[UA] Re: The End of the World, and so on.

[Bailey Watts]

>So the archetypes in each case would be:
>The Shaman (attempting to induce connection with the outside world)
>Too Much is Never Enough (no matter how good the last high was, the
>next one has to be better.  Of course this high could be based on
>cocaine or on base jumping or on shark wrestling)
>The Zero - attempting to escape the harshness of the world by
>destroying your interactions with it.
>
>I wouldn't say that any of these were drug based, but merely that
>drugs could be part of the paraphernalia of the archetype and that
>anyone really embodying them would be likely to indulge in drug use as
>an aid.

There's also the "performace enhancing drugs" which is what I saw alchemy as 
dealing with.  Steroids, EPO, and the like.  I've known people who actually 
used THC as a performance enhancing drug in very low dosages (they were 
target shooters, and were trained to aim and fire between heartbeats to 
avoid the slight twitch that accompanies every beat.  Anything that slows 
the heartbeat improves your aim).  There's also blood doping and other 
things I'm sure the list can help you with in the arena of performance 
enhancing.

Pretty much all of these give you an edge but can cause serious harm later 
on.
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