entering the bloodstream... UTMAHI: Fast-acting organ damage over a short period of time. This poison is known to penetrate poison resistance. CONCISH: Blindness. BINBALOP: Slowed movement and attacking due to muscle stiffening. PODOMMA: Confusion due to slowed neural processing, which beclouds the target's sense of direction. FIKMIR: Skin irritation and involuntary muscle spasms due to forced neuron firing, which interrupt the target's use of skills when the spasms occur. Only two herbal toxins may be present in a given target's system at any given time. Only utmahi poison is able to stack itself on a single target. Stacking utmahi increases the damage it does per round but reduces its overall duration. ****************************************************** The maximum doses of utmahi per target is two plus one per ten levels of the Herbalist: (2 + Herbalist_Total_Level / 10) ****************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: help skill collect, help skill craft