The Centre Cannot Hold » Stimulants

Blue Shock

Loki — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:30:43 +0000

Blue Shock looks like a shiny blue cough syrup and kicks like amyl nitrate’s bigger, stronger brother. Generally taken in doses of no more than a teaspoonful at a time, the immediate result of ingestion is agonising pain.

Fortunately, the pain wears off after a few seconds, leaving every nerve in the body more sensitive than usual. As such, it can be used to heighten sexual pleasure (and it is popular in Al Amarja’s S&M scene for both its effects).

Of course, having your sense of touch heightened also makes pain more intense, so it’s not all good. Not to mention the statistically improbable correlation between Blue Shock use and spontaneous combustion.

Related Drugs: Communion, MDA-Cubed, Nightmare, Relapse, Slo-Mo, Wings and Zorro.

Ent-Draughts

Loki — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:30:24 +0000

It’s somewhat unclear whether Ent-Draughts are some form of enchanted juice or some form of enchanted water. Certainly it is loved by Ents, as Treebeard keeps a supply laid in. But what is most attention-grabbing about this liquid the effect that it has on hobbits.

Even a single draught will cuase feelings of extreme well-being and act as a restorative to good health and boundless energy.

In the cases of Merry and Pippin, it even caused them to grow a considerable amount, making them two of the tallest hobbits ever. Presumably, it would have analogous effects on humans, although thiis has never been tested – and the only species to drink Ent-Draughts are the Ents themselves. The effect it has on them is unclear, although it is implied to be a mild intoxicant.

Related drugs: Miruvóre

Happy Pills

Loki — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:30:20 +0000

Little is known of Happy Pills, a highly addictive drug apparently created by Shi’ar criminals. Indeed, it’s likely that Happy Pills is only a nickname for the drug.

What little can be inferred regarding the drug suggests that is a potent painkiller that induces mild euphoria – no doubt the Shi’ar equivalent of an opiate.

Love

Loki — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:30:19 +0000

Aside from cocaine, Love is the drug that the Seventies ran on. Although in practice, it was a lot more like Lust, or perhaps Sex Addiction.

Unlike the majority of other drugs I’ve listed here, Love has the advantage of being street legal – although like most drugs, you should still exercise some caution in when and where you choose to indulge

MDA-Cubed

Loki — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:30:14 +0000

Perhaps the ultimate aphrrodisiac, MDA-Cubed is a spectacularly potent date-rape drug that heightens the sexual impulse to the level of insanity. Users have been known to couple with anyone and anything, their usual sexual preferences notwithstanding. This is not limited to people, but also includes animals, plants and the occasional mechinical device or piece of furniture.

Immensely dangerous to social mores, MDA-Cubed is also in that class of drugs that is never as good afte the first time – not that this stops chronic users from chasing that high again and again.

Related Drugs: Blue Shock, Communion, Nightmare, Relapse, Slo-Mo, Wings and Zorro.

Miruvóre

Loki — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:30:44 +0000

The exact translation of Miruvor or Miruvóre, is not known, but “death-defeater” is a probable etymological meaning. It’s certainly an accurate description.

Appearing in The Fellowship of the Rings, miruvor is a warm and fragrant clear cordial made by and consumed by the Elves. They do not reveal how miruvor was made, but it is thought to come from the honey of the undying flowers in the gardens of Yavanna in Valinor. It’s possible that this drink holds the secret of Elven immortality, although if so, it has no such effect on humans, hobbits or dwarves.

The cordial gives the drinker renewed strength and vitality, and is used by the Elves at their festivals. Some party animals, those Elves, huh?

Related drugs: Ent-Draughts

Mongoose Blood

Loki — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:30:00 +0000

Derived from the bodily fluids of one of the fastest of all mammals, Moongoose Blood is a superhuman level stimulant, capable of accelerating the bodies of users into speeds just short of light speed, visible to the naked eye only as lightning-like flashes.

Also known as ‘Goose Juice, the drug is highly illegal and the police force of Neopolis finds it a perennial problem.

An entire sub-culture has grown up around the use of Mongoose Blood, which can be best characterised as ‘extreme rave culture’. Goose music is so fast that to those not currently on the drug hear it only as a painfully high-pitched whine.

Related drugs: Darkshots, Hyperdrene and Xenite

Nuke

Loki — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:30:11 +0000

Proclaimed by the Surgeon-General of the United States to be the most addictive and dangerous narcotic in human history, Nuke is apparently a mixture of several other drugs, notably benzedrine and scopalimine.

Available in a wide variety of flavours, each one a different colour, there is a Nuke for every mood – white noise, black thunder, red ramrod and blue velvet are listed, although red ramrod is far and away the most popular. All are distributed in ampoules about an inch and half long, which are injected directly into the user’s skin.

Made in Detroit by the psychotic drug lord and cult leader Cain, Nuke is no longer produced after Robocop killed Cain and destroyed his manufacturing facilities.

Pain

Loki — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:30:02 +0000

Made in the depths of Hell from the sufferings of the damned, Pain is a gray powder. It is treated much like snuff by the demons who take it, and usually stored in snuff boxes.

The effects it has on the demonic physiology are as many and as varied as those physiologies, although the two universal constants are that it enhances the pleasure of sex, and that, although it is possible to resist the drug’s effects, it is painful to do so.

When used by the damned themselves, it appears to intensify sensation to a painful degree.

Pheno

Loki — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:01:32 +0000

Pheno is a mega-steroid, taking its name from its primary ingredient, Phenotrimethacetopan. It was developed by Schrader Chemicals, a Gotham City-based big pharma company.

Its development and testing were both illegal, which is why Schrader tested it on a random Gotham street gang, selling it too them as a steroid that enabled the user to develop superhuman powers. That much was true.

What was also true was that the powers – strength, endurance and adrenalin output – came coupled with a nasty package of muscular hyper-development, increased aggression and paranoia, and finally, rapid cellular disintergration. Pheno rewrites the DNA of its users, but not in a stable way. It is no longer manufactured pending the shutdown of Schrader Chemicals under investigation by the FDA, DEO and GCPD following the intervention of Robin and his reporter allies.

A later, stabler derivative of Pheno was developed by the assassins David Cain and Slade Wilson, but its manufacture has since been discontinued, after the assassin’s more heroic daughters shut down the training program of which it was a part.