               Things That Go 'BOOM' and Other Stuff That Rulz 
                                  Issue Six 
                               
                                  Written by 
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                                   Cerberus 
                                  Count Zero  
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                              Shroud of Deception 
                              Gut Shoveler (Gutz) 
                                 616.775.2945 
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                                    4-25-94 
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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: 
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    Name       Onset Speed                      Symptoms 
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  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 
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  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. 
 
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     Name          Where Found         Poisonous Part         Result 
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  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 
