Oh, lesse now...[How to qualify game mechanics I MEAN...]

First, it becomes awfully hard to draw breath for a long while - scalds the lungs or sommat. Stings at the eyes and makes it hard to see, sometimes addles ye...the toxins it spews can make movement a trick too - everything from sluggish muscles to rather painful spasms...

An' on top of all this, it can bludgeon ye something fierce with it's tentacles - Big ones are thicker than my leg!