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Published: 2013-07-04 20:17:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 300; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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(as in brown recluse spider) A character from the comic I'm working on. Uses poisoned daggers (with hypodermic syringes embedded in the blade) but, can also use paralytic agents if he needs to capture someone. The poison is of his own devising and brings paralysis within seconds of injection into the blood stream.Related content
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A hypodermic located in the blade would require that the middle me much thicker (as in an easily visible little half-cylinder running down the length) in order for the blade to remain sturdy, yet able to poison the target.
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Not nessecarily. This is only a concept, but, an actual hypodermic needle is exremely thin. Even one designed to pump large quantities of poison (comparitively) on impact wouldn't need to be very thick. Even a machete blade can have groves milled into it. (many machetes do indeed have grooves in them) and bonding the needle to the blade would be fairly easy as well with a high strength epoxy. Further if the needle was made of more flexible metal (say copper or pewter) it could bend with the blade as it flexed if the blade encountered a hard substance.
I should note that only the short throwing/stabbing knives have poison injectors on them. The longer fighting dirk is primarily a fighting knife.
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2scientific4me
If you say so.
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I've been reading one of the early Spider public domain novels and this came into my mind for some reason. The Spider is one of the old Pulp heroes, contemporary with The Shadow.
If anyone wants to read the stories online, they're here
City of Flaming Shadows [link]
Wings of the Black Death [link]
The Spider Strikes [link]
Empire of Doom [link]
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