Cost: 6 Magic points, 1 POW, 1D6 Sanity Points
Casting Time: 1 round.
This spell causes the victim’s tongue to temporarily elongate, fork, and drip a thick, sticky black poison. The poison is not strong enough to enter a target’s bloodstream through skin contact. However, when entering the bloodstream is quickly takes effect (all damage delivered on the following round). Typically, the practitioner casts this spell and then licks a bladed weapon, coating it with venom, before making a melee attack. The poison neutralizes quickly, growing weaker over time before becoming inert. After being cast the poison is effective for just six rounds, reducing its potency over time (round 1 and 2 – Severe, 1D10 / Round 3 and 4 – Moderate, 1D6 / Round 5 and 6 – 1D3). As with all poisons the victim is allowed a CON check, with an extreme success reducing the damage by 50%. The effects of the poison are necrotic, causing he flesh around the wound site to painfully swell, before blackening and dying. Only enough venom is produced to coat a single weapon, and due to the physical demands on the caster it can only be cast once per day. After casting the caster’s tongue returns to normal, but they become very hungry and thirsty, as their body struggles to recover from the demands the enchantment placed upon it.
