               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
