Haszak
("Mind Flayer")
Number of Doses: 1
Type: Injected, Special
Onset: Instant
Damage/Result: As the 5th-level wizard
spell feeblemind for 1d6 days,
save as
Frequency of Active Ingredient: Very
Rare
Cost per Dose: 1,500 gp
This is not strictly speaking a poison,
but a very potent alchemical
creation. Using a certain nerve cluster
in the brain of an illithid,
the potion is magical in nature. It's
cost reflects both the rarity of
its active ingredient and its unusually
long duration. It is an
effective, if expensive, toxin to use
against a spellcaster, as it acts
in almost all respects as the *feeblemind*
spell.
It does have an interesting variation,
though: rather than reduce the
victim to a state of retardation, it
causes hallucinations and paranoid delusions for its entire duration, punctuated
only by interludes of
catatonia. This is a potion dearly loved
by the sadistic drow.
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