[929] in Daily_Rumour
If you're poisoned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmaessen@MIT.EDU)
Fri May 26 23:02:47 1995
From: jmaessen@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 26 May 95 23:02:23 -0400
To: rumor@MIT.EDU, stage-gms@MIT.EDU
It's com to our attention that while the rules tell you HOW to poison
someone's food, they don't actually give specifics of what to do if you
notice that YOU have been poisoned. This is important to both parties
concerned, and supersedes anything we might foolishly have told you
already.
When you are poisoned:
1. Fall down. You are unconscious.
2. You will die within ten minutes if you do not receive treatment
which would indicate otherwise. Note that players cannot simply give
"first aid" to a poisoning victim (or they can, but nothing will
happen). If you don't specifically have some way of dealing with the
poison, then your powerless to help.
Poisoners: If someone you poisoned by some miracle actually manages to
get back up, there's of course an ettiquette problem. You should be
replacing this person's food, but of course you don't want them to have
to metagame. We suggest doing so through a ghost or NP---if the person
got healed, we're fairly confident the whole mess occurred in a
reasonably well-traveled area.
So if you're poisoned, yes, you do have roughly a snowball's chance in
Hell of actually making it through. But only a snowball's.
-Jan
for the Stage GMs
