Recreational Drugs
Pharmaceuticals
Exproxin
The System-approved pharmaceutical drug from which the street drugs Touch and Mentle are derived. Exproxin is a broad-spectrum drug that was originally developed for Angelis' space-based personnel aboard Watchtowers.
Angelis has been transitioning from the more traditional dilators, preferring the administering of Exproxin for operatives. Despite this, dilator use remains prevalent among many in the field, and is sometimes used in conjunction with very low doses of Exproxin. Incorrectly mixing dilators with Exproxin can cause dysregulation of body temperature, migraines, and even stroke.
Authentic GATA-made Exproxin is calibrated to the user to deliver a 6+ hour effect that can be rapidly neutralized by consuming carbohydrates.
Over the years, low-dose Exproxin has become much more common across appropriately paradigmed districts where it is prescribed to promote presence, focus, and well-being.
Street Drugs
Touch
The popular designer street drug, an extremely powerful empathogen designed for syncing. Significantly enhances the effect. Overdose, though rare due to the relative cost of the dose required, can cause seizures. If the overdosing individual is pushing, this can trigger secondary seizures and distress in others. Is taken orally. Based on the Angelis-developed interrogator-enhancing drug Exproxin.
Mentle
A black market drug that temporarily induces a subjective state similar to extreme autism. Users can perform extremely complex calculations and transformations in their mind and operate demanding, multivariate systems. While under the effects of mentle, calculation and ordering can become extremely pleasurable activities.
Street mentle can vary widely in potency. Overdose can cause permanent brain damage and cardiac arrest.
Time Dilators
Time dilators are typically found in power or gaseous form, and are insufflated or inhaled. Used in the military for high-intensity, often life-threatening short-term tasks. Conduits, fighter pilots, and Angelis Watchers are required to use mild dilators to be able to monitor their complex HUDs in real-time.
Dilators are about more than performance enhancement. A steady supply of clean dilators means more thinking going into every decision, faster reactions, and greater situational awareness, making them indispensable in military and highly volatile situations.
While Angelis produces their own dillators, the bulk of the global supply is made in URSA, and historically in high supply. However, growing pressure to fall in line with the provisions set out in the New Dawn Accords has led to a crackdown on unlicensed production in URSA, causing disruptions in supply.
The dilator shortage has strained normally cooperative relations between global syndicates and Aryabat's domestic enterprises, as Aryabat has trade agreements granting their enterprises the rights to the URSA-based producers' limited supply. Meanwhile, a growing ecosystem of bootleg producers are enjoying the drug’s new luxury status.
Dozer
A depressant at smaller doses, and a sleeping aid at higher ones. When properly dosed for recreational purposes it induces a sleep-walking state where the user hallucinates and is highly suggestible. Experienced users can stay conscious in this in-between state, called ‘riding the line’.
Benders
Slang for synthetic psychoactives, typically consumed in liquid or vapor form. High end designer benders are specially tailored for the individual and the desired effect. Good benders have well designed timed-release gradients to ensure gentle comedowns.
Abusing low-quality street benders can cause “baby brain”, excess neurogenesis and cellular genesis causing permanent loss of memory, personality and capability in varying degrees.
Max
An ingestible, illegal nano drug (‘a nano’) that temporarily turns some of the host’s cells into factories’ for raw materials that it uses to create temporary nano-structures that enhance the mechanical work of biological bone, muscle and tendons, allowing the human body to generate and sustain increased performance and resilience for a few hours.
Max is illegal because it’s so easy to overdose and the short and long-term side effects are quite severe, including extreme fatigue, dehydration, discomfort, soreness, itchiness, nerve damage, heart damage, and sudden death.
If you don’t have an older nano immune system, it can be deadly to use Max.
Crimson
Derived from the highly-difficult to cultivate Red variant of the Manna Flower.
Naze
A small device used to deliver drugs into the nostril. A naze can produce nearly any drug molecule, however the Asimovian filter prevents the synthesis of banned substances. But it is common for the youth and those on the margins to bypass the filter with cartridge mods.
Some keep a naze in their pocket, others around their neck, and for some it never leaves their face.
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