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What is my environmental poison?
I have a small number of people (300ish) that live in marshlands/bog/wetlands environment. They are infertile, live about two thirds of a normal lifespan, and have hallucinations, poor memory, ...
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What would a corpse of a person who drowned in mercury look like?
I want to use a mercury based golem as a enemy in a murder mystery P&P story. The golem flows through cracks and under doors and envelops its victims until they are dead. Let's assume that the ...
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Substance that counteracts one poison but accelerates/exacerbates the effect of another?
Is there an example of substances interacting with each other in the following way?
A is a lethal substance, killing within minutes to hours when orally ingested;
anti-A is an antidote for A (or at ...
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Need a suitable toxic chemical for a murder plot in my novel
I need ideas for a chemical or disease which kills the victim upon holding it in the palm for about 4 or 5 seconds. The death isn't necessarily immediate, as it might take days to kill the victim in ...
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Is there a poison that causes a temporary paralysis? [closed]
I am writing a story where characters have been dosed with a small amount of poison, with the result being a temporary paralysis.
The information I need is more along the lines of possible treatment, ...
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Is Poison Resistance Over Time with Anti-Toxin Possible?
I've got in-world poisons, often with real-world analogues (like belladonna) but in building the social structure of the back-stabbing nobility, I began looking at poison resistances and antidotes.
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