Intoxication

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Intox­i­ca­tion can cause both com­fort and stress. The two can be linked: Heal­ing the stress expires the com­fort.

Com­fort always expires after sleep. Max. 1 com­fort per source.

Every time you expe­ri­ence a drug’s effects, roll its hook die.

On a 1, gain a lev­el of tol­er­ance to that drug. For every lev­el of tol­er­ance, you need an addi­tion­al dose (a redose) to get the drug’s effect. You can opt out of gain­ing tol­er­ance; if you do, you must gain one of the drug’s depen­den­cy issues next lev­elup.

If you abstain from a drug for 1 ses­sion, you can buy off 1 lev­el of tol­er­ance at lev­elup: Spend XP equal to 10 times the tol­er­ance lev­el to be removed.

drug hook base dose redose effects issues
Alco­hol d8 * +1 Poi­son 1 Com­fort linked to 1 Poi­son stress tip­pler, lush
Coqueli­cot † d6 dab +1 Drowsy 1 Com­fort; -2 malus, +1 sleep, fail Per­cep. rolls (2 hrs) tar eater, sleep­less
Coqueliquiche d8 cake +1 Parch 1 Com­fort linked to 1 Parch stress, -1 reac­tion rolls pinkspit­ter
Ephedrine † d6 vial +1 Weary +1 to all rolls, ignore hunger and tired­ness (4 hrs) anhe­do­nic
Lau­danum † d6 spoon­ful + Drowsy 1 Com­fort; -1 malus, -4 Per­cep­tion rolls (2 hrs) tar eater, sleep­less
Lotus petal d4 petal -1 Yearn­ing 1 Com­fort, 1 Stitch, 1 Yearn­ing stress lotoph­a­gus
Nitreux
 d10 bal­loon +1 Breath­less 1 Com­fort, 1 Breath­less stress, anal­gesic (10 min) light­head­ed, fog­gy 
Pep­perelle d6 smoke ** 1 Com­fort linked to 1 Smog stress doxxy, chim­neystack
Poplit d8 bulb +1 Weary +1 edge, +2 Might, x2 Weary stress gained for 1 action light­head­ed, fog­gy 
Praf
 d6 bump — +1 dan­ger round action, +1 to reac­tion rolls  sniffly, anhe­do­nic
Yer­ba roja d10 smoke +1 speed pen. 1 Com­fort linked to 1 speed penal­ty light­head­ed, fog­gy 

Drugs marked with † inter­act. When com­bin­ing them, suf­fer the redose effect of the added drug even if it was your first dose.

alcohol
Brews and dis­til­lates.
  • * Get­ting drunk: To enjoy alco­hol’s effects, you must be drunk. Drunk­en­ness con­sti­tutes drinks exceed­ing your Immu­ni­ty. 1 drink over Immu­ni­ty = drunk. Every addi­tion­al drink is a redose.

coquelicot
Syrupy lion pop­py resin. Stronger than lau­danum. Smoked in long sad­dle-back pipes, vaporous and pink. Sold by the pipeful, one dab at a time, in “cot hous­es” named both for “the ‘cot” and the beds pre­pared for stu­pe­fied smok­ers. Prej­u­di­cial­ly asso­ci­at­ed with rag­men but enjoyed by all. Called the can­dy of poets, the stuff of dreams, and the bane of moral soci­ety.

coqueliquiche
Chewy pink con­fec­tion of coqueli­cot, sug­ar, and mas­tic gum. Sold as small cakes. Numb­ing, sooth­ing. Elic­its sali­va­tion, for which its users are dubbed “pinkspit­ters.” Pop­u­lar among South­ern rag­men. Unwhole­some for the teeth and gums.

ephedrine
Pow­er­ful stim­u­lant derived from a scrub­by waste­land shrub. Pro­duces wake­ful­ness, clar­i­ty of mind, and a wide-eyed, euphor­ic sense of strength and effi­ca­cy. Rough on the heart but appe­tiz­ing to the brain.

laudanum
Bit­ter coqueli­cot tinc­ture. A com­mon med­i­c­i­nal tak­en for vir­tu­al­ly every ail­ment. Sold in elab­o­rate bot­tles at any cor­ner store.

lotus petal
Plump white petals stolen from the for­bid­den lotus atoll. Broad as a hand. Fat and wax­en as suc­cu­lent leaves. Crisp, cloy­ing, and sac­cha­rine. Sat­is­fy­ing, bliss­ful, nour­ish­ing. Full of an enchant­i­ng nec­tar that per­ma­nent­ly alters the eater’s mind, instill­ing an unend­ing hunger satiable only by the petal.

nitreux
Deli­cious, sweet, cool, nitrous oxide straight from the bal­loon. Recent­ly pop­u­lar­ized in Empereaux and beyond, pur­veyed by attrac­tive “bal­lon belles” fill­ing gasses mis­chie­vous and inno­cent alike from paint­ed can­is­ters, their pop­u­lar­i­ty buoyed by an inci­den­tal heli­um craze.

poplit
Patent­ed marigold-yel­low gas dis­trib­uted in sin­gle-hit “crack­er” bulbs. A mere sniff wracks the nerves and blood­stream, pro­duc­ing a sin­gle irre­sistible jounce of parox­ys­mal strength.

Pepperelle
Aro­mat­ic herb smoked Coast­wide, large­ly in cig­a­rettes. Para­dox­i­cal­ly invig­o­rat­ing and relax­ing. Infest­ed with eggs that hatch into dox­bells when com­bust­ed.
  • ** Chain smok­ing: 1 smoke every dan­ger round (10 mins.) While you have one lit: -1 malus and immu­ni­ty to tired­ness and hunger. +1 Smog stress per hour of chain smok­ing.

Praf
AKA Blood of the Dust God. Exot­ic pow­der bright as red agate. Import­ed from for­eign Jerosia by mys­te­ri­ous traf­fick­ers. Typ­i­cal­ly insuf­flat­ed. Sold as “bumps” in thin reed straws or by the gram. A gram is 12 bumps. Stu­pen­dous­ly, euphor­i­cal­ly stim­u­lat­ing. Induces intense, gre­gar­i­ous ener­gy that fades in a too-soon pang of dis­ap­point­ment, demand­ing more.

Yerba Roja
Wispy red buds sug­ared in yel­low crys­tals. Smoke­able many ways. Lan­guorous, heady. A dose caus­es 1 speed penal­ty and 1 com­fort. A gram con­sti­tutes 4 dos­es. Cheap­er in the South, where the herb grows native­ly.

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