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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2440116" data-attributes="member: 571">[H3]On Cure Wounds Potions[/H3]Cause Wounds Potions(Little side trip here. Got this idea and thought I'd get it down in 'print'.)Cause Wounds potions have a long history, going back to early medieval times in Europe, and even further back in China, where they appear to have been invented in their modern form. A powdery substance from the Chaldean period in the Middle East has been identified as a Cause Wounds potion, though it's also been identified as a cosmetic, a drink powder, and dried out rouge.These days Cause Wound potions are most often used by despotic regimes for use in torture and punishment of prisoners. In the 1830s a group of physicians in London, England tried using Cause Wound potions in place of scapels to create initial incisions in surgery. The unpredictable nature of the working of Cause Wound potions put and end to that rather quickly.More recently (1983) there was a short lived fad for Cause Wound potions in the American Sado-Masochist community. Apparently some victims of the syndrome thought the pain caused by the wounds would be 'pleasurable'. A number of people showed up in emergency rooms or called for medical assistance with mysterious wounds. Wounds caused by no known instrument and reacting to Detect Magic.An investigation was made, and a small factory for making the potions was discovered. Along with an active, albeit small, sado-masochist community in North America. Since sado-masochism (along with scizophrenia and clinical depression) falls under what are populary known as "damn right you're getting treatment" mental disorders, the victims found themselves involuntarily hospitalized after their emergency room treatment.The lastest incident (1996) involved a Hindu cult that used Cause Critical potions to show their devotion to the goddess, Kali. After a number of people died of their wounds Kali herself  was persuaded to come talk with the survivors. Most were rather surprised to learn she is actually an agricultural goddess, and that claims she is a goddess of sexual torture and death constitute defamation of (divine) character. (Kali is still involved in litigation efforts against those who repeat the vile contumlies against her.)(Next time, for real, Cure Light potions.)</blockquote>

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