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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4257458" data-attributes="member: 1879">Some are quick acting, but some will really stick with you. Boomslang venom for instance does nothing, for about a day, then you start bleeding from the eyes and kinda dissolve. A lot of neurotoxic poisons will leave you with permanent damage in the event you survive. And some of the tissue destroying venoms (spider is particular) can still be causing tissue necrosis for years after the bite.Now I'll grant you this isn't terribly "heroic" perhaps but it does have precedent in myth and fantasy. In the Illiad an archer (I forget his name) drops one of hercules's poison arrows and pricks himself in the foot. He doesn't die but the wound oozes black gook and the sailors drop him off on an island out of fear. When they go back years later he is still there and the wound is still oozeing.</blockquote>