“Harmless recreational drugs” appear in the equipment list of ForeSight, which is the SFRPG I ran all the early Flat Black campaigns in. 100 tab massed 150g, cost 1 SVU, and gave -2 ease-factor modifier to “everything”.
I am running an adventure in which the PC is a clandestine operator on Navabharata. Equivalent not quite to an “00” character in James Bond 007 but to the kind of character that you build on “Agent” points to qualify for “00” experience, he is a cuckoo, handler, muscle, and occasionally a wet-worker, with a military background. In the current adventure he is trying to recruit a disaffected technician-god to be his wire-rat, cobbler, black-bagger, and wheel gal. In doing so he has “made” a rival as being an effective of the AID: she is a swallow, cuckoo, and handler whose mission is to provoke the same disaffected god into assassinating her king. For convenience and clarity, I shall refer to the PC as “Wayland”, the disaffected god as “Coyotlinahucue”, and the rival effective as “Innawara”, though none of those is what the characters indicated think of as their real names.
Innawara is a character who turns to violence only as a last resort. She’s not averse to killing, but has limited talent for hand-to-hand fighting and often operates where lethal weapons are not available. When her mission calls for someone to die she prefers to poison them or to manipulate someone else into doing the killing. Wayland allowed her to drug him with a drug that would make him feel a strong sexual attraction to her, and made use of the ensuing distraction to drug her with a soporific. While Coyotlinahucue was installing a tap into Innawara’s vademecum, Wayland used an app on his vademecum to identify the contents of Innawara’s extensive collection of harmless recreational drugs.
I have to create an inventory. In this case I am interested in what the drugs do other than provide a negative modifier to all activity. Thus the questions are
- what more-or-less plausible high-biotech drugs would Innawara carry to support her cover as a wealthy sybarite and dissolute party-gal? Party drugs and drugs to enhance and modulate the experience of recreational activities including but not limited to sex.
- what more-or-less plausible high-biotech drugs would Innawara carry, perhaps hidden or disguised, for use in her work as a seductress, manipulator, agente provocatrice, and organiser of fatal accidents and quarrels? Drugs to alter moods, emotions, and behaviour; poisons for use in a last resort.
So far I have the following:
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The “seven virtues”
- “Prudence”
- “Justice” (a soporific)
- “Temperance” (rapidly counteracts alcohol intoxication, leaving a hangover)
- “Fortitude” (a potent pain-killer and mild euphoric; tends to produce single-mindedness)
- “Faith” (suppresses inhibitions; tends to increase suggestibility)
- “Hope” (reduces anxiety and fearfulness, prevents new long-term memories from being coloured as traumatic; tends to suppress caution)
- “Charity” (induces a feeling of empathy and affection, increased pleasure, and increased energy)
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something that inhibits the formation of new memories for up to several hours
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something that makes people randy
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something that prevents sexual arousal
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something that makes people affectionate
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something that temporarily induces romantic love
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something that makes people irritable and aggressive, shading into paranoia at large doses
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a dissociative that produces apathy and a feeling of disconnection from the world and self, up to psychomotor retardation at high doses
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something that makes people sentimental and sympathetic, inclined to be tearful
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something to induce depression
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something to induce mania
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“chemical gag” (temporarily induces aphasia)
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“L” (lethal in twenty seconds)
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something lethal in about twelve hours, mimicking the presentation of a natural death such as ischaemic stroke
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something inducing cortical blindness
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something inducing Anton syndrome (patient is cortically blind but adamantly denies it).
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9-carboxymethoxymethylguanine (induces Cotard delusion).
Any thoughts?