Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[§k]

There's a short sword coated with necrotic poison. It may be useful, but
a)can it be safely wielded by a dwarf that wears gauntlets?
b)does it leave poison on its victim and makes the corpse untouchable?
c)will the poison be washed off by blood in a few turns?

[Ancalagon_TB]

... how did this happen?

[§k]

To know the property of the "poisonous vapor" of a large flying iguana, i sent a swordsdwarf to it. After caught in the boiling vapr, the dwarf vomits and then rots.

[pisskop]

Yup.

Unfortunately, unless its fast-acting and OP it wont really effect the outcome of individual battle.  and itll get coated in other stuff/washed off eventually.  And it can be hard to spread that contaminate stuff around in battle.  Even slashing critters with it wont contaminate them.  Since the syndrome isn't injected.  Its possible, but more likely that you'll infect your own fort instead.

tl:dr:

Dont use it, wash it off and save yourself the Fun.


---

Also 'poisonous vapor'? :|

[§k]

Thank you very much! It's difficult to fetch that sword anyway and iron is abundant.

What's wrong with "'poisonous vapor'"? i don't get it...

[Magistrum]

I'm not sure myself about the vapor... well, if you want venom, then try using bolts, anything else is venomous only for the first hit, and it only works with injecting venom. I use helmet snake or king cobra, but I think there are others too...

[MDFification]

I didn't think vapor left spreadable contaminants.

[pisskop]

I didn't think vapor left spreadable contaminants.

It doesn't usually, if its already a gas in a gas attack.
I suppose it was a dust . . .  All vapor means in DF is gas form.

You could have 'boiling' dry ice 'vapors', for instance.

[Thisfox]

... how did this happen?

That is also my question. Is this a really rare artifact or something? Or is it a circus spoiler?

[Ives]

... how did this happen?

That is also my question. Is this a really rare artifact or something? Or is it a circus spoiler?

Things get coated with nasty stuff all the time, once you breach caverns and start getting uninvited guests.

I think it may work pretty well with bolts.

[wierd]

Deadly dust on crossbow bolts is a fairly commonplace thing, IIRC. 

You can use something like my "peepshow booth" with a trapped FB that spits out deadly dust clouds to reliably get syndrome dust onto said bolts.

Basically, it's just a stockpile that forbids bins, that you put your bolts in, with the peepshow booth in the middle. Open the bridge shutters on the booth, the FB sees dwarves or whatever and does the dust attack-- the dust gets on the bolts. easy peasy.

Getting the FB into the booth? That's hard. ;P

[Quartz_Mace]

Deadly dust on crossbow bolts is a fairly commonplace thing, IIRC. 

You can use something like my "peepshow booth" with a trapped FB that spits out deadly dust clouds to reliably get syndrome dust onto said bolts.

Basically, it's just a stockpile that forbids bins, that you put your bolts in, with the peepshow booth in the middle. Open the bridge shutters on the booth, the FB sees dwarves or whatever and does the dust attack-- the dust gets on the bolts. easy peasy.

Getting the FB into the booth? That's hard. ;P

When handling the bolts, will Dwarves become contaminated or spread it around?

[pisskop]

Gloves.  And decon trenches.

But it can spread if not careful, yes.  Dwarves dont do containment as well as use.

[Magistrum]

That gives another point to injection poison, it doesn't contaminate anything besides what the bolts hit.

[§k]

About the vapor... I'm sure it's vapor, neither dust or blood. it's in the legend.

I thought vapor doesn't leave contaminant, but it did. The dwarf, and everything he carries, and corpse of the beast, are thoroughly coated in the extract. Ale in his waterskin, bolts in his quiver, and cavern floor, are clean though. I assume the beast stirs up its liquid venom into mist. Maybe poisonous gas is what that leaves no contaminant.