Drugs! In Space! I’m working on adding some additional content to Finders Keepers in Space (which I’ll hopefully be publishing soon, you can check it here). One thing that Finders Keepers has a lot of is single-use items, whether that be scrolls, potions, totems (which are kind of like one-use wands that you snap), or psicrystals. In FKiS, I’m filling the same sort of role with unique and useful information (of which I’ll be stealing lots from here) and, naturally, drugs! I’m avoiding any real-world substance names for a variety of reasons, and going for a mix of weird-but-useful to actually-really-weird alien substances. I’ve got a few to start with, I’d love to get more suggestions from people!
- Vibejuice - Comes in white bags, squirted directly into the eyes. Just improves the vibes, you know man?
- Brainjack - Injected directly into the back of the neck, eliminates fatigue and brings reaction times to approximately zero
- Crackle-slam - Small doses are a recreational hit to keep a night going. Large doses are used to bring the near-dead back to full functionality
- Fun Sludge - Jammed up one nostril. Makes everything fun
- Badkick - Causes violent psychoses after a small delay
- Roundhouse - Temporary muscle enhancement drug, injected into the ass
- Timeout - A whiff will knock anybody out for a few minutes, when they awaken it’ll be as if nothing has happened
- Venegez 9-36a - Little pink tablets with a brain on it. Everyone reacts differently to it (1d6): 1. Minor telepathy, 2. Minor telekinesis, 3. Nothing but vague anxiety, 4. Delusions of grandeur, 5. Seizures when exposed to perpendicular lines, 6. Brain melts, dribbles out of mouth
- Bloood - Ultra-antioxidant. Great for fixing lined skin, bad posture and just generally adding some youthful pep
- Fixit - Makes everything seem beautiful, more important and friendly
- Black Lotus - Freeze-dried flowers, the fresh ones are much more potent. Left to dissolve under the tongue, the “truth” of all the universe is revealed (at least until the dose wears off)
- Laba Wasp Sting - Turns traumatic memories into weird hallucinations (and sometimes vice-versa)
- Astral Math - Injected very slowly. No need for sleep while being injected with it
- Korogg - While chewing the pod, it’s easy to ignore anything that’s frightening
- Drill - The mother of all antihistamine, boosts your tolerance for poison and any other drugs. Occasionally makes you hallucinate bugs everywhere
- Crate - Smoked. Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Makes things seem a lot faster, and makes you act faster still
- Forget-me-now - Applied using a light-flash and a puff of powder. Causes the events of the last while to be erased and replaced with roughly-plausible replacement memories
- Moon Juice - Made into tea. Grants highly realistic visions of whoever you are strongly thinking about
- Lucid - Tablets placed on the tongue. Makes it impossible to differentiate between imagination and reality. Often used by hardcore VR gamers
- Retro - Genetically modified retroviral infection. Makes you permanently “happy”
- Gads - Cigarettes that stop you from getting radiation sickness