Post by GreatMilenko on Jul 27, 2005 15:07:53 GMT -5
Aloe (Awakened)
Taxonomy: Aloe magivera
Cost: 400Y
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: 20Y
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 magibalsam
Cost: 500Y/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 magihelix
Cost: 500Y/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 is dual
natured, and as such is used to cover buildings to make them astrally
impenetrable.
>>>>>[ Too easy. Just go through the windows. ]<<<<< -- Coma (22:24:58/1-26-54)
>>>>>[ 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: 70Y
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: 250Y
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 magicataria
Cost: 100Y
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: 5Y/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 magisempervirens
Cost: 500Y/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)
>>>>>[ You suppose correctly. ]<<<<< -- Arianna (18:21:20/8-6-54)
Foxglove
Taxonomy: Digitalis purpurea
Cost: 200Y
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: 100Y 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.
Taxonomy: Aloe magivera
Cost: 400Y
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: 20Y
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 magibalsam
Cost: 500Y/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 magihelix
Cost: 500Y/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 is dual
natured, and as such is used to cover buildings to make them astrally
impenetrable.
>>>>>[ Too easy. Just go through the windows. ]<<<<< -- Coma (22:24:58/1-26-54)
>>>>>[ 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: 70Y
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: 250Y
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 magicataria
Cost: 100Y
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: 5Y/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 magisempervirens
Cost: 500Y/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)
>>>>>[ You suppose correctly. ]<<<<< -- Arianna (18:21:20/8-6-54)
Foxglove
Taxonomy: Digitalis purpurea
Cost: 200Y
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: 100Y 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.