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kongurous
May 22, 2010

death .cab for qt posted:

One other cool thing ninjas did was poison people. A lot. A famous depiction I love is a bit hyperbolic, but ninja as gently caress--sneak into the rafters of your target's house while he slept, dangle a string above his open mouth, and drip poison onto the string. It drips down the string, falls as droplets into his mouth, and voila! They're dead as they smack their lips and swallow while they sleep.

I don't know the accuracy of that assassination method, but it's hard as gently caress to discover given the forensics of the time, and the idea of a ninja's most lethal weapon being a piece of string makes me giggle :allears:

None of this makes sense, and it sounds like you're repeating what you saw in a Shogun Total War assassination video. How is a ninja getting into someone's rafters in their bedroom without going through their door? If poisoning via this method was so common, why design buildings where this can happen so easily? If you can get that close to a sleeping target, why not drip the poison directly in his mouth, stab him, smother him, or do literally anything else other than hoping the string doesn't just absorb all of the poison you're dripping down it? Surely capillary action isn't a ninja's worst enemy.

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