Things That Go 'BOOM' and Other Stuff That Rulz Issue Six Written by -------------------- Cerberus Count Zero -------------------- Shroud of Deception Gut Shoveler (Gutz) 616.775.2945 -------------------- 4-25-94 -------------------- WARNING: Don't try this at home. If your stupid enough to try any of this shit, we're not responsible. We aren't gonna pay your hospital bills because you blew off your thumb. We'll just laugh at you. WE AREN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CASUED BY USE OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL PRESENTED IN THIS FILE. This issue is dedicated to fun with poisons. Tennis Ball Bomb: This is a very simple grenade type projectile. Ingredients: 1 tennis ball (not reuseable) some good duct tape 1 Stanley utility knife (can be reused) 1 rocket fuse some rubber cement enough gun powder (or smoke powder) to fill the tennisball 1 permenant marker some kinda drill Directions: Once all of the necesary items have been gather follow these simple steps and your good to go. 1. Take the tennis ball and clamp it into a vice. 2. Then take the marker and mark where you want the fuse to be. 3. After you have done this take the utility and cut around the maked spot / ----------\ / \ <--(area cut from tennis ball) / |--| \ / | | <--(marked area cut for fuse) \ |--| \ \ / \ / -----------/ 4. Then, fill the tennis ball with what ever the hell you want. 5. Now go back to the cut piece and drill the marked area and rubber cement it, and duct tape to rienfoce the weak cut part. 6. Light and throw Notes: If you're gonna use the smoke powder, the recipe is in issue three. And, you might want to cut another hole so the smoke has a place to go. Some Common Poisons: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Onset Speed Symptoms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyanide 1-15 minutes dizziness, convulsions, fainting Arsenic 30 min. to 24 hours burning pain, vomiting, violent diarrhea Strychnine 10-20 minutes violent muscle spasms, aspxyiation Cobra 15-60 minutes convulsios, respritory failure Rattler 15-60 minutes vomiting, violent spasms, yellow vision Scorpion 24-48 hours intense pain, weaknes, hemorrhaging Black Widow 2-8 hours chills, sweating, nausea Belladonna 2 hours to 2 days rapid heart beat, impaired vision Amanita 6-24 hours violent stomach pains, vomiting, jaundice Curare almost immediate muscular pralysis, respritory fialure --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Call of Cthulhu rule book page 238. Ten Lethal or Incapacitating Drugs Stored by the CIA: Yep, the CIA actually does store these drugs. Or atleast, they did as of 1976. Makes you wish you worked there huh? 1. Aconitine Nitrate - More commonly known as wolfsbane, legend has it that this druf will cure lycanthropy (the werewolf disease). It causes severe abdominal discomfort in small doses and death in large doses. 2. BZ - An experimental drug, BZ blocks nerve impulses and causes death. 3. Carbachol - This drug produces a wide variety of symptoms among which are flushing, colic, diarrhea, salivation, and nausea. 4. Cinchonine - This drug is used in medicine to treat Malaria. Overdoses cause severe nausea, vomiting, and heart malfunction. 5. Cobra Venom - This is the deadly poison obtained from the snake. It kills by paralyzing the nervous system. 6. Colchicine - A drug, overdoses of which cause muscle paralysis and respiratory failure resulting in death. 7. Cyanide - The suicide drug (sodium or potassium cyanide) used by spies during W.W. II to escape being totured into revealing secret information. The drug blocks the absorbtion of oxygen and death occurs rapidly as a result of asphyxiation. 8. S-341 - An experimental drug similar to BZ but even more powerful. 9. Saxitoxin - More commonly known as shellfish toxin, saxitoxin produces death in seconds by causing failure of the body's respiratory, cardio-vascular, nerve, and muscle systems. 10. Strychnine - Once used by doctors as a nerve stimulant, in anything but small doses it paralyzes nerve-muscle junctions and causes death. Source: Hearing Before the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities of the U.S. Congress (HBSCSGORIAUSC). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. Common Poisonous Plants: By popular demand, here is a list of the twenty most easily accessable poisonous plants. Warning, this is real shit. These plants will really do what it says they do. This is not a joke. Okay, now that that's over, a warning to you people committing suicide. It may take alot of the plant to kill you. I haven't exactly tested all of these, so I don't know how accurate this list is. By the way, be sure not to mention BOOM in your suicide note. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Where Found Poisonous Part Result --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buttercup Fields All Indegestion Cherry Trees, shrubs Twigs, foliage Death Crocus, autumn Flower garden Bulbs Vomiting Daphne Ornamental Berries Death Elderberry Trees, shrubs Shoots, leaves, bark Nausea Foxglove Flower garden Leaves Irr. heartbeat Hemlock Fields All Death Hyacinth House plant Bulbs Nausea, death Iris Flower garden Underground stems Indegestion Jimsonweed Fields All Death Larkspur Flower garden Young plant, seeds Indegestion Lily of the Flower garden Leaves, flowers Irr. heartbeat valley Nightshade Fields All, especially berry Death Oak Trees, shrubs Foliage, acorns Kidney injury Oleander House plant Leaves, branches Death Red sage Ornamental plant Green berries Death Rhododendron Ornamental plant All Death Rhubarb Vegetable garden Leaf blade Death Wisteria Ornamental plant Seeds, pods Indegestion Yew Ornamental plant Berries, foliage Death