Vial of Poison

Annoyed with your neighbor? Sick of people using valuable resources for themselves? Or maybe you're just a jerk. With this poison you can kill someone by mixing it with food, a drink or drugs. Can also be used to commit suicide.

Blurb

This tiny quantity of poison is sufficient to kill any of your fellow citizens. Add it to some food, a flask or a drug and it will become contaminated, turning it into a deadly weapon...

If a player is murdered with the Vial of Poison, The Crow will usually make an announcement about it in The News Corpse, which reads: Funny story, from now on, in addition to the nightly attacks, we have to consider murders. † [player name] being a prime example. Ingestion of strychnine... Looks like we'll have a great time from here on in...

Behind the Scenes

Strychnine is a very toxic colorless crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide. In humans, it causes muscular convulsions and eventually death through asphyxia or sheer exhaustion. It isn't, however, made by combining a corrosive liquid, battery, and pharmaceutical products in real life (it is naturally occurring, and isolated in a number of plants).

Uses

• Murder
• Suicide (which is still Murder, just of yourself)
• Fun and Games (see above)

Made by Combining

• Corrosive Liquid Corrosive Liquid
• Battery Battery
• Pharmaceutical Products Pharmaceutical Products

Used in Items

• Poisonous Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids
• Poisonous Fleshroom Puree Fleshroom Puree
• Poisonous Open Can Open Can
• Poisonous Suspicious-looking Vegetable Suspicious-looking Vegetable
• Poisonous Water Ration Water Ration

When you choose to Use the Vial of Poison Vial of Poison in your home, you are presented with a list of all the other items in your Chest and rucksack to Use With the poison, as well as a Cancel button.

If you pick an item that is not in the above list, you are given the message:

You cannot combine Vial of Poison Vial of Poison with this. You can do this with one of the following objects: Suspicious-looking Vegetable Suspicious-looking Vegetable, Fleshroom Puree Fleshroom Puree, Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids, Open Can Open Can or Water Ration Water Ration.

If you pick a valid item, you receive:

You have assembled Vial of Poison something... by combining Vial of Poison Vial of Poison and Vial of Poison something.... --- Warning! You have poisoned the Vial of Poison something...! It is now almost impossible to distinguish from a safe one, so be careful... It's up to you to do with it what you feel is "fair".'

Notes

• It seems in the gazette it lists a random poisonous substance when someone is murdered, the known ones so far being Anthrax and Strychnine