Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25396609-20170113164549

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: It only takes a split second for venom to transfer from a bite or sting into the blood stream. Except it was neither a bite nor a sting. Quite obviously.

Imagine this; you are fighting someone who is using a knife with poison on the blade. They never manage to stab you, but they do slice your hand with the edge of the blade.

That poison is now in your blood stream; the same principle applies to Tyrian's stinger; only in this case the cut was deep enough to cause mild debilitiation, and was directly into the abdomen.

The poison being so slow acting is the only actual issue with the situation, but we do not know the nature of the toxin used; and the fact that it seems to be somehow reproducing itself in his blood stream (he was bleeding and coughing purple, the same color as came out of the severed end of Tyrian's tail) means that even a miniscule amount, given enough time, would generate a lethal quantity.

Enough time like, say, several hours to a couple of days