NAGGE - Better Living (and Dying) Through Chemistry

Better Living (and Dying) Through Chemistry
"I'm so high, call me 'Your Highness'."
-- Mike D.

Here is a list of drugs our running group came up with. This is the effort of Seth Narins (basic drugs, drugs from fictional sources, and designer drugs), myself (the plants and animals) and Brijesh Gill (real drugs). Thanks to Adam Shostack for reality checks. These drugs are meant to follow the rules in Shadowtech. This file is written as a Neoanarchist Guide rather than a stodgy medicinal journal, so many street rumors are in the actual text rather than the decker comments. Note, take even the main text with a grain of salt, especially where the plants are concerned.

When we first posted this, we were chastened for not putting in a disclaimer. We feel that if you are the type of person who takes drugs because you saw this list, no disclaimer could hope to eradicate your immense stupidity, so we did not add a disclaimer. We hope you will forgive us for giving you this opportunity to use your free will.

"Death before dishonor,
Drugs before lunch."
-- Motto of the Aspen Drug and Gun Club

The substances on this list can generally be found on 'Plex streets from drug dealers. Occasionally, you need to find a doctor or a fixer to get some of these. Here's what the entries mean:

AKA: Also Known As. These are common street names for these drugs in various parts of the world.
Inspiration: From where we stole this idea, or who created it.
Speed: The speed with which the drug takes effect.
Vector: How the drug must be administered.
Duration: How long the drug lasts.
Effects: These are the primary effects of the drug which all take place throughout the duration of the drug's effect.
Crash Effects: After the drug stops working, these effects hit the body. The duration of these effects should be twice the duration of the drug, unless otherwise noted.
Permanent Effects: These effects work on the body after the drug wears off, like crash effects, but will be permanent. Most of these entries have a saving roll to avoid these effects. Unless otherwise stated, these permanent effects must be resisted each time the drug is taken.
Addiction Effects: These effects apply, in addition to all the other effects, when the user becomes addicted. All effects are permanent unless otherwise noted. Most effects have a saving roll to avoid them.

One note on effects: any drug that has Stim Patch-like effects may be detrimental to a magician's Magic Rating just as Stim Patches are (see SRII pg.115 and 250). Also, the block-allreferred to is from an issue of Kage and has the following effects: If you are under the effects of a block all, each time you are injured, you roll a number of dice equal to your Willpower plus the rating of the block-allagainst a target number equal to the number of physical damage boxes taken. Each success on this test allows you to ignore the effects of 1 box of physical damage. The damage is still there, however.

Depressants
"Alcohol is very important for young people because it provides a sort of 'liquid adulthood'. If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat--in other words, turn you into an adult."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

AKA: eth, courage, fire water, booze, etc.
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 50
Speed: 1d6 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6/2 hours
Cost/Dose: 1-10€
Street Index: 0.8
Legality: Legal
Availability: Always
Effects: Charisma -1, Quickness -2, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1 [Resist all with Body(10-(proof/20))], clumsiness, unrestrained behavior, block-all(proof/25), tranq(proof/20)
Crash Effects: Quickness -1, Body -2, Intelligence -1, nausea, headaches, irritability

Barbiturates
AKA: Amytal, phenobarbital, damn it all
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,3p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1-16 hours
Cost/Dose: 1€
Street Index: 0.8
Legality: 6P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Quickness -2, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1, clumsiness, sleepiness, calm, block-all(1), tranq(5)
Crash Effects: Quickness -1, Body -2, Intelligence -1, nausea, headaches, irritability

Benzodiazepines
AKA: Valium, redundant, etc.
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 2m,2p
Tolerance: 5
Strength: 5
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4-8 hours
Cost/Dose: 1€
Street Index: 0.9
Legality: 6P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Quickness -3, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1, clumsiness, sleepiness, calm, block-all(3), tranq(6)
Crash Effects: Quickness -1, Body -2, Intelligence -1, headaches, irritability

Butaqualide
AKA: beauties
Inspiration: Effinger novels
Addiction: 5m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 10
Speed: 1d6 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6+1 minutes
Cost/Dose: 20€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 5P-M1
Availability: 5/1 hour
Effects: Quickness -3, Willpower +1, Charisma +2, euphoria, sleepiness, tranq(4), block-all(4)
Crash Effects: irritability

Chloral Hydrate
AKA: drop, noctec
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,3p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: 30 seconds
Vector: Injection
Duration: 5-8 hours
Cost/Dose: 2€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 5/4 hours
Effects: Quickness -3, Intelligence -2, Willpower -2, clumsiness, sleepiness, calm, block-all(3), tranq(6)
Crash Effects: Quickness -2, Body -2, Intelligence -1, nausea, headaches

Glutethimide
AKA: glue, Chevy Chase, lemonade, doriden
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 3m,4p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 3
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4-8 hours
Cost/Dose: 3€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 5/4 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Quickness -4, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1, extreme clumsiness, hallucinations, calm, block-all(1), tranq(3)
Crash Effects: Quickness -1, Body -2, Intelligence -1, nausea, headaches, irritability, anxiety, insomnia
Addiction Effects: Withdrawal from glutethimide is painful, causing convulsions, and possibly death.

Marijuana
AKA: grass, weed, hashish, dubich, ganja
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 3m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 10
Speed: 2d6/1d6 minutes
Vector: Inhalation/Ingestion
Duration: 4d6 minutes/1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 4€/20€
Street Index: 0.5
Legality: 6-M1
Availability: 3/60 minutes
Effects: Quickness -2, Intelligence -1, Charisma -1, Willpower -1, Reaction -2, lethargy, euphoria, block-all(2)
Crash Effects: Charisma -1, Reaction -1, Willpower -1, hunger, sensory sensitivity, Stimulant(1)
Permanent Effects: Artistic skills +1 once per month of use [Charisma(6), +1 maximum total increase], Charisma +1 once per month use [Willpower(6), +1 maximum total increase]

Methaqualone
AKA: alone, solo, quaaludes, ludes
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,4p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 2
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4-8 hours
Cost/Dose: 3€
Street Index: 1.2
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Quickness -2, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1, clumsiness, hallucinations, calm, block-all(1), tranq(3)
Crash Effects: Quickness -1, Body -2, Intelligence -1, nausea, headaches, irritability, anxiety, insomnia
Addiction Effects: Withdrawal from Methaqualone is painful, causing convulsions, and possibly death.

>>>[This also causes women to loose their morals, if ya catch m' meaning. Paradoxically, it kills the libido in men, which means that a couple on ludes is pretty fucked. Or not fucked, as the case may be.]<<<
-- Babble (06:14:38/9-13-54)

AKA: death sticks, smokes, cancer in a nice easy to use package, etc.
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 3m
Tolerance: 1
Strength: 20
Speed: Immediate
Vector: Inhalation, dermal, ingestion
Duration: 3d6+3 minutes
Cost/Dose: 2€/pack
Street Index: 0.8
Legality: Legal
Availability: Always
Effects: Willpower +1, Charisma -1, relaxant, Tranq (2)
Crash Effects: Willpower -1, irritability, anxiety

Paxium
AKA: joy, U.N., later, micky, slug
Inspiration: Effinger novels
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 20
Speed: 2d6 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4d6 minutes
Cost/Dose: 5€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 6P-M1
Availability: 3/60 minutes
Effects: reduced aggressiveness, calm, sleepiness, tranq(6)
Crash Effects: Willpower, Body, Quickness and Charisma -3 for 2d6 minutes [Willpower(5)], nausea, joint stiffness

Sonniene
AKA: sunnies, rook, eclipse, summoner
Inspiration: Effinger novels
Addiction: 4m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: 2d6 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6+1 hours
Cost/Dose: 80€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 4/60 minutes
Effects: Willpower and Charisma +2, Intelligence -2, euphoria, delusions of invulnerability, block-all(4)
Crash Effects: Mental Attributes -2 for 4d6 minutes, tremors, timidity, depression
Permanent Effects: Willpower and Charisma -1 [Willpower(5) for each]
Addiction Effects: Willpower and Charisma -1 per month [Willpower(5) for each]

AKA: Coranol, back, burnout, gung-ho
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 6p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 5
Speed: 1d6 minute
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 45€
Street Index: 3.5
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 8/3 hours
Effects: Intelligence and Quickness -3, Strength and Willpower +3, Reaction +6, aggressiveness, risk-taking, single-mindedness, as active Pain Editor
Crash Effects: Intelligence, Quickness and Strength -1 for 1d6 hours, Quickness and Strength -1 for 1d6 days, tractability, double nature, lethargy, moderate stun wound

Shades
AKA: cool, strut
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 5m
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 5
Speed: 30 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 30€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 5-M1
Availability: 4/60 minutes
Effects: Strength and Intelligence -1, Charisma and Willpower +2, euphoria, subtle "cool", block-all(1), stimulant(1)
Crash Effects: Willpower, Charisma, Strength and Quickness -1 for 1d6 hours, increased appetite (x2), possible sexual dysfunction [Body(6)], light stun wound

NuYou
AKA: sailor, nuyen, virgin, charm, binder
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 6m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 10
Speed: 3d6 hours
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1d6 days
Cost/Dose: 350€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 4/2 hours
Effects: Charisma +4, Body +2, Quickness and Strength -1
Crash Effects: Charisma -3 for 1d6 weeks [time divided by number of successes from Body(8)], physical deterioration, anxiety
Addiction Effects: Body and Charisma -1 per week [Body(5) for each]

Musk
AKA: skunk, slink, strut, charlie, vamp
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 3m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 20
Speed: 2d6 hours
Vector: Injection
Duration: 2d6 hours
Cost/Dose: 250
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 6-M1
Availability: 3/60 minutes
Effects: Charisma +2(vs. opposite sex)/-2(vs. same sex), sexual aggressiveness, pheromone stimulation
Crash Effects: Charisma -1

>>>[Unless you have tailored pherimones, which go completely out of control when this drug is in effect.]<<<
-- Tom (23:54:32/9-13-54)

FoolKiller
AKA: ripper, charge, egg in a pan, joker, Herc
Inspiration: Cyberpunk 2020
Addiction: 5p
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 10
Speed: Immediate
Vector: Inhalation
Duration: 1d6 days
Cost/Dose: 35€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 8/3 hours
Effects: Charisma and Willpower +3, Body +2, Intelligence and Quickness -1, feeling of invulnerability, unshakable confidence, zealotry, aggressiveness, as activated pain editor
Crash Effects: Body -1, Willpower +1 for 1d6 days [Willpower(6)], Quickness -2 for 1d6 days [a Body(6) save will cut to -1], Intelligence -1 for 1d6 days
Permanent Effects: -1 physical box per dose [Body(6)], Body -2(vs. pathogens and poisons) [Body(6)]
Addiction Effects: -1 physical box per week [Body(6)], -1 physical box per month [Body(6)]

Diamond-Four
AKA: straight flush, cleric, stitch, street doc, healing anger, berserker
Inspiration: Cyberpunk
Addiction: 2p
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 10
Speed: Immediate
Vector: Injection
Duration: 2d6 days
Cost/Dose: 1,500€
Street Index: 3.5
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 10/2 days
Effects: Body +4(vs. poisons and pathogens), Willpower +2(vs. pain), Quickness -2, Intelligence -2, irrational fears/phobias, beserker rage, +2 physical box [10 max], Tranq(6)
Crash Effects: Quickness and Intelligence -2 for 1d6 days
Permanent Effects: +1 physical box (to 10 max) [and passing a Body(8) will give one more]

>>>[This drug is wonderful. It is mainly for use against nerve gas, but it can repair some of the more sinister forms of cell damage cause by some of the other drugs on this list.]<<<
-- Baby (07:18:43/9-14-54)

Genesios Three
AKA: Black thunder
Inspiration: Walter Jon Williams
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 5
Strength: 20
Speed: 1d6 turns
Vector: Injection, Ingestion
Duration: 1d6 + 17 hours
Cost/Dose: 1,000€
Street Index: 8.5
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 14/2 weeks
Effects: Intelligence +4, slight buzzing euphoria
Crash Effects: none
Permanent Effects: G3 rebuilds, repairs and stimulates growth of nerve cells (which do not normally grow at all).

"The hallucinogenic drugs…are not rude per se. But it can be difficult to observe the niceties of etiquette when you're being chased down the street by a nine-headed cactus demon."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Ecstasy
AKA: XTC
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 4m
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 20
Speed: 2/2/30 minutes
Vector: Inhalation/Injection/Ingestion
Duration: 6d6 minutes
Cost/Dose: 150€
Street Index: 4.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 5/7 hours
Effects: Charisma +5, Willpower -3, Quickness +4, sexual tension and prowess, euphoria, aggressiveness, mild hallucinations, extreme sensory stimulation [+3 perception, +3 T# to resist pain], as stimulant patch (2), Quickness-based skills +2
Crash Effects: Quickness -3, Strength -3, Willpower -3, possible sexual dysfunction, sexual hunger, deadly stun wound, quickness-based skills -2, reaction-based skills -1
Permanent Effects: Sterility [Body(4)]

>>>[There was a popular drug called XTC around the turn of the century, which some people still take. This is not it. So make sure you know what you're buying.]<<<
-- Caveat (21:14:34/9-16/54)

LSD
AKA: acid, Lucy, lucid, wow, LDS, Spocko
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 1m
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 4
Speed: 20 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6+2 hours
Cost/Dose: 5€/dose but 200€/100 tabs
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 5-M1
Availability: 4/7 hours
Effects: Quickness -3, Intelligence -4(cognitive), Willpower -3, possible uncontrolled astral perception [Essence(16), # successes * 10 is what percent of the duration time you are astral], Charisma -2, withdrawal from reality, intense hallucinations, as stim patch (3), as block-all(3)
Crash Effects: Withdrawal from reality, lethargy, concentration-based activities -1, serious stun wound
Permanent Effects: -1 physical box [Body(8)], Willpower -1 [Willpower(8)]
Addiction Effects: Intelligence, Charisma, Reaction -1 per month [Body(8) for each], artistic skills +1 per month [Charisma(8), +2 maximum increase], Magic Theory +1 per month [Intelligence(8), +1 maximum increase]

MDA, MDMA, and other Amphetamine variants
AKA: VR, Yeager, boxy
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 6
Speed: 20 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4-24 hours
Cost/Dose: 10€
Street Index: 1.7
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 4/7 hours
Effects: Quickness -2, Intelligence -4(cognitive), Willpower -2, Charisma -1, withdrawal from reality, intense hallucinations, as stimulant patch (4), as block-all(4)
Crash Effects: Withdrawal from reality, lethargy, concentration-based activities -1, serious stun wound
Addiction Effects: Intelligence, Charisma, Reaction -1 per month [Body(8) for each]

>>>[MDA is sometimes called Zen. MDMA is usually known as Exstasy. Both of these names appear elsewhere in this list, but they are different drugs. One of the problems with street culture is that it isn't very creative.]<<<
-- Caveat (21:14:59/9-16/54)

Mescaline
AKA: meska, mask, projects, Ghost Dance
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 4
Speed: 5 minutes
Vector: Air
Duration: 8-12 hours
Cost/Dose: 80€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 4/5 hours
Effects: Quickness -2, Charisma -2, Reaction -2, Intelligence -2(cognitive)/+2 perceptive, Willpower -2, possible uncontrolled astral perception [Essence(16), # successes * 10 is what percent of the time you are astral], magical theory +3, dream state trance, intense hallucinations
Crash Effects: Drowsiness, light sensitivity, increased appetite
Permanent Effects: Magical Theory +1 [Intelligence(12), once per month of use], Charisma +1 [Willpower(12), once per month of use, +1 maximum increase], withdrawal from reality with continual use
Addiction Effects: Intelligence -1 per month [Body(8)], Willpower -1 per month [Body(8)]

Phencyclidine
AKA: PCP, dust, angel dust, stage, theatre, JWB
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 5m
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 2
Speed: 2 minutes
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1-4 days
Cost/Dose: 25€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 8/14 hours
Effects: Body, Strength, Willpower +3, Quickness -3, Intelligence -4(cognitive), Willpower -3, Charisma -2, withdrawal from reality, intense hallucinations, as stimulant patch (5), as block-all(5)
Crash Effects: Withdrawal from reality, lethargy, concentration-based activities -2, serious stun wound
Permanent Effects: -1 physical box [Body(8)], Willpower -1 [Willpower(8)]
Addiction Effects: Intelligence, Charisma, Reaction -1 per month [Body(8) for each]

Ribopropylmethionine
AKA: RPM, Round-baby
Inspiration: Effinger novels
Addiction: 8p
Tolerance: 2
Strength: 2
Speed: 3 minutes
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1d6+1 minutes
Cost/Dose: 100€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 10/7 hours
Effects: Quickness -4, Intelligence -2, Willpower -6, Charisma -4, Strength +2, terror, fear, extreme hallucinations (personal fears), as stimulant patch(8), as block-all(6)
Crash Effects: Tremors, paranoia, abject fear, recurring hallucinations, concentration-based activities -2, extreme sensitivity to fear, adrenal overload [automatic deadly wound to adrenal pump bioware]
Permanent Effects: Quickness -1 [Body(8)], Willpower and Charisma -1 [Willpower(8) for each]
Addiction Effects: Quickness, Willpower, Intelligence -1 per month

Zen
AKA: Wu-li, bluemind, blewmind, in
Inspiration: Seth
Addiction: 5m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 10
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Inhalation
Duration: 1d6+3 hours
Cost/Dose: 120€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 5/10 hours
Effects: Charisma +4, Willpower -2, Strength -2, Quickness +2, Reaction -2, serenity, calmness, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, block-all(3)
Crash Effects: Charisma -1, Strength -1, Reaction -1, Artistic Skills +1, self-doubt, mental turbulence, chaotic emotions, concentration-related tasks +2 T#, sensory distraction [-2 perception]

>>>[All right. One more time. This is not another drug called Zen. See MDA, above.]<<<
-- Caveat (21:14:34/9-16/54)

"Heroin and the other 'downs', natural and synthetic, are not polite. These drugs effectively eliminate the painful aspect of existence, which, nowadays, is almost all of it."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Heroin
AKA: H, horse, smack, K.R.
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 5m,5p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 3
Speed: 1 turn
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 20€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 5/2 hours
Effects: Body -2, Willpower +2, Quickness -1, Intelligence -1, Charisma -2, withdrawal from reality, block-all(6)
Crash Effects: Stress
Permanent Effects: Body -1 [Body(5)], Charisma -1 [Willpower(6)]
Addiction Effects: Body -1 per month [Body(5)], Charisma -1 [Body(6)], -1 physical box per month, -1 mental box per month

Hydromorphone
AKA: Pain water, dilaudid
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,4p
Tolerance: 5
Strength: 7
Speed: 1 minute
Vector: Injection
Duration: 3-6 hours
Cost/Dose: 250€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 5/6 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Intelligence -4, Willpower +3 (vs. pain), tranquilized, block-all(7)
Crash Effects: pain-sensitivity (+1 to all wound category modifiers), irritability, tremors
Addiction Effects: Willpower -1 per dose [Willpower(6)]

Meperidine
AKA: reaper, k'pla, demerol
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,4p
Tolerance: 5
Strength: 4
Speed: 1 minute
Vector: Ingested, injected
Duration: 12-24 hours
Cost/Dose: 500€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 6/6 hours
Effects: Strong euphoria, Charisma -2, Intelligence -3, Reaction -2, Willpower +2 (vs. pain), tranquilized, block-all(6), nausea
Crash Effects: irritability, concentration-based tests +3 T#, Willpower -2 (vs. pain), cramps, nausea, chills
Addiction Effects: Willpower -1 to -2 per dose [Willpower(5), twice], Willpower, Intelligence and Charisma -1 per month [Willpower(4) for each]

Methadone
AKA: Crystal Meth, annihilatrix, dominatrix
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 2m,3p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: 1 minutes
Vector: Inhalation (powder)
Duration: 3-6 hours
Cost/Dose: 50€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 5/6 hours
Effects: Intelligence -1, Willpower +1 (vs. pain), tranquilized, block-all(5), euphoria
Crash Effects: concentration-based tests +2 T#, Willpower -2 (vs. pain), watery eyes, loss of appetite, cramps.
Addiction Effects: Willpower, Intelligence and Charisma -1 per month [Willpower(4) for each]

Morphine
AKA: morph, shifter, no-brain
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,4p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 10
Speed: 1 minute
Vector: Injection
Duration: 3-6 hours
Cost/Dose: 150€
Street Index: 1.25
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Intelligence -2, Willpower +2 (vs. pain), tranquilized, block-all(6)
Crash Effects: pain-sensitivity (+2 to all wound category modifiers), irritability, concentration-based tests +2 T#, Willpower -2 (vs. pain)
Addiction Effects: Willpower -1 per dose [Willpower(6)], Willpower, Intelligence and Charisma -1 per month [Willpower(6) for each]

Opium
AKA: Pipedream
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 4m,4p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 15
Speed: 10 minutes
Vector: Inhalation
Duration: 3-6 hours
Cost/Dose: 50€
Street Index: 1.25
Legality: 5P-M1
Availability: 6/1 day
Effects: Charisma -2, Intelligence -1, Willpower +2 (vs. pain), tranquilized, block-all(6)
Crash Effects: irritability, tremors, panic, drowsiness, chills

"It is very rude to try crack a few times and not get addicted. This could throw any number of hysterical politicians and overwrought public health experts out of work."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Amphetamines
AKA: speed, benzies, dexies
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 5p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 6
Speed: 5 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 2-4 hours
Cost/Dose: 75€/50 tablets
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -1, Willpower -1, Quickness +1, Perception +1, increased alertness, excitability, euphoria, increased pulse and blood pressure, insomnia, loss of appetite.
Crash Effects: depression, apathy, disorientation, irritability, long period of sleep, headache (L stun wound).

Brown Study
AKA: Net focus, karma, soma, silver
Inspiration: Cyberpunk 2020
Addiction: 1m
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 10
Speed: 30 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 2d6 hours
Cost/Dose: 35€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 6/6 hours
Effects: Quickness -2, Strength -2, Reaction -4, Willpower +2, Intelligence +4, Technical/Knowledge skills +3, intense mental concentration, resistance to distractions, insomnia, possible psychoactive journey [Body(12-Body); 1d6+1 hours in length]
Crash Effects: Quickness and Strength -2 for 3d6 hours upon recovery [resist with a Body(10) roll for each], lethargy, increased appetite (x3), moderate stun wound.

Caffeine
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 1m
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 50
Speed: 30 minutes
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6 hours
Cost/Dose: 5€/100 tablets
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: always
Effects: Charisma -1, Willpower -1, anxiety, tremors, hyperactivity, reduced appetite, acts as stim patch (1)
Crash Effects: Light stun wound

Cocaine
AKA: coke, nose-candy, exec, C₁₇H₂₁NO₄, snow
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 6p
Tolerance: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: Immediate
Vector: Inhalation
Duration: 1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 10€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 4/60 minutes
Effects: Quickness +1, Intelligence +1, Charisma -2, Body -2, aggressiveness, risk-taking, block-all(3)
Crash Effects: Depression, hyperactivity, moderate stun wound
Permanent Effects: Charisma -1 [Willpower(6)]
Addiction Effects: Body -1 per month [Willpower(6)], Willpower and Intelligence -1 per month [Willpower(4) for each]

Endorphins
AKA: 'dorph, Fred Dorfman, inga, hoo'a hoo'a
Inspiration: Cyberpunk 2020
Addiction: 4p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 5
Speed: 1d6 minutes
Vector: Injection
Duration: 1d3 hours
Cost/Dose: 30€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 6/3 hours
Effects: Intelligence and Quickness -2, Strength and Willpower +2, Body +1, reduced sensitivity to pain [-2 T#], single-mindedness, block-all(6), tranq(3), +2 T# to inflict pain
Crash Effects: Intelligence, Quickness and Strength -1 for 1d6 hours [Body(4)], irritability, hyperactivity, aggressiveness, light stun wound, light physical wound
Permanent Effects: Charisma -1 [Willpower(4)]
Addiction Effects: Quickness -1 per dose [Body(4)], Charisma -1 per month [Willpower(4)]

J
AKA: Johnny Mnemonic, rekall (pronounced as both "recall" and "wrek-all"), squealer, this-is-your-life, honto
Inspiration: Traveller 2300
Addiction: 1m
Tolerance: 1
Strength: 50
Speed: 1 minute
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 4d6 minutes
Cost/Dose: 600€
Street Index: 4.0
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 10/3 hours
Effects: Intelligence -4(cognitive)/+10(mnemonic), Willpower -6, extreme talkativeness, complete willingness to answer questions about memories, uncontrolled rambling about personal recollections, uncontrolled veracity
Crash Effects: complete memory loss about duration of dosage

Methylphenidate
AKA: skippy, jif, ritalin
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 3p
Tolerance: 5
Strength: 4
Speed: 5 minutes or 1 minute
Vector: Ingestion, Inhalation, Injection
Duration: 2-4 hours
Cost/Dose: 25€
Street Index: 1.8
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 4/3 hours
Effects: Quickness +2, Perception +1, increased alertness, excitability, euphoria, increased pulse and blood pressure, insomnia, loss of appetite.
Crash Effects: depression, apathy, disorientation, irritability, long period of sleep, headache (M stun wound).

Phenmetrazine
AKA: Devo
Inspiration: reality
Addiction: 5p
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 5
Speed: 5 minutes or 1 minute
Vector: Ingestion or Injection
Duration: 2-4 hours
Cost/Dose: 75€/10 tablets
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 4P-M1
Availability: 5/3 hours
Effects: Willpower -2, Quickness +1, increased alertness, excitability, euphoria, increased pulse and blood pressure, insomnia, loss of appetite.
Crash Effects: depression, apathy, disorientation, irritability, long period of sleep, headache (L stun wound).

Spaz
AKA: bitch, shrew, Mr. Ugly drivin'
Inspiration: Cyberpunk 2020
Addiction: 5p
Tolerance: 1
Strength: 5
Speed: Immediate
Vector: Air, ingestion
Duration: 2d6 hours
Cost/Dose: 10€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 4-M1
Availability: 8/24 hours
Effects: Charisma -3, Willpower -1, Reaction +2, Intelligence -1(cognitive)/+1(perceptive), Reaction-based skills +2, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior, muscle tremors, reduced appetite, as stimulant patch (2)
Crash Effects: Neural dysfunction (tremors, memory lapses, paralysis), moderate stun wound
Addiction Effects: Quickness and Charisma -1 per month, -1 physical box per month

Triphetamines
AKA: Tri-phets
Inspiration: Effinger novels
Addiction: 2m
Tolerance: 4
Strength: 5
Speed: 1 minute
Vector: Ingestion
Duration: 1d6 hours
Cost/Dose: 25€/50 tablets
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 5P-M1
Availability: 5/3 hours
Effects: Charisma -2, Willpower -2, Quickness +1, Reaction +1, hyperactivity, detachment from reality, reduced appetite, increased metabolic rate (x2), as stimulant patch (1)
Crash Effects: depression, lethargy, nausea [Willpower (4)], light stun wound.

Plants have long been used for their effects on the human body and other forms of life. What follows is a list of plants which contain chemicals or properties which may be of interest to the researcher or Shadowrunner. Each entry is described by the following categories:

Taxonomy: The scientific name for the plant
Cost: Cost of plants is kind of a weird area. Sometimes it is the cost to get the plant which is listed, sometimes the cost of the main chemical in the plant. It's not perfect, but it's as good as our information could get.
Street Index: This can vary widely depending on where you are. If you live in the NAN, for example, it'd probably be cheaper to buy peyote than it would be in Seattle.
Legality: This is baseline Seattle, as always. Most of these plants are legal, but often the chemicals in them are not. Go figure.
Availability: This can vary very widely, even more so than the drugs above. Many dealers will always have some of a given plant in stock, while another will never carry it. Consider the number to be a measure of the plants rarity rather than whether a particular fixer will have it. The time is how long it takes to find someone that has it, not how long it will take that person to get it.
Appearance: This is a description of the plant, so you might recognize it.
Climate: Rough climate or locality in which the plant grows
Effects: The effects.

Normally, your friendly neighborhood drug dealer isn't gonna know shit about most of this stuff. You need a talismonger, usually. Sometimes, you can score some of the medicinal chemicals from a hospital or street doc, but usually, your vitalis (that's "vital talismonger" for non-Denverites) is who you need to see. This can be a problem, because 'mongers don't usually have the networks of fixers or dealers, so it's often a pot luck if vitalis carries what you need. If not, you'll probably have to find another 'monger. You may even have to leave town to get what you want.

One last thing: some nations have really odd laws on importation of plants like this. If a plant seems really expensive, you can bet that it's taxed to hell and back, or barred from entry.

Aloe (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Aloe vera magnus
Cost: 400€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/2 weeks
Appearance: Succulent cacti with a rosette of narrow, prickly-edged, fleshy leaves filled with bitter juice. Single leafless stalk growing just under 1 meter, terminating in an elongated cluster of down-pointing yellow to orange flowers.
Climate: Aztlan, CFS, The Ute, Pueblo Corporate Council
Effects: This plant can heal minor wounds [Moderate or less] when the juice is rubbed over or into it. This takes about 10 minutes for the magical effect to work, during which time, the wound tingles very powerfully [+1 to all T# for distraction]. It's powers are doubly effective against wounds caused by burns [Serious wounds or less].

Autumn Crocus
Taxonomy: Colchicum autumnale
Cost: 20€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/6 weeks
Appearance: Herb which grows to 0.3 meters from an onion looking bulb. Large, lance-shaped leaves develop in spring. In the fall, a leafless flowering stalk yields a solitary white to pale purple crocus-like flower.
Climate: Damp meadows, fields, woodlands and mountains, especially in the Canadian parts of the UCAS and northern Sioux Nation.
Effects: Ingesting any part of this plant will cause a burning sensation in the throat, vomiting, and possible kidney and respiratory failure. [4D 1 hour after ingestion, Effects can last all day.]

Balsam of Peru (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Myroxylon balsam magnus
Cost: 500€/dose
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 10/3 weeks
Appearance: Thick, fragrant resin (smells like cinnamon when fresh and vanilla when aged) extracted from a shade tree of up to 20+ meters tall. The evergreen tree leaves are oblong 8cm, sprinkled with transparent dots. White flowers terminate the branches.
Climate: Central America, southern Aztlan, northern South America
Effects: When applied to wounds, the balsam acts as a coagulant. It also contains magical properties which can heal tissue (heals 1-3 boxes). The resin is slightly astrally active, and is sometimes used to shellac doors or windows to make them astrally secure (one dose can cover a square meter).

>>>[In order to get this stuff to work for astral security, you need to do a bit of enchanting. No magic required, but it needs to be mixed with distilled water and tannin just right, and I mean just right. Watching the whole process astrally can help a bit.]<<<
-- Karla Nash (01:03:29/3-16-54)

Barvine
Taxonomy: Hedera helix magnus
Cost: 500€/meter²
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 2/3 weeks
Appearance: Climbing plant with woody stem which get reach 35 meters or more. Dark, glossy, veined, evergreen alternate leaves are triangular and three-lobed.
Climate: Nearly anywhere
Effects: An Awakened form of common English ivy, this plant has a very strong aura, and as such is used to cover buildings to make them astrally impenetrable.

>>>[Most buildings which use this are very secure, and so have no windows. Or, often the windows are very small, oddly proportioned or barred (with the ivy on the bars). If there isn't a space big enough for a person's real body, their astral form won't fit through either. And you can't move the ivy from the astral plane in anyway at all. Simple and effective. Your best bet is to wait until someone opens a door.]<<<
-- Quarrel (18:25:57/11-30-54)

>>>[Since this type of security is just as capable of keeping astral things in as out, some installations may have a back way in. It'll be very well hidden, but you might get lucky.]<<<
-- Niche (05:44:57/12-17-54)

Belladonna
Taxonomy: Atropa belladonna
Cost: 1,200
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 7/1 week
Appearance: Leafy, smooth branched stem growing to a meter with dull green alternate leaves of unequal size on the upper parts. Solitary bell-shaped purplish-brown flowers (June-July) arising from the leaf axils are followed by glossy black berries with inky purple juice (September).
Climate: Woods and wastlands. Eastern UCAS.
Effects: Belladonna contains atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine. Once ingested, belladonna is a deadly poison [5D] which begins working in minutes.

Black Nightshade
Taxonomy: Solanum americanum
Cost: 70€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/2 weeks
Appearance: .3 to 1 meter tall, with oval to lance-shaped leaves. White flowers with five backswept petals. Black berries
Climate: Sunny
Effects: All parts of this plant are poisonous when ingested (5D) and can kill within minutes.

Calabar Bean
Taxonomy: Physostigma venenosum
Cost: 250€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/4 weeks
Appearance: Vines rooting in riverbanks, climbing up to 20m into the trees. Large, purple flowers hand in the spring. After the flowers fall, 15cm pods develop, containing two or three flat maroon seeds
Climate: Calm rivers in dry climates, in the delta. Mainly found in the Niger Delta.
Effects: A drink made of the powdered beans contain physostigmine, which paralyzes the heart, causing death; often, however, the drink is rejected by the stomach before the drug can effect the body. [On a success of a Body(5) roll, the concoction is vomited, otherwise, the drink will kill the person in 10-30 minutes.]

>>>[A lot of gangs in the Seattle area have taken to using this bean drink as an initiation technique. If the newcomer pukes, he's in, if not, he's buried.]<<<
-- Flash (10:01:32/4-29-54)

>>>[Physostigmine can counteract the effects of atropine.]<<<
-- Doctorjack (02:32:44/8-18-54)

Catnip (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Nepeta cataria magnus
Cost: 100€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 4/5 days
Appearance: Upright herb, 1 meter tall with branching square stems and toothed, heart-shaped opposite leaves covered with downy grey hairs. Clusters of pale lavender tubular flowers (June-October) with purpulish spots grow at the ends of the main stem. Minty smell
Climate: Throughout North America
Effects: This plant secretes an oil which cats of all types find irresistible. It is as effective as its mundane cousin on mundane cats, but especially effective on paranormal felines, including Talis Cats, Sabre-Toothed Cats, and even Tiger Shapeshifters. It causes a very powerful euphoria in such creatures with few ill effects, and can reduce aggressiveness.

>>>[When making friends with an angry Talis Cat, this plant can go a long way.]<<<
-- Coma (10:19:45/2-30-54)

Chat
Taxonomy: Catha edulis
Cost: 5€/leaf
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 4/3 hours
Appearance: Small leafy trees, very small white flowers.
Climate: Ethiopia
Effects: Chewing the three or four leaves of this tree for 10 minutes or so causes increased alertness, relief from hunger and fatigue, and mild euphoric high. [as stim patch(3), +1 Quickness]. Shredded leaves can be used to make a tea which has the same effect.

>>>[This tea, when brewed with honey, is called Arabia tea and has some importance to Arab culture.]<<<
-- Fariba al-Hassan (01:59:30/2-17-54)

Demonseed
Taxonomy: Buxus sempervirens magnus
Cost: 500€/fruit
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/3 weeks
Appearance: Shrub from 1 to 2 meters high with small, juicy, elliptical leaves, dark green above and pale below. Clusters of small inconspicuous red flowers (April-June) produce small red, horned capsules containing seeds.
Climate: Only cultivated.
Effects: Crushing and drying the ripe fruit and seeds of this Awakened form of Boxwood, then inhaling the powder will bestow resistance to about all forms of spiritual activity [+2 to t# for spirit attacks and -2 to Power of any form of attack from a spirit]; however, this powder is slightly toxic [3S, immediate]. The effect lasts for 3-8 hours. It's main attraction for magicians is that any spirit summoned by a magician under the effects of this powder will be much less able to harm the magician should it go free [treat all attacks from the spirit on the summoning mage as if it were of a force equal to one-half (round down) its actual force]. As long as the magician was under the effects of the drug during the actual summoning of the spirit, this effect will last for the spirit's entire existence.

>>>[When summoning big elementals or allies, this stuff can be a good move.]<<<
-- Quarrel (19:48:15/4-28-54)

>>>[You will never find this in the wild. This is because it is the results of a ritual involving it's mundane counterpart boxwood. It will only grow indoors.]<<<
--Arianna (18:13:15/8-6-54)

>>>[I don't suppose you'd clue us into the ritual, would you?]<<<
-- Coma (18:20:15/8-6-54)

Foxglove
Taxonomy: Digitalis purpurea
Cost: 200€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 10/2 weeks
Appearance: A rosette of long-staled leaves with 1-2 meter stem growing out. Leaves are lance-shaped to oval. Spires of white to pinkish to red thimble-shaped flowers (June-September) are speckled with red dots.
Climate: Fields, moist clearings. Cascade Mountains
Effects: Chewing a leaf can cause paralysis and even death. [3D, plus, if any damage is taken, reduce natural Quickness by the number of boxes taken. If quickness reduced below zero by one-half (round-down) its original value or more, death results; otherwise, one point returns each hour, allowing mobility when Quickness reaches above zero.] This also has the odd effect of making Fox shapeshifters sneeze uncontrollably [Willpower(5) each minute exposed to ignore effects].

Godflesh
Taxonomy: Stropharia cubensis
Cost: 100€ per mushroom
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: 5-M1
Availability: 7/3 weeks
Appearance: Small, wispy mushrooms with thin stems and narrow, white caps.
Climate: Yucatan
Effects: One of the strongest hallucinatory mushrooms, Godflesh was used ritually by Mayan in northeast Oaxaca. Eating this fungi caused severe hallucinations, which are very realistic. True reality is ignored. [Quickness -4, Charisma -1, Reaction -3, Intelligence -2(cognitive)/+4 perceptive, Willpower -1, Artistic Skills +2, tests requiring concentration at +2 T#.] Hilarity generally overtakes a user just before hallucinations begin.

Healing Snakeroot
Taxonomy: Sanicula marilandica magnus
Cost: 1,000€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/1 week
Appearance: Thick, dark green, undulating, snake-like root. Leafless flower stalks over 1 meter. Leaves at base with long stalks, oval to elliptical, unequally toothed, often with deeply cut leaflets. Flower clusters in June and July with 23 jet black blossoms.
Climate: Meadows, thickets and shady, moist, woodland soils down eastern North America.
Effects: One of the only plants with naturally black flowers, Healing Snakeroot is an Awakened form of Black Snakeroot, and is often found with them. The flowers can make a permanent dye which is often used in Seattle and Pueblo to paint patterns on skin, which act as tattoos until the top layer of skin wears off. While containing no healing properties by itself, a paste made from the root when eaten by a wounded person can make magical healing easier [-2 to target numbers of Heal and Treat spells]. This effect however takes five minutes to manifest after ingestion. The root can make enough paste for 4-8 doses.

Hemlock
Taxonomy: Conium maculatum
Cost: 150€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/2 weeks
Appearance: Lacy leaves and small white flowers arranged in umbels. White root. Crushed leaves emit sour, mousy odor.
Climate: Open places throughout North America
Effects: Hemlock is poisonous when ingested (3D), especially the seeds and roots (6D)

Herb Mercury (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Mercurialis annua magnus
Cost: 3,000€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/4 weeks
Appearance: A leafy-stemmed herb growing to 50cm, with light green lance-shaped to oval leaves with rounded teeth, arranged in opposite pairs. Small yellow flowers borne on spikes in the leaf axils.
Climate: Waste places. Eastern North America
Effects: The juice of this plant, when mixed with oil, forms a salve which magically protects what it covers from fire and heat [-3 to power] until it is washed or worn off. A single plant can yield enough juice to cover, when mixed, an average sized human being.

>>>[Only a magical Enchanter can do the mixing, but it is a straightforward process, as long as no human save the enchanter touches the juice until the mixture is done.]<<<
-- Alta (08:41:42/2-11-54)

Hound's-tongue (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Cynoglossum officinale magnus
Cost: 200€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/2 weeks
Appearance: Hairy stem up to 0.5 meters tall with pointed alternate leaves and clusters of small reddish-purple flowers (May-August) followed by prickly fruits in the form of burs.
Climate: Sandy and rocky roadsides high in the Rocky Mountains.
Effects: Boiling the leaves of this plant, the removing them and boiling off the water, leaves behind a yellowish slime. Mixing this slime with grain alcohol yields a toxin which inhibits the barking reflex in canine forms, including paranormal dogs like bargeists and hell hounds. Injecting a dog with this chemical will prevent them from making any sound at all for 1-6 hours [Dog needs to make a Body(9) test].

>>>[This can really confuse the hell out of dogs, often giving you enough time to get by.]<<<
-- Coma (05:36:41/1-3-54)

Jamaica Quassia
Taxonomy: Picrasma excelsa
Cost: 400€/kg
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/6 days
Appearance: An ashlike tree, up to 20m tall, with pinnately compound leaves and clusters of small rose-colored flowers. The wood and leaves
Climate: Jamaica
Effects: A bitter resin can be extracted from the wood of this tree (about 40ml per kg), which acts as an incredible natural insecticide. This resin is extremely effective against insect spirits [acting as a 8S poison (this number includes the effects of the vulnerability to insecticides)].

>>>[Yow. Talk about misinformation. We used some of this stuff loaded into NarcoJet rounds, and it worked great, with only one problem: bee spirits are completely unaffected by it. In fact, it seems to heal them and the scent of it attracts them, as well as normal bees.]<<<
-- Coma (23:47:36/4-10-54)

Kava
Taxonomy: Piper methysticum
Cost: 30€/leaf
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/2 weeks
Appearance: Shrub with broad, heart-shaped leaves webbed with network of prominent veins.
Climate: South Pacific
Effects: Chewing on the leaves vigorously, soaking them in water or milk, then drinking the liquid produces a euphoric state, and when the user sleeps, the sleep is deep and dreamless. In large enough quantities (triple dose) can increase the force of heart action while decreasing pulse rate, induce a hypnotic state and paralyze large skeletal muscles, like those in the legs.

>>>[I don't know why, but metahumans with allergies to sunlight really don't take this drug well. It can cause nausea and even coma. [5(level of allergy) stun damage.]<<<
-- Misha (02:57:49/2-2-54)

Mandrake (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Mandragora officinarum magnus
Cost: 1,000€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 12/5 weeks
Appearance: Vine-like member of the nightshade family with sparse, ovate leaves and whitish flowers. The root is turnip-like, contorted into a shape resembling a human being.
Climate: Mediterranean, also under hanged bodies.
Effects: Mandrake is credited with much more than it can actually do. Often in legend a catalyst for love magic, ritual sorcery and other sympathetic magic becomes much easier to cast on someone with whom the caster has shared mandrake [-2 to T#]. Mandrake is an aphrodisiac. Eating mandrake also makes connecting magically to other minds easier [+1 die to Mind Probe, spells which control or alter conscious thought, and mana detection spells for 1d6 hours]. Continued use of mandrake can pose hazards to magical ability [make a Magic test against a target number of 2 plus the number of times mandrake has been used in the past 28 days to avoid loosing a Magic point].

Mirror Basil
Taxonomy: Ocimum masilicum magnus
Cost: 500€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/2 weeks
Appearance: Bushy and up to a meter tall, with a square stem and many branches. Opposite, shiny green to purple, toothed leaves which are elliptical to oval and about 3cm long. Small white flowers grow in whorls of seven at the ends of the branches from June-September.
Climate: temperate North America, often hidden among common basil.
Effects: This Awakened form of common basil is thought to be the source of the legendary association of basil with the basilisk. Drinking a tea made of died mirror basil leaves will render the imbiber completely immune to the gaze of a basilisk for around an hour [(1d6+4) x 10 minutes].

>>>[What they don't tell you is that anyone who uses this stuff will be targeted first by a basilisk's bite. I guess its some sort of smell or something (at least to them, I couldn't smell a thing) which really ticks them off. The plant itself doesn't seem to have this effect on them.]<<<
-- Coma (06:39:17/7-3-54)

>>>[This plant is often used in foci and fetishes for barrier and transformative magic.]<<<
--Ericka (14:17:59/11-10-54)

Moneywort (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Lysimachia nummularia magnus
Cost: 5,000€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 12/5 weeks
Appearance: A creeping vine with trailing stems up to two meters long with glossy round leaves in opposite pairs. Golden yellow flowers (June-August) 2 to 3 cm across with five petals marked with dark spots.
Climate: Moist shores, roadsides, meadows and grasslands in southern UCAS, northern Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast.
Effects: The juice of this plant, boiled with wine and honey and ingested forms the most powerful magical healing agent known [will heal six boxes of damage]. It begins working within minutes and takes 10 to 60 minutes to work, depending on the wound's severity; however, it makes the user very sleepy for hours after application. This plant must be harvested specially, and handling by mundanes spoils its effects. One plant provides up to four applications.

>>>[On the streets, the syrup this plant makes is called beautiform, hiber, and le morte vim. It works wonders, but it tastes like shit.]<<<
-- Doctorjack (14:45:27/5-28-54)

Opium Poppy
Taxonomy: Papaver somniferum
Cost: 15€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: 5-M1
Availability: 4/3 weeks
Appearance: White, lavender, red or purple flowers with four large petals with dark centers
Climate: Most of Asia and the Mideast
Effects: This plant is the source of opium--the main ingredient the manufacture of morphine and heroin--as well as codine.

Pareira
Taxonomy: Chondrodendron tomentosum
Cost: 100€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 8-M1
Availability: 10/2 weeks
Appearance: High climbing vine with woody stems and broad, veined leaves and bundles of what look much like hard, dark green grapes.
Climate: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Amazonia
Effects: From the stems of this plant is extracted a poison called curare. This is a very deadly poison, which relaxes the muscles of the body, even to the point of stopping the lungs from working. Curare can, in fairly small doses, paralyze a man in minutes (7D, 1d6 minutes onset time), leaving him immobile and asphyxiating until he dies.

>>>[If this gets into your blood, you will be very, very sorry.]<<<
-- Blow (23:40:42/3-22-54)

>>>[Not necessarily, if you've got the right wires. This toxin has been around for a long time, and many better blood filter cyberware systems were designed specifically to fight it. Seems like any system over level 3 works about 50% better against curare than against other blood-borne poisons. The same doesn't seem to hold for bioware.]<<<
-- Doctorjack (21:35:27/6-28-54)

Peyote
Taxonomy: Lophophora williamsii
Cost: 125€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 9/2 weeks
Appearance: A tomato-sized round cacti, fleshy, greyish to chalky blue, with 5 to 13 ribs with pencil-like tufts of woolly white hairs instead of sharp spines. Massive carrot-like taproot. Tiny pinkish to creamy white flowers on top.
Climate: Aztlan desert, southern NAN deserts
Effects: Peyote contains over 56 alkaloid substances which act as drugs in humans, including mescaline (q.v.). When slices of peyote are chewed, the following effects happen within minutes: Quickness -1, Charisma -1, Reaction -1, Intelligence -1 (cognitive)/+3 perceptive, Willpower -1, and hallucinations. When prepared properly and smoked, peyote can have a very profound effect: Quickness -3, Charisma -1, Reaction -1, Intelligence -2(cognitive)/+4 perceptive, Willpower -1, possible uncontrolled astral perception [Essence(12), # successes * 10 is what percent of the time you are astral], magical theory +4, Artistic Skills +2, tests requiring concentration at +2 T#, dream state trance, intense hallucinations. Addiction information and crash, permanent and addiction effects are as per mescaline. Duration of chewing peyote is 1d6 hours, smoking 3d6.

>>>[The "proper" preparation mentioned is a magical ritual. You need an Awakened enchanter.]<<<
-- Poboy (07:49:59/1-5-54)

>>>[It is very unlikely that this will make you walk astral space. Most people are unaware that many of the attributes sought by magicians from peyote are actually from an extremely rare awakened form of the plant. Here's a listing of it:
Taxonomy: Lophophora amsii magnus
Cost: 12,500€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: 3-M1
Availability: 14/5 weeks
Appearance: As normal peyote, but always with 7 ribs. Not all 7-ribbed peyote plants are awakened.
Climate: Aztlan desert, southern NAN deserts, very rare however
Effects: This will almost always send mundanes into the astral [Essence(3) # successes * 15 is what percent of the time you are astral], and might even get magicians to the metaplanes [Magic(9) # successes is the quest rating]. Note that the latter can be fairly deadly if you are not ready for it. Other effects are: Quickness -3, Charisma -1, Reaction -1, Intelligence -3(cognitive)/+4 perceptive/+7 to aura reading, astral perception, magical theory +5, Artistic Skills +3, dream state trance, intense hallucinations. This peyote is non-addictive and has none of the normal crash effects; however, you have little control of any astral body gained during the trip and may possibly stay in astral space too long. Also, magicians may experience a degradation in power for a time after coming down, especially if they went to the metaplanes.]<<<
-- Quarrel (09:01:27/1-29-54)

>>>[Well, whatever. I do know that peyote highs are nothing like mescaline highs. Peyote goes for all the senses, including smell and touch, and is, well…kaleidoscopic. Right before you start hallucinating, this flashes of color trance across your vision. ]<<<
-- Red Pawn (08:31:36/7-17-54)

>>>[A peyote cult eventually turned into the Native American Church, which is still around. They had 250,000 members during the 1970's, but numbers are a bit sketchy now. They are dedicated to brotherly love, high moral principle, abstention from alcohol, and other niceties.]<<<
-- Holly (01:18:59/11-2-54)

Rauwolfia
Taxonomy: Rauvolfia serpentina
Cost: 100€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 4/1 week
Appearance: 0.5 meter, graceful and woody. Oval leaves, dark green above and paler below, in whorls of three or four along the stem. Small pink to white flowers borne in terminal clusters produce tiny, oval, fleshy fruits which turn a shiny purple-black when ripe.
Climate: Only grows in the wild. Mainly in Indonesia, India and Thailand.
Effects: Chewing the root of this plant brings on a detachment while meditating [+1 to philosophic and artistic skills]. Over 50 chemicals can be extracted from this plant, including some to treat mental illness and high blood pressure. The fruits are rumored in folk lore to cure lunacy and lycanthropy. They also act as powerful tranquilizers [Tranq 6].

>>>[Holy men in India, including Mahatma Gandhi, commonly used the root.]<<<
-- Wolf (21:54:29/6-25-54)

>>>[I don't know about lycanthropy, but I've seen the fruits prevent shapeshifters from changing to their animal forms, at least temporarily.]<<<
-- Quarrel (17:20:13/6-11-54)

Sea Onion
Taxonomy: Urginea maritima
Cost: 10€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/2 weeks
Appearance: A cabbage-sized onion, weighing up to 6 kilos. Leafless, purple flower stalk with a long cluster of whitish or rose covered flowers. The onion is either white or red.
Climate: The white variety is found in sandy coastal areas fringing the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, and South Africa. The red is found mostly Algeria and Cyprus.
Effects: Both varieties of onion are loaded with chemicals, mostly those which stimulate heart activity. The red variety contains a highly poisonous substance called scilliroside. When ingested, it would be lethal, but the human body vomits it out immediately before it takes effect. It is a lethal rat poison, however, as rats and other rodents are not able to vomit. The red version is much harder to find, as it is not harvested for its other drugs [x5 cost].

>>>[Devil Rats will eat the red Sea Onion like candy, until it kills them. One weird thing, though, is that the outer layers of the onion and the layers close to the heart have no chemicals in them at all. Only the layers in-between are useful.]<<<
-- Misha (14:20:31/6-1-54)

Sinicuichi
Taxonomy: Heimia salicfolia
Cost: 250€/dose
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 9/4 weeks
Appearance: Small, sparsely leafed shrub, with twined green leaves up the stems and 6-petaled, white flowers at mid-stem.
Climate: Central America
Effects: Picking the leaves from the sinicuichi and letting them wilt, then crushing them in water and fermenting the mixture in the sun will produce a drink with very unique properties when ingested. Most distinctive among these are vivid remembrances of the past (as far at childhood, or even pre-natal memories) and solely auditory hallucinations. These effects are accompanied by a giddy, drowsy euphoria, a darkening of vision, a shrinking of the surrounding world, and altered time/space perception. A single plant can prepare from three to eight doses.

Smooth Strophanthus
Taxonomy: Stropanthus gratus
Cost: 400€
Street Index: 5.0
Legality: 3P-M1
Availability: 10/4 weeks
Appearance: Woody, climbing vine, up to 10 meters or more. Uses branches like arms to climb trees rather than tendrils. Glossy evergreen leaves, thick and leathery. Terminal clusters of beautiful, bell-shaped, purple and white flowers resembling begonias, but which smell like roses at night.
Climate: Deciduous forests in tropical West Africa
Effects: The flowers are used for ornamentation. The plant is the source of the compound ouabain, a powerful, immediate heart stimulator. When this chemical is injected in small quantities, it can save humans from recent heart damage. In larger doses, it is very lethal [7D, immediately].

>>>[This was used as arrow poison by tribes in Africa long before Dr. David Livingstone brought it to European attention.]<<<
-- Doctorjack (01:07:57/4-13-54)

Fly agaris (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Amanita muscaria magnus
Cost: 1200€/mushroom
Street Index: 4.5
Legality: 5-M1
Availability: 10/3 weeks
Appearance: Think musroom with white, thick base and crimson head, with white splotches. Starts as an egg-sized, fluffy ball which appears as if wrapped in white wool. As it grows, it bursts, revealing the red skin.
Climate: Siberia, northern India
Effects: This mushroom, when properly filtered, provides a user with an intoxication, much like alcohol with an added side effect: an empathy for those around him, especially if those around him are also using the drug. [+2 Charisma, -2 bonus to Charisma, Etiquette and Negotiation target numbers, for 1d3 hours; double this effect towards those also on the drug. Also Quickness -2, Intelligence -2, Willpower -1.] This has earned this mushroom the name "brotherhood" on the streets. The proper method of filtration is to pound out the juice, and filter the juice through a wool cloth, then mix it with water, milk, honey or barley water and drink.

>>>[This mushroom is the plant which was known as Soma to a group in northwest India circa 1600 B.C. called the Aryans. It is the only plant in the world to have been deified; almost 160 books of hymns were written about Soma. Soma seemed to have vanished from the earth for nearly three millennia, and it was not until 1970 that R. Gordon Wasson connected Soma to the fly agaris. He had to wait until the Awakening for Soma to reach its full effect, though, as it works magically.]<<<
-- Arya ben-Yosef (19:23:25/4-5-54)

>>>[A more arcane filtration (in both senses of he word) is to let rain water soak into the mushroom, then perform an enchantment, and eating the mushroom. If done correctly under moonlight, the resulting effect allows a better communal with spirits [1 extra service from a summoning].]<<<
-- Quarrel (01:37:29/5-26-54)

>>>[There's yet another filtration, chummers, and it's hanious. First, get some people to consume the stuff made by the first kind of filtration. Then, drink their urine. It's gross, but it works wonders. It works for about five "generations" unless one of those is a magician. I did it, chummers, and I'm here ta tell ya, I thought I was talking to God. [Any astral quest undertaken while under this filtration is performed as if it were 2 Rating points lower for the purposes of target numbers and numbers of dice used. Also, any conjuring test is at a -1 T# bonus.]]<<<
-- Inga (21:27:57/11-10-54)

St. Michael
Taxonomy: Angelica archangelica magnus
Cost: 500€
Street Index: 2.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 6/4 weeks
Appearance: Herb with thick, hollow stems up to 2 meters. Pinnately compound leaves, with toothed leaflets and enlarged sheaths at the base of the leaf stalk.
Climate: Temperate steppe in high latitude UCAS
Effects: Chewing the root of this Awakened form of angelica can boost the immune system [+1 to resist diseases for 1d6 hours] and has very odd effects on the astral aura for a few hours. Most of these effects are not noticeable, but it does make the user slightly immune to many of the powers which nature spirits can use. [+3 dice to throw off effects, such as alienation, et. al.] This root also increases appetite for its duration [x2].

>>>[This aura fluctuation is not significant, but can confuse low force watchers sent to find you.]<<<
-- Quarrel (09:21:19/8-25-54)

Strychnine Tree
Taxonomy: Strychnos nux-vomica
Cost: 50€/berry
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: 6-M1
Availability: 10/2 weeks
Appearance: Medium-sized deciduous evergreen, with a thick, crooked trunk. 9cm oval leaves are borne in pairs and deeply veined. Small, loose clusters of greenish flowers at the branch ends, followed by fleshy, orange-red berries 4cm wide.
Climate: Tropics and subtropics in southeastern Asia and Australia.
Effects: The berries are bitter and very lethal when consumed. Victims of strychnine poisoning suffer violent seizures, sometimes nearly bent in half, without losing consciousness. The face is often distorted into a hideous mask. Death by strychnine can take up to an hour [6D. Make test every ten minutes, subtracting 1 from the power until the power reaches zero or the victim is dead.]

Tess' Bloom
Taxonomy: Orchidaceae supplus magnus
Cost: 10€
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 3/3 days
Appearance: A medium sized member of the orchid family, with white petals with black and green flecks toward the center of the flower.
Climate: Tropics, Hawaii
Effects: Discovered two years ago by a free spirit called Dion Kimber, this Awakened orchid has rapidly infused the magical community, especially magical security companies, and is grown greenhouses everywhere. Although rather commonplace for an orchid, it possesses a pleasing, brilliant (but non-active) astral aura. It is mainly harvested for its ability to raise the background count in areas in which it prospers. The extraneous astral patterns created by a room full of these plants has been called extremely beautiful, and compared in intensity to that within major cathedrals [Background Count = 4].

Torus Buckthorne
Taxonomy: Rhamnus frangula magnus
Cost: 1,000€/berry
Street Index: 5.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 10/4 weeks
Appearance: Deciduous shrub, up to 4 meters tall. Glossy oval green leaves, 2-7cm long. Green to grey bark. Small greenish white flowers grow in small clusters at the leaf joints from May to June. Most distinctive are the pea-sized berries which are torus (doughnut) shaped, the only berries ever found that exhibit such a shape. The berries turn from green to red to black.
Climate: Eurasia, North Africa, northeast UCAS, Quebec
Effects: This plant is the Awakened form of Alder Buckthorn. Eating the berries will, within minutes, make the user more resistant to magical forces. [One berry will give an extra die of magical defense to mundanes and magicians alike, but only for themselves, it cannot be extended to another. Eating berries is cumulative, but only to a number of extra dice equal to one-half Essence (round up). The magic resistance will last for 1d6 hours.]

>>>[Only the red berries will help. You can tell if the berries will work by looking astrally into the empty center. If the berry is effective, the hole will be filled with astral energy.]<<<
-- Quarrel (02:35:18/5-12-54)

Vambane
Taxonomy: Allium sativum magnus
Cost: 300€/bulb
Street Index: 1.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 5/2 weeks
Appearance: With its white bulb, composed of small cloves, and pungent odor, this plant is completely indistinguishable from garlic.
Climate: Pastures, open woods. Eastern North America
Effects: This Awakened form of garlic provide the basis for the legend that garlic would repel vampires. Vambane reacts strongly with humans and metahumans infected with HMHVV, irritating mucous membranes and irritating skin. Even the odor can cause such effects, although to a much more minor extent.

>>>[I don't think this always works. I've only seen it twice, once it worked, once it didn't.]<<<
-- Torment (14:45:27/5-28-54)

>>>[Could be that it isn't always effective, but I think it more likely that you got slotted by your Talismonger. There is absolutely no way you can tell vambane from normal garlic. None. Not even astrally.]<<<
-- Misha (07:05:20/7-16-54)

>>>[Hmm. My experience was that the reason this stuff works is that it is a powerful psychological deterrent. Nothing happens immediately after exposure, but after about a day, an HMHVV carrier's lungs start burning, itching skin, watering eyes, etc. None of this is damaging, but can very very distracting because nothing helps the irritation and it lasts for months. So, the next time the vamp smells the stuff, he runs like hell, if he's smart.]<<<
-- Vanth (06:03:45/8-1-54)

Underdog
Taxonomy: Apocynum cannabinum magnus
Cost: 500€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 3/5 weeks
Appearance: Branching stems, 1-2 meters tall, with oval to lance-shaped leaves in opposite pair. Inconspicuous green-white flowers and 18cm slender pods, containing silky, tufted seeds. All parts of the plant produce a bitter, milky sap.
Climate: Thickets and fields in Temperate UCAS, often around hemp dogbane plants.
Effects: An Awakened form of hemp dogbane, the sap of this plant, when mixed with alcohol, forms a poison lethal to paranormal dog-forms, like the bargeist and hellhound [8D, Instant]. A single plant can yield up to 10 doses of this drug.

A few animals are worth mentioning. You're on your own in terms of how you get these damn things. Numbers here are nearly meaningless, but can give a rough idea. Conditions and location will alter the price, legality, street cost, and availability of these animals.

Cyrano
Taxonomy: Nasus trilleanus
Cost: 1,500€
Street Index: 3.0
Legality: 6-M1
Availability: 14/3 weeks
Appearance: A very small (3mm thick, 1 cm long) invertebrate earthworm-looking parasite. Skin color changes monthly, but is always consistent, usually bright pastel colors.
Climate: Jungle
Effects: These small parasites are becoming very popular in big cities. When placed in one nostril, these worms slither up the sinuses and hook into the hosts bloodstream. After brief but severe pain, the cyrano drinks the blood of the host, replacing it with a fluid from its own body. This fluid provides a constant, dulling euphoria in its host [-2 Intelligence, -1 Willpower, -4 Reaction, act as Level 1 damage compensator]. This effect lasts until the parasite is removed. Even after very short exposure, the parasite's fluid is very addictive [Addiction: 8p after removal (+1 for every two months of life with the parasite)]. An addict is fine as long as a parasite lives within him. Without it, he will die within weeks [-1 Willpower per week, resist with Body(8)].

>>>[Jesus. Is that a worm in your nose, or are you just glad to see me?]<<<
-- Punnisher (08:13:27/2-9-54)

>>>[This worm alters the users aura, pretty significantly. It is easy to spot that someone is using one of these things, but even if you are familiar with the person's aura from before, it becomes unrecognizable, though it is obvious that the person is under the influence of the worm.]<<<
-- Quarrel (15:01:30/5-19-54)

>>>[Each time the worm changes color, it causes about an hour of extreme pain. Once done, the user's aura (as well as the worm's) has mutated. This can be useful if people have a habit of tracking you by aura, but it is rarely worth it.]<<<
-- El Majid (14:11:46/10-17-54)

Gin toad
Taxonomy: Bufo mexicalus
Cost: 500€
Street Index: 1.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/1 week
Appearance: A small brownish green toad, with very slick skin short jumping legs.
Climate: Central America
Effects: The oil on the skin of this toad is a hallucinogen, especially when mixed with alcohol. Seattle clubs are beginning to serve this in back rooms. You get a martini and a toad in a cage, you let the toad swim for a while, take it out and drink. This often kills the toad, but not always. The hallucinations are solely visual, and are not very powerful. [-1 Quickness, -2 perception, for 1d2 hours.]

Marine toad
Taxonomy: Bufo marinus
Cost: 1,500€
Street Index: 2.5
Legality: Legal
Availability: 8/1 week
Appearance: These are large brownish toads with slightly oily, slick skin, and a pale bump (a poison gland) behind each eye.
Climate: Central America
Effects: The oil of the skin of these animals is a poisonous hallucinogen. Pinching the poison glands can cause a powerful neurotoxin to shoot out. When this toxin makes contact with mucous membranes, death usually results [at the end of the combat turn, 6D]. Licking the toad's skin, in moderation, is mostly safe, and yields a hallucinatory experience on par with LSD.

Swifturtle
Taxonomy: Dermochelys velocis
Cost: 55,500€
Street Index: 4.0
Legality: Legal
Availability: 20/4 weeks
Appearance: Extremely small (approximately 10cm), these turtles have a very streamlined appearance, with disproportionately long rear flippers. While not adapted to land as much as other turtles, these creatures swim at speeds of over 70kph. They are also highly resistant to magic, very rare and difficult to catch.
Climate: Gulf of California
Effects: The magical resistance of these creatures can be temporarily transfered to (meta)humans if the proper procedures are followed. Grinding the entire shell away from a living swifturtle will produce a flaky bluish-green powder. Inhaling this power will reduce the effects of magic cast upon the inhaler for about four hours. [Gives user the critter power Magic Reststance for four hours.]

>>>[The trick here is that you have to use all of the shell and snort it before the turtle dies. I'm not sure why. Sometimes the shock of the grinding kills the poor little guy before you're done. Done right, though, it might be worth the cost.]<<<
-- Quarrel (15:07:30/5-19-54)

>>>[If the cost seems extreme, realize that the only waters you can find these beasties in are surrounded on three sides by Aztlan. Add to that they are a total bitch to find, much less catch, and that they are illegal to import into most countries in the world, and you end with a significant slice of cred.]<<<
-- Pyramid Watcher (10:15:33/5-20-54)

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