"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 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/