Oblivion:Poisoned Apple

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Poisoned Apples are a specialty item used by the Dark Brotherhood to assassinate people. These items will kill any non-essential character who eats them, no matter what (even if the target is immune to poison). Once eaten, the Poisoned Apple applies a script effect that adds the Ability "Damage Health 10 points" to the victim. Since the damage being done is now a character's Ability, there is no way to resist, cure, or dispel it after it's activated.

You will not incur any bounty for people killed using poisoned apples. Poisoned apples cannot be duplicated in the Arch Mage's Enchanted Chest.

As an alchemy ingredient, poisoned apples are nearly useless. They can be combined with another script effect ingredient or master-level alchemists can make a single ingredient potion using poisoned apples. However, the resulting concoction is a potion, not a poison. The only possible way to use the potion is to drink it yourself and thus kill yourself (the potion may become ineffective after you save the game and reload it).

[edit] Ingredients

16 guaranteed samples can be found (these locations will respawn, since Poisoned Apples are food) in the following locations:

• 10 samples are in a barrel in Fort Farragut. During the Dark Brotherhood quest The Purification you are sent to Fort Farragut and will discover the poisoned apples.
• 5 samples are available for purchase from M'raaj-Dar in the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary in Cheydinhal (only available to Dark Brotherhood members).
• 1 sample is in the Bravil Wizard's Grotto

[edit] Using Poisoned Apples

A poisoned apple will kill any non-essential NPC who eats it. The only trick to using the apples is having your target eat the apple and ensuring that no other NPC picks up the apple in the meantime. Ways to use the poisoned apples:

1. Break into a target's house while they are sleeping. Then proceed to place the apple in their inventory while using the pickpocket options. Next, rid the room, or house, of any remaining food.
2. If your pickpocketing skills are not sufficient enough to place an apple in your target's inventory, you may instead place an apple on a table or shelf (after removing any existing food in the area) and wait for the target to pick it up. This is not recommended in areas where other NPCs could possibly pick up the poisoned apple (unless you don't mind a few accidental deaths). It may be safe, if only one person is eating, to drop it in front of them to eat. It may be best to save before placing an apple if accidental deaths are not wished.

Now, finally, you may wait. Depending on the target, it may take as long as one day. If you search the now dead target's body, you will find there is no more apple due to the simple fact they ate it.

A small number of NPCs are effectively immune to poisoned apples because they carry a self-replenishing supply of food, and will therefore always eat their own food instead of eating the poisoned apple.

[edit] Notes

• On the PC, if you've managed to eat a Poisoned Apple and want to remove the effect, you can use the following Console command to reverse it: player.removespell 00009617.
• If you accidentally consume a poisoned apple, you will still take damage at 10 points per second indefinitely, even after the supposed duration time runs out.
• Since the ten poison apples in Fort Farragut respawn every three days and each is worth 300 gold, selling the apples is a good way to make gold.