it says "until they are awoken or heal" So I'd pretty much say that unless someone tries to wake a badly wounded character they're going to be out for a while. I don't know whether 'heal' means healing some DV or healing one wound. If they can be awoken by another character making a first aid test I'd say that would be equivelant to healing some DV So without intervention I'd say a double wounded character is going to be out for the amount of time listed in the colum; "Damage Healing Rate" on the table on page 208. I might house rule that a character that has been knocked out by wounds might be woken by rougher techniques. Slapping them or throwing water on them but I'd probably rule that they have to make the SOMx3 test every Turn or go back to sleep. PS> About the Ink attack thing. What's the range of an ink attack? Does it work outside an aqueous environment? I can't find anything about it outside the morph description. Once an encounter seems a little nerfed. I might coppy the rules for the plasma cannon gun. To me it really depends on the range of the attack and if it will work in air or vacuum. one point is that in most vacuum environments its also going to be sub zero temperatures so the ink is going to be little solid beads.

If the ink is a gas grenade in atmosphere I'd say once per encounter is a fair ruleing. If I play an octomorph I'll probably treat the like a liquid SS squirt gun with a range of 5m. It requires an exotic ranged weapon skill so it's got to be worth the 30 or so points you spend to use it. I'd say slapping unconsious people is the polite thing to do. You at least ought to check befor you pop a guys stack ;)