[Narcotic poison] Chuk-chuk

[Lars Gottlieb]

Here's a bit of a poison I brewed up some years ago:

Chuk-chuk

Description:Bush, 50-75 cm, hand-size arrowhead shaped leaves, small yellow flowers and white, poisonous berries.
Used by many T’skrang in the cities of Barsaive.
Illegal in Throal, Urupa and Travar.

Parts used:
Sap, extracted, boiled and dried to an olive-green, cheese like substance. A dose is a 1cm cube of this.

Availability: Uncommon in Servos jungle, very rare in other forests, though a variation can be found on the slopes of the Twilight Peaks.
Price: 10-500 s / dose by supply and legality.
Method of Application: Ingestion.
Preparation: 4 weeks
Addiction: Willpower test, TN 8.
Withdrawal: Depression, catatonia, stomach cramps.
Skills: Poisons, Botany,
Tests to prepare: Prepare poisons/Perception, TN 7

Effects:
Strong stimulant to T’skrang only; after a 20 minute onset:+3 to all steps for the next hour, then 2 hours with no effects, followed by 12 hours of depression and drowsiness: –6 to all tests.
It has no effect on obsidimen.
All other races usually experience 2 hours of hallucinations, usually visual only, then 12 hours of headache and drowsiness.
Ingestion of more than one dose has no further positive effects, but recovery time is doubled for each extra dose.