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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 1370490" data-attributes="member: 41">Interlude: Politics and Religion / Choices and Decisions“Strong heretical religious feeling; fascinated by poison.”  That’s all it says in the margins next to the single mention of Lucius’ name.  In the minds of the Pale’s spies, he has been reduced to his faith and his profession.  For the last seven hours, Lucius has been the sole possessor of the entirety of the Pale’s intelligence on Heydricus and the Liberators of Tenh.  At Heydricus’ direction, he broke into the Hall of Records and spent the evening working through the documents department removing every trace of Tenh, the Liberators and (for good measure) Prince Thrommel.  Judging by the volume of material, there are likely a half-dozen Pale scholars qualified to write a biography of either Heydricus or Prisantha.  Jespo Crim and Prince Thrommel share a healthy file, but when it came to finding his own name, Lucius found this:Strong heretical religious feeling; fascinated by poison.This insulting lack of concern foremost in his mind, Lucius weighs his options carefully.  Black Lotus Extract is certainly the most deadly of the mortal poisons—it attacks ligaments and connective tissue first destroying them almost instantly, which (in a standing victim) provokes a wobbly collapse that has always made Lucius laugh.  Now, there’s no arguing with its effectiveness, but by the Cudgel, there is a time and place for humor, and this isn’t it.  Dragon bile would be effective, as would lich dust, but surprisingly, Lucius hasn’t had a good opportunity to collect either.  It seems the Liberators only fight liches and dragons whenever he’s not around.  Burnt Ether fumes are marvelously subtle, but too slow to act—chances are he won’t have but thirty or forty seconds to watch whichever sad son-of-a-bitch gets it suffer.  On the other hand, what if the Liberators loose the fight?  In that case, the poison had better have a nasty after-taste.  Something that’ll kick in just as the adrenaline bloom fades away into shock.Which brings him back to Ol’ Trusty.  Purple worm poison—pain up front, and more pain on the back-end.  It probably won’t kill your average paladin, but it will make him wish he was dead, which (when you think about it) is as good as it’s likely to get, since Heydricus is certainly going to kill the sh-t out of them.</blockquote>

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