[UA] OT Drugs and Magic

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Drugs are certainly a fascinating subject and one that
I confess I haven't, personally, experimented with
much.

Jonathan Lethem uses drugs to create a fantastic
surreal effect in Amnesia Moon when the main
character, Chaos, can only visit two people he
desperately wants to meet "inside" a drug.  When he
injects a dose of this amber stuff in a syringe, the
people he wants to talk to exist.  They want him to
stay in the drug. 

I thought a concept like that would be fun for the
Occult Underground.  Maybe there's a cabal out there
whose leaders only exist when their followers are
tripping.  It would be like taking the garden of
earthly delights and shifting it into a pocket
universe that only exists when it's raining. A perfect
assassin's hiding place, I should think, or a perfect
way to give players a surreal twist on their next
conspiracy hunt.


--- Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>     Hellblazer had this issue where Constantine's
> junky friend had set this
> demon of consumption lose and constantine finds the
> friend in his bathtub,
> covered in insects.  But first he finds a syringe
> with crushed insects
> inside it.  The guy's been mainlining, like, ant
> soup.  That image has
> always stuck in my brain.  As the intersection of
> drugs and magic, and as an
> incredibly vivid snapshot about what the Occult
> Underground is like.  Aside
> from the questions of what kind of ritual the poor
> guy could have been mixed
> up in, I always have character concepts that involve
> the characters
> switching drug addictions for magical ones, then
> trying to go back to drugs
> to try and even things out.
> 
> Thoughts?

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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