               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

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