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[SQman]

In my current fort I decided to play with poison a little bit and the first one I tried was the nether horror (or something like that). There was a wounded giant rhino that has been being mauled by hunting cougars for a year now eating my FPS, so I sent a guy with a poisoned sword to get my precious frames back. Suddenly the rhino turned into a decay brute.

Now the question is: why? Why would anyone use poison that changes stuff into powerful monsters? When is the "right" moment to use something like this?
There's one more point I wanted to make - poison-making reactions should have descriptions explaining how the poison works. The names are not descriptive enough to guess. I guess pinkskin bane does serious damage against humans, dwarves and elves, but voodoo poison? Or nether horror (although now I know what it does)?

[Meph]

True, the old manual had the description of the poisons. I put that on my list.

When to use the "turn a thing into a powerful monster" poison? In big invasions. Hit one enemy, turns into berserk monster, starts attacking his allies.

[SQman]

Oh, so it's berserk. I didn't know since my guy stabbed it in the face the second it transformed. I guess it could be useful against invaders as they are now.

[smakemupagus]

Searching for: plant:voodoo
plant_fake.txt(112): [PLANT:VOODOO]
Found 1 occurrence(s) in 1 file(s)

[PLANT:VOODOO]
   [NAME:voodoo poison][NAME_PLURAL:voodoo poison][ADJ:voodoo poison]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:10]
   [BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:EXTRACT:PLANT_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE][REACTION_CLASS:ADD_SPATTER_VENOM]
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen voodoo poison]
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:voodoo poison]
      [STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling voodoo poison]
      [MATERIAL_VALUE:5]
      [REACTION_CLASS:VOODOO]
      [DISPLAY_COLOR:5:0:0]
      [PREFIX:NONE]
      [EXTRACT_STORAGE:BARREL]
      [ENTERS_BLOOD]
      [SYNDROME]
         [SYN_NAME:voodoo poison]
         [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
         [SYN_INJECTED]
         [CE_ADD_TAG:OPPOSED_TO_LIFE:START:200]
         [CE_NUMBNESS:SEV:130:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:5:END:200]
   [EXTRACT_BARREL:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:EXTRACT]
   [FREQUENCY:0]
   [PREFSTRING:ability to turn people into zombies]

[Meph]

Voodoo poison: Adds OPPOSED_TO_LIFE, turns people into undeads.

[smakemupagus]

Voodoo poison: Adds OPPOSED_TO_LIFE, turns people into undeads.

AND makes them numb briefly!   

[Meph]

Technically they first turn numb for 200 ticks, then become undead.