Re: [DL] mercury poisoning

["Wangenstein " <wangenstein@mad.scientist.com>]

> In my adventure he is over in America working for Kang, probally a mummy, 
> and I was thinking if he spent that much time hanging out with that much 
> mercury then when he laid a pimp slap on a possie member then they could get 
> poinening.

Ooh, I just had a vision of the mummy reaching its hands out at a posse member, and a series of silvery, wormlike pools of mercury crawling out its fingertips, down the mummy and toward the PC. If any of them reach the PCs skin, the little mercury-worm simply sinks into it. _That'll_ freak the Posse out! :D

And for each one that lands, you can have a chance of Mercury Poisoning with its requisite effects: severe and uncontrollable muscular tremors and twitching limbs, called
"hatter's shakes"; other symptoms included distorted vision and confused speech. Advanced cases developed hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms.

You could start with tremors and twitches, and as more worms get absorbed, move on to distorted vision and confused speech, finally making it to hallucinations, etc.

Derek
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