Dragaera

Food & trade

Thu May 5 13:19:03 PDT 2005

"Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
>To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
>Subject: RE: Food & trade
>Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:39:04 -0700
>
> >I wonder how much problems Dragaerans have with drunkenness and drugs.
>
>Vlad's first office is located behind a psychadelic herb shop, which is 
>also
>a front for an untaxed gambling operation. The implication is that Empire
>has instituted some form of legal recreational drugs. Wine and various 
>other
>spirits and brews are freely available.
>
>We've seen at least one instance of Vlad performing a "sober up" spell. It
>seems reasonable that a spell like that would also sober up someone
>intoxicated on herbs. Vlad is admittedly a mediocre sorceror, so we can
>deduce that it's a simple spell to perform. Most people who would need it
>should be able to perform it or have a friend who could do so. This should
>reduce most instances of intoxication on the job to a negligible number.
>
>Of course, addiction is the real problem. I don't recall if we've seen any
>instances of alcoholism among Dragaerans,but I can't think of any. It may 
>be
>that they're not prone to addiction or it may be that sorcery exists to 
>cure
>it. Either way, it seems to be a small problem. We've certainly never heard
>of any Jhereg making their living as pushers or drug-runners.

Greycat's bribe to get the Jhereg to support his coup-thingy in 500YA was to 
make dreamgrass (and some other drugs, can't remember the names ATM) 
illegal, thus making it a veritable Jhereg-monopoly.

/Mrtn

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