Affect and Poison

Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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Poison and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poison" instead a verb "Affect".

Poison verb - To affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable.

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Affect and poison are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Poison".

Nearby Words: poisonous, poisoned, poisoning, poisoner

person	affect person	poison person
mind	affect mind	poison mind
party	affect party	poison party
character	affect character	poison character
Other words: people, children, someone, area, environment, characters, target, anyone, city, player, everyone, powers, enemies, relationships.

Also notably, the game no longer discerns "fleshy" targets, meaning poison can affect golems, undead... basically anything that isn't a stationary object (immune to condition) or the froglike Hylek (immune to poison).

Source: Universal Poison
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion uses poison inconsistently; you can be immune to poison, but certain attacks, like 'poison spit', are classed as magic, and so affect such units normally.

Source: Standard Status Effects
Not only is the poison tasteless to the aliens but strongly flavoured to the soldiers, it also turns out to not affect humans.

Source: Human Outside, Alien Inside

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