Remove skin penetration from curare

[Mouse]

Curare does not penetrate skin in real life (hell, it can't even penetrate the intestinal lining), so why does it do that here?

[Trustworthy]

Because this is a video game?

[Superlagg]

While it does make the chem an absolute nightmare to go up against (one click with a beaker and you're done), it is one of the staple murder options Botany has.

Though cyanide also penetrates skin, they can make as much amanitin as they want, and can make tomato clusterbombs in the first five minutes of the round. Maybe they can stand to have one less ultramurder option.

[Carbadox]

Curare tomatoes. Now that's a thought

[Superlagg]

Curare tomatoes. Now that's a thought

The genome difference between melons, bananas, and tomatoes are already enough of a pain in the ass to splice successfully, and they're all within 4-ish genomes of each other. Tomatoes have a genome of, like, 18 and contusine somewhere around 3. So to even get them to splice, you'd need to splice them first with a bunch of other seeds.

Even if all those seeds were reasonably close in genome, you're still risking several 20-30% chances that the seeds you've been working on just up and disappear. That, and your curare tomatoes'll end up with about a dozen other useless chems that'll crowd out the poison.

Best to just whip wine glasses at people, lot less frustration on your end (and a lot more on their end!).

[moistgrandmas42]

Tomatoes don't confer their reagent contents when thrown at people. You can make floods with it, but you can't make a curare tomato that'll apply it when thrown at someone. The only exception are pyrotechnics which seem to explode before the contents are voided.

That said, it's really not that hard to splice. If you work from contusine, the splice order is something like bamboo -> onions -> tomatoes iirc which leaves you with a tomato with just tomato juice, s. acid and curare.