Silver Spice is used to weaken perceptual barriers, enrichening the flavour of everyday life, enhancing consciousness expanding techniques, and heightening the effects of psychotropic substances.
A pack of five Silver Spice gums costs 3c.
Game Use: -
This medical drug is used in specialised immune suppression schemes for biogenetic implantation.
The treatment is administered as i.v. injections.
Biogenine is sold for 28c in packages containing five ready to use syringes.
Game Use: -
A derivate of Pineal stim, Crystal stim modifies the duration enhancing effects of its parent compound, so that instead of using the same amount of energy to calculate an effect with twice the duration, an Ebb user under the effect of Crystal stim only needs to focus half the energy for a normal duration effect.
A dose of Crystal stim costs 30c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: Half FLUX cost for Personal Enhancement abilities.
Addiction: -1 PHYS per dose
Detox. Effects: -1 CONC, -3 FLUX, -1 rank Personal Enhancement permanent
Addiction: 3 per day
Another specialised Stormer drug which taps into the regenerative reservoir, Rage! utilises the biogenetic energy fuelling the Stormer’s regeneration to increase aggression and general physiological combat readiness in unimpaired individuals. As tissue damage is incurred activity is rerouted to its original purpose of repairing injuries, but the combat stimulant effects return as pain and injury signals cease.
A dose of Rage! costs 10c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: (Stormer) +2 on to hit rolls if unwounded and at full Hits for 1 hour. This effect is increased or decreased by any factor influencing the Stormer’s regeneration at the same rate as the regeneration (i.e. modifier increases to +4 if the regeneration is doubled by an effect).
Addiction: -1 PHYS per 4 doses
Detox. Effects: -1 DEX, -1 STR permanent
Addiction: 1 per day
Overdrive is a Stormer drug. It supercharges Stormer’s already impressive regenerative abilities, causing replacement of biogenetic tissues at phenomenal rates.
Single does of Overdrive sell for 10c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: Stormer regeneration doubled for 1 hour.
Addiction: -1 PHYS per 2 doses
Detox. Effects: -3 HITS permanent
Addiction: 2 per day
Fancy dreams come true.
This – and not only this – has a double meaning with Lore’s perceptual poison, which has finally hit the market after long being nothing more than – you guessed it – a fancy dream of its creators in one of Karma’s offshoots.
What perceptual poison does is make fancy dreams come true. It is the ultimate psycho-somatic compound, putting the mind in firm and total control of the body. At least in the limited field of injuries: Let the subject think she has been stabbed, shot, or strangled, and that is what will as far as her body is concerned will have happened. Perceptual poison lets people be stabbed to death by foam-padded toy swords, grievously wounded with empty guns, or strangled by putting a hand on their throat.
A single dose of the compound currently costs 33c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: Fake weapons and attacks deal full damage for 8 hours.
Addiction: -1 PHYS per 20 doses
Detox. Effects: +1 rank Psychosis permanent
Addiction: Permanent
Ragin is a Karma manufactured rage generator, a class of mood altering substances for combat applications. Lacking the systemic effects of high-powered combat drugs, Ragin has a radically improved safety profile, with minimal abuse potential. It provides a safe and economic alternative for long-term use and low-intensity combat.
Ragin is SCL-unlocked for Company Militia and licensed paramilitary formations. A standard SCL-lock remains in place to safeguard against abuse by civilians and employees outside the security forces.
Ragin is sold in week-packages of 7 doses, with a single package priced at 11c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: +2 to COOL rolls and +1 to PHYS rolls for 12 hours.
Addiction: -1 PHYS per 10 doses
Detox. Effects: -1 CONC, -1 DIA permanent
Addiction: Permanent
A further refinement of the basic UV formula, the Cascade strain of SLA Industries’ most potent combat drug is administered in the form of an inactive prodrug. The active compound is liberated from this stable form by interaction with itself, meaning the user’s system is flooded with UV in a sustained chain-reaction until the complete supply of pre-injected inactive UV Cascade has been burnt off. In this way the duration of UV exposure can be calculated very precisely. As the Cascade has to be triggered by injecting active substance, it is also possible to pre-load on large doses of UV to profit from its effects later on for long durations without having to carry large supplies of the drug.
UV Cascade is available in various pre-calculated duration doses. Every 24 hours or part thereof cost 25c.
Game Use:
Game Effects: As UV or Blaze UV (depending on triggering injection) with the following changes: The onset delay of the effects is reduced by 1 phase, the duration of the effects is increased by the duration of all UV Cascade doses administered since the last UV or Blaze UV injection.
If UV Cascade is administered while UV or Blaze UV are in effect it kicks in immediately and the effects are prolonged by the Cascade duration.
Addiction: As UV
Detox. Effects: As UV
Addiction: As UV
Dog Sweat is a dangerous new soft drug which has recently hit the streets of the World of Progress, courtesy of DarkNight.
Cooked up by the twisted minds of the Telluric Aeon think tank and manufactured at so called pet shop plants, Dog Sweat does cause the user to experience an intense high, but at the same time quickly and permanently destroys the body’s ability to produce a range of vital enzymes. Dog Sweat compensates for this by mimicking the function of the enzymes, so there are no adverse effects as long as a steady supply of the drug is given. Withdrawal, though, is quickly fatal as body functions break down.
Hits of Dog Sweat usually sell for 20u.
Game Use:
Game Effects: Sensory and emotional high lasting two hours.
Addiction: -5 PHYS per dose
Detox. Effects: -5 PHYS permanent
Addiction: 1 per day
Sometimes translated as ‘cavesight’ M’zm’r is a traditional Shaktar drug a formulation of which has now been made available on the mass market. This new incarnation is manufactured to highest industrial standards under controlled conditions to guarantee the drug is free from impurities and correctly dosable.
M’zm’r has mildly hallucinogenic properties. Shaktar folklore attributes these to the user of M’zm’r being touched by the gods and contacted by the spirits of his ancestors, while more scientific theories speculate about the activation of genetically coded racial memories or simply recollection of events and impressions from early childhood.
The actual reported effects include changes in visual perception, such as darkening, flickering, and muted colours or movement in the peripheral vision, as well as low key auditory phenomena, with echoes being most common, assorted noises a close second, while actual semi-intelligible speech (always attributed a whispering quality) is only seldomly reported. Haptic impressions can play a role in some users, most often described as the feeling of granular substances or liquids touching or covering the user’s skin.
M’zm’r is sold for 7c a dose by its manufacturer, Red Pharmaceuticals.
Game Use:
Game Effects: Mild hallucinations lasting eight hours.
Addiction: -1 PHYS per 60 doses
Detox. Effects: -2 CONC, +1 COOL permanent
Addiction: Continuous