I find it extremely anoying, that when you input apply knock (person name) inhale, and the person is in the room you become unhidden, which is not how blackjack works. So hard to spam knockout poison on eastern etc. Also, when you do knock someone out with it, you don't become unhidden, so i'm assuming this is a bug

Look at it this way. Applying inhaled poison is different from blackjack in a few ways. First, you're not using a blackjack. Second, you have to be able to get a lot closer to the person in order to get that cloth over their mouth. Something that is not exactly as discreet as smacking someone over the head with a sack as you pass.

Also, look at it from a balance point of view: Blackjack has the draw back of needing to actually wield a blackjack, and even then the enemy is only unconcious for a short period of time (the only knock out shorter that I can think of off hand is strangle). Knock-out poisoning has been known to render people unconcious for upto twenty ticks. Thats a damn long time to prep up, recite scrolls, apply neuro, ect, ect, ect. I think the difficulty of applying the knock out poison balances its long duration.

My last point: Look at one of the most successful poisoners, Yanacek, on the PB. He learned blackjack in order to increase his chances of knocking someone out. From what I remember of his tactics he'd blackjack then apply his knock-out poison to keep them unconcious while he did his thing.

Just my thoughts on it.

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