Wow! An antidote that's poisonous... That holds worlds of possibility.

* evil giggle * (Only slightly less disturbing than an evil laugh, if done correctly.)

Sooo... * grins * What dastardly things can we do other than just being boring and actually killing them?

There are poisons that kill instantly, and poisons that kill gradually. And there are some where the antidote is poisonous: the hero of most of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (Miles Vorkosigan, the "military genius with bones of glass") has tremendously fragile bones because of the effects on him in the womb of the antidote to a poison used on his mother.

And poisons can have lots of "side effects" in otherwise-nearly-innocuous doses; for example, strictly speaking, alcohol is a poison that causes liver damage, as are other mind-altering drugs.

I like this thought.

We could debilitate them or cause them severe pain. Hmm... *has thought* What if there was a poison that didn't do any actual damage, but increased the damage other harmful things did (and even caused some normally nonharmful things to become harmful)?

Oh! Oh! Mind-altering poisons! Neurotoxins anyone?

Perhaps a poison that causes them to lose fine motor control/forget skills would be interesting?

Ooooh... temporary schizophrenia anyone?

0.0 What if you had a poison that would permanently change someones entire personality?

What do you mean by schizophrenia, exactly?

It would be nearly impossible at best. You might be able to pull of personality change similar to what can happen with things like Alzheimer's or whatever, but other than that, the precision required would be, I think, impossible to achieve, because I'm pretty sure there's no functional difference in the neurons. Now, if you could pinpoint the specific places where personality is, assuming such a thing exists, you might be able to make a virus or something that targets it. I'd be skeptical, though, unless you're using magic in some fashion. Even then, I'd probably think it's a little lame. An interesting thought, though.

Probably something that isn't what the word means.

Actually, nothing particular. Just something that would cause temporary personality changes and/or multiple personalitites.

* taps lip * Now, I'm not sure about the impossibility of it. I have heard of people with whom an illness changed their personality, or an injury. Personality, I think, is partly based on experience and outside influences, and partly on something quite definite in an actual physiological way.



* nods * That's what I thought you meant, cause that's what I thought the word was, but when I looked it up on google just to be sure, it didn't say anything like that...

Maybe something with high officials contracting something that's like that because they've been poisoned?

Like a really strong sedative?

:twisted: Thank you.

In a sci-fi story I wrote once, the villain used a poison that increased his victim's sensitivity to pain. Thus, he could reduce a fully grown man to tears by just lightly pricking him with a needle.

A cool poison would be one that could causes hallucinations. Oh, like the hallucinations caused by those bugs in the first Hunger Games book. That was cool. It makes all your greatest fears come to life.

A cool poison would be one that could causes hallucinations. Oh, like the hallucinations caused by those bugs in the first Hunger Games book. That was cool. It makes all your greatest fears come to life.

-Time traveling poison: a white, crumbly powder dissolved in a drink, the one who drinks it begins to stare and clutch at anything within reach, then vanishes back in time.

Oh! Oh! Mind-altering poisons! Neurotoxins anyone?

What if you had a poison that made it so you couldn't stop running, no matter how hard you tried?

Perhaps a poison that causes them to lose fine motor control/forget skills would be interesting? Or a poison that causes a main character to go blind or lose hearing? Those are both ideas I have had...

Unless the poison had a very powerful effect.

I've toyed with the idea of story about someone who is poisoned at the beginning of the story but its a slow working poison and the main plot is about the MC racing against time to find the antidote.

That would be very true particularly in auto immune systems where the immune systems overreact.

One creepy idea that occurred to me.... what if there was a drug that robbed you of your memories until you became a complete amnesiac? Until you forgot even how to speak?