From: Gregory Jay Scott Subject: Roman spears and misc. magic items >From "In the Eyes of the Dragon" by Steven King: Dragon sand. A VERY nasty poison with a slightly spicy taste. Causes the victems body temperature to slowly rise over a period of Toughness days. Toward the end causing them to start fires if they are not dowsed with water regularly. They die in agony with a jet green flame coming out of their mouth. Fatal doses are VERY small. Less than fatal doses will merely cause extreme fever(-20 to all precential traits -2 to other traits). However while in the throws of this the injestor will be immune to fire damage other than that caused by the poison. After recovery the injestors brain may have been damaged by the heat d4*10 points are perminently lost from intellegence and dexarity. Regularly changed cold baths while the poison runs its course will reduce this effect by 20 points. Dragon sand also must be carried in a specially enchanted paper envelop. It will slowly eat through any solid other releasing a poisonous gas as it does so. This gas does a 2d6 wounds at strenght 10. However it evolves only slowly and so it only spreads at a foot a round per dose. Any liquid will quench it and prevent the gases creation but the sand tends to boil the liqiud one dose is capible of boiling a cup of water in a single round. Dragon sand while also cause flammible targets to catch fire.