Hitting a unit possessing this ability with a length 0-1 melee weapon causes the attacking unit to accrue AN nonmagical poison damage in its poison damage pool. The amount of damage accrued is denoted in brackets.

See Also: Poison Damage

The following items will grant your assassin, thug, or supercombatant this ability.

	Armor of Twisting Thorns	32 • 1510	Construction 4
	I can't imagine that this feels nice, but it gives you washboard abs to compensate. You can't take the thorns out, EVER! PROT 13 (Head & Body, Also Fills Head "Slot"), DEF -1, ENC +5, MM -6, Poison Barbs 10, 11 boost