The Malaysian Assassin Butterfly
Geez, have one butterfly species mutate into a magic-sensitive version with distinctive skull-and-crossbone markings, a stinger, and hallucinogenic venom and then suddenly everybody wants to go Full Metal Pulp Adventure on it. To begin with, the stinger is demonstrably incapable of piercing human skin. Seriously, some very, very unsavory people with a strange sense of drama conducted some rather immoral human testing along those lines. Second, sure, if you grind up a bunch of the butterflies you’ll end up with a paste that will make you see things. But you’d have to grind up a lot of butterflies to get the effect. It’s cheaper to go out and score some LSD, by far.
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