<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=144075.msg6519899#msg6519899">Quote from: AndyZ on 01-07-2012, 11:22:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I remembered how some of the masters work in the criminal underworld.  With this in mind, and given the blessing of the GM, I had an idea for some 2035 drugs which might exist.<br/><br/>These would have about a 70% effectiveness rate, with 30% of the populace being naturally resistant or immune for one reason or another.  This means that if a slave's player didn't want drugs to work, they just wouldn't, and offers a good reason for their ineffectiveness.<br/><br/>The first is Pink Flower, an herbal aphrodisiac.<br/><br/>The second is Bunraku (Japanese for Puppet), which is more designed to numb and calm down slaves, allowing them to continue to work long after a normal body would be exhausted and keep them from passing out.<br/><br/>Strangely, unlike conventional illicit substances, the effects of both Pink Flower and Bunraku end up permanent to some degree when repeatedly given to a slave.<br/><br/>I'll leave it up to the GM if these should be canon or not.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I don't mind including those substances as canon.<br/><br/>I'd find it more likely that they're synthetic, rather than herbal, Pink Flower could be taken as a herbal drug, though the active ingredient would be synthetic, the medium would be something meaningless and herbal, a flower, if you like.<br/><br/>I say synthetic, because this is major push in terms of technology and pharmacology at the time. Megacorps would not like naturally occuing herbs, or plants to be used since they can't be legally protected against reproduction, etc, and would therefore want drugs for which they could have no competition.<br/><br/>In terms of effectiveness the rate could be closer to 99%. If a player playing a slave doesn't want their slave to be put on these drugs, I'd consider that an OOC issue. If its part of a plot involving the slave not being able to be drugged, then dropping the minority they're included in to 1% of the population shouldn't make much of a difference.<br/><br/>Presumably, however, these drugs would be expensive, which would discourage large corporations from using Bunraku on their entire slave workforce.