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Bliss

by DreamingNymph

”Rule number one: You Cannot Fly. No matter what you may think later, you just can't. Even if you should sprout wings, they don't work. I'm locking the windows for your own good.”

- Veteran Bliss user giving advice to a newbie at a party

"Did you see that!?"

- Random guy, tripping on pink yeddim

Bliss, like so many novel drugs, was created by accident. Haile Cloudhands, a ne'er-do-well Guild craftsman, was fully intent on committing suicide after his last shot at a successful venture crashed and burned miserably, leaving him with nothing but a few random handfuls of medicinal herbs. He mixed them all together, hoping that the concoction would be toxic enough to send him off to the Great Beyond. Instead, he ended up extraordinarily high, and the visions he saw gave him inspiration to rebuild anew. When he came out of his three-day haze, he ran to his friend Gegus Crary, owner of Belladonna and Beeswax, an apothecary shop near the Little Market In Nexus. They put their heads together, and by using some of Haile's scribbled cryptic notes and the dregs of the muck he drank, a new designer drug was born. They named it Bliss, because Haile said that's what the angel in his vision told him to do. They tested their creation by handing out free samples at parties; the response was overwhelming. Haile and Gegus became wealthy men, and so far Haile is still convinced that his streak of bad luck is over for good this time.

Bliss is usually served warm in a mug; its texture is something like slightly viscous cocoa. The user can pick from a variety of flavor additives designed to mask its natural medicine-y taste. The effects vary from user to user; however, most report a warm, flushed feeling shortly after sipping through half the mug. When the mug is finished, there is generally a feeling of hyper-sensitivity; then the light show begins. Bliss is somewhat like Rasp Spider Venom, but with a kinder, gentler buzz, and the visions tend to give insight as well as an amusing picture or two. The trip is a very personal experience for most users, although even if they felt like sharing, it probably wouldn't be very intelligible unless you were sipping a mug yourself.

Rumours

• More than a few of the smash successes in the theatres in Cinnabar have been inspired by Bliss.
• "There's this one guy, he drank some bad Bliss one night, and dude, he's still in the asylum, he thinks he's an orange!"

Secret

• The herbs used to make Bliss are gathered from Wyld-touched locations; without that influence, Bliss would be about as potent as sugar water.

Comments

Yay! It's magitech MDMA! ^_^ -- Xarak

Sweet Buddha's balls, are there any drugs in this Exalt-forsaken city that AREN'T Wyld-tainted? What's a guy gotta do to score some all-natural toxins, huh? - Han'ya is just playin'. Serious. You're wonderful.