POISON PARADISE / open, poison training

malphas gave a brief understanding nod to abathur, although under his thick fur he was sweating bullets. god, he hated spiders. "are you v-venomous?" he asked abuthur, voice shaking. he couldn't tell, but he wish he could just block the spider from his mind. seeing abathur threw any sort of confidence he had built up, and now that there was so many people around him, he began to hyperventilate, losing control.

then he looked up, seeing iota and relaxed. her mere presence calmed him down, and he nodded. "p-please help me," he muttered, and he took a deep breath. if he had a public freakout it would just prove to all the people that didn't like him that he wasn't a good nurse. he'd prove them wrong, he decided, and took another breath and flashed a coy grin. "okay. let's get started, shall we? also, poison is kind of.. a loose term. today i'll be talking about poison you can find naturally. alcohol doesn't count." he took a large sip of his drink.

"first up. you all might not have heard of it before, but this is swamp milkweed." out of the satchel, he pulled a plant with little pink blossoms at the end. "it's a diuretic, laxative and will induce vomiting, so if anybody swallows anything lethal use this. i found it myself near the marsh, and there's a lot more," he noted. "any questions?"