METAPHARMACEUTICALS
These drugs are either meant to alter the effects of other drugs, or more commonly alter the user's very reality.
A software artifact from another universe. Administered in the form of a small black feather, which is tickled at the back of the user's throat. Projects the user into a reality that consists entirely of scowling black cats and falling slabs of iron. Originally imported to the Mess by
N'kenge?
Bubble Tea comes from the
Charm-native Bubbleflower, whose enormous trumpet-shaped pink blossoms exude fist-sized gel-like bubbles full of piping hot, rainbow-colored liquid. Imbibers pierce the bubble's thin, soft shell and sip the effervescent nectar, which tastes and smells floral and sweet. The initial effect of the liquid is to make its drinker giddy, exuberant and effusive, prone to fits of giggles and lightheadedness. Once the entire bubble's worth of tea is drunk, however, the user begins to dissolve into a flotilla of rainbow-colored bubbles. The bubbles are nearly identical to soap bubbles, save that they are slightly tougher. When the last bubble has popped, the drinker re-forms, usually only a few feet away from where they started.
Entaulolly is exactly as it has always been, garnered from the depths of a particularly twisty section of the
Puzzle, the one that is guarded by those moths that have been waiting so long for that certain someone, and is taken exactly in the same way it always has been, the end results being that you become more like you till eventually you are exactly the you you have been searching for. An experience that is the culmination of a Wheel's search, to be sure. (Creator's notes: I got the name from Entelechy and Tautological).
Artwar of the
VRC, but ask one and they'll deny it as being vulgar and quite beneath them, publically, that is. It manifests as a fixed-picture set that is adhered to flaps of cellulose that are bound by a foul-smelling sticky substance and bound in some kind of plant hide. The fixed-pictures are very archaic in manner, showcasing brightly-lit images in water-soluable dye that are of larval sentients living in states of bucolic bliss in hidden, secret gardens where more mature sentients cannot gain access to. It is rumoured to be activated by sweat-contact (which, of course, the VRC denies even further, how gauche) and results in archaic feelings of following orders, of being spoken to but not heard, and a whole history of larval sentients that is a creation upon a creation (that the sense of freedom of the larval sentients is a creation and that the natural state is of being property). The sentient becomes more worried about exposed skin, of loud outbursts, and of strong, expressed emotions, yet they become furtive and long for that long ago secret place...in effect, becoming in all but a physical sense a larval sentient of the fixed-chronological, exothermic, ametaphorical, simulated-sentient naked beach ape.
Induces awareness of the supracontextual grid inhabited by
aex.rat. Higher doses allow manipulation of this grid. Overdoses can disrupt a user's alignment with the supercontext; this may induce chronosynclastic infundibulation, improper corporeal animation, semiotic slippage, 3-letter-shift encryption, or worse. Curiously, habitual users often report (or try to) an inability to use concrete nouns.
Translates the user's body between digital and physical states, permanently, but the same drug will translate a person back. The effect occurs instantly, but temporary minor translation errors are a common side effect. These errors are actually a residue of the drug itself, and are removed by self-correcting decryption as it dissipates: usually two or three rest cycles are enough to clear everything up. Repeated use before error correction is complete incurs a risk that one or more errors may become permanent.
An herbal concoction, smoked. Tastes of bitter mint. Smoking it causes the user to feel one with the universe, including the worms twenty feet down that you didn't even know were there. Common sensations involve feelings of zenlike one-ness with the universe, giggly playfulness, and an urge to discuss deep philosophy. There have been instances of shared hallucinatory reality, with pieces of the hallucination leaking over into real life. Car-surfing is the preferred game of Slowing Down smokers.
Delivered as a clear, fizzy liquid inside an aluminum can or plastic bottle. Causes the user to perceive and interact with the world as if it were an 8-bit video game, complete with power-ups, scores, and lives. When the last life is lost, the metaphysical effects expire. Typical effects of a post-Sprite "crash" include social ineptitude, solitary behavior, and pathological obsession with detail.
A cocktail of rabbit RNA, Merge, and temporal resequencers. Gives the user lapine mental and physical features, accompanied by wholly correct memories of having always been that way.