[UA] Pass the crazy-flakes, doctor.

[Mike Dewar]

It could be interesting to see the effect of a Dr Glaxo Smith on an adept.
After all, there's a fair precedent for people going off their meds because
they feel that impair concentration/mess with their moods/make their soul
numb. Bearing in mind that this is Learned From TV and may be totally wrong.


It could be that medication might interfere with the twisted paradoxical
logic which helps adepts charge. It's harder to focus on why cutting off
your little finger has more transcendent meaning than simple pain, for
example. 

There could be a nice element of a devil's bargain for adepts on medication:
on the one hand, you're slowly shedding failed notches the longer you stay
on the pills, on the other hand, you're suffering an impairment to your
magick or finding yourself unable to work up a significant charge. 

So at some point, Epideromancer Tim needs to choose between the pills that
are helping stop the screaming nightmares, and his whacko pals who need him
to stop thinking happy thoughts and tear their enemies' faces off. 

- Mike

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Subject: Re: [UA] Pass the crazy-flakes, doctor. 


A psychiatrist, on the other hand, might just pill the guy up.  (In a
compassionate and educated fashion, of course.)  

"Had any more experiences with people scarring words in yo' belly?"
"Well, no, but..."
"Good!  The meds must be working!"
"God bless GlaxoSmithKline."

-G.

"I'm a combination therapist and analyst.  My patients call me an
'analrapist.'"
                        -From... aw crap, that one Fox show, can't remember
the title but it had that dude from "TeenWolf2" in it.

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