ZOMBIE FORUMS

I would prefer to see either Ian or Meji try it with Riley. Now that would be smexyness.
Mmmm.... Ian going down on Riley. Mmmm....

Being asthmatic myself, I can definitely confirm that sometimes, it just hits you out of nowhere. At first it's just a cough, that quickly becomes a choking, gagging struggle for breath that leaves you wheezing and dizzy anywhere from a few minutes to several hours.

Needs something to trigger it though, whether it's an allergic reaction or sudden and intense physical exertion (such as fleeing for your life from a bunch of horny, pissed off drunks).

Or Poe could have just been spelling out a bit of an accent or, slightly more likely, intentional mis-pronunciation.

Which might make magic-resistant half-elves easier to cure of contagious diseases, because you can use a bigger "dose" of whatever magic kills the germs. Unless, of course, it's something like a personal anti-magic field, negating all magic that tries tot ake effect within your bodily space.

Well, considering that I flunked Organic Chem, no wonder, doh!

I cook and I make my herbs the same way, I follow recipies, with modifications. I'm a physicist/engineer and don't mind bio-sciences types knowing shit that looks like magic to me

However, I do know a bit of herbal. I make Willow bark tea and know which California mushrooms won't destroy your kidneys. I also know which combination of spices to use to get just the right amount of afterburn in your chile, burritos, or Nasi Goreng. Is there a science to it, no way. That stuff is ritual and magic (art), supplanted by a lot of trial and error, to me.

However, I am also an historian and you would be surprised at greco-roman and chinese pharmacopae. It's a hobby of mine.

All I'm saying is that it doesn't take high-tech to have a basic pharmacology.

Well, I passed my O-chem (albeit barely), but we should probably go at stuff like that from history. I recall there being a pretty damn significant gap between the discovery of penicillin and the application of penicillin (literally a generation or more), owing to the technology to purify it just not being there when they found out about its potential. Heck, the guy that discovered it had to go to the guy that eventually figured out how to refine it in order to get some. A bread-mold poultice just isn't the same.

What she might be having is an immune response to something... the high lord of all allergy attacks. They can take you down real quick. The whole elven anti-magic thing might actually me a magically enhanced, overactive immune system.

If you want to see the freaky stuff something like that can do, read A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card. On an isolated (read interdicted) world one nation state selectively bred themselves for about three thousand years. By the time the story begins, members can regrow any bodypart that is lost in minutes, hours, or days. The cost is that about 1% or their population goes horribly mutant, literally growing extra limbs or going herm or otherwise deforming until the stacked deformities eventually kill them. Cut an extra limb off and two more grow in its place due to overcompensation.

Considering a possibility such as this, I figure that the half elves have got it pretty easy.