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<blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5159827" data-attributes="member: 75712"><p>Here's the poison list again, this time with everything filled out. A lot of them are just random scents, and surely conflict with the official descriptions elsewhere (if such exist!), but it's a start <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Oh, and some of them are intentionally harmless-sounding, illogical, or just weird, especially devised for careless PCs. Enjoy!</p><p>[sblock]</p><p>Aboleth Oil - extremely fishy and acrid</p><p>Adlevine Extract - slightly sweet, with a hint of limes</p><p>Alforna - similar to cedar, but sweeter</p><p>Anemis - slightly coppery</p><p>Arsenic - odorless</p><p>Asabi Mist - sharp, like horseradish and ammonia</p><p>Balor Bile - strongly of burning coal, vomit and sulfur</p><p>Banelar Essence - vaguely leathery</p><p>Basilisk Breath - like hot dusty air</p><p>Bebilith Venom - very strongly of ammonia and onions</p><p>Black Adder Venom - odorless</p><p>Black Lotus Extract - sickly sweet, like incense and rotting flowers</p><p>Bloodroot - earthy, with a faint hint of rust iron</p><p>Blue Whinnis - slightly nutty and flowery</p><p>Bonespear Poison Fusion - slightly eggy and moist</p><p>Brain Dust - vaguely like cooked eggs</p><p>Burning Angel Wing Fumes - intensely of burnt flesh and morning dew</p><p>Burnt Othur Fumes - like wet burning wood, but slightly fruity</p><p>Carrion Crawler Brain Juice - vaguely like pickled fish</p><p>Centipede Poison, Colossal - almost odorless, but slightly musky</p><p>Centipede Poison, Gargantuan -</p><p>Centipede Poison, Huge -</p><p>Centipede Poison, Large -</p><p>Centipede Poison, Medium -</p><p>Centipede Poison, Small -</p><p>Centipede Poison, Tiny -</p><p>Chilblain Brain Juice - oily and nutty</p><p>Choldrith Toxin - slightly like kerosene and roses</p><p>Conflagration Ooze Essence - strongly of tar and lantern oil</p><p>Creeping Nullscourge - almost odorless, except for a slight soapiness</p><p>Cretel Leaf Residue - similar to peat, but slightly lemony</p><p>Crippling Vine - vaguely like pumpkin</p><p>Culum Powder - vaguely oniony, with a hint of fresh straw</p><p>Dark Reaver Powder - vaguely of cinnamon and blood</p><p>Darklight Brew - somewhat alcoholic and moldy, like old wine</p><p>Deathblade - slightly sickly sweet, like honeysuckle and gangrene</p><p>Devilseye - a bit like rotting stew and linseed oil</p><p>Dragon Bile - like crush stone and acid</p><p>Drow Poison - faintly of honeysuckle and alcohol</p><p>Eyeblast - intensely sour and peppery</p><p>Fang Dragon Venom - peachy, but with a hint of burned meat</p><p>Faralin - vaguely like candle wax</p><p>Fish Glue - strongly of seawater and rotten fish</p><p>Giant Wasp Poison - earthy and vinegary</p><p>Gray Whinnis - dusty, sweet and slightly herbal</p><p>Greenblood Oil - gingery</p><p>Greensickness - marshy, like decaying plants and mud</p><p>Haluroot - mossy and lemony</p><p>Horror Weed Extract - like a mix of vanilla and fish paste</p><p>Ice Toad Bile - sour, a bit like vomit and oranges</p><p>Icegaunt Dust - like old vellum, but slightly sweet</p><p>Id moss - like damp soil and strawberries</p><p>Illithid Mindscorch - slightly chemical, like lye and ginger</p><p>Insanity Mist - like the sound of silvery-blue bells ringing</p><p>Ishentav - slightly like jasmine and hot sand</p><p>Lich Dust - dusty and slightly of carrion</p><p>Lifebane - like frozen rotting flesh</p><p>Lockjaw - rusty, and a bit spicy</p><p>Malyss Root Paste - earthy but peppery</p><p>Megapede Poison - strongy acidic, with a hint of rotting vegetation</p><p>Mesmer Paste - very complex, like many different flavors at once</p><p>Mist of Nourn - a little like old oiled leather</p><p>Nitharit - oily, like unwashed hair</p><p>Oil of Taggit - slightly like apricots and rust</p><p>Pit Fiend Venom - like leather, burnt meat and hot metal</p><p>Psychotropic Rot - pleasantly pungent and earthy</p><p>Purple Worm Poison - much like oil and clay</p><p>Purple Worm Poison, Colossal -</p><p>Raeliss Smoke - like charred nutshells</p><p>Redek Vine Extract - similar to orange blossoms and tobacco</p><p>Retch - slightly like urine and fresh bread</p><p>Rill Leaf - faintly like a flower garden in spring</p><p>Roach Paste - like dirt, but slightly sweet & sour</p><p>Roshon Vapor - slightly sharp and citrusy, with a hint of swamp gas</p><p>Sasson Juice - bitter and a bit muddy</p><p>Sassone Leaf Residue - a bit like wet wool</p><p>Scorcher Fumes - like old ashes and juniper berries</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Colossal - strongly of vinegar</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Gargantuan -</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Huge -</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Medium -</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Small -</p><p>Scorpion Poison, Tiny -</p><p>Scorpion Venom, Colossal - slightly vinegary, with hints of carrion</p><p>Scorpion Venom, Gargantuan -</p><p>Scorpion venom, Large -</p><p>Shadow Essence - odorless, but cold</p><p>Shreef Oil - vaguley like sweet tobacco smoke</p><p>Shrieking Terror Saliva - like a nursery and tallow soap</p><p>Sleeping Weed - woody, sweet and slightly of chamomille</p><p>Slow Taint - vaguely of molasses and mold</p><p>Slowswarming - slightly garlicky</p><p>Snow Spider Blood - tart and somewhat earthy</p><p>Snowflake Lichen Powder - like a mix of rotten eggs and fresh melon</p><p>Spider Venom, Colossal - vaguely like pond water, but slightly spicy</p><p>Spider Venom, Gargantuan -</p><p>Spider Venom, Huge -</p><p>Spider Venom, Large -</p><p>Spider Venom, Medium -</p><p>Spider Venom, Small -</p><p>Spider Venom, Tiny -</p><p>Striped Toadstool - unpleasantly pungent, much like a stable</p><p>Sufferfume - vaguely like a burning building and sweat</p><p>Svaklor Venom - like oil paint, but sulfury</p><p>Svaklor Venom, Greater -</p><p>Swarming Spiderbite - like black tea and chlorine</p><p>Terinav Root - like soil and turpentine</p><p>The Calling - like fresh water with a hint of eucalyptus</p><p>Thever Fumes - slightly pungent and mustardy</p><p>Thever Paste - a little like horseradish, but sweeter</p><p>Underdark Blight - like crushed mushrooms and wine</p><p>Ungol Dust - like dust and gangrenous flesh</p><p>Urthanyk - a little like red wine and black pepper</p><p>Vapid Leaf Extract - like oregano and sweet mint</p><p>Vilestar - pungent, like rotting sausage</p><p>White Pudding Essence - strongly acidic</p><p>Wild Dwarf Knockout Poison - a little like manure and kerosene</p><p>Wooly Mammoth Eye Juice - slightly like carrion and pine needles</p><p>Wraith Sheen - odorless</p><p>Wyvern Poison - musky but sweet, like burnt hair and berries</p><p>Wyvern Poison, Gargantuan -</p><p>Wyvern Poison, Huge -</p><p>Yeti Oil - very musky, with a strong hint of wet, oily fur</p><p></p><p>Gravedust - like dry dusty soil and mold</p><p>Boneshard Paste - vaguely like carrion, incense and alcohol</p><p>Sunlight Oil - slightly citrusy</p><p>Bloodwine - metallic and slightly of fermenting fruit</p><p>Celestial Essence - odorless, but very fresh and clean</p><p>Lichbane - slightly like chlorine</p><p>Liquid Mortality - like nutmeg and apples[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Theo R Cwithin, post: 5159827, member: 75712"] Here's the poison list again, this time with everything filled out. A lot of them are just random scents, and surely conflict with the official descriptions elsewhere (if such exist!), but it's a start ;) Oh, and some of them are intentionally harmless-sounding, illogical, or just weird, especially devised for careless PCs. Enjoy! [sblock] Aboleth Oil - extremely fishy and acrid Adlevine Extract - slightly sweet, with a hint of limes Alforna - similar to cedar, but sweeter Anemis - slightly coppery Arsenic - odorless Asabi Mist - sharp, like horseradish and ammonia Balor Bile - strongly of burning coal, vomit and sulfur Banelar Essence - vaguely leathery Basilisk Breath - like hot dusty air Bebilith Venom - very strongly of ammonia and onions Black Adder Venom - odorless Black Lotus Extract - sickly sweet, like incense and rotting flowers Bloodroot - earthy, with a faint hint of rust iron Blue Whinnis - slightly nutty and flowery Bonespear Poison Fusion - slightly eggy and moist Brain Dust - vaguely like cooked eggs Burning Angel Wing Fumes - intensely of burnt flesh and morning dew Burnt Othur Fumes - like wet burning wood, but slightly fruity Carrion Crawler Brain Juice - vaguely like pickled fish Centipede Poison, Colossal - almost odorless, but slightly musky Centipede Poison, Gargantuan - Centipede Poison, Huge - Centipede Poison, Large - Centipede Poison, Medium - Centipede Poison, Small - Centipede Poison, Tiny - Chilblain Brain Juice - oily and nutty Choldrith Toxin - slightly like kerosene and roses Conflagration Ooze Essence - strongly of tar and lantern oil Creeping Nullscourge - almost odorless, except for a slight soapiness Cretel Leaf Residue - similar to peat, but slightly lemony Crippling Vine - vaguely like pumpkin Culum Powder - vaguely oniony, with a hint of fresh straw Dark Reaver Powder - vaguely of cinnamon and blood Darklight Brew - somewhat alcoholic and moldy, like old wine Deathblade - slightly sickly sweet, like honeysuckle and gangrene Devilseye - a bit like rotting stew and linseed oil Dragon Bile - like crush stone and acid Drow Poison - faintly of honeysuckle and alcohol Eyeblast - intensely sour and peppery Fang Dragon Venom - peachy, but with a hint of burned meat Faralin - vaguely like candle wax Fish Glue - strongly of seawater and rotten fish Giant Wasp Poison - earthy and vinegary Gray Whinnis - dusty, sweet and slightly herbal Greenblood Oil - gingery Greensickness - marshy, like decaying plants and mud Haluroot - mossy and lemony Horror Weed Extract - like a mix of vanilla and fish paste Ice Toad Bile - sour, a bit like vomit and oranges Icegaunt Dust - like old vellum, but slightly sweet Id moss - like damp soil and strawberries Illithid Mindscorch - slightly chemical, like lye and ginger Insanity Mist - like the sound of silvery-blue bells ringing Ishentav - slightly like jasmine and hot sand Lich Dust - dusty and slightly of carrion Lifebane - like frozen rotting flesh Lockjaw - rusty, and a bit spicy Malyss Root Paste - earthy but peppery Megapede Poison - strongy acidic, with a hint of rotting vegetation Mesmer Paste - very complex, like many different flavors at once Mist of Nourn - a little like old oiled leather Nitharit - oily, like unwashed hair Oil of Taggit - slightly like apricots and rust Pit Fiend Venom - like leather, burnt meat and hot metal Psychotropic Rot - pleasantly pungent and earthy Purple Worm Poison - much like oil and clay Purple Worm Poison, Colossal - Raeliss Smoke - like charred nutshells Redek Vine Extract - similar to orange blossoms and tobacco Retch - slightly like urine and fresh bread Rill Leaf - faintly like a flower garden in spring Roach Paste - like dirt, but slightly sweet & sour Roshon Vapor - slightly sharp and citrusy, with a hint of swamp gas Sasson Juice - bitter and a bit muddy Sassone Leaf Residue - a bit like wet wool Scorcher Fumes - like old ashes and juniper berries Scorpion Poison, Colossal - strongly of vinegar Scorpion Poison, Gargantuan - Scorpion Poison, Huge - Scorpion Poison, Medium - Scorpion Poison, Small - Scorpion Poison, Tiny - Scorpion Venom, Colossal - slightly vinegary, with hints of carrion Scorpion Venom, Gargantuan - Scorpion venom, Large - Shadow Essence - odorless, but cold Shreef Oil - vaguley like sweet tobacco smoke Shrieking Terror Saliva - like a nursery and tallow soap Sleeping Weed - woody, sweet and slightly of chamomille Slow Taint - vaguely of molasses and mold Slowswarming - slightly garlicky Snow Spider Blood - tart and somewhat earthy Snowflake Lichen Powder - like a mix of rotten eggs and fresh melon Spider Venom, Colossal - vaguely like pond water, but slightly spicy Spider Venom, Gargantuan - Spider Venom, Huge - Spider Venom, Large - Spider Venom, Medium - Spider Venom, Small - Spider Venom, Tiny - Striped Toadstool - unpleasantly pungent, much like a stable Sufferfume - vaguely like a burning building and sweat Svaklor Venom - like oil paint, but sulfury Svaklor Venom, Greater - Swarming Spiderbite - like black tea and chlorine Terinav Root - like soil and turpentine The Calling - like fresh water with a hint of eucalyptus Thever Fumes - slightly pungent and mustardy Thever Paste - a little like horseradish, but sweeter Underdark Blight - like crushed mushrooms and wine Ungol Dust - like dust and gangrenous flesh Urthanyk - a little like red wine and black pepper Vapid Leaf Extract - like oregano and sweet mint Vilestar - pungent, like rotting sausage White Pudding Essence - strongly acidic Wild Dwarf Knockout Poison - a little like manure and kerosene Wooly Mammoth Eye Juice - slightly like carrion and pine needles Wraith Sheen - odorless Wyvern Poison - musky but sweet, like burnt hair and berries Wyvern Poison, Gargantuan - Wyvern Poison, Huge - Yeti Oil - very musky, with a strong hint of wet, oily fur Gravedust - like dry dusty soil and mold Boneshard Paste - vaguely like carrion, incense and alcohol Sunlight Oil - slightly citrusy Bloodwine - metallic and slightly of fermenting fruit Celestial Essence - odorless, but very fresh and clean Lichbane - slightly like chlorine Liquid Mortality - like nutmeg and apples[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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